Wednesday, July 7, 2010

…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 ne
ar 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; ba
d 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;

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