…5/5–10: believe in what you do

50º in ABQ; 33% humidity at 6A…GAQ; another early AM panic attack; the new KOAT helicopter will display the Zia sun symbol; man threatened Duke City woman with arrest if he did not pay him, said she was guilty of embezzlement, knew personal info about her family, including where she lived; is there contaminated water in the S Valley?; PM water main break at Lead & Broadway; 6% humidity at 5P;

Hell Week, Day 2.5; burglar waved at security camera while robbing a UNM Bldg; fire at a UNM Biomedical Research Lab; no PICU Admits; TES down this AM;

Santa Fe conditions mentioned on the Weather Channel; wet for Orlando, Cleveland, Chicago, Fargo, Seattle, INDY, Detroit, Tampa, Miami & JAX; rain & snow in Yellowstone; wildfires W of Denver; overnight twisters in WI; temps from the 40s to the 90s;

oil spill in the Gulf causing millions of dollars in damages, and BP says it will pay for the cleanup; SE US could see more flooding today; downtown Nashville may be underwater for weeks; 50% of those who live in high risk areas, do not have flood INS; the Times SQ bomber slipped surveillance, bought his airline ticket in cash, his father is a senior official in the PAK Air Force; a candle that smells like a White Castle hamburger; expect to pay more for seafood soon; it’s Cinco de Mayo; MA students swallowed dry ice; I-90 extends to Logan INTL Airport in Boston; the DOW ended down; truck driving missing after TX refinery explosion; MD funeral parlor kept dead bodies inside a garage; did the Times SQ bomber fear for his family’s safety?: he expected to be arrested; oil containment domes are finally being shipped, but BP has no idea how much has leaked into the Gulf of MX, and chemicals may be doing more harm than good; another anti-gay minister being caught in a gay ‘act’;

Picasso painting sold for $106.5 million; N Ireland & Scotland airports shut down again because of volcanic ash; man built city out of staples; workers’ strike grounds planes in Greece, a country of tax evasion: if that nation falls, will Portugal, Spain & Italy also crumble?; the ancient, alien astronaut; face transplant performed in Spain; oil is $79.97 per barrel; gold is $1,174.60 an ounce; the young are calling trance music their ‘drug’;

…5/6–10: hands across the sands

58º in ABQ; 17% humidity at 6A…GAQ; some Red Light Cameras may be removed from Duke City streets; local man has been jailed about 100 times; High Wind & Fire Danger for parts of NM; the Zia Pueblo dates back to the 1200s; Brad made Fried Tofu; NM will try to lure tourism dollars that are usually spent in AZ; NM has reported its first Hanta Virus case; more Rail Runner stops for Santa Fe & ABQ?; the Arabian Horse Show is in ABQ;

the day after Closing; gave a short autobiography of myself to the new supervisor; we have been in Code Purple since yesterday PM; suspects arrested in UNM burglaries;

$1 billion loss for Nashville from water damage, as much of TN is still underwater; wet in Boston, Philly, Rapid City, Pittsburgh, Albany, NYC & Providence; snow in the N Rockies & the N Plains; the SE US is reaching record high temps; a rain/snow mix for Rapid City, Casper, Sheridan, & Billings; wet along parts of I-80, I-90 & I-95; temps from the 30s to the 90s;

the oil spill may be leaking between 60K–210K of oil per day?; battle in the bayou continues; the answer to absorbing oil may be human hair & nylons; the bungling bomber did a trial run, left getaway keys in the vehicle set to explode, bought fireworks in PA; a man fled from a truck near a toll booth on the Manhattan side of the Robert Kennedy Bridge, no explosive material was found inside the vehicle; US mothers are older & more educated; major league baseball games may go 3 – D the DOW dropped nearly 350 points, but fell as much as 1K points near the end of the day; MA gay couples want to repeal the FED law that defines ‘marriage’ as a union between a man & a woman; Amtrak train killed person in MD; oil has reached the Louisiana barrier islands; buy software for cell phones to spy on other, visually; 90% of the wealth in America is controlled by 10% of its population; lettuce recalled, contaminated with E Coli;

protests getting violent in Greece, how long can the EU afford to help this nation; the incredible ‘jumping guy’; UK elections being held; coat got stuck in the gears, stopped roller coaster as riders were upside down; the granite tombstone, carved into the shape of a BMW; 6.4 quake shook N Chile & Peru; Greece is sliding into a depression, will it take the world with it?; gold is $1,196.90 an ounce; oil is $77.73 per barrel;