…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;