…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;