…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;