…12/30-08: one world, one whopper

28º in ABQ; 78% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; million dollar bail for man who shot & killed fourteen year old girl in the face at a Duke City party this past weekend, who laughed at his nickname; man beaten in Valencia CNTY; car crash on I-25 near San Felipe Pueblo; not enough parking spaces for Rail Runner riders at the Journal CTR; $198 million to buy Eclipse Aviation; SW ABQ home had history of complaints, owner was on parole, now charged with violation; police chase ended near Central & Tenth, after vehicle caused two crashes on I-40; Rio Rancho bank robbery at Southern & Unser; N NM cult leader learned his fate: ten years in jail; candle caused Aztec church fire; Red Line will run late tomorrow night, into New Year’s Day; frost on cars; ski accident on Sandia slopes; ten year old was also killed in another skiing incident, she was not wearing a helmet; truck struck SW ABQ home; there have now been 80 bank robberies in the Duke City this year; chemically happy people will have Gruet champagne; taxes collected for Valencia CNTY HOSP that is not being built, $2.8 million in a fund;

Day Five for work; very busy yesterday, in terms of admissions, eleven admissions; Dr. Greger is the primary endocrinology doctor; finished Rounds by 9A; saw Myrna, not Evelyn; took PM Red Line; Linda, Debbie, Steve & myself are going to spend New Year’s Eve…sleeping; Glenda, a head nurse who makes lots of money, making important decisions, did not want me to Brad & I to be lonely on New Year’s Day;

beware of blustery winds from Buffalo to Boston; Chicago: from 7º to 61º in five days; Twin Cities snow, parts of I-90 in NY; N Rockies snow; NW US rain; summer in Sydney; Spokane, WA supermarket roof collapsed under weight of snow, the most for this city in a December; temps from 0s to 70s; eleven men buried in Canadian avalanches; rivers overflowing from IA to OH; rain caused floods in WI & IL;

Eve of the ‘eve’; sell mismatched jewelry for cash: own our refinery, and its smelt; Chief of Staff formerly resigning his House seat, to become Chief of Staff for the PRES Elect; Holocaust romance was a hoax, memoirs have to be verified, book endorsed by Oprah; Bush lost all credibility with the American public after Katrina; IL GOV is innocent; passenger who jumped from cruise liner committed suicide, she was celebrated her first wedding anniversary?; NATL AVG price of gas is $1.61 per gallon; easier to get auto loans?; millionaire sells FORD stock for a loss; photos of early TV shows on US stamps; 250 minor quakes have shaken Yellowstone NATL Park; forty floats in Rose Bowl Parade; Lions & Jets looking for new coaches; Sarah Palin is a grandma; retail landscape keeps changing; sales & selling tactics failed; the inventor of a McDonald’s meal, the voice of Snoopy & Woodstock passed away in 2009; ‘Girls Who Want to Have Fun’ was written by a boy!; MICROSOFT wants a ‘pay to use’ PC?; 3K malls may close by June, 2009; America has twice the necessary retail space; the photo phone, shades of Dick Tracy!; ID father told his son & daughter to walk ten miles in snowy weather, when their truck got stock in snow, she died; acupuncture can help headaches; AIG has received $127.7 billion in bailout bucks; one PRES at a time!; consumer confidence collapsing; Cloris Leachman is the Grand Mistress for the Tournament of Roses Parade; crooks get captured, after accidentally dialing 911 by mistake; champagne sales have gone flat; home prices have dropped 27 months in a row, and by 18% from one year ago; Blagojevich will pick the new IL SEN; CA ‘Santa killer’ planned to murder his own mother; consumer confidence has dropped from 90% to 38% in one year; saw ‘Watchmen’ sneak peak on ET; ‘so help me God’ not in the original oath; the US is in an obesity epidemic; blazing dead body in CA trash can; Kevin Bacon bilked by Madoff; worst holiday season in forty years, hard times could continue another 2 – 3 years; former IL ATTY GEN maybe the next IL SEN, an act of political defiance; if the choice is not ‘tainted’, Congress is powerless in the decision; when it comes to ‘the’ Las Vegas, all bets are off, except for conventions;

Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus in Peru; Japanese ‘tenant’ leaving MX airport, with woman, drove away; foreign markets declined in 2008; oil dropped to $39.42 per gallon, the biggest decline in one year; Hamas retaliates, but 50% of their rockets have been destroyed Obama is being kept aware of Middle East activity; no ceasefire, or quick resolution, being discussed; Israel has allowed some food supplies into the Gaza Strip; trial for man known as the Bush ‘shoe thrower’ has been postponed; peace pact proposal by France, truce on the table: a 48 hour halt on attacks;

…12/29-08: I know what good is!

26º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…Brad at the Food Bank; nicked my ear; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; teen shot & killed girl in SW ABQ party; man fired bullets at stripper club’ mysterious woman with no ID was hit & run victim in Santa Fe; callers cannot reach the unemployment ‘hot line’, but people will not be penalized if they are late; White Sands Monument closed for a few hours, so tourists will have a new entrance center & road; the mommas with their new puppies, that had been abandoned; two men opened fire at a supermarket parking lot, but no one was injured; in search of the Tiffany Ball; 20K rode the Rail Runner this weekend; NM Highlands & College of Santa Fe merger still on the table?; weekend fire at Aztec church; a letter from Martha; plenty of people at the River of Lights; Eclipse will probably be sold by early 2009;

semi-end to ‘vacation’; ripped pants fixing copier; finished Rounds by 8:30A; Hope was in for part of the day; Brent helped me locate ‘missing’ Nephrology patients; took PM Red Line, arrived home about 3:30P; when some people don’t feel like working, they just get up, and leave; two managers: Japanese vs. Spanish; slightly less crowded AM R/R;

snow in Buffalo, Burlington & Boston; E Coast record highs, from RI to GA; temps from 0s to 70s; Seattle rain; Richmond, along Powhite PKWY, and parts of I-64 & I-95; S FL fog; warm from the Midwest to TX; one million airline passengers travel plans disrupted; MI winds [400K in the dark], IL floods; strong winds bent goalpost in Buffalo; N Rockies snow; avalanches kill people in WY & British Columbia, others are still missing after Canadian blizzards: weaker snow causing avalanches;

buy the SEN Craig stall in airport?; Anniston beat Pitt at the box office; man lives undetected in PA attic for a week, stealing food from family; the worst year in stocks since the Great Depression; the day GM & Chrysler get billions of bailout bucks from Americans, considered the first installment, will be back for more, up to $100 billion; Amityville explosion wreck home, but no one was injured; $10K statue stolen from Madoff FL mansion; TN sludge is one week old; money in cracker box was ‘life savings: no person claimed the $10K, and no reward for family; who really owns the 850 pound emerald, could be worth $370 million; driver dies when fuel truck crashed, and exploded; yesterday, NYC residents shred away their problems on Good Riddance Day; enjoy a book via E-mail; fifteen year old girl killed two men, then dismembered one of the bodies; childhood stress can linger into adulthood; AZ grain silo explosion burnt three workers; how to paint like Pollack?; exploding manholes strike Savannah; the bad economy means Las Vegas is ‘out of luck, and low on money’; the good news: New England did it without Tom Brady; the bad news: both the Broncos & the Patriots are in ‘first’ place, but not in the playoffs; the DOW was down; the Duchess of Carnegie will not leave her NYC studio APT, except if paid $10 million; turn the Detroit Lions Stadium into a parking lot of unsold GM & Chrysler vehicles; $5 billion to GMAC; oldest man in the US has died at the age of 112; is yellow ‘the’ color for 2009?; [R]: old white, rural, rich [?];

asteroid impact video being sold on EBay?; it’s free on YouTube; foreign markets rising; Kuwait cancelled DOW deal; Obama cannot yet address the Middle East problem; Syria has cut off peace talks; Israel ready for ground assault, air strikes during day & night, controls the border, transport of goods; in the Gaza Strip, poverty & unemployment are high, at least 300 have been killed; what is the ‘next move’; ‘business as usual’ in Jerusalem, with tourists walking the streets, the Jewish ‘military machine’; Arabs are protesting both sides of this conflict; Israel has declared war on Hamas; the third day of the sixtieth year of peace initiatives; Gaza [now, 146 sq. miles, 1.4 million inhabitants] vs. Hamas vs. Israel; Britain rating websites; oil reached $40.89 per barrel; Israeli elections planned for next week;

…12/28-08: you are here for a reason, so are we

22º in ABQ; 42% humidity at 6A…hoodie weather; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; weird bus schedule for Sunday; new Central bus for AM ride; tap the magic; not as cold as expected; Brad baked tasty Orange Biscotti; ABQ woman stuck in Chicago; the renovated La Fonda will open in March, 2009; so far, there have been forty murders in the Duke City: that is less than in 2007, but ten that took place this year are still unsolved, most are gang or drug related; plane makes an unexpected, but safe landing in a field on the Santa Domingo Pueblo; yesterday, there were 8K Rail Runner riders; Brad made a tasty Chicken Noodle Soup;

worked on yearly review; leave at 3P; more money, more production, more fatigue; finished Rounds by 8:30A; Jenny has no work; PM ride: took the 5 bus to the 66 bus, a new, filled AM Central; MGR just wants to irritate me, is she affected by the multiple lawsuits, and constant grievances, so she loses her temper; arrived home slightly after 3:30P; no Blue Line R/R on Sunday; Evelyn arrived about noon, then did her Rounds, and left; ability to overcome adversity; sixty day advisory notice; stress slows me down; ‘armchair advice’;

zonal flow; NYC rain; SE US fog; severe weather from OK to OH; chance of T’storms & twisters; ID snow, more in other parts of N Rockies; cool SW US, NW US rain; temps from 10s to 70s; up to three hour airport delays; record heat in NE US; power outages in Midwest; avalanche warning in N Rockies; snow slide shut down parts of I-90 in WA;

will Detroit go the entire season without winning one game?; even hospitals suffering from ‘bad debt’, poor investment losses, to many uninsured patients & credit problems: from poor NJ towns to rich Beverly Hills; buy land, build a ranch in CO, owner will help finance, five & ten acre lots, discounts if paid by cash; free tools from Home Depot; states want to ‘sell’ parks & roads; time to run off holiday excess weight; potential RNC leader chances not aided by CD with controversial song; buy a replica of Captain Kirk’s chair or buns toaster via the sky mall catalogue; getting the Waterford Crystal Ball ready for New Year’s Eve; ‘usually, dry NM’ bus accident made ABC AM News; ‘break my body, not my mind’ ;another rental vehicle, found by Covina killer, this one was not booby trapped; families of Flight 93 want Bush to seize land so memorial can be erected before tenth anniversary of 9–11; Sun Valley is ‘a state of mind’; Phoenix is the fifth largest city in the US [over two million people], and has inaugurated a twenty mile rail system; the Colts beat the Titans, 23 – 0; the Patriots won, 13 – 0; ‘the news starts now’; consumers are getting wiser; many people shop only when they get paid; the AVG family credit card debt is $9,800; the Lions go 0 – 16; IL is a state in crisis; all that work, and the Patriots are not in the playoff;

Prince William with a ‘soft’ beard?; number of people fall overboard each year, many never found; ‘only the beginning’ of Israel – Hamas battles, highest body count in decades, each side keeps fighting; long operation, is Palestine aided by Iran, using ground forces & long range missions; Gaza Strip is the size of DC; UN telling both sides to stop fighting; Arabic outrage against Israel, who are starving people via blockades; while Bush blames Hamas, Obama would try to negotiate; Arab college students say that countries should unite, and revolt: the list includes Turkey, Egypt, Jordon & Lebanon; Hamas calls upon the militants; Palestinian ‘smuggle tunnels’ being destroyed; the Gaza Strip is twice the size of DC, with three times the number of people [25 sq. miles, 1.5 million inhabitants]; the king of Saudi Arabia called Bush, asking for US help to ease tensions; ‘the outrage factor’; suicide bomber killed 16 in AFG, bring the total number of citizens in that country murdered to 6K; price of gold is still high;

…12/27-08: be happy, be healthy, be easy

21º in ABQ; 59% humidity at 6A…Colby’s Sustiva dream, searching for inexpensive prescriptions; two feet of snow in Chama; GAQ; ABQ mayor trying to shut down Second Chance; TX pilot unharmed after his plane lost power in the E MTN, he was able to land safely; shooting in SW ABQ killed a woman; a man was murdered in the backyard of a NE Duke City home; this year, 62 bank robberies have taken place in ABQ; it will be a very cold night; the Boys & Girls Clubs on Acoma Pueblo will have to close its doors, due to lack of funds; two separate semi crashes shut down I-10 between Deming & Las Cruces; bus crash N of Corona has killed two people, made COMCAST news: driver was dealing with both black ice & maneuvering a detour, this accident was mentioned on ABC Nightly News; late, but tasty, fusion supper; go to bed earlier tonight…much earlier; ice & snow caused crash on US 550 near Cuba, killing two people; an $88 million mansion in Pagosa Springs, CO; Bonsai!;

Saturday schedule for buses to & from work; took cold AM R/R; no Jenny at 9A; finished Rounds by 8:30A; work until 3P; Anna & Aaron wished me holiday greetings; Jackie told Evelyn & Myrna there is no courier service, so we keep Coding, while Data Entry doesn’t anything, until the big rush at the end of the Closing; KOAT on UNM hill this AM; returned home via R/R Blue Line, arrived about 3:35P; Myrna’s granddaughter was slightly ill, suffering from dehydration, brought to Urgent Care…treated & released; wedding pictures taken near UNM Pond; someone regrets making the decision that I work through the entire Winter Break;

SE US fog; temps from [10s] 20s – 80; Winter Weather Warnings for New England, Great Lakes, Central Plains; storms across the Midwest; chance of twisters in TX, MO, AR & Louisiana; foot of snow in UT; N Rockies snow; ‘warm’ in Worcester, and Miami; heavy rains mean flood warnings for Chicago; roof tiles blown off homes by 80 mph gusts; Flagstaff roof collapsed from heavy snow; crumpled cars scattered along IL & IN interstates; 60s in Chicago; record heat along E Coast; W Coast airport delays; KY twisters; “Bah, Humbug!”;

‘grow business, not debt’; NATL Clandestine Service wants you; more people buying wine on the Internet; good Zinfandel from Paso Robles; using drugs to make you look younger; financial & physical fitness; landscape of Wall ST altered; put 3 – 6 months of money to handle bad times; goodbye ‘buying power’; storm caused power blackout on HI; companies watch credit card owners who can only pay the minimal amounts; key question: is Caroline Kennedy qualified; Madeira wine making a comeback; Philly house fire kills four adults, three children; no more ‘easy money’; IL GOV is impeachable; ‘Barack, the Magic Negro’ politically incorrect; $250 ‘gym sneakers’; stock market motto: “if successful”; dark lips are ‘in’; CA killer murdered children, a planned attack, unhinged after divorce, had $17K and plane ticket to Canada; both boys beaten in Phoenix park have died; ‘technology contributor’?; supply, but no demand; man studies retail traffic; the era of empty shelves, stores reducing their inventory; one billion gallons of sludge in TN; consumers want nothing but bargains; bad forecast for mall store sales; pocket size video camera is ‘in’ for 2009; many senior citizens cannot read; no one wants to spend more than $1K at one time, or for one purchase; tailored, pleated pants is ‘in’; the future looks good for fortune tellers; the Dark Knights of 2008; 30 million adult Americans cannot read; family finds $10K in box of crackers; ‘sell’ date vs. ‘use’ date; man broke into a house, and stole underwear; ‘Man of La Mancha’ author has died from congestive heart failure, at the age of 94; Celtics lose two in a row; NATL AVG price of gas is $1.630 per gallon, with AK & UT having the highest & lowest costs; 150K businesses will close by the end of 2008; ‘clean coal’?; fastest drop of house prices in forty years; people ‘living’ in two homes; 45% have paid to get out of their homes in November, suffering a net loss; in Philly, man shot father in the arm at movie because the victim’s family was talking during the film, attacker had also thrown popcorn at the family’s son; Coca-Cola is number one, but Pepsi is numbers two, four & five; celebrities overpowered the soda; Michael Jackson never drank a Pepsi during any commercial; 900K residents of Oahu are in the dark;

Greek wine is ‘in’; MX not buying US meat, blaming sanitation reasons; Israel bombed Gaza City, and Hamas compounds, hundred dead, six month ceasefire over?; PAK has become a more dangerous country; Bhutto was assassinated one year ago today; Arabians used spirits for medicinal purposes, but the beverage had been consumed by the ancient Greeks, Romans & Chinese; people throwing shoes at Bush image; building exploded in China, collapsing construction lift, killing 32 workers; US supports the country, not the group; Israel’s ‘opening step’ took place in broad daylight, only Egyptians have offered any aid to Hamas, who have been charged with blamed for breaking the ceasefire first; Jewish people describe talks with Arabs as ‘like negotiating with al Qaeda’; in Scotland, woman survived after being locked inside the trunk of a car for ten days;

…12/26-08: the truth behind the eye

42º in ABQ; 70% humidity at 6A…GAQ; ‘save the best for last’ sales; from warm to cold, in wind & weather; could see 80 mph winds in S CO; District Court sees 2.5% budget cuts; Red Light Cameras at four Las Cruces intersections; $1.7 billion not used in NM during the past six years?; another woman charged with child abuse, leaving her five year old alone; domestic partners in NM may be allowed to have civil unions, with ‘equal rights’ as married couples; E MTN house fire; weather: from mild to wild; on 1/1/09, $7.50 per hour minimum wage in NM; a dumping ground for inmates?: Second Chance housed violent criminals, violating its purpose; Bank of the West on Eubank was robbed today;

maybe declare defeat, and let the MGR win; empty AM R/R; made it to the bus, with one minute to spare, not on a Saturday schedule; Mole for Myrna; finished Rounds by 8:30A; together with Myrna & Evelyn; blast of snow at 11A, 1P & 3P; took PM Central; home of CTI nurse burglarized twice this week; marriage for Evelyn, a black diamond ring?; Myrna’s family arrived in several groups, not all at one time; man on crutches walking across the campus; left at 3P; at first, very warm office, then cooled down; ice & snow when leaving work; Myrna calls where we live ‘the country club area’; someone had hangover from too much rum;

five snowplows slid off I-55 near Chicago; EF – 0 twister; reported in AL; Orlando fog; icy on parts of I-80, I-88, I-90 surrounding Chicago; temps from 0s to 80s; freezing rain in Benton Harbor; 600 fights cancelled in Chicago; squall line from Houston to Chicago to San Antonio to St. Louis; record highs in the Central Plains, and SE US; downpours in S CA, make cities vulnerable to mudslides; wet in NW US; blizzard conditions force CA interstates to shut down; Olympia school roof collapsed from snow;

‘the best savings after the holiday’; nine people have died after ex-husband interrupted a holiday party, spread fire accelerant, guests hid under furniture; IL GOV wants transcripts & tapes from Obama team; a second ‘Black Friday’?; online sales also dropped; TN coal sludge harmful to health, worse than Exxon Valdez?; contains toxic heavy metals that may be flowing to the TN River, is drinking water safe; no profits for retailers; revenge after a divorce; people still afraid to spend money; beware of shoplifters & ID theft, on the increase during desperate times; lower disk spinal surgery, recovery time from days to hours; 40% polled get most of their news online, but everyone still watches TV to get informed; another plane slid off the runway, this time at Midway in Chicago, nobody was injured; double the AVG AMT of snow fell in Chicago; the ‘retail nightmare’; consumers have spent 8% less this holiday season, fear gift cards could become worthless; DC waitress get a diamond wedding ring, as a tip from one of her regular customers; who has ‘disposable income’ these days?; the DOW ended up; CA killer had booby trapped his rental car to explode, the Santa suit he tried to remove melted to his skin; mercury & arsenic in TN sludge; Eisenhower was the last PRES Elect who was the country’s most admired man; this time of the year is when retailers make 50% of their profits, maybe it is a buyers’ market for now; boy killed at NY skating rink party; lawsuit may prevent March, 2009 release of ‘Watchmen’; Bush: divided, not united; can money buy PRES pardons: Truman ‘forgave’ 1,900 people; CA, the eighth largest economy in the world, is going broke: the state will be out of money by early 2009, should there be a new thirteen cents gas tax?; 75% of those polled are ready for Bush to leave; FL woman faked missing five month old baby to reunite with ex-husband; people not using credit cards as much this holiday season; Obama needs to choose a CIA director; TN sludge has doubled in size; PRES now has a 27% approval rate; Palin, the Polarizer, was the second most admired woman in the US; big stores want bailout bucks; Amazon.com did OK this season;

Australian cat fell 34 stories, and survived; text messaging elephants?; foreign markets closed for holidays; tiny Chinese electrical car company was making cell phones, only started building autos in the twenty-first century; Pope prayed from those affected by the global recession; oil has risen to $37.71 per barrel; vehicle production in Japan is 20% lower than same time, last year; now, 27 dead in Ukraine APT house blast; PAK forces approaching Indian border; CIA giving Viagra to AFG men for info; at the brink of war?; PAK will act if attacked; cruise passenger missing, disappeared when the line was off the coast of MX;

…12/25-08: assess our own assets

34º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…free food brought thousands to Olde Towne, many enjoyed the traditional setting; minor details being completed to build Spaceport NM; red or green?; that’s a tough question; many like ‘Christmas’; icy roads in NW NM; Luminaria still burning at The Beach in early AM hours; where did my glass of orange juice go?; hidden behind a bag in our refrigerator; NM is the fifth largest state in size, so ABQ has the fifth largest ‘wish list’, asking for $2 billion in funds; burst of snow in N NM; the calm before the bigger storm tomorrow; bank robber killed himself in CO prison; very busy at NE Duke City Wal-Mart yesterday, but some last minute customers thought the prices were higher than earlier December; CO blizzard expected; NM ‘men of steel’ make fireplace gratings; why am I constantly constipated?; why can’t people help me solve my problems; police officer charged with being a ‘peeping tom’; Brad made great Mole; motorcycle accident on I-40 near Rio Grande injured the driver; holiday gift cards stolen from CYFD children in Quay CNTY; Second Chance Rehab CTR produced the necessary paperwork to provide itself ‘a second chance’; NW NM school district wants to increase teacher housing rental rates by $150/month;

airliner skid on icy runway in Chicago; engine problems forced a second plane back to O’Hare; TX interstate killer died; domestic mail FEDEX sorting stations open this AM; deicer smelled like pepper spray; lousy economy, deals get better; Snowflake, AZ?; the ‘Santa spirit’?; eat smaller meals, because reflux results in insomnia; Obama spoke to Americans from his HI vacation location; scammer Madoff had a yacht named ‘Bull’, several luxurious homes and private jets that were always ‘on call’; warm in Boston; some travelers spending a second night in Midwest airports; economic breakdown a reason to remember the true meaning of the holiday; biracial Eartha Kitt has died from colon cancer at the age of 81; in Covina, CA six people have died after ‘Santa Claus’ fired a gun at a party in a home that caught fire; the time to refinance: IndyMac posts the highest bank loss of $9 billion; Sirius in financial trouble; AX = Armani Exchange; Celtics lost to Lakers; 5.14% mortgage rate for a 30 year loan, the lowest in years; hundreds in KC dressed as Jesus, to remind people what is the reason of the season; “there’s no way our mom would buy us all this stuff”, so says the Obama children; today, four hour travel delays still reported; ‘homeless’ for the holidays; foreclosure: the American nightmare; PRES Elect looking back at the courage of George Washington to cope with the future crisis he faces; Frosty: the ‘man of ice’, used to sell products; blue or green: red or black holiday season; the ‘snow Godzilla’ returns; WA, a state of emergency; future flights not affected by airplane incidents at O’Hare; takes ten billion snowflakes to build a snowman; ‘Iron Man’, the best movie of 2008?; kudos for the Indiana Jones & James Bond films; CA ‘Santa Claus’ then killed himself, after taking off his outfit, and walking away from the house fire in street clothes; elderly people in nursing homes have outlived their families; NATL AVG cost for gas is $1.648, the lowest in 4½ years: AK & UT have the highest & lowest prices; waiting in the wings is ‘The Watchmen’; N Rockies snow; very warm in FL; man loses control of his vehicle, crashes through Long Island Hanukkah party, injuring 14 people; a canine thief;

Canadian woman trapped four days in her car under snow, may lose some fingers and/or toes; peaceful in Bethlehem today, holiday songs played on bagpipes; traditional live manger scene & papal mass held in Rome; more Hamas attacks on the Gaza Strip; violins also provided holiday music; oil has dropped in price by 75% since July; nineteen people have died from Ukraine APT house blast, possibly caused by gas leak; Harold Pinter has died from cancer at the age of 78; Enya: twenty years of music, and never has been ‘on tour’, second only to U2 in great, modern Irish singers; German copters defeated pirates attacking an Egyptian vessel off the coast of Somalia; earthquake in S Philippines;

…12/24-08: protect your biggest investment

30º in ABQ; 60% humidity at 6A…drink a gallon of milk in several days; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; dry today, snowy tomorrow; $15K damage at Robinson High, the school of the sexual abuse charges; Clovis woman murder suspect; stiffer penalties for crimes in Roswell; NM is still the third most dangerous state; pedestrian hit & killed at Central and Tramway; carbon monoxide poisoned killed three, injured six other in a Four Corners home; job cuts, layoffs or hiring freeze for the Duke City; new Santa Fe shelter will help house homeless youths; Mayor Chavez will have to travel less on the city’s bankroll; two storms heading towards NM; up to two feet of snow in the higher mountains; who wants to work for Denish?; more cities cutting hours & days worked by city employees; Duke City firemen helping Santa Claus; ABQ has a 25% chance of a white holiday; my body feels a storm on the horizon; PM call from Brad, the baker; I-10 accident near Lordsburg; security policeman & attorney talked frequently via cell phone in the month following their deadly hit & run incident; Clovis woman embezzled $145K in ‘tornado funds’; enjoyed lighting up the penthouse, then eating & talking with other tenants; NM unemployment rate in November was 4.3%, up 1% from the same time period last year, but much lower than the NATL rate; sixteen year old Silver City teen dies from stabbing wounds, his attacker was female; we are given less than one week to continue protection coverage on our TV; got a tiny holiday present for Brad, he found a clever holiday card for me; no recycling for three Thursdays?; jet from Holloman AFB [F-22A Raptor] will guide Santa through the SW US;

a hospital never sleeps; Jenny ‘should take her time when returning from Amarillo’; Evelyn is with me today; our office was a heater, got cooler during the AM; finished Rounds before 9A; Evelyn left at 11A; three children have died in recent weeks at UNMH; plenty of admits during yesterday; empty AM R/R; got lots of work done; Meangel readmitted yesterday; a quick Blue Line R/R, and home about 4P;

Friday Four Corners snowstorm, per Weather Channel; snow in Chicago, MI, WI; MD water main break on River RD made Weather Channel news, no injuries reported as boulders & trees added to the flood that struck a dozen vehicle, helicopters & boats rescued drivers & their passengers; more snow in NW US; temps from 10s to 70s; freezing rain: NYC & Newark; rain from ATL to DC to Boston; vehicles frozen solid in Chicago, where flights were grounded; 50% of the US is covered in snow; twelve travel deaths reported;

my second car is a bike; travel torture; roof collapse in Dearborn, MI; an Obama stimulus plan is nearly completed, and ‘no pork products’, but may cost $850 billion; in NYC, “don’t lift a finger” holiday trees, you can keep the ornaments, everything tailored to your style, and your wallet; no wiretaps, just word of mouth that Obama staff made contact with IL GOV; is a UT state trooper the ‘Dallas Interstate Killer’?; sales drop when the temperature does; airfare fees remain, even when the price of fares are decreasing; mental anguish of retailers, a store has 90% off items; Celtics have nineteen straight wins, and are 27 – 2; many children are ‘sleep deprived’; NY Horticultural Society expands its toy train village with new homes each year; consumers are waiting for the last minute, of the last minute; unemployment has not been this bad since 1982; consumer spending down for fifth straight month; six year boy injured in a restaurant during gunfight between suspect & Los Angeles police; the ‘new’ Barbie?; airport karaoke in Houston Airport; judge decides community service for couple performing a thirty minute sex act in ND bar; more mobile society means more laptops being bought than desktops; the DOW ended up; Rice & her worldly jewels; deicer gets ‘inhaled’ into plane cabin, resulting in sick passengers, sending seven of them to the HOSP; avalanche kills two in UT; GMAC can tap into the bailout booty; two AZ boys were attacked in a park, and severely injured, by adults carrying baseball bats; tale of the shirtless Obama; one dead, five injured following a CA home explosion, caused by a natural gas leak; random shootings have scared N VT citizens; the place to shop & eat is Georgetown;

foreign markets falling; MX beauty queen faces a weapons charge; bad economy in Japan means more crimes committed by the elderly; soldier relieves stress by playing the bagpipes while serving in Iraq; price of oil is now $35.35 per barrel;

…12/23-08: the food has to be awesome, and you look wonderful

42º in ABQ; 53% humidity at 6A… GAQ; Brad is smiling this AM; and I cried Sunday evening; use cell phones to access NM weather maps; River of Lights packing lots of parking lots; Brad talking in his sleep, woke me up; deadly crash in NE ABQ, driver struck bridge, died from the impact; flurries in Show Low, AZ; snow showers in Santa Fe, it’s an ‘elevation thing’; plane crash in S CO; ABQ Academy faces tuition hike; Clovis woman embezzled more than $100K; high winds across state; LANL employee suing lab for wrongful termination, the alleged disks never existed; ABQ will reward residents for going ‘green’; graduation ceremony for thirty new ABQ Police; AM rain changing to snow in the Duke City; open cans of alcohol found in sheriff’s vehicle; Luminaria bus tours’ tickets are sold out; Brad made Cranberry Nut Bread, plus two new loaves of Bread, plus Stuffing for the turkey…he is feeling much better; wet at The Beach this AM; high dollar construction equipment being stolen, free website to monitor missing items; Rail Runner saw record number of riders; Market Place, NM…at Lomas & Louisiana, where space can be rented for $250 per month; last night, I-40 was shut down in the Tijeras Canyon area; crime on the rise in Roswell; fake robbery in Farmington, included one thief hitting another on the back of the head with a frying pan, the trio has been charged with embezzlement; seven inches of snow fell on Santa Fe; twenty inches of snow fell on Tierra Amarillo;

does Myrna want me to work in her area?; finished Rounds by 9A; no responsibility; mother not at home; would like a phone that displayed incoming number; pour water on the tiny lime green ‘micro’ car, and it may become an SUV; remember the timesheet!; I have a 2009 goal; baked goods from Brent; told Dr. Davies to date her notes; “I think you should go to CARS”; other units able to leave early; eventually, our area was told to leave; arrived home at 1:20P; empty AM R/R; MGR in trouble since mid-November; I would like a phone that displays the incoming number; got cocoa, pretzels, & cookies, plus a Patriots blanket from Linda & Brandi;

eleven deaths from multiple snowstorms; ‘tis the season’; Orlando & Honolulu are hot!; temps from –0 to 70s; Denver & ABQ snow mentioned on ABC AM News; people may celebrate the holidays in shelters; cold in Cleveland; freezing rain: across Dallas to Memphis, AR; MS; mudslide in E TN; Seattle is shut down; ‘big storm’ in SW US; coldest Monday night football game; some chemicals cannot melt the ice on freezing roads; per Weather Channel, ABQ in Winter Weather Advisory; flurries: IL, IN, WI; snow in Chicago, parts of I-55, I-88;

a broken watch is accurate twice a day; Bush gave his own overcoat for charity; IL GOV has the truth on his side; Dallas man started shooting at rush hour traffic, killing two drivers, some attacks took place on I-635; IRS had to cut back on audits; per city code, AK Snow Godzilla had to be knocked town; 60 million will travel during this holiday; light show at Grand Central Terminal; dangerous diet food being imported from China; pilot told to abort Denver takeoff; fifteen more cities added to EPA ‘sooty city’ list; some forms of cancer progressively disappear; icicle wreaths; lesbian stripped & beaten by gang outside San Fran home, her vehicle was stolen, but later recovered; bright holiday lights in Baltimore; melamine in hot cocoa?; is Michael Jackson really ill?; the era of VHS tapes is fading away; home sales are down, worse than expected, and so are prices, worse than during the Depression, a drop of 13.2% from last year; stocks for GM & FORD have dropped by 15%; five guilty in Ft. Dix terrorism attack; another child killed by another mother in FL; contaminated food at IL Health DEPT holiday party?; man scammed by Madoff found dead in NYC, a victim of suicide; water main broke in Montgomery CNTY, on River Road, between Bethesda & Potomac; 66 inches in diameter, causing 4 – 10 foot fountains, sweeping at least nine vehicles down the road: the liquid flowed into a ravine, and ended in the Potomac; the DOW ended down by 100 points; ½% decline in GDP; New Bedford, MA man burned part of his house while trying to melt snow from his porch; NATL sales tax holidays in 2009?; there are no Gay Cabinet members; Diet Coke vs. the FDA; the MD water main supplied to 1.8 million customers; anti-gay vs. anti-gay marriage; ‘with these rings, I thee wed’; Scrabble is sixty years old; US has received three times the AVG AMT of snow; the decline of mistletoe; the Chevy Volt will cost $40K; no decision vs. ‘preferred candidates’, or ‘personal benefit’ offered to Blagojevich; 400 flights delayed or cancelled in Chicago’s O’Hare; 2½ hours of flowing water, at a rate of 150K gallons per minute; a ‘wall of icy water’; Obama will be sworn in using the Bible of Abraham Lincoln;

a car in Germany with lots of junk inside; driver squished to the steering wheel; the ‘perfect storm’ for oil supplies; mixed foreign markets; is the Iraqi GOVT already corrupt?; some Zimbabwe cities have no food, leader says, “this country is mine!”; tourist found ancient jewelry in Israel; $3.2 billion in Spain’s lottery; Russia & American astronauts perform spacewalk around INTL Space Station; fire in the engine of the world’s largest Ferris Wheel [located in Singapore] trapped 173 people for about six hours; a blow to their ego: Russian ballistic missile fails a fifth test, as it self-destructed in midair; add Spain to the list of countries that are in a recession, the first time in fifteen years; UNISYS cutting 1,300 jobs worldwide; BYD: car being made in China, an electrical vehicle that costs $22K, takes seven hours to fully charge, and get travel sixty miles on one charge, then plug it into a regular outlet;

…12/22-08: home is a feast

28º in ABQ; 48% humidity at 6A…no Sunday shower; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; take it easy on the holiday; people may not pay to ride the Rail Runner; vehicle struck abandoned BLDG; Las Cruces two judges are overwhelmed by work; NM construction trade on the rise; Farmington shoplifter program has been in effect for ten years; NM MTN could see up to two feet of snow; still predicting three separate snowstorms; Sandia Crest ski slope has opened; this AM, snow has entered NW NM; off & on snow for the next five days across the state; gas is $1.49 per gallon; Brad reading to me, and his taste buds are returning; a wind farm & solar factory for NM?; wind advisories also across NM; Clovis house fire killed woman, but her throat had also been slashed; money trouble for Scorpions may mean trouble for the Santa Ana Star CTR; HP plant may still be up in the air for Rio Rancho, devil in the details; three teens entered school via a vent, then tripped an alarm; ‘fifty family farms of furniture; NM unemployment rate is on the rise: but there will be jobs to collect data for the 2010 census, these positions will end in September, 2010; man accused of forming a Duke City prostitution ring;

impossible praise; literally, we have a Monday & Friday this week; what a lonely, insulting person; the person who has nothing good to say about anyone; Walgreen’s after work; patient allergic to nickel; Brent told Loretta that nobody in PEDS Clinic Data Entry; finished Rounds by 9:30A; hadn’t shown Brent the revised form; too early to make changes on the new form; Anne, the Patriots fan, has left; MGR does not apologize; I am still considered a quiet person by most people; ‘where are the arrows?’; sick staff in Pavilion; Candace does not like MGR; other think it’s time to do something about the situation; I walked home after Myrna brought my to Walgreens; plus the legal hassles of UNMMG; no friends, for all those years, just fears; Myrna drove me home; stop saying things that people can misinterpret?; I remembered Sustiva; banana nut bread baked by Myrna; people cannot retaliate when MGR insults them, the ‘lower form’ is always guilty of insubordination; more people bringing in boxes of tissues; last Friday, Jenny & I compared ‘Bond girls’ that we liked;

100 vehicle pileup near Chicago; black ice caused collisions; nonstop winter weather; coldest day for DC in 2008; ME blizzard; temps from – 0s to 60s; more power outages across NH & MA; lake effect snow; rain in San Fran & Los Angeles; New England has had one ice storm, plus two snowstorms; more white weather along parts of I-81 & I-90 [130 miles of the NY Thruway]: MI, NY, PA, NH, Seattle [main streets closed, people ‘travel’ in sled & skis]; Honolulu the ‘hot spot’; Amtrak stuck in snow, then by the law, delayed the train for more than twelve hours; thirty car collision on I-94 in MI;

temps in Vikings game never reached a ‘high’ of 0º; heat melted airplane windows; Wall ST execs still using corporate jets; small NJ plane struck trees, burst into flames, and broke apart, but passengers survived; how to handle a scandal; all 115 passengers on the Denver Airport plane survived; NATL AVG price of gas is $1.65 per gallon, the lowest in five years; tough times mean more Americans abandoning their pets; permission to scale back on holiday gifts, bake goods for gifts; Obama on ‘golf vacation’ in HI, while his staff battles Blagojevich: the truth may be revealed today; seniors enjoy video games; use IPod to determine alcohol level; the $300 self-cleaning kitty littler box; emergency slides helped flyers & crew evacuate fire; VP Biden will lead a task force for working families; 30% of people polled fear losing their jobs; 300K résumés sent to Obama transition team; CA has the most people; during the past year, MI & RI lost citizens, UT is the fastest growing state; AIG is selling itself, bit by bit; talking more, means eating less; the DOW is dropping; the ‘electronic leash’ on TX truant students; diamonds on rings that contain the remains of pets; Biden: VP input in ‘important decisions’; cutting benefits, not staff, to maintain good workers; TX boy survives near decapitation; TN power plant flooded area near Knoxville; Seattle airport ran out of de-icer; opposite side of the plane ignited, not the one whose engine fell: was wind a factor?; Michael Jackson may need a lung transplant, and is losing sight in one eye; runway incidents make up 33% of plane crashes; people sending fewer parcels; plane on Denver tarmac; was traveling 140 mph;

Chinese farmer used wolf poster to keep flock from running away; purple squirrel in the UK; the $127K UK pounds ‘flying car’, whose wings fold up; problems with yen may cause Toyota to post its first lost; mixed foreign markets; decapitated bodies found in MX; ‘high end image consultant’: she teaches people how to look & spend at the rate of $2,500 per hour; NYC is one, big ‘bargain basement’, this lady is given blank check, or a high dollar limit; remember: there is no year ‘zero’; price of oil has dropped to $39.91 per barrel; Zimbabwe natives boil leaves in contaminated water; there were more missile attacks in PAK; Russia selling missiles to Iran?; in Iraq, shoe thrower vs. throat slitter; Sean Combs as James Bond?;

…12/21-08: home is the holiday spirit!

30º in ABQ; 53% humidity at 6A…Sandia Peak opens today at 9A; up to sixteen inches of snow in NW NM; Intrepid Potash CO cuts Carlsbad contract labor; more cars needed for Rail Runner route to Santa Fe, passengers had to stand, but still enjoyed the ride; billboards display face of person who beat female teen is still on the loose, she is at UNMH; Duke City man killed in Las Cruces crash where I-10 & I-25 meet, neither man was wearing his seatbelt, driver was weaving on the interstate; should decade old NM transportation tax be extended, used to maintain & repair roads, and aid ABQ Ride; when not watching ‘the big game’, Brad using crates to stock kitchen items in our ‘bedroom pantry’; thousands of NM Bowl fans had the money to spend across the Duke City, even enjoyed watching movies here; today is the calm before the storms, could start as early as tonight; it’s hard to believe the holidays have not arrived yet, so many ads for sales; Brad is still ill; it’s better when police bring their cars home, provide safety to that neighborhood; ABQ Police helped needy families enjoy a good holiday meal, by providing variety of food, plus toys for the children; Sustiva dream about being a casino jewelry thief, in a BLDG that extended for miles, and kept changing its décor, serving brunch only to millionaires; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; another good day to sleep; NM may face three storms this week; enjoyed a long sleep last night; Brad is getting better; ABQ police officer faces illegal parking ticket; more overcrowded Rail Runner cars, in spite of another train added; Nancy and the 2009 extermination schedule, plus the invitation to The Beach Luminaria event; another dietetic weekend; man hit woman carrying a five month old; Christmas Caper in Farmington, arresting people who are stealing items for holiday presents, since these shoplifters have run out of money; old VCR tape, new VCR plays; menorah at ABQ City Plaza;

smoothie will stop hunger craving; loneliness can be caused by genes and/or environment; winter has officially begun; $30 million needed to pay for DC inauguration costs; The Big Three have only been given a Band-Aid, Bush has saddled Obama with solving the overall problem; morbid curiosity of Caylee Anthony site; fact: poinsettias are not poisonous; plane slid on Denver runway, ended in ravine, injuring at least three dozen people, but no deaths reported, appeared engine exploded; three million new jobs promised by Obama; Clinton campaign debt still exceeds $6.4 million; AM snow falling in the Grand Canyon; below zero temps across the N Plains; the end of Zima?; stores are getting ready for after holiday sales; mixed drinks have lots of calories; who will win the MN senate race, decision may be determined today; people affected by Madoff scam keeps growing; priest that opposes gay marriages ‘loves’ both gays & straights; auto workers might face ‘deep’ pay cuts, and other sacrifices; as recession continues, number applying for Medicaid benefits have increased; winter storms still hamper Logan Airport; new Chief of Staff links to IL GOV prompt more questions: snow shuts down parts of I-90 & I-84 closed in NW US; spend money to prevent another Depression; Madoff, the ‘sleazebag’; no deals by Obama staff on IL GOV selling the state’s Senate seat; lawyer wants to auction OJ evidence on EBay; drill for oil & gas in UT?; billions of bailout bucks going to pay executive holiday bonuses; IL, IA & MN blizzard warnings; New England beat AZ, 47 – 7; fuselage of plane burned at Denver airport, five people remain in the HOSP; from trends to tragedies, pilots fear punishment if they admit making human error mistakes; Patriots player fined for making ‘snow angel’ during game; another 4.1 quake shook Hollister, CA, tremor was four miles below the surface, and no major injuries or damage reported; Obama victory is the top 2008 story; Providence is considered a ‘stressful’ city; NATL AVG price of gas is $1.668 per gallon; AK & WY have the highest & lowest cost; diesel is $2.504 per gallon; Pittsburgh & INDY are going to the playoffs;

more riots in Greece; explosion in Moscow street market injured six people; 2.5 tons of marijuana found in AFG; Gaza launches rockets at Israel; Iran still wants to help battle pirates; 20 years since Pan Am plane crashed near Lockerbie; Belgian economy may force its PM to resign; ancient Egypt’s fertile soil proved to be her downfall; the ‘Bah Humbug’ club, started in the UK, but has become INTL, raises money for charities; oil is $33.87 per gallon; gay manger scene at Amsterdam holiday festival, twists & turns of religion; blizzard sweep across China;

…12/20-08: which equipment is right for you

27º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…NM Bowl today; now, N Valley residents upset with Rail Runner noise that occurs as early as 4A, as late as 11P; DOE gives LANL employees their medical records in case they want to claim any FED compensation for hazardous materials exposure; prostitutes place ads on Craig’s List; Brad has a head cold, and I am depressed again; increase in W Side vehicle break-ins, especially on Mondays & early AM hours; what will happen to the money invested by NM, that were part of the Wall ST scam; working oil & gas rigs have decreased by 80% this past year; came home ‘early’ last night, gave Brad two of my crates to store ‘pantry food’, had to reorganize my ‘mess’, and was both hungry & tired; police trying to reunite Duke City residents with their stolen property, need police report; new online map to determine NM traffic conditions; ‘Circle Hat Bandit’ striking ABQ banks; murderer will spend 49 years in jail for killing an elderly man; Second Chance using their property to housing overflow inmates, not just a rehab CTR for drug treatment, city could shut down the entire operation; cathedral being cleaned to celebrate the City Different 400 anniversary; Santa Fe Holiday Art Workshop; remains of tear gas canisters, and broken windows: $20K in repairs needed after SWAT situation by Rio Rancho police caused damages to rental property, landlord might sue the City of Vision; people object to 100 train horns per day, promised ‘silent’ train crossings; thefts occur along the Coors corridor, and at ‘big box’ stores; ABQ man raped his daughter for nearly two decades; Guadalupe CNTY sheriff arrested for DUI charges, and failing to wear his seat belt; Lieu. GOV uses the train when she travels to work; fatal crash along I-40, E of ABQ; money pouring into ABQ restaurants & Olde Towne shops; CO State wins NM Bowl, and the Zia Trophy; Rio Rancho getting more money for its schools; man broke into Lovelace Pharmacy; RV robber arrested; we have a new electric razor; some NM Bowl fans had never visited NM before, and are impressed by the city, and the state; AVG price of gas: NATL: $1.67, NM: $1.67: ABQ: $1.57;

‘the’ Las Vegas: one of the best places to celebrate the holidays; Bush says UAW should accept The Big Three deal: employees feel they have to make too many concessions; below zero weather in N Rockies; OH plane crash kills its pilot; TX mother killed her two children, and herself; IL GOV will remain in office, and fight the charges against him: the end of businesses starting in the state; prisoners do not want to leave the ‘comfort’ of Detroit jails; snow has fallen in Miami; power outages from winter storms; sex offenders, mail & Santa with presents; NFL smallest stadium, the RCA Dome in INDY, is imploded; travel to & from the E Coast nearly impossible, or impassable; ‘retail elves’ lowering prices on items; signs in red print attract customers; people may wait several more days; three storms crossing the country; three hour airport delays; no power for nine days in New England; dangerous driving in the Twin Cities, including cold air & windy conditions; blizzards surround Seattle; days without pay for CA state workers; everyone wants Obama to fix every existing NATL & INTL problem, all at the same time; good weather, but bad economy affects FL malls; retail traffic has been very slow; white weather preventing snow plow drivers from getting to work; many flights cancelled at Logan, NYC, Newark & Philly; Sarah Palin, the ‘human lightning rod’;

so far, no serious damage or injuries reported after a 6.5 quake rocked Japan, 90 miles off its E coast: the tremor took place on Honshu, at a depth of 6.2 miles below the surface; Iraqi ‘shoe thrower’ popular in Iran; more riots in Greece; luxury hotels reopen in Mumbai; Russian warships return to Cuba, plus several other countries; global warming killing the reindeer; bailout for Canadian auto industry;

…12/19-08: ‘we know why we’re here’

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…12/18-08: the ‘flush rush’

39º in ABQ; 79% humidity at 6A…feels good to feel thinner; GAQ; 50 mph winds, snow expected this PM, slowing down; claims of CYFD negligence?; unemployment agencies overwhelmed by phone calls; still another person embezzled $70K from grant programs; double homicide in Roswell this week; by AM, snow arrived in Gallup; police in car that struck man in Santa Fe has resigned; AM rain; good to feel thirsty again; Chama’s only supermarket reopens, after snow crushed its roof last winter; Cody East: menace to society, his mother blames herself; higher utility bill; gas has risen three cents, now at $1.49 per gallon;

Candace asked about ‘bundling’ services; various specialty sheets; Evelyn & I wore the same color shirts & blouses; finished Rounds before 9A; 2009 billing forms going to the printer; always send charges in red envelopes; another late meting for Evelyn & Myrna; all the I/P Psych billing sheets that I sent to Data Entry were returned, because they were unsure which services to enter;

temps from – 0s to 80s; twelve states in ‘deep freeze’; Chicago on ‘the line’ of snow, or ice: also KC, MO, parts of I-70, I-80, Detroit, N IN, INDY, Milwaukee, Columbus, OH; Memphis, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans fog; I-15 shut down between Los Angeles & 3½ inches at ‘the’ Las Vegas Strip & Airport; ABC AM News says a foot of snow for NM;

PG–13 Barbie, depicting scene from ‘The Birds’; merger talks resume between GM & Chrysler; more than 60% of pet owners say they can communicate with their animal; gift giving makes someone special, someone special; starting tomorrow for Chrysler: no work, no cars, no paycheck; GM closing 20 plants in January; still no answer from the White House; first woman to lead SEC; bailout on the brink; new Coca-Cola sweetener; rent mansions in TX, with few, but strict rules; major overhaul in credit card rules, extending time to pay fees; bad times for Toyota, the first time in 68 years; the ‘Power of Three’; 62 million Americans will be on the road during this holiday, the lowest since 2002, a decrease of 2.1% in 2007; Drew Peterson going to marry fifth wife; Obama: Time Magazine Person of the Year; Celtics won their sixteenth in a row; less have 20% of homes only have cell phones; baby high chairs, made in OH, being recalled; ‘risky’ spots across the US; wait until Blagojevich speaks!; more old movies may become 3–D; YAHOO! vs. privacy; simple, ‘greener’ packages by Amazon.com; Wiki-Pedia for recipes; Brad Pitt is 45 years old; ‘managed bankruptcy’; it’s official for Caroline Kennedy, she’s running for the SEN; mortgage rates at 37 year low; smoke or steam forced the evacuation of the Longworth HOB on Capitol Hill; DOW dropped; the waterskiing squirrel; Obama’s choice for inauguration pastor supports help for people with AIDS, but opposes gay marriage; still no GOVT bailout for The Big Three; a holiday tree dressed in sex offender photos; do handsome athletes get higher paychecks?; Labor SECY petition filled; for sale: ‘Goth’ kittens; how do you start running for a political office?; people taking experimental drugs for income, there could be unprotected risks, and/or side effects; twelve million homeowners will not qualify for this, but there are mortgage rates not seen since the 1960s, 30–year fixed rate is 5.06%: people still have to prove they are ‘credit worthy’; Bing Crosby singing many holiday songs;

India monkeys attacked owner who had beat one of them; wanted: new homes for space shuttles, museums may apply; mixed foreign markets; shoe thrower begs for mercy, what will al Maliki do in this awkward, political situation; ice caused Canadian gondola accident; wild tigers live with Buddhist monks, people pay to pat ‘pets’; oil prices dropped to $37.68 per barrel, rose to $38.82; attempt to overthrow the Iraq GOVT, and replace by Baath party members, has failed; the shoes that missed Bush ‘worth’ $10K; China sends warships to patrol the Somalia coast, their goal is to find & punish pirates; factories closing across China, many have no skills, and no ‘safety net’;

…12/17-08: go for the green!

37º in ABQ; 78% humidity at 6A…keeping my toilet bowl clean; GAQ; AM snow in Gallup, Grants & Farmington, plus Flagstaff; Destination: Santa Fe: Rail Runner started its first run this AM: good way to beat traveling on snowy roads; Tajique death considered ‘suspicious’; Aztec man sentenced on sex crimes charges, faces 39 years in jail; former drug addict found dead in downtown Duke City in the early hours, with no means to make a phone call; three men captured, charged with bank robberies; $8 train ticket to travel from ABQ to Santa Fe; 600 new jobs when solar plant will be built in Belen; finally, I feel less constipated, twice in one day!; eleven drug raid across ABQ; couple in jail on child porn charges; Duke City woman thinks the ‘shoe thrower’ should be honored, instead of being a man facing trial next week; three Rio Rancho police car break-ins; minor Rail Runner signal problems; car crash on I-40E, just before the entrance into Tijeras Canyon;

Standard Diner, or Weck’s for holiday lunch [Weck’s won]; provide money to low income students who have problems paying tuition to remain at UNM?; Jackie starts her vacation; early power brownout at UNMH; given time, these people will never understand me!; finished Rounds by 9:15A; all 2009 ‘big’ Coding meetings have been cancelled; another finger slashed by a chart; yesterday, there was a giant pair of shoes, hanging on a UNM tree; on my way home, I sat with Warren, who thanked us for our card;

3.6 quake shakes the Carolinas; SE US fog; ‘action weather’ heading to the E Coast; rain, snow & ice in New England and mid-Atlantic area; too cold for road salt; nine vehicle crash along I-80; twenty people have died from cold weather; freezing drizzle in Cleveland; Seattle snow; below zero temps in twelve states; bad weather along parts of I-84, I-87, I-93 & I-495 [in MA]; snow & storms in San Diego; wet Cape Cod, Hartford ice; temps from 0s to 80s; more white weather in ‘the’ Las Vegas, and there were flurries seen falling on Malibu beach;

people finding it hard to maintain their current standard of living; how close were the ties between IL GOV, and Jesse Jackson, JR; people praying that GM factory does not close; other Cabinet positions have been chosen; why did the SEC not investigate the man who scammed millions, of billions?, time for an immediate investigation; NY ‘sends stars to the Senate’; thirty year old missing child case comes to a close, only parts of missing child was ever found; historic low interest rates, pouring reserves into banking system; Biden, Obama & new Education SECY visited school, answered children’s questions; FL crooks just wanted to steal metal egg beater; Obama will try to promise to remove US troops from Iraq; people could get a new face to ‘hide’ themselves after a crime, would it be worth the pain, and at risk for infections, taking drugs for the rest of their lives; continue to exercise while stressed, visit friends and maintain drug regimen; three women in CA die from carbon monoxide poisoning; Motorola freezes pensions; fewer people are ‘job hopping’; Agriculture SECY also chosen; small cars are now safer than previous models, poorest ranking awarded to PT Cruiser; bad times for boat markets, adding trailer for free; students in GA school placed in prison-like cells when they misbehaved: one person hung himself, an autistic IA girl pulled out her hair; inauguration Internet overload; train derails near La Crosse, tossing two of its cars into the MS, sending two people to the HOSP and forcing people to leave their homes & businesses, fearing propane leakage: so far, only liquid ammonia was emptying into the river; foot found in brain of three day old boy; the DOW dropped; facial surgery took 22 hours, and ‘all went according to plan’; FORD shutting ten factories for one week in January; anxiety across America; there is only one Cabinet position left to fill: Labor; too many SEC oversights…stock swindler under house arrest, with an ankle bracelet locator: will have to stay in his $7 million NYC penthouse property; Chrysler shutting thirty plants down for one month, 46K union workers will be getting GOVT unemployment checks; ‘the new oil’ for Toledo is in Solar Valley cells; the OH city changing ‘rust’ in ‘glass’; company must pay $16 million in Boston’s ‘Big Dig’ tunnel collapse; GA woman arrested for not removing her headscarf at a security checkpoint at a courthouse;

the refrigerated, air conditioned beach in Dubai, bad for environment; man sold his soul on EBay, reached 20K British pounds by unemployed band member; foreign markets mixed; ski gondola accident in British Columbia when tower snapped, no injuries reported; British troops pulling out of Iraq ‘by July; only fourth facial transplant around the world; there’s a hole in Earth’s magnetic field; OPEC meeting today, did cut production, by over two million barrels per day: price has dropped to $41.66 per barrel, and closed at $40.66 per barrel; using FaceBook to serve foreclosure papers; two trillion tons of ice has vanished in the polar areas; Mamma Mia! very popular in the UK;

…12/16-08: sharper, not blurred vision

26º in ABQ; 84% humidity at 6A… GAQ; next storm in Central AZ; bad traveling in E MTN; parts of I-25 was shut down last night, one woman was killed in accident; ice on minor roads; Brad knows I’m a ‘bad boy’; no bowel movement for a day; the ‘no fee guarantee’; by 5A, 267 school closings & delays across the state; police looking for the ‘Exorcist’; so far, about two inches of snow has fallen in the Duke City; NM is ‘in between’ two storms; dog stolen from Socorro couple, who were dining in the Duke City; E MTN schools closed; AM accidents on Rio Bravo; another fatal accident took place last night; Winter Weather Advisory issued this AM, for an area including ABQ; eighteen years in jail for cult leader?; he says ‘the world has been on trial’; focus on Gallup & Grants; schools closed for the day in the Duke City, perhaps after parents went to work; ‘The Mummy’ arrived; wearing new gloves, never shoes, and older jeans; no stimulants while shoveling snow, do it early, and often; early AM, and The Beach parking lot is a skating rink; I need more fiber, and stimulants; another day without a bowel movement;

two hour delay for UNM; don’t make waves, or rock the boat!; at least I won once; when all else fails, tell people you’re sad; Evelyn, and her foot long, cream filled pumpkin ‘log’; some people can blast their music, ignoring concerns of other Coders; Shannon was in a car accident, and the other driver was drunk; finished Rounds by 9:15A; finally found change for the $20; black SUV drove by Linda & Debbie, rolled down, gun appeared with a guy ‘asking’ for their purses: Debbie screamed, Linda ran, they both hid as the vehicle patrolled the neighborhood until the cops arrived; this happened as they were walking to the bus stop this AM; PEDS DEPT holiday party today?; very empty AM R/R; Myrna forgot her wallet in a ladies’ room, found & returned by UNMH staff; this AM, people were sleeping on hall beds; Myrna & Evelyn had a 4P meeting, they got gifts from Jackie; told Jenny I was sad; UNMMG needs to know what happens to an envelope after it is picked up by the courier, what is its route to a Data Entry Clerk;

per Weather Channel, NM had AVG precipitation, and slightly above AVG temps; temps from 0s to 80s; St. Cloud, MN had a record low of -23º; AZ, CA MTN covered with snow; twelve deaths from the deep freeze; Baltimore showers; rain: AL, GA; ice: AR, MO, KY, TX, TN; snow: OH,IN, KS Chicago, KC; water mains exploding; thirty degree drop in temp in one day; moist in NM until Thursday; CA vineyards see flurries; heavy rain caused roof to collapse; wind chills in the N Plains drop to –45º; below zero in Billings;

casinos losing money during this recession; PA child named after Adolph Hitler; FL millionaires now have no money, just mansions, that will need to be sold; scammer provided investment returns that no one else could beat; does she ‘just’ have ‘name recognition’ as an asset?; Caroline wants to follow father & two uncles’ footsteps; more Cabinet appointees by Obama; short-term loans for The Big Three; even Toyota is feeling the pain; NATL AVG price of gas is $1.66 per gallon; those ‘polled’ do not support FED bailout of automakers; elusive IL GOV, ‘not what you think it is’ [?]; wife apologizes to neighbors for media frenzy; bipartisan committee to start impeachment proceedings; initial candle of Hanukkah lit at the White House; the ‘out of pocket penny’; Cheney ‘changed’ by 9–11; SNL skit about blind NY GOV is insulting to the ‘lower frequencies of society’; Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland & Springfield, MA are America’s fastest ‘dying’ cities; Detroit newspaper cutting back to publishing only three days per week; Pittsburgh Steelers’ sale nearly completed; consumer prices drop by 1.7%, the biggest decline ‘in history’; the end of the hotel minibar?; NY woman attacked, called 911: police took 48 minutes to arrive, by that time, the victim was dead; the Winchester, VA home of Patsy Cline may open to the public; hackers could access Microsoft search engine, steal personal data; 76 year old CA grandmother was kidnapped, assaulted & thrown into the trunk of her car, while her teenage assailants took it for a 26 hour joyride; Peter Falk has Alzheimer’s; stocks soar 359 points; interest rate cut between 0 – .25%, the lowest since 1954; backed by SEN Reid, but comments & criticisms about Caroline Kennedy’s qualifications; Hearst Castle is 200 miles from Los Angeles; ‘shock & awe’: costs nothing by banks to buy money; trying to prod ‘risk taking’, but Americans have to pay the bill; ‘turn anger into action’; economy in uncharted territory, and cranking out the currency; running out of ‘recession ammunition’; first near total facial transplant in America took place at the Cleveland Clinic; ICE Air: no ticket, free meal, illegal status in US required: guards double as flight attendants, cost American taxpayers about $680 per person; the nominated SECY of Education wants to build a school just for lesbians & gays; in Phoenix, Secret Santa handed out $100 bills to needy baby, giving away $20K; letter to Santa ends in arrest of sex offender in family;

wing of biplane strikes cow while emergency landing in England; mixed foreign markets; ancient evidence reveals Cleopatra’s ‘true’ face; the ‘shoe hero’; his brother agrees with the action, five years of US killing & disrespecting Iraqis; Thailand elects a new PM; gay penguins in Chinese zoo can raise baby bird; eight US embassies have received ‘white powder envelopes’; floods in Columbia; bus accident in Israel killed 26 Russian tourists; Iraqi reporter charged with aggression against a PRES; Greek teens take over the airwaves;