…3/28-10: experience…it pays!

31º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…Brad prepared Smothered Pork Chops; Lincoln CNTY wildfire have been contained; Ponzi schemer had $97 million in debt, and $17 million in assets; Diane Denish leads in NM GOV polls link faces to the names on the Vietnam Veterans’ Wall in DC: create a museum in the nation’s Capitol to store these photos; LANL has contaminated the surrounding land; Red Light Cameras for Rio Rancho roads?; one NM resident will be onboard the USS New Mexico, the 377 foot sub’s home port will be in CT; dead baby found on the property of a Cedar Crest home; SunPort may lose one of its runways; it’s time for all the TV series we watch to start again, including ‘Merlin’, we saw one of the season’s episodes today!; if someone has been convicted of a crime, he can be found by using ‘virtual ID’; cannot copy & paste entries directly from my Word document to my Blog, although the new WORD software can place it in a new Blog; added rainbow color to a previous Blog entry;
another construction crane struck a NYC BLDG; do smokers have lower IQs?; coal littered the tracks after an IN train derailment; vegetarian vandalized packaged meat at a supermarket;
why did S Korean ship sink?; N Korea appears not to be at fault; Obama in AFG, for a four hour visit with the troops; does anyone want to live in the 2010 Olympic Village?;

…3/29-10: only a matter of thyme
40º in ABQ; 24% humidity at 6A…GAQ; a weekend of panic attacks; full moon in the AM sky; Las Cruces man shot his sister in the head; female student attacked a school ADMIN; abandoned baby found in a box; deadly crash involving a motorcycle at Menaul & Moon; cockfighting games still take place in NM; suspect dead from midday shooting at a NW ABQ Wal-Mart; film crew in downtown Duke City?; Santa Fe teen led police on a high speed chase, with speeds reaching 90 mph: finally stopped by a spike strip, fifty officers were involved in the pursuit;
a full week at work; Code Purple since last Thursday; AM R/R broke down three times; dispute over UNM student fees;
damp along most of I-95; wet in NYC, Philly, Boston, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Seattle & DC; there could be some snow in the Cascades & Sierra Nevada MTN ranges; tornado watch in SL FL, from Tampa to Miami; rain for Richmond, Hartford, Providence, Portland, OR, Buffalo & Albany; New England flood warnings; nine tornadoes twisters swept through the Carolinas this weekend; temps from the 50s to 80s;
male prostitute leaves NV brothel, returning to porn movies; San Fran crime lab scandal; the era of ‘trampy’ prom dresses; the DOW ended up; [R] explain nearly $2K spent at a Los Angeles strip club as ‘Meals’; how honest are ‘cash for gold’ companies?; ‘tiny’ Americana town, located in PA; 25% of US teenagers drop out of school; FBI made arrests on Midwest Christian militia groups, planning religious wars against the US, members could face weapons charges: called Hutaree, they hate the US GOVT, and were planning to kill a police officer, then murder more cops at the funeral; dog yoga?; people in TX FEMA trailers being told to pay rent; suburban teen heroin use on the rise; nine MA teenagers arrested for bullying a student who killed herself, the school had been aware of this existing problem;two female suicide bombers, AKA ‘black widows’, struck Moscow subways, during the height of the AM rush hour, cars & platforms were destroyed; man with the huge boobs; Ricky Martin is gay?; is there a new home in Susan Boyle’s future?; …3/30-10: playing in the family tree
45º in ABQ; 27% humidity at 6A…GAQ; remark in E-mail by NM commissioner; Brad may have solved the problem on my prior PC; a Sustiva dream about ‘Dark Shadows’, the 60s soap opera; racist Extreme Fire Danger for E NM; 3–D glasses needed for YouTube video; NM juvenile jail has the most sexual assaults in the nation; body parts from ABQ found shipped to Kansas City; Brad made a variation of French Hamburgers;
work on I/P charges; more bicycles on AM R/R; have to overcome fear; former MGR will be out for a week; Jenny told me about how her I-Book works;
ABQ temp mentioned on the ABC AM News; New England floods & rain; tornado lifted a mobile home, dropped it into a pond, everyone was safely rescued; the ‘big thaw’ in MA, RI & CT; bad weather along parts of I-90 & I-95; wet in Providence, Boston, Philly, NYC, Baltimore, Sacramento, Yellowstone, DC, Richmond & Hartford; snow in the Pacific NW; temps from the 40s to the 80s; another arrest of a militia member; climber stuck on the peak of Mt. Shasta; TN man ran naked, except for a mask, because he was bored; there is a ‘moral compass’ near the right ear; French PRES at the White House; H1N1 cases on the rise in SE US; large credit & debit card number theft has been busted in FL; actress June Havoc has died at the age of 97; Saturday mail delivery: gone by 2011?: not if NALC has its way; why do reporters leave their TV stations?; beware bogus ‘Energy Star’ appliances; return of the bow tie?; the FBI ‘secret room’; OK law banned gay rights…but two other important items were then defeated; computer problems plague the 2010 Census; CO tenant was evicted in 2009 for failing to pay the rent, after being told to remove edible Easter decorations from that property; Medicare ‘drug loophole’ in prescription payments got plugged; MS girl can bring her girlfriend to a ‘private’ prom; Boy Scout Masters slept in the nude…when scouts were present?;start of Passover; Moscow in mourning; 6.4 quake off the coast of India; we are within a billionth of a second from ‘The Big Bang’; N Korean mine could have sunk a S Korean ship; Iran nuclear scientist defects to the US?; the $40K Nissan electric car makes its debut; the Sky Tree: Tokyo’s tallest tower;

…3/27-10: training, MGMT, professionalism

38º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…SE NM wildfires; it took about three hours to put together my new PC, with a keyboard that can handle large fingers; Brad prepared French Toast this AM; more cuts in ABQ school system budget may mean up to 1K layoffs to handle a $43 million shortfall; the USS New Mexico was commissioned today, a submarine that was completed earlier than scheduled; the first VP of the Navajo Nation has died; plane had to make an emergency landing in a Four Corners airport after a passenger suffered a heart attack; three guest houses will be built on Val Kilmer’s property, which is upsetting some of his neighbors; Cesar Chavez Day in ABQ; about 6P, a 4.2 quake shook remote area 18 miles WNW of Carlsbad, no damages or injuries were reported; a unique lunch, consisting of various cheeses, breads, crackers & salmon;

WA gun heist, reported as the state’s largest; there are now 41 banks that have failed across the US in 2010: two in GA, one in FL & AZ; the SECY of Transportation post is still vacant; the era of the floppy disk is ending; children like their vegetables steamed, not stir fried; 10K attended a Tea Party rally held in NV, some have called it the ‘Conservative Woodstock’;

darkness during ‘Earth Hour’; other countries have universal health care;

…3/21-10: a reason to laugh

32º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…a very bad AM, as my computer decided not to work…so I now have my old one, and Brad has my PC; Hobbs woman killed in drive by shooting; – 15º in Angel Fire at 6A; roadwork has begun on US 84/285, and should be completed by 2011;
the health care reform bill might by voted in the House today;
residents are told to evacuate as a volcanic eruption takes place under a glacier in Iceland; many people are walking today on the anniversary of the Bataan Death March;

…3/22-10: victories, one step at a time
42º in ABQ; 37% humidity at 6A…GAQ; two YDI inmates have escaped; Brad’s AM Chiro visit; NM levees are in poor condition; last night, huge fire at a NE ABQ; no red light cameras on FED roads across NM; some ski slopes will remain open longer than usual; more women are committing property crimes in the Duke City; Brad made Chicken Fricassee with Dumplings; 9% humidity at 5P; accident on I-40E, near Nine Mile Hill;
know no protection; hell or heaven upon returning to work, as Jenny returns from her vacation; Dr. Root is in New Zealand;
rain from NY to FL, as the Sunshine State may see T’storms; wet in Billings, Seattle, Boston, DC to NYC, Philly, INDY, Cleveland & Albany; snow in parts of AL, TN & GA; there was weekend warmth in Boston; temps from the 40s to the 80s;
health care reform passed, 219 – 212, but not one [R] supported passage; SEN will try to repeal the $938 billion bill, and Obama may sign it tomorrow; there is a ‘Fire Pelosi’ website; ‘some people will do anything for the INS companies’; nine vehicle pileup on TX interstate; Tiger Woods, ‘working on‘ his marriage, he has been living a lie; unemployed man makes money by building LEGO works of art; ‘Alice’ earned $34 million this past weekend; the ‘high drama’ weekend on Capitol Hill is over; Teddy Roosevelt started the process of getting NATL health care; Nancy Pelosi: the most powerful Speaker, and woman in Congress?; FDA warns of rotavirus vaccine contamination;
former US PRES Bush & Clinton visit Haiti; Israel will visit Obama this week; naked man in China tried to lift a taxi; the portable late night men’s toilet?; Botox: big business in Baghdad; ‘The Hobbit’ will be a two movie prequel to ‘Lord of the Rings’; first volcanic eruption in Iceland in 200 years; GOOGLE will run its search engine from Hong Kong, China does not approve this action;

…3/23-10: in our own little universe
46º in ABQ; 25% humidity at 6A…GAQ; a mixed reaction in NM about the health care reform bill being passed; more snow for NM?; YDI escapees have been caught; homicide at Copper & Tramway; Santa Fe teens vandalized vehicles; why did the Duke City’s giraffe end in a trash bin, after the animal was put to sleep; the ‘Creatures of the Night’ video has reappeared on YouTube, but I cannot access Annie Lennox videos from that website; Kewa Rail Runner stop cost $2.5 million to build, and the work was paid by FED stimulus funds; another day, another SWAT situation in ABQ; new downtown APTS on Lomas are being rented; Espanola bridge accident shuts down traffic;
big question: is overtime permitted; all info will go to our current & former MGR; on my way home, saw a late 1950s Chevy; no more PDI requests; most Pavilion security doors were not working; the big PICN book was not in that ward; should a two year old trauma victim be allowed to visits his parents, who are in jail?;
NM weather, and ABQ temp mentioned on the ABC AM News; wet in the Great Plains, snow in the Rockies; Denver snow; Chinese sandstorms has reached Taiwan, could be blown to the W coast of the US; rain & potential flooding in Philly, NYC, Boston & DC; warmer in the SE US: cooler in the SW US; temps from the 30s to the 70s;
chain restaurants will have to display calorie counts of their meals; the ‘plastic ship’ is sailing from CA to Sydney, Australia; Obama will now tour America, to convince people that the health care reform is good: this will occur after he signs the bill into law; the ‘Lady Gaga’, based on her clothing; all the world is Madison AVE; women commit are more guilty of ID thefts; six year old MN boy was struck & killed by a bus; VT man found nearly $10K in a bag on a street, and gave the cash to the police; states starting to sue against health care bill; Biden, and the ‘F’ word; the ‘Patty Duke Show’ cast reunion; NH thief stole jewelry while a customer & salesperson were conversing, just feet away from the robber; more medical schools are needed;
man killed eight students in E China; ten weeks ago to the day that the deadly quake shook Haiti; baby statues made from photos taken right after birth; the ‘too dark’ tan; Hillary Clinton in MX; so many Port-au-Prince parks have become tent cities; the ‘Great Firewall of China’;

…3/24-10: friends do dinner & movies
36º in ABQ; 64% humidity at 6A…GAQ; how to put problems on pause; woman stabbed man with mystical dagger, this took place in ABQ; Las Cruces girl shot multiple times with a B-B gun; people are still complaining about the never-ending train whistles from Amtrak, Rail Runner & freight trains; charges filed by candidate against current Lt. GOV; NM GOV will repeal the proposed food tax, but will increase the cigarette tax by 75¢ per pack; early AM snow, which turned into partly cloudy PM; frost on cars this AM; NM man ran an $80 million Ponzi scheme; Crime Stoppers is running out of reward money;
the debate over O/T & communication continues?; Steve Alford will remain at UNM;
NM snow mentioned on ABC AM News; snow for ME, CO & KS; T’storms in OK & TX; Midwest storms, rain for Dallas & Houston, with a chance of tornadoes in the S Plains; warm & dry in the SE US; snow in Denver & OKC, rain in KC; ND levees are collapsing; wet along parts of I-35; temps from the 30s to the 70s;
C-sections, the most common procedure performed in hospitals; the first 3–D hockey game will be aired tonight; three people found dead in houseboat off Long Island; eighteen year old nerd asked, and she said yes: Maxim model went to his prom; home sales keep falling; 49% polled support the new health care bill, while other say it will ration medical care; US & Israel leaders met last night; in ‘private talks’; fewer retirees are moving to Sunbelt states, such as FL, AZ & NM; threats against politicians who supported health care reform; the DOW went down; new health bill will impose a tax on people who use tanning salons; tear down parts of Detroit, and turn them into smaller, ‘greener’ cities; no violence, say the [R], against those who supported health care reform; actor Robert Culp has died at the age of 79, from a fall hear his Hollywood home; six million homeowners are behind in their mortgage payments;
Russian genius rejects a $1 million prize for solving a complex math problem; Hillary Clinton in PAK; US & Russia will reduce their nuclear stockpiles…when?;

…3/25-10: tactile hologram
33º in ABQ; 69% humidity at 6A…GAQ; I come from a land of ‘micro MGMT’; keeping my life in control; how did a plastic glove fall off my hand while I was sleeping?; head-on crash on I-25 near Santa Fe killed two people; more illnesses may be added to the list that can qualify for legally using marijuana in NM; ‘investor’ took money from new clients to pay old debts; NM gross receipts tax will increase; the city of Bernalillo does not have a police chief; Rio Rancho meth bust; 2010 Census will visit the Indian Pueblo Cultural CTR; PC was delivered, but no one was home: next attempt: this Saturday;
what to do about overtime;
wet in Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, ATL & Memphis; bad weather for the Carolinas; T’storms for TN, AR, OK, TX, MS & Louisiana; downpours in S IL; rain in Nashville, New Orleans & Houston; a mix of rain & snow in the Pacific NW US; MN floods; bad weather along parts of I-10, I-20 & I-70; temps from 30s to 80s;
CA will try to legalize marijuana; SEN attempts to block health bill; coffins appearing on property of politicians who supported the health care reform; men call a CT bank, said they were going to rob it; goose ‘lawn art’ attracts a mate; OH schools practice tornado drills on a regular basis; the price of 3–D movie theaters is going to increase; more ‘baby slings’ recalled; $100K falls out of armored car, quickly picked up by drivers; sign of the times, or some things never change…teachers caught drinking alcohol, or taking illegal drugs while at school; NC courthouse goes up in flames, it was in the process of being restored;
US – Israel peace talks fail; 6.0 quake shakes the Philippines; Russian bombers fly into British airspace;

…3/20-10: acoustic windows

28º in ABQ; 74% humidity at 6A…from invisible snow’, to flurries at The Beach during the AM; the day the cheese cutter broke; at one point, I-40 E & W was shut down from ABQ to Santa Rosa, which is about 110 miles; there was a seven car pileup on I-25, conditions are icy on that interstate; Due City sex offender guilty of possessing child porn; some NM SEN are changing their mind about imposing a ‘food tax’; five people injured in Farmington accident; Brad prepared Peppered Beef Stroganoff; six years ago, temps in the Duke City reached the 80s; and today is the first day of …Spring?; Brad’s new computer is on its way; Stewart Udall died; Rail Runner rider number three million will board the train next week; it’s the Lobos vs. the Huskies, and NM lost; met Silver [a tenant] & Coco [her mix breed dog];

seven more US banks have failed, bringing the total in 2010 to 37, located in AL, MN, UT, OH & GA [three]; small plane crashed into WA home; C. difficile is replacing MRSA as the most contagious HOSP infection;

Obama wants to talk to Iran, but our PRES says Tehran has isolated itself from the world; British Airways is on strike; huge sandstorm has struck Beijing: China is nearly 1/3 desert; at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, scientists circulated the highest energy particle beam ever generated by human, and the test was successful on the first attempt; 5.6 quake shakes GITMO, but no injuries reported, but felt in Havana; oil is $80.63 per barrel; gold is $1,104.20 an ounce; the Catholic Church attempts to apologize for its sexual misconduct;

…3/17-10: loving life’s loves

40º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Happy Anniversary, Day Three!; more Safe Ride options on St. Patrick’s Day; the 2010 Census has been completed; no need to worry about bringing diskettes to update my Blog; more use of my ‘little black book’ diary?; did not sleep well last night; YouTube will be my priority; the Kewa Rail Runner Station will open next week; without warning: Convergys’ may lay off 600 people; no charges can be filed against the ‘fake cop’?; updated version of ‘True Grit’ being filmed in N NM; the clothes went to Buffalo Exchange; is one person’s cell phone making a neighbor sick?;

redesigning PEDS meeting at 4P; UNM Rio Rancho enrollment is lower than predicted, it’s twelve miles N of the previous location; got home at 5P; will we be moved to Bradbury…time will tell; no PICU Admits; Michelle has been to Two Fools; we remain in Code Purple;

ABQ weather conditions mentioned on the Weather Channel; for the second year in a row; Fargo expects floods, also rivers are rising in NJ & New England; wet along parts of I-10, I-75 & I-95; FL rain; temps from the 40s to 80s;

ignore the 50/50 split on health reform; Pepsi pulls sugary soft drinks from school soda machines; St. Patrick’s Day!; the number of inmates in state prisons has declined; will a jobs bill be passed ‘soon’?; no matter what, health INS premiums would still increase; nude NYC art aims for the ‘uncomfortable’;

US – Israel patching up peace, piece by piece; will Osama bin Laden be arrested alive;

…3/18-10: shoes vs. footprints

41º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…GAQ; we begin Year Thirty-One!; slowly withdrawing from my blog; mountain lion captured in Santa Fe; while the numbers are declining across the country, NM prison population is on the rise; NM teen wins $100K award for the INTEL Science Talent Search;

some people keep in touch with people on vacation; I did the ‘DDD’ updates incorrectly, have the new rules now; no set lunch shifts, and overtime when necessary; disadvantaged children will watch the Lobos play in San Jose; CHC EKG & ECG sheets should be put on hold; Channel 13 TV van on UNM campus; we remain in Code Purple; no ‘senior coders’;

near Fargo, one million sandbags along the Red River; snow in the Rockies; temps from the 40s to 80s;

216: the magic health care number, will it be reached; more generations are living under one roof; safer flea & tic spray products for pets; repaired Toyotas still have ‘sudden acceleration syndrome’; Fess Parker has died at the age of 85; AFL–CIO supports health bill; ID will sue the FED GOVT if the health care reform bill is passed; spike strip fell out pf CA police car, puncturing other vehicles’ tires; jobless claims on the decline; experimental plane crashed in AZ; fourth grade NC student caught with marijuana on school property;

natural ‘road kill’ used as wedding, or fashion hats; eighty wedding guests ‘took the plunge’ when the pier collapsed while taking a bridal photo; the virtual US/MX fence project is on hold; Hillary heads to Russia; the shape of future police cars;

…3/19-10: can anyone eat just one pistachio?

53º in ABQ; 32% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s painting progresses; Red Light Cameras banned on some NM state roads; local bars seeing green during Lobos games; sexual assault at the NMSU Las Cruces campus; burnt body found in N ABQ park; new downtown APT complex is managed by Monarch Properties; winter snowstorm for NE NM?; a movie crew was filming in N ABQ yesterday; weather went from spring to winter during the day; it’s a ‘red leather jacket’ day; I am the ‘Alpha Customer’ at Trader Joe’s, I pack my own groceries;

left at 11:30A; lunch at Two Fools, followed by comic quest; PEDS takes priority, but too many cross signals & mixed messages; all PICN charges for Family Practice completed yesterday; the Lobos won, 62 – 57;

Denver will see a fifty degree drop in temperature, ending the day with snow; flurries for Fargo, Rapid City & INTL Falls; rain in Chicago; NM snow mentioned on ABC AM News; temps from 30s to 70s;

pick a state…name the scandal in ‘American Affairs: 101’; former porn star says she had an affair with Tiger Woods; countdown to health care coverage: the cost will be $940 billion over the next decade, and no favors allowed; about 100K FED workers owe billions of dollars in back taxes; the invisible cloak is becoming closer to reality; next on the Obama agenda; illegal immigration reform; a sex scandal in the Boy Scouts of America?; the DOW went down;

car hooked to truck’s bumper on British road, pushed at speeds of 60 mph; Hillary in Russia;

…3/16-10: twenty-first century love

35º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Happy Anniversary, Day Two!; more charges against the man who impersonated a police officer; AM house fire in NE ABQ; local bars prepare for Lobo fever; no one was injured after a house caught fire in SW ABQ; since my YouTube site may be giving me more pleasure [for now], I may just slow down this blog; Clovis man accused of biting off another man’s nose; $10K stolen from Santa Fe spa; we are ‘unmarried partners’; where is my happiness?;

‘redesigning PEDS’ meeting, out MGR had no idea that it was called, and Jenny is on vacation; doctor liked my pink shirt; compared it to a flamingo; duty of GI charges still being shared; the Lobos will play Montana in San Jose, CA; new version of WORD is not compatible with my home version;Roswell weather mentioned on the Weather Channel; flooding from the Dakotas to New England; wet for Houston, Dallas, the Twin Cities, Seattle, Eugene [OR]. San Antonio & Corpus Christi; Boston is flooded after four days of nearly constant rain; CT & RI have also declared states of emergency; temps from the 30s to the 70s;

attempt a ‘deem & pass’ tactic to pass health reform, as Obama keeps pushing the plan: rests in the hands of 37 [D]; Rockville, MD dog swallowed a $20K diamond, waiting for him to ‘naturally’ get rid of the jewel; 140K people still in the dark; liberal Supreme Court Justice Stevens considering retirement in the next three years; people are paying to watch a woman gain weight, her husband likes the chubby, new look; barge slammed into 14th Street Bridge in DC; the FBI may be your FaceBook friend; ABBA is now part of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; the middle class has no one to help them; Honda recalls 10K cars for ‘brake issues’; foul air on a US Airways jet forced crew & passengers to leave the plane; Los Angeles shaken by a 4.4 tremor at 4:04 AM; $75 million in prescription drugs stolen: this is the world we live in!; two people are killed when a tour bus crashed in TX;it may cost $14 billion to rebuild Haiti; shrimp found under Antarctica; oil is $81.70 per barrel; gold is $1,122.50 an ounce; 6.7 & 5.5 quakes shake Chile;

…3/15-10: the power of love

34º in ABQ; 88% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Happy Anniversary, Day One!; restless sleep last night; wet at The Beach; Hobbs Juvenile Parole Office may be built near a school; Las Cruces has started to issue tickets for texting while driving; slick roads, especially I-40, E & W of ABQ; three cameras placed on Bernalillo CNTY police cars; men’s Lobos ranked third in NCAA tournament; a foot of snow in the E MTN; snow on power lines causing outages in N NM;

one Coder on vacation all week: another, for four days; as of yesterday, UNMH is in Code Purple again; patient allergic to cinnamon; the Bradbury has been struck by burglars; one MGR left her position, and returned to Compliance; and the changes continue…; missing UNM student safely found in Socorro; the UNM Men’s Lobos team will play San Jose next;

NE US storms with 70 mph gusts; bad weather along parts of I-80, I-90 & I-95; Nantucket winds, TN rockslides, Olde Towne Alexandria floods; wet along coastal MA, Gloucester, Boston, Pittsburgh, Denver, ABQ, Philly, P’town, Providence, OKC, Amarillo, Fargo, NYC, Hartford, Albany, Richmond & DC; ABQ rain & snow mentioned on the Weather Channel & ABC AM News; temps from the 30s to the 70s;

2010 Census forms should be arriving this week; the ‘Hemingway House’ in Key West, FL may become a literary landmark; was the CA Prius problem a fake?; Peter Graves has died at the age of 83; NYC police towed a vehicle with a dead body inside it: the corpse was going to a funeral parlor; Obama is ‘pumping up the volume’ on health care reform; two people died in NJ house fire; twelve year old PA boy faces life in prison for murder; the DOW ended up; social studies, as defined by conservative TX?; Detroit is banning its city employees from wearing deodorant, or cologne; IA woman attacked her sister with a toilet tank lid; car burned on the Brooklyn Bridge; states want more casinos to help balance their budgets; TN man threw his baby down a trash chute, the toddler will recover; cars programmed to go wrong once; neighbors did not want a house to have a deck, so the FL homeowner painted his house various colors, and hung underwear outside the residence; state of emergency declared in MA; former PRES of NYC bank charged with trying to defraud the FED bailout program; Red River may flood near Fargo; the new Ford ‘cop car’; Continental Airlines will no longer serve free food in its economy class on domestic flights;massive blackout across Chile, not caused by recent quakes; anti GOVT rallies in Thailand; nude hiking in Germany; WWII explosives triggered in the ocean; oil is $80.17 per barrel; gold is $1,1104.30 an ounce; snowmobiles may have caused Canadian avalanche; Socialism is alive & well in France;

…3/14-10: weather gone wild!

44º in ABQ; 56% humidity at 6A…second homicide in Clovis this year; NM ranks number six in ID theft crimes; 80% of Duke City crimes involve some type of property, either homes or vehicles; woman caused two separate crashes: a hit & run, and a T–bone collision; police raided a downtown Santa Fe residence, and confiscated marijuana plants; San Juan CNTY firefighter ignited his vehicle, so he could collect the INS money; two TV shows will be filmed in NM; the shopping plaza at Coors & Montano has survived hard economic times by each store working together; I-40W is shut down from WY to Louisiana because of an accident that involved a motorcycle; IA teen killed on I-40 rollover near Santa Rosa; it had to happen…I now have videos on my website from New Bedford, MA…where part of Azzarb was born!; today we enjoyed Fried Rice; saw 2012: great movie!; CA man allowed to make the Nazi salute; the ‘igloo mansion’ of Cleveland, OH, but no bathroom; death threats have been made against the CA man who claimed to have a ‘runaway Prius’; 120K I–Pads have been sold; the $3 coffee inhaler; power outages stranded people for hours on NJ train; today is “π” Day; man patches NYC broken tiles by using LEGO blocks; ‘Alice’ is still number one, earning over $62 million, the first movie to earn $200 million in 2010; Shenandoah, VA man won $200 million in the Mega Millions Jackpot; MA student was stabbed to death outside a restaurant, after a birthday party had been held there;a 6.6 quake rocked central Japan, including Tokyo; Henry Kissinger has been released from the S Korean HOSP; three people on snowmobiles have been killed by avalanche in Canada; fake Russian invasion broadcast by Georgian TV network; Techtonick: the newest style of music; moon rocks brought back to Earth contained water; Annie Lennox, and her fight against AIDS; two Americans killed in MX drive by shootings; no religion wants violence, every one believes in an “Anti-Christ”;

…3/13-10: weather in the blink of an eye

38º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…Nancy’s daughter, artistically nude; two hot air balloons seen in the AM sky; –4º in Angel Fire this early AM; NM Sleep Clinic helping those with PTSD; the Men’s’ Lobos lost a very close game; the suspicious disappearance of a female UNM Student; tour Isotopes park for free today; Brad prepared an Omelet with Feta Cheese & Bacon for breakfast, then Shrimp with Lobster Sauce; two Valencia CNTY women befriended elderly people out of money: the pair are also accused of neglect & abuse…plus, charged with submitting fraudulent INS claims; yesterday we enjoyed a PM chat with Nancy; another winter storm heading for NM?; retaining my youth through music?; an anniversary card from Warren; a foamy, ‘explosive’ bottle of very good champagne;it’s time to turn the clocks; prepare for the ‘Coffee Party’?; CO woman a suspected terrorist?; the number of herpes case are on the rise; ‘Life Without Oil’ program made you stop, and think; baby sling can kill infants; 35 states under flood watches; bank closures in Louisiana & FL bring the 2010 count to thirty; are there too many angiograms performed?; Obama seeking better education for children, plus creating new jobs, plus obtaining health care for more Americans, plus handling two wars; the end of the era of the newspaper comic strip?; more innovation at the 2010 Games CONV, being held in San Fran; US imports more oil than any other nation; strong winds & downpours leave 450K people in the dark in the NE US; hefty woman stuffed $26K in cash inside her bra; shopping malls turning into food gardens; homeless man lives off frequent flyer & hotel coupons; P’town has one of the world’s “sexiest” beaches;is the current Pope in legal trouble?; garbage piling up in Haitian tent cities; child abuse charges spread across Europe…with priests as the perpetrators; cat accidentally locked for a month in a British industrial freezer, he survived with only minor ‘damages’; a Dutch auction site where the lowest bidder wins; 6.4 quake rocked Indonesia; Henry Kissinger hospitalized with abdominal pains in S Korea;

…3/12-10: are you in there?

34º in ABQ; 56% humidity at 6A…GAQ; thirty years ago, one of us was talking to his dog, then driving from his Fairhaven home on a quest, while the other was in Boston, preparing with his club for Equinox; to help boost morale, CYFD had a luncheon, not at the taxpayers’ expense; the NM DEPT of Health wants people to take an anonymous survey on what type of care is needed in the state; the NM unemployment rate has risen to 8.5% in January, 2010; mail truck was vandalized in NE ABQ; robbery turned into a bad accident yesterday; another snowboarder missing in N NM, found later in the day ; –6º in Angel Fire this AM; 250 marijuana plants, plus psychedelic mushrooms found in Santa Fe home; fatal highway crash along I-40 near Moriarty; the highest jobless rate in 22 years; memories of the Queen City Follies; gas is $2.65 per gallon in ABQ: the AVG price in NM is $2.79 per gallon; spring DUI ‘Super Blitz’ from March 12 – 28; San Ysidro home invasion & shooting; NM ski slopes are staying open longer than usual this winter;

more dangerous scam mail being opened across the campus & at UNMH; a free ‘Pit Party’ will be held this Sunday; comic book climb, starting with Café Istanbul, followed by lunch at Thai Tip [which had great food]; Channel 13 at the UNM campus; plenty of red ink being used by the Daily Lobo to indicate victory on the men’s basketball court; ended the trip with talking to Nancy;

wet in JAX, Nashville, INDY, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Philly, DC, Buffalo, ATL, Tallahassee, Miami, Orlando, Mobile, Tampa & Raleigh; Weather Channel video from White Oaks, NM, who have a casino & a brother as their tourist major sites; bad weather along areas of I-20, I-70 & I-75; snow in KS, NE & the Dakotas; temps from the 30s to the 80s;

whale meat should not be served at restaurants; pre-ordering from APPLE IPad; ten charities will receive money from Obama’s Nobel Prize award; natural gas pipeline exploded near Chandler, OK; 10K 9–1–1 responders will each have access to a share of $657 million settlement; PRES has delayed his overseas trip to rally support for health reform; some states are delaying tax refunds; parts of I-70 in CO has reopened after rockslides damaged the interstate; street drugs are out, sniffing nail polish is in; man copies ignition key during test drive, steals the truck, but gets caught; American who worked at six US nuclear power plants ‘may’ have ties to al Qaeda; snow kept shoppers at home during February; ‘social justice’ vs. Christianity; hate mail & ID threat: the fear is real; the DOW ended slightly up; Tiger Woods may return to golf at the Masters Tournament; GOVT E-mails that are sent, but not saved; charity CEOs’ being paid too much money?; UT politician in hot water after skinny dipping with an underage girl, then paying her $150K; is there more to CA man and the runaway Prius?; incendiary devices found in four TX mail boxes or postal processing plants, none were proved to be dangerous;no one was injured after several strong aftershocks shook Chile; oil is $81.13 per barrel; gold is $1,102.20 an ounce; heavy rains & floods in Kazakhstan; Chilean produce may mean higher prices at the grocery store; British Airways cabin crews may soon go on a seven day strike;

…3/11-10: fueling the American dream

32º in ABQ; 92% humidity at 6A…GAQ; night detectives triumphant over crime; millions of FED GOVT funds headed to NM for education; truck’s owner knew the driver was drunk when he collided in to four vehicles, killing two people; another drunk driver was arrested twice during a twenty-four hour period; YouTube viewers are accessing my song lists; Brad made tasty Hot Cross Buns; people should not have to tell their future employer if they have been convicted of a felony; woman wanted to drive drunk;goal is to move all UNMMG staff to the Bradbury; Lady Lobos lost in OT; snowing since 5A, both at The Beach, and UNMH; numeric codes on the Dictionary MD list; we remain in Code Purple; ask, and ye shall receive…specialists’ visits; the Men’s Lobos team won;

severe AR twisters, as temps in that state quickly went from cold to warm; some supercells were reported; stormy weather in FL, AL, MS, OH, IL & IN; T’storms from Chicago to Nashville to JAX, rain & snow along parts of I-10, I-20, I-40, I-75 & I-90; wet in Tallahassee, INDY, Louisville, Charlotte, Miami, New Orleans & ATL; snow for Omaha & KC; more flooding in the SE US; temps from the 30s to the 80s;
the ‘no fly list’ has increased in size after the holidays; KC school system may cut 700 jobs; more CO rockslides, this time killing one woman in a car; some people can ‘taste’ fat; Toyota TV ads, this time about selling the vehicles; foreclosures up by the smallest amount in recent months; man spent 44 days to build the biggest house of cards, a model of a hotel; Congress is close to a health deal…maybe; are black Barbie dolls being sold at a lower price in a Louisiana Wal-Mart?; rural areas in of the US being refused broadband funds; AL school prom cancelled over lesbian couple; teens sniffing glue, hairspray & Freon; safer highways in 2009, fewer cars on the road is part of the reason; has the health bill been improved?; the DOW ended up; court upholds ‘under God’ phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance; CA sex offender was living too close to a school; FED judge from Louisiana may be impeached; new airport to open in Panama City, FL;Greece workers on strike; VP Biden in Jordan; oil is $81.84 per barrel; as their leader was being sworn in, three quakes, each over 6.0, shook Chile; gold is $1,107.50 an ounce; MX gay marriage law goes into effect; death note to the Juarez mayor on the head of a dead pig;

…3/10-10: a moment, a movement in music

29º in ABQ; 56% humidity at 6A…GAQ; snow last night, then it dry conditions at The Beach; ABQ home owner battles home invader; shots fired at SE ABQ SWAT situation; male stalking young children in the NE area of the Duke City; another fake cop, this time in Valencia CNT: just pulling over vehicles, and parking behind them; received 2010 Census letter yesterday; man set his ex-wife on fire;

person learning how to Code stopped by our office yesterday; the men’s & women’s Lobos are in ‘Sin City’ to continue their championship; 24 positions have been eliminated from UNMMG; we remain on Code Purple;

an EF-2 twister did touch ground in W OK, it carved a ten mile path; wet in Mobile, ATL, Houston, Tulsa, Hew Orleans, Chicago, Birmingham, OKC, Little Rock & Dallas; NM snow mentioned on ABC AM News; snow in Rapid City, Fargo & ABQ; storms in AR, Louisiana, AL, GA & FL; bad weather for parts of I-35 & I-40; temps from the 30s to 70s;

a 200 mile detour to avoid I-70 rockslide area in CO; teen heartthrob Corey Haim has died at the age of 38 years old; job bill gains support; should US Supreme Court judges be required to attend State of the Union, or any PRES speeches; another runaway Prius, this time in NY state; expect airport delays at NYC airports this summer; Obama is more popular than Congress; NE mother was too drunk to drive, so she had her fourteen year old son operate the car; 600 AL school workers are without jobs; closing in on a health care bill?; NATL Standards of Education developed, with $4 billion in incentives…only AK & TX oppose the idea; seven year old CA boy dialed 911, saved his family from burglars; man stabbed by a meat thermometer while watching a movie in CA; the DOW ended slightly up; the Congressional Gold Medal was presented to the WASPs who served during WWII; VA GOV says not to discriminate against gays & lesbians when hiring new employees; Napa Valley vineyards are facing foreclosure; man broke into IA church, viewed porn via their electronic equipment;should Israel stop building 1,600 homes in Palestinian lands?; gold is $1,112.10 an ounce; oil is $82.06 per barrel; ‘Free Tibet’ rallies will be held around the world; Navy HOSP ship has left Haiti; when it comes to money, it is still the ‘billionaires boys’ club’; US missionaries went to Uganda, and preached against the ‘homosexual agenda’: that country may create a law to punish these people by jail time, or death; the world’s richest man lives in MX;

…3/9-10: look deep, see far

37º in ABQ; 67% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Santa Fe resident part of the ‘Hurt Locker’ victory team on Oscar night; an ABQ murderer surrenders to a lawyer; attempted kidnapping in NE Heights backyard; NM boy will compete in Junior Olympics in skiing; Brad made a delicious Garlic & Egg Soup;

what do I do with the PICN Family Practice billing sheets?; Lupe, and the missing links; helping others, who are helping others who will help others; we remain in Code Purple; cold AM R/R;

a W OK twister remained on the ground for 15 minutes; N Plains fog, also in Chicago & Madison; wet in St. Louis, Memphis, Nashville, KC, SLC, Billings, Baton Rouge, Little Rock & Houston; snow in Rapid City, the Rockies & the Sierra Nevada MTN; T’storms for MO, AR, MS, TN & Louisiana; bad weather along parts of I-10, I-20, I-35 & I-90; temps from the 30s to 80s;

deadly shooting at OH State UNIV; runaway Toyota Prius reached 90 mph, the vehicle was not on any ‘recall list’?; health care: in reach vs. in hand; SONY will start selling 3–D TV sets in June, 2010; Pringles Potato Chips recalled, possible salmonella contamination; Day One of same–sex ceremonies in DC; Haiti leader will meet with Obama tomorrow; the DOW ended slightly up; 73% of jobs polled do not plan to rehire; 4.4 quake shook off coast of HI, no damage or injuries reported; Chevron to cut 2K jobs; PA woman accused of being starting a jihad via the Internet; cheese made from a woman’s breast milk?; the First Lady’s inaugural outfit has been donated to the Smithsonian; young adults are pessimistic on reaching the ‘American dream’; Cisco, and the ultra-fast downloading system;newborn elephant blessed by Buddhist monks in Melbourne, Australia, Zoo; 62% of Iraqis voted in NATL elections; Oriental woman with horn shaped skin deformity in her head; SECY Gates in S AFG; Chile quake moved a city ten feet; oil is $81.62 per barrel; gold is $1,122.90 an ounce; for sale: Grecian island;

…3/8-10: I am here for you

38º in ABQ; 82% humidity at 6A…overnight moisture with thunder at The Beach; GAQ; Brad’s AM Chiro visit; the man who killed a teen inside a gated community has been arrested; NM native won the Oscar for the Best Song, from ‘Crazy Heart’; minor power outage this AM at The Beach; NM GOV is not in favor of the food tax; Los Lunas couple has just returned from quake ravaged Chile; Mike W., and his INTL ‘radio’, featuring ‘artists’ from around the world; murder–suicide in SE ABQ; should Duke City students be allowed to start school one hour later?;

back to the respiratory season; we remain in Code Purple;

ABQ & Four Corners rain & snow mentioned on both the Weather Channel & ABC AM News; wet in Houston, Dallas, Fargo, Spokane, Denver & ABQ; great weather for the E Coast; bad weather along parts of I-10 & I-35; brush fires in Orlando, and parts of FL, AL & GA; temps from the 30s to 70s;

many first time Oscar winners; ‘Hurt Locker’ was the lowest revenue generating movie to win the Academy Award: but it took six honors, including Movie & Director [the first woman to do so]; AIDS can hide in bone marrow; three people were injured at Dallas high-rise shooting; huge boulders, some as big as vehicles, shut down I-70 in CO; gas prices have risen ten cents in the last two weeks, now the NATL AVG is $2.75 per gallon; soda sales have slumped in schools; ‘Avatar’ won three Oscars; many people do not get a good night’s sleep; CA vandal gets caught spray painting a police car; the AK Iditarod has begun; some actors & actresses were not mentioned in the list of those who died during 2009, such as Farrah & Bea Arthur; the DOW ended down; osteoporosis drugs may actually cause chronic pain, and bones to eventually break; the Oscars were viewed by plenty of people; the SS United States may be heading to the scrap yard; Detroit’s solution: shrink the city’s size?;VP Biden in Jerusalem; PAK is recanting their statement about who was captured; 6.0 quake has shaken Turkey, the epicenter was SE of Ankara, initial reports indicate fifty people have been killed; the ‘Poker Robbers’ used machetes & grenades during the crime; oil is $81.84 per barrel; gold is $1,126 per ounce; heavy snow has fallen across Germany; Iraqis are tough people, just like Americans; CERN may produce ‘dark matter’;

…3/7-10: wizard of the wins

44º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…an overnight power outage at ABQ Uptown; the BLM wants to acquire 7,500 acres of private ranch land; both the UNM Men’s & Women’s basketball teams are going to the Mountain West Tournaments; small plane made an emergency landing on I-25, S of ABQ; another deadly crash caused by a drunk driver, who tried to flee the scene of the accident; the start of ‘business exchanges’ between NM & mainland China?; brush fire in the Bosque, near Tingley Drive; people do not want a pipeline between Fort Sumner & Santa Fe; thirty years ago…two people, in their own ways, were planning for the upcoming Entre Nous run; the NM GOV has twenty days to approve the state’s budget; my Windows Media software has been updated so I could watch three minutes of ‘2012’ on my PC; NM actor had a role in ‘Avatar’; Johnny Tapia won by a knockout;eight teenage boys were shot while leaving an IN concert; there are many towns across America that contain only one person, and those people like that distinction; a fourth grader becomes a hero after fatal AZ bus crash; Obama says ‘Trust me.’, and America replies…; the Capitol Hill Ethics Committee is busy this year; gunman killed after shooting a police officer outside a TX Wal-Mart; the ABC/Cablevision War; ‘Alice’ made over $116 million this weekend;malaria increasing in Haiti; four gunman robber an INTL Poker Tournament in Berlin, Germany; al Qaeda tells US Muslims to attack America; is Iran building more protective missiles?; is there another rift in disarmament between N Korea, S Korea & the US; religious violence in Nigeria; Iraqi elections may delay US troop withdrawal; an American born al Qaeda member has been arrested in PAK, or has he?; Iran still saying ‘9–11’ never happened; are there diplomatic problems between the US and Turkey, and China?; small fire at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport;