…10/13-08: grow fast, grow smart

42º in ABQ; 34% humidity at 6A…Brad at Food Bank, but closed, so is NMAS; GAQ; our vacuum cleaner on TV ad; should monument link 9–11 to the war in Iraq?; Santa Fe needs up about $10 million to throw its 400 year old birthday party; winter storm warnings, up to eight inches expected, and freeze warnings in N NM; Corrales in a credit crunch; NM health INS protection among the worst, only 50.7% have company based coverage; gas is now $2.87 per gallon; for every weather, there’s leather; some FED & state offices closed for Columbus Day; crime fighting lawnmower?; sixth Clovis escapee caught; family of people killed in Friday’s balloon accident had their vehicle burglarized at a local motel; $30K to repair E MTN power lines; not enough shoppers shopping in Farmington; early to bed tonight; Biden will be in NM this Friday; woman in SE Heights APT may have been killed in front of her children;

Kay’s class at 8A; remember I/P Hospitalist form; started coughing last night; what do Myrna & Evelyn see in MGR, that I don’t; all three football teams lost; spoke with Dr. Manuel; Evelyn had a laptop stolen from her car; finished Rounds by 11:20A; was JoAnn’s leave really denied?; Dr. Manuel is from India, and has Portuguese ancestry in her family; stomach rumbled during training class; forgot to take lunch pills; add Chemistry to another UNM DEPT losing faculty;

temps from 40s to 80s [90s?]; PA & E Coast warmth; up to four feet of snow in MT; storms from MN to TX; N New England rain, also: KC, Salina, Wichita, Boston, S FL, along parts of I-80; Santa Ana winds in S CA; get ready for TS Nana & TS Omar?;

bullet thrown in stove, explodes, and hits the woman in the leg; milk does help the body; Obama gets help from Clintons; the Smash Shack in San Diego, break plates to relieve stress; need a quick initiative; 48% of Americans are very worried about the economy; still no definite plans, but FED GOVT will own some of US banks; 90% of Americans think the nation is on the wrong track; Palin has toned down attacks; real women hunt moose?; Obama in Toledo; Americans will not be as wealthy as before; $12 billion takeover of WACHOVIA by Wells Fargo; girls want guns, hunt game: or learning how to kill; Vitamin D can help prevent cancer; pink rifles are not stylish; being compared to an airplane taking off, just one hour of loud per day listening to IPods can deafen people earlier in life; the end of easy credit; 1,200 evacuated, as 2K acres burn N of downtown Los Angeles; another NYC APT fire kills one adult, and one child; Ithaca, NY may see electric ‘podcars’ on rails in its future, can hold up to twelve riders; has the financial crisis turned the corner; 88% are worried about the US economy; stimulus package to help the middle class?; blaze burning on Angel Island in San Fran Bay, need ferries to fight fire; Santa Cruz sand dunes collapse, killing eleven year old; people working around the clock to solve the money meltdown; now, invest in private firms; what happens when the NYC bell rings this AM?; the debt clock is running out of digits; NATL AVG price of gas is $3.31; is Disney in financial trouble; DOW is going up, ended the day with an 936.42 point gain, based on bureaucratic bailout; manatee died en route to FL from Cape Cod; Chicago must have a ‘gay friendly’ high school so students will attend, not be harassed & graduate; two people killed in TX news helicopter crash; NATL AVG gas price fell to $3.206 per gallon; are we in ‘survival mode’; buy stock in comic book companies, such as DC & MARVEL, who are [so far] enjoying a year of successful movies; ‘Marcia Brady’, drug addict; the modest couple who left $3 million to their neighbors after both the husband & wife had died; three killed in Los Angeles fire; stocks soaring on speculation; success, in the short term; today’s four-letter word: hope; now, 90% of those polled think the America economy is on the wrong track; RI has the second highest unemployment in the US, their recession started in 2007; how do these plans help foreclosures; McCain will ‘carefully’ attack Obama; diesel is now $3.837 per gallon; we are ‘living beyond our means’; recapitalizing business; GM closing FL plant earlier than planned; ‘expand early childhood education’; part-time employee kills another employee at TX college; Rays win 9–1, take 2–1 lead in series; FL congressman had an affair, paid woman to remain silent;

rats may be spreading new S African fever disease; Cambodia divorce allows house to be cut in half with saw as settlement; gains in Europe & Asian stock markets; oil at $80.75 per barrel; infuse the banks with cash; the INTL economic solution?; based on ‘futures’; these are ‘temporary deals’; Europe pledged $2 trillion, with no risk: isn’t that fueling inflation?; a ‘crisis in trust’; Nissan laying off workers in Spain; Indian children, working in a world of toxic fumes & black dust; UK says US failed in its bailout attempt; a coordinated effort by countries, but the plan could collapse; several countries competing for the world’s tallest skyscrapers; Spanish bank to purchase PA Sovereign Bancorp for a $1.9 billion stock for stock transaction;