…12/5-09: all alone with people

17º in ABQ; 74% humidity at 6A…a linguica & chourico order arrived from Gaspar’s yesterday’s; LANL X–ray can scan items for nuclear components; detector 66% of New Mexicans are ‘happy’: UT is number one, WV is the lowest, while NM ranks 17; we are a violent state, but we have less polluted air; Silver City hiker rescued after being lost for six days; NM now has 42 H1N1 deaths; Red Rock Balloon Fiesta being held this weekend near Gallup; Holly Holm defeats last minute ‘stand in’ opponent; Duke City principal accused of slapping her daughter over use of a cell phone; desperate times: Carlsbad man arrested for raping a young girl; ‘teenagers make mistakes in life’…so they join a gang?; sheriff’s office in Otero CNTY was evacuated when a OC started belching black some; Brad cooked Chicken Cutlets; another embezzlement scheme, this time by a real estate agent who had accomplices; S NM AM fog; will the S Valley incorporate…only a vote will tell;

the Enron scandal, coming to Broadway, then a movie theater near you?; Poe’s first book brought in $662K at an auction; one person was killed in a TX petroleum refinery boiler failure; another ‘affair’ on Capitol Hill uncovered; CO State UNIV banned concealed weapons on campus; a ‘provocative’ nativity scene at a Los Angeles clothing store has neighbors complaining; OH barn fire killed two people, and sixty horses; Hispanic gangs invading ATL; one person killed, several injured after a tour bus collided into overturned tractor-trailer on I-25 in WY; for sale; Tiffany window from VT church faced with money problems; snow across the S US;

after 71 years, the end of the VW ‘bug’; drunk, male strips in female co-worker’s hotel room, now she is suing their company for $1 million; US has to return to China a beloved panda at The NATL Zoo;