…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;