Wednesday, October 8, 2008

…10/7-08: facing problems, finding solutions

51º in ABQ; 63% humidity at 6A…GAQ; $22 million to renovate WinRock project; US 82 closed near Cloudcroft, due to semi wreck; Church of Scientology plan denied by ABQ City Council; last day to register to vote, and the first day to vote in PRES elections; Moriarty call CTR will close, many jobs will be lost, many people unemployed during the holidays; clear skies, good day for Balloon Fiesta; ‘fortified wine’ may be banned in Farmington; gas balloon race has started; the price of gas is $3.19 per gallon; early to bed tonight!; balloon makes hard landing in Rio Rancho, injury elderly man; Phyllis reaches 54!; Brad made a great Frittata; ABQ does not have suburbs; remnants of Pacific hurricane may reach NM by weekend; received another credit card application today; $12.5 million shortfall for ABQ;

team vs. friends; I would like someone to speak in my defense; Myrna thought I should have gone home, and rest; everyday, some people look for something wrong that I do, or did, or might do, or could do: feels like political campaign [sort of?]; Myrna will offer me a ride during inclement weather; Brent said we should rehire Arlene for a week, since that is how long Reyna will be out; told Lucille [who is my age] that she is not old…although, on some days; finished Rounds by 9:10A; everyone is coughing, including Brent; Millennium crashed at 11:30, estimated repair time was thirty minutes, up in thirty minutes, not the predicted hour; heard an old song, ‘Stoned Love’, on CTI radio; I have never had my MGR call someone into her office, and reprimand the Coder about his or her behavior and/or attitude; I was thanked for my jobs duty update; no white bearded man on AM R/R; people who make mistakes want to get off the Blue Line, immediately!;

rain: TX, LA, AR; parts of I10, I-20, I-75; storms: NW US, Houston, Mobile [twisters?]; E FL, S FL; temps from 50s to 90s; Twin Cities, St. Louis, Des Moines, Memphis; TS Marco: 65 mph, moving WNW at 8 mph, heading towards the MX Coast; Hurricane Norbert approaches the W side of MX; SC, and SE US need more rain; E Coast cool weather;

heterosexual men prefer cats to dogs; not just to attract dates; NYC laid off people get a facelift, have a fresher, younger look, brought to you by Botox; what happen to the bailout?; people said ‘it could be a lot worse’; sell off has struck Main ST, no money available; how much is enough money is needed to solve this economic crisis?; only 25% approve of Bush’s job; after two memoirs, is the IL SEN life an open book?; funding questions by Obama, by McCain; stock tip: buy ‘cheap’ stocks, and hope for the best; town hall style discussion tonight in Nashville; a crisis in confidence; Bank of America shares may go down, needs $10 billion; banks buy unsecured debts; wealth described in loss of millions?; the quick decline of Lehman, but lenders not misled; placing a fan in baby’s room may help prevent SIDS; Boston won at Fenway, moved up the playoff series, earned their first pin: next opponent is Tampa Bay; Obama was in Asheville; MICROSOFT VISTA will be installed in computers for another six months; Wells Fargo & Citicorp will halt their bids to buy Wachovia; ‘please be patient’; $35 for a movie ticket?; owner of Sun Country Airlines faces fraud charges; Bank of America lowers mortgage payments for many; NATL AVG price of gas is $3.480; KY mom kills her two daughters, then also kills herself; the DOW is down, stocks still struggling; Bernanke verifying our economy is weak, worse than originally thought; American debt is $53 trillion; female firefighter walked out of family’s life, has been gone for two years; heating fuel will go up in price this weekend; IN woman rescued from exploding car; more middle class going to thrift stores; the DOW has another 500 point decline; after nearly ten years, consumer borrowing has slowed; 80% of Americans are stressed over current financial crunch; is Obama the underdog in tonight’s debate; DOW has reached five year low; people are starting to panic over their 401[k] losses; an AIG consultant’s fee is earning $1 million a month; tonight: negativity vs. truth telling; judge order release of Chinese Muslims from GITMO, so they can start new lives in the US; $2 trillion in retirement savings has evaporated over the past fifteen months; the zero dollar bill; nuclear waste is being shipped from Europe to its country of origin: America; who is the best for tonight’s debate?; there are swing, bellwether & battleground states; economic majors worry about being unemployed upon graduation, few think about Social Security; those in power are ‘making it up, as they go along’, using no guide to resolve the credit problem; but agree that it is of ‘historic proportion’; fewer Americans thinking about NATL security; the ‘Titanic of New England’ ocean liner found off the coast of MA, over 100 years after it sunk; at least the candidates shook hands before starting;

Australia cut interest rates, other nations may follow; Asian markets ending higher; asteroid lit up the African sky; author of scathing book about Obama may be in Kenya illegally; 25% of mammals face extinction; ten people killed in Tibet quake; American business jet has been forced down in Iran; oil rose to $89.81; Russian stock markets closed after both collapsed; ozone hole is growing; Iceland is nearly bankrupt; new views of the planet Mercury; man swam naked in Japan’s Imperial Palace moat; major downturn in the global economy: too little, too late;

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