…1/31-10: global resources

27º in ABQ; 85% humidity at 6A…online classes for people to graduate or get their GED; parents hire lawyer after Duke City disabled student was attacked by school employees; 1,200 people attended the ABQ ‘Souper Bowl’ to raise money for the Road Runner Food Bank; Bernalillo CNTY job freeze until July, 2010; major Tucumcari drug bust makes NATL news; Miss NM came in seventh place in the Miss American pageant, winning an $11K scholarship; another winter storm in NM this week?; freezing fog in parts of the state this AM; woman donates her cemetery plot for one of the W Mesa victims; eight NM fire departments will get a share of $585K in FED funds; FBI investigating how NM spent money for its 2004 DUI ads; I cannot get my UNM password to work, even though I keep it near my desk; the state of NM ranks number one in the number of teen pregnancies;

Obama offering $200 million as an incentive for a location to hold the 9–11 trials; Miss VA, from Fredericksburg, won the Miss America title, the first woman of color winner since 2005; have stimulus bailouts actually hurt the US economy, banks will make risky loans, knowing they will be rescued by the FED GOVT?; will the Pentagon really repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell’ ban on gays in the military?; WA state has a ‘Ground Frog Day’; eleven inmates injured during AZ prison fight; strange: MO grandmother drugged her one year old granddaughter, hoping that would stop parent from divorcing; get ready for the $3.8 trillion budget; HI has the fewest number of school days, with 163; ‘Avatar’ is the number one box office movie again; more states offering Mega Millions & Powerball lotteries, this way of making money could sweep the entire nation; focus on snow in Richmond, VA; hoop rivals: Celtics vs. Lakers; more cop cameras?; more Volvo, BMW, VW & Kia TV ads; now a lingerie ad is ‘too hot’ for the Super Bowl;

has PAK Taliban leader been killed?; thieves are stealing goods from Haiti food centers, ‘women only’ coupons being distributed; 5.2 quake shook the Szechwan province of China; the Toyota ‘problem’ will be fixed ‘soon’; ten Americans detained for trying to smuggle children into the Dominican Republic without the proper paperwork; in winter, Antarctica doubles in size; Chilean desert is fifty times drier than Death Valley; Australia is the second driest continent; whale’s milk is 50% fat; American man charged with abusing Haitian children;

…1/30-10: beauty everywhere

28º in ABQ; 88% humidity at 6A…copper is considered ‘red gold’, priced at $2.50 per pound; I-40 has been completely reopened; car theft turned into a police chase yesterday, ending with the suspect wanting to be killed by Duke City police officers: he was wounded, and transported to UNMH; NM House of Reps approved the ‘web cast rule’ their sessions will be aired; police involved accident on I-25, near the Rio Bravo exit; Brad prepared Blueberry Crepes for breakfast; NM ID theft ring busted: thieves stole vehicles and used their ID numbers; NM medical marijuana will not be taxed; last night, another attempt to hack into my computer, a ‘cookie attack’; Santa Fe CONV CTR keeps losing money; fatal car crash in Lea CNTY; Rio Rancho robbery at Bank of America; tragedy at an ABQ car wash incident at Paseo del Norte & San Pedro: a worker struck & killed; another employee with a Jeep Cherokee after the vehicle went out of control at the end of the cleaning tunnel; we enjoyed Brad’s Blueberry Blintzes for dessert; the ‘Super Nationals’ classic car event is in the Duke City this weekend; enjoyed a Chinese meal from Lam’s;

rare blue diamond on display at the Smithsonian; the area near I-26 & I-40 in Asheville, NC is still closed due to wintry conditions; singer Roy Orbison gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; citing financial concerns, gay dating site ad will not air during the Super Bowl; tragedy: PA man set the family’s puppy on fire in front of his children, after the pet nipped at them; two WA students accused of sending child porn to other classmates; the IPad is too big, it cannot access YouTube, only has one headphone jack, and one connector port, it multitask, nor is there a GPS or camera; historic Pasadena Playhouse may close, another victim of the current economic crisis; why are there so many birth defects in a CA town?; the winter storm that is bringing snow to the E Coast started in the NM area;airlifts have stopped until it is determined who will pay for Haitians receiving medical treatment in the US; Russia test its first stealth fighter jet; Japanese protest US troops in their country; pajamas not allowed in UK supermarket; the term ‘reliable workers’ in UK want ad considered discriminatory; will US sell weapons to Taiwan?; if so, China will stop military exchange visits with the US; Russell’s Viper from India is the world’s deadliest snake; the Toyota pedal problem may linger for years, and repairs will take months;

…1/29-10: some can survive, beating the odds

26º in ABQ; 77% humidity at 6A…GAQ; 91 year old woman remains unconscious after she was attacked in her own home; stolen property found in a stolen vehicle; should people be allowed to carry guns into NM bars?; another ABQ school lockdown, shots may have been fired in the area; NM jobless rate jumped to 8.3% in December, reaching a 22 year high; most NM ski slopes have 100% of their trails open; I-25N from ABQ to the CO border is ‘slick’, especially near the Raton Pass; I-40E is closed from Moriarty to the TX state line, or about 150 miles: I-40W in that area remains open; current Tucumcari police chief is told to resign; we enjoyed Leftovers wrapped in Crepes; meth bust in Hobbs; 100 feet of copper wire was stolen from the roof of a Smith’s market in Rio Rancho, causing refrigerated foods to spoil: a similar incident took place in ABQ; Brad went to pick up his bus pass;

left work at noon; today, lunch at Saggio’s, then we went for comics; arrived home just after 3P;

storms & tornado threat for Houston; the ‘I-40 storm’; wet along areas of I-20; rough weather for OKC, Little Rock, Nashville, Memphis, Ft. Smith, Roanoke, Norfolk & Charlotte; OK declares a state of emergency; snow from the S Rockies to the SE US; snow, ice & sleet for KY, TN, AR & MO: seventeen states will feel the effects of this wild winter weather; high surf in HI; temps from 0s to 70s;

the cellular phone wars; the IPad becomes an obscene term, calling it the ‘Maxi IPad’; change the work to ‘slate’, or rename it the ‘E-Pad’; make it less ‘Tampon suggestive’; move 9–11 trials out of NYC: move them to Alexandria, VA or Ft. Bragg?; SEN will address the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy” soon; MA woman dies after being struck by hose on a fire truck; to prepare for the Super Bowl, retailers are offering super discounts for big size TV sets; the DOW ended down; Obama vs. [R] in Baltimore; what is the ‘recipe for continuing gridlock’?; 140K people in OKC are without power; during the last quarter of 2009, the economy had one of its biggest gains; yet people are still afraid to spend money; HI fails to pass a same-sex civil unions bill; man arrested onboard an Amtrak train, accused of making terrorist threats via his cell phone; banks fail in CA, FL, GA [2], WA & MN; 743 pounds of marijuana found in AZ septic tank; a rabies outbreak in Central Park?;

former UK PM Tony Blair in the hot seat, being questioned about England’s involvement in the Iraqi war: did he get the ‘legal green light’ to make a declaration?; crowds crush people looking for food in Haiti; pay Taliban forces to work with the Coalition?; Toyota problems go global, still have no definite answers; Haitian orphans being sold, islanders are starting to rebuild their lives, with or without foreign aid; Bill Gates donated $10 million for vaccine research to help third world countries; al Qaeda blames the America & its allies for not addressing the climate change issue; now Honda has recalled 646K vehicles for potential fire dangers; tonight is the night of the ‘Wolf Moon’ for 2010, when our satellite is nearest to Earth; CO man failed to obey the request to not make any phone calls when the cabin doors closed, so the plane had to turn around & return to Paris, and United Airlines refused to let him fly back to the US on one of their planes; gold is $1,063 an ounce; oil is$72.89 per barrel;

…1/28-10: speak in silence

37º in ABQ; 59% humidity at 6A…GAQ; AM snow & wind in the E MTN; ice along I-40 in Tijeras Canyon; shooting last night in NW ABQ, neighbors told to evacuate that area; Anthony, NM will have its first election as a city; strong winds toppled Duke City tree, causing it to land across a major street; NM elected officials still favor a public option health plan; Brad made his own type of Blueberry Blintzes; by midday, the middle of ABQ saw very little snow; winds caused power outages in the NE Heights area, plenty of snow in E NM; Duke City woman wrote to Oprah, saying that the TV episode on the dangers of texting while driving was a ‘wakeup call’;

are consults allowed?, what to tell doctors; new, immediate procedures for ordering supplies, this does not include forms;

rain for Seattle, San Antonio, Dallas & Houston; snow for TX, OK, W PA, Buffalo, Erie, Boston & Flagstaff; NM snowstorm mentioned on ABC AM News; freezing rain in Amarillo; ‘the’ Las Vegas floods, the city has received more rain so far in 2010, than it did in all of 2009; the storms will sweep from NM to the Ozarks, so says the Weather Channel; all types of weather along I-35, I-40 & I-44; 21 million people will be affected by this storm; ABQ considered a ‘trouble travel spot’; temps from the 0s to 70s;man fights with chicken on NYC subway train, while people take pictures of the battle; now, the PRES wants a job, or stimulus bill on his desk: is he asking for too much?; Supreme Court members not pleased with parts of Obama’s speech; are there too many ‘high priorities’?; plus, the PRES talked about a high-speed rail system across America; author J D Salinger has died at the age of 91; the DOW went down; WY has used stimulus to prevent people from becoming homeless; a low sodium diet helps the heart; KS under sheriff found $1 million during a traffic stop; ‘the’ Las Vegas had the most foreclosures in 2009 than any other US city; there are thirty million small businesses in America; should a fake animal be used on Groundhog Day?; Bernanke has been reconfirmed; stores stopping sale of farmed salmon; CO man smuggled drugs into jail by using a jury box; hackers strike 49 House Web sites; hush money for Edwards’ mistress?; KS couple have been married for 81 years;has N Korea captured another American?; flight data recorder of the Ethiopian plane that crashed into the Mediterranean has been recovered; allies uncertain how to withdraw from AFG; where are the ‘tent camps’ for Haitians?; seventeen year old girl has been found alive in the rubble of her school, fifteen days after the Haiti quake rocked that island; please help these people; Toyota has recalled 5.3 million vehicles, expanding into Europe; Turkish dump truck obliterated pedestrian bridge; oil is $73.44 per barrel; has cost cutting cost Toyota sales: the company never contacted owners of those unsafe vehicles, telling them what to do if sudden acceleration occurred; gold is $1,085.90 an ounce; the traveling ‘ABBA World’ amusement park, now playing in London; dog is rescued, after drifting 75 miles into the Baltic Sea;

…1/27-10: the near distant future

30º in ABQ; 72% humidity at 6A…GAQ; accident at I-40E & Eubank; domestic partnership back on the state’s agenda again, but stops at the word ‘marriage’; Winter Storm Warnings for NM, including ABQ; for a second day, a Duke City daycare CTR is still in the dark; several school employees accused of attacking a special needs student; ‘our’ Las Vegas woman had sex with her foster child; parts of the Navajo Nation are buried in snow; to prevent property crime, more Duke City cops will do street patrols; local inmates will sew their own uniforms; entire gallon of milk was spoiled; my playlists are being used on YouTube; lots of snow in the Hopi Reservation & the Navajo Nation; hit & run driver wants her prison sentence erased from her police record; snow emergency declared in N AZ; a solar power plant will be built near Santa Rosa; a NM resident will attend the State of the Union address; KOAT has a new AM meteorologist;

explained my job duties to other PEDS coders; training session at 2P;

rain in ‘the’ Las Vegas, Flagstaff, Los Angeles & San Diego; lake effect snow; flurries in Detroit, ABQ [?], Erie, Omaha, SLC, Casper, WY & Denver; NM snow mentioned on ABC AM News; N Plains chill, ice & snow across OK, AR & MO; NM rain/snow, per the Weather Channel; flooding in Pittsburgh, shutting down roads, and across NY; a 25 foot deep sinkhole opened in Marietta, GA; snow to rain along sections of I-15; SW CO avalanches; temps from the 0s to 70s;Los Angeles may limit the number of medical marijuana shops; there is a second ‘pregnant man’; place your bets on what the PRES will wear, and say: ‘State of the Union’ speech tonight; stop all sales of some Toyota cars & trucks made in N America; health care reform now on the back burner?; GM sells SAAB to Dutch automaker; the ‘witless protection program’; will the future consist of commercial space flights?; YouTube is five years old; John Edwards & his wife have separated; APPLE, and the ‘IPad’; the DOW ended up; how long can Geitner survive?; optimism vs. realism; NJ three year old is a hero after he dialed 911 when his grandmother had a seizure; OR voters will decide if the wealthy people in their state should pay more taxes; violent racial threat puts OH college on alert; across the nation: mothers are having sex with their own sons; battleground vs. common ground; consumer confidence at a sixteen month high; grenade launchers for sale over the Internet: all you need is a gun permit, and live in a state which permits the use of these weapons; will Obama be able to repeal the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy by the end of 2010?;UN forces use pepper spray to calm crowds in Haiti; US military forces clearing quake debris, the initial jolt lasted only 20 seconds; please give what you can to these agencies; Polish beekeeper comes back from the dead; seven people were killed, and more were hurt after an explosion collapsed a Belgium APT BLDG; gold is $1,096.30 an ounce; oil is $74.84 per barrel; was there an intruder at Susan Boyle’s home?;

…1/26-10: how Earth was made

27º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…GAQ; collision between an Amtrak train & two pedestrians, one of whom died, near the Isleta Pueblo: no one on the train was injured; voting in Santa Fe municipal elections began today; an eleventh W Mesa body has been identified; as of now, Rail Runner will continue operating on weekends, but fares may rise; rave parties & ecstasy can be found in NM; Duke City teachers should expect to see steep increases in their INS premiums, and less coverage, this year; free kits to test for Radon to those who ask for them; Workforce Solutions issued double the amount on unemployment checks, blamed on human error;

the word at work is overwhelmed; packed in PICU & CTI; the difference between electric & written signatures on forms, and what services require a referring MD; no O/T for UNMH workers; ran to reach early AM R/R; someone in UNMMG was fired, then rehired, and maybe someone will be retiring soon?; patient’s name is ‘Delilah Jones’;

San Antonio, TX sinkholes, more San Fran beach erosion & mudslides; blizzard conditions in MN & IA; NC & PA downpours flood saturated areas of those states; San Fran & Sacramento showers; mix of rain & snow for Boston & Hartford; flurries for Chicago & St. Louis; snow in INDY, Cleveland, Detroit, Boise, Pittsburgh, and Lexington & Louisville, KY; ‘warm’ in New England; N Plains deep freeze; CT & NY floods; ‘messy along parts of I-80 & I-84; temps from the 0s to the 70s;

a 3-D photo copier in the near future?; Ford rehiring, while existing home sales drop; tell truckers to stop texting; nine year old TX boy commits suicide at school; both teen pregnancies & abortions are on the rise; NYC mayor is not running for PRES…for now; GM will start building electric cars in the US; will an anti-abortion ad air during the Super Bowl, and start ‘culture wars’?; the US would receive an ‘F’ grade in terms of protecting against bioterrorist attacks; the DOW ended down; OH home explodes with four people inside; cruelty against milk cows in ‘factory farms’; the first female ‘super bowler’; how much will freezing the budget for three to ten years save the country: from $250 to $475 billion: a partial or limited freeze on outdated domestic programs; would health care reform pass on Capitol Hill if the male politicians left went home?; for the first time in seven months, house prices dropped; man found in motel with guns, ammo & maps of military bases; Verizon will cut 13K jobs; four men in repairmen outfits were caught tapping a phone in a [D] official’s office; two workmen were killed in MD by a METRO rail track repair vehicle; the CO Cannabis Contest will be held this spring; LA police stop a motorcyclist who was carrying a butcher knife at the end of a cue stick; TARGET to try smaller stores; two million port needles being recalled; the remote control ‘flat’ Hot Wheels vehicle will be available later this year, priced at $25; agencies overwhelmed in the distribution of aid to Haitians, failing in crisis MGMT, millions remain homeless, how to feed & keep so many people safe; someone was found alive in the rubble of the Haiti quake, which took place two weeks ago; riots on Port-au-Prince streets; these people still need aid, will you please give at this website to the charity of your choice; UK cat gets an artificial knee; are alien microbes roaming our planet?; Baghdad hotel area & police lab bombed; Toyota tells the US to suspend sales of certain years & models; was the pilot of the crashed Ethiopian jet flying the wrong way; gold is $1,098.30 an ounce; oil is $74.63 per barrel; has the recession in England ended?; how stable are the economies of Japan & China?; Peruvian mudslides trap visitors at Machu Picchu; the highest wind gust has been recorded in Australia: 253 mph; error on Chinese Airlines allowed people to fly for $3.25; N & S Korea shoot at each other near their disputed sea border; ‘Avatar’ is now the biggest money making movie, earning more than ‘Titanic’; police give ticket to parked car, caught on a speed camera; the $46K ‘ugly Rolex’ watch;

…1/25-10: charmed by articles

25º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s AM Chiro visit; Las Cruces will hold a concert & rally to raise money for Haiti quake victims; up to four feet of snow fell in N NM this past week; parts of SW ABQ are not reporting crimes after they occur; $300K in jewelry taken from Santa Fe store; freezing fog in Gallup; the nineteen Pueblos will hold their yearly blessing today; our electrically powered smoke detector still requires a battery; Rio Rancho librarian honored for her service; two NE ABQ schools were in lockdown this PM; FED GOVT shut down the NM Charter Bank branches, they reopened today under new MGMT; a Gallup assistant DA faces felony charges; TX wind energy company will build a factory in Clovis; Ruidoso family won over $3 million from a lottery ticket;

MGR out for three days on a conference; questionable amounts paid to UNM Biology DEPT staff; new UNM dorms will not cost the university anything; blood work in the AM; unplanned urine sample required;

too warm for the Twin Cities Winter Carnival?; wet along I-95, snow in parts of I-90 & I-94; floods in AL & ATL; snow in the Midwest & the Rockies; chance of tornadoes from the Carolinas to Central & S FL; wet for Boston, DC, Seattle, Miami, NYC, San Fran, Baltimore & Philly; snow in Pittsburgh, Madison, INDY, Fargo, Chicago, Des Moines & Twin Cities; Orlando T’storms; CA beach erosion; temps from the 10s to 70s;
Saints won; Obama ‘will take his lumps’; 29% of US businesses polled say they will hire in 2010; largest TX oil spill in years; ‘Avatar’ vs. ‘Titanic’ for highest box office revenue; the 2010 Census starts in a tiny AK village; tragedy: mother killed, daughter missing in OK; how many stimulus dollars have been wasted?; the DOW ended up; when will Peyton Manning retire?; man stole WI daycare van with child inside, the girl & the van were safely found nearby; are health reform debates ‘transparent’, and ‘open to the public’?; there is nothing that indicates the radiation level during treatment; soap opera patriarch has died, this news was conveyed by his longtime partner; how to make Obama a better communicator, and connect with Americans; [R] are asking for money, under the guise of a Census letter; Obama wants to freeze the budget; SC politicians compare the jobless to stray animals; actor Pernell Roberts has died at the age of 81 from cancer;
Haitian quake victims need shelters; storekeeper survived the quake after being buried for eleven days; there have been at least 47 aftershocks, another strong jolt was felt yesterday, that country is in need of nurses; it will take many years to rebuild Haiti, so many need shelters, medical care & sanitary conditions; where are the 200K tents promised for Haiti, so many survivors are scattered across the island; an Ethiopian airliner carrying 90 people crashed into the Mediterranean Sea near Beirut, onboard was the wife of the French ambassador, believe the cause was bad weather, the airliner exploded, and a ball of flame plunged into the water, its debris has been found along the shore; ‘Chemical Ali’ has been executed; could counterfeit Botox be used as a terrorist weapon?; Australian skydiver will attempt to freefall from the edge of space; oil is $75.07 per barrel; human bed warmers in Britain’s Holiday Inns?; gold is $1,095.70 an ounce;

…1/24-10: virtual hug

30º in ABQ; 58% humidity at 6A…SAG Award went to ‘Crazy Heat’, a movie made in NM; more educators accused of having sex with students; man beat & shot during a party in Aztec; officer involved crash at I-25 & Paseo del Norte; former UNM soccer player was killed when his vehicle when his vehicle crossed the median, and was struck by two semis on US 84, just outside of Santa Rosa; family of seven denied the necessary propane fuel to heat their home; drug bust at ‘our’ Las Vegas; use stimulus money to keep the Rail Runner running on weekends after mid-February?; a Las Cruces sex offender was living in the same home as his four year old cousin, whom he then raped; yesterday’s bad weather resulted in fewer people attending the Alamogordo ‘tea party’ rally; snow: 35” fell in Chama, 19” in Cloudcroft, 17” in Gallup and 1½ inches fell across ABQ; laughing & talking about what has changed during the past fifty years, and what has basically remained the same; Blue Star Mothers starting to put together Valentine’s Day care packages for soldiers in Iraq & AFG; Edgewood Fire DEPT equipment recovered; a ‘leave no child inside’ incentive to help fight obesity in youngsters; great comics: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Identity Crisis, V for Vendetta, and Camelot 3000;

another small plane crash outside Chicago killed two people; FEMA ‘flood maps’ full of errors; TX oil spill fully contained; the Long Island Expressway was shut down yesterday after a fuel truck flipped over & exploded, killing the driver, and melted the supports of a road sign, which fell and block all lanes of that roadway; sixteen year old CA girl starts a solo sailing trip around the world; ‘Inglorious Basterds’ wins SAG movie award; another tragedy as five people perished in TN house fire; Obama notified Cook CNTY Circuit Court in Chicago that he cannot serve on jury duty; a friendship between J. Edgar Hoover & Paul Harvey…now you know the rest of the story!; Sunset Beach, CA residents ‘excited’ when filming a twister that struck their neighborhood; Wal-Mart cutting 11,200 Sam’s Club workers; scientists creating a ‘super storm scenario’ to strike CA; the Colts won; a second term for Bernanke?; vehicles don’t stop when they see a school bus dropping off children; for the sixth time in a row, ‘Avatar’ is the weekend box office hit; person accidentally damages Picasso painting in NYC Mo Ma; a coyote captured in the Big Apple?;

will it ever end?: N Korea threatens war against S Korea if there are signs of a preemptive strike against the Communist nation; ‘salvaging hope’ in Haiti; an audio tape by Osama bin Laden stating that al Qaeda was responsible for the attempted holiday terrorist threat?; insects motif on English tableware; the Haitian quake is fading into the background news, but these people still need aid & medical help to recover, please donate whatever you can; people are still afraid to enter structures on the island, such as churches, and instead hold outdoor ceremonies; the death toll from the Haitian quake has reached 150K; Haiti radio station back on the air; see previous Blog entry to donate food, money or other types of aid to Haitians; US drone crashed in PAK;

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…1/23-10: power, survival, honor

31º in ABQ; 96% humidity at 6A…AM snow at The Beach; 6,700 acres burned during the blaze near Lovington; organ donations in NM are up; protect the Gila monsters in SW UT; E-mails regarding Santa Fe film studios were deleted too soon; 100 foot broadcasting tower in Alamogordo was knocked down by high winds; N NM Fashion Show being held at Buffalo Thunder resort; Brad baked a Blueberry Crunch Coffee Cake; the beeping smoke detector; buy a white shirt, throw away a white shirt; a person cannot be a police officer for three years, or must lose his/her license for three years, if they are found guilty of domestic abuse; Brad made a tasty Curried Chicken Salad; Eclipse Aviation inventory went up for auction; NM storms make COMCAST news;health care reform has run into ‘a bit of a buzz saw’; because a woman was not given potassium as treatment for her chest pains, a CT HOSP must pay a $1.5 million fine in her death in its ER; HI SEN passes a civil unions bill, but its GOV may veto the measure; major companies are offering similar, but smaller, and lower priced items; 2010 will be an economic challenge for America, and Obama; smaller babies are being born in the US; PetSmart employee fired for bringing his dog to work, on the basis of using the store’s services for free, which the company equated to ‘theft’; TN HOSP will not hire people who smoke; déjà vu?: the movie ‘Oil Storm’ predicted an oil tanker collision in a TX harbor, and we have seen a few, the most recent may have dumped 450K gallons of oil into the water; RI sausage recall, sold in 38 states, could contain salmonella; a rare N CA tornado warning was issued, but nothing reached the ground; and another flight diverted: this time, and ‘unruly’ passenger caused a United airlines jet from DC to Las Vegas to make an unscheduled landing in Denver; Jay Leno & Conan O’Brien went to school in MA; economic angst; ‘no drama, Obama’;Haiti GOVT calls off search & rescue mission for quake victims; ‘they need to know that we [the world] still care’; the death toll on the island has reached 111K; Haiti relief donations have reached $355 million, with Leonardo DiCaprio giving a $1 million contribution; Port-au-Prince textile factory blaze; the Puerto Rican ‘barge of hope’, the largest single shipment of aid, brought relief to Haiti, where banks are being withdrawn of their money, so people can pay for food?; roads still need to be cleared of debris; an estimated $58 million was raised during last night’s telethon; another Haitian survivor found alive in the rubble: it’s never too late to help these people; actress Jean Simmons has died from lung cancer at the age of 80; Russian cargo ship in danger of sinking, being pounded by high waves; US Marines are starting to leave Iraq; Manchester Airport in England was partially closed after a man was found carrying a white powder; model steps out of her shoes while walking down the runway;

…1/22-10: tomorrow may tell

38º in ABQ; 89% humidity at 6A…GAQ; overnight rain at The Beach; wild, wet & windy weather in the Duke City; proposal to tax the wealthy in NM; KOAT weather website ‘too busy’; Santa Rosa city MGR assaulted by police officer; 1–3 inches of snow expected in the Duke City, plus strong winds, will last until the middle of the day; elderly couple attacked in their own home by man with a machete; heavy rain & storms in SW NM; high wind warnings across central NM; quick drop in AM temp; MVD workers accused of issuing fake licenses; Southwest Airlines cancelled SunPort flights due to bad weather; nine year old girl assaulted at NE ABQ Wal-Mart, then her attacker exposed himself; gas is $2.55 per gallon; big puddles along I-40, bad driving conditions on I-40 in both directions from ABQ: I-40 is shut down at the AZ/NM border; this AM, from 49º to 37º in less than one hour; woman breaking into & robbing items from gym lockers at fitness centers, stealing cars, using credit cards to make purchases; a ‘Science Bowl’ was held at the ABQ Academy; ABQ man is in Haiti helping the quake victims; due to several days of downpours, the Navajo Nation has declared a state of emergency; $3 million embezzled from the Jemez CNTY school system by an employee, and a group of relatives, friends & and an auditing company; Brad made an incredible Chicken Salad; snow & ice cover I-25 in N NM;MGR yearly evaluation meeting at 9:15A, a received the level that I expected; cancel the climb for comics: late PM rain & sleet; if my MGR is happy, I’m happy; no PICU Admits; roof of UNM practice field could collapse;

S CA is super saturated: bluff collapsed into the ocean in N CA; NM bad weather mentioned on ABC AM News; bad driving along parts of I-40, I-81 & I-90; Orlando T’storms; ice, sleet & freezing rain in PA, MD & DC; rain halts flights from Phoenix; ABQ rain/snow mentioned on the Weather Channel; wet in Tucson, Phoenix, Fresno, Los Angeles; wintry mix in Pittsburgh; since yesterday PM, 2½ feet of snow has fallen in Flagstaff, shutting down parts of I-17 & I-40; twisted touched down in Huntsville, AL; coastal rain in CA, 2K people told to leave their homes; N Plains ice & snow; by the end of the day 4½ feet of snow had fallen on Flagstaff; temps from the 30s to 80s;

‘Miracle on the Hudson’ plane will be auctioned; bubble wrap is fifty years old; health care reform has suffered a major setback; two planes got stuck in the mud at a NJ airport; unemployment rates rose in 43 states; Laredo, TX: a town with 250K people, without a bookstore; six year old AZ boy swept away by flood waters; more people admit using MDA during the past thirty days; obesity is becoming a greater health problem than smoking; more losses for Harley-Davidson; the DOW plunged again; doctor’s office in Lorton, VA was struck by a meteorite; dog rescued from the Los Angeles River; the element lead is being found on purses; the office copier is also fifty years old!;

more aftershocks felt across Haiti; ‘Hope for Haiti’ telethon today: please give what you can; mass migration to GITMO?; the Port-au-Prince seaport has reopened, and aid is being distributed; survivors are still being found in the rubble; cargo containers, which can handle rough seas, could be transformed into containers; Haitian children using lollipop sticks & bottle caps to transform jugs into racing cars; 4.4 aftershock struck Haiti today; MI man with similar background was on Christmas Day terrorist flight; oil is $74.54 per barrel; gold is $1,089.70 per ounce; terror alert elevated in Britain, fearing a female suicide bomber will board a US Airways plane on an INTL flight, in order to find flaws in American security procedures;

…1/21-10: help is on the way

30º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…GAQ; more winter weather for parts of NM; did Santa Fe police beat a handcuffed teen?; there is a lawsuit filed against all NM ‘corrupt officials’; NM company sending shoes to Haiti; a ‘celebration of faith’ will be held in Santa Fe; beware the ‘free grocery’ scam; Lovington wildfire has been extinguished; Duke City woman’s sister still reported as missing in Haiti; home robbed during estate sale; the Julia Child cookbook arrived; murder in NW ABQ home; someone referencing our Blog while traveling across America; Brad made Porcini Sauce & Mushroom Soup; ABQ neighbor sues over cigarette smoke; sixty month financing for jewelry!; whistle blower says bribery & kickbacks abound in NM; Duke City man ran over his 15 year old son after a domestic dispute;

work on specialist services; someone mistook me for a priest; no CTI Admits; collision at UNIV & Lomas; very cold AM R/R; Code Purple continues;Midwest freezing rain & ice, from MN to IN; snow shuts down the I-5 ‘Grapevine’; flurries in SLC, the Twin Cities, Flagstaff & Billings; Four Corners snow mentioned on the Weather Channel; chance of twisters in GA, FL, AL, SC & Louisianan; fear of debris flows in S CA; SE US T’storms; rain for Roanoke, Columbus [OH], Tucson, San Diego, Long Beach, Phoenix, ATL & Los Angeles; bad driving along I-40 in AZ, and into NM, and parts of I-5 & I-15; S CA families facing flood, high surf & cold temps; heavy rain for TN & the Carolinas; CA averages 11 tornadoes each year; N AZ avalanche threat; people suffering from ‘evacuation fatigue’; blizzard warnings for CO & AZ; temps from the 20s to 80s;new MA [R] SEN arrived in DC; the start of ‘transparent negotiations’ on a ‘less ambitious’ health reform bill; are children taking too many antidepressants?; White House party crashes keep pleading the Fifth; DOW dropped 213 points; Supreme Court gives the green light for companies to publicly endorse or not support a political candidate; John Edwards admits he fathered a child with another woman; flight delayed because Jewish boy was praying; 14 tons of pot confiscated from one man in CA; two San Fran APT complexes are teetering on the ocean’s edge; how to keep big banks from collapsing; even the property value of the White House has declined; more cases of sodomy occurring in the US; Air America Radio filing for bankruptcy; health care: the bill is gone?; high cholesterol levels on the rise in teenagers; CA courts will not set limits to the amount of medical marijuana that can be purchased; Cindy McCain ‘speaks out’ on same sex marriage;US is not ‘invading’ or ‘taking over’ Haiti; there have been 40+ aftershocks, prevent aid & medical care to reach those who need it; three million Haitians will need assistance for six months; 250K injured Haitians; two million are homeless on that island nation, please help; the slow & painful road to recovery; the major port is open, aid is moving in, but 4.9 tremor shakes the capital; families fleeing for food; mass exodus from Mirebalais; 400K victims will resettle in camps; should tourists be allowed on the island while Haitians need help?; SECY Gates is in AFG; can family ties curb terrorism?; gold is $1,103.20 an ounce; oil is $76.08 per barrel; on British Airways, it is their policy that men cannot sit next to children that are not part of their family, for fear the male adults might be sex offenders; Greece facing a ‘social crisis’; rear of woman’s ski suit rips while on camera; Toyota recalls 2.3 million vehicles; the incredible ‘sleep talker’;

…1/20-10: save the future

36º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…GAQ; ABQ: the number one city for filmmaking?; more winter weather for NM, be prepared for slick roads & strong winds; revise liquor licenses for businesses in the INTL Zone of ABQ; overnight crash on I-25 near the Sandia Pueblo, car ended underneath a semi; also a power pole fell across I-25 near the City Different; Lovelace HOSP sending medical supplies to Haiti; Rail Runner may be raising its fees, and cutting weekend service; will the current ABQ mayor solve the drainage problem of the BioPark?; Holloman AFB soldier accused of killing his roommate; a one page bill to define and restrict ‘marriage’ in NM, the domestic partnership legislation; the rise of solar power plants in NM;I am asked to help; first official day of school at UNM; no CTI Admits; bronchiolitis season has begun; Code Purple by 11:45A; one MGR could go on disability; patient worries about relating findings to parole officer; and AM snow at the campus; locked myself out of my office; AM R/R stop: a sign, with no time;

wet in INDY, Charlotte, SLC, Phoenix, Houston, Los Angeles, Seattle, New Orleans & Memphis; twisters reported in Santa Barbara & Orange CNTY; snow in S Rockies; icy conditions in Omaha & Des Moines; power outages in the N Plains; mandatory evacuations S CA evacuations: prepare to stay away from homes for at least five days; Sacramento & San Diego downpours; ABQ rain/snow mentioned on the Weather Channel, as well as storms forecasted for the Four Corners; bad weather along parts of I-5, I-35 & I-20; temps from the 20s to 70s;

the [D] demise in MA; no more majority in the SEN; [IND] helped the [R] win in MA; the centerfold SEN won: Mr. Cosmopolitan; is health care reform getting ill, or up in the air?; VA killer surrenders; goat smashes windows & mirrors in CA strip club; painkiller overdoses are up; people trying to repeal NH gay marriage law; MA nurse gives insulin instead of flu shots to several students, she is now on paid ADMIN leave; warning: 1.5 million strollers recalled; the day the dynasty stood still; Obama is frustrated over the MA election outcome, but all politicians should be afraid, their jobs could be decided by a piece of paper, known as a ballot; the DOW ended down; spare the salt, save your life; former Detroit mayor owes that city $300K; the Dengue fever is spreading across the US by mosquitoes; explosives found in VA killer’s home;

survivors still being pulled out of the wreckage; a feeling of cynicism across Haiti; 5.9 aftershock rocks Haiti; many residents are leaving Port-au-Prince; the ‘walking wounded’, as doctors run out of medical supplies, forcing amputations after gangrene has infected a limb; $1 billion in aid from around the world; people are living in tent cities; planes & ships are being turned away from Haiti, too much aid arriving at one time; it is important that we keep helping these people; Liberia: the land of World War III; are INTL terrorists groups banding together?; would people stop using the phrase ‘a perfect storm’ to describe any event as it happens?; a dung beetle can help your driving?; bones found belonging to an ancient English princess; Iran nixes nuke deal; the wedding cake dress; oil is $77.21 per barrel; gold is $1,112.60 an ounce; passenger flees in Berlin airport after his laptop bag tested positive for explosives; American convicts are training al Qaeda in Yemen; errors in the UN global warming report, slowing down the process;

…1/19-10: surviving, and glimpses of hope

39º in ABQ; 86% humidity at 6A…GAQ; overnight rain at The Beach; snow in W NM, with Winter Storm Warnings; spending cuts vs. tax increases; domestic partnership bill will face opposition; Second & Gold light pole emitting too much voltage, could shock or kill someone; shooting along Santa Fe bike trail; ENMU now has two new mascots; snow falling on Sedillo Hill; a second sinkhole in the NE Heights of the Duke City; snow fell near Grants, and on Santa Fe; another ‘career criminal’ arrested in ABQ; 65 cats found in a NE Heights home, at Academy & Eubank; two Duke City bank robberies within twenty minutes; the last State of the State address for the current NM GOV; what are the goals of the 2010 NM legislature session?;how to increase revenue at the Mother/Baby Unit; HSC designing a Haiti relief website; UNMH passed TJC review; get ready for new student housing for the S Campus;

ABQ rain [and snow?] mentioned on the Weather Channel; more W Coast rain, especially in San Fran; S CA downpours cause roods to flood; mudslides today in the CA foothills; rescue vehicles were stuck in mud; three storms expected this week; snow in Flagstaff, Aspen, Tahoe & Boston; sleet & snow for PA, NY & New England; fog in the Great Plains, for Omaha, KC & Chicago; AZ T’storms; rain caused power outages in Los Angeles; snow in the Sierras, Rockies, Wasatch, & Cascades; icy in the N Plains; tornado warnings for Los Angeles CNTY; temps from the 20s to the 70s;more fees added to more flights; figure of a man with a teddy bear on top of a billboard along I-95 in CT; MA SEN elections today; tech job cut reach a four-year high; TX minister & his mistress killed his wife; San Diego mayor regrets opposing gay marriage when he found out his daughter was in a lesbian relationship; the DOW ended up; Susan Boyle appeared on Oprah; cat saved the lives of an IL family when their house caught on fire; 200 year old tree in MA had to be cut down: it was suffering from Dutch Elm Disease; Obama will ask for another $1.35 billion to aid schools & education; PA burglar showered, cut his hair, fried some chicken, then robbed the house; Citigroup posts a $7.6 billion loss; the ‘destiny of a dynasty’; more wives are more educated; more outdated pharmaceuticals found in drinking water; fish oil: the fountain of youth; the ‘new normal’: texting money; nevermore in Baltimore: person who visited Poe gravestone was not there on the anniversary of his birth; 635K more cribs recalled; what is the fate of health care reform?; killer shoots, kills several people in Appomattox CNTY, VA;one of the space shuttles will be donated to the Smithsonian; a 5.8 quake, 6.2 mile deep tremor, occurred off the coast of the Cayman Islands: so far there have been no injuries or damages reported; should cruise ships dock in N Haiti, bringing supplies, tourists & possibly revenue?; woman found alive, after spending six days among the rubble of a Haitian bank; 20% of the Red Cross Haiti donations have come from texting; Haitian police cannot control the large number of rioters; Haitian orphans arriving in the US; please take the time to donate to the Haiti relief fund; total Haitian monetary donations in the US have reached $220 million; many cameras caught the quake when it struck; wasted water in Haiti, UN will send 3,500 more forces; the precious liquid going for $1 per bottle; US cash can buy fresh fruit; illegal refugees could be sent to GITMO; oil is $79.02 per barrel; gold is $1,140 an ounce; the Great Wall of Chocolate arrives in China; JAL declaring bankruptcy;