…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;