Wednesday, February 10, 2010

…2/10-10: people you know are saving money

31º in ABQ; 89% humidity at 6A…Brad’s Chiro visit; GAQ; when ‘fun’ becomes ‘furious’; Marvel studios will film the movie ‘Thor’ near Santa Fe; anyone arrested on DUI charges may have to spend time in jail; Rio Rancho may ban the sales of cats & dogs; two year old Santa Fe boy may have his legs amputated, a victim of child abuse; more street lights needed in Bernalillo CNTY; the NM House passed a cell phone ban; I actually cried this early AM; Brad prepared a French Cabbage Soup; children cannot return to their classes in ABQ schools if they miss ten days in a row; doctor’s visit now rescheduled for 2/23/10 at 11:30A; how did a dead body appear on a Duke City driveway; NM restaurant will appear on the History Channel; KAFB does not know how to handle nuclear material, or weapons?;

hope for better office air today; arson the suspected cause of bulletin board fire in UNMH dorm; KOAT on UNM hill; one patient has been admitted three times within seven days; coworkers asked if I would like to be in DC: my answer was ‘yes’; why were charges submitted to an INS company, only to be told they were past the filing limit?; we are in Code Purple; the HOSP needs more specialists; why is someone no longer taking the bus?;
about 100 million people affected by this latest snowstorm, houses are starting to collapse under the weight of the snow; more W Coast mudslides expected; more winter weather for NYC, Buffalo, DC, Baltimore & Philly; record amounts recorded, whiteout conditions; snow for Detroit, Chicago & Boston, with flights being cancelled; blizzard conditions from NY to WV; bad driving along parts of the MA & PA Turnpikes, and sections of I-70, I-76, I-80, I-95; salt & sand supplies are running out in the mid-Atlantic region; no temps to report;
3.4 quake shook N IL, felt in parts of IA & IN; no injuries or damages reported; the Ritz-Carlton in ‘the’ Las Vegas forced to close because of the poor economy; is [R] becoming the more popular party?; the US GOVT may be closed for business all week, so are schools from MD to MA; the blizzard of 2010 has many names; the ‘provocative profile’ of the NY GOV; the number of illegal immigrants has dropped by 7%; 25% of snow plows are out of commission; one man has developed the ‘snow scoop’, to create snowballs; price gouging: people are charging up to $700 to shovel snow: this tactic dates back to the 19th century; fifty vehicle pileup on I-64 near Williamsburg, VA; only major procedures being scheduled at DC hospitals; Dulles & NATL Airports are closed; across a large part of the US, 400K passengers are waiting to fly, after the snow, comes the strong winds; twelve year old PA boy has been found guilty of murdering his stepmother, and may face life in prison; three year old NH boy saved his family after their house caught on fire; TN teacher shot both the principal & the ASST principal; will E Coast skiers reach the W Coast Olympics?; the DOW went down; Americans want jobs; NM has withdrawn $5 billion from ‘big banks’, and transferred the money to local ones; in Houston, a bus ran red light, slammed into light rail train; NY student stabbed another classmate several times with a pencil; because of heavy rains, CA road buckled & collapsed; a $1 cigarette tax?; WA security guards do nothing as a girl is beaten in a bus tunnel; children sold on the OH ‘sex market’; people charging $100 for taxi rides; the new bonus system, courtesy of AIG;
elevator problems plague to Dubai tower; Honda expanding recall for faulty airbags, adding 378K vehicles to the list, bringing the total to one million vehicles; Endeavour has docked with the INTL Space Station; was Toyota ‘asleep at the wheel’?; gold $1,075.90 an ounce; US missionaries may be released from Haiti; oil is $74.25 per barrel; people are dying from Brazilian heat wave;

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