…10/9-08: life, with harmony

56º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…GAQ; crisis during the middle of the night, with a complete bed changing; voter fraud in Bernalillo CNTY, offering cash incentives, creating fake citizens; three escaped convicts still have not been captured; good AM for Balloon Fiesta, special shapes rodeo takes flight; NM gas is $3.43 per gallon; in the Duke City, $3.23; go to bed early tonight!; VW fire at Indian School & Rio Grande last night; Hispanic Heritage Lunch celebrated yesterday; animal balloon mascot toy; going to bed ‘protected’ tonight; another dream looking for our motel room in P’town; a HAZMAT situation in SW ABQ, reddish substance leaking from a freight car; how to build a better downtown Farmington; Special Shapes Glow tonight?;

finished Rounds by 9:10A; AM training with Jenny; battling a cough, will teach through stages; Big Guns gone to Phoenix for seminar; I have to learn how to code Pathology; Darrel has to learn I/P PEDS, training should be completed by end of year; home at a proper time, about 4:20P; Myrna & scared each other; another AM R/R without the white bearded man; some people don’t seem to care; Jenny sat while in GPU;

two AL twisters yesterday; rain: SE MA; Boston, Bangor; coastal Carolinas, E ATL; parts of I-10, I-20 & I-95; Central W FL; OH & KY fog; temps from 40s to 80s; Norbert is still a CAT 4 hurricane, with 135 mph winds, still moving WNW at 9 mph; during the day, Norbert dropped to a CAT 1 storm, with 90 mph winds, moving NW at 5 mph;

12K text messages by mother to get her daughter together with boyfriend, threaten to post nude pictures of him on the internet; LEGO likeness, price tag in the tens of thousands; completely eliminate debt; DC kills Pa Kent again; Treasury take part ownership in banks; NYC stock market has lost 15% of its worth during the last few days; Bush would block another surplus check to Americans, that Pelosi has suggested; ‘some’ signs of relief; ‘trickling’ help; ‘significant challenges ahead’; AIG, and $123 billion to shed toxic mortgages; people need to put faith in a PRES, trust ourselves, and the Commander in Chief; keep on trying, until something works; landslide caused house to slide downhill, collapsing the structure when it hit the ground; fire near Camp Pendleton, CA; luxury stores see sales slump; Treasury has the authority, and the money, to rescue banks; who do you trust?; more stress, suicides & depression; how to stay mentally healthy during troubled times; reach out to friends; remember, you are not alone in this crisis; TX & NM have the fewest insured residents; pumpkin turned into canoe; mortgage lenders may finally free up money, and lowering rates, easier to keep a homeowner, than create a foreclosure; Athol, MA pizza delivery man saves family from house fire; Biden called ‘John McCain’; ‘that one’, the latest political phrase; Best Buy selling better, lighter laptops; the end of IPod?; OK has the lowest cost of fuel, as the NATL AVG price of gas drops to $3.403 per gallon; the ‘Whopper Bar’; advisors say nothing will have ‘an instant effect’; Nat’l Debt Clock cannot handle the staggering amount; GM shares lost 31% of their value, the lowest level since 1950; the shaky DOW, sinking sharply, investor fear at all time high, DOW has dropped below 9K, 678.91 points, the lowest since 2003, and over a 35% drop during the past twelve months; a ‘crisis of unprecedented proportions’; the Commonwealth of VA is laying off workers; NATL debt clock is running into problems from running out of numbers; nuclear negativity’; will Wells Fargo ever be able to buy Wachovia?; Bush should stop speaking to the nation, so the economy will go up; more people keeping money & securities in safes [which can cost up to $6K], and my home alarm systems are being bought; economy can’t find the bottom; bus with Amish folk collided with a semi in MI, injuring 14 people; twelve year old MO boy shot while doing homework, victim of drive-by shooting; first time unemployment claims decline; more prompt paying renters being kicked out of foreclosed homes; SC gas station charges $2.86 per gallon for regular unleaded; the return of using grocery coupons;

AFG, and the booming opium trade, plus political troubles; some foreign markets are on the rise, but some have fallen, depending where you are in the world; Yom Kippur celebrated; Shiite politician killed in Baghdad; did US rockets strike PAK?; N Korea may restart its nuclear facility; the bird flu has arrived in Germany; OPEC will meet on 11/18/08 to discuss ways in preventing oil prices from falling lower; oil is now $86.59 per barrel; the GOVT of Iceland now controls three banks; Syria releases two detained Americans; US spying on Americans overseas, listening in on personal calls;