…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;