…7/31–10: wise investments

68º in ABQ; 73% humidity at 6A…strong T’storms at The Beach last night; Hobbs man killed his estranged wife, then buried her on the outskirts of that town; a couple in one neighborhood are two of many people who have had their home burglarized, and jewelry stolen, in spite of crime watches in the area; foreclosures are on the rise in NM, especially in Santa Fe CNTY, which has seen a 200% increase during the past year; workers at local Goodwill accused of theft; three puppies were stolen from a home at gunpoint; Blister Beetles in alfalfa can kill donkeys & horses; PM rain at The Beach; enjoyed Chinese food from Lam’s; Jean is a Social Worker, born in Buffalo, NY, spent many years in Oak Park, IL, before moving to ABQ; man was standing on the tracks when he was struck by a southbound Rail Runner: the incident stopped the entire train service; ABQ is in the top ten list of cities where cars are stolen; late day rain at The Beach;
Bugs are taking over beds & children’s toys; debris from Tropical Storm Bonnie has clogged the relief wells; another [D] on Capitol Hill accused of ethics violations; three prisoners escape from an AZ jail; yellow lobster caught off the RI coast; CO bicyclist injured by explosives shot from a cannon, set off by teenagers as a prank;For the second day in a row, Iran has been shaken by an earthquake, this one registered 5.3 on the Richter scale; did the person who leaked the data on AFG maneuvers have an accomplice: people mentioned in those documents have been threatened by the Taliban…and the war will continue; will US allies pull their forces from that country, fearing for their lives; floods in PAK;

…7/29–10: a night of knights

68º in ABQ; 70% humidity at 6A…more trance/techno fans watching my website; Brad must not do any heavy lifting [over ten pounds] for the next six weeks; GAQ; NM GOV thinks the AZ immigration law is ‘misguided legislation’; Santa Fe supports new homeless shelter; S Valley home invasion; pipeline leak near Farmington quickly repaired; Jean is also an insomniac; too many bears roaming NM; people on my website wished Brad a quick recovery;
Work all day today;
NM T’storms mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: Rapid City, NYC, Boston, DC, JAX, Memphis, SLC, ABQ, Phoenix, Albany, Philly, Newark, Providence, Richmond & Orlando; rain along parts of I-10, I-20, I-64, I-80, I-90 & I-95; ABQ arroyo rescue featured on The Weather Channel, boy was dragged seven miles; six inches of hail fell in parts of CO yesterday; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Medical helicopter crashed in Tucson; 5.2 million gallons of oil has leaked from the well; BP has paid $256 million to people & businesses, but lots of oil is still below the surface now, one million gallons of oil has leaked into MI waters; Henry Winkler has written seventeen children’s books; PETA members wrapped in blood for ‘shock ad’; military cargo plane crashed near Anchorage, AK; one police officer is killed, two suspects also are dead after a Phoenix drug bust ended badly; man murdered three people, then killed himself, in an upscale San Antonio gated community, during a birthday party; foreclosures on the rise in major metropolitan areas; the DOW ended down; BP laying off cleanup workers; no treatment for Dengue Fever, which has been found in Key West; the Golden Gate Bridge will get a suicide net;
The world is getting warmer each year this past decade; man unsuccessfully tried to hijack plane that was leaving Moscow; oil is $78.28 per barrel; gold is $1,160.40 an ounce; US soldiers overseas are being overcome by stress, see war as a ‘high’, and committing suicide when they return home, and the ‘thrill’ is gone;

…7/30–10: fulfilled magic
70º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Bead slowly getting better; man tried to kill his wife by putting a little poison in her wine over a long period of time; Kewa Pueblo getting a $1 million FED grant ABQ fire fighters need new breathing masks, which may cost $1 million;
Left at noon, to Trader Joes’ & comics; arrived home about 3P;
ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: Fargo, Des Moines, KC, Tucson, New Orleans, Boise, Denver, Santa Fe, St. Louis, Madison & JAX; flash floods in VA, power outages in DC; wet along areas of I-10, I-35 & I-95; temps from the 70s to the 90s;
REP Rangel from NY facing ethics violation charges; the US economy slowed during the second quarter; the battle over the AZ immigration law continues, with death threat made against the judge who weakened the bill; Ellen may quit ‘Idol’; buzzwords on bad food; the DOW ended down; home births may prove hazardous to both the mother & child; the cost of Chelsea Clinton’s wedding may reach $3 million;High heat spawning wildfires in Russia; another Toyota recall; drug cartel leader killed in MX; 5.6 quake struck Iran, injuring hundreds of people; oil is $78.95 per barrel; gold is $1,160.40 an ounce;

…7/25–10: around in cycles

69º in ABQ; 70% humidity at 6A…NM is temporarily putting on hold the creation of more charter schools around the state; thirteen year old boy accused of killing a female, twenty-two year old ENMS student; more violent offenders in NM jails; in order to further their education, NM high school students will have to take college preparatory courses; AM & PM rain at The Beach; murder in Shiprock this past Saturday;
Heat wave bakes the E Coast; 116º in Culpepper, comics are entering the digital age; VA; ships
returning to the Gulf of MX as Bonnie further weakens;
Europe banks pass the ‘stress test’; BP oil official may lose his job, but will get plenty of money when he leaves; secret files leaked about the AFG war;

…7/26–10: polite policies
63º in ABQ; 87% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s Chiro visit; overnight rains at The Beach; sue the state so ABQ can get more funding for its schools; ‘cow invasion’ of ABQ; filthy home in the NE Heights is attracting mice, rates & cockroaches; Rio Rancho keeps on growing; the same house in ABQ has caught fire three times in recent weeks; child with autism was wandering the streets of the Duke City;
MGR out until midweek; PM storm clouds; AM rain in NE Heights; early AM R/R;
Wet in: ATL, New Orleans, Tampa, Wilmington [NC], Houston, Little Rock, Nashville, St. Louis, ABQ, Yellowstone, Reno, Charlotte, El Paso, Fargo, Rapid City, Dallas, Memphis, Miami, Orlando & KC; bad weather along parts of I-10 & I-35; flash floods in Zion NATL Park; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Child struck & killed by falling tree in VA; S CA student says he has the longest tongue in the US; Boy Scouts are 100 years old; 300K people without power in the DC METRO area; the DOW ended up; did a boy die because of a McDonald’s toy; Mother Nature is reabsorbing the oil spill; 34K children each go to the ER because of problems dealing with contact lenses; military person was texting a CA man about the ‘truth’ regarding the war in AFG; AZ HOSP mistakenly tells the wrong parents which of their daughters had died in an accident, a similar incident took place after an IN car crash;
1.5 million people attended the Love Concert in Germany this past weekend; New Zealand boy survived a 16 story fall; 90K+ classified military documents on AFG war strategies have been leaked; oil is $78.90 per barrel; gold is $1.183.00 an ounce;

…7/27–10: a time, before time
65º in ABQ; 87% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s time for surgery tomorrow will be told today; SE ABQ police involved shooting leaves one person dead; Farmington, Bloomfield & Santa Fe also facing cuts to their school budgets; some oil leaked after a BNSF train derailed S of Socorro; getting more credit card applications again;
UNMMG Pizza Party today at the Bradbury, record revenue generated during the past year;
NM floods mentioned on the ABC AM News; wet in: Fargo, Nashville, the Twin Cities, Knoxville, ATL, Charlotte, Pensacola, Dallas, Flagstaff, Santa Fe, Cheyenne, Houston, St. Louis & Orlando; tornadoes in TN & MT last night; storms along sections of I-10, I-20, I-75 & I-94; temps from the 80s to the 100s;
White House assessing damage control over the leaked data, stating it is not current information; group of ponies stop traffic along a Boston highway; Obama will be the first person, while in office, to visit a daytime talk show: he will appear on ‘The View’; parts of DC are still in the dark from weekend storms; new home sales drop to their lowest rate in 47 years, as construction continues; barge slammed into abandoned well near the Gulf of MX, causing oil, water & natural gas to spew from the rig; the DOW ended up; several cars mysteriously caught fire in a SC parking lot; more [D] no longer want to fund the AFG war: more [R], do; 25% of the Gulf of MX is closed to fishing; housing prices are up, but the size of a new home is getting smaller;
BP Chief Executive will step down on 10/1/10, to be sent to its Russian HQ, and will be replaced by an American, as the company reports a $17 billion loss during the second quarter of this year: the action is a ‘mutual decision & agreement; how much will the leaked info affect the war in AFG, and US troops; smog covers Moscow;

…7/28–10: chasing musical dreams
70º in ABQ; 68% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s surgery is at 6 AM, Nancy will bring him, and take him home; man forced woman into prostitution in his SW ABQ home; $40K in cowboy boots stolen from Santa Fe shop; per the doctor, the surgery went OK, picked up two prescriptions, and got home by 11A, plutonium waste could be shipped to WIPP; more PM rain at The Beach; man safely rescued after falling into a flooded arroyo near Carlisle & I-40; dead man found near Central & Louisiana;
People will do my work, not my Rounds; saw Julia at OSIS;
NM storms, and ABQ temps mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: Milwaukee, Buffalo, Chicago, Orlando, Birmingham [AL], Little Rock, Cincinnati, Denver, Tucson, Roswell [NM], Madison, Des Moines, Houston & Cleveland; twisters struck NC last night; CA wildfires have destroyed hundreds of homes N of Los Angeles, and charred 15K acres; temps from the 70s to the 100s;NM train wreck, and resulting oil spill, featured on ABC AM News; illegal immigrants are moving from Phoenix to San Diego; Day 100 of the Gulf oil spill; 800K gallon oil spill in S MI; 5.3 quake off the OR coast, 6.2 miles below the surface; man exposed himself in front of a child’s lemonade stand in OH; the powerful parts of the new AZ immigration law have been put on hold by a judge; bear attack killed one person at a Yellowstone NATL Park campsite; the DOW ended down;
152 people dead when plane crashed in PAK on the side of a mountain range; oil is $76.99 per barrel; hackers in Slovenia infected twelve million computers around the world; a global increase in the number of bedbugs reported; France has officially declared war on al Qaeda; because of the leaked info, many Afghans fear attacks by the Taliban; gold is $1,160.40 an ounce;

…7/24–10: beauty, brought to you by colors

68º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…items from the Doug Vaughn offices go on auction, the house is for sale, with an asking price of $2.2 million; Los Alamos CNTY getting FED stimulus money, mostly for LANL; flood advisories across NM; Carlsbad children test positive for meth; Gruet wine owner faces another DUI charge; street fair along Central in Nob Hill this weekend; there is also the lesbian & gay rodeo being held in the Duke City; Brad made Strawberry-Peach Smoothies; AM showers at The Beach;
The number of US bank failures top one hundred; pipe bombs found in CA park; Bonnie has 30 mph winds, moving WNW at 20mph: the storm could strengthen, but the chances are unlikely that this will happen; ‘Darth Vader’ robbed a NY bank; heavy rains flood Chicago; dam burst in IA;Series of 7.6 quakes shook the Philippines; N Korea threatens ‘nuclear response’, and does not approve of the military exercises between the US & S Korea, a ‘retaliatory, sacred war’; two military men are missing in AFG;

…7/23–10: fashion freedom

67º in ABQ; 72% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; maggots found in the APT of a UNM student; could NM ever have ‘too much rain’; pay cuts for ABQ teachers; Rio Arriba manhunt continues for escaped inmate; shooting at the Las Cruces Mall; local nurse accused of prescribing drugs for people she did not know; overnight rain at The Beach; landslide near Magdalena;
Empty AM R/R; left at 11:30, lunch at Saggio’s; got home after 3P;
NM storms mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: Miami, NYC, Chicago, Dallas, Pittsburgh, ABQ, Omaha, Milwaukee, Flagstaff & Dallas; TS Bonnie has 40 mph winds, heading WNW at 18 mph; landfall expected in FL this PM; there are Gulf shore advisories; as of now, the storm is aiming towards the oil spill; the cap is still containing the leak; temps from the 70s to the 90s;
All ‘Soldiers of the Year’ were women; MTV gets an ‘excellent’ rating by a gay/lesbian group; the DOW ended up; hundreds of DC teachers will lose their jobs; Del Monte cutting back on its salt in their food;Venezuela cuts ties with Colombia; AFG troop surge approved on Capitol Hill; 6.9 quake shook the Philippines;

…7/22–10: style statement

70º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; RV fire destroyed N NM road; ABQ Studios file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy; hate crime in downtown ABQ this past weekend after a man was beaten & attacked with pepper spray; vandalism has increased in Shiprock; last night, there were rumbles of thunder at The Beach, and rain in parts of the Metro region; fireworks in an attic started a blaze in a SW Duke City home; NM revenue still on the decline; rapid care clinic will open in the ABQ area; The Beach is 100% occupied until October;
People on vacation during the next few days, but changes are coming; relocated somewhere safe in the PEDS DEPT; very empty AM R/R;
Wet in: Knoxville, Chicago, Orlando, San Antonio, Spokane, Madison, Des Moines, Milwaukee & Farmington [NM],wet along I-65, I-75 & I-94; two tropical storms pose a threat in the Gulf of MX; the rain from Bonnie could pick up the oil, and drop it on land far away from the Gulf coast; temps from the 70s to 100s;
Storms may force BP to place a temporary cap in the relief tunnel; fragile economy needs the extension of unemployment benefits; Dallas mother strangled her autistic children; hikers stranded by storms in the Grand Tetons; cake eating contest at a wedding; more than 150 people have been stung by jellyfish along New England beaches; there could be oil in the rain if any bad weather comes close to the oil slick; NY horse & buggy chase; US homegrown terrorism on the rise; the DOW ended up; a rare tropical fungus has appeared in the NW US;Hillary Clinton in Vietnam; child eating his way out of a watermelon is the latest ‘viral video’; oil is $78.73 per barrel; gold is $1,191.60 an ounce; 6.2 tremor off the coast of Vanuatu; whale jumped onto sailboat;

…7/21–10: putting it together

73º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…items from a real estate swindler go up for sale; did a Sandoval CNTY officer steal an inmate’s credit card; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; car theft in SE ABQ, near the SunPort; Navajo soldier killed in AFG; Los Lunas High School vandalized; multiple collisions, and an oil spill shut down parts of I-40, W of the Duke City; ID theft on the rise in Rio Rancho; BP oil facilities in Artesia & Eunice will be sold; NM will have a state run INS by 2014;
More meetings on ‘pseudo codes’; changes to start in early August;
Wet in: NYC, Raleigh, ATL, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, ABQ, Cheyenne, Flagstaff, DC, Louisville, KC, Omaha, St. Louis, Providence, Philly, INDY, Orlando & Billings; bad weather along sections of I-10, I-64, I-70, I-80 & I-95; tropical storm may pose a threat to FL; flooding in Flagstaff kill a young girl; severe floods in China; temps from the 80s to the 100s;
Turbulence injured thirty people on a Dulles to Los Angeles flight, the United jet was rerouted to Denver; five ‘minor’ leaks at the BP oil well; 1K US counties face water shortages by 2050; dam burst in Tempe, AZ; the DOW ended down; there are 500 million Facebook users, but the company is far from ‘perfect’;5.8 quake shook Iran; a donkey paragliding for a Russian publicity stunt; oil spill closed beaches along the Yellow Sea in China; most massive star discovered in the Tarantula Nebula; the plaid, macho cupcake; oil is $76.81 per barrel; gold is $1,191.60 an ounce; Rent-A-Friend, that is purely platonic;

…7/19–10: breathe hope

74º in ABQ; 49% humidity at 6A…Brad’s AM dental visit; overnight rain at The Beach; NM GOV says the AZ immigration law will hurt our image around the world; three children locked in a camper at Elephant Butte Lake while their parents went water skiing; Brad made a Fish Casserole; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; reached 100º again in ABQ; fatal crash on I-40 near Santa Rosa;
The ‘big meeting’ for the birth of Pseudo Codes in PEDS; UNMH Emergency Medical team help firefighters rescue victims from house firs, plus other types of disasters; took PM Lomas to PM Central; had an AM tour of UNM via Rapid Ride; UNM picnic this Saturday at the BioPark;
Wet in: Buffalo, NYC, Boston, DC, ATL, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Omaha, St. Louis, ABQ, Baltimore, New Orleans; Billings, Flagstaff, Knoxville, KC, Providence; central WA wildfires; heat wave continues across the country; weekend tornadoes touched down in WI & MI; ABQ heat mentioned on the Weather Channel; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
What is leaking near the oil site: is it methane; skimmers aren’t capturing much oil; BP has spent $3.95 billion on solving the oil spill problem; the ‘loop current’ has collapsed; the DOW ended up; will unemployment benefits be extended tomorrow when a new [D] SEN is sworn in; a gel to protect women from getting HIV or herpes; in the US, HIV is linked more to poverty, then race; sinkhole appears at major KS interchange;
Gold is the global haven for investments; pet porcupine treated like a puppy; Chinese stylists cuts hair while standing upside down; in Taiwan, dogs can get married; ask the World Cup Octopus what the future will be; two trains collided in India, sabotage suspected; another UFO seen over China; gold is $1,181.70 an ounce; oil is $75.72 per barrel;

…7/20–10: seductive persuasion
75º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; man got burning trying to pull his family from a flaming wreck yesterday; bear attack warnings for the E MTN area; revamped the message on my YouTube site; changes may come after naked bicyclists drove through Santa Fe, more ‘coverage’ in the future; Raton racing casino is on hold; NM financial institutions have money to borrow for purchasing a home; it reached 102º in ABQ this PM;
The aftermath of the ‘big meeting’; pseudo-codes to be developed; no CTI Admits;
ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: Nashville, Tallahassee, Chicago, KC, Santa Fe, Omaha, Des Moines, St. Louis, INDY, Detroit, Erie, DC, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Denver, Orlando, Miami, Akron & Fargo; bad weather along areas of I-35 & I-70; temps from the 70s to the 110s;
‘Minimal’ amount of oil & gas leaking from the well and the seafloor, considered small seepages ‘swift kill’ is the new phrase, while BP tries to sell $7 billion in assets; day five in the oil ‘capturing’ test; could the well be buckling; ‘Christmas in July’ sales; Perdue recalling thousands of chicken nuggets; the DOW ended up;
Landslides in El Salvador; MX man smuggled monkeys around his waist, inside a girdle; a snail race in Sydney, Australia; a London ice cream van for dogs; AFG can secure its country by 2014; China is now the world’s largest energy user; 6.3 quake shook New Guinea; gold is $1,191.50 an ounce; oil is $77.44 per barrel; meeting between the new British PM, and the US PRES;

…7/17–10: lifetime love

72º in ABQ; 49% humidity at 6A…I am still tired after yesterday’s fasting, and the fact that I only ate lunch; Spaceport using water needed for nearby ranches; four people accused of stealing security cameras from ABQ school, suspects & theft caught on tape; another endangered alpha male grey wolf has been killed in NM; series of robberies have occurred in Carlsbad; a boil water advisory for Socorro; a bat disease may shut down Carlsbad Caverns; NM facing a medical marijuana shortage; N NM gang problems are on the rise; body recovered from Rio Grande Gorge in N NM; US SECY of the Interior visited NM; use solar power to pump water into hydrants & fire engines; NM police inventory for sale;
So far, no leaks in the oil cap; the hottest June on record, and heat bakes most of the US; at least forty illegal immigrants have been killed by the AZ heat; BP faces $22 billion in fines if found guilty of negligence; Neo-Nazi groups have been sighted patrolling the AZ/MX border;
200 year old bottle of champagne discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of Sweden; thousands of tourists stranded in Greece & Turkey when a tour company suffered a financial collapse;

…7/18–10: maximize the talents that you have
76º in ABQ; 40% humidity at 6A…because of its small population, and large, isolated areas, NM is a haven for drug dealers to grow marijuana; more DUI drivers have children with them when they are caught by police; Brad made alcoholic Jell-o; man escaped Belen Mental Health Facility; shooting in front of the Bubble Lounge near Fifth & Central in downtown ABQ; reached 100º in the Duke City today; full electronic body scan vs. pat down search at the SunPort;
Chelsea Clinton will be married by the end of July in NY state; 6.7 quake shook AK, no damages or injuries reported, the tremor was 21 miles below the surface; shooting at WA state park near Seattle; today is NATL Ice Cream Day; so far, the BP cap is ‘not a failure’; social hardships for many people in the Gulf of MX; bubbles at the bottom of the Gulf waters; keep the oil capped, or siphon the flow onto ships;Hillary Clinton is in PAK; AIDS research also suffering from the global economic downturn;

…7/15–10: friendly foundation

78º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; a NE ABQ 7-11 robber may still be on the loose; Corrales crashed caused power outages & property damage; suspicious death at ABQ motel; man beat woman to death in front of her children;
Working on more GPU charges; so many people did not get rain yesterday; mid AM panic attack;
Severe weather from NM to MI; wet in: Tampa, Chicago, KC, ABQ, Milwaukee, Wichita, St. Louis, Detroit, INDY, Orlando & Charlotte; mid-Atlantic flooding, heat in the SW US; temps from the 70s to the 110s;
People stung by stingrays off the CA coast; another leak in the containment cap; model of San Fran sculptured from Jell-O; NYC subway ‘Star Wars’ actors; one in 78 homes face foreclosure, and one million homes may be reposed by the banks this year; 3.6 million jobs have been saved, or created by the current stimulus package; the first lawsuit challenging DOW ended slightly down; the AZ immigration law will be heard today; ME is pushing to allow same-sex marriages; substation fire caused a blackout at NATL Airport; electronic cigarettes; for now, after 87 days, the oil has stopped leaking: this will make it easier for the relief wells to do their job; the UT list of 1,300 illegal immigrants that has been seen across the US;
Cat ‘hugs’ its owners; Iranian scientist, who was supposedly paid millions by the US, returns to his homeland; Argentina legalizes gay marriages; oil is $76.01 per barrel; gold is $1,206.80 an ounce;

…7/16–10: fantastic fantasies
74º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…fasting for labs today; EMCORE will reopen for business today, and continue cleaning the debris from Monday’s shootings; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; Central at UNIV will be closed for several days, as the intersection is repaved; NM GOV will speak at the LULAC CONV today; our chairs arrived;
Work on June charges; left at 11:30 AM, ate at Owl Café; no CTI Admits; people are amazed how I have been able to deal with the hate by a co-worker, that has lasted several years;
Wet weather for: Albany, Charlotte, Omaha, OKC, Little Rock, Santa Fe, Cleveland, Twin Cities, Boston, Buffalo, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, ABQ, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh & ATL; wet weather along parts of I-20 & I-81; CA wildfires; temps from the 70s to the 110s;The foot long cheeseburger; Congress passed financial reform bill; 3.6 earthquake shook DC: the tremor was three miles deep, and its center was 20 miles NW of the city in Germantown, MD; canopy at NJ condo collapsed into its parking lot; the DOW dropped over 261 points; rocket surfboards; the $251 million Medicare scam by doctors & nurses; IPhone may face massive recalls, will APPLE make a public apology; the oil may be capped, but the cleanup continues; E Coli found in more bags of Romaine lettuce; Honolulu wants to ban the sale of fireworks;
Suicide bombings of Iranian mosques; the ‘Rainbow Tower’ of Brussels indicates the weather for that city; more Americans are against the Afghan war; fire at luxury hotel in Baghdad; oil is $76.25 per barrel; gold is $1,201.00 an ounce;

…7/13–10: change…is changing

69º in ABQ; 41% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; ABQ office shooting on ABC AM News: now, three were reportedly killed, and four people were injured at EMCORE, the UNMH ER went on lockdown yesterday PM; Brad made French Hamburgers; next stop: Brazil!; Spaceport sightseeing tours, so people can watch its progress;
One Coder returns; car conked out at Yale & Central; saw Amber Lee of KOAT on UNM hill; time off taken vs. amount of work produced; took Red Line R/R, spoke with Steve;
Wet in: Memphis, Raleigh, NYC, Nashville; Tampa, St. Louis, Philly, Memphis Little Rock; JAX, Boston, INDY, Pittsburgh, ATL Richmond & Roanoke; temps from the 70s to the 110s;
NBC will allow gay couples to apply for a wedding ceremony that will be shown on the ‘Today’ program; sinkhole opened at FL APT Complex; American Airlines jet made emergency landing in AK; the oil cap is in place, is it be the cure, or will it cause multiple leaks from the pressured liquid; people moon a train in CA; the NAACP vs. the Tea Party; guacamole & salsa are a major cause of recent food poisonings; the DOW ended up; Obama tackles the HIV/AIDS crisis; the dietetic pill, whose side effects are unknown; the pill is twenty times the size of the one caused by the Exxon Valdez, and 180 times the strength of a typical fire hydrant pressure; 550+ miles of coastline have been affected by this leak; the approval rate of Obama has dropped to 43%;
Deadly floods in SW China; Roman Polanski is now a free man in Switzerland; heavy rains hinder Haiti earthquake relief; dolphin jumped out of its tank; sandwich in a can; the munching marmot; TESLA unveiled its electric car; oil is $77.15 per barrel; gold is $1,213.30 an ounce;

…7/14–10: the cycle of cycles
74º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…Brad’s AM Chiro visit; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; fire in the Sandia foothills; man shot & killed by police when he attacked them with a samurai sword; small Bosque fire near Belen yesterday PM; INTEL says the Gulf oil will get caught in the water currents, and may reach the Carolina shores; found a goblet for the golf balls; PM T’storms at The Beach; local child has died after being left in a locked, hot vehicle for 2½ hours; NM chile crop will be later than usual, but its flavor will remain the same;
Hard to keep up with the number of charges coming in; MGR out today;
ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: NYC, Raleigh, Boston, Savannah, Tallahassee; Omaha, the Twin Cities, Santa Fe, Fargo, Philly, Providence, DC, Richmond, Orlando, Des Moines & KC; wet along areas of I-20, I-35, I-75, I-94 & I-95; temps from the 70s to 110s;
‘Barefoot Bandit’ behind bars’; AZ boy died in an overheated vehicle; pressure tests on the oil cap have been delayed, so the leak keeps flowing; ‘the end’ of the spill may not be in sight: how ‘well’ is the well; Gulf of MX may be polluted for years; US sent BP a $99.7 million bill to cover expenses; the DOW ended slightly up; great white shark seen near Chatham, MA beaches; the porn detection stick for a PC; US Steel plant explosion in PA; sex education in MT school makes parents uneasy; NE residents upset over naked store mannequin;Heavy rains in Japan; drunken man tried to ride a crocodile; 6.5 quake shook Chilean coast; BP linked to PAN AM terrorist attack, and Libyan oil deal?; car bombs detonated in Kandahar, AFG; oil is $77.60 per barrel; gold is $1,213.30 per ounce;

…7/8–10: remain curious at all times

68º in ABQ; 50% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; canine distemper forced the closing of a Socorro animal shelter, all the dogs had to be euthanized; yesterday’s Bosque fire came close to the Rio Grande Zoo; child molester in Valencia CNTY; ABQ dog stung & killed by bees; Brad made Shrimp & Scallop Stew; shooting at Santa Fe Place Mall; how many ID cards must someone carry while driving in AZ;
More work, same pay, no additional Coders; a stench of dirty, standing water in 3–E; MGR out; no CTI Admits;
NM T’storms mentioned on ABC AM News; wet for: San Antonio, Galveston, Corpus Christi, El Paso, Houston, KC, St. Louis, Chicago, Miami, Albany [NY], Dallas, Little Rock, ABQ & Denver; it will reach 100º in Savannah; another TS forming in the Gulf of MX that could become ‘Bonnie’, and make landfall by tomorrow: it has 35 mph winds, moving NW at 14 mph; bad weather along sections of I-10 and I-40; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Tour boat & barge collided on the DE River, near Philly; another Tylenol recall; helicopter crash off the WA coast; MA judge says the ban of gay marriages is unconstitutional; the DOW ended up; 122K suggestions have been sent to BP on how the oil water & beaches can be cleaned; BP says the Gulf oil leak could be fully capped by the end of July; FL has no state income tax;
Man selling his body: put tattoos on his skin, for a price; tourists can purchase ‘kidnap’ packages in which they are abducted without warning; solar powered planed stayed in the air for 26 hours; parking garage in Windsor, Ontario collapsed; oil is $75.48 per barrel; gold is $1,195.80 an ounce;

…7/9–10: Internet heaven
67º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow, Moderate Air Quality; N NM murderer has been caught; a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle in the S Valley, which then drove away; twelve NM Wells Fargo locations will be closing, following the bank’s merger with Wachovia; man was killed in Santa Fe Mall yesterday; and we make NATL news for all the wrong reasons: a Las Cruces father taught his son how to build bombs; three ties, cake and a B’day card from Brad;
Work all day, no comic climbing today; empty AM R/R; B’day greetings from Evelyn; the opening of 3-N:, for Family Practice patients; no CTI Admits; was our MGR at work;
Wet in: St. Louis, OKC, Corpus Christi, Dallas, San Antonio, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Yellowstone, Amarillo, Orlando, Memphis, Tulsa, Louisville, ABQ, Baltimore, Roanoke & INDY; wet weather along areas of I-20, I-35, I40, I-70, I-81 & I-90; Laredo, TX is underwater, with several closed border bridges; temps from the 80s to the 100s;
Could quakes be caused by the oil flow; 500+ miles of beaches have seen the effects of the oil spill; ‘things are getting better’: who is BP trying to convince; air quality along the Gulf coast may be hazardous to some people’s health; naked man in the middle of I-405 in Los Angeles; the DOW ended up; E Coli detected in bags of spinach;
The ‘Group of Ten’…10 American for 4 Russian spies: in an exchange not seen since 1986, with some children left behind in the US; while the trade takes place in Vienna; oil is $75.33 per barrel; gold is $1,209.60 an ounce; there are antibodies which could produce an AIDS vaccine;

…7/10–10: a haven of tranquility
71º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…it’s 56 today!; pipe bomb exploding, severely injuring a boy’s foot; new NM marijuana growers approved; N NM Pow Wow being held this weekend; TX prisoner found in NM landfill; state wants to take control of the ABQ Crime Lab; a new Rail Runner station will be built, as the number of riders is on the decline; a spectrum of colors were painted on empty downtown ABQ structure; renovations for Rio Grande BLVD; enjoyed a great Chinese meal;
So far, Gulf of MX seafood is still safe to eat; NM made NATL news again, about a man whose prosthetic leg was set on fire after he lost a drinking bet, the fire spread up his body, then the victim was left on the side of a road; heavy rains flooding the Boston area;
Military told to complete a questionnaire that deals with the elimination of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy; Queen Elizabeth II will become a great-grandmother;

…7/11–10: the power of praise
75º in ABQ; 53% humidity at 6A…bad accident at Copper & Eubank, involving a semi and a van; medical air ambulance is shutting down its Santa Fe office; heavy rain across SW NM; there has been an increase in attempted suicides in Rio Rancho, the economy may be an important factor; not all NM residents qualify for the tax amnesty program; ultralight plane crashed into Elephant Butte Lake; there are 9K gang members in NM; Las Cruces man wants all the city’s Red Light Cameras removed, and the fines be reimbursed to those who were caught;
Los Angeles boy accidentally shot & killed his brother; it will take 4–7 days to replace the spill with a new cap…but will it work; ‘South Pacific’ will be remade, and appeal to a twenty first century audience; the supertanker failed tests to help clean the oil spill;
Spain vs. Netherlands for the World Cup Championship, too million watched the final game, and Spain won with a score of 1–0; Fidel Castro was seen in public; PRES Clinton says the earthquake relief for Haiti has been too slow; bomb threat forced an Air France jet to make an emergency landing;

…7/12–10: imagination…and life
66º in ABQ; 67% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; downed power lines put some ABQ residents in the dark on Saturday night; I-40 was shut down from Gallup to the AZ border as police searched for suspects; another collision with a power pole left Bernalillo resident in the dark last night; LULAC convention being held in the Duke City; ABQ home sales are on the rise; new Duke City homes may require sprinkler systems; introduced to Jean, the ‘cat lady’; hydrochloric acid leaked from Farmington factory;
The lone Coder today; carjacking situation ended on NY AVE, rerouted my walk; Channels 7 and 13 on UNM hill; MGR back at work; commented ‘Bless You, My Child’ to Dr. Young; no weekend PICU Admits; B’day cupcake from PEDS DEPT, bought at Cake Fetish; jumped over a fence to reach the PM Blue Line R/R; today I also had an ‘indirect’ B’day present;
Wet in: OKC, Memphis, Nashville, Cincinnati, Knoxville, Omaha, DC, Little Rock, Tulsa, Flagstaff, Detroit, ATL, Orlando, Amarillo, Dayton, Miami, Baltimore & New Orleans; bad weather along sections of I-40, I-70 & I-75; weekend floods in KC; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
More Americans have very low credit scores, and these numbers keep dropping; the DOW ended slightly up; shooting at ABQ fiber optic plant made COMCAST & CNN News, at least three people were confirmed killed; the ‘best plan’ by BP for now is the bigger cap, the company has now spent $3.5 billion in to clean up the oil spill; extreme high pressure could cause the new cap to explode; over 100K claims, and 52K people have been paid any money; Michelle Obama visited the Gulf area; BP has funded the free concerts;6.2 earthquake shook Chile, tremor was 57 miles below the surface; total solar eclipse took place yesterday; multiple bombings in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, occurred during the World Cup Soccer Games; it could take twenty years to completely rebuild Haiti to the way it was before the quake, which took place exactly six months ago; there is a world’s best pea shooter; an actual cat is stealing items in England; a swan is attacking British boaters; it was Spain’s first victory at the World Cup Soccer Games; Fidel Castro predicts a nuclear war between Iran & the US; oil is $74.84 per barrel; gold is $1,198.50 an ounce; al Qaeda group from Somalia says it was responsible for the Uganda attacks;

…7/5–10: let ‘me’ be your fantasy

71º in ABQ; 21% humidity at 6A…dead hiker found in N NM; three people dead on a crash along I-40 near the Route 66 Casino; Brad made a Bacon & Egg Sandwich, replacing the brown sauce with mayo; fireworks could still be heard at 4A; Socorro man accuse of credit card fraud; moving van fire on Coors, shutting the street; two year old drowned in the Animas River;
BP costs for oil spill exceed $3 billion; bad weather hampers Gulf cleanup; cell phone towers are bad for bees’ health; vampire movies are a hit this summer: the latest ‘Twilight’ saga earned $162 million this weekend; new Buddhist pilgrimage site is located in S Carolina; near air traffic controllers blamed for several near misses in the DC airspace; tornadoes touched down near Topeka; naked male visitor found in S CA home, may have been drunk, but was not arrested; Queen Elizabeth II visited Ground Zero; air ambulance crashed in W TX; tar balls appearing along TX coast; Gulf tourism down by 65%;
Paying the Royal Family in Britain cost less that $1 per person for her salary; now, some Toyota vehicles stall while being driven;

…7/6–10: knights in white satin
67º in ABQ; 19% humidity at 6A…GAQ; time to focus most of my attention on my YouTube site; two teens killed in N NM; police union will file a legal suit against ABQ; money & training spent by the Duke City on a solar plant that decided not to build in ABQ; Bernalillo man threatened to kill his neighbor with a bow & arrow; the wonderful smell of Chinese food in the refrigerator; fire at an ABQ sports bar; contractors for the Anasazi BLDG in downtown Duke City accused of money laundering, now an unsafe, unfinished structure sits, a YouTube link back to someone still in DC;
Hell Week, Day 2.5, time to close the books for the year; forgot my ID badge, Brad to the rescue; started the new ‘duties’ memo; need help, move to Bradbury; UNM student accused of printing fake prescriptions for Oxycodone; no weekend Admits in PSUP;
Wet in: New Orleans, KC, Green Bay, Orlando, Tulsa, Houston, Denver; Mobile, Chicago, the Twin Cities, Mobile, Des Moines, Tulsa, Dallas & KC; bad weather along parts of I-10, I-30, I-35, I-44 & I-75; the worst heat wave in decades still bakes the E Coast, causing power outages in major cities; hail fell on CO yesterday; another tropical depression in the Caribbean; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
Tar balls sighted near Lake Pontchatrain, Louisiana; the supertanker turned skimmer is still being tested; OAC = ‘on approved credit’; casino being opened at the Greenbrier Resort in WV; cars can heat up to 135º in one hour when parked in the sun; the DOW ended up; postage stamps will be going up in price again; CT priest accused of stealing $1 million from parishioners; MS mother charged with leaving her child in a hot car while she went shopping; passport book fees will increase next week; METRO rails could bend because of the heat wave;
Tensions between Turkey & Israel; jam made from Princes Diana’s hair; Ciudad Juarez, one of the most dangerous & deadly cities in the world; children being used to smuggle drugs from MX into the US; the ups & downs of YouTube today; Queen Elizabeth II spoke at the UN today, the first time in over fifty years: she is the ruler of 16 nations, and a commonwealth of 54 countries; dangerous Lady Gaga contact lenses; oil is $72.14 per barrel; gold is $1,194.80 an ounce;

…7/7–10: across the spectrum
67º in ABQ; 54% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; ABQ bus drivers are not paid enough; gang activity on the rise in N NM Towns; PNM faces a $378K fine; while the trestle is still closed, people can go by bus along part of the Cumbres & Toltec route, then take the train beyond the burned bridge; fires in the Bosque, and Corrales; bear attacked a Boy Scout in N NM;
The ‘day after’ the big Closing; other people notice I come to work every day; MGR left early, was not feeling well; everyone is overwhelmed;
NM storms mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: New Orleans, Miami, OKC, St. Louis, Omaha, San Antonio, Casper, Santa Fe, Houston, Tulsa, Dallas, Tampa & CO Springs; there is a low pressure system directly over the oil spill; the dangerous E Coast heat wave continues; Baltimore reached 105º yesterday, other cities broke decades old high temp records; bad air equated to a sunburn to the lungs; power outages across NJ; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Israeli leader’s luggage lost by airline; HI GOV vetoes same–sex civil unions bill; 27 oil rigs in the Gulf of MX have been abandoned for many years, could be leaking fuel; the DOW ended up nearly 275 points; father & son plan fifty hikes in fifty states in fifty days; Wells Fargo will cut 3,800 jobs; 5.9 quake shook S CA: another tremor was felt in Anchorage, AK;DOLE banana vending machine in Japan; pick people who are fatter than you for the bridal party, so the wedding couple can look thin; armored car accident caused a downpour of money on an Italian highway; MX town evacuated for fear of flooding; solar powered plane took off from Switzerland, trying to fly around the world; Spain won the World Cup Soccer playoff; spy for spy exchange between the US & Russia;

…7/1–10: circular spheres of influence

66º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…NM residents with gun licenses can carry their weapons into some restaurants that serve beer & wine; massive pot plantation found in N NM; an increase in cigarette & gross receipts tax goes in effect in NM today; Garduno’s two remaining restaurants remain very busy; negotiations have stalled between ABQ, and its city unions; two more bear attacks took place in N NM yesterday; affordable health INS coverage is available for unemployed people who have pre-existing conditions;
Hell Week, Day One; lots of charges in, and out; we remain in Code Purple;
Wet in: Miami, Orlando, Tallahassee, Corpus Christi, Houston, New Orleans, Billings, Mobile, San Antonio & Tampa; reports of flooding & tornadoes in S TX; Alex is the strongest June hurricane to strike that part of the US since 1966: it made landfall in MX last night, with 105 mph winds, which placed it in the CAT 2 category; garbage scattered along the beaches; this AM, the storm had 80 mph winds, and was moving W at 12 mph; temps from the 60s to the 110s;
More cadmium found in children’s jewelry; financial overhaul law is nearly approved; BP claims it is ahead of schedule to finish its pipelines, and halt the flow of oil; people are ignoring cell phone laws, still talking & taking while driving; the DOW went down again; a flying car by 2011?; home sales have plunged; BP oil spill is the largest that has ever occurred in the Gulf of MX; red & yellow dyes in food can contain cancer causing chemicals; divorce lawyers can use Facebook entries as evidence; immigration bill would die on Capitol Hill; jobless benefits extension vetoed;
Lexus models recalled for faulty engine problems; oil is $72.66 per barrel; gold is $1,245.50 per barrel; Chinese supertanker will be used to skim the Gulf, but will the vessel be able to accomplish its mission;


…7/2–10: electronic surf
69º in ABQ; 67% humidity at 6A…GAQ; no deal between ABQ & the unions; two babies were left inside a van, suffering from heat exposure; the Cumbres & Toltec RR is back in business; an increase in meth labs across Valencia CNTY; as of today, the DMV at Cottonwood Mall will permanently close;
Hell Week, Day Two; PICU charges on PowerChart?; comic climb; a new duty: monitoring TES edits for pulmonary lab tests; from Carlisle to Menaul to Eubank to Central, and home by 5P; very slow, very empty AM R/R, which broke down at the ATC, so finished the route on the Green Line;
Wet in: Orlando, Houston, Dallas, JAX, San Antonio, OKC, New Orleans, Denver, Corpus Christi, Galveston, Bozeman, Pensacola, ABQ, Tampa & ATL; a record number of tornadoes reported in June; wet along I-10, I-20, I-35, I-35 & I-75; Alex has 30 mph winds, moving W at 12 mph; temps from the 60s to the 110s;
Sharks sighted off the MA coast; the DOW ended down; city budget problems may mean fewer fireworks on the Fourth of July; the economic recovery may be stuck on neutral, but more people will be traveling this holiday weekend; there will be summer surcharge fees on airfares; bedbugs force the closure of two NYC clothing stores; MA will allow three resort casinos to be built;
Canadian man has invented a cyborg eye; more sanctions imposed on Iran by the US; a Russian spy has ‘disappeared’ on Cyprus; deadly blast at PAK shrine; oil is $72.14 per barrel; gold is $1,207.40 an ounce;


…7/3–10: agricultural forecast
70º in ABQ; 83% humidity at 6A…GAQ; go to work for three hours; are there people who start the day drunk?; Red Line to work: Central, to home; Roswell UFO Festival this weekend; Duke City mayor cutting the salaries of police & firemen; local school worker accused of stealing items, then selling them online; bus fire on I-25 near Paseo del Norte; warehouse fire on Broadway I still burning;
Wet in: Houston, OKC, Miami, Dallas, Tampa, Orlando & New Orleans; NM rain mentioned on the Weather Channel; bankruptcies on the rise; Obama wants more broadband coverage across the US, and increase our use of solar power; 125K jobs were eliminated in June, making it the worst month for the unemployed since October, 2009; seven million people have been out of work for over six months, and fewer companies want to hire them; hot air balloon festive being held in MS this weekend; people may be traveling this holiday weekend, but not very far from home; more jobs are being creating in the private sector; locals not being hired to clean the Gulf oil spill; there is now a video game, based on the disaster; oil companies face small fines for safety violations on rigs; the hope for the unemployed to find a job is at an all-time low;
Many surprising losses at the World Cup; 230 people killed in Congo oil tanker explosion; cargo craft failed to dock with INTL Space Station; VP Biden in Iraq;

…7/4–10: decorative symbolism
67º in ABQ; 37% humidity at 6A…no Rail Runner service today, limited ABQ bus service across the city; people shot, mobile home set on fire in Crownpoint; enjoyed watching ‘Alice’; another meth bust in Farmington; Duke City firefighters & police officers may retire early to avoid pension & pay cuts;
CO bison meat recalled, contains E Coli; time to celebrate the Fourth of July, if your city has the money to do so; possible sale of land in the Grand Teton NATL Park; [R] leader said the US cannot win the war against AFG; Terminal One at JFK Airport in NYC was evacuated after a bomb threat was called in;
Drug smuggling submarine located off the W coast of S America; lightning shut down major rail service in France; Baghdad bombed during Biden visit;