…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?;