Saturday, February 6, 2010

…2/6-10: digital invoices

32º in ABQ; 86% humidity at 6A…I went to bed early last night, hoping to read, and promptly fell asleep; deadly hit-and-run crash in Carlsbad; woman shot her husband eight times, told her son not to contact the police, and then later reported the man missing…she also rented a digger to bury the body; shooting on Sedillo Hill; armed robberies in the Four Hills neighborhood; enjoyed French Toast prepared by Brad; NM student won a ‘Junior Nobel Prize’ for her computer programming; VFW official stole $120K in funds by using a debit card to make purchases for himself; ski shovel races at Angel Fire, with speeds that can reach 60 mph; a culinary conference at the ABQ CONV CTR; a NM native collaborated in the writing of the Grammy Award rap song winner;that area is expecting over two feet of snow by the time the storm ends; NATL Airport has shut down, so has DC Metrorail & Metrobus service, and the Beltway is basically a mess; man drove through a gas station because he had to pay before pumping petrol, the driver was tasered by police; ‘invisible rope’ pranksters get caught by the police; heavy rains from San Fran to Los Angeles; bad news & hard times for TARGET: about 8K workers will be employed only part-time; many Americans live their lives dressing [and living] in the style of a bygone era; NYC: where a $9 million bonus is considered ‘modest’; 911 operator helps woman [and man] deliver baby; 500K homes without power in the mid-Atlantic area; a hangar roof at Dulles Airport collapsed; ‘Absolute Justice’ on ‘Smallville’ was a very good ‘movie'; more rain means more mudslides in CA; another PRES ‘pep talk’; say it isn’t so: Palin for PRES in 2012; three people are killed after two planes collide over CO; tragedy: Warwick, RI house fire killed five people;
the Endeavour is ready to launch tomorrow; an anti-whaling ship and a harpoon boat collided off the coast of Antarctica; parts of crashed Ethiopian jetliner located off the coast of Lebanon; Portugal has its share of economic problems; historic whiskey found near the South Pole; for sale: former ‘top secret’ town in Latvia; does the movie ‘2012’ predict an attack on the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics?; 212K deaths from Haiti quake…where, like in Louisiana, the Napoleonic Code rules: a person is guilty until proven innocent;

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