…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;