…4/25-10: spark imagination

43º in ABQ; 25% humidity at 6A…what do these people find fascinating in my YouTube website that they want to be my ‘friend’ and ‘subscribe’ at the same time!…I am totally puzzled!; 41 year old man accused of sexually molesting an eight year old girl that was in his care; woman found, after being lost for days in the Bandelier NATL Monument; 150K attended the Gathering of Nations; Dakota Brant is the new Miss Indian World; sludge & arsenic still remain in the water of Bernalillo; a $32 million grant for NM to house residents who have HIV/AIDS;

sweet crude oil is leaking from the sunken rig, the slick may continue growing for several months; death & destruction in the SE US: the tornado threat has moved into the Carolinas, GA & FL; ‘Archie’ comics introduced a gay male character; the 2,406th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was awarded to Mel Brooks; the fourteen year old female NASCAR driver;

the Hubble Telescope has been in space for twenty years; this is World Malaria Day; woman in France is fined for wearing a veil while driving; they are already planning Trance Energy 2011; did a N Korean torpedo sink a S Korean warship?;

…4/26-10: turn the hands of time

52º in ABQ; 35% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Blue Cross of NM is asking for a 25% premium hike; SE CO snow; new rehearsal hall for the Santa Fe Opera; AM panic attack; UNM campus at Los Alamos is facing a housing shortage; Egyptian scientists in NM for radioactive detection training;

UNM student will play for the Washington Redskins; Jenny took the test for Coding Compliance Certificate this weekend; all alone today; possible PC problems persist; 2011 health premium are slightly going up;

Richmond & Roanoke could see rain; tornados also touched ground in parts of SC; wet in Boston, Providence, Philly, NYC, DC, Detroit, Omaha, INDY & Orlando; there is a tornado watch for S FL; wet along parts of I-70, I81 & I-95; an EF-4 twister struck MS this past weekend, cut a path two miles wide; temps from the 50s to the 90s;

smoking addiction is in your genes?; a ‘dog disco’ for the financial district of NYC, while Wall ST reform is stalled by [R];?; another canine saves a three year old girl’s life; Wal-Mart faces huge class action lawsuit: one million women asking for billions of dollars in damages: the company will take this case to the US Supreme Court; celebrities save ‘HOLLYWOOD’ sign; 42K gallons of oil per day is now spilling into the Gulf of MX; tents line NYC streets for job interviews; good Samaritan attacked in NYC, and nobody stopped to help him; in just one day, the Gulf of MX oil spill has tripled in size; the DOW ended slightly up;
6.5 quake off the SE coast of Taiwan, its epicenter was at a depth of 6.2 miles, and no damages or injuries reported; Hertz bought Thrifty Auto Rental; oil is $84.20 per barrel; gold is $1,153.50 an ounce; two British men built a remote control camera to take pictures of animals in the African jungle; dust storm in NW China;

…4/24-10: coins vs. change…

43º in ABQ; 58% humidity at 6A…last night, a windy evening; two men found dead in a NE ABQ home, a woman who survived is in critical condition; NM residents pay more taxes than corporations in this state; NM man caught for not paying taxes in 2007 & 2008; NW Duke City home raided, suspected as a haven for gang members; Kim is expecting a boy, she will remain a tenant at The Beach, but move to a lower level APT; YDDC guard attacked by inmate; the Roadrunner bicycle tournament is being held in N NM; a solar power plant for Rio Rancho?; a magazine survey says Santa Fe is one of America’s prettiest towns; car near a booth at an inside an indoor flea market on Central caught on fire; Brad prepared a Casserole Roasted Chicken; tanker explosion on the Laguna Pueblo; the All Nations Skate Jam was held in SW ABQ;

AZ law makes you ‘prove’ you are a US citizen: NM GOV opposes the law, saying it could lead to racial profiling, many will challenge its legality; a deadly fungus found in OR; FDIC shuts down seven IL banks, bringing the total of failed financial institutions in 2010 to 57; two planes came within 200 feet of each other while taxiing on the tarmac at a CA airport; April is NATL Grilled Cheese Month; dust storm shuts down twenty miles of I-40 in N AZ; the prices for homes is still dropping, jobless claims are up, and personal financial growth is ‘stagnant; tornado threat in the Midwest & SE US; Goldman Sachs E-mails indicate they knew what business would fails, and how to make money through derivatives; AZ economy may suffer from passage of the new immigration law;

6.0 quake rattles Indonesia; Disneyland Paris will not allow an adult that does not work for them, to enter the theme park, dressed as a princess; YouTube is five years old; NASA displays new photos taken by the Hubble telescope; seeing more Toyota ads;

…4/22-10: is there a dollar in the house?

47º in ABQ; 68% humidity at 6A…GAQ; overnight rain & storms at The Beach; save money by buying an energy efficient appliance; a HOSP for Valencia CNTY?; N NM snow; two dead bodies found in Abiquiu home; we completed the move today; NM lost jobs in mining, construction & manufacturing to reduce the state’s budget problems, some NM rest areas might close; PM rain at The Beach; Navajo Code talker has died; Rio Rancho student convicted of arson, attempting to set a fire on school property;

one co-worker is teaching in St. Louis, another becoming a grandmother again; give me time to plan, and I will;

slow moving storm brings rain to Denver, OKC, Rapid City, SLC & KC; severe weather in parts of CO, TX, OK & KS; snow along the I-5 ‘grapevine’; mid-Atlantic coastal fog; snow in the Rockies; wet along parts of I-35 & I-95; temps from the 50s to the 80s;

Obama vs. the big banks; wanted: ‘buff’ person to apply tanning oil to S Beach guests, paid $20 per hour; baseball player made a leap, flipped over, and tagged home plate; Mohawk haircut uncovered leukemia, saved a boy’s life; eleven men are missing from the oil rig explosion off the Louisiana coast, black smoke can be seen from the SE US shores; the cause & when the blaze will be controlled is UNK, but the fire is contained; there was another explosion; the platform, leased to BP, has sunk, and crude oil is leaking from the structure…there is already a five mile oil spill, so now we also have an ecological disaster; people bet on whether a movie will be a box office hit; SEC agents charged with watching porn on company computers, instead of doing their jobs: records reveal this sex viewing started in 2008, by both men & women; March home sales rise; for one airline: no carry-on, lower ticket price; the DOW ended up;

$2 billion in revenue lost by airlines from the volcano; Atlantis is being moved to its launching pad; beautiful display of solar flares, and huge sunspots; most flights across Europe have resumed, some are still not flying to Scandinavia; today is Earth Day’s fortieth B’day; and Queen Elizabeth II turns 84 years old; gold is $1,142.30 an ounce; oil is $83.54 per barrel; more hard times for Greece;

…4/23-10: now & when

40º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…GAQ; windy AM; this weekend in the Duke City: a Flower & Garden Show, the INTL Auto Show, the Gathering of Nations, Olde Towne ABQ Anniversary, a seminar on breast cancer; ABQ schools will have bigger classes; the Duke City 311 will be changing its hours of operation; vandalism at a Santa Fe school caught on camera; another school food fight leads to one arrest; a secret room discovered in the Doug Vaughn mansion; my ‘silent’ hobby…that the world knows; a Hobbs girl was accidentally struck & killed by her father; an ABQ school received a gold-rating as an energy efficient BLDG;

Sandias shrouded in clouds; left at noon, lunch at Two Fools, then climb for comics; arrived home by 4P; Myrna is a grandmother again, to a healthy baby girl;

bad weather along parts of I-35 & I-40; flurries in the Rockies; snow & twisters for Denver; wet in Omaha, KC, OKC, Topeka, St. Louis, Little Rock, Memphis, Dallas & Des Moines; the strongest tornado outbreak this year, mainly in CO, OK & TX; snow fell near San Diego, CA; temps from the 50s to the 80s;

7–11 launches its own brand of beer; airlines will no longer be allowed to keep passengers on the tarmac for more than three hours; has Tiger Woods returned to his wild ways?; the military launched the unmanned ‘space plane’, or ‘mini-shuttle’, the X–37B; AZ law will allow police to question any Hispanic they suspect might be an illegal immigrant; Ford recalled 33K vehicles; a DELTA flight from Los Angeles to Tampa made an emergency landing in ABQ after a man sprayed water on first class passengers, threatened to open the plane’s door during the flight, and said he had a bomb;

5.9 quake shook Chile; the volcanic ash has shut down Iceland’s airport; it has been 100 days since the quake in Haiti, 1.3 million people are still homeless, over $400K has been donated to the Red Cross;

…4/21-10: maximize what you already have

57º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A…GAQ; did not sleep well last night; pollen count remains very high in ABQ; more NM land will be auctioned for oil drilling; the four year old Duke City boy shot & killed himself with a gun yesterday; I have an old, new desk; group of teenage boys are vandalizing a NE ABQ neighborhood, kicking in fences & gates; AM crash at Bridge & Isleta; fight on school bus leaves student with brain damage; still YouTube troubles at work; SW ABQ meth bust; a increase in drug overdoses in Valencia CNTY; another N NM domestic machete attack; NM GOV one of the worst in the US;

Channel 13 on the UNM campus; no PICU Admits; dirty water yesterday on UNM & UNMH; was Jenny at work yesterday: yes, today?;

CA snow, TX twisters; tornadoes for OK & CO; snow in the Sierra NV & Rockies; wet in Albany, Richmond, DC, Raleigh, Orlando, KC, Tulsa, SLC, Reno, San Fran, Portland [OR], Tampa, Omaha, Los Angeles, Miami, San Diego, Denver & St. Louis; twisters in parts of OK & CO; bad weather along parts of I-75, I-80, I-90 & I-95; rain/snow mix in Flagstaff; temps from the 50s to the 80s;

has free speech been restored, or animal cruelty approved?; missing FL boy found in NYC; oil rig explosion in the Gulf of MX; clothing items seized by NYC police are being sent to Haiti; a computerized, climate controlled car; some people are addicted to tanning beds; David Hasselhoff returns to ‘Young & the Restless’; the new & improved $100 bill; the DOW ended up; sister could not bring her brother to the prom as her date, because he was too old [even though he had served in Iraq];a NATL Day of Prayer?; is there too much sodium/salt in a typical American’s diet?; weapon threat shuts down CO school; GM has paid in full its bailout bucks, and shook its MGMT to make a profit; the armed senior citizen bank robber;

5.9 quake shook Tonga, no damage or injuries reported; Europe, including Britain, is open for business; planes safely flew into the plume, but how has the volcano hampered the global economy?; eight million passengers affected by the global gridlock, it may take weeks to resolve the airline problem; ash cloud drifting towards Europe, but more flights are scheduled;

…4/20-10: the wizards of odds

51º in ABQ; 43% humidity at 6A…GAQ; some Belen city workers may get pink slips; Rio Rancho will add Red Light Cameras; yesterday I got a reverse shower, when the sprinkler system turned on at The Beach while I was walking in the complex; NM NATL Guard returning from Iraq will be honored in Rio Rancho; NM MVD created social security numbers; my NYC friends will add movies to their website; NM is in a ‘nuclear alley’?; Brad made Red Wine Carnivore Chili; two men stabbed at Farmington office party; four year old ABQ was shot & killed; NM inmate escaped from jail;

Rule: never look at anyone’s papers on their desks; could not view YT at work, instead, went to my AOL ‘in box’; one of my E-mails came from NM!; a 2% UNM discount on DELL computers; PICU has adopted my ‘billed to’ technique;

W Coast rains; wet in JAX, ATL, Omaha, Seattle, San Fran, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Orlando & Los Angeles; frost & freeze warnings for MI & NY; a slow spring storm season; dry in the SE US, wet in TX; bad weather along parts of I-10 & I-20; temps from the 50s to the 90s;

wind farms for Cape Cod?; APPLE I-Phone prototype left at a CA bar; most adults think teens text too much; OR man will sell advertising space on his funeral urn; most Americans oppose legalizing marijuana; the DOW went up; Obama will honor the 29 people who died in a WV mine accident; most librarians admit to having sex among the bookshelves; the ‘shadow market’; does the US need financial regulatory reforms; man shoots & kills one person, injuring others at a TN HOSP, then he turned the gun on himself; quadruplets will attend the same college; the ‘Big One’ is overdue in CA; Supreme Court says ‘animal cruelty’ acts can be filmed;

5.0 quake in Australia gold mining region; airlines are losing $20 million per day when their planes cannot fly; there is no criteria to determine the ash cloud’s “danger zone” volcano keeps erupting, and many economies are being affected; no concrete data to determine safety area; ‘limited’ flights being attempted; the 30K foot high Jet Stream keeps pushing the plume; another cloud appearing at 10K feet; England’s airspace remains closed, France & Swiss airports reopen, as well as small airfields around the continent; some flights may resume between Asia & S Europe; there us a second volcano near the first, they usually erupt at the same time; 75% of Europe’s airspace is in the clear; the Discovery did land today; there is $600 trillion in derivatives floating in the world; woman suffers from ‘foreign accent syndrome’, caused by a stroke;

…4/18-10: a sweet treat

47º in ABQ; 83% humidity at 6A…the movie ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ will be filmed in NM; $5 million will be donated to NM education funds by a developer if Santa Fe…if a GOVT BLDG is built on his land; new KAFB commander will worker with the person in charge of nuclear weapons projects on that base; flooding in Rio Arriba CNTY, in N Central NM; Charles, the cross-country cat, who traveled 1,300 miles from ABQ to Chicago, has safely returned home; the art of buying a new PC; early to bed tonight!; PM storms at The Beach; Chama may be declared a disaster area, telephone service to that town has also been disrupted;

NJ woman won $212 million in the Powerball lottery; the CA Cannabis Expo is underway; heroin use is ‘high’ in high schools; the economy is growing faster than expected?; every ‘tweet’ on Twitter will be stored in the Library of Congress; will the Goldman Sachs scandal help or hurt the US economy?; but banks will not have to increase the amount of monetary assets; so far, ‘Alice’ has earned $324 million;

KLM & Air France are testing planes, and might resume flights today, claiming the ash cloud is thinning out: others say it is belching 750 tons of ash per second, and that the plume could become more ‘concentrated’ by midweek; the volcano keeps erupting, and low level explosions could continue for a year; this has become a battle between the airlines & the meteorologists, and while S European countries are allowing flights, most flights to N Europe & Russia remain grounded; by the PM, 50% of flights may resume across Europe; $1 billion of revenue has been last during the past four days; FedEx has cancelled some of its INTL flights; Iran is so strong, “no country would dare attack it”, so says its leader;
…4/19-10: not your ordinary comic book
53º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…GAQ; ABQ inmate has killed herself; sandbags being prepared just in case the rivers near Chama overflow; more rain for NM; drunken man’s eleven year old nephew drove the uncle’s car, which smashed into a parked vehicle; communications outage in the city occurred this past weekend, affecting 30K people; 4,600 Duke City students are homeless; ABQ slumlord has to pay the city $26K, and never do business in the city again; ABQ has a tiny, deserted downtown; Brad’s AM Chiro visit;

MGR was out today; work on weekend admissions; in a world where you don’t talk, for fear of getting into trouble;

NM showers mentioned on ABC AM News; rain in Tallahassee, Little Rock, Santa Fe, Memphis, Denver, Orlando, Miami, New Orleans & Portland, OR; snow in N ME; temps from the 50s to 80s;

15 years since the OK City bombing; today is the Boston Marathon; 80% of Americans polled do not trust their politicians; OK prom couple watched as their got repossessed; creative & colorful poodle care; could the ash cloud reach N America?; the DOW ended up; 30% of Americans have not returned their 2010 Census;

British ships will start transporting stranded fliers; some people may be stuck for another week, while their departure cities try to make these people feel comfortable, even providing high tea & movies; for now, airports in Spain are the continent’s major hubs; seven million passengers are stranded, people are running out of money & medications; the volcano is still erupting; Discovery landed may be delayed by rain; oil prices are falling as demand for jet fuel decreases; it will be a slow return to normalcy; N Italy airspace remains closed; the ash cloud is drifting into W Asia; couple got married in France, in front of other stranded passengers, and broadcast their wedding to their British relatives; 5.3 quake shook the AFG MTN; Obama could not attend the Polish leader’s funeral; planes will attempt low level flights; 70% of Europe’s airspace remains ‘closed’; oil is $81.47 per barrel; gold is $1,135.20 an ounce; two major al Qaeda leaders were killed in Iraq, a ‘significant blow to terrorism’; how do you pronounce the volcano’s name?; is the ash cloud getting closer to Earth?; Chinese quake death total has reached 2K; tomorrow, more planes may be flying, as the ‘no fly’ zone becomes smaller; people are ‘trapped’ all over the world; one couple got married in Dubai, the preacher performed the service via a monitor;

…4/17-10: respect is a two-way street

47º in ABQ; 76% humidity at 6A…Brad making Pasta Ponza; overnight rain at The Beach; snow in N NM; a DOT work convicted of embezzling $37K in city property, selling items from a Duke City lot where the items were stored; drive by shooting along I-40 near Clines Corner; ABQ cat made the ABC PM News; San Juan CNTY mine received a positive rating; Brad & I each have our own ‘canvases’;

NM cat’s journey to Chicago makes NATL news; bobcat family decides to call an AZ attic its new home; possible meteor fragment found in WI; unemployment has increased in 24 states; fifty banks have been shut down in the US: 3 in FL; 2 in CA, one in MA, MI & WA; a sinkhole collapsed a major street in Richmond, CA; speeding car struck a horse drawn carriage in downtown ATL; Wall ST banks may face criminal charges;

the space shuttle Discovery heads home; because of the volcano in Iceland 23 nations have had to cancel travel in their airspace; as eruptions continue, the ash cloud has reached N Africa & Turkey, and a second Icelandic volcano may explode; florists need planes to provide fresh flowers; funeral for Polish leaders killed in airplane crash will take place; Toyota has recalled 600K more vehicles, spare tire may detach from their SUV models while the vehicle is being driven; Chinese cremating death victims, the death toll has reached 1,100+; Iran called the US an ‘atomic criminal’; 6.3 quake shook Papua New Guinea, no injuries or damages reported;

…4/15-10: it is in our own hands

51º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…GAQ; dust devil spotted in Rio Rancho; Tax Day Rallies being held by NM Tea Party in both Santa Fe & the Duke City; father accused of burning his daughter’s hand & face; local woman has sudden acceleration of her 2009 Toyota; lost ABQ car found in Chicago; ‘if it’s too good to be true…’; body found bear Los Lunas Elementary School; Farmington father tried to choke his young son; faulty fire light on plane shut down the SunPort; man killed after a vehicle smashed into NE ABQ home;

bring I/P charges up-to-date; a day of being asked question, and reading very small text;

rain for Dallas, OKC, Orlando, Houston, San Antonio, KC, the Twin Cities & Green Bay; wet from TX to MN; damp along parts of I-35; temps from the 50s to the 90s;

Twitter started in 2006; retail sales are up; a transition to a commercial space industry, getting the private sector involved; PRES Obama visited the Kennedy Space CTR; will the US become subservient to other counties’ space programs?; this is Obama’s “vision”; meteor shower in the Midwest, complete with a sonic boom; should there be a $250 tax break for men who grow mustaches?; a third grade PA student is accused of giving 60 bags of heroin to fellow students before classes started; the number of foreclosures are still increasing; the first US Census has been sold for $122K; man performed gymnastic exercises between two small planes that were flying at 100 mph; NYC will no longer pay teachers to do nothing; Tea Party Rally in DC; hold prom night on a school day; jobless claims rise;

for now, Americans cannot adopt Russian children; whale is still being served in sushi bars; the seven mile high ash cloud has reached Germany & Russia: volcanic eruption in Iceland has forced the closure of Heathrow [the biggest airport in Europe] & Gatwick airports, plus shutting down Scottish & British airspace…Nordic area also closed to flying; the ash cloud is blowing towards N Europe; look past the moon, land astronauts on asteroids; exercise your way to a free meal when staying at some hotels in England; sifting through rubble in a Chinese province over 10K feet high; Whitney Houston, and the ‘vocal hiccup’;

…4/16-10: a friend is near
58º in ABQ; 60% humidity at 6A…GAQ; downtown ABQ streets closed, man threatening to jump from a rooftop; W Side BB gun attacks on vehicles; more people are using ABQ Ride; three suicides in one week in Thoreau, two of them were teenagers; pollen count is very high in ABQ; NM jobless rate reaches 8.8%; why, during an economic crunch, they never terminate the people with the high salaries?;

left at 11:30A; lunch at the Asian Noodle House; arrived home at 4P; no CTI Admits; someone has accepted the position; empty AM R/R;

NM rains mentioned on ABC AM News; wet along parts of I-10, I-70 & I-95; rain for KS & TX; showers in San Antonio, Houston, Houston, Dallas, Boston, NYC, INDY, KC, Providence & Philly; snow in NH; temps from the 40s to the 80s;

Congress passed an unemployment benefits’ extension; NM Tea Party Rally mentioned on ABC AM News: is this the opinion of most Americans, members want to created the ‘Contract from America’ rewrite the Tax Code of our country; too high taxes, and too big GOVT; 4.9 quake shook parts of N UT, ID & WY; the ‘I-Pad Polka’; change manure into asphalt?; Obama extends health care rights to gays & lesbians; too many large loopholes in laws; the economy has turned around; woman discovered python in a toilet at a NE hotel; Goldman Sachs accused of fraud; the DOW ended down;

the warmest March in history, all around the world; ‘clear’ skies from the US to Iceland; glacier on top of the volcano is melting; the 36K foot high ash cloud causing zero visibility; global gridlock as the it moves across England, France, Germany, closing airports in those countries, as well as in Scandinavia & Russia; people have been evacuated in Iceland, where the volcano is still erupting; will it be ‘the cloud felt around the world’?; the Jet Stream is pushing this mass across Europe, and may affect the continent for another five days, reaching Poland, Portugal & Spain; largest human smuggling ring busted;

…4/12-10: maximum protection to maintain peace

50º in ABQ; 30% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Extreme Fire Danger for N NM; man shot & killed in the E MTN by an ABQ police officer; was able to get B’day card for Brad; N NM NATL Guard squad returns home from the Middle East; HAZMAT invaded Bio Care: there were two large freezers containing body parts, and one was not working; two Duke City men face child porn charges;

working on regular I/P services; it is Asthma Season at UNMH;

NM strong winds mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in Miami, Cleveland, San Antonio, FL Keys & S TX; storms in Bismarck; rain in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Fran, Fargo, and ‘the’ Las Vegas; ABQ weather mentioned on the Weather Channel; bad weather for parts of I-5, I-10, I-94 & I-95; high pollen count in the SE US; rip currents along E FL coastline; foot of snow expected in the Sierra Nevada MTN range; pollen count reached over 5K in ATL; temps from the 50s to the 80s;

flights charging for carryon luggage?; blind horse still galloping; threat vs. terrorism: DC meeting on nuclear security, the first of its kind, with 47 nations participating; seven alarm fire in NYC; ‘All Things Men’ Expo in UT; multi-vehicle wreck N of Los Angeles; a monkey in FL who steals food from neighbors’ homes; the steel & concrete from the demolished TX stadium will be recycled; the economy will remain ‘sluggish’ until 2011; the DOW reached 11K; Hillary Clinton as a Supreme Court judge nominee?;

Poland mourns the loss of its PRES, was fog a factor in that plane crash?; several killed in Italian train derailment, caused by landslides; US consulate in MX was attacked; couple told they were too old to sit near the emergency doors; most pedophiles are heterosexual; the Ukraine will get rid of its nuclear stockpile; 18 cases of nuclear materials have been stolen;

…4/13-10: dollars make sense
56º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad turns sixty-three today!; in AZ, two NM teens found dead inside a camping shell; more protection needed between ABQ bike paths & streets; NM has many lunar artifacts; Pojoaque man shot two men who broke into his home this past weekend; people oppose HAZMAT tank to be built in Tijeras; Brad made Elk & Bottom Round Roast Stew; tumbling tumbleweeds across Central; mulberry & ash are the current pollen producers;

former boss, now ‘Senior Coder’, still has ties to when I work; decisions: should Evelyn accept this new position?;

ABQ & Santa Fe forecasts mentioned on the Weather Channel; wet in DC, Baltimore, Richmond, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Miami, Seattle, Bismarck & Cleveland’ stormy in Madison, the Twin Cities & Billings; chance of twisters in the Great Plains; windy for Denver, ABQ, Dallas, Omaha & KC; wet along parts of I-5, I-70 & I-94; temps from the 40s to 80s;

is Wall ST the best NATL economic indicator?, good times mean interest rates may rise; reports of fraud in WA Mutual bank; three police officers beat a U of MD student; pole dancing is good exercise; one man, one quarter, 58 hours on one video game; why do Americans fear science?; the DOW ended up; since leaving from her office of AK GOV, Sarah Palin has earned $12 million…100 times more than her political position’s salary; PA woman pierced her cat to achieve a ‘Goth’ feline; Los Angeles nurse is carjacked when she was helped an injured person on the street; when it comes to driving, teen girls are more aggressive than teenage boys; a merger of Frontier–Midwest Airlines; motorcyclist killed in DC by a vehicle in the nuclear summit motorcade; 4.3 million people may lose their homes, and the banks don’t care; Boy Scout sex scandal lawsuit ends with the abused child [now, a man] a million dollar payout; IA girl created a prom dress made of gum wrappers; the First Lady made a surprise trip to Haiti; 90K Native Americans are in some form of homelessness;

earn $900+ a week in the UK to test sleeping bags; 2010 Lexus GX 460 SUV rollover warning: do not buy this vehicle, and current sales contracts must stop; no way to keep ‘rogue nations’ from going nuclear; damaged Chinese ship has ruined over a 2 mile of the Great Barrier Reef; oil is $83.39 per barrel, gold is $1,153 an ounce; the third spacewalk will replace & connect new tubing to the updated INTL space station’s ammonia tank; it costs $54 million for US astronauts to hitch a ride on the Soyuz shuttle; will rockets be built by private companies?;

…4/14-10: the key, to the key
48º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…GAQ; how to handle the ‘popular’ website; Red Light Cameras will remain in ABQ for at least thirty more days; machete used to rob a bank in E NM; no lawyer wants to represent Ponzi schemer Vaughn; 23 year old rodeo contestant fell 100 feet to his death; officer involved shooting ay Broadway & Gibson; fire at NW ABQ motel, near where we live; Santa Fe & Silver City are both facing school budget cuts; three mysterious deaths of three Bloomfield women; NM Tea Party will hold a rally on Menaul;

UNM wants to spend $2 million to upgrade campus signs; we have our own ‘soap opera’ at work; changes already in place if/when she accepts her new position: no decision yet; an empty AM R/R;

DC fog; temps from 50s to 80s; snow in the N Rockies; high pressure over the E Coast; wet in the Twin Cities, Roswell, Omaha, El Paso & parts of KS, IA & NE; glaciers causing floods in Peru; S Dakota hail; snow in Great Falls; dangerous FL rip currents; T’storms in NM, OK, TX & KS; landslides in Brazil, tornadoes in India; bad weather along parts of I-10, I-15, I-35 & I-90; Code Orange pollution level from Chicago to ATL; cyclones in E India; temps from the 50s to the 80s;

bailed out banks will not help Americans with mortgage problems; poll shows Palin not popular for PRES; pornographic pictures for the blind; lost FL girl found alive; no more big bank bailouts?; the DOW ended up; Obama ratings keep falling; $16 billion in political ‘pork’ projects; 10% of Americans support the Tea Party; all WV mines will be inspected; pesticides & chemicals in the food you buy;

flight from Paris to NYC made emergency stop in Iceland, when some of the crew were overcome by chemical fumes; the First Ladies of the US & MX met today; the ‘bolt that would not budge’ on the INTL Space Station; 600 reported killed by several quakes that shook the Qinghai province of W China, and also Tibet: at least one 6.9 tremor, followed by many aftershocks, most structures have collapsed; NZ man leaves his child in a car while the adult visits a strip club; a 9–11 terrorist plot foiled in Iraq; the ‘stalking’ Swiss clown who ‘attacks’ children with cream pies on their birthdays; nuclear summit was a ‘success’; Iceland volcano erupts;

…4/9-10: automotive excellence

40º in ABQ; 29% humidity at 6A…GAQ; the upper level rearrangement continues; planned burn at Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo is out of control; new KAFB facility CTR opens; one lane open on I-40W through the Duke City; some NM & CO ski slopes are still open;

left at 11:30A, ate a Saggio’s, then a climb for comics; very empty AM R/R; foster parent tried to bring illegal drugs to a pediatric teenage patient, but was caught by a UNMH employee, and the ABQ Police were informed; after nine years on the job, I am still the ‘strange stranger’ from the E Coast; Dr. Cordova heard the story of Dr. Wong;

N Rockies snow; wet in S FL, the Outer Banks, the Tidewater area, most of New England, and in Boston, NYC, Pittsburgh, Miami & Orlando; temps from the 50s to the 80s;

Amtrak ridership on the rise; per [R], Obama is the ‘most radical PRES’ in history; rescue crews try again in their search for four WV miners, weather hampered their efforts yesterday; ‘hot nude yoga’, the latest mostly attended by gay males: it is strictly nonsexual; the ‘green’ eco-friendly KS HOSP; CO police used Tasers against students at a career fair; pay teachers solely based on their performance?; 33 states have run out of funds to pay the unemployed; rescuers try again to reach the miners;

Israeli leader will not attend the nuclear summit in DC, but will send an aide instead; two million year old fossil found by a boy in S Africa; two astronauts will perform the first spacewalk, replacing an ammonia tank; blood vessels created by stem cells; more MX border violence; Qatar diplomat who tried to smoke in a plane’s bathroom while in-flight is leaving the US;

…4/10-10: from green to gold
46º in ABQ; 32% humidity at 6A…the cleaning continues in the APT; local police will be getting overtime pay, and will now work five-day, eight hour workweek; five Duke City students saved a man’s life, when he collapsed near his car; 7% humidity at 5P; fatal motorcycle crash on Candelaria; ‘our’ Las Vegas is 175 years old; CNM hosting a Film & Media Town Hall meeting; ABQ student was punished for using a certain body spray; created a comic book tracker document from a WORD program;

the four WV miners have been declared dead; an E Coli infection at a WA daycare CTR has killed one child, and sickened three others; Supreme Court Justice Stevens has announced he will be retiring; the largest Travelocity gnome is located in Ames, IA; American mother send her adopted son back to his native country, Russia; one person has been killed, six others injured at an OK mall;

at least 96 people were killed when their plane crashed in W Russia, the pilot had been told not to land: onboard was the Polish PRES & other GOVT officials, including members of Parliament;

…4/11-10: nice & neutral
47º in ABQ; 24% humidity at 6A…Brad made Scrambled Eggs for breakfast; four people involved in W Side motorcycle crash that happened late yesterday PM; Santa Fe now has a Bataan Death March museum, survivors of the WWII ordeal spoke at its opening; dozens of body parts found at Bio Care; the Largemouth Bass is the symbol of NM fishing; it is illegal to sell cars at parking lots, auto dealers could lose their licenses; 7,200 people without power in the downtown Santa Fe area this PM; counterfeit currency used to purchase garage sale items, including two laptops;

'Designing Women’ star Dixie Carter has died at the age of 70; extra security has shut down parts of downtown DC, prior to a nuclear summit being held there this week; seven people shot near the New Orleans French Quarter; drink green tea to prevent gingivitis; yesterday, Tiger Woods finished fifth place in the Masters; a 4.5 tremor shook the San Diego area, no damages or injuries reported;

astronauts made their second spacewalk, a 7½ hour task attaching a new tank that contained an ammonia coolant; 7.1 quake struck near the Solomon Islands; INTL incident brewing over the returned, Russian boy, who flew alone back to his home country; English is the official, global aviation language;

…4/7-10: integrity of design

35º in ABQ; 27% humidity at 6A…GAQ; last night, lost internet connection; not much to do in the Duke City, but it’s a great place to ride bikes; Isotopes season has started; early AM SWAT situation in NW ABQ; Gallup restaurant will be featured on Dinner: Impossible TV show; 1K ‘green jobs’ are coming to ‘rural’ Rio Rancho; 51% of NM residents have sent back their 2010 Census; US Secret Service raid Vaughn Realty; the Bosque fire is 100% contained, and 80% controlled; gender based discrimination in state jobs?;

bring specialist charges up-to-date; Evelyn will be training a Coding seminar in St. Louis; woman with her pet dog in UNMH; I try to be a ‘strange, harmless person’ at work;
wet in Chicago, Cleveland & INDY; slushy snow for Denver, and parts of KS & NE; T’storms for Houston, Detroit, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Memphis, KC, Dallas & San Antonio; very warm from Boston to DC; tornado victims recover quicker than those who have survived hurricanes; high pollen counts in the SE US, TX, OK & NV; snow in the Central Rockies; temps from the 40s to the 90s;

Los Angeles mayor hopes a three day work week could help balance the budget; surcharge for carryon luggage?; pollen seen through the infrared eye; man builds ‘toothpick city’; woman spends $47K a year on her hair; AZ & NV want to sue the FED GOVT for passing health care reform; birthrate in the US fell during 2008; the huge CA hamburger, with fries, for $35, could take ten people to eat it; the DOW went down; four people shot in San Fran; man threatened Nancy Pelosi; the Commonwealth of Virginia, slavery & Confederate History Month; fire at Beacon ST high-rise in Boston; Manhattan manhole fire; did the WV miners know about the dangers, citations & violations of the deadly mine?;

is AFG leader taking illegal drugs?; Taiwanese boy songs like Whitney Houston; Discovery has docked with the INTL Space Station; Ryanair to charge for using the toilet?; N Korean sentenced Boston man to eight years hard labor for improperly entering that country; chaos in the capital of Kyrgyzstan; the Swiss are planning to fly a solar powered plane around the world;


…4/8-10: just another day in Hollywood

36º in ABQ; 35% humidity at 6A…GAQ; plans to rearrange the living room; NM veterans’ hot line getting lots of suicide calls; why did police chase a burglar into a busy area of ABQ?; van ended on Rail Runner tracks in Santa Fe, after the driver had a sneezing fit; NM Thunderbirds coach resigned; Bosque fire near Espanola, and another blaze burning near the Isleta Pueblo; very cold this AM in S NM; Eclipse Aviation is back in business, hiring the former employees; Brad made Potato Salad; 8% humidity at 5P;

confusion about when to submit actual leave slips; to MGR; no CTI Admits; car drove the wrong way at the UNMH entrance;

Buffalo saw nickel sized hail; snow for Chicago & Milwaukee; record high temps yesterday from DC to NYC to Boston; wet in Charlotte, ATL, Mobile, Seattle and New Orleans; storms from GA to NY; rain in Detroit, Louisville & Nashville; wet along sections of I-20 & I-81; temps from the 40s to 80s;

On a trip from DC, Qatar diplomat tried to smoke a cigarette in plane’s restroom, the United flight crew was informed, fighter jets scrambled and followed the plane to its destination in Denver; 47% of US will not pay FED income tax for 2009; a silent Tiger Woods ad, narrated by his father; owl that is afraid of heights; WV mine’s air quality is now considered ‘good’, rescuers will begin searching for four missing men; the KFC ‘fat full’ chicken sandwich; misspelled baseball jerseys; potential new drug that could cure Hepatitis C; in gossip circles: Tiger is out, Sandra [Bullock] is in!; the DOW ended up; a possible United & US Airways merger?; jobless claims rise; 5.3 aftershock felt in Baja CA; pollen is plentiful; part of LAX shut down when a man ran with a ‘suspicious’ piece of luggage; Oprah getting her own TV station; retail sales are up;

Obama in Prague to make peace with Russia; rainy season in Haiti, residents face mudslides and disease, the country needs a strong infrastructure; an asteroid will come ‘close’ to Earth; Christopher Cazenove, who played Blake’s brother on ‘Dynasty’, has died at the age of 66 from a blood infection; new 6’ 6” lizard species found in the Amazon; a possible British Airways & Iberian Airlines merger;

…4/6-10: everything about you is unique

50º in ABQ; 33% humidity at 6A…GAQ; ABQ school system could face job cuts; Bosque fire has burned fifty acres, and is 30% contained; N NM Winter Storm Warning; Extreme Fire Danger across all of NM; ABQ Balloon Museum may face shorter hours of operation; NM Spaceport is under construction; Santa Fe police are looking for a man who killed a 17 year old boy; 100 people are battling the Bosque blaze; bank robbery turned into deadly accident at Coors & Quail; ‘Sherlock Holmes’ arrived; Southwest Airlines has been in the Duke City for thirty years;

former MGR returns from her vacation; thirteen year old patient told a nurse he wanted to have sex with her; my first Leave Request to my new MGR; two UNM VP positions may be cut;

Boston rain; snowstorm in N CA, and the N Rockies; wet in Buffalo, Erie, Des Moines, Madison, Milwaukee, Omaha, the Twin Cities, Chicago, Green Bay, NYC,, Albany, KC & Tulsa; yesterday was the most active weather day for 2010; bad weather along parts of I-35, I-80 & I-90; temps from the 30s to the 80s;

the worst US mining disaster in 25 years, the most deadliest since 2007: occurred 1K below the ground; 25 people killed in WV mine, survivors may have found a ‘safety chamber’ that contained air, food & water; the blast was caused when methane & coal gas combined to produce an explosion; it is part of the sixth largest mining company in the US; is going to a strip club a means of drumming up [R] support?; a CA teen wants to climb Mt. Everest; the DOW ended down; Home Depot is closing some of its stores; see the Masters Tournament in 3-D?;

antenna damaged on the Discovery, resulting in communication failure; there is a monkey on the Thai police force; sign in Italy: ‘Attention Prostitutes’; woman had sudden adult death syndrome, it took 114 times to bring her back to life; the US will not use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear nations; this is World Pillow Fight Day; is the Earth ‘angry’?; a 7.8 quake off the coast of N Sumatra, at a depth of 28 miles under the ocean, no tsunamis have been reported; oil is $82.86 per barrel; gold is $1,136 an ounce;

…4/5-10: a meditation destination

47º in ABQ; 29% humidity at 6A…GAQ; was nine year ABQ old student kicked by his teacher?; high wind & fire danger across NM; S NM does not have a trauma CTR; Brad made Swedish Meatballs; most NM traffic incidents are linked to DUI; only 47% of NM residents have mailed in their 2010 Census; NM is ‘voted’ the second most dangerous state…the first is NV; Bosque fire near Eighth ST, with Bridge BLVD shut down;

Hell Week, Day 2.5; another UNM tuition increase; very windy, dusty PM; no weekend PICU Admits;

wet in Albany, Erie, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Asheville, Rapid City, Casper, San Fran & Seattle; OH Valley T’storms; snow for SLC?; rain and/or snow across most of the W US; storms for Chicago, Omaha & Des Moines; temps from the 40s to the 80s;

Red Sox beat the Yankees, 9–7; the 4’3” rabbit; the Energizer Bunny will be auctioned; ‘Clash of the Titans’ was the number one revenue movie this weekend; WV mine explosion; 37% of those polled support the Tea Party?; one night, four shootings in Times SQ; another White House Easter Egg Hunt?; no extension of jobless benefits yet; 300K I-Pads sold in one day; US fined Toyota $16 million;

epicenter near the US/MX border; power out in MX towns; quake shook cities as far away as ‘the’ Las Vegas, a total of twenty million people felt the tremor; the ‘Easter Earthquake’, only six miles below the surface, caused many fissures & cracks; temporarily shut down the bridge over San Diego harbor; the worst in twenty years, broke glass, shook many structures; early AM liftoff for Discovery; it will take weeks to remove the Chinese ship that struck the Great Barrier Reef; supertanker has been hijacked by pirates; US Consulate was bombed in PAK; three women above the shuttle, three spacewalks will take place; oil at an 18 month high, having reached $86.62 per barrel; quake along the Laguna Salada Fault: the fourth 7.0+ quake in 2010; gold is $1,132.90 an ounce;

…4/4-10: the luxury of trust

41º in ABQ; 36% humidity at 6A…Brad made Strawberries Romanoff; a Census scam in Deming; the Navajo Nation has completed a $14 million housing complex in Shiprock; Extreme Fire Danger in NE NM; NW ABQ burglars turn themselves in; traffic lights are out at WY & Montgomery, a major Duke City intersection; to remain on schedule, the Rail Runner will no longer wait for late passengers; Brad worked on his rooftop garden this AM, then continued on his next painting; wanted: large restaurant for SunPort; PA man who ‘disappeared’ was found at a NM casino;

there are 40K movie screens across America, and about 4K can show 3-D movies: three movies in that format are playing this weekend; four dead in N Hollywood restaurant shooting; AL student was suspended for three days, and was forced to leave her prom because she was wearing a dress that was considered ‘too revealing’: the alternative punishment was to be paddled; there is one gun in America for every US citizen; women’s “Topless” March in ME, where it is not illegal to do so; Tiger, tee & Augusta, GA; a 3% US economic growth predicted in 2010;

a Soyuz craft has docked with the INTL Space Station; another rotavirus attack on another cruise ship; mass migration never works; explosion derails a cargo train in Russia; a Chinese ship carrying coal has run aground on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and is breaking apart, plus leaking fuel; 7.2 quake in Baja CA shook buildings in Los Angeles & San Diego, and was felt in Phoenix; three car bombings in Baghdad this weekend, targeting innocent civilians; Trance Energy 2010 at Utrecht; the World Cup will be held in S Africa;

…4/1-10: time to be comfortable

56º in ABQ; 21% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; parents upset about ABQ school assembly on the topics of bullying, and the treatment of gays & lesbians; NATL Guard will patrol the NM/MX border; fatal crash at I-40 & Tramway; the NM Online Predator Unit; drag race ends with one car smashing into a Duke City home; our A/C needs energy; Brad completed his big painting; PNM rate increase starts today; students take safety issues to ABQ City Hall; Bio Care PRES arrested; Santa Fe gas leak; a 3% cut in ABQ city workers’ wages?; Clovis woman arrested for embezzlement, submitting false tornado claims; them temp dropped during the day, as the winds increased;

Hell Week, Day One; the electronic addendum; told Jenny how much a house would cost in NW DC; everybody knows what everyone is doing…except me;

I-95 from Providence to Boston is flooded; treatment plants are underwater; wet in Los Angeles & Phoenix; flurries for Denver, Rapid City & SLC; snow in the N Rockies; ‘compromised’ bridges in RI, will dams hold?; fish found in New England basements; oil & sewage leaking; today, it will be warm & dry in New England; temps from the 30s to 80s;

this is the last day to mail the 2010 Census; so far, 52% have been received; Obama wants more oil drilling in the Arctic Sea; the new & improved YouTube; the Super Big Gulp Cup of Coffee April Fool’s joke at Starbucks; the first Census will be auctioned; Latinos fear deportation if they complete the form; child hit by Disney bus; the ‘new, urban century’; homebuyers tax credit linked to the value of the home, and the income earned; several people stranded in the air when an amusement ride got stuck; IL mayor shot & killed; the ABQ ‘stolen body parts’ story makes NATL news; woman adopted second identity to commit fraud; a soda tax will not curb obesity; March sales for Toyota, GM & Ford were up; a bicycle, or dancing, can help overcome Parkinson’s?; woman dressed as the Easter Bunny was beaten up outside a NY store; race, identity, Americans;

what is worse: the fury of a tornado, or a nuclear bomb explosion?; elite Australian restaurant will add a tax to the food bill if patrons wear flip-flops;

…4/2-10: light white
33º in ABQ; 49% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Rail Runner goes Wi-Fi; boy struck by car near Chimayo; Johnny Tapia back in jail for cocaine use, wife blames medication he’s taking; received a second 2010 Census, after sending in our first?; Brad got some candy Easter eggs; cutting city costs: same strategy, different mayor; water by the numbers returns to Bernalillo CNTY; AM stomach ache;

Hell Week, Day Two; full day at work; does the same firm keep winning the bids for building UNM campus structures, since they all look alike;

I-95 has reopened; four bridges destroyed in Rehoboth, MA; wet in Omaha, San Antonio, Dallas, KC, Tulsa; flurries in Aspen, rain for Yellowstone, OKC, the Twin Cities & Little Rock; floods receding in New England & NJ; 30 vehicle pileup on I-70, near Vail; wet along parts of I-35 & I-10; T’storms for TX & OK; ABQ chill mentioned on the Weather Channel; very warm along the E Coast; temps from the 40s to the 80s;

Obama visited Framingham, MA; WA refinery fire kills four; new security rules for airline & ground travel, there is still no cooperation between GOVT agencies; the Ricky Martin ‘La Vida Polka’; where are all these new jobs?; upgrade in desktop security; fake marijuana is deadlier than the real thing; six year old MA boy is accused of molesting male classmates while in a classroom; calls to the [R] fundraiser are accidentally directed to a sex line; domestic extremist groups plans to kill 30+ governors by next week; be in a tornado on weather.com; yearly White House Easter Egg Hunt was held; John Forsythe has died at the age of 92 from cancer; Chinese drywall must be removed from US homes; FL doctor will not treat Obama supporters;

more attacks on Israel & Gaza; Russian rocket heading for the INTL Space Station with a crew of NASA astronauts, and two cosmonauts; now, look for country of origin on passports;


…4/3-10: the preview review
32º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…Brad made Hibiscus Tea & Potato Pancakes; an increase in ID thefts across Valencia & Bernalillo counties; Extreme Fire Danger for NE NM; Duke City sex offenders will be allowed to visit libraries; bodies burned in incinerators, instead of being donated to science; Brad also prepared Coquille St. Jacques; deadly head-on collision on US 84/285 in N NM; did our NM GOV receive a ‘death threat’ letter?;

baseball has begun!; I-Pad is now on sale; border patrol shot & killed a man who was smuggling pot across the TX/MX border; Devo red hat donated to OH museum; most health INS companies will not cover allergy treatment; there should be a sign posted on divided highways, saying “if you can read this sign, you’re going the wrong way”!; price of APPLE’s new gadget starts at about $500, and will make it easier to read newspapers & magazine articles, eliminating the need for paper…and the pages will be in color, but it does not have a Flash Player; INS CO CEO received a 51% bonus; while increasing health care premiums; has the recession really ended?;

in 2008, an asteroid exploded over the Earth, above the country of Sudan, in a deserted desert region; AFG leader verbally attacks the Western World;