Wednesday, December 30, 2009

…12/30-09: think of the earth, as a gift

29º in ABQ; 89% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad got the H1N1 vaccine, and a bus pass; officer involved shooting on Indian School RD in NW ABQ; snow & ice from the VLA to Pie Town; Brad made Guacamole; dense fog in SE NM; winter weather warnings in NW NM; many businesses & people owe the Duke City about $100K; PM flurries; NM jobless rate down to 7.8%; free job search course offered; snow shuttle races will return to NM; Brad preparing Baked Mushrooms stuffed with Crab Imperial; don’t make your first photo in 2010 be a mug shot; man struck & killed while trying to cross I-25; man with crutches struck by an ABQ Ride bus;

a Wednesday, that’s a Friday; very empty AM & PM R/R;
E Coast snow, Midwest snow; flurries in KC, SLC, INDY, St. Louis, Chicago & Portland, OR; rain for Little Rock & Houston; snow in the N Rockies, along parts of I-35, the Twin Cities & Detroit; ice & sleet & freezing rain for KY, IL, IN, MO & IA; El Paso saw snow yesterday; temps from the 10s to the 70s;
more access to classified documents; Al preserved in wax; the ‘Taco Bell Diet’?; NH woman has come down with GI anthrax…but how?; it will cost $75 million for security at the 9–11 trial in NYC; so far, suspicious van parked in Times Square for the past two days poses no threat to New Year’s Eve gala; Thriller’ is the first music video to be considered a NATL treasure; 5.8 quake shook San Diego, followed by nine aftershocks; 22K Corvettes recalled, their roofs could separate from the body, striking other vehicles; Gene Autry to appear on US stamps; the DOW ended slightly up; companies, not the GOVT, issue recalls; mother & newborn revive after flat lining; the era of mixed metaphors; security investigation ordered; we need better internal body scanners; inmate attacked guard at Warrenton, VA courthouse; eight million people in the US will fly this upcoming weekend; strange: CA man killed a dog, ran naked across a tennis court, and poured hot coffee on himself; US Airways jet made a safe, emergency landing at San Antonio INTL Airport after one of its tires went flat; GMAC gets more bailout bucks; ‘when you worry, you make it double’;in Israel, man enters subzero ice block, trying to break the world’s record; radicalized in Yemen; wildfires in W Australia; oil is $78.77 per barrel; gold is $1,090.60 per ounce; a drug resistant strain of HIV in Africa?; Iraq released a British hostage; Russian spacecraft may be used to move asteroid from its close path near Earth; deadly security breach at US facility in AFG; a similar terrorist plot took place one month ago, onboard another African flight; there are 350 million FaceBook users; that’s ‘Sir’ Patrick Stewart; the Canadian GOVT suspends Parliament until after the Olympics, will resume in March;

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