…3/6-09: don’t squint, tint!

44º in ABQ; 53% humidity at 6A…re-shop at Goodwill; GAQ; blaze is only 60% contained; more wind, maybe rain this weekend; biggest cockfighting ring busted near Farmington, found paraphernalia to drug animals, the main purpose was to gathered evidence; Saturn of ABQ will be closing earlier than expected; yesterday PM, there was a three vehicle collision, one of which was a motorcycle, on I-40E between Carlisle & UNIV, traffic was at a standstill as police investigated the incident; another person added to the list of Duke City mayoral candidates; what is there to burn in parts of NM; cuffs, and links; ABQ man admits killing his mother, but did not say why; SE ABQ ‘war zone’ renamed the INTL District; gas is $1.92 per gallon; tarantulas are blind?; head-on collision on Route 70, near Roswell, makes COMCAST news; was it a ‘Trojan Horse’ virus; another PNM increase this summer?;

2½ years of Hell; finished Rounds by 8A; Darrell’s initial training session, presented an overview of early AM duties: reaction was slightly overwhelmed; SE ABQ renamed the INTL District; first name of patient: Atlantis; one MGR was told that he needed TES help last Friday; Myrna is out today, not feeling well; 14 year old girl has become aggressive & combative; doctor could not examine her; asked JoAnn for her advise; HOSP PC has more memory; Myrna’s files may have been saved; I can handle multiple conversations; Code Purple all day; comics quest; Dorothy gave me a ride to the bookstore, stopped at Delta Dental…she won an electric toothbrush; arrived home at 5:45P; family phones: minutes vs. money [not enough vs. not enough]; it was a ‘Watchmen’ conference at the comics store;

ME snow; fog along coast FL & AL, parts of I-10 & I-65; wind advisories, per Weather Channel & ABC AM News, also Winter Weather Advisories; temps from 10s to 80s; fog in the San Joaquin Valley, CA; heavy rains, and chance of Midwest floods; windy at Chicago & Dallas;

Christian vs. Kosher salt; single biggest job loss in sixty years; Bank of AM down to $3 per share, after reaching over $40 one year ago; the economic turnaround is slowly working; US GOVT runs out of money today, stopgap will be passed; the ‘Thelma & Louise moment’; are basic civil rights being violated by Prop 8 in CA; Madoff ‘only’ took $20 million, the higher number was also fictitious; text abbreviations hard to translate; Boston firemen rescued dog from icy pond; it’s wing vs. tail meet at LAX; the ‘mental fitness spa’; some video games stimulate the brain; ‘mostly straight’; the return of U2, on GMA; Barnes & Noble starts selling E-books; what is the next step for I-Tunes; OH man killed his wife & four children; all Circuit City stores will close this weekend; jobless betting on work at casinos; US unemployment has reached 8.1%, a figure not seen since 1983, and higher than predicted; while in ICU, former First Lady Barbara Bush does not want her children as visitors, saying they are ‘too young’; the DOW ended up, just a little; for now, foreclosures are invading states where the economy is going downhill, the type of mortgage does not matter; bonuses are a thing of the past; former DC Mayor Marion Barry celebrated his seventy-third birthday at home, recovering from a kidney transplant; is Obama really going grey?; even the First Lady enjoyed the new swing set; it never ends…opponents to same-sex marriage in CT say the law will promote homosexuality; ‘Watchmen’ seen as following the story, but lacking imagination & excitement, an ‘empty’ movie…while another ‘watcher’ said it was a great movie…see it for yourself, I’m waiting for the DVD, then I will watch the ‘Watchmen’; AnnTaylor closing stores; consumer borrowing climbed in January; another bank closed in GA; Louisiana drunk driver killed three people;

person in the UK earned over $11K from collecting McDonald’s memorabilia since he was a child; tropical cyclone nears Australia; N Korean persuaded S Korean airlines to avoid entering the Communist nation’s airspace; Hillary talks with NATO & Russian officials; Mexican police & military patrolling border towns;

…3/5-09: adapt to existing circumstances

43º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…neutral review of ‘Watchmen’ by Alibi; GAQ; suspicious death of elderly woman in her home near Tenth & Central; guns found in Taylor Ranch killer’s home; go to bed very early, stayed up too late flushing out the virus; should we feel sorry for Manny Aragon?; NM fire has burned 8K acres; police tracking all W Mesa Mystery Murder tips; juniper pollen count in the thousands; dust storm at The Beach, no sign of the Sandias during the PM, shrouded in darkness; Eclipse workers not given a sixty day notice they were losing their jobs; NM jobless rate rises to 5.1%; beware liquid wind; $28 million of stimulus for NM to improve infrastructure;

start training ‘brother’ Darrel, but my main focus is to ‘stay alive’; NEVER BRAG…just state facts; not everyone has the desire or ability to work O/T; ‘I was under the impression that…’; JoAnn is a better Coder than I; back into my shell; Myrna is here, still feeling ill; Maintenance asked us to leave our office at 6:30A so they could make repairs; finished Rounds before 8A; Code Purple at 6:30A, and all day; it’s what follows your name that makes you important, or intelligent: credentials make a person; still work on FP PDI requests; big, dead bug in office; your best friend’s friend could be your enemy;

record AM cold temps in New England; T’storms in NW US; KS could reach the 90s; fire danger in TX, OK; melting SE US snow; –3º in Concord, NH; showers in San Fran & Chicago; Extremely Critical Fire Danger, per Weather Danger, from Hobbs to Pueblo to Dallas; 90s in E NM to W TX; crosswinds on E – W highways; trapped in a swaying UT ski lift;

Barbara Bush had a faulty valve, solved by open heart surgery; she will recover quickly; health professionals & union leaders meet at the White House…reform starts today: health care the cause of bankruptcies; with costs that can crush families; same–sex protests across CA; Brad Pitt meets with Nancy Pelosi, to discuss his homes being built in storm ravaged Louisiana; the Providence, RI ‘dancing cop’ created his movements, based on the beat, and his whistle, still doing his ‘job’; chimp may have permanently disfigured, its victim is considered brain-dead; Obama wants meetings across the country to discuss how to help the uninsured; American economy slowed during early 2009; McCain says there is too much ‘pork’ in “last year’s”, old business budget; abusive animal treatment at New Iberia Research CTR; ‘we know why you fly’; workers polled money, have become the latest millionaires; overqualified unemployed people just want a job; getting angry can cause cardiac arrest; the hybrid camera, smaller, lighter & thinner; Citigroup stock value drops below $1 per share, closes at $1.02;, the free, online sex trade site?; small banks thrive, make record profits; Hispanic children make up 25% of kindergarten classes: by 2023, minorities will no longer be in the minority; special interest groups at the White House; explosion in downtown Bozeman, MT damages structures; civil rights determined by the judicial system; couple have a deer as a pet; 11% of homeowners have mortgage problems; Dr. Gupta will not be the next Surgeon GEN; health care costs rising twice the rate of inflation; as its share price keeps falling, will GM survive, or go bankrupt [restructure, not go out of business: could mean 240K job cuts, and its CEO fired]; does Obama support socialism; student hid gun in school ceiling, had planned to ‘do harm’; who will watch the Watchman?; 2010 Census already falling behind; February unemployment rate was 7.9%, 650K more jobs are gone, the fourteenth monthly decline in a row; AVG weekly hours worked is at an all-time low; thirteen Marines injured in three bus collision on NC highway; the DOW keeps dropping, down another 281 points; RV maker files for bankruptcy; ME topless coffee shop doing ‘brisk’ business; single payer INS system not possible under current conditions; Robin Williams will have the same type of surgery as Barbara Bush…he can use that situation in a comedy routine; $2 flights from NYC to Detroit;

gold at $927.30 per ounce; 45 supertankers parked at sea, oil companies waiting for the right time to make the most money…talk about gluttony; this fuel three million cars during a year; two black holes merging in space?; Turkish man survived after being struck by a truck & train at the same time, only suffered minor ear bruises; UK scientists developed a $3K ‘virtual cocoon’; Hillary in Brussels; mixed foreign markets; ten London performances, part of the ‘Comeback Concerts’ by Michael Jackson, not seen onstage since 2001; forego tech items during Lent?; China not doing any better to help its sagging economy;

…3/4-09: we can’t sell this all day

53º in ABQ; 28% humidity at 6A…GAQ; no ‘real’ rain since December; NM man who had served in Iraq has died from brain injuries, received while fighting; could pimps be involved, or know who could be buried on the W Mesa Mystery?; SWAT standoff in NW ABQ ending with a man driving away after murdering employer over money, they made industrial equipment, shot in the head, suspect is armed & dangerous and could be hiding in a desolate part of NM; the two warmest back to back weeks this early in a year; man illegally hooked up cable coverage; Extreme Fire Danger; 69 days without moisture; can candidates use campaign money to buy alcohol?; Duke City Home Depot stores are hiring; Adobe was updated; next NATL Nerd Meeting should be held in ABQ; Brad’s Chiro visit today; should Tapia remain in jail?; loaded gun found in school, which student is guilty; two N NM Post Office fires; human remains found in Belen?; trying to create or update my website very early in the AM did not work; our low temp was a record high; dry weather has caused the Chaves CNTY fire; attempted virus attack on my PC, saved by NORTON; 62 year old Farmington man was kicked & beaten by three guys, just because he was talking to their girlfriends;

Hell Week, Day 2.5; I am too polite, and too quiet for JoAnn; at least I tried, completed CTI Psych, and all PEDS I/P charges, unless there was no documentation; DOH is patrolling the HOSP today, we passed the exam; Myrna is here, but coughing; Code Purple by 7A, and all day; finished labeled Rounds by 7:30A; fear keeps me alert; MGR ordered me a box of paper…that only I can use; friend of Evelyn’s daughter was beaten up by a guy; turned in audit examples, and registration reports;

dry TX; temps from 10s to 80s; chilly FL, E Coast; cold in Baltimore & DC; fires starting in FL, TX, KS, NE, NM [per Weather Channel]: temps thirty degrees warmer than normal; 7K still in the dark in VA; windy in the Rockies; arid from Denver to Roswell; Chicago ice;

Bionic vacuum cleaner, powered by a hamster; CA ‘yellow tag’: neighbor water conservation tips; wheelchair pulled by Jack Russell terrier; more ‘loan modifications’ for homeowners; Obama sees profit in stock purchases; search called off for missing boaters, 26K sq. feet were patrolled; auto sales down 41% in February, an automotive recession; America: the radiation nation; ’Pub’ Corn: alcoholic popcorn; Ted Kennedy becomes an honorary knight; keep jump starting the economy; company bonuses trying to be kept secret; US loans are the most secured; 12% vs. 30%: 2009 vs. 1943 FED Deficit; an increase in cruises; Wall ST doesn’t believe the solution is near; passenger opened door while plane was taxiing on runway after landing, man was sent to Psych HOSP; Blockbusting filing bankruptcy?; TX woman put the pedal to the metal when man tried to steal her purse, he was caught by good Samaritans; alcohol ‘could’ be carcinogenic; no APPLE products in the Gates’ home, but wife wants an IPhone; the more affordable APPLE computer; the DOW ended on a positive note; what is wrong with the First Lady taking the First Photo in a sleeveless dress?; Countrywide Mortgage making millions from the housing mess; the ‘Lost’ reunion; ‘cheap’ chic is in; a quick economic turnaround is not in America’s future; barrels of oil is piling up; white powder sent to CO office of John McCain; should the AZ SEN head the RNC?; Obama’s plan does not help people who are in foreclosure due to being unemployed; Rush: hope for failure, his shirt is color coordinated with his soul; one in five home mortgages is ‘under water’; Barbie comes with ‘optional tattoos’; Obama children get a swing set; did Mrs. Madoff inherit millions of dollars?; one person killed by CA blizzard, which dumped about six feet of snow, and shut down I-80; some [D] disapprove the Obama budget; man shot to death in CA courtroom when he attacked a judge; end of the View-Master; Reader’s Digest facing bankruptcy?; former First Lady Barbara Bush had heart surgery;

faulty altimeter readings vs. cockpit check caused the Turkish plane crash; the flaw is in the 737 fleet, whose numbers nearly reach 1,300 planes; there are job openings in Saskatchewan; twenty killed in MX prison riot; Hillary travels to the W Bank, bringing statements of support; what type of talks with Iran; Taliban GITMO detainee hooked on IPhone; Russia says the collapse of America is ‘inevitable’; foreign markets rising;

…3/3-09: diamonds: a brilliant choice

44º in ABQ; 21% humidity at 6A…GAQ; ‘re-shop’ at Goodwill; too dry to rain; warmest day since last October; now, less than fifty workers will get pink slips from INTEL Rio Rancho plant; Wallen Homes is going out of business, leaving people with unfinished structures; Santa Fe College in deep debt; three more Duke City mayoral candidates; ‘Mama Mia’ returning to NM; be yourself, have an updated résumé; gas is $1.88 per gallon; the ‘W Mesa tip line’; dry times in the Duke City; murderer may live in Taylor Ranch, targeted & killed a businessman near Paseo & Tramway; new sports complex on the W Side;

Hell Week, Day Two; training at 12:30P; I have no problem moving my lunch shift; UNM hiring at today’s job fair; finished ‘labeled’ Rounds by 7:30A; gave red envelopes to both JoAnn & Jenny; Carolyn no longer handles those requests; Evelyn gave me two loaves of bread; very busy AM Central; Myrna not feeling well, left early; using the day before, or of the discharge;

the storm is gone, the snow remains; black ice on Carolina roads; Chicago ‘lake snow’; FL freeze warnings; S TX warmth; record high temps in NM, per Weather Channel; very cold in New England, and N Plains; gusty in ‘the’ Las Vegas; temps from 10s to 80s; more CA wildfires; from heavy snow, to the deep freeze; I-85 finally reopened in SC; ‘snow day’ two good words for children; Amtrak train stranded 24 hours near Richmond, VA;

‘Mama Mia’, a movie to be seen; another Obama nominee owes back taxes; former IL GOV will ‘tell all’; $3.95 ‘breakfast meals’ at Starbuck’s; Citigroup will help those late on mortgage payments for ‘some’ homeowners; the pink dolphin in a Louisiana lake; college students helping Galveston recover from 2008 hurricane damages; did Limbaugh tantrum/speech hurt or help [R] conservatives: he hopes Obama fails; AIG created a fragile, global web; RI & MI have over 10% unemployment rates; missing FL boaters may start suffering from hypothermia; stimulus jobs have started; MA gay married couples are suing America: they are not guaranteed completely equal rights, denied FED pension benefits by the Defense of Marriage Act; ‘Square Root Day’; MA teen killed his older brother: he did not want to share the family business, a illegal drug ring; working night shifts can be bad for your health; America has to keep AIG solvent; Bowflex machines recalled again; the decline in auto sales continues; hard times can both help & hurt a marriage; IL woman accused of trying to drown her newborn in a toilet; laptop of the future has no keyboard, can handle handwriting entries; Prince & TARGET team up; US economy will remain in shambles for the rest of 2009; ‘this is only a test…please ignore the mushroom cloud you see on the horizon’; new virus attacks FaceBook; the DOW dropped; Metrolink does not allow its workers to use cell phones on the job…but many ignore that rule; the electric powered $189K Tesla; legalize ‘pot’; a taxable ‘green’ business; designing descendants?; IA city building the biggest popcorn ball; if CA goes ‘down’, the US will not go ‘up’; new loans may mean new jobs; a gay Progressive INS commercial; now is the time to invest in the stock market, when prices are low: take out a loan, and hope you are not laid off; a new Obama stimulus logo; impatient investors: show us the money…now!; stocks are down 50% from their peak: nearly 19% since Obama took office; sex shop in Olde Towne Alexandria, VA, after the owner has spent two years & $350K renovating the BLDG;

testing dog waste to determine which dog relieved on German streets, owners will be fined; three people trapped in Cologne six story BLDG; the lake of ten million harmless jellyfish; foreign markets are uneasy, $2.5 million touchtone phone, fit for, and made for a king; Earth ‘ringed’ by artificial devices; British PM meets US PRES, first European leader to do so; America focuses it main attention to E Asia; China & Japan own our loans; no diplomatic relation with Iran…for now; ‘secret letter’ from Obama to Russian leader, asking that nuclear aid to Iran be halted; Clinton in Jerusalem; rogue satellite will return, only discovered last week;

…3/2-09: the privacy paradox

42º in ABQ; 22% humidity at 6A…Hewitt Packard job fair at Santa Ana Star CTR; man charged with road rage, shooting back window of another vehicle on Cerillos RD in Santa Fe; City Different may buy more than a dozen foreclosed homes, then resell them; most of White Sands Film Festival being held at NMSU in Las Cruces; more winds as week progresses; two teens hit a police cruiser in NE ABQ; ‘Children of War, Victims of Peace’ exhibit will open at the Balloon Fiesta Museum; the W Mesa mystery; multitude of theories; my FED income tax return arrived; dig site becoming tourist site, attracting more onlookers; man accused of kissing a baby while his girlfriend was taking care of the child; senior citizens can no longer afford having pets; GAQ; White Sands INTL Film Festival moves from Alamogordo to Las Cruces; about one hundred more employees will no longer be needed at the Rio Rancho INTEL plant; Brad at the Food Bank, supplies are dwindling, either due to budget cuts or fewer donations;

Hell Week, Day One; building a better PEDS PATH; backup vs. standby; how much is ‘too much’ work?; CTI nurse lived in Yorktown, did not like the Hampton Tunnel; good yard sale this past weekend; finished Rounds by 7:40A, went to GPU, got labels; if Hope gets our charges in red envelopes, then why doesn’t she send our errors back in the same package?; backpack with slogan: ‘guys who touch this bag turn gay…and pretty’; correction: Brandi’s tryout is in March; Debbie & Linda were on the AM Central;

NC to ME ‘mega–storm’; light powder & windy in Boston; sleet from Plymouth to Cape Cod; four inches of heavy snow in ATL & Charlotte; ‘dry’ in Albany; ‘storm of the season’; bad driving along parts of I-64, I-66 & I-81 [in the Shenandoah Valley]; plenty of places without power; unusually warm temps in NM, per Weather Channel; BS = ‘blowing snow’; Philly & DC in snow emergency mode; 6K in SW VA in the dark; TN, AL car crashes; EF–2 twister struck AL; at least seven inches in parts of N VA; cold air in Dakotas; a massive mess in major metropolitan areas; roads are messy and dangerous; temps from 10s to 80s; the 1K mile blizzard; flights in Chicago grounded; CA rain; Capitol Hill in white; foot of snow fell in Richmond; Boston schools have closed; forty mile backup on I-85 near Spartanburg, SC; 100K in NC in the dark;

discuss team dynamics; people giving up technology for religious reasons; ‘no cussing week’ in Los Angeles; cat with no coat; $60 billion quarterly loss, the biggest in corporate history, we Americans now own 80% of AIG; thousands of applicants, for hundreds of jobs; an elderly woman was killed, and a man was wounded outside a K-Mart in Show Low, AZ; the ‘zombie economy’, throwing money into a big pit; lawyers & accountants are out of work; many will take any type of work, for any type of pay, as long as they are not unemployed; Barry Bonds may escape conviction on steroid use; want to hear “You’re hired”; Siegfried & Roy performed their final act with the same white Bengal tiger that ended their career; Paul Harvey, second most trusted man in America; the CIA destroyed 92 tapes that contained footage of illegal interrogation techniques; Blagojevich will write a book; an expensive device to hold 6K songs; the fourth infusion of money to AIG, bringing the total to $162 billion; man put cat in a bong; 17K sq. ft. ‘cave house’ for sale in MO; the CA economy is twice that of India; the ‘inland empire’, E of Los Angeles, is now a place where mosquitoes breed in unused swimming pools, containing green water; the DOW has dropped below 7K, losing nearly 300 points, ending the day at a twelve year low; AIG, the company that insures 74 million people & companies, including risky home loans by banks, lost money at the rate of $460K per minute; no promises this will solve the company’s financial problems; Freddie Mac CEO will resign; more people losing sleep, worrying if the recession will affect them; when tech gadgets become a luxury; building a better electronic reader; MRSA is a spreading disease; Madoff will keep his NYC penthouse; one person found from missing boat off W FL coast; new HHS SECY nominated; consumer spending rose .6% in January; ‘general discharge under honorable conditions’ for mother who has no one to take care of her children while she serves her country in Iraq; dog who sniffs for peanut products, to keep its allergic mistress safe & healthy; 25% of all prisoners are jailed within the US; there were 2.2 million incarcerated in this country in 1982: as of 2008, there are 7.3 million;

talks between N & S Korea; Hillary will travel to Israel & the West Bank; asteroid passing within 40K miles of Earth; meeting with several nations to restart Middle East peace talks; give the UK PM all the money the US has spent to bail out banks, and he can solve the global economic crisis; oil has fallen to $40.15 per barrel; foreign markets plunging;

…3/1-09: do you want to be found?

33º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…’shot to death when moving her bodies’; there is a green light to build a $1.4 million rehearsal hall for the Santa Fe Opera; spraying license plate to avoid being caught by Red Light Cameras does not work, many ways to photograph tags at an intersection; teen forced at gunpoint to drive to ‘the’ Las Vegas, and gamble with abductor; meth lab busted in Los Alamos; inmates being forced to fight, events were filmed, Grant CNTY Detention CTR corrections officer fired; who will determine house arrests vs. remaining incarcerated; Rail Runner will get its own security force; TX firm may buy, then lease the College of Santa Fe for several decades; Brad prepared Seafood Stew; more warmth for NM: no rain, just winds; there is a fifteen second film of guilty vehicle; Downtown Duke City restaurants enjoy film crews eating & filming at these sites; location scout looks for thousands of places across ABQ & NM, no place too big, or too small, will pay from $500 to $5K; an increase in Fire Danger by the end of the week; Menaul Thrift Store still doing good business; are Duke City body bones bad for tourism?; the W Mesa murder scene; common places, and common associates; local pimp had pictures of the missing women; the ‘high-risk lifestyle’ of a prostitute may provide a clue to other remains found in the W Mesa, did the ‘ladies of the night’ know each other?; a ‘job’ that affects the best of us?; hire more local workers, and higher taxes for filmmakers; Jack-in-the-Box returning to NM; Downtown Duke City expanding, five new restaurants opening; co-operative vs. New Eclipse Acquisition; selling meth from a vehicle;

winter is returning to the SE US mid-Atlantic area, up to eight inches of snow expected; stimulus check was not a taxable item; Ron Howard also turns 55 years old; FORD will reopen shutdown engine plant in Cleveland, and rehire fired workers; will Tom Brady be ‘OK’ for this year’s football season?; AL plagued by twisters; Paul Harvey was heard on over 1,200 radio stations; mercury poisoning from eating too much sushi; 200 illegal immigrants were shackled, marched through Phoenix; MX is the destination of choice during Spring Break; senior citizens might pay more for their prescriptions, under the Obama health care revision?; Paul Harvey died at his Phoenix retirement home; AOL ad for inexpensive trips to MX; at one NJ dealership, buy one expensive SUV, get a second one ‘free’; Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, is a gay icon?; sex industry does not suffer during hard times, neither does the clergy; the return of ‘Big GOVT’; blue-collar jobs turning green; AL covered by snow; IN school bus driver threatened, did nothing while teenage boys on his vehicle exposed themselves to both students, and drivers; snow is shutting down interstates, and cities from Memphis to ATL to Charlotte to Boston; about fourteen inches may fall in Philly; flights delayed from the SE US to New England; Rush Limbaugh & Mike Savage, conservative replacements, trying to be the twenty-first century versions of Paul Harvey…but they aren’t; low budget ‘slash & gash’ movies making money; Obama, the analytical PRES; Times SQ will become a pedestrian mall; [R], and the Obama ‘conspiracy theory’; fishermen missing off W FL Coast; lying to one’s fans is not considered perjury; Paul Harvey…good day!; winter storm to last at least 18 hours in New England; drivers warned about risky traveling on I-95; although it has already received $150 billion, more AIG aid is needed; while the Obama budget includes money for the wars in Iraq & AFG, the Bush financial plan didn’t; the big fight over the future of America; CA: frontline of the recession, has its first double-digit jobless rate in 25 years; DC Red Light Cameras have added $32 million to its treasury; 11.6 million are unemployed: health coverage through COBRA, Medicaid & negotiating with providers; missing KY two year old, taken by her ‘armed & dangerous’ father;

the economic ‘Iron Curtain’?; more missiles fired between Israel & Gaza [Hamas]; no one to take care of children, so will they be flown with mom to Iraq?; Chinese satellite has collided with the moon, the planned landing had started with a 2007 liftoff; shark injured teen surfer off Australian coast; Hillary Clinton in Egypt; US military deaths keep rising in AFG; car bomb in Baghdad killed four people, injured six; the ‘Cosmic Jet’; Iran ‘could’ build a nuclear bomb: some say yes, while others disagree; UN worker being held captive;

…2/28-09: watching, watching to be with you…

34º in ABQ; 40% humidity at 6A…yesterday AM, gunfight in downtown Farmington, bullets fired, two police officers involved, one man was wounded; state Health DEPT controls pot usage, in charge of its distribution: NM is one of thirteen states to allow medical marijuana, and will no longer be in violation of FED law; crying for pleasure at the Twenty-First Fiery Foods Festival, TX has won the most awards, event is sold out, people will come out to eat: Crispy Fire popcorn, 200 vendors; there is no serial killer in the Duke City, who his burying bodies on the W Mesa: more likely digging up ancient burial grounds; this is the reason Native Americans protested the extension of roads in NW ABQ; received my NM tax refund; the New Eclipse philosophy: make fewer, more expensive planes; ‘Iron Chefs’ style contest at Sandia Casino; Grants has completely cleaned an illegal dumping ground; N NM superintendent will not step down; Brad prepared Grilled Cheese Sandwiches for breakfast; another train has been added to the Saturday Rail Runner schedule; owner wants to retire, so after thirty years, the Duke City Roller King business will close in late March; cool in E NM: warm in Central & W parts of the state; woman was trying to reach a NE Heights business to pick up a check by 5P; ‘great tragedy’ for defeat of domestic partnership bill, so says NM GOV; this is a great state for human rights; xeriscape, not ‘zeroscape’; female ABQ basketball star goes to Bozeman, MT; nominated from Grammies several times, the band Slipknot, with 35 members who wear masks, whose album made its debut at number one; performing in the Duke City; new scam, men who are posing as Bernalillo CNTY fire marshals, but they are not driving an official vehicle; ABQ students trying to build a better UFO, or hovercraft made with duct tape & lawn chair; man fell from one train, only to be run over & killed by another; both a KS company & a business in MA are trying to buy Eclipse Aviation?; shooting this PM near Central & Atrisco; Four Corners power plant exceeds pollution levels; the largest crime scene in ABQ history; Magdalena school district may get less funding;
IL & NV banks forced to close; Ed McMahon hospitalized with cancer?; new type of salmonella outbreak in Omaha, NE; three people were killed when a small plane crashed in Louisiana; one bank in that state has repaid its TARP loan; fire in Boston financial district collapsed streets, firemen hampered by wet weather causing steam clouds; health workers cannot refuse rendering medical treatment based on moral objections; younger mothers are more susceptible to postpartum depression; a new look for Michelle Obama?; stocks have fallen to a twelve year low; limit ADMIN costs by health INS CO; octopus who ‘pulled the plug’ was in a Santa Monica aquarium; Johnny Walker slows production; ME topless coffee shop is a success; US Educations Chief says the school year be longer; 62% profit decline for Berkshire Hathaway, or translated into a $11.5 billion loss; home sales of DELL computers is falling; blood, brain & balls; ATL may see snow; those who oppose Obama’s budget are holding revolutionary, political ‘tea parties’ across the US; avalanche on WY – ID border has killed three people; car went out of control, and plunged into a UT river, S of Moab, a five year old girl was trapped in the vehicle; deadly twisters in the SE US; “I’ve always been comfortable with morally grey”; libraries are flourishing during these hard economic times; the death penalty costs more than spending a life in prison; K ST in DC is known as ‘Gucci Gulch’?; teen pregnancy on the rise; radio columnist Paul Harvey has died at the age of 90…’and now you know the rest of the story’; fire in TX caused by fallen power lines; three years of CA drought; Siegfried & Roy held retirement performance; 99 year old Capitol Power Plant produces plenty of pollution;

US should ‘normalize’ ties with Cuba; Tibetan monk set himself on fire; end of US military control in Iraq by August 30, 2010; the region near Krakatoa is an unusually active area, producing the fastest growing volcano, the black sand is a result of eruptions, some islands have been blown to oblivion; turbulence caused the Turkish plane crash over Amsterdam; Irish Airlines will charge to use bathrooms on planes; 2K year old writing found in Portugal dig site, an ancient Iberian language called Southwest Script; all 51 passengers were safely rescued after a plane made an emergency landing in Romania;