Sunday, February 14, 2010

…2/14-10: love, global style!

33º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6ABrad prepared Scalloped Tomatoes [that’s right!]; we enjoyed our Valentine’s Day cake; more daytime break-ins: people ring the doorbell…if no one answers, the thief tries to forces his/her way into the residence; Brad prepared Colorless Carrots; car wreck at Monte Vista & Richmond; about 1,300 people attended the Isotopes Job Fair yesterday; state legislature wants to put a yearly cap of 3% on property tax increases; is marijuana the ‘safe’ medicine; local merchants feel that Valentine’s Day is recession proof: you either buy them for the day, or as an apology for forgetting to do so; a domestic partnership law could help unify NM; it will be cold in E NM, and mild in the W part of the state; a $1 proposed tax increase on cigarettes?; $1.9 million from US DOT to widen I-10 from El Paso to the TX border; Brad also Baked Bread; NM GOV has secured a $13 million grant from the FED GOVT to provide electronic access to health info; Leo’s Nightclub at Twelfth & Candelaria has become a victim of its success: more DUI & gang activity in that neighborhood; the NM ‘Special Orchestra’ performed at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe yesterday; enjoyed the movie “An Ideal Husband”, by Oscar Wilde; man used a dead person’s SSN to get a loan, and got arrested; we enjoyed Tenderloin Wrapped in Bacon, and toasted with a glass of Champagne; I-25 will be widened from Bernalillo to Tramway; eat chocolate, reduce the chances of having a stroke; the AL UNIV murderer had previously killed her brother; a major fault line runs under the city of Seattle; OH man tattooed a one year old girl without her permission, or that of her parents; the Detective debut of Batman is now the world’s most expensive comic book, auctioned at close to $420K; NYC cop arrested for DUI after driving into Tiffany’s Jewelry Store; Conoco oil exec killed by an avalanche in AK; skating rink roof collapsed in Pittsburgh from all the snow that has fallen on the city; more snow for the eastern half of the US; four children died in MI APT fire, while seven people killed in Chicago APT fire; did the AL UNIV killer also send a pipe bomb to one of her teachers many years ago?; several pileups along parts of I-35 & I-70 near KC, all due to weather conditions; Trader Joe’s Granola Bars recalled for possible salmonella contamination; the battle of Biden vs. Cheney on how to handle terrorism;
the astronauts will spend an extra day at the INTL Space Stations, plus the problems they faced yesterday with the observation deck extension had been resolved; the Great Barrier Reef has the largest collection of carnivores; NATO forces accidentally killed twelve AFG civilians; so far, the US leads in Winter Olympic medals; Hillary Clinton is in Qatar & Iran; what’s next in the list of reason for Toyota to recall more vehicles?; Haitian airport ready for larger planes;

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