…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;