…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idle, and another day of delay, as the slick moves closer to the FL coast; will the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy be repealed in Congress?; robber captured, thanks to his tattoo, which read “East Side 13”; violent crime is down in the US; the BP problem is now called “Obama’s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;