…10/10-08: grow fast, grow smart

53º in ABQ; 54% humidity at 6A…GAQ; market in ‘crash mode’; near Lomas & WY, a man was stabbed after asking for a cigarette; three persons injured in Sandia Labs sled track incident; leaky rail car posed no problem; AARP magazine highlights NM SEN candidates; [R] ads have been cancelled across NM; thief caught, stealing gallons of gas, storing the fuel in large tanks; forgot my chain; lots of traffic for last night’s Fiesta events; Brad made Orange Cake, with a simple frosting; Super TARGET on the W Mesa?; man held his girlfriend captive in a house trailer; one person is dead, and all rides have been suspended, when a balloon struck power lines in Rio Rancho: this morning’s incident made CNN news, including tonight’s glow special; convicts had cell phone access, it was stolen from a nurse, prior to their escape; gas is now $2.99 per gallon; I got a $40 refund from NM; man hit head in another hard landing; ten year old girl injured in another incident, and a sixteen year old girl was dragged; after the bodies fell, the burning balloon began to rise; the tragic event appears on COMCAST website; a man from Butler, PA was killed; 98th ST was shut down when a semi flipped, and began leaking fuel near the I-40 exit; strong wind warnings for the Duke City; guy going overseas, spent over $200 in comics;

to dine, or not to dine, that is the question; bite the bullet, and enjoy a free meal?; nothing comes without a price; one way or another, I will remain in trouble; are I/P charges too complex for Compliance to code?; finished Rounds by 9A; Code Purple at 6:30A; voicemail not working in early AM; lunch went well; Jenny out today, has been caught sending text messages; MGR said to leave at 3P; too much time spent watching me, instead of the ‘real’ problem areas; got home before 5:30P, saw Barbara; empty AM R/R; no white bearded man this AM; let the others get sick; voicemail down this AM; MGR says I should take care of myself, health wise; had Red Cream soda; JoAnn & I ordered the same meal; ward temps for birds that range from a penguin to a parrot;

rain: Richmond, Tidewater area, parts of I-4SE GA, S FL [up to four inches]; SE GA, Twin Cities; E NC, Fargo; Rapid City snow; S MI frost; S OH fog; one to two feet in N Rockies; 30s in Billings, MT; CA fires;

FL woman burned husband in his groin, had second degree burns, she will not reveal the reason; ‘gently used professional clothing’; Bush speaks this AM, we will take ‘strong action’; no loans by banks; Obama wants to buy a half-hour TV ad; any plan has yet to be deployed by the Treasury DEPT; the ‘mini-crash’; McCain wants to use billions to create a real estate ‘bottom level’; redefining ‘truth’; abuse of power by Palin?; potential VP found to have abused her power as GOV; Warren Buffett is the richest man in America; in younger days, Obama did drugs; expect US exports to decline; Wells Fargo will buy Wachovia; a plan, without a plan; the Mediterranean Diet is one of the best, helps keep cholesterol down, good plan to lose weight, emphasizes plants, makes a person feel better; a new, less expensive APPLE laptop?; nothing is definite; a better GOOGLE map will be released; we are in a recession, aren’t we?; facing ‘Black Friday’?; more food poisoning from MA product; PRES keeps saying “we can solve this crisis”…how?; the smell of a second stimulus package is in the air around Capitol Hill; the day the sky fell: $2.5 trillion in investments have disappeared during the last two weeks; when the week closed, the DOW had dropped 1,874 points, or 18%; during the early AM, DOW fell 700 points, then ‘increased’ to ‘only’ a 500 point loss by midday, reached –128 by end of day…stocks have reached a 13 month low; it fell bellow 8K, then still in the red; state of IN also facing voter fraud charges; add CT to the list of states legalizing same-sex marriage; FORD shares lose their worth; Jones Soda has cut its staff;

asexual reproduction of a shark; the 105 year old UK ‘virgin’; collapse of first Japanese company, an INS CO; global panic, and recession; 10% decline in Asian freefall; fear drives all markets; Singapore in recession; N Korea nuclear test vs. talks by the US with that country may resume; invest in the Iraqi stock market, has grown by 10%, no mortgage crisis in that country; secure securities; Indonesia had to stop trading; the ricochet felt around the world; Japan says a global ‘joint fund’ should be created; across Europe, stock markets are falling; oil dropped to $82.74 per barrel, at one year low, then kept falling to $77.09, finally inched up to $77.70; cool demand for commodities is hurting Latin America’s economy; European banks do not trust each other; McDonald’s closing 100 restaurants in Venezuela; Dior, BMW & Nokia will produce less next week, which means more global layoffs;