…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;