…6/27–10: treasure treasures

65º in ABQ; 54% humidity at 6A…poverty or overcrowded conditions is not a reason to remove children from a home, there has to be a physical neglect factor; school truancy in the Duke City is down; crash sent two local children to the HOSP; marijuana bust in Farmington; it will be at least a week before the fate of the Cumbres & Toltec trestle will be known; ABQ is using more water than budgeted, the city only has six people policing to find excessive users; several bear attacks have taken place across NM this weekend; a pedestrian bridge will be built to link the Belen Rail Runner station to its downtown area; numerous PM storms across the state; theft & fraud in Santa Fe CNTY;

The ‘limping latex’ bank robber has been arrested; gas prices on the rise; oil is slowly entering the MS River; three people shot during Gay Pride in San Fran; SEN Robert Byrd is seriously ill;

Portugal will now play against Spain in the World Cup Soccer Games; as of now, TS Alex should not pose a threat to the oil spill; violence at the G-20 summit, get ready for a second global recession, the world wants to stop spending, and start saving; is Iran working on a nuclear weapon design; could 2011 be the end for BP?;

…6/28–10: enjoy the beauty of being alive

69º in ABQ; 36% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s doctor visit; small brushfire yesterday at Tramway & Paseo del Norte; ABQ Gang Registry is three years old, but no one is on the list, since there is no set guidelines of who should appear on that list; Petroglyph NATL Monument is twenty years old; PM wind & rain; another Bosque fire; dog attacked father & his two children; Sandia NATL Labs leaders has been helping at the Gulf oil spill;

UNM HSC will receive $21 million; and so begins Hell Week;

Rain for parts of I-10, I-35, I-40, I-70, I-75, I-90 & I-95; wet in: Detroit [which reported weekend tornadoes], Boston, NYC, Philly, DC, ATL, INDY, Dallas; ABQ, Roanoke, Akron, OKC, Ft. Smith [AR], Syracuse, Orlando, Tampa, Miami, New Orleans, Albany, Erie & Richmond; TS Alex is in the Gulf of MX, could push water & oil into the FL beaches: it is a large, slow storm that may reach TX by the end of the week as a CAT 2 hurricane; temps from the 60s to 110s;

People cleaning the sludge face heat exhaustion; ‘Toy Story 3’ was the number one box office hit; $45K paid for 1954 chest X-rays of Marilyn Monroe; WV SEN Byrd has died at the age of 92; oil spill is taking its toll on people’s thoughts & emotions; $2.5 billion has been spent by BP to clean up the oil spill; great white shark sighted off the MA coast; IA mall has its own flashers; ten people arrested for being Russian spies, who lived in cities from MA to VA; the DOW ended down; San Fran Gay Pride is forty years old; US Supreme Court said that ‘self defense is a given right’;

Global leaders want to cut their deficits by 2013: an impossible dream?; how safe is airline food?; oil is $78.25 per barrel; gold is $1,238.20 an ounce;

…6/29–10: sometimes a good laugh can cure what hurts you

60º in ABQ; 77% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad is healthy enough to undergo surgery on 7/28/10; Valencia CNTY man driving a car loaded with explosives, weapons stolen to protect his marijuana crop; ABQ Studios will be auctioned…again: the business still owes millions; health care reform will help some NM residents; Governor’s Job Fair today; NE ABQ APT filled with snakes, plus several children: the structure has now been ‘red tagged’, and the owner will have to pay for the sanitization; SunPort parking rates will rise;

Brent & I keep asking doctors to complete the online documentation; 100 research positions will be created at the HSC; job reorganization in the Pavilion; spoke with the ‘cat woman’ on my walk home; as of now, the Final Closing is on 7/6/10;

Wet in: Raleigh, Tallahassee, Houston, New Orleans, Great Falls [MT], Dallas, Charlotte, JAX, San Antonio, ATL, Tampa & Orlando; high winds from Alex could stop the oil cleanup, which has 70 mph winds, moving NNW at 8 mph; S TX is preparing for a hurricane, and voluntary evacuations are in place; rain along parts of I-10 & I-75; temps from the 60s to the 110;

5K vessels are cleaning up the oil slick; airline meals are prepared in unsanitary places, mice & cockroaches have been seen at these sites; obesity rates on the rise in the US; the DOW plunged; BP helping gas stations; Guardian Angels patrolling Santa Cruz, CA; ‘cat woman’ mask burglar in NYC; KY reported its first bear attack; TS Alex has halted some of the oil cleanup; the storm is 300 miles across, with 6–12 foot waves [which may help break up the oil], and two foot storm surge: TX Dollar Tree store selling US flags with 61 stars, one for each state?;

Surfboarding mice in Australia; 65 year old woman is Australia’s hottest grandma, keeps in shape by swimming; Spain beat Portugal 1–0 in the World Cup Soccer Games; oil is $75.47 a barrel; gold is $1,242.00 per ounce;

…6/30–10: start at the source

66º in ABQ; 58% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Santa Fe medical clinic to close; Rio Arriba CNTY bat has rabies; man accused of stealing stucco; wall collapsed at 175 year old church; a water main break yesterday near University & Yale; contract talks between the Duke City & unions have not reached any agreements; ABQ evidence warehouse shuts down; water break in Bernalillo, problem fixed by late PM; will the NATL Park Service take control of the Valles Caldera?; Frito Pie, the fat food of NM;

What to do about PICU services: bill what for services that appear on PowerChart; Code Purple by 11:30A; one of our Coders was sick today;

Wet in: Pensacola, Lake Charles, New Orleans, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Mobile, Houston, Orlando & Miami; chance of tornadoes in MT; S TX starting the feel the winds of Alex, which is now a hurricane, with 80 mph winds, moving WNW at 7 mph; the main problem will be the storm’s rain, not wind; an eye has formed in the storm; S TX floods; by PM, Alex had 100 mph winds, aiming towards TX; temps from the 60s to the 110s;

MO VA HOSP may have exposed people to Hepatitis & HIV; twelve countries and organizations are now helping clean up the Gulf oil spill; more night spent on beaches to recover tar balls; some ships heading to shore as Alex becomes stronger; consumer confidence has plunged; more child deaths from being locked in overheated vehicles; Larry King leaving CNN; maggots on a US Airways flight forced the plane to return to the terminal in ATL; the DOW ended down; Wonder Woman gets a new outfit in issue number 600, which will be released this week; NH city employees can now carry guns to work; teen ‘car surfing’, followed by leaps into a body of water is illegal, but on the rise; the oil spill is 40% contained, not the promised 90% that we were told earlier this month; mother held ‘pot party’ for teenagers; so far, no extension in unemployment benefits;Asian stocks falling; 6.5 quake shook Oaxaca, and could be felt in MX City; the largest US military base in AFG has been attacked; oil is $75.11 per barrel; gold is $1,245 an ounce;

…6/24–10: proud, and pride

68º in ABQ; 50% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow, Moderate Air Quality; people at Two Fools were watching the World Cup Games; man who stole charity money is arrested; warehouse fire in downtown ABQ, firemen were still on the scene during the late PM; cross country cyclist killed while biking in the Laguna Pueblo; another mouse infestation, this time at the Dollar Tree store, near Coors & Sequoia; 6K people were without power across the Duke City, blamed on last night’s strong winds; bridge in N NM collapsed, at a time when no one was driving on the structure; Val Kilmer apologized to San Miguel CNTY for his rude remarks about the area;

I wish I worked for Brent; smoke from the warehouse could be seen from UNMH;

ABQ weather conditions & temps mentioned on the ABC AM News; wet in: Boston, Pittsburgh; DC, Memphis, Miami, Tulsa, Little Rock, Houston, Yellowstone, Roswell, OKC, Amarillo, Richmond & NYC; bad weather along areas of I-10 & I-40; heat advisory for mid Atlantic coast; temps from the 70s to the 110;

Took ten hours to recap the oil: ‘disgusting’ is the word for FL beaches, as the wind is pushing the sludge onto the sand; whooping cough epidemic in CA; the $21 burger sold in Phoenix, made of lion’s meat; IPhone Four has glitches; mortgage rates have not been this low since the 1950s, but people are not willing to buy, because they cannot guarantee the stability of their jobs; ‘welfare cards’ in CA can be spent at casinos; the DOW dropped; DC church lost half of its members because they performed a gay commitment ceremony; truck overturned on the northbound I-5 lanes, spilling its contents of lemons on the CA ‘Grapevine’; banks will not easily offer low mortgage loans; violence on the rise along the Gulf coast; storm forming in the Caribbean: if that happens, the ‘top hat’ would have to be removed; as of now, students in P’town can get condoms at school; more people losing their unemployment benefits;

Clash between civilian & military leaders over the AFG war; Australia has elected its first female PM; at least eighteen states felt the Canadian quake; an X-ray calendar, made in Japan; oil is $75.99 per barrel; gold is $1,234.10 an ounce; dead son’s ashes tattooed on mother;

…6/25–10: add a little spice to love

68º in ABQ; 45% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Cumbres & Toltec bridge damaged by fire; some types of fireworks are being banned in Bernalillo CNTY; the city of ABQ vs. its firefighters’ union; sections of the Pecos River are flooding; Lavender Festival this weekend in Los Ranchos;

Left at 11:30A, ate at Owl Café; home by 3P;

Wet in: Charlotte, Twin Cities, ATL, Destin, Wilmington [NC], San Antonio, Boise, Aspen, Fargo, ABQ, Dallas, Houston & Orlando; tornado threat for IA, SD, MN and the Carolinas; bad weather along sections of I-20 & I-95; storms struck Chicago & Cleveland, but caused severe damage & power outages in NYC & Bridgeport, CT: gusts up to 80 mph were recorded; planes were toppled & tossed around while on the tarmac; the Pacific now has two hurricanes; temps from the 70s to the 110s;

Too hot for people to clean up the tar balls on the sand, oil has reached Pensacola, FL beaches; the common man vs. the big business of BP; Louisiana wants more offshore drilling projects, because these would generate jobs; 90% of Americans consume too much salt; woman set her office on fire so she could take time off from work; Kellogg recalled 28 million boxes of three cereals, customers say they detected a waxy smell; couple try to sell their baby for $25; the DOW ended down; fewer couples want to have children; Starbucks will start serving alcohol; man found naked in OH library, with a large chunk of cheese he stole;

Global economic summit will be meeting in Canada;

…6/26–10: always remember, you are a wonderful person

63º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…ABQ CFO on paid Admin Leave, being paid $500 per day to do nothing; overnight rain at The Beach; crews examine Cumbres & Toltec trestle; NM bank was forced to close yesterday, but its branches will reopen next week; rollover crash on I-40, near Twelfth ST; tents that sell fireworks must have extinguishers, each item must include a ‘Caution’ & ‘Warning’ label; FED investigators will inspect & examine the warehouse fire that took place this past week; N NM Solar Musical Festival being held this weekend;

What is a YouTube ‘partnership’?; partial lunar eclipse will be visible in the W US; American town hall meeting to be held today, ideas will be written down, and sent to PRES Obama;

TS Alex is brewing in the Caribbean; the global summit discussed the threat of nuclear weapons; 6.9 quake shook the Solomon Islands; oil is $78.86 per barrel; gold is $1,255.80 an ounce;

…6/23–10: ecology, and economy

69º in ABQ; 14% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; for now, Blue Cross INS premiums will not increase; sex offenders live near possible new school in ABQ; charges against Duke City attorney dropped; mock disaster will be held in ABQ today; more people want to subscribe to my website at one time, more than YouTube can handle; Deming man impersonating a police officer; I have become ‘best friend’ with a person I have never met; two shot in SW ABQ while inside a car; the Smith’s at Coors & Central has been shut down due to mouse infestation, and aisles that contained mice urine & feces; the Roswell UFO Festival ranks number five in the best US summer events;

Many doctors are on vacation; no CTI Admits;

ABQ temps mentioned on the ABC AM News; wet in: the Twin Cities, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Rapid City, JAX; New Orleans; Des Moines, Hartford, Detroit, Tallahassee, Wichita, Santa Fe, Green Bay, KC, Omaha, Cleveland & Milwaukee; twisters sighted in PA yesterday; today, tornado alerts in IL, IN, OH & MI; bad weather along I-80, I-90 & I-94; temps from the 70s to the 100s;

Jib-Jab goes rap for the Fourth of July; now, NYC has ‘the [old] naked cowgirl’; robot collided with the ‘top hat’, causing more oil to leak from the broken pipe; the man who may have talked himself out of a job; McChrystal has lost confidence in the war’s progress; should the US General in AFG be fired: if so, there are many military leaders who could replace him: and there is a new, yet old, military leader in charge of AFG forces: GEN Petraeus; AZ wildfire is 20% contained; are Americans ready for alternative energy?; Tea Party wins in UT; NE town will not allow illegal immigrants to be hired or rent property; the DOW ended slightly up; no incentives means fewer people are buying homes;

Jamaican drug lord arrested; Queen Elizabeth II has a $12 million allowance; gold is $1,234.10 an ounce; oil is $76.35 per barrel; 5.5 quake shook S Canada, felt in parts of the US; stem cell research may be on the brink of providing eyesight to the blind;

…6/21–10: peace & serenity

72º in ABQ; 18% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Las Cruces City MGR resigned; NM is trying to lure MX tourists into our state; local man may have a plan to stop the oil leak in the in the Gulf of MX; overnight fire at ABQ High School; power outages yesterday from high winds, and toppled trees; now, five people have died in last week’s plane crash near Ruidoso; saw Bernalillo Rail Runner stop this past weekend; Santa Fe man accused of shooting two campers; NM father murdered his two sons, then killed himself;

Has PICU added their documentation to PowerChart?; long wait at UNMH E/R; I ask for my time off, and usually for two hours per week; home via very fast PM R/R; an anniversary card from Judi, an IM Coder who used to work with me;

ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM news; wet in: Twin Cities, Rapid City, Omaha, Chicago, Fargo, Orlando, New Orleans, Great Falls, Detroit, INDY & Madison; hail fell on parts of WY & MT during this past weekend; heat in Tulsa, from DC to Dallas & ATL; tornadoes tore through Billings, MT, where they kept reforming: caught on video; fires threaten Flagstaff; tornado threat for MT, KS & IA; stormy weather along sections of I-10, I-80, I-90 & I-94; this is the first day of summer; temps from the 60s to 100s;

Dallas shootout killed one police officer; bacon in rainbow colors; in Chicago, fifty-two shootings during one weekend; violence on the rise in Baltimore; oil spill damage may reach $2 billion; the DOW ended down; the state with the most single dads is IN; for the Gulf along the beach: tourism is out, while tar balls are in; woman shot on IL highway while onlookers watched from their vehicles, and did nothing; the Times SQ bomber admits his guilt;

An increase in N Iraq suicide attacks; S China floods; burglar crawled under a bed to avoid being caught by police; featherless penguin gets his own suit; high amounts of radiation detected in N Korea; gold is $1,257.20 an ounce; oil is $77.00 per barrel; Portugal win in World Cup Soccer; by 2011, China will lead the world in manufacturing;

…6/22–10: the gentle sounds of silence

67º in ABQ; 25% humidity at 6A…GAQ; did someone receive a call from the W Mesa killer?; Brad made Guacamole, and Zucchini Lasagna; woman cut in the face by someone at a NW Duke City motel; pot plants found growing along the bank s of the Rio Grande; unclaimed money for Duke City schools?;

Continue GPU billing, check for PICU documentation; ran & missed the PM R/R, took the Central bus home; car driving on Central at Cornell drove through a red light; no PICU Admits;

ABQ temp mentioned on the ABC AM News; wet in: JAX, Cleveland, the Twin Cities, Rapid City, Yellowstone, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Ann Arbor, INDY, St. Louis, Omaha, Fargo, Milwaukee, Des Moines, Buffalo, Baltimore, DC & New Orleans; hot & humid in Richmond; Nashville will be warmer than ABQ; bad weather along parts of I-70, I-90, I-94 & I-95; chance of tornadoes in NE, IA, all the way to PA; per The Weather Channel; Celia is now a Category 2 hurricane; twister reported in SE FL; temps from the 70s to the 100;

‘FL beaches never looked better’ is the latest slogan; 255 fires are burning in the Gulf of MX, the smell of oil is overwhelming; Times SQ bomber faces 100 years in jail; key Obama economic aide will step down; more nurses strike in MN; grasshoppers invade CA town; total expenses by the US to clean the oil spill: $122 million; the DOW dropped; NY plans to increase its cigarette tax; a WI town’s name is misspelled on the city’s water tower; harmless grenade shuts down a Pittsburgh airport & rail station; PA man returned wedding reception money to a bride & groom, that lost the cash on a highway; sharks are moving closer to the FL shores, where the water is cleaner; judges say it is OK to drill & build more oil rigs; White House issued the “patient’s bill of rights”; some companies only want to hire people who are currently employed, and that’s not against the law;

Floods in Brazil; dog rips license plate from a car; classical violinist from Japan plays music to the beat of video games; baby broke record by wearing 215 pairs of underwear at one time; because of the World Cup victory [or, loss], will N Korea declare war on Portugal?; gold is $1,239.90 an ounce; oil is $77.50 per barrel;

…6/17–10: everybody wants to meet a person from outer space

67º in ABQ; 15% humidity at 6A…GAQ; will the correct A/C part arrive today?; local man raped one year old child, other children were in the house when this attack took place; SunPort wants more nonstop flights to the E & W Coast; should money be spent to build statues in Santa Fe; Valencia CNTY meth lab busted; will the Duke City be the next Silicon Valley; construction of houses in ABQ may not be completed by the BLDG CO, due to lack of revenue; more fires burning across the state; the A/C unit arrived when I arrived from work: but it cannot go up the stairs, so the company will return tomorrow, lift it with a crane, and hopefully install the part; plane crash near Ruidoso killed two people; another blaze in the Bosque, near Belen, again; triple stabbing in Rio Rancho; Harrison Ford got married at the GOV mansion in Santa Fe;

Keep working on GPU/CTI charges; an answer for how to bill services by CTI nurse…we don’t, for now; no PICU Admits;

ABQ temp mentioned on the ABC AM News; snow for parts of ID & MT; wet in: Miami, Omaha, San Antonio, Fargo, St. Louis, Louisville, Des Moines, the Twin Cities & Orlando; storm brewing off the MX coast; chance of tornadoes in MN, IA, & NE; floods in S China; temps from the 60s to the 100s;

The debate over Proposition Eight in CA continues; BP CEO vs. Capitol Hill; Americans insulted by his ‘small people’ comment; barges did not have the proper safety device, so they could not be sent to the oil spill; record number of IPhone sales; Harrison Ford was married in NM; the fines & penalties against BP will be paid from a separate account; wildfires across AZ; MA man killed family members at their home; Harry Potter theme park opened in Universal Studios Orlando; the DOW ended up; hackers attacked GOOGLE webpage; American Red Cross fined $16 million for poorly screening donated blood; waves are filled with oil, brown water is crashing onto 52 miles of beaches: but no one in BP ‘acted recklessly’; people who sell kitty litter scoops, portable toilets, and the lodging industry are making lots of money from the oil spill; as politicians apologize for apologizing; female Viagra drug does not have the same power as its male counterpart; UT man will be executed by firing squad, his choice of death;

Israel will lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip; dog swallowed five toys, all were surgically removed, and the canine is OK; a waxing session nearly cost a man his ‘crown jewels’; woman left $370K in her will to a British cab driver, who used to drive her on a regular basis; gold is $1,229.30 per ounce; oil is $76.65 per barrel;

…6/18–10: choose dreams

67º in ABQ; 12% humidity at 6A…GAQ; will the A/C piece be hauled into place today?; 3½ weeks later, the part has been installed, and there is cooler air in the upper level; two year old left at a party, mother charged with abandonment; numerous blazes across NM, most are in rural areas; second Bosque fire in Belen started by truck exhaust; NATL Hispanic Cultural Art CTR reopens;

Left at 11:30, ate at the Owl Café; then to the comic book climb, then to Coronado, then Trader Joe’s…and home by 3:30P; MGR was out today;

ABQ weather mentioned on the Weather Channel; wet in: Chicago, Green Bay, Omaha, Detroit, KC, Des Moines, Tampa, Lincoln [NE], Great Falls [MT], INDY, JAX, Fargo & Madison; hot & humid in Orlando, with a chance of T’storms; bad weather along parts of I-10 & I-94; yesterday, tornadoes proved deadly in parts of MN, ND & IA; temps from the 60s to the 100s;

BP got grilled on Capitol Hill, no one in that company has been fired over this incident; LA Lakers won the series, and set fires in the Los Angeles streets; is methane escaping from the leak?; Campbell’s recalled some canned food items; one year old TX girl dies in an overheated parked car; the DOW was barely up; a whale has been the latest victim of the oil spill; is one of the BP executives soon to not have a job?; Louisiana postal workers were charged with opening mail, and stealing any money or gift cards;

US vs. Slovenia in the World Cup Games today; nine year old girl wrestles alligators;

…6/19–10: be colorful

66º in ABQ; 10% humidity at 6A…lunch at the Range Café with Nancy; ABQ wants to spend $11 million to change a church into a downtown performing arts CTR…at the same time the city is laying off school staff; 11K acre fire is burning near Espanola; man walked away from an uptown sports bar, with money that was being collected for charity in a jar, his actions were caught on security cameras; 34 Bernalillo CNTY inmates are ‘missing’; semi tipped over along I-25, spilling its contents of ceramic tiles across the highway, and blocking several lanes of the interstate; 6% humidity at 5P; an early to bed night tonight;

NV bank fails: the eighty third this year in the US; more oil is on fire in the Gulf of MX, controlled burns, but will the black smoke pose another health threat to those living in that area; red tape prevented foreign ships from helping in the skimming process, until now;

Turkish jets invade N Iraq; royal wedding for Sweden; is Japan drowning in debt; student’s picture removed from his yearbook because he said unkind things about his principal regarding how money had been spent;

…6/20–10: a smile can solve many problems

66º in ABQ; 14% humidity at 6A…ABQ Zoo break-in made NATL news, appearing on Facebook; four cyclists riding from PA to CA, their goal is to raise money for breast cancer awareness & treatment; twenty four hours without accessing my webpage; several Rail Runner crossings improved, more ‘safety lines added; stabbing in Santa Fe; suffered from dehydration yesterday, we have rediscovered how old we are, more rest today; Brad made Crab Cakes; woman killed while crossing a road in Santa Fe CNTY, she was wearing dark clothing, and may have been drinking; Naked Bike Ride in the City Different; there were ‘microburst’ storms across ABQ last night; Duke City man arrested twice in one week; strong winds blew across ABQ this PM; attorney Ron Bell arrested for DUI while driving his Mercedes on Tramway; local man arrested for masturbating in front of his window, which faced a pool, and was sighted by three female teenagers;

another deadly shooting at CA restaurant; more tar ball being found on more of FL beaches; LAX terminal evacuated for thirty minutes after man claimed he had a bomb; free picnic for the victims of the oil spill, hosted by local residents along the Gulf of MX: a ‘prayer day’ is being organized; as a worst case scenario, maybe 100K barrels a day are leaking into the Gulf of MX; Bellagio ads are everywhere; another stimulus plan being planned on Capitol Hill?; AZ wildfires are forcing people out of their homes; twelve injured in Chicago subway fire;

people being exposed to arsenic across Bangladesh; Hurricane Celia is moving away from the W MX coast; the French soccer team is ‘in revolt’;

…6/16–10: counting down to love

67º in ABQ; 16% humidity at 6A…GAQ; A/C should now be repaired today; please replace the correct unit: wrong part, but one was found in ‘the’ Las Vegas, and should be here tomorrow; loophole in ABQ cell phone law allows people to text while at a red light; man accused of shocking children with a cattle prod; contract worker filmed the Duke City ‘prison rap’ video; more ABQ contractors accused of embezzlement; N NM Extreme Fire Danger, and strong winds this PM; small solar cells be Sandia labs will be used to generate energy; numerous guns recovered during an undercover sting; a break-in at the ABQ Zoo;

Will I meet with my MGR today?, yes, and I told her about taking Annual Leave; AM phone call from Myrna;

ABQ fire danger mentioned on ABC AM News; humid in the SE US; wet in: Rapid City, Boston, JAX, Orlando, DC, Missoula, Erie, Buffalo, Nashville, ATL, Charlotte, Baltimore, Roanoke, Philly & NYC; bad weather along sections of I-81 & I-95; ABQ weather conditions mentioned on the Weather Channel; flash floods in France, deluge along the Riviera; temps from the 60s to the 100s;

How will we make BP ‘pay’…if it ruins our water, our economy, and our lives?; the pipe is leaking 2.5 million gallons per day; the US is paying for BP mistakes; Obama’s speech was short on specifics; at some point, 90% of the oil should be contained; beaches smell like freshly paved roads; Louisiana is the ‘Ground Zero’ of this disaster; BP will set aside at least $20 billion to cover oil spill costs; oyster season has ended, much earlier than usual; people should add more plants to their diet; the DOW was slightly up; a recall of Benadryl & Tylenol; mothers, cocktails, painted on tans, all while watching their children; the Lakers beat the Celtics, so it’s on to the final of the finals: game seven; FL mother went to visit her boyfriend, left her children at home, alone, and with no food to eat;

N Korea will ‘smash aggressors’; I-Pad sent inside a bar of chocolate; a LEGO recreation of the soccer blunder made by the British player; solar activity & flares on the rise; several people killed in 7.0 Indonesia quake; an American, on his own, has been on a quest to kill Osama bin Laden; oil is $77.64 per barrel; gold is $1,229.30 an ounce;

…6/14–10: live in quality

57º in ABQ; 27% humidity at 6A…GAQ; summer school starts in ABQ; Brad does not want me to give up my YouTube site; arson suspected as the cause of the Bosque blaze; 50% of the Duke City water will no longer come from aquifers, but be surface water;

Weekend fire at UNM frat house; spent the day telling people what happened to Myrna & Evelyn; the other seats in my room are uncomfortable; people still calling Myrna & Evelyn’s phones; all the other monitors & hard drives are gone from that room; first rattlesnake bite reported this year;

Wet in: OKC, St. Louis, Cleveland, JAX, Pittsburgh; OKC, Chicago, Denver, Omaha, INDY, Des Moines, Toledo, Wichita, Tulsa & New Orleans; bad weather along parts of I-70 & I-80; heavy rains fell across OK; temps from the 60s to the 90s;

Women’s purse was stolen: inside were the ashes of her deceased uncle; BP oil barrel appeared on a beach, oil has reached Louisiana beaches, Obama will speak to both BP, and the American public, this is his fourth trip to the Gulf of MX; the spill is being compared to an epidemic, as Gulf temps are too hot to form tar ball, just sludge; another oil mess, this time in SLC, caused by a broken pipe belonging to Chevron, 21K gallons have leaked; Lois Lane statue unveiled in Metropolis, IL; 2010 slavery occurring in DC?; the US wants BP to create an escrow account; four countries will help clean up our spill; end the era of ‘mixed messages’; beached fuel being shipped to landfills; sensors are being placed in the Gulf of MX to determine how much oil has spilled, and is spilling into the water; BP has now spent $1.6 billion dollars cleaning up this mess; more blue water is turning black; the smell of oil is in the Gulf beach air; American passports security chips are being made in Thailand; medical costs will rise again this year; Jimmy Dean has died at the age of 81 years old; Celtics beat the Lakers; woman safely jumped from her vehicle after it kept accelerating;

Riots in Kyrgyzstan; gold is $1,223.20 an ounce; oil is $74.85 per barrel; $1 trillion of lithium & copper is underneath AFG; satellite which had landed on an asteroid fell to Earth in A;

…6/15–10: comfort, in quality

64º in ABQ; 31% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; Ozone Days for ABQ; hotel in Socorro a haven for Legionnaires Disease; the owner of that lodging is both a doctor, and the mayor; another officer involved shooting in the Duke City; should landmines be placed along the MX/NM border?; the fire near Belen is 80% contained; Sandia Labs worker accused of watching child porn;

Meet the MGR in my office at 8:30A, too much money in last week’s paycheck, she never showed up, but asked to meet at my convenience; no PICU ADMITs; Brad could hear the phone ringing in my office;

Wet in: Raleigh, INDY, Orlando, Tulsa, Milwaukee, Birmingham [AL], the Twin Cities, Great Falls [MT], Dallas, KC, Fargo, Green Bay, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Chicago, St. Louis, Little Rock, Memphis & Wichita; bad weather along sections of I-20, I-35, I-40, I-44 & I-75; temps from the 60s to the 100s;

Gulf oil well had been labeled a ‘nightmare’: Obama will address the nation from the Oval Office; all rainfall records broken in OKC; the DOW ended up; man stole puppets from a FL school; did BP ‘cut corners’ when building the disastrous oilrig?; people in that area want to see more visible assistance; no swimming allowed in NW FL beaches; sandbags being dropped along the Louisiana shore; fire on an oil drill ship; does ‘BP’ stand for ‘beach polluter’?; now, 60K barrels per day is leaking from the broken pipe; time to create a ‘Gulf Recovery Czar’?; the flow will stop by the end of the month?; a comprehensive energy reform package is needed; Spirit Airlines pilots are on strike until at least Thursday; ‘deadly’ ice cream recalled by Kroger; 5.7 quake shook S CA during a baseball game, no damages or injuries reported;

Woman stuffed a goat into her car trunk; BP stock has lost half its value; N Korea threatens war against its southern neighbor; oil is $76.94 per barrel; gold is $1,233.20 an ounce;

…6/13–10: live in comfort

58º in ABQ; 26% humidity at 6A…the Bosque is burning in Valencia CNTY, fueled by plenty of dry brush; AM walk into Olde Towne; the economic recovery for NM will probably be in 2011; there are four fires burning in the Santa Fe NATL forest; a mud volleyball game was held to raise money for Carrie Tingley HOSP; WWII bomb found near Hobbs; Santa Fe bought a ranch, costing lots of money, but the city has no use for the structure; this was an “I’m homesick for the green” weekend; NM jail employee arrested on ID theft charges; fire near Belen is now threatening structures: inmates are being used to cut the brush, and build fire lines; another blaze is burning near Belen; $200K has been given to the NM film program; KOAT has gone widescreen;

BP told to speed up the cleaning proves; lung cancer is the deadliest form of that illness; Phoenix restaurant raided by police, illegal immigrants may have been working there;

6.1 quake shook Japan; Russian spaceship preparing to launch, heading for the INTL Space Station;

…6/12–10: the path to infinity

68º in ABQ; 26% humidity at 6A…my PC reconfigured itself?; free fishing classes held at Tingley Beach this AM; Hard Rock Casino opens on the Isleta Pueblo, the seventh franchise in the world; MDC inmates made a rap video while in jail, their tune appeared on YouTube; fire yesterday at an abandoned meat packing plant, which contained tanks filled with ammonia: there were no fire hydrants close to the blaze; Extreme Fire & High Wind Advisories across all of NM; man texted naked pictures of himself to an eleven year old girl; ABQ Gay Pride Parade shown on KOAT; UNM Cancer CTR has officially opened; Brad prepared a Shrimp Stew; strong winds tore power poles down, causing outages in parts of the city; NM graduation rate has increased, especially among Native Americans;

Police standoff in Sacramento; today, severe weather from TX to PA; Spirit Airlines has gone on strike; gas & shrimp prices may increase because of the oil spill; fatal Seattle APT fire; flash floods have killed at least eighteen people in AR campsite, moving, cars, vans & trailers; OH strip club raised money for Haiti quake victims, and local residents whose homes were damaged by tornadoes;

The BP incident has ‘strained’ US–UK relations; more than thirty countries will compete in the World Cup Soccer Games, VP Biden is attending the event; 7.5 quake off the coast of India, at a depth of 22 miles below the surface: no injuries or severe damages was reported, and there were no tsunamis reported;

…6/5–10: add flavor to life

68º in ABQ; 26% humidity at 6A…a NM soldier has died while fighting in Iraq; a Heat Advisory for a large section of NM: temps could reach 100º in cities that have never experienced that warmth before; Brad made Friend Cheese, and it was quite tasty; ABQ is under this temperature extreme from noon to 7P; a Las Cruces bank exec faces DUI charges for driving a new Corvette while drunk; because the A/C is not working upstairs, we watched our taped shows during the early AM; a good night’s rest helped; we have also enjoyed Peas from Brad’s garden; more furlough days for NM state workers?; Bosque Farms police officer charged with attempting to smuggle illegal immigrants; ABQ reached 100º, the earliest day since the late 1800s’; free fishing lessons at Tingley Beach today; NM jockey won the Belmont Stakes;

World Science Festival is being held in NYC this weekend; Obama under investigation?; woman fired from high-level bank position because she looked & dressed too sexy?; freeze the oil, then remove it from the sand?; driver’s car flew in the air as it approached an airport tollbooth; tornadoes reported in WA state; small plane crashed into a Long Island office BLDG, the pilot suffered severe burns;

Israeli forces board Gaza aid vessel; the Pope met with Muslim leaders in Cyprus;

…6/6–10: where there is hope, there is life

75º in ABQ; 37% humidity at 6A…shooting near Ninth & Gold in SW ABQ; house fire in NE ABQ, SW Duke City APT fire; yesterday, Santa Fe reached 100º; fraud & ID theft ring still thrives in the Duke City; another Heat Advisory day for parts of NM, including ABQ; car with a NC tourist drove across the median on I-40 between Gallup & Grants, struck a semi, killing the smaller vehicle’s driver; Brad made Green Beans with a Garlicky Sherry Vinegar Dressing…quite tasty; chance of PM T’storms across NM; Navajo Fair never paid taxes to Shiprock; the Duke City had its warmest ‘low temp’ on record for today;

US cigarettes have more cancer causing carcinogens than foreign brands; cardboard boat races were held in St. Louis; ‘Heroes’, as a miniseries?; two NJ residents arrested at JFK Airport: they were heading to Somalia, in an attempt to create a jihad; several tornadoes struck IL; storms flattened Toledo, OH homes;

Man walked down the length of the Amazon River, avoiding the electric eels, and the bugs that release a brain deteriorating parasite when they bite you;

…6/7–10: hopeful love

75º in ABQ; 31% humidity at 6A…80º at 4A, thunder heard during the night at The Beach; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; Jemez Springs fire is 100% contained; two people were shot at the K-Mart on Central & Atrisco; PNM reports power outages across the Duke City; solar power to be used at Santa Fe water treatment plant; Brad added Fruit to Jell-O; water in an arroyo may flow at speeds up to thirty mph; no more student intern program for Duke City schools; ABQ has added ‘safety procedures’ that may prevent racial profiling;

How busy was the HOSP this past weekend?; no PM Blue at the HOSP, so I walked across the campus, then caught the PM Blue Line, and finally walked from Olde Towne to home; alone, again;

Heat Wave across the SW US continues; chance of AM storms in NM; wet in: Orlando, Tampa, Houston, Cheyenne, ABQ [T’storms], KC, Wichita, Casper, Des Moines, OKC & Omaha; deadly twisters across OH this past weekend; wet along areas of I-10, I-35 & I-70; chance of tornadoes today in KS; ABQ temp & weather conditions mentioned on the Weather Channel, and ABC AM News; temps from the 60s to the 110s;

Celtics beat the Lakers in Game Two; gas pipeline explosion in TX; people pray for an answer to the oil spill; residents see very few workers picking up tar balls from beaches, this sludge may remain along the Gulf of MX until autumn; scuba divers are covered in oil; tourism dollars on the decline in W FL; man killed four women, then himself, at a Miami restaurant; people upset about bikini clad servers at CO coffee shop; the DOW ended down; Oyster Festival in New Orleans during this past weekend; Elton John performed at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding?; now, it may take ‘years’ before the Gulf Coast returns to normal; more people have a negative attitude on how the US FED GOVT is handling the oil spill, than the public did regarding the Katrina cleanup; only 115 boats are actually skimming oil; inhaling crude oil vapors could cause cancer; the Tea Party wants the US to pull out of the UN, and abolish the IRS; new APPLE I-Phone will be revealed today;

Printer made from LEGO blocks & felt tip pen; German soccer team was flown to the World Cup Games via an Airbus 300; Hungary may be the next country with economic problems; oil is $71.99 per barrel; N Korea has a new premier?; mobs storm the gates at the World Cup Soccer Games in S Africa; gold is $1,239.30 an ounce; Brazil will participate in the World Cup;

…6/8–10: captivate audiences

68º in ABQ; 37% humidity at 6A…Brad’s CT scan; are electric billboards a distraction?; Sandia Valley APT complex: a constant crime scene; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; improvements on the I-25/Paseo del Norte interchange have been put on hold; NM rapist arrested in NE; tax amnesty for NM residents will last until September, 2010; how can NM revive its economy; wireless microphones can no longer be used in local churches, a new FCC law will require the frequency to be used only by fire & police DEPTs; this is Monsoon Awareness Week; an invitation to a beach house in Cape May, NJ;

Continue on a new way to create billing sheets;

ABQ temp mentioned on the Weather Channel; wet in: Palm Beach, St. Louis, Dallas, Fargo, CO Springs; Omaha, KC, Topeka, Des Moines, the Twin Cities, the Quad Cities, Chicago, Detroit, Orlando, INDY & Rapid City; chance of twisters for CO, KS, MO & IL; ‘training effect’ of storms across the Plains; bad weather along parts of I-35 & I-90; UT faces floods; there was a confirmed tornado in VT; temps from the 60s to the 100s;

Couple married in a shark tank; health advisories posted along Gulf beaches; animals coated in oil are cleaned with soap & water, then blow dried; OR child still missing after a Science Fair; consumer borrowing is up; NY man plotted a Columbine type attack on his former high school; the DOW ended up; another pipeline explosion in TX; thirteen FED agencies involved to clean up one oil spill; no media or video cameras are allowed to enter the BP offices in Louisiana; one small AL town, nine barges, working together to stop the sludge; so far, there have been no reported seafood contamination; will this be the year of the [R] woman?; the Tea Party is losing its steam; MA teacher may have found a 1792 document when cleaning her classroom; BLDG collapsed in KC, killing one person; GM recalls 1.4 million vehicles; Chrysler recalls 350K vehicles; too many independent O/P surgery centers across the US;

These have been the deadliest days in AFG, which is now America’s longest war; IPod used in magical tricks; Sand Festival being held in Germany; dogs in China painted to look like tigers; remains of Roman gladiators discovered in N England; the US & Portugal will also participate in the World Cup Soccer Games;

…6/9–10: take a breath…and take the time to enjoy life

71º in ABQ; 43% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow, Moderate Air Quality; ice cream man accused of pointing a gun at a customer in ABQ; 300 ‘short-term’ Duke City school employees may lose their jobs; hot weather means more bears & cougars invading NM campsites & Picnic areas; NM movie prop shop is closing due to lack of business; NM DUI Resource Centers may lose funding; several ABQ employees involved in a kickback scheme; several Duke City summer events may be cancelled due to budget cuts; Navajo Nation opposes AZ immigration law; Espanola classroom beating between teens was caught on camera, students prevented the teacher from breaking up the fight; a little cooler across NM;

Prepare for the Specialist charges…not yet; walked across the campus, took the PM Red R/R; NICU & PICN are full; Code Purple at 11:30A;

Wet in: Denver, Cheyenne, NYC, Roanoke, KC, Chicago, San Antonio, Little Rock, Nashville, St. Louis, Casper, Cincinnati, DC, ATL, Philly, Houston & Louisville; temps from the 60s to the 100s;

People along the Gulf of MX are preparing for the worst case scenario; new ‘clouds’ appearing in the water; animals are now dead after eating other animals who were in the sludge area; people with health problems, or pregnant women, should not visit, swim or fish along FL beaches; there is a NATL daycare shortage; Lakers beat the Celtics; boy drank beer during a baseball game?; it was ladies’ night, as women sweep the primaries; vintage airplane flips over at NATL Airport; broken sewage line causing a stink near Boston; a Wal-Mart employee is accused of infecting other workers with measles; the DOW ended down; homes built during the 1990s do not have energy efficient windows; thick oil has reached the shore: consider this as the ‘first wave’; vacuuming the sledge is being used;

‘Baby Gaga’ appeared in mother’s music video; more sanctions against Iran?; MX teenager shot by US border patrol near El Paso; BP stock has lost 50% of its value; very little time & money has been spent on oil spill research answers;

…6/10–10: being ‘alive’, an important asset

77º in ABQ; 13% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; Rio Rancho approves the use of Red Light Cameras; woman found dead inside the trunk of her car; Valencia CNTY deputy found filling his personal vehicle with county gas; Rio Rancho residents face more taxes; woman accidentally drove her car into an ABQ physical therapy clinic; killer bees in Carlsbad; N NM Extreme Fire Danger; three fires burning in the Santa Fe NATL Forest; deadly motorcycle crash near Carlisle & Central; we ate supper on our front porch; this AM, SWAT situation at Lomas & Eubank; 7% humidity at 5P;

Ready for the specialists; took care of ID charges; questioned about pended items;

ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in Boston, Miami, ATL, St. Louis, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Omaha & Shreveport; tornado threat for NE, CO & SD; hot & humid in New Orleans; floods for TX & WY; bad weather for parts of I-20, I-35, I-40 & I-45; temps from the 60s to the 100s;

The credit card that eliminates airline baggage fees; did BP ever test its contingency plans, and is the company going bankrupt, with its stock value at a fourteen month low; dark crude oil is appearing in Louisiana marshes; 12K MN nurses are on strike; 45 million Americans do not have dental INS; NE man strangled by his pet snake; the DOW ended up; red tape vs. black oil; the new amount of oil that has leaked into the Gulf of MX is much higher than what is being reported [surprised?]; 100K Gulf workers may be unemployed for a long period of time; the man in charge has been fired, after it was determined that hundreds of bodies have been ‘misplaced’ or ‘misidentified’ at Arlington NATL Cemetery; twelve year old MD girl arrested, charged with being a prostitute;

Iran ignoring sanctions; a 100 year old woman is the world’s table tennis champ; 5,500 year old leather shoe found in Armenia; suicide bombing during AFG wedding; S Korean rocket exploded during liftoff; will BP drown in debt;

…6/11–10: appreciated enthusiasm

70º in ABQ; 27% humidity at 6A…GAQ; A/C should be repaired today; officer involved shooting in NE ABQ; 911 service was out in parts of SE NM; Gay Pride Weekend in ABQ; another ‘massive’ drug bust in NM; the 911 system in Socorro is being updated, this prevented the women, who was inside the trunk of her car, to be rescued; FED grant will help update NM airports; delay in repairs: our A/C will be fixed next Wednesday; structure fire near Broadway, Second & I-25: people evacuated from that area;

Left work at 11:30A; ate at Saggio’s; home about 3P; filming in downtown Duke City;

ABQ temp mentioned on the ABC AM News; snow in MT & WY; wet in: Des Moines, Little Rock, OKC, Twin Cities, Omaha, Chicago, Nashville, Myrtle Beach; Denver, ATL, Miami, Orlando, Green Bay, Sioux Falls, Tampa & Knoxville; bad weather along areas of I-20, I-75 & I-80; very hot & humid in New Orleans; chance of tornados in CO, NE, KS & IA; temps from the 60s to the 90s;

The Arlington Cemetery scandal: Army in disgrace, map to locate gravesites is inaccurate; man was wearing a T-shirt ‘Cleverly Disguised as a Responsible Adult’ when he was arrested for attacking another person; the media is reporting that twice as much oil is spilling into the Gulf of MX, the amount leaked is in the billions of gallons, and BP workers are told not to speak to the media; the Celtics won; minorities are increasing in the US; train carrying chemicals derailed in SC; 1K NYC students walked out of their classes when told they would no longer be given free transit passes; a proposal to ban peanuts on flights;

The World Cup Soccer Games start in S Africa; VW recalled 16K minivans; ‘sun storms’ could cause ‘global electronic havoc’;

…6/1–10: refreshing weather

60º in ABQ; 19% humidity at 6A…YDDC guard attacked by inmate; three fires are burning in SW NM; primary elections being held today; SE ABQ APT complex fire; Brad had PM vertigo, it faded away by dinnertime; early to bed for us tonight; new fire burning near Jemez Springs; PNM asking for a 21% rate hike, which will become effective April, 2011;

Hell Week, Day One, the political campaign signs on the UNM campus are gone; saw Richard, who resumed his regular shift;

Twisters across CO yesterday; wet for NE & KS: and in Boston, Charlotte, Tampa, New Orleans, Twin Cities, Yellowstone, Albany, Buffalo, Seattle, Raleigh, Miami, the FL Keys, Fargo, KC, Newark & ATL; bad weather along I-20 & I-81; today starts the hurricane season; temps from the 60s to the 90s;

Creator of Trivial Pursuit has died at the age of 59 years old; another ‘top hat’ attempt will be tried by BP; there were never any contingency plans for deep sea disasters by the oil company; other rigs in the Gulf are shutting down, employees complaining about their health; one women was paid to sit 700 silent hours, staring at people across a table, in MOMA; the I-Phone feature that makes you look fat; gas prices should not rise above $3 per gallon this summer; the DOW ended down; now, gays in the military could pose a religious threat?; Wal-Mart is slashing their prices to entice more customers; HP will cut 3K jobs; after forty years of marriage, Al & Tipper Gore are separating; BP will use a diamond wire saw to slow the flow; 34.3 million gallons of oil have leaked into the Gulf of MX: the cleanup may continue until Thanksgiving; the killing of a culture: the marshlands will not return once they are killed; fake cop pulled over a real deputy; polls show people do not like either [D] or [R];

Agatha has killed at least 175 people, and created a sinkhole under a BLDG in Guatemala City; forest fires burning near Montreal; Israel is involved in an INTL incident; the number three leader of al Qaeda may have been killed in AFG; because of the Gulf incident, BP has had ‘free publicity’, but not the right kind: it share value plummeted around the world; oil is $74.06 per barrel; gold is $1,224.80 an ounce;

…6/2–10: it only takes a moment to be polite to someone

62º in ABQ; 16% humidity at 6A…GAQ; crime unit at Louisiana & Indian School this AM; NM will have a female GOV, as Susana Martinez won the [R] primary; burglar used a fishing rod & reel to steal money from a bank’s night deposit box; repairman said our A/C needs a part, two days before a super heat wave will arrive in NM; KAFB military officer faces child porn charges; thieves stole camping items for muscular dystrophy children, whose summer camp starts next week; 8% humidity at 6P;

Hell Week, Day Two; bus AM Bus stop; UNM nurse has bookmarked my YouTube site; Richard goes to the same comic book store that I do;

ABQ temps mentioned on the ABC AM News; wet in: Miami, Cleveland, Omaha, Des Moines, St. Louis, Louisville, St. Charles, Rapid City, Seattle, Denver, Yellowstone, Chicago, INDY, KC, Pittsburgh, Orlando, ATL & Charlotte; tornadoes from TX to OH; bad weather along sections of I-65 & I-70; temps from the 60s to the 90s;

Are Ford vehicles suffering from pedal problems?; can hemlines predict the weather?; the spill is now three times the size of the Exxon Valdez; BP has spent $1 billion to clean up the Gulf of MX; have any environmental laws been broken?; tar balls have reached AL shores, the next target could be the FL coast; plane crashed into Anchorage home, killing a boy; another ‘risky attempt by BP today to stop the oil: saw got stuck in the broken pipe; the spill is seven miles from Pensacola Beach, FL; former Beatle received PRES entertainment award; the Brooklyn Bridge is getting a $500 million facelift, and paint job; the DOW ended up; more people paying their staff to keep in shape;

Japan PM will resign; a cheese rolling contest in England; at least twelve people have been killed when a man goes on a shooting rampage in England; peace talks are continuing in AFG; topless maids for hire; Egypt opens its border with Gaza; BP earns $67 million per day, and is spending $23 million on a daily basis to clean this mess; handguns are banned in Britain;

…6/3–10: comfortable air

62º in ABQ; 19% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; cut myself while shaving; millions of gallons of water is missing in Belen; N NM fire has burned over 1,900 acres, and is only 10% contained; 77 year old woman did not surrender her purse to robbers, even after being dragged across the pavement of a parking lot; Valencia CNTY official drove his vehicle into a Belen BLDG; car fire in NE ABQ; the Duke City school budget for 2010–2011 has been approved; dead body found in NE ABQ; we are not making PNM happy; but, a part for our A/C has been located on the E Coast, should arrive next week; no new school district for the W Side of the Duke City; NM students participate in NATL Spelling Bee;

Hell Week, Day 2.5; walked across the UNM Campus, and took the Red Line home, and talked to Steve;

Wet for: NYC, Tallahassee, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Orlando, OKC, INDY, ID Falls, Tulsa, Louisville, Houston, Boston, Philly, DC, Richmond, ATL & Providence; rain along sections of I-95; tornado threat for: NE, KY, SD, MA, AR & OK; temps from the 60s to the 100s;

Six barrier islands will be built, at a cost of $360 million: BP admits failure, and says a clean cut, by giant shears, is needed to cap the pipe; 90K sq. miles of the Gulf is now ‘off limits’ to fishing: is either nuking, or using the military, an alternative to solving this problem?; US sends BP a bill for $69 million; pelicans are covered from sludge; workers who get ill from being around the spill will not have to worry about being fired, they should be seen by a doctor; all you need is soap & water to remove oil from your body; the DOW was slightly up; Rue McClanahan has died from a stroke at the age of 76; a sinkhole has appeared along I-44 in Tulsa; NY will allow civil unions for same–sex couples; Maytag, Amana & Jenn-Air recalled 1.7 million dishwashers; boy saved from electrical shock…thanks to the ‘Croc’ shoes he was wearing; Paul McCartney received Library of Congress Award;

‘Iron Boy’ video is the newest YouTube hit; Palestinian activists released by Israel;

…6/4–10: everyone deserves a piece of peace

59º in ABQ; 28% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; Brad’s early AM Chiro visit; residents in a NE ABQ mobile home park have six months to move; the ABQ BioPark is donating fur to help soak up the oil spill; the fire near Jemez is now 35% contained; the Lobos baseball team is heading to the NCAA playoffs; two children fell out of a second floor window in a Rio Rancho home; ABQ mayor will sign the new budget; the ‘weekend of rest’ begins; NM has the largest number of pecan orchards in the world, a nut favored by Turkish people; seven ABQ schools around the city have been vandalized in the past five days, the thieves have mainly stolen laptops; the JC Penny circular for the Duke City is in rainbow colors; Michael Astorga has been found guilty of murdering a police officer; SWAT situation at an E ABQ hotel;

Comic book ‘skip’ week; an empty AM R/R; all alone;

Wet in: DC, Orlando, ATL, New Orleans, Chicago, Des Moines, Seattle, Baton Rouge, Pittsburgh, Wichita, Baltimore, Houston, Yellowstone, Charlotte, KC & the Twin Cities; tornado threat for KS, IL, WI & MI; wet along sections of I-10, I-70, I-80 & I-94; NATL Airport was temporarily shut down, due to heavy rains & T’storms; temps from the 60s to the 100s;

Cadmium has been discovered in McDonald’s ‘Shrek’ glasses; fewer Americans are in prison; the PRES visits the Gulf of MX for a third time; the oil could impact VA beaches; the cut was not ‘clean’, but jagged; the oil has been sighted near Destin & Panama City, FL; oil & tourism do not mix; oil is currently capped, via a 5K ft. steel pipeline; BP is unsure if its latest attempt will work; shale gas well erupted in W PA; Wal–Mart will add 500K jobs?; the DOW dropped 323+ points; tar balls have appeared on the AL & NE FL coast, whose beaches are still ‘open for business’: people have been told not to touch them; an increase in interracial couples; the ‘relief well’ is still two months away from completion; unemployment rate dropped to 9.7%: 431K jobs were added, the highest number in a decade, but most of them are for the 2010 Census: these jobs will end during this summer; Yosemite NATL Park will offer free admission this weekend; the cap is in place, but oil is still leaking; HAZMAT outfits have to be worn when walking on Louisiana beaches; Chrysler has recalled 25K cars; a seven year old boy survived a seven story fall from a FL APT complex;

More Americans are accused of supplying to money to Middle East terrorist groups; oil is $71.96 per barrel; gold is $1,216.20 an ounce; Lady Gaga may have lupus; the US wished a happy birthday to Queen Elizabeth II…but one week earlier than the actual date;