Sunday, December 27, 2009

…12/26-09: the gears of gears

19º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…GAQ; NM School for the Arts has a new home, which is located in Santa Fe; man killed in SE ABQ mobile home park; the NM Salvation Army raised more money during this holiday season; lobsters on the loose in NE Heights?; should there be a new NM food tax?; a trash tax hike for the Duke City?; man tried to steal $500 worth of meat from Carlsbad grocery store; fatal Los Lunas mobile home blaze; a 20% increase in Four Hills home invasions; bought various items at Trader Joe’s; how to handle an orchid; and while we are not in the habit of drinking alcohol, Brad & I toasted the season with Irish Coffee at Two Fools, while enjoying a Paddy Melt & Reuben Sandwich, respectively; after watching us, a straight couple ordered the same drink, and approved of our taste in libations;
a buffalo leather jacket?; it’s time to spend those gift cards at the mall!; is ‘Jersey Shore’ too racy for MTV?; fish oil battles inflammation; more diesel oil spilling in Prince William sound, the same site of the Exxon Valdez incident; twenty-three inches of snow has fallen on Duluth, MN; poor travel conditions across the Midwest & New England; seven states, from WY to WI, face blizzard conditions; kidnapped AZ girl safely found; Charlie Sheen arrested on ‘criminal mischief’ charges; freeze warnings for Phoenix; this is the day to look for deals; El Paso, TX borders a MX war zone; NJ refinery shutdown hurts former workers: new, similar jobs are in other parts of the US; Showtime eliminates gay character from series; in a case described as ‘road rage’, a MD man attacked a vehicle with a hatchet on the I-495 part of the DC Beltway. near Rockville, MD; a twist on the word ‘plucked’; Adam Lambert is not starting a cosmetics line, but Jay Leno says he would use it; Kurt Russell & Goldie Hawn have been together for more than 25 years; many Hollywood romances have exceeded the twenty year mark; coming soon to a Ford near you: Wi-Fi; snow covers 44 states; how many post-holiday deals can really be found?; broken water pipe caused a flood at NATL Airport, closing a terminal plus a several gates & a baggage claim area; people will have to remain in their seats for longer periods of time during flights; the Honolulu Symphony faces Chapter 11 bankruptcy; Ford Mustangs: the latest cop car; critics think ‘Watchmen’ was a dud?; the ‘Dragon Diamond’; plane passengers helped subdue would–be terrorist; Christian missionary has entered N Korea bearing a letter for its leader; get ready for another new Dr. Who; large green men at hockey game, prancing near a penalty box?; London police searching various parts of that city which may be linked to the airline terrorist; could a gamma ray burst from a ‘death star’ strike Earth?; bridge collapse in India killed 45 people; the bomb malfunctioned, the detonator was a dud, and the explosives were concealed in his underwear; the ‘alleged airline bomber’ is the son of a Nigerian banker, but the younger man’s name was never placed on the ‘no fly’ list…why not?; the major security breach onboard an airline will mean tighter restrictions at airports; this event has been labeled a ‘nightmare in motion; the Yemen leader only control 30% of that country; magma sighted on Philippine volcano; a Lufthansa jet was forced to land in Reykjavik after discovering a piece of luggage with a name tag that did not match any of the passengers onboard, the airplane remained two hours on the ground: the conclusion was that someone had forgot this suitcase during a previous flight, which was bound from Frankfurt to Detroit; the French lipstick that actually conceals a knife; naked New Zealand bicyclists were told to wear helmets; five years since the deadly tsunami;

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