…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’;