Monday, February 1, 2010

…2/1-10: amazing nature

34º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…GAQ; purse snatches are roaming the Price Rite parking lots in the Duke City; early AM panic attack; can Spaceport funding survive hard times in NM?; ABQ students will be allowed a chance to enroll in schools outside their own district, about 7K families have stated they will apply for these transfers; sick puppy stolen from a local animal shelter; group will speak for passing the Domestic Partnership Law in NM; dead man found in a dumpster at Vermont & Central; Brad made a Promethean Pot Pie; three NM children have been returned to their mother; Nancy’s daughter got her real estate license: each test costs $750; man threatened school principal with a gun;

Hell Week, Day One; my orange diskette with Blog entries failed to open, but it worked at home, but I will use the blue diskette; PICU have combined nursing & progress notes into one book; was able to contact IT, and reset my password, and printed out the necessary documents…but the first person I spoke to did not tell me about the twenty minute password delay; my R/R comics fan collects statues of superheroes; Queer Resource CTR may become a reality at UNM;

rain for Houston, Seattle & San Fran; snow for the N Plains, Omaha & Des Moines; freezing ice for KS, OK, TX & AR; wet in S FL, including Key West, Miami, Tampa & Orlando; parts of N VA saw six inches of snow this past weekend; tricky driving along parts of I-10, I-40, I-75, I-77 & I-85; showers for New Orleans; temps from 0s to 70s;
Beyoncé won the most Grammy Awards; ‘savage beagles’ on the prowl in E Long Island; $100 billion in Obama’s budget to create new jobs; US military defense test failed; because of a recent US Supreme Court ruling, foreign companies & countries could influence American elections; the 6,500% markup in text messages, the 500% markup on restaurant wine; some male New Orleans Saints’ fans parade in drag; five killed in Brooklyn APT fire, arson is suspected as the cause; the DOW ended up; single engine plane landed on the NJ Turnpike; John Edwards, and his ‘sex tape’; it was “Ladies’ Night” at the Grammy’s; deficits do have their consequences: blame the war, banks & stimulus packages; more money will be spent on security; twenty-five years later, ‘We Are the World’ is being re-recorded; more radioactive leaks at VT nuclear plant; one test will determine genetic defects, with results in one week; AFL beat the NFL 41 – 34 at the Pro Bowl; ‘bleeping’ the songs away; could the high speed rail project run into a dead-end?; hawks found in NYC; the highs & lows of taglines;
‘Avatar’ has surpassed the $2 billion mark in box office revenue; Toyota’s ‘quick fix to the friction’ could take months to complete: bad news for the world’s largest automaker; Haiti airlifts resume; have missionaries been wrongly accused of illegal child trafficking in Haiti?; more latrines needed in the quake area: 50% of the orphans do have parents; because of its increasing crime rate, cruise lines are starting to avoid Antigua; should the US scale back its space projects?; oil is $73.87 a barrel; gold is $1,097.50 an ounce; Dubai now has the world’s tallest hotel; Toyota prestige has been ‘dented’, eliminate friction, but are there no electronic problems or computer glitches?; Iraqi female suicide bomber hid explosives in her head scarf;

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