…1/1-10: elements for freedom

21º in ABQ; 62% humidity at 6A…a ‘chili drop’ was held at the ABQ CONV CTR; I slept well, did not hear the fireworks or gunfire; Western Palisades APT complex has 100 safety violations; more Duke City churches are becoming targets for thieves; home invasion injured a man, who went to the MVD at Lomas & Eubank for help; no one was injured when a bullet went through the roof of a SW ABQ home; NM has a float in the Tournament of Roses Parade; Brad in the process of creating his next painting; me working on my websites, Brad continuing to paint: these are signs of the new decade; sorting & taping my comic book series; toasting the new year with champagne; watching ‘Julie & Julia’; CNN visited NM Military Institute in Roswell;

gays & lesbians will be able to wed in NH; dawn of a new decade; INTEL INFO not shared; highs from single digits to the 60s; snow in NW US, rain for FL; tons of confetti fell in Times SQ; a trans fat ban begins in CA; CO ties its minimum wage to the inflation rate; in 1904 the first New Year’s ball contained 100 light bulbs; the FOX/Times Warner cable dispute continues; Obama says the US rose to meet the challenges of 2009, and face the ‘Armageddon economy’ of the 2008; but twenty million people remain unemployed; what is the point of a good paying job if you don’t like what you do?; shoplifters stealing gift cards; Barnabas Collins: the best TV vampire; more apocalyptic movies to start the new decade; should Obama spend less time in front of the camera?; two people killed in downtown Detroit hotel fire; ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ pilot led the Rose Bowl Parade; NW Airlines flight diverted when a suspicious package was found: when opened, it contained a holiday ornament; no news, just football bowl games; another sad event: MO house fire killed five people, three of who were children; another screening problem; another jet had to return to its departure city;

N Korea wants to end hostile relations between itself & the US; Hong Kong demands democracy; antibiotic resistance is a global problem, but Norwegians have stopped taking so many medications, and are winning the battle of the ‘Superbug’; the ‘bin Laden of the Internet’; Russia raised the price of vodka to curb the rising number of alcoholics; $1.1 million Degas painting stolen from a museum; ‘targeted sanctions’; there were no US combat deaths in Iraq during December;