…12/19-09: styles & strategies

31º in ABQ; 67% humidity at 6A…GAQ; gas is $2.42.per gallon; two more Eunice firefighters, one of the being the mayor’s grandson, are accused of various felonies; Socorro jeweler playing ‘Secret Santa’, hiding boxes of items, which are sold at their store, in various places around the town; one of the guys who works at Trader Joe’s is from S Boston, complete with a New England accent; holiday ornaments bought by the Bernalillo mayor, at a cost of over $2,500; 911 lines down in Luna CNTY; bullet hole found in window of Sandoval CNTY Courthouse; the new gay/lesbian nightclub in the Duke City will need an updated sprinkler system; this weekend, listen to Baroque holiday music in Santa Fe; the ‘best of the West’ plays in ABQ at the NM Bowl; $350K in money confiscated from three big drug busts across NM; man at Duke City intersection is dressed up in a suit, with a sign saying ‘I need a job’, and has been handing out résumés: he has not worked for nearly a year; during the past year, there has been a 112% increase in Santa Fe home burglaries; NM has to stop issuing driver’s licenses to illegal aliens; is the La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe haunted?; Brad made Wonton Soup; watching a soccer game through the reflection of a glass painting; fatal shooting at Twelfth & Central SW last night; fatal car crashes in both Sandoval & Rio Arriba counties;

NM ranks 24 in the list of happiest states, higher than VA, which is 27; two feet of snow expected in DC, NATL Airport may close, blizzard conditions from VA to MA; ‘Avatar’ getting good reviews; health care reform agreement on Capitol Hill?; the 55 foot NYC APT: low rent, minimal space; the Smithsonian museums have shut down, thanks to the blizzard conditions; people are stranded on I-81 in W VA; the SEN health bill got sixty votes; this was ‘Super Saturday’ for shopper?; fifty million people are stuck in the snow; up to twenty inches of snow could fall in Cape Cod, accompanied by 60 mph gusts; 1,200 flights have been cancelled; Providence & Boston in the blizzard’s path; nudity is in the news; roaches forces NV man to move out of his APT, and sleep in the hallway;

winter weather shut down five trains in the Chunnel: 1,300 passengers were stuck underneath the English Channel, the tunnel should reopen today; France launched another spy satellite; the ‘Big Bang’ Collider keeps breaking records, it will shut down for the next few months; plenty of snow in N France; unemployment is high in AFG;