…5/28–10: people pleasures

64º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s dentist visit; it’s “time” for me to get a new watch; NM county pools will remain open; GE plant will shut down in ABQ; another local meth bust, this time in NW ABQ; a SE Duke City office BLDG copper theft; small PM T’storm; Gallup mayor is suing that city’s newspaper about a reported rape by him that occurred more than fifty years ago;

UNMMG Summer Picnic; a hug from Geri; campaign signs across UNM campus…is that legal?; long wait for Menaul bus, arrived home after 5:30P;

ABQ temps & weather conditions mentioned on both the Weather Channel & ABC AM News; wet in: Seattle, Norfolk, Louisville, DC, Philly, Pittsburgh, DC, Richmond, Baltimore, Miami, Cheyenne, ATL & Orlando; severe mid-Atlantic storms from DC to GA; a tornado reported in VT; temps from the 50s to the 90s;

The House votes to repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy; after 71 years, the Mercury line of vehicles may come to an end; more people expected to travel this Memorial Day weekend; some of the oil spill has reached W FL area, as the ‘t0p kill’ method’ has started again, as much as 38 million gallons may have leaked into Gulf waters; convenience store robber claimed to be a vampire; there are at least 350K graves in Arlington Cemetery; PA MED CTR used the same needle on several pediatric patients; get ready for pizza & toast to display football team logos; Gary Coleman is dead at age 42 from a brain hemorrhage; and the DOW is down again;

The start of talks on the Korean peninsula; volcano erupt in Guatemala & Ecuador; the US death toll in the AFG war has reached 1K;

…5/29–10: comfortable silence

60º in ABQ; 67% humidity at 6A…there is limited ‘private sector business’ in NM; major meth bust in Farmington; students launched a huge rocket 8K feet into space; a CA woman shot & killed herself on I-10 in NM, while she was driving, and her daughter [who was not injured] was in the vehicle; another TV series will be filmed in NM; we enjoyed an AM walk into Olde Towne; Brad prepared Moroccan Chicken, and Tomato Aspic; Dennis Hopper has died from cancer at the age of 74: he loved N NM while filming ‘Easy Rider’, and became a resident of this state; the upstairs A/C is not working; we enjoyed watching ‘Sherlock Holmes’; Brad also made Deviled Eggs; UV Nightclub has closed;

Obama toured a Louisiana beach yesterday; Tea Party candidate says children born in the US to illegal immigrants should not be allowed to become American citizens by birth; websites illegally allowing people to read comic books online for free; while Americans may be traveling during the summer, they will be spending less on vacations; the Celtics move into the final playoffs; immigration protest rally held in Phoenix; abusive, vulgar, offensive statements by debt collectors; ‘top kill’ method has failed: black oil is seeping from the leak on Day 40; authorities say, ‘the coast is clear’, but tourists are avoiding both the Gulf waters…and its beaches;

Near TX, pirates roam the waters along the US/MX border?; S American volcanoes shut down airports;

…5/30–10: optimistic light

57º in ABQ; 17% humidity at 6A…tire fire near First & Coal Streets; NM is promoting ecotourism; double shooting in Hobbs; father killed his young son in their N NM home; hand gliding events are being held in Alamogordo, the Rio Grande Soaring Association; man exposed himself to young girls in various stores across ABQ; Valencia CNTY candidates owe $68K in unpaid property taxes; filming in downtown Duke City; the ABQ Wine Festival being held this weekend; 6% humidity at 5P; we enjoyed watching the ‘Star Trek’ movie; illegal drugs being sold in N NM nutrition store; renovations on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Angel Fire, NM have been completed;

The Lakers vs. the Celtics for the NBA championship; 25 million gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf of MX; the oil company’s credibility gap is widening; there have been 760 safety violations at its US fuel sites; what is the next plan ’B’ for BP?; actually, it is ‘Plan Number Seven’: use robotic arms to make a smaller hole, and cap that; personal debt stress is on the rise in America; BP did bus in workers during Obama’s visit; the INDY 500 taking place at the Brickyard today; wildfires burning in AK; radioactive leak at VT nuclear plant; a chemical odor caused the evacuation of Union Station in DC; man killed a woman & himself at a NC TARGET store;

British Airways flight crews may be going on strike; Pacific hurricane has killed at least 80 people in Central America; another flight diverted, this time between MX & France, due to a ‘person of interest’;

…5/31–10: water works

64º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…Duke City man slashed his girlfriend with a knife; local payday loan office charged nearly 650% interest; there has been an increase of domestic violence across NM; water pipe burst at a Duke City APT complex near 14th & Lomas, resulting in mold to form on walls; truck slammed into a power in NW ABQ, resulting in a power outage for about 500 nearby residents; our gray chair has a new home; the Dona Ana CNTY Detention CTR is full; gas is $2.55 per gallon; bad economy means more NM residents are enlisting in the military; 6% humidity at 5P;

Car powered by Coca-Cola & candy?; SE US tourism being hampered by online videos saying oil has reached the beaches?; the leak could continue until August, 2010; criminal investigation by the US against BP?: another, darker plume has been detected; paint from the PRES podium falls off during his speech in IL, where a T’storm was taking place; rubber band bracelets are the newest fad in schools, students wearing several on one arm;

Did Israel attack Palestinian aid ship that was heading to Gaza in INTL waters?: self defense vs. attacks by humanitarian boats…is this the start of a diplomatic crisis, as protests are held around the globe over this incident; no injuries reported after a 6.0 quake shook the Philippines; Germany PRES has resigned; volcanic eruption in the N Mariana Islands;

…5/27–10: turn to the hands of time

65º in ABQ; 60% humidity at 6A…GAQ; one local family has to made 88 domestic violence calls to the police; teen set Espanola house on fire; the 100 Days & Nights DUI program will start tonight, the NM GOV will address this topic at UNM this PM; NM NATL Guard will patrol the MX border; it will cost $100 million to clean up the KAFB oil spill; PM T’storms around ABQ;

Continued working on Cardiology & GI charges; missed the PM Blue Line R/R; no CTI Admits; Code Purple at 1:30P;

Wet in: NYC, INDY, SLC, Portland [OR], San Fran, Great Falls [MT], Columbus [OH]; Orlando, Miami, Sacramento, Tampa, St. Louis, Spokane, Philly, DC & Baltimore; storms in MT, and parts of the mid-Atlantic; snow in the Sierras; hail fell on CO, piled a foot deep, followed by downpours; bad weather along sections of I-70 & I-81; will 2010 be an ‘active’ hurricane season?; temps from the 60s to 90s;

Louisiana wants the US GOVT to take charge of the oil cleanup, the public is blaming Obama for not doing enough, fisherman are becoming ill from the sludge & the fumes, 22K people are helping to clean the oil spill: more mud is gushing from the leak, than into the broken pipe; oil has surged out from the leak five times than had been previously reported, as much as 19K barrels per day; BP has halted their current method of capping the output, and are ‘less optimistic’: the company has one of the worst records of problems at their oil sites; there is now another large oil plum in the Gulf of MX, a 3,300 foot Arctic oil drilling has been suspended; this has become the worst oil spill in US history; the hypersonic jet test was successful; “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” vote could take place in Congress today; the DOW ended up;Is S Korea preparing for war?; German robbers fail to blow up an ATM machine; French workers go on strike; 7.2 quake shook the Pacific island of Vanuatu, its epicenter was twelve miles deep; gold is $1,211.90 per ounce; oil is $74.10 per barrel;

…5/25–10: do your body a favor…

44º in ABQ; 21% humidity at 6A…GAQ; ABQ Studios now owes $334K in unpaid property taxes, plus accrued interest; the ABQ City Council has approved a budget, now it goes to the mayor; 34 acres have burned in the Bosque, the blaze is 35% contained; our new diet contains much less sodium than previous ones; possible severe weather, including a chance of tornadoes for Roosevelt, Chavez & Lea counties; local mother accused of child abuse; NM student in DC for NATL Geographical Bee; studio fire in NE ABQ, which house movie costumes;

Higher production amounts, lower turnaround times; AM R/R broken down at least three times;

Wet in: Orlando, Savannah, Caribou, KC, Little Rock, Amarillo, the Twin Cities, Seattle, Billings, OKC, San Antonio, Wichita, Omaha, Tulsa & St. Louis; parts of I-40 were shut down due to stalled cars driving through heavy downpours; bad weather across sections of I-20, I-40 & I-70; hot in New England; temps from the 60s to the 90s;

An inexpensive, but deadly heroin has been found in the US; an increase in the oil tax produced both domestically, and from around the world; GA in deep trouble for having four students dress in KKK robes during class; putting the pressure on the oil spill, words are not enough; the oyster boats are idle, and another day of delay, as the slick moves closer to the FL coast; will the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy be repealed in Congress?; robber captured, thanks to his tattoo, which read “East Side 13”; violent crime is down in the US; the BP problem is now called “Obama’s Katrina”, the sludge in the sand; the DOW ended down; Obama will send troops to the MX border; Phoenix, the epicenter of immigration reform; AT&T digital phone lines crashed across America; OH woman used her five year old son to break into homes, breaking windows, and sliding him between the broken glass; the female Viagra; the FDA warns against certain GI medicines; the oil spill is not getting better yet, the next attempt to solve the problem has a 70% chance to correct the situation: or, it could make the mess worse, as chemical sludge is appearing 25 feet below the sea level, and skin should not be exposed to this water;

Elephant drank the water out of a whirlpool at a whirlpool in an Africa resort; tanker collision near Singapore, causing more fuel to leak into more water; plane crashed into BLDG near Toronto, CN; is the Canadian UFO really a hoax?; an unmanned hypersonic jet was tested today, reaching speeds of Mach 6; tensions are rising on the Korean peninsula; there is uncertainty around the world; some injuries were reported when a plane from London to Los Angeles encountered turbulence, forcing the plane to land in Montreal;

…5/26–10: from play, to pay

57º in ABQ; 34% humidity at 6A…GAQ; the day the water bottle broke; city inspections examined The Beach APTS; Valley Fever caused by fungus is prevalent in valleys; two animals in Santa Fe CNTY test positive for plague; film warehouse fire destroyed most of the costumes & props, items that were not insured; three car crash in ABQ injured a child; ABQ students were carrying a variety of drugs while they were at school; Santa Fe & Rio Rancho try to balance their budgets; Brad making Crab Soup; NM GOV in DC for a climate change conference;

Work on GI & Pulmonary charges; forgot lunch medications at home;

Wet in Davenport, Denver, Rapid City, Albany, Miami, Omaha, Cheyenne, Mobile, Knoxville, KC, Santa Fe, Madison, New Orleans, & Charleston, SC; showers along the Carolina coast; rain along parts of I-35, I-40 & I-91; twisters in KS last night; NM storms mentioned on the Weather Channel; hot temps & severe storms for New England; temps from the 50s to the 90s;

End of an environment: build barrier islands, or plug the hole; the ‘Gulf Geyser’, with the latest fix being captured on film; darker oil is leaking again; power outage cased oil to spill from AK pipeline; bus drivers get spit on in NYC; in the tech world, APPLE has surged ahead of Microsoft; CA postman saved a mother & child from a house fire; Art Linkletter has died at the age of 97; shortage of paint for highway lines; the DOW ended down; the next attempt by BP is the ‘top kill’ technique: seventeen countries have offered aid, and local fisherman are anxious to help;

6.1 quake shook S Japan; the space shuttle Atlantis safely landed this AM; Tiesto has played at the Olympic Games; frogs clog Greek highway; oil is $71.37 per barrel; gold is $1,213.30 an ounce; 93 million hits on the first Susan Boyle YouTube site;

…5/23–10: business before treasure

56º in ABQ; 18% humidity at 6A…another day of high winds & extreme fire danger; a Repo man shot someone as he was trying to retrieve a vehicle; Brad is in a creative Jell-O mood, from mixed fruit to orange juice; NM jobless rate has dropped to 8.7%, and the state will be receiving more FED funds to pay the unemployed; fire burns near Carlsbad Caverns; a helmet & rifle removed from a NM Vietnam Memorial have been located in an APT complex; the series ‘In Plain Sight’ is filmed in NM;

Nationwide recall of one company’s alfalfa sprouts; the Gulf oil spill may have caused permanent damages to marshlands; BP never meets its promised deadlines; years from now, the Gulf Stream could bring the spill to British shores; more oil is reaching Louisiana beaches; [R] win seat in HI; families are lying about their incomes, so rich children can attend Head Start programs; the end of ‘Lost’;

Computer generated genes; train derailment in China has killed at least 19 people; did something fall off, or from, the Atlantis space shuttle?; Australian man will attempt the longest & fastest parachute dive; another swaying bridge appears, this time in Russia; why doesn’t the US buy poppy from the AFG farmers, a tactic that is currently being used by the Taliban; Norwegian oil well partially evacuated after encountering a change in pressure while drilling; Middle East countries may provide aid in stopping the US oil spill;

…5/24–10: clean, and cool

60º in ABQ; 18% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s dentist visit; Bosque fire burns near Corrales, 100 homes have been evacuated: the fire has burned about 5–10 acres, and is 0% contained; there is also an 800 acre blaze burning along the NM/CO border, near Raton; today is the last day for the ABQ public school year; Duke City budget may be voted on tonight; Brad prepared Steak au Poivre; there are at least five fires burning across NM; N NM freeze warnings tonight; Brad completed his major picture;

UNM Duck Pond drained, killing many of the fish that swam in it; two patients have the same name;

T’storms from the Dakotas to TX; wet in JAX, Charlotte, Fargo, SLC, Dodge City, Billings, Twin Cities, Orlando & Charleston, SC; snow in Yellowstone; July heat in the Great Plains; a subtropical storm brewing in the Atlantic; temps from the 50s to the 90s;

101 uses by her husband for an ex-wife’s wedding dress; a lawnmower that can reach speeds of 80+ mph; BP blunders, taking too long to clean the water, and stop the oil: sand barriers are now being built to soak up the sludge; stop the production of drop side cribs; should a mosque be built on ‘hallowed ground’, near the site of the 9–11 attacks; rural children are just as likely to die from gunshot wounds as youngsters who live in cities; the DOW ended down; 2.6 quake shook AR last week; poor quality cement used to stop oil flow from broken pipe; now, a potential candidate for the SC GOV position denies having an affair; gang member killed three people at a NJ school playground; gay rights activists ‘came’ to MS this past weekend; no one knows how much oil has leaked, but fewer fish can be seen in the spill area; home sales are going up, interest rates are going down, and many people are refinancing; MN mother gave birth while driving to the HOSP;

Jamaican capital under a state of emergency; space shuttle Atlantis is heading home; Duchess of York tried to ‘sell’ her ex-husband, Prince Andrew, to generate more income for herself; 5.9 quake shook parts of Peru; tensions rising between N & S Korean; oil is $70.16 per barrel; gold is $1,193.80 an ounce;

…5/20–10: environment of hope

54º in ABQ; 27% humidity at 6A…GAQ; it’s moth season again; ABQ family is related to a star on a current TV show; 9% humidity at 5P; how ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ became ‘Cowboys & Angels’; teens accused of vandalizing an empty Duke City home;

work on I/P charges; missed the PM Blue R/R, so walked across the campus, and took the Red Line home;

ABQ temp mentioned on the ABC AM News; wet in Tampa, Little Rock, Omaha, Billings, Seattle, Memphis, St. Louis; Dallas, Tulsa, Chicago & Miami; ‘beautiful’ in Santa Fe; several twisters struck OK & KS yesterday; fog in OH, KY & VA; temps from the 50s to the 90s;

AZ immigration law is ‘misdirected’, says Obama; heavy oil has been found in Louisiana waters; UT boy rapped his order at a McDonald’s, was taken to court, but any charges that he was a threat were dismissed; inflation at its lowest level in 44 years; tight security at White House dinner last night; next step: pour mud & concrete into the broken oil pipe; sex offenders are posing as Census workers; Los Angeles school bus ignited while driving down a freeway; MN nurses on strike, the largest walkout of its kind; GE coffeemakers could pose a fire threat; initial jobless claims on the rise; the DOW fell over 376 points; mystery balloon landed near Independence Hall in Philly; KC man accused of providing money to al Qaeda; rape kits, which a woman has to buy, and takes hours to complete, are sitting on police DEPT shelves: they could free or jail someone, but many have gone past the statute of limitations period; high heels for infants?; alligator was seen roaming an ATL neighborhood; chemicals may be causing the oil spill to expand; the Director of NATL INTEL has been told to resign;

man set his head on fire; did N Korea sink a S Korean warship earlier this year; unions are going on a ‘general strike’ in Greece; a Picasso & a Matisse were stolen from a Paris museum; synthetic cell created by a computer;

…5/21–10: education…you might learn something

58º in ABQ; 28% humidity at 6A…GAQ; NM has a lower than NATL AVG credit card debt; water main break at UNIV & Menaul; Chevron gas stations will be closing in ABQ; hundreds of feral rats found in Las Cruces home; fire extinguishers were recharged;

empty AM R/R; left at noon, ate great salads at Saggio’s; Brent & I paid a surprise [for me] visit to Dr. Crowley; home around 3:30P;

wet in Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, INDY, Charlotte, Memphis, Denver, Cleveland, Cheyenne, New Orleans, SLC, Madison [WI] & Miami; temps from the 50s to the 100s;

SEN passes a Wall ST financial reform bill; US losing confidence in BP, oil is choking the cycle of life; rat walks by the outside White House podium; yesterday was the biggest one day drop on the stock market since Feb, 2000; one in eight public swimming pools across the US have contain unclean water; two police officers killed in W Memphis, AR; wildfires burn in CA; one man faked his way into Harvard, while another did the same thing, but in the military; the DOW ended up; salmonella now found in alfalfa; Pac-Man is thirty years old; hundreds of pot plants found in SC garden; containers of chemicals waiting to be delivered to clean the Gulf of MX are sitting in TX?;

$123 million art heist, and the security cameras were not working at the time of the robbery; third spacewalk today: the final Atlantis flight, and the beginning of the ‘new’ NASA; Asian stocks are already falling; Lance Armstrong is again accused of using performance enhancing drugs; the most dangerous weapon…is words;

…5/22–10: family, first

59º in ABQ; 27% humidity at 6A…after 19 hours, the water main break was fixed; most of NM in Extreme Fire Danger; PNM wants to raise rates again; Angel Fire is opening a newly completed section of its resort, just in time for the summer golf season; NM sex offender has fled to MX; budget cuts force the closing of a NM Film Museum; Special Olympics will be held in ABQ today; Isleta Casino is renamed the Hard Rock Casino; the White Lantern is located in Silver City, NM; 8% humidity at 5P; Pajarito Mesa will no longer have to travel for drinking water; a cannonball from the 1800s in a SE ABQ home;

The Kilauea volcano has erupted for 10K days; twenty states will hold events to celebrate Harvey Milk Day; 100 year old time capsule, placed in the cornerstone of an IA City Hall BLDG, was opened yesterday; JetBlue pilot surrendered his gun at Logan Airport, after claiming he was going to commit suicide; one person was killed when a pipe bomb exploded outside a WV nightclub;

In India, a plane flew missed the runway, skidded & crashed, killing 158 people, some survivors have been reported; thirteen year old American boy is the youngest person to reach the peak of Mt. Everest;

…5/17–10: somewhere, across America

60º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s Chiro visit; new waste water requirements for rural homes in Bernalillo CNTY; ABQ charter school still closed after weekend fire; the ranching & dairy industries are major factors in the NM economy; Palin has a ‘thin record of accomplishments’; it is about 2K miles from ABQ to ATL; the ‘closest person to a witness’; fire at PNM power plant; NM economy is on the voters’ minds, especially the state’s deficit; severe PM weather in SE NM;

Myrna returns from her vacation; PEDS should send their charges to Angela Martinez;

wet along parts of I-10, I-70, I-75 & I-95; wet in Seattle, Reno, JAX, Tallahassee, DC, Chicago, Amarillo, Tampa, New Orleans, Houston, Pittsburgh, Louisville & Baltimore; snow in the Sierras; rain in Charlotte, ATL, Richmond & the Tidewater area; fog for AR, OK, MO & TN; temps from the 60s to the 90s;

are pesticides linked to some ADHD cases; mile long tube has been inserted into the broken oil pipe; were there failures by FED agencies in not finding potential problems on the oil rig?; Long Island dog takes Viagra for a heart condition; an upward trend of children being diagnosed with MRSA; after many years, a man discovered that one piece from a 5K piece jigsaw puzzle is missing; the DOW ended slightly up; is a life sentence, without any chance of parole, too long for a teenager who has murdered someone too harsh?; the new Miss USA is Arab-American; this past weekend, a plane crashed into a FL home; no more ‘Heroes’; BP will help promote Gulf tourism; one million people per day are using tanning beds; ‘so far’, no sign of seafood contamination; welcome to the anti-incumbent era;

first spacewalk took place today, during which a power outage occurred, but the problem was solved within minutes, and it did not pose a threat to the astronauts; more airport closures from Icelandic volcano; a plane that turns opens into a living room, complete with balcony, went it is on the ground; the value of a Euro is falling; Brazil & Turkey have brokered a deal in handling Iran’s uranium; plane crash in AFG; oil is $70.09 per barrel; gold is $1,227.70 an ounce;

…5/18–10: listen, and feel happy

63º in ABQ; 25% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s doctor visit; ABQ teacher’s swear words recorded on a student’s cell phone; judge allows homeowner to smoke in her backyard; trees vandalized in Duke City neighborhood; NM Tech provides seismic readers for around the world; crime went up in Santa Fe APT complex when age restrictions were lifted; got our yearly for the APT; someone is very happy to be my one hundredth YouTube subscriber!; Brad made Gazpacho; Farmington teen would like his artistic design to be the wallpaper for the GOOGLE website;

work on more ID & Cardiology services; we are again in Code Purple;

ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; wet along parts of I-10, I-40, I-70 & I-95; snow in the Cascades & the N Rockies; wet in Houston, San Antonio, Boston, NYC, Philly, Cleveland, OKC, Dallas, Denver, Providence, SLC, Miami, Memphis & Baltimore; temps from the 50s to the 80s;

thirty years ago, Mt. St. Helens erupted in WA: disrupted flights and shut down interstates for two weeks; this has been the hottest April ever recorded; only 17% of homeowners have benefited from the mortgage stimulus plan; the ‘loop current’ could move the oil spill into the Atlantic; a commission will be formed to monitor the oil slick; have tar balls been found near the FL Keys?; two toddlers ‘stole’ candy from a convenience store, by eating it; the DOW dropped; oil has reached the MS delta region, and the astronauts can observe the spill from space; processed meat has more salt & preservatives, making it ‘worse’ [for now] than hamburgers or steak, and potentially cause diabetes; one dress, worn 365 days [so far] by a NYC woman, looking different by adding color & jewelry; ten year old boy caught surfing for porn on the Internet at a public library;

Icelandic volcano could pose a problem to airlines for the rest of the week; pizza parlors in Italy are using coffin wood to bake their meals; an inflated castle sailed across a lake; second spacewalk to be held today;

…5/19–10: give yourself a compliment…you deserve it

51º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…woman drove a scooter to an ABQ casino after her van broke down; another dead body found on a Duke City street; dog hair from local salons is being collected to help stop the oil leak; Brad has finished his big painting; NM, the ‘solar panel sunshine state’; ‘Ride of Silence’ tonight for bicyclists who have been killed by vehicles; 25% of NM farmers are women;

March charges from Dr. Wong; no PSUP Admits;

wet in OKC, Wichita, Tulsa, Memphis, St. Louis, Miami, Boston, Pittsburgh; KC, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Little Rock, Norfolk, Rapid Cody & Casper plus E New England; rain along sections of I-35, I-40 & I-81; several TX twisters yesterday, one was classified as a ‘super cell’: another day of tornadoes in OK, TX & Louisiana; temps from the 50s to the 90s;

yesterday was the day incumbents lost, and the Tea Party won; ‘out’ is ‘in’, as new blood may be heading to Capitol Hill; are people getting sick from the oil spill?; sinkhole open on I-24 in TN; 5.1 quake near the CA/MX border, shook San Diego; TX baby found sitting in the middle of a street; older people who live in group homes are more likely to commit suicide than senior citizens who remain in their own houses; a Manhattan cocktail lounge serves a $160 drink; the DOW went down; the ATM inventor has died; oil spill getting caught in the watery ‘loop’; Frank Lloyd Wright was on “What’s My Line”; FL woman ran over herself while reaching for a cup of coffee on top of her car; GOOGLE accused of ‘accidentally’ spying; it has been one month after the oil rig explosion; Wal-Mart children’s jewelry now has too much lead; are electrical cars too quiet, cannot be heard by blind people;how a TX man became a MX drug cartel czar; more attacks at a US military base near Kabul; the ‘truth embargo’ about UFOs; MX PRES vocally expressed his disapproval regarding the AZ immigration law; second spacewalk took place; oil is $69.87 per barrel; gold is $1,192.60 an ounce;

…5/15–10: technological thoughts

50º in ABQ; 77% humidity at 6A…hot air balloons over ABQ skies; Duke City woman was pulled over by a vehicle carrying six hooded men, who asked to see her driver’s license, then took a picture of it: this took place at Coors & Central; red light cameras will be removed from state roads, and three local intersections this week; Bill Clinton will be in ABQ this Tuesday for a political fundraiser; NM GOV will be attending a White House dinner; Duke City judge is stepping down for having made several legal errors in sentencing people; there were no records kept of the Native Americans who may have been exposed to Hepatitis or HIV when the same lancet was used to test for diabetes; will ABQ halt business with AZ?; flight diverted to SunPort, passenger was treated by Michael Jackson’s doctor;

dog pulled a bumper off a police car; BP lowering another tube to siphon oil, that attempted also did not work, never reached the broken pipe: very little has been done to how to stop an oil leak; 44K military helmets may be defective; maximum fee at an ATM should be fifty cents?; Episcopalians select a second gay person, a lesbian reverend, as bishop;

Australian teen is now the youngest person to sail solo, unassisted and non-stop around the world; space junk will not prevent Atlantis from docking at the INTL Space Station; more volcanic ash heading towards England & Germany; Stephen Hawking says time travel is possible, via a ‘wormhole’, but only one way…into the future; Cathay Pacific airplane diverted to a Vancouver airport after a bomb threat was reported;

…5/16–10: seek peace

50º in ABQ; 34% humidity at 6A…fatal pedestrian crash in NW ABQ; two hikers rescued from the Sandia MTN, they got stuck in the snow, and were saved by their cell phones; NM vs. Blue Cross: who will win; wind turbines near Tucumcari; NM has some of the largest cheese factories in the US; water will be released from the Cochiti Dam, so there will be more water flowing in the Rio Grande;

PA postal worker gets busted for hoarding mail, dating back to 1997; the $100K prostate cancer vaccine; when not a FED bailout for education?; now, huge plumes of oil beneath the Gulf of MX; cash being pulled from the stock market, blame the recent recession; Palin approved the AZ immigration law; seven year old girl killed when a Detroit police officer; AZ: ‘Ground Zero’ for immigration?; ‘Iron Man 2’ was number one in the box office, earning $53 million; while ‘some’ of the oil is being siphoned, more tar balls appearing on more Gulf shores: some of the plumes are ten miles long, yet there may be bacteria which will eat the fuel; ‘Gulf Aid’ fundraiser being held in New Orleans; the Tea Party has also removed an [R] conservative candidate;

Atlantis docked with the INTL Space Station today; volcanic ash closing N European airports; in Tokyo, robot performed the wedding ceremony; 5.7 quake shook Puerto Rico, the epicenter was near the city of Moca;

…5/10–10: virtual view

60º in ABQ; 15% humidity at 6A…GAQ; man shot near the new UV nightclub this weekend; it will be a bumpy week for NM weather; mother beat her four month old girl, choked the baby and threw her to the ground; old bomb found while digging in a Santa Fe backyard; the new KOAT helicopter is yellow & red, and displays the Zia Pueblo symbol; four men were injured after a propane tank explosion in SW ABQ, the blast shook homes in that area; downtown Duke City needs a supermarket; 5% humidity at 5P; the Jicarilla & Mescalero Apache tribes will receive FED housing grants; on Saturday, I forgot to take my bus pass on our journey to buy some items; motorcycle crash in NW ABQ;

Myrna is on vacation; KOAT at UNMH Hill; as of this AM, Code Purple;

ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; NJ wildfires; wet for KC, OKC, Twin Cities, Tulsa, Reno, Seattle, Casper, Little Rock, Memphis, Rapid City, St; Louis & Omaha; chance for tornadoes in MO, KS & OK; frost & freeze warning from WI to MA; temps from the 50s to the 60s;

use junk to clog the oil leak?: tar is appearing on AL shores, and none of the ‘solutions’ have ever been tested, plus no pictures of the BP dome underwater have appeared on any news site; ‘Iron Man 2’ took in $133.6 million this weekend, making it the number one box office success; Tea Party targeted & caused the defeat of an [R] senatorial candidate in UT, because he was not conservative enough; Lena Horne has died at the age of 92; the ‘oil barrier’ is now 190 miles long, and posing a threat from marsh lands to sandy beaches; Obama may choose a moderate woman, Elena Kagan, at fifty years old, she would be the youngest nominee, as the next US Supreme Court nominee, she is currently serving as the US Solicitor General, and has never served as a judge; stocks rallied as Greece gets a bailout; man can turn manure into paper?; FL student wore the same pair of shoes from start of school to his graduation; the DOW rose 404 points; children’s costume jewelry from China contains too much cadmium; Betty White, the new ‘leading lady’ of ‘Saturday Night Live’; if confirmed, there would be no Protestants on the US Supreme Court, the current nominee is Jewish; maintenance work on YouTube this AM; CO man shot himself in the groin; Barbara Walters will have heart surgery;

the volcanic ash is covering an area from Greenland to Portugal: although European airports will reopen, the cloud is moving into the N Atlantic area, some say it poses a ‘lesser threat’ today; S Korea accused N Korean submarine for sinking one of its warships; the EU & IMF will help Greece pay its debt; PM Brown will be stepping down; Toyota failed to mention that some models had steering rod defects;

…5/11–10: listen to the living

48º in ABQ; 21% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad has an eye doctor APPT today; Duke City woman goes on trial for smoking in her backyard; last night, there was a truck fire on I-25; ABQ slumlord has his day in court; people stealing lids that cover water meters, and sell them for money: however, this poses a great risk to both pedestrians & vehicles; another windy PM; S Valley water being tested for cleaning solvent;

I am the “don’t talk, don’t tell” guy; we remain in Code Purple;

ABQ winds & temp mentioned on the Weather Channel & ABC AM News; twister tore through OK & KS, some parts of I-35 & I-40 are closed; wet for DC. Charlotte, Little Rock, Cleveland, Madison, OKC, KC, SLC, Denver, Boise, Billings, Chicago, Pittsburgh & Des Moines; people were saved by running into store freezers to escape the tornadoes; strong winds across the SW US; there is a second storm moving from the W US to the Great Plains; rain along areas of I-70, I-81 & I-90; hail the size of softballs fell in OK; temps from the 40s to the 80s;

NE ‘toilet paper’ bandit’ who wrapped it around his face; another chemical attempt to control the oil spill; if nominated, there would be three women on the US Supreme Court; the tainted lettuce threat is expanding; could pollution cause strokes?; the DOW ended down; the lettuce recall gets larger; bomb threat suspected after a truck crashed into the Hirshhorn Museum on the NATL Mall; world’s smallest horse can be seen in NH; four million gallons of oil has leaked into the Gulf of MX: dead dolphins have washed ashore along the beaches of Louisiana, MS & AL; some say more natural gas is leaking from the well, and less oil; BP will pay for ‘all legitimate costs’; Walgreens will sell DNA tests for $249, these have not been approved by the FDA;

European artist using US currency to create art; the value of BP stock is going down; Britain has a young, conservative new PM: he will form a coalition UK GOVT; gold is $1,219.90 an ounce; oil is $76.73 per barrel;

…5/12–10: pennies on a dollar

46º in ABQ; 26% humidity at 6A…GAQ; explosives, chemical & detonators found in Belen home; mother brought her child to the MDC with handcuffs on his leg, she blamed the babysitter, but the parent has also been accused of child abuse; vandals damaged a NM Vietnam Memorial; white supremacist items found in a Farmington home; does a Duke City man posses a Picasso painting, or etching?; Brad made Meat Loaf;

new Internal Medicine Coder, works half days; we remain in Code Purple; the Blue Line came too early, so I walked across the campus, and rode the Central to The Beach;

Cheyenne could see some snow; wet in NYC, Pittsburgh, Chicago, KC, OKC, Omaha, Louisville, St; Louis, SLC, Boston, DC, Philly & Dallas; chance of tornadoes for NE, MO, TX, KS, IA, IL, IN, MD & VA; Santa Fe conditions mentioned on the Weather Channel; snow for parts of the Rockies; wet along areas of I-35, I-70 & I-81; temps from the 40s to the 80s;

second containment dome will be lowered in the Gulf of MX; TN mother arrested after authorities found marijuana in her vehicle, and her young child smoking a cigarette [woman said she was teaching her child a lesson]; get ready for Playboy centerfolds in 3-D; Starbucks will sell a second brand of coffee; the last of the Ziegfeld girls has died at the age of 106; man prevented a VA convenience store robbery by smashing a bottle over the thief’s head; the DOW ended up; a video that shows the dark oil & natural gas flowing from two leaks in the Gulf of MX: the cutoff system failed to function; the AFG & US leaders met in DC to talk; a Boston Catholic church will not allow a student to enroll, because his parents are lesbians;

plane crashed as it landed in Tripoli, Libya, could volcanic ash have played a factor?: there was only one survivor, a child, in the ruins of a brand new Airbus A330; while many schools are double gated, there was another mass murder inside a Chinese classroom; sinkhole swallowed an entire farm near Montreal;

…5/13–10: dreaming dreams

49º in ABQ; 34% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Tea Party rally against the health care reform bill was held in Santa Fe, saying the law is constitutional; a new CFO for ABQ public schools, plus updated rules for cell phone use; Rio Rancho student harassed for having lesbian parents; man left his grandchildren inside a vehicle while he gambled at a casino; man stabbed in his NW ABQ home; corrections officer smuggled drugs into jail for inmate;

check on PICU notes: completed, then went after the ID DEPT; Native Americans may have been exposed to HIV or Hepatitis when a single needle was used to draw blood by someone from the UNMH HSC;

N Rockies snow; wet in Chicago, St. Louis, Omaha, Tulsa, Detroit, Dallas, KC, OKC, Cleveland, Austin, Wichita & INDY, dense fog in central NY; parts of WY saw three feet of snow; temps from the 40s to the 80s;

WY train crashes causes fuel to spill into a river; people still support offshore drilling; Los Angeles boycotts AZ immigration law; sweet crude oil is still leaking, 24 days after the oil rig explosion; the fuel is now sinking below the surface, four million gallons has leaked; Mohawk haircuts for some of the Detroit Tigers’ players; foreclosures down from this same time last year; the Times SQ bomber provided the addresses of accomplices in ME, MA & NJ; BP has seven ‘repair schemes’ to stop the leaking oil, they have already spent $450 million on this catastrophe; AZ has a half million illegal immigrants; while others watched, a TX teacher severely attacked a student; the DOW ended down; did the SC GOV have a recent rendezvous with his ‘soul mate’?; sand barriers build along the Gulf coast to absorb the oil flow;

ATM machine dispenses gold in Abu Dhabi; is Jupiter losing one of its ‘rings’; the space shuttle Atlantis making final preparations for its launch tomorrow; gas rig sank off the coast of Venezuela; oil is $74.40 per barrel; gold is $1,228.80 an ounce;

…5/14–10: wishful wishes

56º in ABQ; 61% humidity at 6A…GAQ; AM skunk alert; shooting at a Santa Fe APT; ABQ will no longer be a ‘sanctuary city’, and house illegal immigrants, inmates will also be screened to prove if they are US citizens; SE NM T’storms; homeless people are causing fear in parts of the S Valley; students at a S Valley school read a book, then perform the story; filming in downtown Duke City; a Cowboy Boots Museum opens in Santa Fe; tornado warnings were issued this PM for S NM counties;

left at 11:30A, ate at Owl Café [huge salads!]; continue ID report; empty AM R/R; audits will be performed on Bruce & Karla; UNMH medical school students’ blood testing blunder to test for diabetes made the ABC AM News;

wet in DC, Boston, Nashville, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, Denver, Santa Fe, Erie, OKC, St. Louis, NYC, Little Rock, Dallas & Memphis; chance of tornadoes from TX to NJ; rain for Providence, Roanoke & Bristol, TN/VA; a line of twisters struck MO yesterday; showers along parts of I-80, I-81 & I-95; temps from the 50s to the 90s;

a permanent ban on Pacific coast drilling?; mortgage rates fall to 4.93%; rock group filmed during the time they were trapped inside an EF-4 tornado when they were travelling on I-55; a ‘V for Vendetta’ mask was work by a person protesting the AZ immigration law; another vehicle with gas cans was found near Union SQ: in the end, there was no cause for alarm; the DOW fell again; the EPA will use mules to detect radiation levels; is the oil leak bigger than what is being reported?; CA school talent show heated up when some of the male students stripped to the underwear; many safety violations at Johnson & Johnson which made Tylenol;

the space shuttle Atlantis launched for its last time; member of the British Parliament stabbed by a woman; Chinese astronaut says ‘normal’ food is eaten while in space;

…5/7–10: peace time

56º in ABQ; 25% humidity at 6A…GAQ; did not sleep well last night; huge shoplifting ring busted in Bernalillo CNTY; hit & run at Alvarado & Central; ABQ Studios is no longer for sale; a repeat rapist in N NM, drugs women’s drinks; sex offenders can use Duke City libraries, but with restrictions; bears have been sighted around Santa Fe, one was captured, then released in the forests of N NM; we are going on a diet; Brad’s doctor visit; early to bed;

left at 11:30A, ate at Saggio’s; rushing through the day; empty AM R/R; no TES edits today, new file being loaded; sprinkler problem, flooded basement & a ‘small’ fire at Bradbury; no CTI Admits; we remain in Code Purple;

wet in Erie, Miami, INDY, Omaha, Little Rock, Chicago, Detroit & Des Moines; snow in parts of WI & the Dakotas; tornado threat for parts of IN, PA, OH & NY; chance of twisters for Pittsburgh, Memphis, Cincinnati & Cleveland; rain & snow along parts of I-94; temps from the 40s to the 90s;

did a keypunch error cause the thousand point tumble yesterday; pot found growing in the back of a hollow TV set; US job growth for a second consecutive month; giant dome covering the oil spill, which could become harmful to human health; more lettuce being recalled for E Coli contamination; the DOW ended down, the jobless rate rose to 9.9%; Los Angeles man murdered three family members, wounded one other; will all NCIS cast members renew their contracts?;

Japanese make a dress that, when unfolded, resembles a coca-Cola machine; another massive ash cloud reported near Iceland; has Greece, started a domino decline?; while conservatives won in the UK, no party has a clear majority, so it is a ‘hung’ Parliament; Asian markets also tumbled yesterday;

…5/8–10: give me strength

47º in ABQ; 40% humidity at 6A…student scientists visited the Organ MTN, in an attempt to send rockets carrying payloads into space; ABQ shooting at a motel near Coors & Iliff; three Farmington men branded a swastika on the arm of a mentally challenged man, plus they shaved the symbol on his head; for sale: $45K ‘suite seats’ at Isotopes Park; several armed robberies have occurred at one of the NMSU campuses; wind advisory for the Duke City; NM jobless rate has reached 8.8%; today is Stamp Out Hunger Day in ABQ;

methane bubble triggered the Gulf of MX oil rig explosion; an estimated three million gallons have polluted the Gulf OF MX, and the dome didn’t work, ice crystals clogged the container’s pipe: this is Day 19 after the spill started, and the next attempt will be to drill another hole; Defense SECY Gates says the military budget is overinflated; no one was seriously injured when a Staten Island ferry boat crashed into a terminal, this same vessel that was involved in a 2003 incident; a mosque will be built near Ground Zero in NYC;

welcome to the era of ‘shout outs’, where people create videos, and thanking those who have subscribed to them; volcanic ash still causing problems for transatlantic flights, forcing airports in Spain to close;

…5/9–10: exercise, the inexpensive medicine

48º in ABQ; 53% humidity at 6A…the woman who embezzled millions of dollars from the Jemez school district has been found dead in her home, and suicide appears to be the cause; two people were killed along US Route 70 near Las Cruces when their vehicle was struck by a semi; teenage intentionally set an APT on fire; Extreme Fire Danger across most of NM; Leo’s Nightclub in the Duke City has been given a second chance to improve its BLDG; sexual assaults against children in NM has doubled since this same time last year; illegal dumping grounds discovered on the W Mesa; actor Lou Diamond Phillips was busing tables at the Frontier Restaurant yesterday; budget cuts reduce the number of NM State Police officers; fire at a SW ABQ mobile home;

cell phones can get viruses, similar to those that affect computers; AZ farm may be the source of the E Coli lettuce;

Russian mine explosion has killed at least a dozen people; volcanic ash has closed airports in France, Spain & Portugal, and is also swept across N Italy, Switzerland & S Germany; 7.4 quake shook N Sumatra, in Indonesia, tsunami warning was enacted, then discontinued, the epicenter of the offshore tremor was 28 miles below the surface; the musician Sting used to be a school teacher;

…5/5–10: believe in what you do

50º in ABQ; 33% humidity at 6A…GAQ; another early AM panic attack; the new KOAT helicopter will display the Zia sun symbol; man threatened Duke City woman with arrest if he did not pay him, said she was guilty of embezzlement, knew personal info about her family, including where she lived; is there contaminated water in the S Valley?; PM water main break at Lead & Broadway; 6% humidity at 5P;

Hell Week, Day 2.5; burglar waved at security camera while robbing a UNM Bldg; fire at a UNM Biomedical Research Lab; no PICU Admits; TES down this AM;

Santa Fe conditions mentioned on the Weather Channel; wet for Orlando, Cleveland, Chicago, Fargo, Seattle, INDY, Detroit, Tampa, Miami & JAX; rain & snow in Yellowstone; wildfires W of Denver; overnight twisters in WI; temps from the 40s to the 90s;

oil spill in the Gulf causing millions of dollars in damages, and BP says it will pay for the cleanup; SE US could see more flooding today; downtown Nashville may be underwater for weeks; 50% of those who live in high risk areas, do not have flood INS; the Times SQ bomber slipped surveillance, bought his airline ticket in cash, his father is a senior official in the PAK Air Force; a candle that smells like a White Castle hamburger; expect to pay more for seafood soon; it’s Cinco de Mayo; MA students swallowed dry ice; I-90 extends to Logan INTL Airport in Boston; the DOW ended down; truck driving missing after TX refinery explosion; MD funeral parlor kept dead bodies inside a garage; did the Times SQ bomber fear for his family’s safety?: he expected to be arrested; oil containment domes are finally being shipped, but BP has no idea how much has leaked into the Gulf of MX, and chemicals may be doing more harm than good; another anti-gay minister being caught in a gay ‘act’;

Picasso painting sold for $106.5 million; N Ireland & Scotland airports shut down again because of volcanic ash; man built city out of staples; workers’ strike grounds planes in Greece, a country of tax evasion: if that nation falls, will Portugal, Spain & Italy also crumble?; the ancient, alien astronaut; face transplant performed in Spain; oil is $79.97 per barrel; gold is $1,174.60 an ounce; the young are calling trance music their ‘drug’;

…5/6–10: hands across the sands

58º in ABQ; 17% humidity at 6A…GAQ; some Red Light Cameras may be removed from Duke City streets; local man has been jailed about 100 times; High Wind & Fire Danger for parts of NM; the Zia Pueblo dates back to the 1200s; Brad made Fried Tofu; NM will try to lure tourism dollars that are usually spent in AZ; NM has reported its first Hanta Virus case; more Rail Runner stops for Santa Fe & ABQ?; the Arabian Horse Show is in ABQ;

the day after Closing; gave a short autobiography of myself to the new supervisor; we have been in Code Purple since yesterday PM; suspects arrested in UNM burglaries;

$1 billion loss for Nashville from water damage, as much of TN is still underwater; wet in Boston, Philly, Rapid City, Pittsburgh, Albany, NYC & Providence; snow in the N Rockies & the N Plains; the SE US is reaching record high temps; a rain/snow mix for Rapid City, Casper, Sheridan, & Billings; wet along parts of I-80, I-90 & I-95; temps from the 30s to the 90s;

the oil spill may be leaking between 60K–210K of oil per day?; battle in the bayou continues; the answer to absorbing oil may be human hair & nylons; the bungling bomber did a trial run, left getaway keys in the vehicle set to explode, bought fireworks in PA; a man fled from a truck near a toll booth on the Manhattan side of the Robert Kennedy Bridge, no explosive material was found inside the vehicle; US mothers are older & more educated; major league baseball games may go 3 – D the DOW dropped nearly 350 points, but fell as much as 1K points near the end of the day; MA gay couples want to repeal the FED law that defines ‘marriage’ as a union between a man & a woman; Amtrak train killed person in MD; oil has reached the Louisiana barrier islands; buy software for cell phones to spy on other, visually; 90% of the wealth in America is controlled by 10% of its population; lettuce recalled, contaminated with E Coli;

protests getting violent in Greece, how long can the EU afford to help this nation; the incredible ‘jumping guy’; UK elections being held; coat got stuck in the gears, stopped roller coaster as riders were upside down; the granite tombstone, carved into the shape of a BMW; 6.4 quake shook N Chile & Peru; Greece is sliding into a depression, will it take the world with it?; gold is $1,196.90 an ounce; oil is $77.73 per barrel;

…5/1–10: when life imitates life

34º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…Brad making the Hokey Pokey dessert; snow on the Sandia crest; former Spaceport MGR had purchased a ranch in that area; a ten day Super Blitz, which will span the Cinco de Mayo holiday; a record low, high temp yesterday; INTL Robo Race being held at the ABQ CONV CTR; use LANL to track the effects of the Gulf oil spill; AM frost & freeze warnings in parts of NM; the Doug Vaughn Ponzi scheme gets more intricate; for Bank of America building were vandalized with graffiti;

20% of America’s seafood comes from the Gulf of MX; children’s OTC medicines being recalled; Obama having second thoughts on expanding the area to drill for oil; BP did not have any plan in place for this type of disaster; a ‘Green’ House near Charlottesville, VA; Louisiana is telling fisherman to speed up their seafood catching, as the season will close soon, since the spill has tripled in size during the last day, and winds are pushing the oil closer to the coastline, causing it to move inland…and also work its way to the Atlantic seaboard; a recently completed pipeline that brings water to Boston and thirty of its surrounding cities has burst: 700K people are being told to boil water before using it; bomb threat written on a lavatory mirror force a Chicago to Philly plane just after it took off; heavy rains in TN have flooded parts of I-24 in that state;

potential terrorist attacks in India?; Taiwan to China flight diverted after a passenger said he had an explosive device in his luggage: upon searching the suitcase, nothing was found;

…5/2–10: master of trades

44º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A…more winter weather for NM; 63% of NM residents have mailed in their 2010 Census sheet; Brad made Focaccia Bread; more NM NATL Guard soldiers returning home from the Middle East; the ‘party bus’ arrives in ABQ for prom nights; another meth bust in the Duke City; last night, vehicles were vandalized in the NE Heights area; Duke City vehicles powered by ethanol are currently not cost efficient; Run for the Zoo took place today in ABQ;

propane tanks, gasoline & explosives [gunpowder] found in an SUV parked at Times SQ in NYC: considered ‘amateurish, but potentially powerful bomb’; discovered by a street vendor who saw smoke coming out off the vehicle…this event has now been considered an act of terrorism, and the Taliban is taking the credit; today, two million people are without clean water in the Boston METRO area; several US governors will be meeting in DC, including our own; girl created a prom dress out of fruit juice labels;

bomb scare at George Clooney’s Italian villa; it is poppy harvest season in AFG; Greece, and the $146 billion bailout;

…5/3–10: unleash your potential

41º in ABQ; 73% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s Chiro visit; Santa Fe Community College will see a tuition hike; jury selection begins for ABQ cop killer; fire destroyed at least three cars, and a garage at a S Valley home; human remains found in Rio Arriba CNTY; AM snow in S NM; Brad made a dish with Tofu, Red Curry Paste, Rice, Coconut Milk, Lemon Juice, Zucchini & Shrimp;

Hell Week, Day One; reviewed the 2010/2011 benefit changes; made first contact, via E-mail, with a new supervisor;

TN downpours & floods; wet in IL, IN, the Carolinas, CT & MA: also rain for Boston, Baltimore, DC, Raleigh, ATL, Tallahassee, Dallas, Chicago, Seattle, Mobile, Charlotte, Philly, JAX & NYC; rain & snow mix for INTL Falls; SE US floods; fourteen inches of rain fell in Nashville during the weekend; MS River Valley fog; record rains in TN & KY prompt evacuations from flood waters; N Rockies snow; very wet along parts of I-20; temps from the 50s to the 80s;

Obama toured the oil spill in the gulf; the effects from this ‘catastrophic’ oil spill could be felt for many years; a grandmother ran 2 marathons in 27 days; the Times SQ bomber was caught on camera, a white male in his 40s: the device could not have exploded, but if it had, the device could have killed up to 400 people, and sent debris twenty stories in the air; Boston residents still have to boil their tap water; the DOW ended up; PA stripper accused of worker’s COMP fraud; woman stabbed four people in a Los Angeles TARGET store; one million I-Pads have been bought; male, UVA student accused of killing a fellow classmate; more TV seen by children, yields less interactive adults; comic books are getting more racy; the GAP recalling swimsuits that could choke children; Gulf sea turtles found dead, is the oil spill shrinking?; United & Continental Airlines will merge;

Iran leader visits NYC, will speak at the UN; N Korea makes a rare visit out of his country, as he travels to China; Chinese man eats broken glass, prefers light bulbs; Lynn Redgrave has died at the age of 67 from breast cancer; Dublin airports closed, due to volcanic ash from Iceland;

…5/4–10: reasons to smile

46º in ABQ; 45% humidity at 6A…GAQ; missing Santa Fe teenage girl; Duke City students get to meet Michelle Obama; five candidates running for the position of Navajo Nation PRES; KAFB has its own jet fuel leak problems; 9% humidity at 5P; Duke City waste treatment overcharged customers by nearly $200K; six ABQ female students involved in a fight, all caught on cell phones; another student beating appeared on YouTube, this time in Cuba, it was also filmed, as classmates were struck by belts: some say it was just part of an initiation;

Hell Week, Day Two; the UNM PRES has an abdominal tumor; could not find a code for Demerol injection;

Nashville floods are slowly going away, but some schools so badly damaged they will not reopen until September; the TN Titans field is underwater; wet in Providence, Erie, ATL, JAX, Orlando, Tampa, Tallahassee, the Twin Cities, Chicago, Milwaukee, NYC, Seattle, Fargo & Albany; wet weather along parts of I-80, I-90, I-94 & I-95; snow in the N Rockies; temps from the 50s to the 90s;

DC will allow medical marijuana usage; the rig is still leaking about 210K gallons per day, the oil is sinking deeper into the ocean, and could soon reach the FL Keys; the DOW dropped more than 200 points; bacteria found in children’s Tylenol?; OR has the lowest rate of childhood obesity cases; suspect will be charged with using a weapon of mass destruction: a ‘person of interest’ has been arrested in the Times SQ attempted bombing, found via E-mails, and VIN number on the SUV engine, with a wife and children, he is a naturalized US citizen, but was supposed to be on the ‘no fly’ list, he boarded a flight to the UAR, and confessed that he committed the crime…but he is not a ‘lone wolf’; added surcharge fees have boosted airline revenue;

Irish airports reopen; couple turn a public lavatory into their private home; 6.4 quake reported in Chile; oil is $82.96 per barrel; gold is $1,168.60 an ounce; German mailman ‘married’ his cat;

…4/27–10: life lines, and paths, and journeys

47º in ABQ; 56% humidity at 6A…GAQ; more people in NM will qualify for food stamps; High Fire Danger across all of NM; job cuts face Los Lunas school system; plane crash turned into Tucumcari drug bust; Nancy liked Brad’s painting; ABQ police are raiding the Bosque, telling homeless people they have to leave;

finish current GI I/P charges, as Dr. Noel returned to work;

MS twister’s path was 149 miles long, the second longest in history; wet for Boston, NYC, Philly, Charlotte, Louisville, Boise, Seattle, San Fran & ‘the big‘ Las Vegas; frost & freeze warnings from MI to PA; 130 mph winds recorded in the EF-2 tornado that struck SC this past weekend; to date in 2010, we are still below AVG in the number of twisters; snow in New England MTN; ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; bad weather along parts of I-20, I-90 & I-95; temps from the 50s to the 90s;

the NYC guys are now showing movies on Monday; create a dome to cover the oil slick?; for $27, you can buy a key to open all NYC subway gates; the “white House to Main ST’ Obama tour; the DOW dropped; on ABC AM News, an article about ABQ store opening where live animals were tossed to feed live crocodiles & alligators; financial reform blocked by [R]; Goldman Sachs vs. Capitol Hill: no regrets, no responsibilities; Yale doctor shot by former colleague; GM will create 1,600 jobs; NM students’ work of art [a welded model of the globe] will be on display in DC; boy uninjured after being struck by a piece of a broken bat at a baseball game; for now, FORD is the American vehicle to buy; the oil slick can be seen from space: should it be set on fire?; anyone in AZ who appears to be an illegal immigrant can be arrested by the police in that state; drug company marketed medicine to treat inappropriate diseases;

Paris to ATL flight diverted when passenger was found to have a fake passport, and said he was carrying a bomb in his suitcase; does cleavage cause tremors, or ‘boob quakes’?; MX leader says new AZ immigration policy may strain relations with the US: is the law legal, should people have to prove their race & nationality?; Australian restaurant forbade a customer to enter their restaurant, claiming they thought the man said he had a ‘gay’, and not ‘guide’ dog: the must now pay the price…of $1,400 to the blind person;


…4/28–10: being true to yourself

55º in ABQ; 35% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; broken glass litters Belen baseball fields; Rio Rancho faces a shortage of police officers; SW ABQ house fire; renters may feel the effects of ‘tax lightning’; two separate motorcycle accidents last night; High Fire Danger across NM; the Duke City may be too tough against the homeless; attempted hack into Brad’s PC; I cause myself to cry; this AM I came face-to-face with a beaver at The Beach entrance; Lance Armstrong will be in Silver City this weekend for the Tour of the Gila;

take care of I/P Nephrology charges; crazy TES edits;

N New England snow; wet from MN to KS; rain in Providence; the environmental disaster of the SE US coast may take weeks to contain, bad for seafood & tourism: so far, being kept from the shore by a high pressure; dry winds spark NV fires; wet along some parts of I-95; two feet of snow fell in N NY, and 30K people are without power; ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; temps from the 40s to the 90s;

people in DC help a family of ducks cross the busy streets to the animals’ new home; bipartisan attack on Goldman Sachs, but [R] still block discussion of financial reform; teen heroin use on the rise; visit the wineries around Richmond; Obama now has a 54% approval rating; house prices increasing?; meth use by Native Americans is going up; moms bullying moms; NE woman bit off part of a man’s ear after he called her ‘fat’; April is NATL Alcoholic Awareness Month; the Celtics advance in their playoffs; the toxic cloud is thousands of feet high: should the burn continue, in spite of the air pollution factor?; the oil slick will reach the SE US coast by this weekend; Nantucket gets the green light to have the first of its kind, offshore wind farm; bomb threat forces a Houston to DC flight land in Greensboro, NC;

the tide came in, and a vehicle on a British beach went out; have remnants of Noah’s Ark been found?; Greece & Portugal are in a financial mess; Toyota recalled 50K SUV models; water found in an asteroid between Mars & Jupiter; in 2012, the tallest structure in Europe will be located in London; for PM Brown: open mike, insert foot; Tokyo now has 13 million residents; stocks falling around the world as the global economy teeters;

…4/29–10: look through the lines

59º in ABQ; 25% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; a school for the deaf may be built in ABQ; Santa Fe: a sanctuary for illegal immigrants; Ruidoso faces DWI charges; union battle Rio Rancho school system, and its bus drivers; High Wind Warning across most of NM; 100 acre brush fire in Cimarron State Park is 5% contained; students protest the changing of principals at ABQ schools; I am being asked to critique videos, created by people I have never met; parts of NM have clocked wind gusts exceeding 70 mph; we kept losing cable connection;

April CHC EEG/EKG charges have not been entered; have to reprint my entire ICD listing, bottom line got cut off; very windy, blowing dust while walking home this PM;

NM winds & ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; rain & snow in parts of the Rockies; rain for the Twin Cities, St. Louis, Omaha, OKC, Memphis, Duluth, KC, and from the Dakotas to IA; temps from the 50 to the 80s;

a second oil leak has been discovered, and is spreading across the Gulf of MX, this may become America’s worst disaster; financial reform clears its first hurdle on Capitol Hill; many people live in cities with unclean air; the DOW ended up; 217K cribs recalled; the Gather of Nations appeared on the CNN website; dust storm shut down twenty miles of I-40 near Meteor Crater; wrong house in TX city got torn down; KY mining disaster has killed two people; later in the day, a third oil leak reported, belching 210K gallons per day: the slick is nearing the MS River delta; a state of emergency has been declared; use chemicals to disperse the blaze?; BP will pay for the cleanup;

the surfing sheep, a publicity stunt for a clothing line; for the second time in a week, man in China enters a kindergarten class, and injures several students; man in London is filling the city’s potholes with flowers; Peter Jackson is knighted in his native New Zealand; space balloon’s payload gets dragged across the Australian desert, damaging vehicles, and nearly striking bystanders; Greece faces economic troubles;

…4/30–10: honest gestures

37º in ABQ; 54% humidity at 6A…GAQ; a twenty foot tall tree toppled in NE ABQ; small SW Duke City fire caused by downed power lines; Brad prepared a Casserole of Roasted Pork; this PM, two police cars were leaving The Beach parking lot; soon, all of NM will have higher speed Internet; AM snow in ABQ;

working all day; focus on I/P charges today; empty AM R/R; bacon fire in the Pavilion?;

wet for the Dakotas & the Midwest; rain in Chicago, St. Louis, Little Rock, Des Moines, Dallas & KC; still some places in the Rockies could see snow; temps from the 40s to the 80s;

how to fix a leak 5K feet below the surface of the water; the oil spill has reached the Gulf coast, the rig did not have a remote shutoff valve, it is not required in US oil platforms; baby in TX dies after being inside a overheated car; mining company will pay millions to the WV families, it will not make the pain & loss of life go away; for the Kentucky Derby, horses hate muddy racetracks; a merger between United & Continental is in the works; HI legislature approves same-sex civil unions, now the bill goes to the GOV of that state; animals are swallowing the toxic oil, an ecological disaster that is being compared to Hurricane Katrina; another Boston subway fire; today is a No Phone Zone Day, motorists should not be using their cell phones while driving; the DOW dropped by triple digits; is America coming closer to requiring a NATL ID card?; a second oil rig has collapsed in the Gulf of MX; AZ police officer shot by an illegal immigrant?; St. Vincent’s HOSP in NYC will close its doors today; man wanted to kill himself by drinking sodium cyanide, and die in a NYC subway tunnel; FL man beheaded his mother, then went to church service, where he also played in its band; Acuras & laptops being recalled, due to fire risks; BP will pay for the oil damage…and its aftermath?;

another attack at a school on China, the attacker then killed himself; Spain unemployment rate reaches 20%; men live the longest in Iceland: for women, try Cyprus; if Greece topples, will Portugal be next?;