…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;