…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;