…1/7-10: send at the speed of love

26º in ABQ; 77% humidity at 6A…GAQ; another great video from Heidi!; Gallup mayor vs. Gallup newspaper publisher in a fight; Manzano staff revived student who collapsed, and had no pulse; very cold in Denver; attempted kidnapping of baby from Academy APT; $10 million to be spent on improving NM school playgrounds; gas is $2.59 per gallon; thanks to Nancy, I have another thermos; two NM teachers will be honored at the White House; the largest NM land swap happened; new fire station to be built in the N Valley; the first Rio Rancho mayor accused of sexually abusing minors; Duke City mother attacked a principal; Oops! Carlsbad ‘tipsy tow’ phone number was incorrect: callers reached a sex chat line;

Hell Week, Day 3½; the return of PICN to its proper ward location; Code Purple at 6:30A; I found out that my MGR was sick; 2010 surgical fee schedules have not been added;

N Plains blizzards; black ice threat; the FL ‘polar bears’ plunger in water which is warmer than the air; Santa Fe shown on the Weather Channel; snow across parts of TN, AL, GA & MS, and for Roanoke, Cincinnati, KC, Chicago, Memphis, the Twin Cities, Green Bay, Houston, Mobile, INDY, St. Louis, New Orleans, Orlando: some of these cities may see a freezing rain, sleet or rain/snow mix; 31 states are under some type of winter weather warning; city snow removal budgets are strained, equipment is breaking down, taking time to repair; temps from –0s to 60s; déjà vu?: Johnny Depp to perform in a remake of ‘Dark Shadows’?; the NATL AVG price of gas is $2.71 per gallon; a man who worked at a MO manufacturing plant shot & killed three fellow employees, and wounded eight others; is Congress ‘very close’ to creating a health care reform bill; plane returns to Miami, removes an unruly passenger; jobs cut at Lockheed Martin; ‘House of Dark Shadows’ was filmed at Lyndhurst Estate, in NY; Obama on display in Times SQ ad; get ready for higher orange juice prices? no; tragedy on I-70 in OH when a semi struck a bus carrying disabled persons, killing three of them, plus the driver; TX teen paid a friend $4K to kill his mother; the DOW ended up; Haines drops Charlie Sheen ads; the FL frozen iguanas; focus prioritize & hare INTEL; ‘the buck stops with Obama’, a leader in style; we are at war against al Qaeda; man posing as a Secret Service agent with a fake badge gained access to the HHS BLDG in DC; restaurants’ calorie count may not be accurate; monumental gay rights case in CA, should gays be allowed to marry?: a movement to split ATL into black & white sections; Palin & the Tea Party; dog set on fire gets a new home, and a kinder owner; NJ SEN stops gay marriage bill;
holiday bomber indicted, could face life in prison; UK ad says aliens will eat fat people first; gold is $1,132.40 an ounce; oil is $82.82 per barrel, having reached $83.18 this week;

…1/6-10: we might win the race

26º in ABQ; 60% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; I have sun burnt knuckles; S Valley voters reject becoming a separate town; NM is 98 years old today, the state struggled for sixty years to achieve that designation; Anthony, NM will become an independent town; San Juan College will raise its tuition; funeral parlor sends brain of deceased grandmother to her family, this article made COMCAST news; the Farmington Salvation Army has been robbed four times; cats left in condemned APT; water pipe break at MONT & WY, also in the town of Santa Clara; during lunch I watched ‘Dark Shadows’ bloopers; did a child fall into the Rio Grande in Los Lunas?; GPS bracelets for Valencia CNTY low level, teenage juvenile offenders?;
Hell Week, Day Three; a communication ‘screw up’; four PDI requests in one day; an AVG night at UNMH can cost $3K; Code Purple by 8:30A; PICN should return to its original location today; man with dementia released from UNMH without proper supervision;

Seattle showers; KY car crashes caused by icy conditions; lots of lake effect snow; temps will go down, as wind speeds go up; SE US ‘big chill’; snow for Cleveland, Twin Cities, Yellowstone NATL Park, SLC, Denver, Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago & KC; ‘mind numbing’; Manchester, UK snow shuts down its airport; frigid from MT to FL; N Plains blizzard warnings; temps from 0s to 70s; minimum radiation from airport scanners; some security cameras at Newark’s Liberty Airport were not working for hours, the invader has yet to be found; 3 [D] dropping out of politics; OR man survived, and only had minor bruises, after falling onto the tracks when an inbound train was approaching; 2010 Census sparks security fears over ID thefts; if facts have not been confirmed, why publish them?; ice shut down the coolant system of a NJ nuclear power plant; hospital acquired infections kill 100K patients each year; a ‘salad sandwich’; Hawaiian airline turned around when a man became disruptive; ABC AM News B’day!; ‘igniting debate’; Nicolas Cage owes taxes on his RI mansion; GMAC reports another loss; cable bills keep going up; seniors vs. AARP; Baltimore mayor resigned; one of our YouTube friends was in the Rose Bowl Parade; another Salvation Army got stuck with a phony check; the DOW barely ended up; is another stimulus package in the works?; the 7 mm flat screen TV; 93 year old man who survived the WWII atomic bombings at Hiroshima & Nagasaki has died from stomach cancer; snow & ice festival in China; Yemen arrests al Qaeda terrorists; gold is now $1,134.30 an ounce; oil is $82.81 per barrel; sometime between 2020–2040, there will be less oil in the ground that what has been produced; should the ‘underwear bomber’ be tried in a criminal or military court?; ‘when whales collide’;

…1/5-10: I knew what you knew when you knew it

24º in ABQ; 68% humidity at 6A…GAQ; people in charge put worker’s jobs on the line, and don’t think about the consequences; two teen escape from YDDC; which is the right tax to increase in NM?; know your rights: NM has a renter’s guide; layoffs at local hospitals?; do not use Craigslist to apply for a job; Duke City man grew 54 marijuana plants in his APT closet; my tie acts as a scarf; I saw a man wearing shorts walking around downtown ABQ, at 6A!; ABQ has a large number of board certified teachers; Mesa Air Group files for bankruptcy; rare musical instruments returned to their owner; the S Valley votes: will it become a town or remain part of a CNTY; NE ABQ APT fire, caused by someone cooking; pirated videos were found inside a vehicle during a routine traffic stop;

Hell Week, Day Two; people need to control power; MGR out for several days; will consult codes be valid in 2010?; the male Lobos basketball team keeps on winning; Lucille is using blue forms to bill for her patients;

N Plains chill; record lows in S FL; flurries in MD & WV; chilly in ATL, Miami, JAX & New Orleans; cold in NYC, Erie, Albany, Asheville, Rapid City, Billings, INDY, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Bristol [both in TN & VA] & Roanoke; very cold in the FL panhandle & peninsula; snow & ice in Poland; temps from 0s to 70s;

Glendale, AZ lumber fire; 48 hours couch potato record; NV gunman opened fire prior to reaching the security checkpoint; Obama held a security meeting; is a pocketknife a weapon?; did someone threaten to shoot Obama when he was being sworn into office?; debut of the GOOGLE ‘Android’ phone; 45% of those polled are not satisfied with their job, the lowest in 22 years; HAZMAT situation shut down Bakersfield, CA airport for two hours, two people reported getting sick; being gay in the ‘big city’ is not as happy as one thinks; many large US cities have jobless rates higher than the NATL AVG; lotto is a big gamble; girl struck & killed by Amtrak train, just N of Baltimore; being a ‘loner’ has its good & bad points; cargo jet crashed in Chicago suburb; ESPN will start a 3–D channel; three terminals were shut down at the Twin Cities airport when the dog detected a suspicious bag; the DOW ended down; Americans eat the equivalent of 109 football fields of pizza, per day!; Obama says our INTEL is ‘imperfect’; ‘money can make a difference if it’s spent properly’; police removed explosives from WA APT complex; more young people do not like their jobs, and location is an important factor; did the FED GOVT fail to ‘protect’ airline passengers?; using warm well water to protect FL crops; elderly drugged at nursing homes across the US: chemical vs. physical restraint; fugitive on the run for killing a UT sheriff’s deputy; strange: woman drowned her grandson in a bathtub so he would not have to grow up in a divorced family; premium a key factor in health care reform; [R] congressman utters a racial slur; man who made PEZ a sensation has died at the age of 87; man has devil horns tattooed over his eyes;

US embassy reopens in Yemen; the $1.5 billion tower, takes two minutes to reach the top; a CIA double agent became a suicide–bomber, he was also a Jordanian doctor; gold is $1,123 per ounce; oil is $81.64 per barrel; not so good looking people being dropped from dating website, they gained weight during the holidays; more quakes rock the Solomon Islands; a crab that resembles a strawberry; is the US at war with Islam?; snow swamps Chinese train; there are 1,600 pandas in the world; do full body scans break child porn laws?;

…1/4-10: meaning of the music

27º in ABQ; 61% humidity at 6A…GAQ; body found on Pajarito Mesa; another couple accused of child abuse, while staying at Joy Junction; no chance for retaliation; fog in E NM; NM gets a FED Grant to help the homeless; lease space, or purchase a new BLDG for NM DOT; Atrisco APT complex will be closed at 4P today; district court working reduced hours; will Anthony, NM become an official city?; gas is $2.55 per gallon; Brad made Brunswick Stew; proposal 2% pay cut for state workers?; Apollo College evacuated after a man was sighted caring a sign reading ‘Bomb’; multiple, unanswered and unreturned calls to & from CYFD about the child abuse case; Lance Armstrong speaks kindly about NM in his latest book;

Hell Week, Day One; it was another busy weekend, with someone complaining about not locating PICN billing forms; return to a land where I am not liked; and so, we begin another year; heard over the intercom: “Dr. West, please go to 5–E; several UNMH staff wished me a happy holiday; oh, well…; how do you remain confident when people keep saying you’re not?; during the New Year’s weekend, PICN moved to fourth floor; starting the year with zero TES edits; the system keeps going up & down; flooding on the fifth floor of the Pavilion; received 2010 billing sheets; no use crying over frozen milk; the ‘Please Show ID’ statement when you board a bus; no names, please; how long will it take before my MGR says I did something wrong?;

very cold in Chicago, Twin Cities, Rapid City, Fargo & Cleveland; snow for MS,AR, OH, MI, NY, PA, TN & New England; cold in ATL, Orlando & Miami; heavy snow in Beijing; snow makes places look & feel colder, such as Boston; flurries for the NW US & N Rockies; FL freeze warnings, crops at risk; up to three feet of snow fell in VT; temps from –0s to 70s;

power failure at NATL Airport; man shot two people, killed one at a FED BLDG in ‘the’ Las Vegas, the downtown area looked like it was under attack; the race to raise the roof on credit card rates; the DOW ended up; children who are spanked when young tend to be more successful?; Morgan Freeman is the new CBS voiceover?; another uninvited guest at the White House?; ‘Sanctuary’ was renewed for another season; the top topic is terrorism; man killed by a SUV while eating a meal in a CA restaurant; NM makes NATL news in an unfashionable way: man locked his grandmother inn her room so he could enjoy New Year’s Eve celebrations; the 2010 color is turquoise; being polite for an entire day?: can you do it?; a choreographed ice skating dance to the song ‘Your Love’ by Lime; transgender woman part of Obama ADMIN?; for $1 million, companies can buy a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; this is the coldest weather in 25 years, that covers so much of the US: pipes are bursting in ATL;

volcanic eruption in Philippines; the end of the immigration ban for people with HIV/AIDS; Yemen, the global security threat; no changes in security procedures at foreign airports; plane had ‘technical difficulties’ when it ended off the tarmac; mudslides shut down nuclear reactor in Brazil; 6.5 earthquake shook the Solomon Islands, followed by several aftershocks, one reaching 7.2 magnitude; heavy snow caused people to be stuck at a UK pub for three days & nights; oil increased to $81.49 per barrel; gold rose to $1,119.20 an ounce; at 2,717 feet, the Burj Dubai is twice as tall as the Empire State BLDG, and has the highest mosque [on the 158th floor]; more unusual objects observed in space;

…1/3-10: pennies, and sense

23º in ABQ; 62% humidity at 6A…Santa Fe teen burglars apprehended; Brad made Butterscotch Pudding; groundwater contamination at three Roswell diaries; NM ABQ shooting at Coors & Irving; NM legislature faces a change to the definition of ‘marriage’, and providing equal rights to domestic partners; child blew into father’s ignition interlock device, then the drunk parent drove three children inside his vehicle; the Duke City has its confirmed first homicide for 2010; pot found at Luna CNTY Detention CTR; a game of ‘play knifing’ results in one person being seriously stabbed; a nonviolent ‘tea party’ in Alamogordo; landlord still refuses to pay for APT complex repairs; SE NM AM fog; no NM income tax increase?; – 6º in Angel Fire this AM; saw ‘Impact’ yesterday; both of us slept through the alarm this AM; Heidi is 100 steps of me in creating music videos, she is a very talented person, and a dear friend; living in a land of lambs, and sharks; we saw our lamps on NCIS episode; fix the APT complex, or it gets shut down: its owner is in CA…the heaters have been removed, but not replaced, tenants have hotel vouchers; elderly couple found dead in a San Juan CNTY field; Doug Fernandez of KOAT is ‘cool’; woman struck in the arm by New Year’s Eve bullet; was the death of a Wal-Mart worker that took place at work a result of natural causes?;

temps from 0s to 70s, with snow expected for Boston; five football teams try for playoff positions; another tragedy: teenage AZ girl accidentally ran over & killed her brother while ‘playing’ being chased by their vehicle; 100K LG dehumidifiers being recalled, they could start fires; 2010: the return of the V8 engine?; more sadness: four year old GA boy killed by a bullet while he was in church; Tom Brady has broken ribs?; INDY, New Orleans, Patriots lost: the Steelers won; Dallas won, Denver lost; many pay too much for cell phone usage; foreclosures will continue in 2010; has NATL security replaced health care reform as our primary focus?; ‘Avatar’ earned $68.3 million this weekend, tops $1 billion worldwide; get ready for a rocky recovery?; modeling nude for photo in Akron, Ohio; IN man robbed a gas station, using pantyhose as a mask; Newark terminal locked down when a man walked through the wrong side of a security checkpoint;

US & UK shut down their embassies in Yemen, these two countries have pledged to fund a police patrol in that country; heavy floods in Australia; U2 is still attracting huge crowds, and making money on concert tours; travel in China to celebrate the Lunar New Year may increase the spread of H1N1; Brazil battles deadly mudslides; MX drug cartel boss apprehended; the Burj Dubai, AKA the ‘superscraper’, the world’s tallest BLDG, will open tomorrow, it has over 160 stories; Picasso paintings stolen from a home in S France; 5.1 quake rocked Tajikistan; US GEN Petraeus meets with Yemen PRES; tragedy: racecar went off the track in Argentina, killing one spectator; no injuries reported after an Air Berlin jet veered off the runway; huge oil spill off coast of China; pizza was first made in Naples, Italy; Heathrow, the busiest airport in Europe, will add full body scanners; four people have been killed from recent Swiss avalanches; 6.5 quake in the Solomon Islands; 5.3 quake rocked the Philippines;

…1/2-10: almost official

24º in ABQ; 68% humidity at 6A…I have been spoiled, being able to stay up later than usual, and stay in bed longer; the murder rate increased by 40% in Bernalillo CNTY during 2009; vehicle drove into a home in NE ABQ, then left the scene; house fire at Second & Griegos; a man was found unconscious & bleeding at Copper & TX in NE ABQ; equine disease appearing in TX counties bordering NM; Burger King break-in in Deming; faulty sensor caused Continental flight to return to SunPort; the Duke City will require people to have permits to sell homemade food; for the second year in a row, NM won the Grand Marshal Trophy in the Pasadena Parade, a float that contained 50K roses; Brad started taping his latest painting; the number of Duke City bank robberies have dropped; truck smashed into tree as Constitution & WA; NM residents will be able to view online large contracts entered into by the state; first Duke City baby was a boy; pool plunge raised $800 for Ronald McDonald House; two women were injured when their car crashed into a home this PM, and they were trapped in the vehicle; there was an ABQ police ‘situation at Wal-Mart on Coors near I-40; two canines pardoned by NM GOV; ate at Two Fools, had another wonderful meal; a temporary tax hike for NM?; an elderly couple found dead in NE Duke City APT complex, signs point to a murder–suicide; Holiday greetings to all my YouTube viewers;

‘transparency’ & ‘czar’ are the latest ‘banned’ words; another fire, another five people killed, this time in Palm Springs, CA; police chase truck who stole a vending machine that was tied to the back of the vehicle; the fall of the [D] in 2010?; 1906 San Fran quake survivor has died at the age of 107 years old; soup kitchen served caviar as part of holiday meal; NC bans smoking in bars & restaurants, a state that produces about half of America’s tobacco; twenty-five illegal tunnels uncovered under Nogales, AZ; new INTEL says that al Qaeda is planning to attack the US again, and soon; during the last month, three American Airlines planes have suffered mishaps: the wings of two jets touched the runway, and another slide off the tarmac; a Delta flight returned to Boston when the pilot smelled smoke in the cabin; the end of corporate tax breaks?; more states may legalize marijuana?; pancakes in a can have made its creator millions of dollars; snow in New England;people in Rome also took the “New Year’s Plunge”; four ships hijacked off Somali coast; volcano erupted in E Congo; bomber struck at a PAK volleyball game, killing nearly 100 people; Iran threatens to make its own ‘nuclear fuel’; militants vs. insurgents;

…1/1-10: elements for freedom

21º in ABQ; 62% humidity at 6A…a ‘chili drop’ was held at the ABQ CONV CTR; I slept well, did not hear the fireworks or gunfire; Western Palisades APT complex has 100 safety violations; more Duke City churches are becoming targets for thieves; home invasion injured a man, who went to the MVD at Lomas & Eubank for help; no one was injured when a bullet went through the roof of a SW ABQ home; NM has a float in the Tournament of Roses Parade; Brad in the process of creating his next painting; me working on my websites, Brad continuing to paint: these are signs of the new decade; sorting & taping my comic book series; toasting the new year with champagne; watching ‘Julie & Julia’; CNN visited NM Military Institute in Roswell;

gays & lesbians will be able to wed in NH; dawn of a new decade; INTEL INFO not shared; highs from single digits to the 60s; snow in NW US, rain for FL; tons of confetti fell in Times SQ; a trans fat ban begins in CA; CO ties its minimum wage to the inflation rate; in 1904 the first New Year’s ball contained 100 light bulbs; the FOX/Times Warner cable dispute continues; Obama says the US rose to meet the challenges of 2009, and face the ‘Armageddon economy’ of the 2008; but twenty million people remain unemployed; what is the point of a good paying job if you don’t like what you do?; shoplifters stealing gift cards; Barnabas Collins: the best TV vampire; more apocalyptic movies to start the new decade; should Obama spend less time in front of the camera?; two people killed in downtown Detroit hotel fire; ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ pilot led the Rose Bowl Parade; NW Airlines flight diverted when a suspicious package was found: when opened, it contained a holiday ornament; no news, just football bowl games; another sad event: MO house fire killed five people, three of who were children; another screening problem; another jet had to return to its departure city;

N Korea wants to end hostile relations between itself & the US; Hong Kong demands democracy; antibiotic resistance is a global problem, but Norwegians have stopped taking so many medications, and are winning the battle of the ‘Superbug’; the ‘bin Laden of the Internet’; Russia raised the price of vodka to curb the rising number of alcoholics; $1.1 million Degas painting stolen from a museum; ‘targeted sanctions’; there were no US combat deaths in Iraq during December;