Azzarb & the Elusive Mr. b enjoy Mexican, Southwestern & Native American food (you've got to try "Navajo tacos" & fry bread!) & oriental meals (especially Chinese & Thai!).
Working as a team they create exotic soups, salads & main courses. The also bake various types of bread, rolls, pies & pastries. However, they still manage to stay in shape (their secret: plenty of exercise [which includes a regular dose of "good ol' fashioned sex "] & eating right).While roaming the backroads of the Southwest, these partners are always on the lookout for pottery, fetishes (the spiritual kind) & other American Indian crafts. They enjoy talking with shopkeepers, listening to stories about the people & their culture, plus learning about the crafts, the various ceremonies & beliefs of these people. Azzarb & the Elusive Mr. b practice the delicate arts of diplomacy, kindness & bartering (all 3 skills come in very handy at times).
They had lived & worked in Alexandria, VA for 19 years. In September of 2000, the company where they were both employed was in serious financial trouble. An outside individual provided money to "save" the business. However, the daily business functions (claims processing) would be allocated to various vendors. Major reorganization meant a downsizing of staff. The final outcome was certain; it was just a matter of "when". In February 2001, the partners received an E-mail. Their landlords wanted to sell the house Mike & Brad rent. Change was definite...Albuquerque was their new destination. Fear was abundant! But Joan & Gary Herbertson allowed them to stay and continue their plans to move across America...until early June. At that point the house was put on the market. They became anxious to sell, and Mike & Brad were anxious to move. June 8, 2001 was the day to begin heading West. On June 29, 2001, the rental property, with its leaks, cracks, holes, various animals running across the attic & crazy A/C ducts, was sold for over $200,000! Only in America!
Until June of 2001, Mike W. had never lived in an actual state (2 commonwealths & 1 district), or a land-locked state.
…11/29-07: the place where dreams come true 28º in ABQ; 46% humidity at 6A…moderate air quality; having a floppy has its downside; 125% of your Blue Book value, pay off your prior car loan; Winter Storm Watch for the S San Juan CNTY?; Blue Ribbons awarded to three NM schools; the ups & downs of highs & lows; Udall will run for Domenici’s seat; some people want the NM GOV to run for the Senate; another man sexually abused by a Carlsbad priest; Ignacio, CO power plant explosion; someone shot a red light camera near Quail; buyout deadline is 12/6/07; cabaret at ‘Atlantis’, the language that became the code that Japan could not break, thanks to Navajos; safer Rail Runner crossings being built in Valencia CNTY; Air Force cyberspace command in NM?; postal worker while driving a mail truck near Cuba; neighbors would feel unsafe; computers can play scratched CDs; NM soldier hospitalized in Iraq; judge attacked on the Santa Fe plaza; weekend rain & snow; Lovelace Med CTR will become a medical mall; one of the worst nursing homes in the US is in SW NM; PM rain at The Beach; a chance of snow in the foothills, a foot of flurries in N NM MTN, Flash Flood Warnings in S NM; CPT meeting from 10:45A – 1P; told CTI family not to give up hope; Ko Palace or Furr’s would be fine; how to park more cars at UNM, 1,500 spaces would cost $600 per year per car; finished Rounds at 8:45A; Edie is understaffed; the case of the Misplaced Modifier; no security swipe required, easy access to PICU; Code Purple at 7A: midday, and still Code Purple; the seminar from slow to speedy, with terms like ‘whatever’ & ‘stuff’ thrown in; waiting for bus passes; Ortho MD need Ortho visit; the PEDS Coding team sat together; CPT report shows an increase in 2008 services, but 2005 had the largest numbers in specific months; never voice a personal opinion via E-mail; got home early, before 6P, buses were in my favor; rain/snow mix in N Rockies; weekend T’storms?; “chillin’ from DC to New England”; ice & snow in the N Plains; temps from 10s to 80s; man stole tree decorations in front of store, to put in front of his MT house; child getting sick all the time, could mean a damaged immune system; ‘micro loans’ on the Internet to Third World nations, as little as $25: your choice of which business to help, see where money being spent, option to get your investment back, with interest; Ambien, the amnesiac; what moves stocks ups & downs; YouTube [R] debate, where candidates attacked each other on the topic of immigration & the war in Iraq; should send Hillary to Mars, the planet; writers’ strike could cancel [D] debate; did PRES Clinton oppose a war with Iraq; quick, painless & helpful CT scans, packed with radiation: is the risk worth it?; Broadway may see the lights, as early as tonight; eco-friendly Rockefeller CTR tree lights; 1923: the birth of HOLLYWOOD sign; a precious relic, an ancient ruin; “Jesus as too smart to run for politics”; foreclosures skyrocket in October; could children outgrow ADHD?; chocolate jewelry; cell phones that find you; children can easily operate robotic devices; does ‘The ‘Golden Compass’ attack the Catholic Church?; 72 million are obese in America; baby killed for not saying ‘please’; crime committed by ‘robotic networks’; foreclosures mean less property taxes collected, empty homes being vandalized, one solution would be demolition, a ripple effect: less income, more crime in deserted sections of cities, no solutions are working; the value of new homes has decreased by 13%, the worst plunge in 37 years; explosion lifts roof off GA factory; the DOW is somewhat steady; White House agrees our economy is on the decline; pregnant woman got stunned by a Tazer; has the Broadway strike ended?; stocks went up, gold & silver went down; food dropped on the floor has a thirty second limit before it is considered unsafe to eat; after 50 years, a Hawaiian Airlines flight attendant retires; if Congress doesn’t approve funds by early 2008, the Pentagon will have to layoff up to 200K civilian personnel; FEMA trailer parks will close by end of the week; people donate money to help woman who was mugged; Dallas vs. Green Bay tonight; Chile’s most famous prostitute will donate her 27 hour earnings to a telethon for disabled children; Musharraf took the oath of office: next, general elections; tough for PAK to give up his military position, country still unstable; $1 million for enriched uranium; al Qaeda arrests in Saudi Arabia, who planned to strike oil refineries; foreign stocks on the rise; state of emergency still in PAK; Asian hotel siege caught on camera; robotic convention in Japan; is the cell phone death a hoax? He had heart, lung, spine & rib injuries; bin Laden message aimed at Europe: stop harming Afghans; woman will serve fifteen days in jail for naming teddy bear ‘Mohammed’; BP guilty of AK oil spill; oil jumps $4 per barrel after MN pipeline fire; 250K Toyota vehicles recalled, including Lexus models; 7.4 Caribbean quake, no serious injuries; …11/30-07: free & confidential 35º in ABQ; 64% humidity at 6A…went to bed early; Winter Storm Warnings; High Winds in the Guadalupe MTN; valley rain; no firearms training, no certifications, 37 ABQ police have not done so, they have until the end of the year; the air quality is good again; elderly man killed in his Farmington home, his car found N of Flagstaff, the same area had a shooting earlier in 2007; parts of the Duke City ‘go green’; life sentences for caretakers who kidnapped & abused children in their custody; more people want Domenici’s Senate seat; first step to win: use smear tactics against opponents; ABQ may need a new recycling plant, we are doing too good a job; dentists accused of INS fraud; both our PCs are on the move; Porn movie weekend in ABQ; $50K reward for person who shot into mail truck; San Juan COMM College has higher than AVG dropout rates; new park & wait areas at SunPort; by early evening, Chama had 2” of snow; the ‘Superstorm’ monsoon approaches; NM price for gas is $3.08, NATL AVG is $3.09; the soggy scenario; the biggest rainfall since August; I saw $2.99: spend less on gas, and more on gifts; Brad’s hard drive arrived; NM GOV in VA; monsoon storm, snow on Sandia Crest & Chama; the ‘force’ is bigger; the ‘exclusive newsroom’; Carlsbad firefighters will get a 15% pay increase; S CO could get five feet of snow, 70 mph winds: a blizzard that’s a hurricane; last night, the humidifier died; in NH, the NM GOV is gaining on Edwards percentage numbers: 13% vs. 15%; computer instructions online; Brad prepared a version of Fettuccini Alfredo; N Plains storms, and freezing temps; 70s in TX; some wind chills of -30º; a rough MX, Central American & Caribbean hurricane season: seven storms lasted lass than 24 hours; two CAT 5 storms made landfall; SW & NE US turbulence; temps from 0s to 80s; Flood Watches in Phoenix & San Diego; keep busy, keep quiet, keep calm; Myrna takes care of her mother, rested last weekend like we did, just a different day: no shower, just eat, watch TV & rest; painful, pandemonium, perfection palace; 9:30 meeting on holiday gifts; working as a team…I hope this lasts; $10 for MGR, $5 for Amy [optional]; get Casino Cards for them; $2 per person per month fund, starting in 2008, Code Purple at 7A & 11A; Kim forgot to E-mail Myrna; cannot locate my red pen; Dawn is due 12/17/07; Day Four of Code Purple; the bus passes were in; easy access to Newborn, PICU & CTI, no badge required: informed Security, problem corrected; the ‘Imperial HOSP’; light rain at 4P; Raiders [Kim] are the Broncos [JoAnn]‘rivals’; UNM ground Luminarias; digging up the dirt at UNM library; one Coder applicant wanted more money; Cowboys did it!; economic crisis?; inflation, or recession; tug-of-wars; 94% higher foreclosures than this same time in 2006; housing ‘a drag’; night shift work could cause cancer?, really become ‘the graveyard shift’, less melatonin, try different lights at work areas; 150K die from eating too much fault; big rig dangled over interstates; anti-bacterial WINDEX; hard times for equity loans, people who want to start small businesses at home, can borrow at 80, not 95 percent of its value, try micro GOVT loans, but beware of interest rates; “raid your 401 [k]”; Lights! Action! Broadway!; emergency snow routes, where cars will be ‘relocated’. not ‘towed’; during his affair, did Giuliani divert expenses for police protection to strange NYC departments; cranberries: the ‘Ninja fruit’?; 104 – 59, Celtics won; Dallas beat Green Bay, 37 – 27; ABQ artist will decorate the White House holiday card; another day in Hollywood writers’ talks; poetic pessimism; modest GNP; lose virginity later, have more sexual problems later in life; renters feel the effects of foreclosure, in spite of leases, tenants have to leave immediately; Amtrak accident injures several in Chicago, as passenger & freight trains collide on the same track, engine lands on freight car; children want ‘the real thing’ in electronic items as holiday gifts; after celebrating 20 years of service, fire chief arrives at work without clothes; smoking rates have not declined: is it still glorified in movies?; the twenty-fifth anniversary of ‘Thriller’, the record that changed Michael Jackson; many MA homeowners face foreclosures, a prime state for Subprime mortgages; a deal to halt slow down the mortgage crunch: freeze the interest rate?, but those that can afford the higher payments will have to struggle; Cowboys is the second team to win a playoff spot; the DOW is in positive ground; SUV are vehicles that can be used for ‘work’ in rural areas: therefore, the are exempt from improving gas mileage; husband of ATL police officer guilty of producing child porn; how to go ‘beyond’; religious beliefs result in death, prevent child from getting necessary medical care; candy that looks like cocaine; in NJ, dog bit illegal immigrant, people believe the canine should not be punished; waking up, paralyzed, during a surgery: feel the pain, cannot communicate with doctors; hostage situation at Clinton’s NH campaign site: “watch the news”, man told his son: surrendered after 5½ hours, said he had a pipe bomb; Evel Knievel has died at the age of 69: lived life, defied death [having 35 broken bones, jumped over 14 buses, and born in Butte, MT: an adrenaline addict]; no compromises in war funding; conservation vs. environment; quake felt in Barbados; plane crash in Turkey, debris scattered, no survivors; life ‘emergency rule’ in PAK next month?; will democracy end in Venezuela? many say ‘No!’, electing Chavez as dictator for life; black market for everyday items; no Donald Trump golf course in Scotland; foreign markets higher; the $18.5 million Faberge egg; New Zealander guilty of cyber crime; protesters demand execution of ‘teddy bear teacher’; …12/1-07: think outside the mug 46º in ABQ; 89% humidity at 6A…T’storms in Alamogordo, more expected in S NM; up to 70 mph gusts; 1/3 of an inch of rain fell at SunPort; people protest porn film festival, supporters say ABQ should encourage all types of art, Nob Hill not zoned for adult entertainment, will the weekend film festival be able to continue today?, decision will be decided this AM; needy people need socks & underwear the most; no tornadoes reported, yet; for many cities, car alarms working as alarm clocks; 4A drips in the bedroom, solved by Chap Stick & Super Glue; 911 outage in W Farmington, affecting 3K residents; US 64 N of Taos getting plenty of snow; markers honoring Loretto nuns women goes up in NM; still chance of snowstorms & blizzards in N NM & S CO; Christmas Eve Luminaria bus tour selling quick; Brad made Pain Perdu [French Toast]; SunPort has no delays [so far]; a second wave of rain this PM; UNM ducks walking longer distances for food; good, or bad: ‘speed humps’ a danger, or benefits; would be replaced by lines & parking lanes on roads; most rain since monsoon season; quickly moved bed to safe position; by dawn, what rain?; carports crushed, tree limbs have snapped, slight chance of Duke City snow; ABQ W End winds; severe storms strike Santa Rosa; man beats would be robber, may face time in jail; the ‘Grinch’ that stole all their front yard lights, including extensions cords; NM GOV in IA, will his numbers make him one of the top three in IA & NH; 53 mph gusts at SunPort; ‘gently used coats’; Brad contacted DELL for help installing the peripherals, and solved his problems; very early AM exercise; went to bed relatively late last night; took an AM nap; awakened by a thud…no matter how hard I tried, I could not get back to sleep, fearing the worse: the answer was a mixer than fell off the kitchen counter and onto the garbage bag; Brad made dough for pizza, and a slightly spicy Meat Loaf [that was light & delicious], then he took a PM nap; by 1P, warm winds, sunshine, and a dry parking lot; the second hand table that split at the seams, it seems; no shower, no shaving, just relaxation; the rain never returned; 3A squalls & microburst with straight-line winds; campers & boats overturned, car hoods lifted by gusts; stadium seats were crushed; the highest winds reported was over 60 mph; 2 X 4 boards damaged structures; power outages in NW ABQ; NM mentioned on Weather Channel; soggy San Diego, pouring in Phoenix; herbal remedies are less costly, and better than Viagra: do not mix with nitroglycerin; late night talk show staff has been laid off; freezing rain, ice & snow in IA, NE, KS, IL, MN, WI & IL; landslides & mudslides in S CA; an energy bill by the holidays; hostage suspect may have been drinking non-stop for three days; FedEx will raise rates on 1/1/08; Detroit is one of the most obese city; natural gas costs less this year; CA man could be sent to jail for faking a cancer illness to get more time off from work; sweetener in small bags, is it really candy, or really cocaine; another oil pipeline for AK; 71 people hospitalized after Chicago Amtrak train crash; GA man informed he owed Wachovia bank $211 trillion; WA man charged with dragging & killing a teen thirteen miles, after the young man went out of control and threatened a hunting camp; hostage taker’s mind filled with conspiracy theories; less AIDS, more secondary infections from the disease; I-80 in NE, and I-35 in IA shuts down due to snowy conditions; three VA high schools make the top 100 best of the US; couple arrested in WV for $7 million armored car robbery; juvenile crime is down, because teens are been charged as adults; no one was injured when a plane slid off Des Moines runway; five people injured from another uranium mine explosion in Ukraine; World AIDS Day; Spice Girls children have chicken pox; historic Biblical wall found in Jerusalem; Hugo Chavez will stop the flow of oil if the US interferes with his country’s elections; threatens the King of Spain after the royal leader’s “shut up” comment: will nationalize two banks that had been bought by the European nation; AIDS kills 6K per day; space shuttle Atlantis given the green light to launch this Thursday; …12/2-07: experience the luxury of being yourself 38º in ABQ; 44% humidity at 6A… the ABQ Porn Festival will continue, but will creators be fined, has ACLU support; a windy AM, advisories until noon; horse stalls crumbled in Santa Fe; $250 billion per year in ski tourism: Mother Nature & manmade working together, time for a ‘snow dance’; in San Miguel CNTY, car collided with Amtrak train at Rowe, one of the vehicle’s occupants was killed; six miles of copper wire worth $300K was stolen from a Rail Runner site in La Bajada, it was later recovered; future brother-in-law killed in Tome; insulation landed in neighbor’s home & yard; should state vehicles be taken home; park ranger shot at Abiquiu lake; more than two inches of rain, and six inches of snow fell across the state; ABQ had almost ½ inch of rain, the most to fall on 12/1/07; NM GOV in IA; 50% of NM mothers-to-be are not married, nor live with the father, doubled in the past two decades; the NATL AVG is about 36%; inmate arrested, after he had escaped from Socorro prison; ABQ police calls try to take handle 9-1-1 calls in ten seconds, or crimes that are in progress; PC hardware weighed 26 pounds, left Ft. Worth at 4A on 12/1/07; new I-40 art at Louisiana; opening up my home office; ABQ parents tired of waiting for school bond approval, raised money to rebuild playground, need $30K; clash of high & low pressures caused high winds; wolf-proof shelters at bus stops; a squirrel ran ahead of me at The Beach; neighbors return clothes to their owner after his shed collapsed; carrots added to pizza, subdue to spicy taste; one neighborhood, many associations?; wanted: cat with attitude; a candid candidate’s comments could win or lose by appearing on YouTube; in 2004, Jib-Jab got more hits than the real candidates’ websites; three people died from Midwest snowstorms; ice & snow in IA, heading towards the E Coast; the PA boy [and, a St. Louis Cardinals fan] who survived multiple brain tumors, one that covered the entire left side of his brain, cancer & surgeries: he danced with his mother and served in his parents’ wedding party; house prices could drop by up to 25% in Boston, Denver, ‘the’ Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, DC, San Fran & NYC: stable in Seattle, St. Louis & Pittsburgh; $9 air fares to the Caribbean, via Spirit Airlines; take antioxidants to improve your ability to smell; on the edge of a housing crisis: Baltimore, Phoenix & most major FL cities; Subprime mortgages were destined to hurt the economy; early TV cliffhangers caused by writers’ strike; crashes on I-70 in CO, and I-90 in MN & WI; Imus return to the airways; TN feral cat had peanut butter jaw stuck on its head for 19 days, finally caught & freed, too tired to flee; will people who file their taxes early get a refund; everybody has a price, and everybody lies; the $30K truffle; series’ finale vs. season’s final episode; two will die, who will die on ‘Heroes’; promise them anything, just get a house sold; a large population of Sherpas live in NYC; made with real bits of vanilla bean ‘specks’; Huckabee leads in IA; snow, and plenty of it, from Seattle to New England; Sunni delegates again walk out of Parliament meeting; will English teacher be freed from Sudan; will Hugo Chavez be given too much power over banks & geographical boundaries, threatens Columbia, and CNN, no limits for ‘PRES’ Chavez?; drone used in Iraq, could be monitored in Cannon AFB; Putin controls the party, and his party controls the nation; four people killed as bombers target mosques in Baghdad & Bakuba; 190 nations gather for a UN Meeting Bali, Indonesia: focus on global warning, and a pact the US will not sign; Bangladesh will be a primary country affected by rising seawater; the site of the first recorded battle in history is Megiddo, Egyptians vs. Canaanites; thus was born ‘Armageddon’; through time, a foot sunk underground, now covered with crops; believing in Christianity was considered illegal until the era of Constantine; …12/3-07: avenues, and side streets 31º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…tonight, New England plays at Baltimore; hands that have no traction; good air quality; the plan to ban: will Red Light Cameras be turned off for one month, used to balance a budget vs. halted during holiday season, wait for task force recommendation; should the porn weekend organizers be fined; Atlantis will not get a liquor license, for its high end entertainment, but the decision can be appealed; fifty gang members arrested in Silver City; ‘villages’ vs. big box stores, since large shopping centers decrease surrounding property values; PC not here, neither was Nancy; how convenient? should a 7-11 be allowed to serve alcohol?; could NM GOV be Hillary’s VP?; gas is $2.89; five people stabbed at Rio Rancho bar; budget crunch for GRIP, to complete new projects, raise gas prices, or create toll roads; PNM will try to raise rates, asking Public Regulations Commission for a 15% increase; a high school & stadium built at Paseo del Volcanes; how to teach science in Rio Rancho schools, with a little bit of religion added; more Big Brothers & Big Sisters needed in the Duke City; so far, NM film studios not directly affected by the writers’ strike; DUI crash caused serious injuries to other driver, but not the drunk operator; ‘Alcastar’ mantra; more film crews in downtown Duke City; stealing college books: rip out monitor tags, sell back to bookstores, five suspects; the Lobos will be in the NM Bowl; Santa Fe College has a prairie dog for its symbol; two baseball fields to be built at Tingley Beach; Brad baked bread; semi struck overpass on I-25 at La Cienega, ‘compromising structural integrity’, traffic backed for five miles; ABQ man died from hypothermia, body found near Belen; extra $2.95 to pay PNM bills online; the renovated Rio Puerco exit; Hell Week, Day One; Valerie is pregnant; loners also win; no IDX or TES run on Friday; finished Rounds about 9:30A; PICU, and half of GPU, allows access without badges, so I should inform Security; certificates not renewed by 12/1/07, online security issue completed by noon; hole punchers don’t; saw person that was wearing jeans, and handcuffs; crying in stereo; thanked for submitted my ‘not attending’ response; drunk Native Americans on PM R/R; ‘preliminary’ vs. ‘final’ reports; AM panic attack rumbles; no Linda; ‘majority moves’; the all-time high Census [so far] of 405 rooms; “I want to ‘thank’ all of you, in making this year a hellish one for me; Chicago ‘clippers’; NM weekend rain mentioned on the Weather Channel; new & old snowstorms; strengthen as an Atlantic coastal storm on Tuesday; MA & CT ice storms; blinding snow in ME; fourteen deaths so far; at least 340 collisions & rollovers reported; 129 mph winds batter the OR coast: one of the strongest storms since the last century; very cold in Chicago; avalanche warning in Cascade MTN, I-90 shut down in WA; 15 car pileup in NJ; in the NW US, typhoon collides with cold Arctic air ;100K people in the Midwest without power at the height of the storm; bundle up in Baltimore; temps from 10s to 80s; snow + ‘lake effect’ snow; 3 – 6 inches of rain in Seattle, 3 – 5 feet in the WA MTN; if there’s a way, we’ll find it: these people don’t know a thing about the Scooter itself, just how to sell you the item; death threats against the twelve million dollar dog, traveled to FL, the Leona Helmsley canine; bullet deflected by wedding wring; no more showers taken after school, people ashamed of their bodies; radon & lung cancer: imperfect together; sharp mind vs. a sharp chisel; some candidates late for a debate, call in by Hillary; is religion a factor in the 2008 elections; people don’t want a Mormon PRES [Romney]; ordained minister in the lead; get ready for more dirt; 50K FaceBook share people’s opinion info in ads without permission, a subtle testimonial; four men confess to killing Redskins player; Miami lost its twelfth game in a row; after a seven month ‘hiatus’, Imus returns to the airwaves, his show not be aired in NM; Brad Pitt wants to help make New Orleans green; Hillary says GOV make good VP; Obama is leading in IA; Memphis is the most obese US city; Pittsburgh won, but still not in playoffs; the number of HIV infected people could increase, based on poor bookkeeping; are our food & drugs more harmful to our health?; no tire tracking on its recalls; Amtrak was speeding prior to Chicago accident, warned by signal lights, when it collided into a freight train; “I melt fat”; less impact, less pain; the DOW is slightly down; CNN says to explore NM, and take the kids; ‘maybe’ mortgage help is on the way; SEN Craig accused of same-sex incidents that took place over the past decades; police tried to rescue CA worker who fell into ‘sand mountain’; ‘I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch’; lower gas prices, encourage holiday spending, have a credit card debt, fuel debt and home heating debt; Siegfried & Roy may return to the stage; SEN Craig, and same sex incidents, going back to the 1980s; the NATL debt grows at the rate of $1 million per minute; correction: the $330K truffle; get high on “toad smoking”; Australian man stole meat, sixteen tons [worth thousands of dollars]; no Socialist state, postpone increasing the power of Chavez, 51% to 49%, he will accept defeat diplomatically: his country gets $100 million each day by selling oil, with US one of its biggest customers; US is convinced Iran is not building nuclear weapons, stopped in 2003, nor would be capable to do so until 2010; baby pigs get milk from a tiger in Asian zoo; UK teacher given pardon by PRES Sudan; “Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose”, Frederick Nietzsche; climate wars around the world, and the US fighting in all of them: Bangladesh is smaller than IA, but has a much larger population, and is sinking; pollution spawns terrorists; …12/4-07: life at the end of the tunnel 37º in ABQ; 54% humidity at 6A…Brad at NMAS; time to change TV tape; guidelines for medical marijuana continue to be written & revised; oil barrel struck overpass last night; four City Council walked out of the meeting; stop the red light camera fines for a month, rely on police to ticket drivers, waiting on task force report; Chavez could reject the entire proposal; three people on the run, charged for animal cruelty, chopping ears; Guild Cinema got a notice, but will not be fined for weekend porn movie festival; ABQ City Council rejected PNM rate hike; Brad will also visit the Food Bank, that have seen cutbacks in inventory; Moriarty thrift store & food pantry vandalized,$100 stolen, $1K damage; no liquor license for ‘Atlantis’ club; 70s in E NM; 6A panic attack; the ‘answer’ to our leaking problems: a storm door for the kitchen; Barbara: name of woman who waits with me at the AM R/R; transformer ignited outside NMAS, causing a power outage; good, quality air; my package was shipped to Henderson, CO, N of Denver: in theory, from there, it could reach ABQ in seven hours; some Navajos do not want a casino on their land; two scams reported in the Four Corners area; man linked to ARCO dies in NM; in Edgewood, piece of loose lumber fell from a truck, smashed through a school bus windshield, knocking out the driver, but not before she radioed for help: one child was cut on the lip; Native American man killed at Twelfth & I-40; no O/T for ABQ police; the Ojo Peak fire is 75% contained; Hell Week, Day Two; train today?; a ‘thank you’ for turning down an invitation; nothing definite yet about Winter Break; up & down the stairs to train; taught V Borges, CNNP; Linda went to work early on Monday; Meangel admitted again; Dorothy monitoring Edie’s output; how to handle an I/P charge, need to be changed to an O/P service; telephone talk between MGR & myself over going to holiday party, told her I have a bad back: in the end, convinced to go, she would draw me; October services being entered; told to think about it, told MGR I would E-mail my hanky to dry her tears; ‘lake effect machine’; NM upcoming wet weekend mentioned on Weather Channel; OR & WA in states of emergency: a series of three storms; I-5 shut down in both states, drivers had to make a 440 detour [instead of the typical 160 mile drive] because part of the interstate was shut down for twenty miles; some roads have collapsed; many residents without power that may not be restored for several days; more rain until end of week; fifteen deaths in New England; threat of fire: temps from 0s to 80s; wind & low humidity in the Carolinas; snow in Baltimore, Chicago, Twin Cities; twenty-four hours & two deaths in NW US; rivers feet above flood stage in WA & OR; windy PA; the ‘combo’ loan; link between a child’s fever & autism?; their ‘toughest’ win against the Ravens, but the Patriots did it, 27 -24; student driver slams into building after taking & passing his driving test; most college kids use alcohol as ‘drug of choice’; more teens smoke pot, than tobacco; foreign tourists go shopping in NYC, offered weekend fares; CO cops brought back dead pot to couple; thousands pay their respects to fallen Redskins player; the season of Kwanzaa; Brad Pitt donates money to build 150 new ‘eco-friendly homes’ in the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans; another broadcast by Bush today; so far, tech center cities are not suffering: condos doing better than homes; need to freeze interest rates on Subprime loans for seven years; MN boy fell through the ice, rescued by two girls; reality show to win a ‘green card’; FDA says meals & medicine are at risk, blames Congress: keeping the DEPT understaffed & under funded, antiquated computer system, need retired IT analysts to solve problem, many do not have computers, use paper files; Imus is slightly kinder, and gentler, now has two Afro-Americans on his tem; no charges against Internet harassment by mother who convinced teenage neighbor to kill herself; the ‘perfect’ Patriots, did it in the fourth quarter; US math & college skills less than those in other nations; puberty for children under ten years old, caused by stress; high risk of heart attacks during the holidays; Baltimore one of the deadliest cities to live; the young, the rich the PA identity thieves; NM GOV on Imus show; don’t retire to Clearwater, FL [too many seniors], Queens, DC or RI; the ‘speaker frames’; house prices take their biggest quarterly drop in 25 years; is digital TV better?; mysterious illness at MN food processing plant; no more phone booths by 2009; AK man went on killing spree with a machete & a gun; getting a credit card could lower a person’s credit rating; should sperm donors pay child support?; DC & its suburbs has a high ‘walking’ factor, easy reach places by foot [using METRO]; shock absorber in the heel; house sales down, number of homes for sale are up; William Shatner accused of having gay sex on a TV show?; the era of toxic debt continues; tiger at Tippi Hedren’s refuge; two hikers found dead in WA MTN, third survived; medical copter missing in AK; DOW still declining; back to drawing board for writers & producers; what may have been a bomb, was actually a typewriter: but the object shut down Sarasota city streets; Portland, OR has the largest forest inside a US city; NYC man, whose mother led an INTL cult, killed his former nanny, then himself; in N Dakota, King Tut meets T-Rex: an intact fossil that could camouflage itself; parents do not understand video game ratings; antibiotics don’t always help; he AVG American has a $2200 credit card debt; interest rates can go up if your credit score goes down, or you only pay the minimum amount; one conclusion from sixteen agencies: Iran stopped trying to build a bomb several years ago; UK teacher in total shock, took two days to guarantee her return to Britain; just an ‘ordinary schoolteacher’; treated well in prison; Islamists insulted; young chimps have better memory retention than man; many think the Taliban is stronger now, than a few years ago, and possess US weapons; EBay goes INTL in 2008; 1904 Rolls Royce sells for over $7.2 million; AFG polled 14K natives of that country, who blame both NATO & the Taliban for this never-ending war; Chinese have a similar structure five times bigger than the Hoover Dam; China’s strong economy causes oil prices to rise; Bush at odds with INTEL, people who do not make policy; Iran is still a ‘nuclear threat’, they could repeat history, and restart the process of making bombs: China does not agree, says things have changed in that country; …12/5-07: stay sunnier, stay home 39º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…Brad will wait for ‘the package’, hope it arrives today: Nancy will not be in her office today; Amber Alert for six year old girl; moderate air quality; elderly couple killed in NE Heights home, was it a murder – suicide; ; the calm before the desert storm; fire at Five Points in SW ABQ burned one room; woman posing as climate attacked a high-end real estate agent; Marty will veto the red light ban; former LANL employees could be employed by other companies soon, job fair being held today at the lab; bill passed too quickly to build a casino on Navajo Nation; $100 million windfall for ABQ schools; death of a Duke City homeless person puts these people on higher alert; NM GOV in DC, for fundraisers; inmate at Dona Ana CNTY detention center; Tesla executive fired, would have brought jobs to NM, building the electric car; missing girl has been found, unharmed; water main break at 98th & Central; attempted kidnapping in Roswell; this AM, Nancy liked my outfit: I told her about the psychology of clothes; Brad called FedEx: package will arrive today, wrote a note that included our phone number, and location of our APT, and waited; received Brad’s PC invoice; Nancy was back in the office by 3:30P: by 5P, no package; an answer: the package was ‘delivered’ at 2P, but “customer not available”, and/or “business was closed”, so the box will be ‘delivered’ tomorrow; multiple impulses of weather; Brad made a tasty Applesauce Cake; trying to preserve 400 year old Santa Fe church; holiday pet gift baskets; Hell Week, Day 2.5; Myrna is a planner: as the new Coder, she wants to know how much time at work is expected from her during Winter Break, so she could determine her holiday travel; Edie’s B’day; E-mailed my MGR, saying I will go to the holiday party; and E-mailed my changed response; 56 batches waiting to be entered; received Winter Break schedule, Tuesday – Sunday; OK to work the first Sunday of the holiday [for a few hours]; Edie is really not here on her birthday!; now we have Angelique, a child that may have been beaten by one of her parents; MGR wants to look good; I hate to see a woman cry electric tears; no one really cares about me; now the choice is between Furr’s & Quarters; Myrna says what’s on her mind: every data one of our Data Entry people is not at work; lots of little clippers from the Midwest to WV MTN to DC; add lake effect snow; five deaths in the NW US, I-5 may reopen tomorrow; at least 116K people were without power; plenty of snow in Chicago; great waves for CA surfers; warm in Orlando & Dallas; the Weather Channel says two storms will merge before reaching NM, and stay in the state until next week; temps from the 10s to 80s; NW US damage total could be in the billions; fifteen feet , the highest surf; snow caused both bus & plane crashes; avoid the coast, instead, use mountainous interstates; FL man said 300 lb. prostitute robbed him of $100; man arrested for throwing snowball [or was it ice] at a woman waiting for a bus vs. did she have a previous injury, but the evidence melted; Huckabee is a single state winner, Baptists vs. Mormons still the main conflict; what rights do GITMO detainees have, decided by the US Supreme Court, prisoners present their cases: US says these inmates have no rights, and will be in prison for life, never have had a fair hearing; does America have ‘faith’ in the former MA GOV; the Las Vegas holiday ‘light’ house; Chicago ‘Santa Trains’; writers & producers drift apart; FL burglary caught on surveillance tape; go to China, ‘meet your maker’, see their quality standards, make sure legal documents are in both languages, seek another manufacturer [a last resort]; ‘borrow what you need’; garnishment sounds like a spice; seniors should stay ‘physically fit’; walk for thirty minutes, lean or heavy, helps against bone disease, stay active; how to look at video games; US students have low skills in math & science; boarding passes on cell phones or PDA devices, based on a barcode; ‘the most researched medicine’; the online golf course simulator; GE recalling 92K microwave ovens, could ignite; some flu vaccines were ‘duds’, have to be inoculated again; baritone voice: a sign of success; is Britney guilty of child abuse?; Dennis Quaid sues drug company for overdosing their children with blood thinner, poor labeling on item; sinus infections cannot be cured by medicine; Victoria’s Secret targeting teens?; tanker truck caught fire near Everett, MA: the blaze leveled homes, caused cars to explode and forced other residents to evacuate their houses; card game case, backpacks & shoes have too much lead, but remain on shelves to be sold; the free gift of giving blood; pay rent using a credit card?; a major runway crash is inevitable; video games include urination; the DOW is up, into triple digits; teen birth rate on the rise; “some” mortgagee rates will be frozen for five years; was Detroit house firebombed?; the number of households filing for bankruptcy is increasing, as compared to last year, but decreasing, as compared to last month as GOV, did Huckabee release a rapist & killer?; AZ police chase ends with head-on collision [motorist & vehicle being chased], after speeds reached 100 mph; more severe storms over the past fifty years; nine people killed at NE [the state] shopping mall; twenty-four close calls on runways; the ‘epic’, forty foot ‘mega-wave’; air traffic controllers usually work six days a week; seventeen injured when the brakes failed on a tour bus, while on the way to a TV show taping; ‘Jericho’ will return with seven more episodes; a huge, Australian doughnut, 90K bonded together, in honor of the Simpsons movie; do not ease up on Iran, there could be a clandestine program; suicide bomber struck AFG; 11% annual growth rate, China, the fourth largest economy, the ‘growing, global giant’, has more skyscrapers than NYC; foreign markets higher; Gates, and a ‘surprise’ trip to Iraq; Saudis “quietly” increase their oil output, while OPEC says something different; oil prices are currently near of fifteen people died across OK & MO; ice will melt, lines will be repaired, water will fr$90 per barrel; climate change: a weapon of mass destruction; Earth can ‘handle’ eight billion people; maybe the planet is in a natural ‘transition’ phase; ten years later, ten years warmer: Kyoto; the ‘Three Gorges Dam’, and ecological nightmare, people forced from homes, pollution gathering on one side of the dam, sewage & landslides increasing [killing many people], air quality declining, a monitoring system is needed; …12/6-07: create personalized forecasts 47º in ABQ; 49% humidity at 6A…’maybe today’; stress, from stress, from waiting; the ‘truckload event’; air quality: good; if bad weather, use Central bus, not R/R; two prominent Korean couple killed in their NE ABQ home on Tuesday; there is a ‘person of interest’; NM GOV wants to be in third place, or better in PRES polls; criminal charges from checkpoint in S Valley; the next storm will start with wind, and snow in N NM; my home office desk is a mess; parents oppose play being performed at Manzano High, that deals with the gay beating & murder of a student , should performance be rated ‘PG’, the WY ‘hate crime’: language has been toned down; NM miner died after injury sustained this past November; burglars broke into ABQ homes, searching for the previous tenant: not finding him, they left; piles of manure remained in Rio Rancho park; the debate for a PNM rate hike has not ended; bail lowered for sex offender; I was crying, not complaining to Nancy, about the undelivered package; SUV sideswiped Gallup school bus on I-40; tonight, the Nob Hill Stroll will shut down part of Central; upcoming weekend weather goes downhill; ‘breaking news alerts’; suspend the suspense; six car crash at Central & WY; saw a FedEx truck downtown; got home, there was a call from Nancy: THE PACKAGE HAD ARRIVED!; accident on I-25S, near Cesar Chavez; the interstate looks like a diamond necklace; watches turn to warnings; ABQ is a ‘dangerously drunk’ city: Denver & CO Springs are worse, with Durham, NC the best; early to bed tonight; ABQ school on lockdown after a man entered a police substation with a gun; left work at 10:30A; told Myrna this will not be the first, or the last time we will be blamed for low productivity; taught Dr. Cushing at 9A, then A. King, MS, RD, LD at 9:30A; we three trained as a team; JoAnn wish me a good PM; JoAnn discovered the unprocessed batches; now the MGR is taking us to Furr’s; no more tall power pole outside UNMH; eat at Kim’s, the food was good again; those who did not indicate when they would work during Winter Break, may be working all week; covering up the dirt at the UNM library; the ‘public pussycat’; Albert likes the Ranch Kitchen in Gallup; “nurse! nurse! no tan lines!”; still 56K people without power; I-5 will remain closed for several more days; be creative driving to destinations; more lake effect snow; I-80 will be treacherous today; temps from 0s to 80s; snow in CA, NV & UT; Orlando cop dressed as Santa Claus caught red light runners; head to a NATL Park to cut a tree: costs less than the prices in urban areas, which reach $100; unclaimed lottery money in several states; deadliest mass shooting in NE mall murders, department store deaths, entered shopping center with an AK-47 rifle, killer had been fired from McDonald’s that same day, and had broken up with his girlfriend, wore military uniform, the nineteen year old left a suicide note; Bush had been in Omaha, left one hour before the attack; Huckabee under the microscope, time to dig up the dirt, made a personal appeal to free a prisoner, who had an excellent record while in prison; a victim also had made a ‘personal appeal’ to the former AR GOV; strict guidelines for getting better rates in Subprime loans: amount owed, home equity, when adjustable rate changes, inability to make higher mortgage payments; Hillary still leads in IA polls; no one died in MA tanker explosion; get smooth jazz music from the Weather Channel; at LAX, two planes came within 37 feet; 370 runway incidents each year, regressed in safety: no plan to handle air traffic controller fatigue, or retirement; Romney tries to explain his religion; billions of dollars in retail theft, items are then sold online; returned holiday gifts bought over the Internet: anonymous, electronic transactions, with no receipts; two people are still fighting for their lives after the Omaha shooting; NATL holiday tree lighting in DC; deals to keep people in their homes, people have to have steady incomes; modify & modernize the MGMT of the FHA; E-mail coupon scams on the rise; don’t look for a Wii on the web, impossible to purchase on the Internet; in AZ, two men shopped for snacks in the nude, paid for the items, then left: all captured on camera; Madonna & AARP are both turning 50; “things like this don’t happen in Omaha, NE”; murderer wanted to be ‘famous’, said he was sorry; quiet people are not always killers; Kiefer Sutherland will spend forty-eight days in jail after another DUI charge; hate crimes against gays not attached to defense bill; DOW rose by triple digits; of the top cities that would incur the most deaths after a 6.0 quake, none are located in the US; Atlantis launch scrubbed; if killers were able to go back in time, would they repeat their actions?: or, ‘things would be different’; FL parking garage collapse, and a woman died in a similar incident: this time, in NC; Hillary Clinton was raised in a Chicago suburb; 1.2 million homeowners will benefit from this mortgage ‘deal’: but when the five year freeze is over, will the housing market be better?; week number five for the Hollywood writers’ strike, there is a chance the walkout will end ‘soon’; foreign markets higher; Bush says Iran may face ‘isolation’; the Atlantis may be launched today; did Bush already know that Iran had stopped trying to build a bomb?; mother in Germany killed her five children; Kuwait is in ‘SW Asia’; al Qaeda tapes of interrogations were destroyed; package bomb kills one person in Paris; foreign malls have more armed security checkpoints; …12/7-07: different, but delicious 48º in ABQ; 53% humidity at 6A…Brad puts together my new hard drive; an oil well in Santa Fe CNTY?; the first Christmas holiday gift theft in Duke City home; a new era, an electric razor, blades are getting too expensive; NM GOV asks state workers to help him in IA; able to minimize the mess again; driver on drugs guilty of six car crash on Central; the end of 80s in S NM; flights from ABQ to Farmington start in January; couple killed a man, then buried his body; home invasion in Socorro, where the tenant was beaten, and the burglars were shot; three storms will move across NM through next week; human jawbone located near Santa Fe; LANL staff who accepted the buyout package will get unemployment & 26 weeks of monetary benefits; Olde Towne Holiday Stroll this weekend, where bargains will be found? ambulance repairs, not replacements; 29 transportation projects are on hold, including roadwork through Navajo Nation, near Tramway & two highways close to the TX border; 25 Pearl Harbor survivors in NM: about 5K across the US; a photo & ‘ghost image’ on NM drivers’ license; arson at ABQ abortion CTR; 250 new fire hydrants for the S Valley; train crash at Second & Prosperity; lots of wind this weekend; Ojo Caliente mail theft; PM fog in Clayton; ABQ mayor will not seek the Senate seat; by early AM, the hard drive was installed; by 11A, so was most of the software, need to customize Word & Internet Explorer, and restart a dictionary; Brad & I worked as a team to make my computer ‘user friendly’; two NM police accused of selling drugs; hackers accessed LANL files; garbage truck’s contents ignites on I-40 near Coors; Korean killers caught; gas is $2.79; Brad’s idea of a ‘mess’ differs from mine; started adding to my list of favorite YouTube videos; Brad prepared delicious Pot Roast; Roswell set another record high temp day; 15K saw the lighting of Olde Towne holiday trees; did I turn in my Winter Break worksheet?; answer: YES!; the outside landscape keeps changing; because of construction closing the second floor corridor, had to go up the stairs to the third floor of the HSC: its door was locked, so I climbed up to the fourth floor, and took the elevator back to the second: by PM, the passage was clear; MGR asked for another copy of updated billing sheets: I told Myrna that this will happen several times before 1/1/08, especially during Winter Break; who do I give for my MGR, and Amy: answer? JoAnn; return to silence; tough, tricky, treacherous I-70 & I-80; temps from below zero to 80s; from fires to floods in S CA, while heave snow expected in N CA; snow & sleet in DC; dry & warm in deep South; white in Pittsburgh; NM high winds & high MTN snow mentioned on the Weather Channel; I-5 in NW US reopened; rain [up to three inches] & hail for Los Angeles?; DC pagers & participants gone wild, after the previous scandal had been almost forgotten; ‘before the rooster went blind’; a private ‘members only’ showroom; man posed as priest to get free groceries, charge to a church; teens say people have to lie & cheat to get ahead in life; digital TV by 2009?; thirty rounds of ammo were fired: the lost, angry young mass murderer: gunshots heard during first 9-1-1 call; NE mall still closed, the entire ordeal lasted six minutes; man had threatened to kill his step-mother; Romney did not try to explain Mormonism; do not define him, or his candidacy by his religion. but many are ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘uneasy’ by the [R] candidate; how to finance in 2008; ‘simple to shop, buy, enjoy’; sellers should offer to pay closing costs for a year, buyers should try to lower the price, have a reliable income; lower property values for prime homeowners; deals will benefit those who have not missed a payment; in New Orleans HOSP: ten babies, three moms, two days; the era of the ‘ugly model’; Redskins beat the Bears; Barry Bonds faces a steroid scandal again, and lying under oath; 600K Dodge trucks & vans, shifting from ‘Park’ when vehicle is not in motion; ‘Katrina children’ still battling depression & developmental delays; FORD recalls millions of trucks; the flu could trigger heart attacks; DOW stays steady; four OK schools on lockdown after shots fired at police officer; tanker was going too fast when it struck the Bay Bridge; in OR, cashier attacked by man throwing canned food; scaffolding collapse in NYC kills one worker; female IN student had sex with her teacher, got better grades; Inspector General resigning; no sex clubs in TX residential areas; TX driver ignores warnings, collides with train; red & yellow paint contain the most lead; another suicide bomber explodes in Iraq; Atlantis launch scrubbed again: cleaned & cleared for takeoff today [or, tomorrow?]; 66K gallons of sludge: massive Yellow Sea crude oil spill, near S Korean; O, Yea, of little faith!’: fearful of retaliation from interrogation tapes, the CIA had them destroyed in 2005; torture, AKA ‘enhanced interrogation technique’: Harriet Myers knew, but not Bush?; can ‘obstruction of justice’ be proven?; the robotic violinist; Pearl Harbor Day; 5.4 quake shakes Bali global warming conference, epicenter was six miles below the ocean floor; …12/8-07: sensual undertones 47º in ABQ; 71% humidity at 6A…a clearer screen; elementary teacher faces corruption & fraud charges; from fog, with only ¼ mile visibility, to snow warnings across NM; St. Vincent HOSP being sued by female patient; still looking for the best design of the I-25 exit at Paseo; phoned Brad to tell him I did E-mail my Winter Break schedule; I was a nervous wreck walking across the campus; ‘The Big Spank’ on CD; two transients from Dallas may have murdered elderly couple, killers were selling subscriptions; neighbors feel anger over the event; two Hispanic men shot an off duty police officer, each has a $2 million bond; Paseo will be shut down all night; where did my web site go?; I found it!, and made it a favorite site; Rail Runner blamed for lack of money to start ‘important’ road projects; NM GOV in NV, at ‘the’ Las Vegas; another lawyer [his fifth in a series] desired by man who skimmed $20 million in Duke City money; the Ojo Peak fire keeps burning, contained to 7K acres, started on 11/19/07; I wish people would stop treating me like a monster; AM showers, followed by PM showers; the calm between the storms; why did Marty decline the chance to be a Senator?: to prevent a split in the [D]? that no one can beat Udall?; try for a House seat instead?; rollover at Spain & Tramway; Snow & Winter Storm Warning in W NM; some ski resorts are opened, others are waiting for this weekend’s white weather; Durango has seen ten inches of snow; the History Channel & Warner Bros. want to film shows in NM; Brad made a great Mushroom Soup; watched first two parts of ‘Tin Man’; so far, but the third part will answer the question; state holiday tree officially lit by the First Lady last night; snow in Las Vegas, NV; two planes came within 300 feet from colliding at Newark airport; CNN, and a NM dog fighting ring; ‘co-operation lasts until the status quo changes’; Bush is giving states more power to guarantee ‘no child is left behind’; Jenna Bush called her ‘daddy’ while on ‘Ellen’; who in the White House really knew about the destruction of interrogation tapes: did the US destroy evidence; is there a CIA cover-up?; ‘I don’t think you fully appreciate the gravity of this situation’; CompUSA to close all their stores; ‘even secrets have their secrets’; Omaha mall reopens, with extra security added; bag of body parts found in state park; ‘memories masked by magic’; writers’ talks break down again; parts of both CO interstates closed due to inclement weather, and accidents: fog in CO Springs; missing female IL lawyer, found in ATL; the ‘human network’; NYC may ban horse carriage rides; Oprah & Obama in IA, NH & SC: electronic gospel according to the talk show hostess, ‘his tongue dipped in unvarnished truth’, she packed the house: are people voting for him, or her, some left after she stopped speaking; white women for Oprah, Bill courted the black vote; food banks in trouble across America: less meat, for more needy; woman battered on Baltimore bus by several teens; heavy hearts & security surround NE mall, the largest & oldest in that state; “tell the boss, get the car”; use one credit card to pay another; WI gas station goofs, lists 33¢ a gallon; Huckabee may have stated that AIDS victims & homosexuals should be locked away, but that was in the 90s; CA Episcopal church breaks away, because gay pastors polluting its people; another Chinese mine disaster; US troop withdrawal could begin next summer; the Arab & Asian nations should monitor Iran’s nuclear progress does not include creating bombs; one of the seventeen Magna Carta documents selling between $20 – $30 million; 3,887 US military deaths from the Middle East conflict; fuel sensor problem, Atlantis launch scrubbed again; …12/9-07: increased kindness 35º in ABQ; 69% humidity at 6A…second wave of snow in the forecast, more moisture tonight; rain in S NM, sow in N NM; Farmington flurries, may last until the end of the week; two NM roads are closed; police surrounded Super 6, captured two supermarket thieves; ABQ may get twenty dogs, from dog fighting ring in Anthony: many canines are malnourished, injured, and one has a broken leg; owner relinquished his rights; next year, St. Vincent may merge with TX based health base company, bring money to that HOSP; no Shell Oil negligence suit, not charged with using underground containers to hold chemicals, that is now a subdivision; kill prairie dogs living near SunPort; 2 – 4 inches of snow fell near Gallup; the calm between storms today; Chama saw snow; rain may have washed away evidence from Ojo Peak fire; NM GOV used law firm jet to travel, did he violate a new state ethics law when he flew to MX; NM Tech, the site for TV program, as a research UNIV, students as cast members: and when Road Runner goes live, there will be no profit or costs to produce programs; ABQ police DEPT have the ability to analyze DNA swabbed from steering wheel, state of the art technology crime lab in NM, and the US, using six DNA specialists; some cities will see single digit coldness tonight; man killed in vehicle crash on US 550 near Cuba; NE Heights saw snow on the grasses; 17 year old Aztec girl shot at police; higher elevations could see ten inches of snow, flurries until Thursdays, all parts of NM under alert from tonight until Tuesday; running through red light caused rollover, sent teens to UNMH, in critical & fair conditions; Brad baked a Pineapple Upside-Down Cake turned Pudding; today’s highs are much lower; up to 20 inches of snow expected in the mountains: with 8 inches in the lower elevations; freezing rain could turn to ice, especially on the roads; now, Udall has to attract conservatives; Sandias shrouded in pink skies & blue clouds; advisories, watches & warnings: some hail is also possible; storm number one is gone; snow vs. cold rain; ten inches of snow fell in Cloudcroft; SE NM ice, sleet & snow; how will this weekend weather affect retailers & holiday shopping; KOAT honored by the Associated Press; more snow warnings in S NM; AM wetness at The Beach; SE NM under ice, sleet & snow warnings; suburban & rural families are usually more conservative; cartoons get real; much earlier to bed tonight; Artesia Bulldogs beat the Goddard Rockets football team; Medal Day at Kimo Theater, honoring firemen; in some areas, twenty degree drop in two days; Red River has lots of snow by early AM; very good ending for ‘Tin Man’; the ‘makeshift memorial’; Steelers vs. Patriots; medicine to help stop smoking, may cause suicide ideations; Obama in the background, Oprah ruled, Obama has an ‘ear for eloquence’, but candidate & wife as back-ups; talks show hostess for VP?: how to buy a politician; credit cards rates can triple overnight, just because of a dip in credit score when getting cards from DEPT store, not be used as a risk factor: companies live on late fees & penalties, Americans owe $900 billion on plastic purchases: engaged in unfair practices to keep shareholders happy & rich; why do people want to stop smoking during the holidays?; who really died in ‘Heroes’; first sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy; Hillary pushes her health care plan; there could be several survivors in AK medical copter crash, good weather conditions, aids the search; edible chocolate pumps for the holidays; FED money for WA & OR; gunman began an early morning shooting at an Arvada, CO monastery, killed two people, and injuring two others; initial reports vary: did a man shoot worshipers this PM outside a mega church in CO Springs, and was the sniper killed; stocking fee for returning electronic items; blogger threatens Los Angeles campus; couch surfing in HI; body found in FL garage collapse; do people want their fifteen minutes of fame, so they resort to shooting sprees; start a healthy lifestyle, before getting out of bed; the ‘safety & soundness of our institution’; is ‘Claire’ a closet lesbian?; Oprah is influence peddler; easier, faster & more expensive way to pay bills: use the Internet; nine year old FL boy dragged, killed when he run over by holiday float; Dallas won, Miami lost [separate games]; in 2006, man dressed in ‘V for Vendetta’ outfit, and marched through Capitol Hill, preaching the GOVT was taking away our freedoms, one by one; the ‘thin’ Santa?; Eskimo, Inuit, Navajo; Patriots beat Pittsburgh, 34 – 13; add Green Bay to list of playoff contenders; blue: the cocktail color of choice; parts of MO, IL, KS & OK covered in ice, as much as ¾ inch; storm from TX to PA; getting the lead out of toys; 29K saw Oprah, and Obama, listening to her, but what about him?; CO faith ministries tried to convert Muslims; $21 million lost Los Angeles revenue; the ‘Golden Compass’ was number one, taking in over $26 million; a one minute launch window for Atlantis today, so launch is scrubbed again, will try for a January liftoff; buy a ‘clean fueled’ Mercedes; fireworks factory explodes in Australia; since the 1950s, why is the US always the one who declares, or creates a war, in foreign areas, away from US borders?, therefore, posing no direct impact on us, except to drive up the price of oil; Canadian man found guilty of killing six people, prostitutes or drug addicts; Musharraf will soon life emergency rule; the rich & poor of China; the ‘in’ sport is golfing, with heavy betting; many residences too expensive for the builders to buy; “newborn calves not afraid of tigers”; bronze tools found, dating back farther than those of ‘ancient’ China; Asian mummification: well preserved woman, with wig her own hair, and a wig: all organs intact, China had the world’s most perfected process, flexible limbs, woman was buried with recipes, cookware & ingredients [and personal chefs], led the leisurely life of luxury: the ‘super tomb’, layered with charcoal, clay, dirt & lacquers, she had undigested melon seeds [which need one hour to be completely consumed], this lady had gall stones and a coronary heart disease, the body was wrapped in silk: cinnabar & mercury inside the casket, no mold on a 700 year old body; another mummy was made of jade, stitched together with gold thread; Middle East: a cultural convergence of three continents; four shuttle flights scrubbed for the same reason; US, the never-ending war machine; start of Hanukkah; …12/10-07: man & nature merge 35º in ABQ; 78% humidity at 6A…what I wear to be determined by 4A weather; dry at 3A; chance of rain, very little snow; good air quality; chemicals to melt ice could cause concrete to crack & crumble, and costly to repair; SE ABQ APT fire; I-25 tricky at Raton Pass; eleven inches of snow fell in Chama; Sixth & Central closed until the end of the month; more will enjoy the ABQ Luminaria tour this year; how to change the interchange; NM Airmen return home; statistics sought on people who become infected with infections while in NM hospitals; a mixed bag of moisture for the next 48 hours: ice & freezing rain advisories; student died from weekend rollover; chance of Duke City snow tonight; Paula Dean was in the Duke City this past weekend; freezing rain in E NM; AM rain; the ever changing forecast; a very fast, very busy weekend; more movie making in downtown Duke City; should Navajo leaders be at ‘the’ Las Vegas convention?; snow keeps falling in N NM, trucks keep roads plowed; NM GOV in CA; SunPort had .35 inches of rain; ½ foot of snow has fallen on the Sandias; because of an arsonist being released from jail, ABQ abortion CTR says all medical locations should be on high alert; Brad prepared Ethiopian with Eggs, Rice & Broccoli: tasty, and spicy; vines growing out of tomato; school lockdown in SW ABQ, four threats issued during the weekend against people & the structure itself: guilty person was a twelve year old; will St. Vincent in Santa Fe have to follow religious rules?; H/A & body pains during evening; told Myrna to say no threatened comments, explained my recent situation [in a vague manner]; 1650 courier out today; finished Rounds by 9A: Code Red on second floor of Pavilion; does every DEPT have a pregnant employee?; locked out of GOC today, the second time in recent weeks; second floor entrance to Pavilion blocked again; Edie told “she’s the only person that can enroll patients”; no Linda; Furr’s on Friday; Geri forgot to remove her ‘day off’ E-mail; PM rain; SRO PM R/R [Red]; a resident, not Security, let me in this AM; icy from TX & NH; warm, rain & fog in DC; ice storms leave 600K in Midwest people in the dark, power may not be restored for a week; temps from 10s to 80s; on I-40 collision in OK: 14 vehicles, four deaths, lines will snap again; nuns vocally listed all the cuss words not to be said on Catholic campus; unemployed Hollywood stars get paid for ads & endorsements; leave $50K gifts in his car, vehicle gets stolen; most people have many people on their holiday gift list; in the 1990s, Huckabee said AIDS victims should be quarantined?; need ‘easier money’, interest in interest rates; Oprah brought up civil right issues in her speech, Obama ‘has good judgment’; first [R] debate in Spanish, held in Miami, some candidates denounced the debate; CO church murders linked [asked for shelter, told there was no room]; murderer a mystery, just a sketch: 1K of ammo; the Subprime ‘meltdown’; transfer trust to mutual funds; highest gas prices in CA, some cities creeping towards the $3.50 mark; strikes will mean reruns of reruns; blood donors are ‘heroes’; unsafe toys mean unhappy holidays for poor kids; big recall bins; in spite of ‘do not touch’ button, a child pushed, and fire extinguisher foam foamed; the svelte Santa?; CO murderers have spiritual problems; thrown out of the mission, sent hate mail: father of gunman [and prominent neurologist] was church attendee, and was injured; green beats red at White House, more eco-friendly, even the garland, but not the cards; four major record labels; download lectures onto laptops; LA woman shoots at two men who damaged [by accident] her holiday decorations; 74% of those polled are dissatisfied with health care costs & coverage, rank it a higher priority than paying a mortgage: more taxes may be needed to pay for good INS benefits, this will be an important topic for the candidates to address; more politicians mean more scandals; three of the biggest stars on the planet; betting limits raised at Caesar’s Palace; movies for a cell phones; two people died at CO church shooting; O & O: the dynamic duo: communicate with campaign; be thin, and fit; the effects of obesity; INDY won; reality shows & reruns will continue; person arrested in mega church massacre: female security guard shot him; KC condos start at $400K; Michael Vick sentenced to twenty-three months in prison for illegal dog fighting; four workers fell thirty feet after being struck by dislodged wall; the best gifts are those that ease stress; judges can be more lenient on crack cases; the DOW rose by triple digits again [101+ points]; Pittsburgh Steelers still in first place; TX boy smuggled pot in candles; grandma brought a gun [she had no permit for the weapon] into Disney World; home sales down by 18% from last year; much harder to qualify for a mortgage; Backstreet Boy gets married in Orlando; Pittsburgh player said they would beat the Patriots; ‘Cashmere Mafia’, a new TV show; VT man bites into hamburger, finds condom; burglary at Charlize Theron’s mansion; dating back to the Greeks; wing soaring, flying & landing without a parachute: used in Lara Croft movie; Harvard lowering its tuition by thousands; mortar attack at Baghdad prison, and at oil refinery, no one injured; back-up system keeps failing, but no one knows why, posed a problem in four of the last five launches, too expensive to fly; switch to the spaceship Orion; foreign markets falling; Belgian without an official GOVT for six months; Al Gore, the environmental ambassador, officially received his Nobel Prize in Norway; Spice Girl spends plenty on purses; Icelandic teen called PRES on his White House restricted phone line, asking if Bush would visit his country; ‘necessary torture’ by the CIA: included ‘waterboarding’ techniques; Somali pirates hold one tanker, and twenty-two Asians hostage: the terrorists demand $1 million ransom, or they could explode volatile cargo; …12/11-07: get plenty of rest; it’s for the best 37º in ABQ; 89% humidity at 6A…déjà vu: what will the weather be: ‘shiny & slick’ at 5A; good air quality; KOAT staff praising KOAT staff; more slush, more floods, more ice, more slick streets; get tricks on I-40 W to the AZ border, and I-25, N of ABQ; US Airways seeks to serve alcohol flying in NM; 1,200 pounds of pot found on truck at Gallup port of entry; hail was also falling across the state; Roswell had record rain yesterday; fog near Angel Fire; “the most important story of the day”; third storm approaching the state; I-40 also tricky in Tijeras; more snow in N NM means more water for ABQ; winter weather until Wednesday; Grants female inmates may have hacked credit card accounts while telemarketing; leather baseball jacket weather: too warm outside to wear that coat; more dry snow from AZ heading this way; the official name of Brad’s meal is Dord Wat: Ethiopian Chicken in Red Pepper Sauce; man who raped UNM student could face charges in OR; shrouded Sandias in the PM; who has control over the friendly skies of NM?; sixteen year old gang member, and murderer, arrested in ‘our’ Las Vegas; very good ski conditions; Mrs. Chavez for mayor?; snow advisories for E NM; away with the $25K wall on Montano, owner needs to pay back taxes, he was warned, but beauty in nature lost; the shrouded Sandias; early evening rain; no staff meeting; Edie needed a nail file, which I provided; UNM teach has sadomasochism web site, posing with student; what will the Board and/or PRES of school do?; finals week at UNM; finished Rounds by 8:45A; PEDS DEPT Holiday Party; ‘there’s a bottleneck after me’; voicemail down; now I’m getting Family Practice services as TES edits; easy access to GOC; ‘mouth is the door to the rest of the body’; a new job posting, and position: MGR, Coding Education; cold, wet campus in AM; Dr. Johnson has a virus; ‘start the day with fear’; make sure timesheet was E-mailed to MGR; ‘live for the title’; Krista & I apologized to each other, for her not being able to talk with each other last Friday; very unseasonably warm in SE US; subtropical storm Olga in the Caribbean, heading to Yucatan Peninsula, dumped up to three inches of rain on Puerto Rico; the heat is not on is OK, KS & MO; most people died on interstates; OK City in the dark; crashing trees crush power lines; foggy DC, frozen wood for fireplaces; another foot of snow in Rockies; Orlando heat; icy KC, flurries in Denver; freezing rain in TX & OK; temps from 10s to 80s; this AM, eighteen deaths reported, increased to twenty-two; ice in IA & WI; O’Hare cancelled 500 flights; five fires in OK City [PNM will help repair downed wires]; Olga is now a tropical storm; one million without power in the Midwest: and no water, there is too much debris: train derailed off icy tracks; Led Zeppelin still rocking; former CIA agent spills the beans on approved torture; the dancing cop of Providence, RI; the thousandth diamond found in AR park; ‘update to digital’; FED Reserve Board met today, factor in the credit crunch, will they reduce rates, and is there a recession, or just slow growth; try to reduce ‘discount rate’ [?]; stock & housing markets are both feeling the ‘crunch’, will there be another quarter point cut, had not been lowered rates in four years, another ¼% cut approved by FED reserve, down to 4.25%, a 1% cut during the past 60 days; there is still a credit card crisis; student loans at risk; is there lead in holiday lights?; owners spend over $24 billion on pet health care; diabetes linked to smoking; a plan to satisfy some of the people, some of the time, [D] want mandatory, universal health INS: the [R], personal health savings accounts; both parties want cost control, and improved quality of care; the CO killer [who finally fatally shot himself] was a 24 year old former disgruntled member, hated Christians, packed with various types of ammo, as he was heading to the entrance of the mega church, a guard shot him; ‘boost the bust’; the colossal IPod, for big hands, holds 60 songs; vegan vs. meat lovers: opposites attract in sex?; add INDY & Seattle to the playoff teams; the mystery of the 1960s; Freddie Mac expects more losses, into the tens of billions of dollars; numerical error knocks down high ranked VT school from number 5, to the top 500; light rail train collided into coal train in CO; mall traffic is lower this December than last year, are consumers suffering from ‘shopping fatigue’; ‘that was then, this was how’; landslide blocks OR highway; the economy, not Iraq, is the number one item on the minds of Americans; Giuliani’s lead is lessening, but he has the best chance to be elected PRES; the DOW dropped nearly 300 points; Alex Trebek has suffered a mild heart attack; in terms of ecstasy, meth & pot teen drug use has gone down: six NV students were gunned down, and seriously injured, while getting off a school bus; VT has the highest percentage of pet owners; Vicodin, the addictive drug ‘of choice’; two FL schools on lockdown, armed & dangerous person on the loose; in UK, man trapped in outdoor toiler stall for four days; the smell of marijuana in TX, not Tijuana candles; “9/11 was only supposed to be a ‘wakeup call’, so said al Qaeda member, who initially resisted waterboarding”, at first, would not speak; needed that nugget of information; videotaped torture, needed for NATL security; Canadian father killed his daughter because she wanted to wear a traditional Muslim head scarf; Putin: from PRES to PM; so far 62 have died from two blasts in Algiers, al Qaeda to blame for injuring 177 people; Iraqi PM house bombed; the return of Absinthe; Israel invades Gaza again; …12/12-07: one body, one life 33º in ABQ; 86% humidity at 6A…and, again, what will the weather be? shiny at 3A; dangerous roads with black ice; I-40 is tricky E of ABQ; rollover at Taos; hit knee against kitchen door; Marty will not run for the House, but, maybe, for GOV in 2010?; his wife was born & raised in the Duke City; NM GOV in IA, decreasing in poll support in that state; still good AQ; Rio Rancho should clean up polluted ponds in golf courses; less snow & rain today, but then there’s Friday; LANL will cut nearly 700 jobs in the next few years; advisories, watches & warnings are over, for now; auto theft increasing in ABQ; Farmington wants to increase taxes to decrease consumption; plenty of input, but no money for Paseo interchange, which could cost $350 million; auto body shops kept busy by auto thefts, began climbing in 2006; ABQ police officer quit, after being accused of rape; ‘everyone goes into action’; two feet of snow has fallen in Angel Fire, many slopes will open soon; the Downs one step closer in moving to Moriarty; ‘trained sleep experts’?; Brad has AM Chiro visit; ‘Rock Me Gently’ mantra continues; the Rio Rancho robber, armed with a crowbar’ who uses ‘tough guy’ techniques to invade the house, by walking into unlocked homes: it’s reality time!; teen murders a man to steal the elderly person’s vehicle, which conked out in AZ; new Hobbs City Hall from an old bank, for a third of the cost to build a new structure; will a tax on alcohol for rehab services pass in Farmington?; lower number of coats for children; “from DC, to PC: life among the power, the politics and the polite” [the computerized version] the Hollywood writers strike goes to Santa Fe, moves to ABQ; strikes hit home; cannot picket on college campuses; $13 million to rebuild Georgia O’Keeffe School; no bi-monthly staff meeting; early AM panic attack; finished Rounds by 8:25A; training at 10:30A; inspire a child to succeed; out of sight, out of trouble?; more teens going from legal medicine, to alcohol, to illegal substances; Edie left for the day; a merger of UNM HSC & St. Vincent’s?; pointed Mike Green to the Cafeteria, and the Pavilion [which he calls the Children’s HOSP]; Data Entry ‘backlog’ began at Thanksgiving; new handrails in the old HOSP; rest rooms at HSC are awful, walls are not secured; new buses on Central route; no gum on seat, stuck on Linda; letter sent to parents if students are underage drinkers; every day, there is at least one person who gets on the wrong PM R/R bus at UNM; the HOSP H/A; Myrna vs. the gym, muscles paying the price; so easy for some people to be so cruel; cancer CTR capped; fifteen named storms this season; a weakened one name Olga, plenty of rain, torn apart by MTN, then back into Caribbean waters; 25 feet of mud buried OR homes, swept cars down a hill, looked like debris field, closed roads; weekend E Coast storm; more misery in MO & OK; one million without power, another storm heading their way; temps from 10s to 80s; 27 deaths from ice storm collisions in several states; record highs in Orlando & New Orleans; some sunshine would be OK, in OK; well read refugees in an OK City bookstore, that has heat; Olga has become a deadly storm, having killed eight people; balloons launched at SLC, ended that same day, 900 miles away in a S Dakota corn field; natural gas explosion leveled Groton, MA home; NYC finally has public toilets: 25 cents, for fifteen minutes; the ‘peace train’ in NYC, where war started by people of different religions, saved by a Muslim; Paris painted golden for new line of items, ‘baring’ her name; some heroes get no monuments; another nativity scene theft in CT, caught on camera, church may have to cover the manger in glass; analysts with titles longer than their names; rippling across the economy; holiday sales are so-so; chance for 2008 recession; an unsteady surge; teens find drugs in medicine cabinet, such as OxyContin, don’t have to steal them, or buy on the black market; approved by doctors, to help ease the pain; early retroactive release for crack cocaine detainees?; more research, please?; in spite of fog, San Fran is going solar?; ‘bill me later’ on Amazon.com; the ‘digital converter?; ‘Do Not Call” program permanent?; the ‘advanced directive’; 2008 Chevrolet Malibu has been named the best redesigned car, the fourth US vehicle in the past five years; robots that can determine who ordered which drink; more of Huckabee’s words get him in trouble: this time, it’s with the Mormons; killer went to college to study the judicial system, and how to beat it; seven NJ cops suspended with pay, but not charged, in undercover sex sting; experimental plane crashed in NC, killing its pilot; ‘secret Santa’ decorating the trees along the Garden State Parkway in NJ, can be easily seen by drivers; the Dow is up at noon; ‘Bionic Woman’ could not generate viewers, old shows hold audiences; Bank of America & Wachovia may see quarterly losses; Ike Turner has died at the age of 76; one million children’s doses of meningitis & pneumonia vaccines recalled by MERCK, doses were not sterilized; Scooter Libby will not be pardoned by Bush; Vanilla Curry: a woman’s name; catered to, and on Capitol Hill; parties for the powerful & influential: beer becomes ‘an educational event’: the more, the merrier, but cannot see the guest list at a ‘closed’ party; in accordance with new ethics laws, people have to stand up, which means plenty of finger food, but cameras barred at Union Station; an electronic health system works, found in VA HOSP, patient costs less than those with Medicare; Bush vetoes the children’s health INS bill; crack vs. powdered coke, the right choice can get you out of jail earlier [blacks are 100 times more punished than blacks], and it’s retroactive!; inspirations & death foretold in dreams; American have healthier hearts, their best in 50 years: adults with high cholesterol [>200] has decreased to 16%; thanks, in part, to drugs; bomb blast in Lebanon; shrapnel injured people in Algiers; three car bombs in S Iraq city; ‘world peace is at stake’, so says Bush; foreign markets falling; al Qaeda heading to W Europe; White House says nothing about waterboarding; coffee killing rare breed of elephants; how do you answer questions about why your predecessor did what he did?; holiday cards for soldiers not sent to the Middle East?; giant dinosaur bones found in Antarctica; deadliest Iraq attack in four months; female co-worker raped while in Iraq: this ‘crime took place two years ago; the Arctic sea ice is accelerating faster than expected, could be completely gone during the summer months of 2012; inventory dropped by 700K barrels last week, considered a ‘surprise decline in supplies’, the price of oil increased $4.37, reaching $94.39 per barrel; the Porsche Cayenne?; …12/13-07: triumph vs. tragedy 29º in ABQ; 69% humidity at 6A…good air quality; freezing fog in SE NM; running late in the early AM, Brad awake; 3º in Taos at 6A; house fire completely destroyed at San Pedro & Gibson, caused by placing smoldering ashes from a fireplace, and into the garage: home’s roof nearly collapsed; where will children play when Georgia O’Keeffe school is rebuilt; 23 car windows smashed across Farmington; why was there only minutes warning to leave their homes; both customers & staff were robbed in NE Heights Burger King; semi struck three men on US 550 near Cuba, then fled the scene of the crime; Rio Rancho dog sniffs out drugs, and criminals; NM GOV numbers keep falling, questionable flight of jet trip to MX, did he violate ethics law?; no Dona Ana CNTY ‘spaceport tax’, until other counties do the same; higher taxes for Gallup to maintain Red Rock State Park; coyotes found in Sandia Park backyards; Rio Rancho may make laws more strict for drivers parking their big rigs in front of their homes; ABQ doctor injected people with ‘safe’ or ‘fake’ Botox; screen writers picket in ABQ today, where there are movie crews in downtown Duke City; Liza Minnelli collapsed on stage; one of six families in NM go hungry, worry about their next meal, will they have one, or where will it come from; nose keeps running; Brad baked bread; holiday gifts from Brent; the war with Dr. Waldman continues, with me in the middle; Cassandra wanted to meet earlier with Brent, but didn’t include me; need to take more outdoor walks to help cure headaches, the inside air is lousy; Brad will meet me after work; stamps are out [could be messy], but labels could work, all the doctor would have to enter is the pertinent patient information; could help the entire Cardiology DEPT: so be on the lookout for a label; better Cassandra canceling the meeting than us; “there’s little I could do to make my MGR upset” [her words]; trying to plane Maggie’s E Coast flight for a January wedding; young children getting viral infections at daycare; nobody ever cancels, they just don’t show up for their visits; this was the dumbest idea I have had in recent years: a cold day, buses changing schedules, bad day for Brad at Albertson’s, prices differ between the circular & the shelves; just to get a tie at JC Penny with a 10% coupon; arrived home before 7P, and went to bed; call from MGR, she is being accused of saying at our last staff meeting that a female employee was ‘knocked up’ just so this Coder could get some time off; all I keep thinking was: I just want to die!; early to bed tonight; a private phone call from MGR at end of day; cars crowding Coronado; some places in the SE US have a thirty inch rain deficit; rain & snow mix in NYC this weekend; temps from 0s to 80s, very warm in GA; more OK house fires, killing people, a disaster declaration; rural pioneer feeling in KS, those areas are not a high priority area; an OR road is cleared of mud, one lane can be used by vehicles; ATL has record heat again; I-80 shut down in WY, the blowing snow made the interstate impassable, and ‘invisible’; more snow, less ice this weekend; 33 ice storm deaths; a foot of snow expected for New England; MI woman has 42 trees in her home, take months to decorate & take down; mysterious Santa in Rutland, VT, giving people up to $50; ‘money for every situation’, with a rewards program; wholesale prices rise, is inflation on the horizon?; the day the [D] debate; after many months in the making, names will be named: steroid scandal baseball report is revealed today; outsource the testing, punishment to be determined; the biggest & the best are involved; man teetered seven stories in his vehicle over the edge of GA parking garage; Ike Turner died from emphysema; the final [R] debate before the first Caucus, in IA; police arrest suspects of ‘the’ Las Vegas school bus shooting; overcoming cholesterol, by changing lifestyles, eating better & adding medicines to our regime, but too many Americans are still obese; give the gift of gift cards, can be found everywhere in stores, or malls: but easy for scam artists to scan the back of the card, removing its value; there is a fee to check the card’s balance; DOW is slightly down; Bush & the SCHIP battle, no difference that the previous bill, adults could be added to the list of eligible enrollees, PRES keeps moving the goalpost; $500 million in old cash found in wall of OH home being renovated, can the contractor keep the cash?: if it wasn’t for me, the money would not have been found vs. legal ownership of property; Jackass, the 2.5 version; Golden Globe Award nominees announced, this time, ‘Heroes’ not nominated; Al Sharpton under the financial microscope again; energy bill stalled by [R] Senators; hostage killed inside their own home by FL standoff; Madonna in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; 300K Dollar General toys recalled store, too much lead in the paint; ‘NATL Treasury’ journeys to Mt. Rushmore; nine injured when two Boston trolley collides; [D] say: tax the rich; mystery animal killing pets in SC; Korean clone red fluorescent cats, help in medical research; foreign markets falling; the rings of Saturn are old than scientists thought; Gore against the world; Northern Lights: charged particles from the sun; high speed train accident in India kills five; …12/14-07: move easily over uneven ground 27º in ABQ; 85% humidity at 6A…cars crowded Coronado, people pack its insides; ABQ mayor will decide the fate of red light cameras: will means more O/T for Duke City police; state police officer killed by her own son; NM GOV did his best in the [D] debate; silent advice for Brad: go get ‘em, Tiger!; ski season starts; Twenty Years of Gay Life at the nation’s Capital, and at its Capitol; ground broken for new pipeline, so Navajos will not have to travel miles to get water; the small NM snowstorm: here today, gone tomorrow; ABQ doctor will spend a year & a day in jail, and lose his license for that same time, for using ‘fake’ Botox, pay $68K in penalties; we got a unique colored tie, good air quality, but snow on the horizon; some snow advisories across the state; unpaid property taxes by mobile home owners; Santa Fe sites for Rail Runner stops are finalized; writers picketed ABQ movie set site, in downtown Duke City; Roswell UFO festival gets more city support; what was I thinking?; there is visible security at Coronado; ice skating rink at River of Lights; no snow at The Beach by 8:30A, flakes fell later in the AM; NM native died during a firefight in Baghdad, a week before he was to return home; I was so unhappy last night I had thoughts of hiring someone to kill me; the ‘crowbar bandit’ struck ABQ residences; Marty says the red light cameras will stay, but six City Council votes could veto his veto; car crashed through guardrail, and fell of an embankment, along I-40 near Laguna: the driver was killed; electrical fire shut down ABQ High; snow squalls throughout the day; ‘temporary’ on & off snow at UNMH; MGR takes us out to lunch to Furr’s at WY; finished Rounds by 8:20A; man in the middle; has Valerie brought this complaint to Susan; fine fare at Furr’s; extra billing forms kept in PICU cabinet; Dr. Waldman is tired of talking, ‘surrenders’ to Cassandra; what is ‘warranty work on a walkway’?; bumped into Cyndee in the first floor of the old HOSP, wearing a ‘Got ghosts’ pin; Cassandra [Geri does not like her, going so far as to calling her a ‘coward’] will be leaving; played it safe by not giving Myrna a ‘replacement red heart’ that had once been given to Anita; the entire group knew that whatever our MGR won at Isleta, 10% would be divided among us, this was reiterated in an E-mail, thanking us for the gift; MGR wanted my opinion; one half of Medicine staff did not attend; I got paid O/T for working on Thanksgiving weekend; rode up to Furr’s by Geri, back to work by JoAnn; ‘V’ will not spell victory; Furr’s restaurant was better than expected, endless areas of food; Katina brought her son, who liked kissing the woman [think of a small Will Smith]; lots of snow fell during our Rounds, and while we were at lunch; no ‘exotic presumptions’ for Furr’s, just good, Americana food; Boston & NYC air traffic crippled by Storm One: flights delayed until the weekend; Nor’easter with more wind; 300K still without power in OK; freezing fog in TX; snow, sleet, rain & ice, but no fatalities, so far; Luminarias banned in SE US, too dry; snow stranded Boston students in school, and traffic; E Coast ice storm, with sleet added for good measure; five men arrested for illegally starting a fire inside a cave, which caused the late November CA blaze, then leaving it to burn: this was all caught on camera; foot of snow in parts of MA; Orlando in the 80s again; flurries from NE & KC, across Midwest I-80; dense AM fog in DC, Philly & Richmond; Holiday bonuses for CEOs, millions of dollars for doing a bad job; in spite of a very bad year; use stocks, the ‘cheap currency’; AZ man shot himself in the buttocks, while scaring away an intruder; guilty wanting to live vs. an epiphany; insulting response to letters from Santa; the name blame, everyone is at fault in the steroid scandal, from the highest positions, to the players, of all teams, of both leagues; year round testing, but no punishment for past violations, just appropriate action; eighty players names: MVP, and CY Young winners; [D] give in to some issues, energy bill has finally passed the Senate; San Fran nurses go on strike for better working conditions; suicide rate for middle aged people is an all-time high; Obama nearly tied with Clinton in IA; adviser in her campaign staff resigns; Hillary apologized about her remarks about candidate’s drugs use, uses her mother in new ads; the night of red football uniforms for TX, who won their game; the ‘friendly bacteria’ goes mainstream; rotavirus, the new baby disease; get ready for the fearless mouse; NJ may abolish the death penalty; $15K to tape 2300 hours, 10 channels of TV programs; John Travolta, and 30 years since ‘Saturday Night Fever’; Jodie Foster thanks her gay partner; mother & daughter found in a parked vehicle, they were killed in FL mall parking lot; the bodies of three AZ policemen found in the back of an SUV; one killer, four bodies: 2 women, 2 children; DOW dropped by triple digits; pay more for power during peak hours; Huckabee a winner in SC; no clear lead, in either party, in IA; two men killed near Louisiana college campus; hotel rooms are not a clean as they used to be; DC tax official bilked the city out of several million dollars, with help from five other workers; Asian markets falling; solar panels struck by meteorites, no damage to the INTL Space Station; in Hong Kong mall, six robots provide holiday cheer; climate change conference ends in Bali; has Captain Kidd’s wreck been found off the coast of the Dominican Republic?; ‘shagadellic’: psychedelic, in a ‘retro’ way; …12/15-07: all I want to be, is me 23º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A… – 20º in Angel Fire; snow coated roads last night, still early AM snow showers; part of background checks: college applicants being asked if they have been accused of a felony, then they must provide paperwork, and cannot live in dorms: drug charges are considered ‘minor’ ; ABQ schools have a new Chief Business Office; 72% of NM low income children eat school meals for free, the highest in the nation; three year old Curry CNTY girl is the state’s first confirmed case of influenza; more ski resorts opening this weekend, Sandia Peak opens next week; Taos MTN will allow snowboarders, means an increase in revenue; man had found dead off old Route 66 near Carnuel; still praising Furr’s this AM; just because you don’t like getting caught, doesn’t mean it should be repealed; red light camera task force will give its report in 2008; son said he accidentally shot his mother in the head; money from citations helping to balance the budgets vs. drivers getting tickets that don’t deserve them: 19 cameras, 160K tickets have been issued, and its onset; Edgewood gets its first police officer, as of 1/7/08; thirteen security breaches at LANL since 2006, but number of employees taking sick days has declined; fallen NM soldier was from Roswell; up to two inches of snow fell yesterday in the higher mountains; Maggie, Edie & I are the ‘functional, dysfunctional family’; one teen patient wants to attend Yale; this weekend, Robert Mirabel will perform to Taos; should SW citizens clean an alley they can’t reach, or see?; Furr’s serves breakfast; charges dropped against cheerleader who served cookies laced with marijuana: these were given to her by a male friend; enjoyed Cinnamon Toast Bread; minor five car collision on Cerillos RD in Santa Fe; ‘the mission to get the story’; Geri says, “write her up: I would”; NM GOV in NH; a tour of temples & tombs at ABQ Museum; Santa rode the Rail Runner; energy resources mean more cash for NM; more food needed for more needy people; too many items keep getting stolen at work; a haircut & a goatee trim; a fine meal at Monica’s; an early to bed day; saw a new ‘Smallville’; the bridge on Bridge that crosses the Rio Grande was painted today; the River of Lights parking lot was filling up when we went to bed; several inches of snow in several N NM cities; seven of eight rifles stolen from a NW ABQ home have been recovered: burglar was given the code to access the gated community by accessing the Internet, how many more people know the secret [?] password to gain access?; UNM beat TX Tech in basketball; 290K are still without power in the Midwest; genetically manipulated lettuce can control, maybe could cure, diabetes; flight delays in the Great Plains, to the E Coast; SLC is the vainest city in the US; mercury being banned in US make-up; FL teacher deep in debt kills himself, after murdering four other people; coffee & all night studying could actually hurt taking finals; fat & fit is not better than lean & lazy; a bill to help Subprime mortgages passed the Senate; forty years ago today, the Silver Bridge collapsed, linking WV to OH, traffic lights had been malfunctioning all day: have statue ‘honoring’ the “Mothman”; garage fire, turned into a home, killed two girls in CA, severely injured another; not enough Wii in stores, or on the Internet: its control is like ‘a magic wand’; people having to pay high prices; nine year old MD girl drives father to HOSP after he has heart attack; Mega Millions lottery reaches $163 million; tornado warnings for TX; Union Pacific is the largest landholder in the US, because of its ‘right of way’ property, granted to them free by the US GOVT, because Uncle Sam knew the company would build a railroad system across the US; a major fault lies underneath Seattle; longevity in service makes a better leader?; someone needs to be ‘the agent of change’; Bush has an ‘arrogant, bunker mentality’; [R] should not bash Bush; justice cannot police itself & the CIA: who were told to torture terrorists for the truth; the Ugly Talent Agency: where ugly is beauty, and beauty is ugly; storms from MO to ME, and in the Deep South; from the Midwest, to New England; LED lights decorate the NATL Holiday Tree; fire caused by harsh weather kills one person in Gloucester, MA; in CA, don’t “head for the hills”, head for the highways; 20% of IBM employees are in India; the end of ‘emergency rule’ in PAK; Buddhist monks walk the catwalk in Tokyo, promoting their religion; the US will do its duty to decrease carbon dioxide emissions; 7.1 quake rocks Indonesia, 60 miles below the surface: no tsunami alerts, or injuries; Israel doubts US INTEL, stating the Iranian nuclear report could trigger a regional Middle East war; new S Korean GOVT could be less tolerant, and more demanding in terms of providing aid to N Korea; developing countries developing pollution; al Qaeda audio tape says Arabic nations should increase their jihad against Zionists; …12/16-07: save money, live better 19º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 7A…’handmade’ isn’t determined by Madison AVE; holiday cards from Warren, Isaac & Phyllis; people want a cure for a viral infection: take a placebo, and call me in two weeks; a DUI Memorial of Perpetual Tears: the victim never forgets; high speed & alcohol resulted in a rollover wreck at Lead & Eighth, vehicle struck two trees; man was shot in the head near Carnuel, on old Route 66; ‘Party Patrol’ on the watch during the holiday season; old & new detection methods help solve old & new police cases; fundraiser held in Mountainair last night for victims of the Ojo Peak fire; injured soldier returns home, thanks to NM politician; smoke alarm in our APT keeps beeping, Chris will have to replace something, since it is electronically powered; 19º, the common AM temp in NM cities; Bloomfield woman faces child abuse charges, neglecting her disabled son in their bathroom; missing since Friday night, there is an Amber Alert in Otero CNTY for a four year old boy; pilot killed after circling ten times trying to land, plane crashed in S NM, near Las Cruces; SunPort officially is an INTL Airport; homeless man had been stabbed to death near downtown; the coldest AM so far across the state; thirty-six needy families will receive holiday food baskets [able to feed a family of four for three weeks] prepared by N Valley residents: UPS will deliver the care packages; warmer weather this week, maybe a severe storm next weekend; finding YouTube videos that had been taken off, I have one movie to recover; – 17º, in Angel Fire; rent a bigger kitchen for the holidays, great place to gossip; Brad baked Pumpkin Bread, and Asian Vegetable Beef Stew; boy was safely found, but suspect still on the loose; suspicious death in S ABQ on Volcano; traffic back-ups caused by two police car crashes: one on Coors, the other occurred on the Coors By-Pass; the Medical Advantage Plan, covers eye care: is the increase in premium worth it?; Tiger Woods, still a pro; blizzard conditions in MI, foot of snow in the Motor City; 70K in KS still in the dark; Chicago flights delayed or cancelled; retailers are very worried; two storms so far have struck Boston; very cold, lots of snow [and ice?] when the Patriots play the Jets at Foxboro: game time [for them: 1P]; only Miami, in 1972, had a 14 – 0 season; Super Bowl will be held in AZ; some writers working directly with studios to end the strike; this AM, more flurries for Boston; FL woman married ten men without divorcing nine of them, part of immigration scam: keep the alimony rolling in; no checks, no cash, just VISA; LCD are still better than Plasma TV sets; people buy too big screen size [don’t they measure?]; Winona Ryder having sex with a puppet?; from snow to rain in NYC; NM GOV says attacks on other [D] candidates help the [R] PRES politicians; Alex Trebek is now at home, recuperating from a heart attack; ‘buzz driving is still drunk driving’; 42 years in the making, 64 year old Joe Namath finally received his college diploma; the “A-Team” on the big screen; air fresheners can be very harmful to your health; are TV stations running out of reruns?;125K FL residents in the dark after severe storms strike the center of the state: numerous collisions on I-4; Tampa may have been struck by a tornado; fetus found in soiled HOSP laundry basket; 38 deaths from previous snow & ice storms; digging out Gillette Stadium; New England beat New York [Jets], 20 – 10; MIAMI FINALLY WON!!!!!, beating Baltimore in OT, 22 – 16;TX mothers smothering their children to death; is Fred Thompson’s political flame [& fame] fading?; time to get rid of the baggy pants & the tattoos: Los Angeles gangs are dressing in style; “I Am Legend” is the number one weekend film, taking in $76.5 million: in terms of dollars, the biggest ever December opener; thousands without power in the NE US; snow turned to rain in the Boston area; add Tampa to the football layoffs; eating ugly food, dining from dumpsters; Boston Globe supports Obama & McCain; welcome to Hillary Clinton Land”; 12K homeless in New Orleans: many, because of Katrina; where do you put the poor people while housing projects are torn down, then rebuilt; 160K without power in PA; more people “GOOGLE”; this year was deadly in Iraq, but a turning point appears to be taking place; man escapes custody in PAK, threatened to blow-up transatlantic airlines; after numerous surgeries, Indian girl born with eight limbs went home this weekend minus the extra extremities; Turkey attacks Iraqi Kurds; addiction to slot machines are the cause for many soldiers’ death overseas, but raise $130 million for recreation; Britain returns Basra to Iraq; ‘oil smuggling’ on the rise: England out, militia in; angry AFG families & tribes after watching ‘The Kite Flyer’, a movie that includes a homosexual rape scene, now, the child actors now live in fear, and away from home; the al Qaeda ‘spin doctor’; …12/17-07: intellect, wit & charm 23º in ABQ; 68% humidity at 6A…moderate air quality; next Monday, I can ‘slam’ down the alarm; ‘final’ year-end clearance; still retrieving lost videos: some no longer on YouTube, others have returned; one last chance to give the cameras a red light veto, most side with the Duke City mayor; public safety vs. public rights; ABQ teacher arrested, had two firearms on her, threatened to kill girlfriend; wheelchair stolen from disabled veteran in Deming; a $7 million bike path bridge over I-40, at the Rio Grande; bomb squad destroyed suspicious package at Sandia Labs Credit Union BLDG, near a daycare CTR; in terms of home prices, ABQ has the highest appreciation value increase in the country; people are uncertain about their futures, NM labs without budgets; NM GOV thought Teddy Roosevelt was the best PRES of the opposing party; family watched as plane crashed to ground, killing the pilot; NM ranks second in the number of holiday thefts; Sandia & LANL labs may be saved from budget cuts; heating system shuts down Shiprock schools; murder-suicide in NW ABQ; NM GOV in IA; forty inches fell at Ski Santa Fe, skiers flocked to the slopes; drug ring with Mafia ties busted in Four Corners [Durango] area; another Santa Fe Rail Runner meeting tonight; more film crews in downtown Duke City this AM; four women forced one man out of his state job; danger in ‘airsoft’ guns, looks like the real thing; allow its use, but with restrictions; gas main leak on Isleta; Brad stocked up at the Food Bank; initiate a ‘Do Not Knock’ list, which includes those who have a ‘No Solicitors’ sign; new NM School for the Blind; mildly early AM; a parade of storms, each getting stronger; Angelique has been discharged; was it obvious to others who were missing at lunch; with Amy, it’s 5% of her winnings; sat at MGR table; when one becomes two; always call in, or E-mail before 7A; never let down defenses; Linda started work at 4A; inspiration & hope at UNMH Cancer CTR; Myrna not feeling well, did Rounds alone, finished about 9:45A: all that walking would make her worse; where did Dr. Greene’s July charges go?; I never saw the price of the Furr’s buffet, I was looking for our group; 80º in both sides of GPC; cold, windy, empty campus; Edie, we have a problem: dead bolted out of GOC again, luckily, Security arrived quickly; man shot on Los Lomas [UNM Campus] while trying to break into a car; where are these month old I/P TES edits?; answer: they belonged to Data Entry; Winter Break at UNM; was Dr. Greene ‘stalking’ me, from PICU to 6-E to 6-W; the last commands of Cassandra; five twisters in FL & GA; series of midweek systems; It may not officially be winter, but…bad road, flight delays, a foot of snow in Chicago, nine inches in Boston; flurries in Raleigh, 52 mph gusts reported on Nantucket, higher in Baltimore; frost & freeze warnings in FL; AM winds from DC to Boston; many in OK still without power; three deaths due to weekend storm; temps from 10s to 70s; high winds knocked a NH ski gondola off its track, shutting down the entire system; flights in & out of Logan were cancelled; give her a ‘Pajama – Gram’; simplify loans; candidates scrambling for endorsements; IA supports Clinton & McCain, confidence vs. inspiration, experience & judgment; Chicago snow plow driver rescues woman from burning car, engine was on fire, she was calling for 911 help; too long to rebuild Crescent City housing projects, which will cost more to live in, a city with current lack of affordable places to live; ‘tear things down, to build things up’; single Dan Fogelberg died yesterday from cancer, at the age of 56; NY Jets, the last team to beat the Patriots at Foxboro, beating blustery weather; longer hours, deeper sales; Miami MGR moved to tears; weaker than predicted spending, partly due to storms; recession is still possible; device to remind you where your car was packed in a mall parking lot; GOOGLE Knol. vs. ‘Wiki-Pedia’; billions of pieces of mail handled today; Will Smith’s second successful first weekend movie moneymaker; ‘Golden Compass’ came in third, for weekend movie moneymaker; PRES speaks about economy in Stafford, VA; middle aged men looking for fountain of youth: lower testosterone could mean an earlier death, but could raise blood pressure, and cause prostate cancer; rising inflation; ATL: robber capital of the country, a city with many bank, each theft averages $2K – $3K; small chemical explosion on the forty-fifth floor at the CNN NYC BLDG, one person sustained minor injuries; plane slid off Green Airport runway, stopping all activity for 2½ hours; roof of pharmacy collapse under the weight of snow in Boston; retailers pulling their hair: less than ten shopping days before the holidays; more airlines adding seats that can become flat, not angled, beds, the DOW is down triple digits; Bush will not allow any tax hikes; White House must reveal visitor logs; two FL students were stop while waiting for school bus; the busiest day to ship packages; one million packages will get sent today at UPS; as of yesterday, Patriots is the first team to have home field advantage; minorities have not made up their mind in IA; Lieberman supports McCain; the [R] is ‘fractured’; Edwards has four years of previous support; less is more in sales & shopping, we are in between fashion trends & styles; plus, a 30% increase in online purchases; gas is 67¢ higher than this same time last year; the 93 year old holiday card; Statue of Liberty was supposed to be a symbol of commerce; Greenspan says there is a 50 – 50 chance for a recession; PRES not too concerned about the economy; ‘Bond girl’ vs. ‘Bond woman’; a ‘bimbo’; Saudi Arabia leader pardons girl who was alone in a car with a man not her husband; all provinces are in Iraqi control; Britain pushed out of Basra by opposition forces, was it really a retreat?; foreign markets falling; provide a loan: help start a small farm or business to foreign country, low default rates, use shaming tactics, no GOVT support, US or abroad; millions start the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca; should imported shoes be taxed; Arthur C. Clarke is 90 years old; Diana did not want to marry Dodi; an Israel – Iran war on the horizon?; …12/18-07: the right time for childhood 29º in ABQ; 63% humidity at 6A…anticipation; too hard to find James Bond themes on YouTube; the white shirt that won’t ‘come clean’; moderate air quality; Mafia ties to MX; still security problems & fines plague LANL; the Red Light Cameras will remain, debating until late in the night, also read what the task force decides, report ready by mid-January; councilman has ties to red light company; ‘Twenty Years of Capitol Living’; NM bases get millions more in FED money for jobs and enhancements; no flights from the Duke City to Farmington in early 2008; getting ready for the nationally televised NM Bowl; ‘calm before the change’; wore the new tie; Luminaria tour sold out again; do the cameras help the city, or only the Duke City budget; more filming in Downtown ABQ; student attacked by man by holding her hoodie; NM GOV health plan will cost less than first estimated, about $72 million; 14% NM fewer traffic deaths; hate crime charges added to Farmington attack; good man, bad decisions; LANL: an R&D site, or a nuclear bomb factory?; man killed by Amtrak train near Gallup; graffiti tagger arrested; with the increase of home invasions, gun sales are on the rise, but the idea owning a firearm could backfire; ABQ schools cannot create their own police force, needs legislative approval: they also cannot arrest anyone; the victim was ‘advertising homosexuality’ when the cops arrived; the copper crime criminals may have been caught; people ‘polled’ say red light fines should be lowered; several sick staff in HOSP; Myrna feels better, did Rounds, finished by 8:25A; patient’s relative from Red Lodge, MT; babysitting a patient’s charging cell phone; one September CHC became a Group Four service; Edie ‘discovered’ the ‘secret’; “so I won’t get into trouble”; MGR was looking for a PDI on the wrong date, also sent the request to a doctor, hope he didn’t open his E-mail [he didn’t]; Myrna left early yesterday, and took a long nap; Maggie, and her singing snowman; the GOC doors opened for me; the December UNMMG Newsletter went online today; per Weather Channel, Taos snow later this week; plane skidded onto Cleveland highway; heavy rains on CA coast; inland snow falling on elevations as low as 1K feet; temps from 10s to 70s; Orlando storms; temps near freezing in Boston; snow in WA MTN passes; 100K still without power in OK, KS & MO: they are cold, broke, desperate and in some cases, homeless; businesses crippled, all info on PCs; NJ no longer has a death penalty; Huckabee appeals to Catholics; two NYC boys rescue baby in dumpster; IA First Lady supports Edwards; Congress passes half trillion budget, Pentagon is excluded; cost of living has doubled; tax breaks vs. freezing rates; sales keep slumping, people are keeping hands in their pockets; Bush says to spend, ‘outlook is good’; last day for ground shipping, so gift arrives before the holidays; meningitis strikes college students; 56% will continue working after retirement, find another field [be a consultant, using a staffing firm to get jobs], many want to teach, or work at a golf course; ‘we’ said we would spend less; many people suffer from narcolepsy; writers will not be able to write for the Oscars or Golden Globe Awards; license to kill, doesn’t know anything about the drugs used to ‘murder’ a person; Greensville, VA executioner; doesn’t see any pain in the person dying; bird roaming the wings of Capitol Hill; Vikings hold the second ‘wild card’; the end of holiday neighborhood caroling?; take blood pressure pills at bedtime for better results; many baseball players ‘apologize’ for using steroids; popcorn will get better, as unnecessary chemicals are removed; see photo album on TV, no computer required; FedEx: 669 planes, 280K workers, 75 trucks, one long delivery day; “thanks” to $3 per gallon: American drivers are actually cutting back on their gas consumption; hip replacements surgeries keep increasing, provide long-term benefits, helps people remain fit; top chefs on major TV programs; stricter guidelines to borrow mortgage money; some states suffer deep budget cuts; US border attacks on MX endanger those in their homes, on both sides; KS teen shot from passing vehicle; if Hillary elected, she will send her husband, and George the First, on a worldwide journey to repair the damage caused by George the Second; the first auto fuel guidelines law passed by Congress in 32 years; Bush says we will survive the credit crunch; who better than a child to review children’s book?; football teams from all compass points: from Seattle to New England to Tampa to San Diego; most people ‘polled’ do not own a cell phone; FL man beat seven year old for putting on pink nail polish; the DOW is somewhat steady; what will hearings on destroyed CIA tapes reveal; Congress attacks steroids; tips for shoveling safely; OH crash causes gas & propane leaks, fears bridge collapse; OR husband accidentally kills his wife while learning to draw his gun; America needs to build a better light bulb; bank gives each employee $1K, with the proviso that it is spent on another person or group, who is in need; ‘Baywatch’ Pamela Anderson ends her two month marriage; recovery or inflation: the opposite of recession?; man selling his soul on E-Bay; new mortgage applicants will have to require proof of income, lowest house sales in 16 year: now, packaged loans sold to other/foreign banks, compounding problems; police brutality on the rise, using too much force against victims; for candidates, destiny are out of their control; early victories are just that; steroids: barred, but not illegal; cops use large TV screen lure to arrest criminals; drivers will pay thousands more for better mileage; NH teacher gives kidney to a student; Rice in Iraq on another ‘unannounced’ visit, visits several cities; the Natalee Holloway case is now considered ‘cold’; SOS from cruise ship, aircraft carrier sails to luxury liner to perform an operation on a fourteen year old girl who had a ruptured appendix; on another Princess Cruise liner rioting tourists staged a rebellion by using the Internet, bad weather cancelled port of call tours, plus there was not enough to do onboard; Peter Jackson will produce ‘the Hobbit’, filming will start in 2009, with one part premiering in 2010, and the second in 2011; Fidel Castro, PRES<>TX & IL syringes; Obama [a fresh start] & Clinton [experience & qualifications] are neck & neck in IA, weather will be an important factor; 32% of eligible voters may change their minds; Giuliani ignores IA & NH, aiming for bigger states, like CA: his popularity is dropping, may lose ‘free’ media coverage; Romney has had the most events in IA; the first energy change since 1975, sounds & looks good; another death at Disney World, man dies after roller coaster ride; ‘awesome’ is a ‘chic’ word; NJ thief caught by employees, after attempting to steal several Rolex watches; the tire that can determine a puncture; keyboards for blackberries; the perfect Martini shaker; lights that blink to the beat of a car radio’s music; time to retool; ‘Heroes’ heroine to be wed; last night, 7.2 quake rocked the AK Aleutians; FL power plant explosion & blaze, killed four injured fourteen; science for a better life; two-alarm fire was quickly extinguished at the VP Executive BLDG near the White House: no injuries, lots of smoke, started in an electrical closet; family of four missing in N CA for three days, went to chop a holiday tree, by end of day, they were located; the DOW is slightly down; explosion near CA town hall, destroyed one car, shook, not shattered windows, no injuries; NM GOV reiterates he will pull all troops by then end of 2009; spouses don’t recall what they were given last year for that ‘special’ holiday gift; EU TV channel known as ‘World Vision’ White House staff knew more about CIA tapes than being told; in Iraq, weekly IED attacks have been dropping, the country’s economy has been rising; Congress may support PRES on war funding; 50 die in PAK train crash; the Ferrari is no longer a ‘sexy’ car; the ‘Spice One’ Virgin jet; Magna Carta sells for over $21 million; Putin is Time’s ‘Person of the Year’; dogs going overseas to help ease soldiers’ stress; China buys into Morgan Stanley; …12/20-07: help keep kids warm 30º in ABQ; 78% humidity at 6A…earlier to bed tonight; Brad made Ham Salad; bought three pies & ice cream, for one very low price; Rio Rancho coach sleeping with 14 year old girl; more snow from a big Winter Storm; we will welcome winter; road crews are better prepared this year?; use HumVees as alternate ambulances; man making jewelry with blow torch suffered a seizure, started house fire in NE ABQ, structure a total loss; meth lab bust on Isleta Pueblo, the guilty face FED charges, some were hospitalized, overcome by toxic fumes; test vehicle successfully launched at NM Spaceport, third time was the charm; should NM amend the death penalty, live long, and suffer; White Sands adding more personnel, will have 6,300 employees; both the Farmington Police & Fire Stations are falling apart; more BP grants for teachers; very cold on Saturday; Hilton hotel may be built in Farmington, PNM credit rate lowered, higher interest rates will be passed to customers in their monthly bills; the dirt becomes green at ‘The Big I’, more safety measures needed, also; S NM has three new trauma centers; NM GOV says Congress is not getting anything done, in spite of [D] majority; Toys for Tots gets increase in donations, after request for help aired on TV; a little unhappy, a little depressed; Café Fetish opened its downtown store; new KOAT co-host makes her debut; two naps, one night; no water in the APT when I got home, water came on at 7P; I fell ill, and took a nap; holiday card from Martha; how many people are waking up sore?; tackle the Green Cards, and Dr. Wong; stress level high; finished Rounds by 8:25A; Secret Santa swapping: another time, at a better place; Code Purple this AM; empty on Central near UNM; an increase in meningitis cases; somebody made a mess of my work area last night; Code Purple after 3P; present from Julia; finished both the Green Cards [except one], and Dr. Wong’s charges by the end of the day; we seem to accept the ‘F’ word, don’t treat it like a swear, or foul language; should I give Myrna the Specialties?, will JoAnn approve?; no lunch today, nibbled; temps from 10s to 80s; white sands vs. white snow; AR, TN & LA T’storms; snow flurries, from light to heavy, from MA to ME; two more feet of snow for WA; Giuliani has the flu; one minor [R] candidate will drop out of the PRES race, while a female Green Party member will run for the White House; third floor damaged a ceremonial room, and a desk used by PRES & VP since Teddy Roosevelt, door carved with initials, building near the West Wing; assimilate oxygen, prevent air deprivation; Huckabee, the Wal-Mart [R], appealing to the middle class, but too soft on crime?; [voters think: “he understands me, not just thinking of himself”] vs. Romney, the upper class, Wall Street [R], still hassled by religion in IA; ‘you keep the rebate’; stranded, lost CA family saved by spelling ‘HELP’ on the road, using twigs: they were lucky, a blizzard would have covered their sign: faith, family & friends; they were frightened & relieved; silver extract turned man’s face blue; how ‘the other man’, or ‘the other woman’ cope with the holiday season, being alone, and drunk; many women named ‘Mary Christmas’; the ‘Miracle Whip’; woman groped a mall Santa; $10K placed in Salvation Army pot; what will be banned next? sweet soda tax on San Fran?, fund healthy eating programs; ‘inspire a child to dream’; Celtics have their first home loss of the season; side effects may be changes in dreaming?; most delays start at NYC airports; more open air for airlines for the next few weeks, allow more ‘wiggle room’; cancer risk for night shift workers?; the common cold mutates into a deadlier strain; mall store of NE shooting reopens today; FL woman dresses in electric light suit during the holiday season; green tea prevents cancer in men?; Giuliani released later in the day; DOW ended up; another close call for two planes flying over Chicago; minivan bumpers don’t protect; I-35, the ‘Highway to Heaven’?; FL man finds $5,200 while trying on a pair of Reeboks; protesters try to protect New Orleans housing project from being torn down; foreign markets mixed; housewives start holiday package program for children in that country; no injuries reported after 6.8 quake shook New Zealand, but many buildings shook & collapsed, centered 25 miles below the ocean; new evidence in Natalie Holloway case revealed today; Picasso paintings stolen from Brazil art gallery; while QE 2 is one of only five British rulers who have reigned more than half a century, and while Prince Charles is almost the longest waiting heir [about two more months until he becomes the number one eldest], Queen Elizabeth II is now England’s oldest monarch, at 81 years old, surpassing Victoria; an asteroid may soon slam into Mars; …12/21-07: refreshed, relieved, rejuvenated 38º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…water is still on at 4A: ‘dawned’ on me that I didn’t have a face cloth when taking a shower; good air quality; get ‘dragon weapons’ at “The Zone”; X-rated, nude filming at UNM?; watches, warnings & advisories across NM until Saturday at 6A; Rio Rancho firefighter injured battling a blaze; stand-by for snowstorms; stabbing at Fourth & Central, in Downtown Duke City; Korean killers sexually assaulted the woman, arrested could face the death penalty; graffiti gangs arrested; last F-16 flight at Cannon AFB; Native American will run for NM Congressional race; NM GOV on NY Times, articles focusing on all the candidates; the storm will start with rain; from 6 – 10 inches of snow; pep rally for NM Bowl at Uptown CTR; depressed, and suicidal; all clear on I-40 this AM; 600 pet adoption project before Christmas Eve at Cottonwood; high end restaurant planned for Olde Towne; Farmington woman stabbed three times in her chest, while at her home, not ‘one sheet of snow’, but tricky traveling; maybe a Christmas storm?; “Live & Let Die” DVD came from Sparks, NV; 4K people without power in NE ABQ; Martha’s children in their 20s’; S Valley dog shot after attacking farm animals; enjoyed Brad’s Kale Soup; secret desire; Linda would like to dress up in a gorilla suit, and make a ‘monkey’ of herself; today is the time to tackle TES edits; a card, a cane & a hug from Joseph; Myrna had a cold, I did the Rounds by myself, but she delivered the Newborn forms, finished them by 8:45A; Code Purple at 7A, continued through the AM; Maggie mapped her January journey; a pen from Lena; card from Maggie; gave Myrna our business card, in exchange for her phone number ;Myrna’s daughter ready to deliver soon, so my weekend ride is ‘iffy’; presents from Linda & her daughter [a triple pack of nuts, and a Patriots T-shirt]; showed Edie & Maggie my fall vacation photos; Myrna is referred to as my ‘sidekick’; holiday call from my MGR; cheap orange juice can spilled its contents in my backpack: al least the inside smells good; by 2P, there was bad weather in Gallup; two UNMMG staff ‘stopped by’ because ‘they were in the area’ [?]; sleet in Hot Springs, VA; Midwest fog; temps from 0s to 80s; Boston has almost reached a record amount of snow in December; this weekend, there might be rain, flooding & roofs collapsing; soggy from DC to GA; lots of snow on Mt. Hood, OR; very cold New England, very warm in New Orleans & Orlando; did San Diego have a tornado, something is rare in that part of CA; many employees leaving ABC AM News, both onstage & backstage crew; ‘shorten a cold’; NM snow mentioned on ABC AM News; the era of digital frames; the start of holiday traveling; 47 million will fly; closed W Coast ‘no fly zones’ will open for the holiday weekends; Giuliani has to regain the top place in the [R]; Congress has left for the holidays; tug of war between Romney & Huckabee; Giuliani feeling better; not since Truman, Bush popularity has declined for almost three years in a row; tazers & tear gas used to stop project protesters in the Crescent, Big Easy’ City; upgrade to download digital; the US baby boom has began, the largest since 1961, more children than parents, approved by the Pope, bad for the environment; Steelers won; three camels taking NYC stroll; VA mother ‘forces’ her child to smoke pot; ‘Heroes’ co-stars together on the dance floor, and romantically involved; TSA & IRS are the most hated agencies; to lower state costs, Ar-nold wants to release low risk criminals from prison; can CO man keep pet tiger in his home?; light beer is the best for your health; lobster eyes can see through cloudy water, idea used for airport security purposes; GOOGLE becoming a monopoly?; former Miami Dolphins pastor accused of sexual abuse against a young boy for five years in the 1970s: now, as man, he is asking for $10 million in damages; DOW going up by triple digits; a ‘pole tax’ imposed on TX erotic dancers; semi & train collide in Chicago: truck driver in a rush to make his delivery; gunmen rob a NYC Fed-Ex truck of holiday packages; nude, jogging priest pleads ‘not guilty’ to indecent exposure while doing his predawn exercise; Congress, and the one-minute meeting, to prevent Bush from appointing nominees; mall traffic down 9% from same time last year, more people find the Internet ‘comfy’ to purchase items, and there’s always gift cards; will IA ignore political polls?; human body parts along a Houston highway; have ‘faith’ in Huckabee, a [R] ‘holy war; US & Japan WWII veterans play baseball in HI, with America winning; one of the last WWI soldiers has died at the age of 109 [also the oldest]; $70 billion for the war, no strings attached; suicide bombing in PAK kills 50 near mosque & former minister’s home; in Chicago, astronaut’s mother died at the age of 90 in a car accident, when she was struck by a train; he is in the INTL Space Shuttle, keep them informed of events on the ground; Holloway case may not be closed; foreign markets going up; buy cheaper ‘made in the US’ goods in the EU; when will the dollar ‘bottom out’; Russia needs more babies; …12/22-07: get personal, get real 18º in ABQ; 77% humidity at 6A…dry at The Beach; snow & ice on I-40 E to TX; I-25N is closed at Raton Pass, zero visibility: up to ten foot drifts on US 64 near that N city; snowplows cannot handle the flurries that are falling fast; roads near Santa Fe are risky; double homicide at ‘our’ Las Vegas; High Wind Warning; MADD red light campaign this AM; murder inside of a car parked in front of home near Old Coors & Central; NM GOV is not the Great Debater, a better one-on-one person, and diplomat; ice art at La Fonda Hotel; holiday Super Blitz continues; get ready for more wind; ten foot high drifts on the roads to Clayton; why would a dog return to finish killing a flock of sheep; millions will drive through the holidays; NM Tech tracking an asteroid that has a one in 75 chance of striking Mars; anti-holiday music fest at the Launchpad; Brad’s scanner no longer works, will visit Amazon.com; LANL workers not taking buyout package may suddenly lose their jobs, last day could be 1/10/08; every NM ski resort are open this weekend; snow could still fall across the state today; E-mailed Martha, a prologue; neighbor shoots dog during feud, aims too close to the canine’s family; Raton & I-25N opened by 8P; Brad found a great deal on a scanner, his other package has reached Denver; a Patriots ‘hoodie’; fire alarm sounded this AM; Lobos vs. the Wolf Pack at 2:30P; vandals destroy outdoor holiday decorations, that have been on display since 1968; during the AM, Angel fire dropped below zero; one of Martha’s daughters took a girl to the high school prom; dress in Lobos layers; ‘everything’ is on sale; pleas of ‘please buy’ buy, by retailers; NM Bowl mentioned on both CNN & ABC; Obama has ‘the energy’, trying to attract Muslims; ‘Holiday Blues’ is caused by too many parties, too little cash and too much alcohol; remember: TV is not reality; each year, 800K children are reported missing across the US; too avoid holiday hassles, people are riding the rails instead of flying the flights; time is running out for shoppers, and retailers; fog delays Midwest flights; so many scammers get free money from gift cards, scan for its value; $25 billion are spent on these items; 313K GM vehicles being recalled, fuel leak in Cadillac models could cause the driver to lose control of the vehicles; men plead not guilty in starting Malibu fire; fingerprinting toy [not the real thing] being recalled, asbestos dust in the ink; Spears’ pregnant sister portrays a very good student on TV show, totally wholesome who “wouldn’t do a thing like that”; did former CIA agent disclose classified info?; testosterone could prevent one type of cancer, but could cause another form; foreigners love our country, can buy ‘cheaper’ goods; new DNA & fingerprint system to identify children will be released next year; the ‘conservative consumer’ does not have money to spend on holiday gifts; TX ‘pole tax’ will be used to help rape victims, which are mostly women [as are the strippers]; Tom Brady is Male Athlete of the Year; influential Karl Rove writing book about the Bush presidency great gift: a towel warmer; Giuliani visits her personal doctor, gets clean bill of health; RI couple win $152 million Powerball Lottery; missing WV student found dead in a crawlspace; 170 years added to child abductor’s prison sentence; higher energy costs lower holiday shopping, even online sales have sagged; WY wife stabs husband for opening a gift before the holiday arrived; China resurfaces an 800 year old merchant ship, named “S China Sea Number one”, loaded with porcelain and other rare antiques; the MGM Grand opened in Macau; megaton bomb impact if asteroid hits Mars during the latter part of January, 2008; Tony Blair turns Catholic; Winston Churchill’s ‘hippie’ granddaughter has died; …12/20-07: help keep kids warm 30º in ABQ; 78% humidity at 6A…earlier to bed tonight; Brad made Ham Salad; bought three pies & ice cream, for one very low price; Rio Rancho coach sleeping with 14 year old girl; more snow from a big Winter Storm; we will welcome winter; road crews are better prepared this year?; use HumVees as alternate ambulances; man making jewelry with blow torch suffered a seizure, started house fire in NE ABQ, structure a total loss; meth lab bust on Isleta Pueblo, the guilty face FED charges, some were hospitalized, overcome by toxic fumes; test vehicle successfully launched at NM Spaceport, third time was the charm; should NM amend the death penalty, live long, and suffer; White Sands adding more personnel, will have 6,300 employees; both the Farmington Police & Fire Stations are falling apart; more BP grants for teachers; very cold on Saturday; Hilton hotel may be built in Farmington, PNM credit rate lowered, higher interest rates will be passed to customers in their monthly bills; the dirt becomes green at ‘The Big I’, more safety measures needed, also; S NM has three new trauma centers; NM GOV says Congress is not getting anything done, in spite of [D] majority; Toys for Tots gets increase in donations, after request for help aired on TV; a little unhappy, a little depressed; Café Fetish opened its downtown store; new KOAT co-host makes her debut; two naps, one night; no water in the APT when I got home, water came on at 7P; I fell ill, and took a nap; holiday card from Martha; how many people are waking up sore?; tackle the Green Cards, and Dr. Wong; stress level high; finished Rounds by 8:25A; Secret Santa swapping: another time, at a better place; Code Purple this AM; empty on Central near UNM; an increase in meningitis cases; somebody made a mess of my work area last night; Code Purple after 3P; present from Julia; finished both the Green Cards [except one], and Dr. Wong’s charges by the end of the day; we seem to accept the ‘F’ word, don’t treat it like a swear, or foul language; should I give Myrna the Specialties?, will JoAnn approve?; no lunch today, nibbled; temps from 10s to 80s; white sands vs. white snow; AR, TN & LA T’storms; snow flurries, from light to heavy, from MA to ME; two more feet of snow for WA; Giuliani has the flu; one minor [R] candidate will drop out of the PRES race, while a female Green Party member will run for the White House; third floor damaged a ceremonial room, and a desk used by PRES & VP since Teddy Roosevelt, door carved with initials, building near the West Wing; assimilate oxygen, prevent air deprivation; Huckabee, the Wal-Mart [R], appealing to the middle class, but too soft on crime?; [voters think: “he understands me, not just thinking of himself”] vs. Romney, the upper class, Wall Street [R], still hassled by religion in IA; ‘you keep the rebate’; stranded, lost CA family saved by spelling ‘HELP’ on the road, using twigs: they were lucky, a blizzard would have covered their sign: faith, family & friends; they were frightened & relieved; silver extract turned man’s face blue; how ‘the other man’, or ‘the other woman’ cope with the holiday season, being alone, and drunk; many women named ‘Mary Christmas’; the ‘Miracle Whip’; woman groped a mall Santa; $10K placed in Salvation Army pot; what will be banned next? sweet soda tax on San Fran?, fund healthy eating programs; ‘inspire a child to dream’; Celtics have their first home loss of the season; side effects may be changes in dreaming?; most delays start at NYC airports; more open air for airlines for the next few weeks, allow more ‘wiggle room’; cancer risk for night shift workers?; the common cold mutates into a deadlier strain; mall store of NE shooting reopens today; FL woman dresses in electric light suit during the holiday season; green tea prevents cancer in men?; Giuliani released later in the day; DOW ended up; another close call for two planes flying over Chicago; minivan bumpers don’t protect; I-35, the ‘Highway to Heaven’?; FL man finds $5,200 while trying on a pair of Reeboks; protesters try to protect New Orleans housing project from being torn down; foreign markets mixed; housewives start holiday package program for children in that country; no injuries reported after 6.8 quake shook New Zealand, but many buildings shook & collapsed, centered 25 miles below the ocean; new evidence in Natalie Holloway case revealed today; Picasso paintings stolen from Brazil art gallery; while QE 2 is one of only five British rulers who have reigned more than half a century, and while Prince Charles is almost the longest waiting heir [about two more months until he becomes the number one eldest], Queen Elizabeth II is now England’s oldest monarch, at 81 years old, surpassing Victoria; an asteroid may soon slam into Mars; …12/21-07: refreshed, relieved, rejuvenated 38º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…water is still on at 4A: ‘dawned’ on me that I didn’t have a face cloth when taking a shower; good air quality; get ‘dragon weapons’ at “The Zone”; X-rated, nude filming at UNM?; watches, warnings & advisories across NM until Saturday at 6A; Rio Rancho firefighter injured battling a blaze; stand-by for snowstorms; stabbing at Fourth & Central, in Downtown Duke City; Korean killers sexually assaulted the woman, arrested could face the death penalty; graffiti gangs arrested; last F-16 flight at Cannon AFB; Native American will run for NM Congressional race; NM GOV on NY Times, articles focusing on all the candidates; the storm will start with rain; from 6 – 10 inches of snow; pep rally for NM Bowl at Uptown CTR; depressed, and suicidal; all clear on I-40 this AM; 600 pet adoption project before Christmas Eve at Cottonwood; high end restaurant planned for Olde Towne; Farmington woman stabbed three times in her chest, while at her home, not ‘one sheet of snow’, but tricky traveling; maybe a Christmas storm?; “Live & Let Die” DVD came from Sparks, NV; 4K people without power in NE ABQ; Martha’s children in their 20s’; S Valley dog shot after attacking farm animals; enjoyed Brad’s Kale Soup; secret desire; Linda would like to dress up in a gorilla suit, and make a ‘monkey’ of herself; today is the time to tackle TES edits; a card, a cane & a hug from Joseph; Myrna had a cold, I did the Rounds by myself, but she delivered the Newborn forms, finished them by 8:45A; Code Purple at 7A, continued through the AM; Maggie mapped her January journey; a pen from Lena; card from Maggie; gave Myrna our business card, in exchange for her phone number ;Myrna’s daughter ready to deliver soon, so my weekend ride is ‘iffy’; presents from Linda & her daughter [a triple pack of nuts, and a Patriots T-shirt]; showed Edie & Maggie my fall vacation photos; Myrna is referred to as my ‘sidekick’; holiday call from my MGR; cheap orange juice can spilled its contents in my backpack: al least the inside smells good; by 2P, there was bad weather in Gallup; two UNMMG staff ‘stopped by’ because ‘they were in the area’ [?]; sleet in Hot Springs, VA; Midwest fog; temps from 0s to 80s; Boston has almost reached a record amount of snow in December; this weekend, there might be rain, flooding & roofs collapsing; soggy from DC to GA; lots of snow on Mt. Hood, OR; very cold New England, very warm in New Orleans & Orlando; did San Diego have a tornado, something is rare in that part of CA; many employees leaving ABC AM News, both onstage & backstage crew; ‘shorten a cold’; NM snow mentioned on ABC AM News; the era of digital frames; the start of holiday traveling; 47 million will fly; closed W Coast ‘no fly zones’ will open for the holiday weekends; Giuliani has to regain the top place in the [R]; Congress has left for the holidays; tug of war between Romney & Huckabee; Giuliani feeling better; not since Truman, Bush popularity has declined for almost three years in a row; tazers & tear gas used to stop project protesters in the Crescent, Big Easy’ City; upgrade to download digital; the US baby boom has began, the largest since 1961, more children than parents, approved by the Pope, bad for the environment; Steelers won; three camels taking NYC stroll; VA mother ‘forces’ her child to smoke pot; ‘Heroes’ co-stars together on the dance floor, and romantically involved; TSA & IRS are the most hated agencies; to lower state costs, Ar-nold wants to release low risk criminals from prison; can CO man keep pet tiger in his home?; light beer is the best for your health; lobster eyes can see through cloudy water, idea used for airport security purposes; GOOGLE becoming a monopoly?; former Miami Dolphins pastor accused of sexual abuse against a young boy for five years in the 1970s: now, as man, he is asking for $10 million in damages; DOW going up by triple digits; a ‘pole tax’ imposed on TX erotic dancers; semi & train collide in Chicago: truck driver in a rush to make his delivery; gunmen rob a NYC Fed-Ex truck of holiday packages; nude, jogging priest pleads ‘not guilty’ to indecent exposure while doing his predawn exercise; Congress, and the one-minute meeting, to prevent Bush from appointing nominees; mall traffic down 9% from same time last year, more people find the Internet ‘comfy’ to purchase items, and there’s always gift cards; will IA ignore political polls?; human body parts along a Houston highway; have ‘faith’ in Huckabee, a [R] ‘holy war; US & Japan WWII veterans play baseball in HI, with America winning; one of the last WWI soldiers has died at the age of 109 [also the oldest]; $70 billion for the war, no strings attached; suicide bombing in PAK kills 50 near mosque & former minister’s home; in Chicago, astronaut’s mother died at the age of 90 in a car accident, when she was struck by a train; he is in the INTL Space Shuttle, keep them informed of events on the ground; Holloway case may not be closed; foreign markets going up; buy cheaper ‘made in the US’ goods in the EU; when will the dollar ‘bottom out’; Russia needs more babies; …12/22-07: get personal, get real 18º in ABQ; 77% humidity at 6A…dry at The Beach; snow & ice on I-40 E to TX; I-25N is closed at Raton Pass, zero visibility: up to ten foot drifts on US 64 near that N city; snowplows cannot handle the flurries that are falling fast; roads near Santa Fe are risky; double homicide at ‘our’ Las Vegas; High Wind Warning; MADD red light campaign this AM; murder inside of a car parked in front of home near Old Coors & Central; NM GOV is not the Great Debater, a better one-on-one person, and diplomat; ice art at La Fonda Hotel; holiday Super Blitz continues; get ready for more wind; ten foot high drifts on the roads to Clayton; why would a dog return to finish killing a flock of sheep; millions will drive through the holidays; NM Tech tracking an asteroid that has a one in 75 chance of striking Mars; anti-holiday music fest at the Launchpad; Brad’s scanner no longer works, will visit Amazon.com; LANL workers not taking buyout package may suddenly lose their jobs, last day could be 1/10/08; every NM ski resort are open this weekend; snow could still fall across the state today; E-mailed Martha, a prologue; neighbor shoots dog during feud, aims too close to the canine’s family; Raton & I-25N opened by 8P; Brad found a great deal on a scanner, his other package has reached Denver; a Patriots ‘hoodie’; fire alarm sounded this AM; Lobos vs. the Wolf Pack at 2:30P; vandals destroy outdoor holiday decorations, that have been on display since 1968; during the AM, Angel fire dropped below zero; one of Martha’s daughters took a girl to the high school prom; dress in Lobos layers; NM beat NV, 23 – 0, their first victory since 1961, a rare zero defeat for the opposing team; smoke alarm went off once at 5A; “society has kidnapped me’; some parts of NM received six inches of snow; three teens involved in a rollover crash; stocking hung on the overhead light source; ‘everything’ is on sale; pleas of ‘please buy’ buy, by retailers; NM Bowl mentioned on both CNN & ABC; Obama has ‘the energy’, trying to attract Muslims; ‘Holiday Blues’ is caused by too many parties, too little cash and too much alcohol; remember: TV is not reality; each year, 800K children are reported missing across the US; too avoid holiday hassles, people are riding the rails instead of flying the flights; time is running out for shoppers, and retailers; fog delays Midwest flights; so many scammers get free money from gift cards, scan for its value; $25 billion are spent on these items; 313K GM vehicles being recalled, fuel leak in Cadillac models could cause the driver to lose control of the vehicles; men plead not guilty in starting Malibu fire; fingerprinting toy [not the real thing] being recalled, asbestos dust in the ink; Spears’ pregnant sister portrays a very good student on TV show, totally wholesome who “wouldn’t do a thing like that”; did former CIA agent disclose classified info?; testosterone could prevent one type of cancer, but could cause another form; foreigners love our country, can buy ‘cheaper’ goods; new DNA & fingerprint system to identify children will be released next year; the ‘conservative consumer’ does not have money to spend on holiday gifts; TX ‘pole tax’ will be used to help rape victims, which are mostly women [as are the strippers]; Tom Brady is Male Athlete of the Year; influential Karl Rove writing book about the Bush presidency great gift: a towel warmer; Giuliani visits her personal doctor, gets clean bill of health; RI couple win $152 million Powerball Lottery; missing WV student found dead in a crawlspace; 170 years added to child abductor’s prison sentence; higher energy costs lower holiday shopping, even online sales have sagged; WY wife stabs husband for opening a gift before the holiday arrived; husband had $1 million INS policy on his murdered wife; ‘Miami is where old neon goes to die’; one person died in an 80 vehicle pileup on I-40, near Amarillo, there was one death on I-70 near Topeka when 30 motor vehicles shut down the interstate for 40 miles, and one person was killed a series of wrecks along I-29 in MO shut down the road to the IA border; “I promise I will not hurt your husband…he will”; AK has 33K miles of coastline, 5K miles of paved roads, and is over 2K miles long from the tip of the Aleutians to the easternmost border: and 1,300 miles from N to S; the territory was bought from the Russians at 7¢ an acre, which cost the US $7 million; flights from OK are not OK, they have either been cancelled, or full; now it is estimated that there are 65 million holiday travelers, many stuck in snow, ice or fog; second day that flights in & out of Chicago have been cancelled; around & around the clock sales; “nobody knows the answer but me, and I’m not telling”; is the era of window dressing over; China resurfaces an 800 year old merchant ship, named “S China Sea Number one”, loaded with porcelain and other rare antiques; the MGM Grand opened in Macau; megaton bomb impact if asteroid hits Mars during the latter part of January, 2008; Tony Blair turns Catholic; longer tours of duty results in more soldiers committing suicide; the surge will continue until the summer of 2008; the Milky Way is still under construction; the galactic disk; “dear me, the moon is experiencing cosmic gas”; the Earth moves in & out of spiral cosmic arms; Winston Churchill’s ‘hippie’ granddaughter has died; the year in tears & triumphs; Turkish planes bomb N Iraq; …12/23-07: the best deals & sales are on sale 25º in ABQ; 46% humidity at 6A…a Sunday that feels like…I don’t know what day it fells like!; up at 3A for weekend work; ‘weapons, for when the dragons come’ [please protect & defend the dragons]; received a response from Martha; remember to take the all-important nap, and clean the jewelry; good air quality; a response to Martha’s response; PNM workers return from OK; a $30 million addition to the Round House? It would be a separate structure; Santa Fe mother & her boyfriend accused of beating her thirteen month old son, ending with the child’s death; Eclipse Aviations is now fully certified by the FAA; patient’s first name: ‘Brooklyn’: another child is Crystal Billie’; started Rounds at 6:30, finished by 8A; saw ‘Dreamgirls’, after taking our nap; patient received an expired vaccine; now, the parents doubt any doctor’s decisions; Myrna took me to work, she was not feeling well, but stayed for four hours, then drove me home; if Myrna delays the output of I/P charges, who will be blamed; she has two sons, one married daughter [with husband], and considers herself a ‘road captain’ [passenger, not driver’]; plenty of evening traffic heading into the River of Lights; Brad baked Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies & Small Rolls [“pops”]; another patient’s name is ‘Cinnamon’ [one of the ‘Spice Girls’]?; $20K has been shoplifted from several ABQ stores this holiday season: thieves are as young as eleven years old, and female, some have been involved in a dozen crimes; more fuel for hybrid cars means the price of corn is increasing, which will mean higher costs for tamales; people arrested on cockfighting charges in Chaparral, Otero CNTY, not hiding their illegal ‘games’; the GOC door was open on Sunday?; skeleton crew at the HOSP; in search of the winter rush, as the powder is piling up; 1.3 million homeless children in America; learn to throw spears at luau, hunt for fish [and shark] & coconut; the best start in franchise history for the Celtics; ‘from mistakes, we learn’, keep confidence up; all inside a warm tortilla; find everything good about breakfast; no one wants to tell the 100% truth on the campaign trail; the deadly ‘domino effect’ on several highways; Giuliani suffered from a severe headache, was hospitalized for 17 hours, has survived cancer; five weather related deaths; 1 – 2 inches of snow falling per hour in WI; squall line over IL, with 70 mph winds; bad news in weather for forecasts across America, from sea to ‘shining’ sea, along I-95: slippery, floods & twisters from DC to Richmond; bad weather comes out of nowhere; temps from 10s to 70s; thanks to Katrina, Cajun cooking spreads across the country; time to define ‘truth’ on the campaign trail; Dallas won, 20 – 13, but key players were injured; MA firefighters overcome by carbon monoxide at their station; sexual predator stalking children in Los Angeles; ‘trained to be ghosts’; why do people call out when they are somewhere, ‘alone’, yet feel that someone else is with them?; the Salvation Army has reached its $60K donation goal; couple wanted to sell their child for $30; woman ‘spends’ three days in ATL Wal-Mart; blood tainted products have infected people with Hepatitis C; the weekend box office hit: ‘NATL Treasure’ earned $45.5 million; the number of credit card delinquency payments are increasing, many more than 90 days behind, people defaulting on loans also rising; the ‘rescue inhaler’; by end of day, eleven weather related traffic deaths; WA Santa Claus on a crucifix targets commercialism; maybe sellers will pay the cost for an item, and buyers will pay the tax & shipping charges; New England beat Miami, 28 – 7; 20% of Americans are traveling; 100K without power in WI, MI & IL; another multi-vehicle collision, this time on I-244 in OK; 50% of Americans have not finished shopping; Mother Nature rules supreme; the nine second session in Congress; Dallas Cowboys have earned home field advantage, and Pittsburgh Steelers are in the playoffs; no nonsense’ candidates are naughty, nice, nasty & noisy; the NATL AVG price of gas has dropped to $2.97; ‘I Am Legend’ finished in second place, taking in $34.2 million; using a crowbar to get a Picasso [worth $50 million], Brazilian museum has no INS; Saudi Arabia make 20+ al Qaeda arrests; US military couples can leave together in Iraq, but their children have to say in the States; Siberian tiger beheaded in Chinese zoo; a Russian built nuclear facility in Iran will be completed by March, 2008: and provide electricity by this summer; the Queen’s holiday speech will be televised on YouTube; …12/24-07: independence, integrity, strength 24º in ABQ; 25% humidity at 6A…many citations issued during Super Blitz, that lasts until 2008; vehicle struck two ABQ police cars by driving backwards, crashing into them at First & Marble; Navajo Nation leader embezzled money for diabetics; Farmington power company will help businesses that go green; domestic violence rises during holidays, associated with stress & holiday parties, often ignored or misdiagnosed; negative nine degrees in Angel Fire; man said he was provoked into killing another guy for making sexual advances, neighbors say the victim opened his house for homeless & transients, the guilty man is also wanted on E Coast charges; damaged bikes can be repaired, group restores about 350 per year; one man killed on I-10 collision, near Gage in SW NM; freezing on the ski slopes; Myrna has been to the top of Sandia Peak by both tramway & car; fresh blood & flocks of cocks: children not allowed, but there was a crib near syringes, blood & knives in cockfighting; 100 of these animals were euthanized, money & drugs also found at the fight site; this past weekend, ABQ & surrounding animal shelters adopted their entire inventory of animals; several storms during the next week; a Monday that ‘feels’ like a Saturday; help make NM the ‘clean energy state’; day looks OK for Luminaria lighting, and it was very good, only a few needed to be relit, but remained bright during the evening, and the bus tours; save or steal soap; one tenant from St. Cloud, MN; PM head-on crash on Rio Bravo bridge in SW ABQ threw passengers down an embankment, trapped a pregnant woman; horse dragged to death, tortured and dumped at Meadow Lake in Valencia CNTY; 400 delivery stops in W Mesa & Rio Rancho today; no vacancies at The Beach until March; 13 foot Luminaria near the country club, lit by two propane burners; grandma was a lookout, while a 10 year olf girl robbed a store, will face on child abuse charges; early to bed tonight; up to four hour delays in American airports tomorrow, less delays today, but power outages are in the thousands, 300 flight delays in Chicago; get a master’s degree, get a promotion?; NFL player whose spine was injured can walk again; extended hours & discounts, consumer is in control; the retailers are counting on after holiday sales to help their buildings; a mountain of credit card debt, $17 billion unpaid this October, that is more than 30 days due, up 26% than last year: over 90 days, up 50%: many blame the Subprime loans; the weakest sales in five years, and many were bought online; delays in Chicago, Detroit & Buffalo; MX alien used dead cousin’s American ID to become a US police officer; MN, WI, & MI face more snow; use compact fluorescent light bulbs; Americans need financial assistance, the worst amount owed may be yet to come, how do people ‘ignore’ utility & gasoline bills; still four hours delays in NYC airports; Chili Pepper Red: the color of 2007: in 2008, it’s Blue Iris; 20% are still shopping; trees fell in MI & WI; minivan slammed into Chicago TV station, people were between the studio & the street, but no one was injured; hard to hold the pigskin in northern football games; based on unconditional love, KC ‘Secret Santa’ gave out $100 in cash, an anonymous businessman: the random act of kindness; as the credit crunches: $9.5 billion was spent two days ago on holiday gifts; Macy’s is open three days straight, up to 80% off, men are the most procrastinators; can retailers see a rebound in this shaky economy: crowds vs. sales; true faith doesn’t link buildings to beliefs; Pacific NW US rains & Great Lakes snow; many ‘must have’ items are gone; not easy to bring home & install a plasma TV; buy a set for the Super Bowl; holiday is a time for candidates to rest, and go home for a few days; platinum coin valued over $1K could not fit into FL Salvation Army bucket, so it was given to bell ringer; Americans adopted three Russian children, learn English was easy, but they are forgetting Russian; US stock market open for half a day; another dog fighting ring discovered in ATL; DOW started the week on a positive note; but a cruel joke for FL mother, who was given a fake lottery ticket, saying she won $25K; by midday, 19 have died from winter storms; were shots fired at ATL mall?; Patriots fan jumped & fell seventeen feet off overpass in Foxboro, thought he would land in a snow bank; the Royal Channel on YouTube, courtesy of the ‘high tech’ Queen; oil prices droop to $92.86 per barrel, then rose to $93.13; keep proving money sent to Middle East countries has been wasted; Santa stops at Finland first; in Alexandria, Egypt, a twelve story building [that originally had only seven floors] collapsed; beware the fake BMW; Rudolph can ‘chill out’, the ‘rad reindeer’ stay at home, thanks to the moon, plus aligned planets; Toyota & Nintendo will build a ‘seniors friendly’ vehicle; rekindle the Hot Line to China; ‘live free, rule well, die happy’; 3% of Iraqis are Catholics; Hitler, the ‘silver tongued devil’, trained buy an actor to reach the furthest people hearing his speeches; …12/25-07: give to goodwill 26º in ABQ; 25% humidity at 6A…$100K donation for cancer research & testing, more women will be treated; one died in yesterday’s head-on collision on Rio Bravo, teen landed on the river bank; NM GOV is in Santa Fe, serving food to the needy; NM soldier in Iraq received call from Bush; Magdalena Ridge Observatory at NM Tech, requested by NASA to monitor, crash might be visible to the naked eye; tracking the asteroid, moving at 30K mph that could hit Mars; teacher who took picture up a girl’s skirt is out of jail; man caught after stealing a running vehicle at convenience store; I—40 will be tricky towards TX; give the gift to the environment of a recycled tree; AM conditions: so far, so good; winter weather advisories across N NM; wind advisory across the state; people packed the streets in the thousands for Luminaria tours; Brad making more Chocolate Oatmeal cookies for our friends; even Angel fire is 19º; SUV crash killed woman in Santa Fe; no ‘first birthdays’ today; Four Corners road 173 through Navajo Dam too dangerous; FEMA wants their trailers back that have been used in Hatch after floods; burglars destroyed furniture, others stole a pet dog; wind turbines in ski slopes?; record sales this year of holiday trees, mixed with horse manure for fertilizer & wood chips; the plan to rebuild Seton Castle, SE of Santa Fe, by a nonprofit group; sent E-mail holiday card to Phyllis & Isaac [and their family]; the Christmas Eve Balloon Glow, a unique NM holiday event; Brad & I both have bodily proof a storm is approaching; Regis love ABQ, and NM sunsets, said so on TV; Brad baked a very tasty Custard Filled Corn Bread; time to take down the Luminarias: people had parked in every available, open lot; windy PM & evening; green ABQ bags to recycle goods, and good for shopping; a car had been sitting near the Rapid Ride bus stop “parking lot” since this AM, and remained there during the PM, but was gone by early evening; holiday sales were up; three MI interstates were closed, because of bad weather; RI GOV issued a $30K check to pay for cars that were towed by recent blizzards; ‘Lost’ star in jail for violating probation; historic Hollywood church destroyed by fire caused by Santa Ana winds, exploding transformers cause power outages across the city; Red Flag Warnings for 90 mph gusts; plenty of snow in Denver; people are so afraid to say ‘Christmas’ during this holiday season, in order to be politically correct, and to not offend anyone; Katherine Heigl got married this past weekend; people spent lots of ‘transparent, plastic money’ during the past weekend, they will feel the ripple results in 2008 when credit card payments are due; ‘mother has moved to heaven’; in terms of video games, the Wii burns more calories; heartburn vs. heart attack?: indigestion is the number one cause of death; do people know how to install, or use those high-tech gadgets?; when news drove into TV Chicago, via minivan; snow may cause delays in Denver; $6 million settlement for family of woman who died when the epoxy let go, causing a Boston tunnel tile to crash on her car; 22 people have died in holiday traffic deaths across the Midwest; Merrill Lynch gets needed injection of money; Buffalo Bills coach gets canned; last minute weekend sales were 19% over last year; Corvette can reach 200 mph; a time of celebration, salvation & reconciliation; CA courts say protestors can protest in malls; waitress gets $1,100 tip; IA woman fired for writing a novel during work hours, courts uphold the decision; robber & victim both shot, and killed during CA home invasion; Will Smith vs. gossip columnists clash in the definition of ‘good’; some children find it difficult to write holiday ‘thank you’ notes; babies are good ‘stocking stuffers’?; Giuliani is ‘cancer free’; when giving to charities, the US GOVT is ‘stingy’; drunk Santa found wearing a wig & G-string near Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood; Boston’s Big Dig finally done, costing nearly $15 billion, instead of the estimated $3 billion, which includes one [if not more] lawsuits against the construction companies for faulty tunnel tiles; food kitchens provide health care to the needy; “I’ll deliver the package”; saw ‘Meet Joe Black’, and cried [can people beyond the realm of the living shed tears?]; Ryan Phillippe is gay?; marine punished for abusing recruits, punishment that had been approved by his superiors; Christmas celebrated by half the planet, but Russians fear being caught practicing their religion; 70K travel to Bethlehem this year, a sharp increased, all hotels are full [no rooms at the inns]; life-size Nativity scene; Santa has to travel through 31 time zones; Cannon AFB has detected UFOs; one landed in Nova Scotia waters, traveled down the coast to ME, and flew away?, or was it captured & dissected at a defense base on the US/CN border?; who ordered & destroyed the Roswell tapes;? was it to protect the interrogators?; police officer from Socorro, NM saw an object on legs, with two humanoids next to it: two days later, a similar sighting near La Madera, NM [near the CO border]; J. Edgar Hoover’s “Majestic 12” group; aliens implanted implants, made of unknown metallic components; thousands of restricted GOVT documents; using neural cells to function, reacted when energy applied; observers have to keep their mouths shut; were beams signals, warnings or weapons, ramification vs. distraction, the radioactive UK UFO, that became a ‘no issue’; no defense significance; need a new generation of journalists; the CIC: Counter INTEL Corps; there are ‘field investigation manuals’, classes held & protocols followed; multiple agencies with a great deal of interest probed discretely: since then, all evidence has been ‘lost’; ability to ask anyone, from theologians to military brass; ‘what ever it takes to obtain & tell the truth; 20% of cases remain ‘unexplained’; fragments found in India, Antarctica & the US; Roswell & Area 51 in NV: “Mecca for the curious”; detectors on the ground, deadly force will be used if people are found above, on, or below the earth; the most common answer is ‘atmospheric anomaly’: this was the reason when objects were observed in restricted airspace over DC during two weekends in July, 1952: detected on NATL Airport radar, sighted by jets, then they would vanish, thousands said they saw something in the skies above the nation’s capitol, could they all be wrong?; are there unknown GOVT agencies pursuing this topic?; MUFON [Mutual UFO Network]; the ‘scientific problem’ vs. the ‘no brainer’; SETI has flaws; many have witnessed sightings & landings during daylight hours, at close range for long periods of time; there is physical evidence on trees or on the ground; ‘trace effects’ left behind; several have died trying to reach ‘the ‘gigantic phenomenon’; some are considered USOs, for ‘submerged’, that have been seen by Soviet ships & subs; ‘punctuated equilibrium’: moments in time, and history; at least 13 killed, with hundreds missing from suspension bridge collapse in Nepal; fourteen sailor missing after boat with citric acid disappeared in S Korean waters; the return of syphilis in both hetero- and homosexuals; CA father, daughter and her friend are missing: later their bodies were found [one girl was still alive] after their plane went down over Panama; Pope urged nations to stop fighting; Dutch prisoner gets piece of cake that contained pot; …12/26-07: commitment to clean 17º in ABQ; 70% humidity at 6A…early in, early out to work; bad weather nearly every other day for the next week; a Sustiva dream, featuring Batman & Catwoman; Brad should patent the Corn Bread recipe; moderate air quality; how does one ‘break’ news?; for a couple of days, I was ‘me’; heavy snow fell on I-40 near Clines Corners to the TX border; water boiler explosion flattened house yesterday AM; but no one was injured; Alamogordo man threw lighter fluid on his ex-girlfriend’s body, then ignited her; two planned parenthood buildings were torched by firebombs, structures were only blocks apart; ABQ Police is 200 short of their recruits goal; whiteout on Sandia Peak; black ice on many roads; N of Santa Fe, I-25 is ‘tricky’; –11º in Angel Fire; ‘tastes like cookie’; Church of Scientology may locate in downtown ABQ at Fourth & Central; Sandia Peak opened; man found dead, his pants down at a Moriarty rest area; broken windows at birth control center; mysterious death of teen in Los Lunas; hikers lost on La Luz trail; train photos for Warren; earlier to bed tonight; holiday card from Brad; grandma thief mentioned she was moving; man died from hyperthermia in Santa Fe; very good start of NM ski season; a hotel to be built on NMSU Campus?; Martha saw her old friends [some newly divorced] at the high school reunion: most women were fat, and have died their hair, most men were bald; no crowds at Coronado or Cottonwood; ‘sell them now, before counting them next year’; did the Rounds by myself, finished by 9A: Myrna still has a cold, daughter still pregnant; go figure, a Wednesday that’s a Monday; chocolate holiday treats for Julia [tasted & enjoyed them] & Linda; hugs from Joseph; conserve power & energy at UNM, turn off lights to save money; digging out of snow in Denver; rain in S New England; temps from 10s to 80s; Raleigh rain, OR T’storms; Seattle storms; wet weather in Dallas & Houston; rain from Richmond to DC; 100 mph Santa Ana winds; in IA, too many pieces of ‘snail mail’, phone calls & E-mails from candidates, maybe ‘new blood’ is needed, the ‘old blood’ politicians haven’t done the job, look for the best person, maybe the cash they raised should be given to the poor & charities; secret, and not so secret, people who gave the needy needed money; 57 miles of walkways in the Mall of America; can the Patriots make it a perfect season? has not occurred since Miami did it in 1972; the housing market spiral that spun out of control across the country, but mostly in certain cities or states: no one could, and can, afford homes; 350 lb. tiger attacks in San Fran Zoo, killed one person, injured two others: one year ago, the same incident took place, by the same animal, how did he escape, ‘climbed’ out of exhibit about 5P, did it have human help? several have struck humans this year: here, and around the world; TX child kidnapped, used as ‘human security deposit’; an $8.8 million CT lottery ticket owner has not claimed their winnings; retailers are still crying, putting sale items on sale; more praise to UNK heroes; do some holiday shopping, using the $26 billions on gift cards, or return goods; gift cards sent by a man after he died; ‘Nutcrackers’ burnt & brutalized, vandalized & stolen from front porch; does the style of a purse reflect the personality of its owner?; “Let me just say this…”; Wal-Mart asks for food donations, wants to distribute three million meals; the era of the conservative consumer; beware the Subprime market, homes requiring larger down payments; the price of birth control pills is going up, so are unwanted pregnancies; this was a ‘challenging season’ for buyers & sellers; swap & trade gift cards to pay bills, or get VISA cards; Huckabee: ‘vote for me, or get shot by men’ [after he went hunting; Obama: ‘stand for change’; now, two NH newspapers print negative comments about Romney; today is one of the biggest shopping days of the season; a high-tech Rubik’s Cube; TARGET saw sales slump; use used wrapping paper for book covers; the campaigns are now positively negative in tone; why would sports fans look like terrorists?; drones & robots to protect against bio-attacks; man sued eight year old for $75K after ski accident: are we sure the boy caused the crash?: ‘yellow page law’, did the injured man use intimidation tactics; Pittsburgh is in the playoffs; Beverly, MA three alarm tenement house fire; NE mask killed two women, tossed the bodies into the basement, and sexually assaulted & beat a third [struck her in front of police officers]; truck strikes & kills a TX girl who was riding her Christmas bike; the DOW remains steady; NJ may add HIV testing in prenatal care; 60% of people polled said they bought gift cards for presents; house prices fell sharply in October, the largest in 16 years, the tenth decline in a row: the dream of making a big profits on overpriced dwelling are over; people in VT charged in stealing bronze statues for their copper; challenge to repeat Washington’s claim to fame: crossing the DE River cancelled, due to strong currents; three people found dead in WA note; PRES signed $555 billion war & GOVT bill; Amazon.com had a very good year; NYC is a very big, safe city; packing knife found in a SC toy package; ABQ planned parenthood vandalism made CNN news: no break-ins, just bombings; 16% of holiday sales occur after the holidays; 12 hours of rain flooded Indonesia; Nepal bridge built this year, no hope for survivors; Italy is the INTL destination; third anniversary of the Indonesian tsunami; bird flu has been found in Russia; foreign markets were closed yesterday; Iraqi suicide attacks killed 35 people, one struck at funeral procession; rescue base set up at the base of Panama volcano; Russia providing Iran anti-aircraft missiles, while the former Soviet nation tests ICBMs: it now has the capability, and the intent; and, for a while, the world was happy; 3,899 US military deaths from Middle East conflicts; …12/27-07: when you return your car on, does it return the favor 24º in ABQ; 60% humidity at 6A…”I’m three planets away from a yellow star”; homeless man died from cold weather in Santa Fe; suspicious teen death at a party in his home: he was a foster child; road rage on Coors, as one driver displayed a gun on his dashboard; firebombing does not stop the opening of planned parenthood clinic; Scientology could improve the ‘downtown bar district’; “she understands what you need to know”; everybody is considered ‘nice people’ in ABQ; man tried to run over two police in downtown Duke City; old police equipment being sent from Hobbs to Iraq; some sales up to 80% off, but there were no crowds; winds could reach 80 mph in SE NM; good air quality; more winds than snow; still ABQ pets to be adopted; both NATL labs will be spared job cuts, thanks to Pete Domenici; Snow & Winter Storm Warnings for N NM; – 9º in Angel Fire; volunteers head to IA, will help NM GOV prior to that state’s caucus next week; flight from Detroit to Phoenix made emergency landing at SunPort when co-pilot had seizure: prior to landing, the plane dropped 4K feet per minute, the AVG is 1K – 3K descent; police officer used learned skills to create drug ring; Imus will air on local radio station; how do homeless handle subzero temps; chemically unbalanced iced tea; what was the motives of those who torched the ABQ health clinics; transportation museum to be built in Barelas; ABQ firefighter on paid ADMIN leave for assaulting a person in a bar brawl; did teen die from alcohol poisoning; John Travolta purchased an Eclipse jet; snow in NE Duke City Highlands; Cold air, with little moisture; arson suspects caught; crime is considered a FED offense; single digits in the Duke City tonight?; sometimes I feel like a second class citizen; if it’s Thursday, it must be Tuesday; July 10: Myrna’s ex-husband B’day; JoAnn made it, roads CO were kept plowed, below zero temps after sunset; ‘no new numbness’; did Rounds alone, finished by 9A; Myrna feeling better; Edie worked in a Santa Fe Holiday Inn, holding many jobs; a stomach full of pride; January bus passes are in: called Brad to put checkbook on my desk at home; do you know how fast I can walk when it’s cold?; Linda & Brandi find the chocolate cookies ‘addictive’; something called ‘fruit leather’?; try to ‘be happy’; no know fear; found a wallet [with a wad of money] on the floor, belonging to GOC worker; Edie gave it back to him; Aaron is ill, so several doctors will cover his patients; per Weather Channel, NM snow; ‘cool’ Mt. Washington, NH top cat retires; heavy snow from NW US to N Rockies; LA twister appeared very quickly; Denver snow moving across the country, heading to Boston, where one more inch will set a December snowfall record; today, cool rain in Boston, snow in Detroit; temps from 10s to 80s; some areas in S CA still in the dark, thanks to Santa Ana winds; side effects of a constipation medication could harm a fetus; the only menace to society is society itself; cops called when IA man gets stuck in a septic tank; PA man says getting married is scarier than skydiving; WA woman & her boyfriend killed her relatives, the motive was money; from wealthy parents to children: police found gate locked, did not access property, one of the murdered was a letter carrier; San Fran Zoo is a ‘crime scene’; how could a tiger jump an 18 ft. wall, and a 20 ft. moat;, was the cat provoked, or was the gate unlocked by someone; pack of pit bulls killed CA woman; FL collision of semi & train cars [parked in area, off tracks]; the ‘Big Dig’ finally, officially opens in Boston; Giuliani is in FL, Hillary [‘big challenges, real solutions] is not going to put Band-Aids on problems, candidates are going door-to-door in IA; outcome is unpredictable; what’s “up” with the economy; Wal-Mart computer glitch, registers reject its gift cards, customers had to pay the full item for any product; for a third day in a row, United Airlines had to cancel flights; house market vs. the stock market: when one is bad, the other is good; look for the ‘red tag Saturn’; NE mall shooter had swallowed 30 Tylenol tablets; Apple sells music better than movies; the Celtics keep winning; the ‘stay’ vacations’: more day trips planned in 2008; the ‘Star Wars’ Holiday Special aired once, in 1977, then never again, anywhere; a deadly year for police officers, not since the late 1980s, except in 2001; girl felt no pain before, or after, a screwdriver entered her eye; Huckabee hunts pheasants; head Hilton will donate millions to charity, not Paris; techno gone wild: information overload harming the country; did Bell steal the telephone idea from a rival, phone war; a silicon chip to detect cancer; skiing has an implied risk; ‘Bullitt’ will be added to the NATL Registry list of the best films ever made; wife killed while waiting for her husband, a police officer, when their car was parked in front of a Detroit CVS; DOW dropped by triple digits, ending the day down nearly 200 points; the biodegradable coffin; NV & AZ see population growth: MI & RI have fewer people; customer gives waitress $50K & a car; choking hazard: 170K toy blocks recalled, sold across the US; dead vs. retired; seniors work off their property taxes; microwave meals are unhealthy; twelve foot walls not tall enough; nineteen minutes between the 9–1–1 call, and when the police arrived; how & why did the lion jump; survivors may be released within the next few days: shoeprint found on fence: but there are no security cameras where the lions roam, the moat is now 33 feet wide, and why were these other two people attacked; what was the path of the animal, after being set free?; go to a level of ‘probable cause’; six religious ‘temples of faith’ are under GOVT scrutiny for using the guise of God to take money from their followers; the entire nation will see the final season Patriots game on regular TV; Jessica Simpson’s film made the lowest amount ever per movie theater; “clues in creepiness”; teacher had sex with fifth grader [had eyed her for several years], lived in her home, and the mother was not aware of anything that was happening!; biological vs. chronological age; Asian markets falling; overall, global economy is strong; girl survived a mountainous plane crash, and two days hanging upside down in the wreckage, dehydrated, delirious, but no broken bones, coped with heavy rains as she was rescued; oil went from $95.28 to $97.32 per barrel; the highest amount this year was $99.29; US crude stockpiles shrinking; are some beetles older than dinosaurs?; Islam forbids attacks on women, those that do will burn in Hell; the first female leader of an Islamic nation; a land of uncertainty, part of a cursed family, elections may be delayed; murderer killed himself; the ‘shot heard ‘round the world’; former PAK PM Benazir Bhutto has been killed by ‘cowardly extremists’ [per Bush], 20 others were also murdered during a campaign rally, two weeks before PAK NATL elections, unless they are delayed; PAK: a failed state, armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons; al Qaeda [plus other terrorist groups] are turning their attention towards this Asian country; …12/28-07: hey, that sounds good news to me! 13º in ABQ; 56% humidity at 6A…’the big story’; I thought the temp would be in single digits; no trauma against teen who died at holiday party; temps are ten degrees below normal; three million meals were given by Wal-Mart to Road Runner facilities; Kwanzaa: a cultural, not religious ceremony, starts, and will last until early January: using traditions, emphasizes growth; we both bought bus passes; more money & funding has been added to NM needy programs; Bhutto’s death caught a PAK native, living in ABQ, off guard; the longest serving member in the NM SEN, a former PRES Pro Tem has died at the age of 77 in Silver City, he will be remembered as ‘a true statesman’, not concerned about party lines; Brad went to Sunflower Market on Lomas: lots of produce, for little money; NM Caucus will be held on 2/5/08; replace old space heaters, make sure they shut off when knocked over; the AM cold steering wheel; did teacher have ‘questionable porn pictures’ on his Internet; moderate air quality; church pastor is “Re. Rob Woodruff”; NM is the thirteenth fastest growing state; $495K will be given to Navajo Nation to provide at least 9K children have glasses, and resulting in better school grades; more cockfighting arrests may be made; someone stole the Grammy award won by a Native American; gas explosion that started with a call of leaking fumes that leveled a house, put 200 homes in the dark: took place in NW ABQ; woman in house suffered first & second degree burns, street ignited, dozen homes evacuated; 76 homes in Chama without gas; arsonist torched abortion clinic was upset that his girlfriend was going to get rid of their ‘fetus’; two people die in Santa Fe mobile home fire; NM now has 1.9 million residents; use digital billboards to find lost children: or, as wanted posters; don’t forget the buttermilk!; two NM brothers escorted off a plane after starting a fight with each other; we will end the year with above AVG rainfall; my Circadian rhythm is off; Santa Fe teacher fired for being white, and gay?; a nativity scene, first built fifty years ago, has been vandalized again: the Baby Jesus was destroyed, and pieces of the statue were scattered across the road; a Friday that’s a ‘Wednesday’; remember the Holiday Inn; Lena insulted Edie in front of the GOC staff, plus patients; finished Rounds by 9:10; Myrna & JoAnn are both here; I/P & O/P TES edits are up to date; I told Sara I don’t always bring bad news, and that she was doing a good job; purchase Pavilion icons; Maggie wished Brad a Happy New Year; jumped up & down at the AM R/R bus stop; Linda not at her bus stop: gave Edie & Maggie our Chocolate Cookies; Dorothy left early yesterday; AM R/R on time; the ‘F’ word: freezing!; Denver digging out from a foot of snow; above AVG temps from DC to Miami; Arctic air heading towards the E Coast; up to two hour delays in Chicago; KC snow; ice jams on IL rivers; stormy weather along I-40 & I-10: including Memphis, Nashville, Little Rock, Houston & New Orleans; power restored to S CA homes, as blowing dust obscures roadways; 400 flights cancelled in Chicago; temps from 10s to 80s; Redskins in the playoffs?; not if the Cowboys have the last word; 2007: the year of people making airports their ‘homes’ or ‘hotels’ passenger ‘Bill of Rights’ and unhappy flyers; delays, crowds, fuel costs, services; 2008: the year of open skies & the year of the ‘greener’ planes, with two new types of planes taking flight: the Dreamliner & AirBus; a new gene therapy treatment for muscular dystrophy has been proven safe; the ‘dark ages’ of fighting circles under eyes is over; TN family shocked when child’s MP3 player had porn & explicit songs programmed on the device, which was bought at Wal-Mart; WA couple fled to Canada, then returned to the US, confessed they killed six family members for money; America will mourn her, but will Americans?; Benazir Bhutto murder works into candidate speeches; we need a leader who is well versed in foreign affairs, such as Richardson, McCain or Giuliani; domestic issues, such as the recession, pushed to the side for the PRES race; fire that Bush had lived as a child caused by arsonists; Martin Sheen on the campaign trail with Richardson; police have obtained the shoes of the three people who were mauled by a San Fran Zoo tiger, how did she jump that high, cameras & electric barriers are being installed [why not before this incident?]; Celtics won again; the number one cause of death in women is lung cancer, this disease is not easy to treat, has a high mortality rate; lose weight gradually; Bush will veto a defense spending bill; murder – suicide at PA HOSP; teen brains are similar to criminals; the DOW that didn’t change; housing sales reach a low, not seen since April, 1995; new homes bought in November dropped 9%, to sell property takes over six months; builders say they built too many dwellings; weak sales force Macy’s employees out of jobs in five states; homicides also down in Chicago; San Fran Zoo could face fines, lawsuits & criminal charges; PA man pushed his car over the edge of a mountain, in order to claim INS money; Betty White, 86, stars in a soap opera; evangelical IA; the median price of a home is $239,100; ‘skinny’ latte drinks for Starbuck’s; a bacterial illness in Whittier Farms milk has killed two MA men, and sickened two others; have Americans really shifted their focus from domestic issues to foreign affairs?; the NATL AVG price for gas is about $3 per gallon; better than ‘expected’ [who he?]; how to ‘use’ TV; can college sell O’Keeffe paintings to raise money?; IA suffers from ‘ad fatigue’: 2K, 1 day, no way, in IA; the total amount spent by candidates is one million dollars per day; does Hilary have experience by ‘osmosis’, sexist comments from Obama about being First Lady; who is ‘the right [R]’; train derails in Indiana CNTY, PA; lack of sleep can affect memory; ’pot luck’: the dealer came through; understand: under ‘what?; ‘behind’ the assassination? [what is the true meaning?; CNN reporter told to ‘be careful’; what is ‘Plan C’ for PAK, the fading hope for democracy, a cry for stability?; end the ‘blank check’ from the US to PAK; people need a time to grieve: the world mourns: death of a martyr & savior, had been in PAK for two months; ‘daughter of the East’; country in turmoil, shot when she raised her head above the roof of the vehicle carrying Bhutto; a woman with power, and powerful enemies; will the Fundamentalist party win?; there was no autopsy; who did it?; what group were they associated with…al Qaeda?; nuke security?; no one in PAK is safe, the life of Musharraf has also been threatened; Bhutto was a moderate candidate, ahead in the political polls; PAK paper printed in English, she probably would have won the elections, powerful photos; the US thought she would lead the cause against terrorism, the elections will go on, with the unpopular Musharraf [both there & here] being re-elected, but the world knows the current leader; will martial law be enforced again in PAK; the most significant item in our next PRES in box; foreign markets falling; riots across PAK: funeral services have already started for the slain former PAK PM; Bush should stop telling other countries what to do, or how to behave; PAK in turmoil; Bhutto died from a skull fracture, when she struck her head on the car’s sunroof; PAK has between 24 – 48 nukes; art on the wall remains in Bethlehem, the barrier separating Jews from Palestinians: provides a canvas for protestors, artists & graffiti, and an eternal exhibit; Feast of the Holy Innocents; oil is $96± per barrel; pyramid ruins found in Mexico’s capital, proving that the city is 100 years older than previously thought; 3,901 US military deaths in the Middle East; …12/29-07: any moisture is good moisture 24º in ABQ; 48% humidity at 6A…smoke alarm at 4A; the ‘amazing energy’ at Sky-7; time in, time out; early AM panic attack; ‘silent crying’; good air quality; bacteria & enzymes help breakup the backup; a Saturday, that’s Thursday?; per Weather Channel, clear skies for ABQ; unsure of schedules, take the first AM bus; ‘keep the boss happy’; no call from Brad, or response when I called him; could gain access from HOSP to Pavilion, but not in reverse, had to use an elevator which took me to 3-W, then walk back to the PEDS DEPT; tired this AM; my work area was cleaned; Edie’s phone rings on Saturdays; people say it takes no time to see a doctor at the Pres. Ortho Clinic: if no one knows it exists, then it wouldn’t have too many patients; Brad called at 10:45A, he is OK, just sleepy; yesterday, ‘greeted’ by a prisoner at old HOSP entrance; a little girl named ‘Mildred’?; saw three young people, ‘stoned’ walking across the campus at 6:30A; only three people on the AM R/R, the bus was nearly full when it left the ATC; I heard the toilet flush, and footsteps while I sat at my work area; Richardson has ‘real world experience’; local Iraqi served under Saddam Hussein; remembered the Brian’s CTI billing sheet; if MGR wants to blame someone, look no further than me; cleaned up work area; AM R/R filled up at the ATC; at 6:30A, saw three stoned kids walking across the campus; at 6:30P, saw car with flat tire outside the BioPark; local company gets a $90 million NASA contract, will manage inventory the Johnson Space CTR, in Houston; house explosion S of Cerillos killed two people; man taught women how to become prostitutes, and pick up ‘clients’ at an ABQ Super 6; Brad prepared delicious Pumpkin Soup; moisture may materialize in the SE US; ‘buzz driving’ is drunk driving; take stock of your portfolio; make sacrifices, use common sense; 2008: the year of giving up luxuries, trade in a larger car, change it into a more affordable vehicle that’s better on gas; mothers do not like speaking ‘baby talk’, worry about what the neighbors will think?; husband travels, talks with adults; if the housing market keeps slumping, property taxes may increase; one problem is selling property after a [nasty] divorce; temps from 10s to 80s; Grinch on the trading floor; election year makes the stock market more volatile, or a split Congress; amazing what the ‘other world’ thinks; single door refrigerators use less energy; a ‘green’ mortgage, cuts closing costs; barnstorming IA; businesspeople talk at the speed of sound; people still stuck in Chicago; people starting to realizing the flying during the holidays is hazardous to one’s schedule, and holidays; staff cuts at airports adding to the negative attack by flyers; video cameras capture a FL explosion; bad weather, blizzards in the NW US, where high humidity is knocking on your door; candidates still trying to ‘define’ themselves; optimistic Romney looks to the future vs. desperate & dishonest speeches; Iowans don’t like negative talk, such as the ‘tea comment’ by Obama; the tiger wall was too small; people like to dine out as a ‘hobby’; what about ‘the perfect storm’?; are the Patriots ‘perfect’ [AKA, ‘flawless’]?; could Tom Brady be ‘more perfect’; time to actually dine on the dining room table; writers have lost more than they could win from any talks; NE US storms, record highs in DC & Boston; two planes came within 8K feet from colliding each other on the LAX tarmac; good time to buy luggage; get covered in cashmere; men’s & women’s apparel did not do well this holiday season; how accurate are 2008 house predictions; squirrel stole US flag; women stole three rolls of toilet paper in courthouse; mans found amputated foot in barbecue smoker; ‘trade in a gift card for fun’; we are full of free radicals!; SUV slid down muddy GA road, crashed into trees, exploded, and killed four people, injuring two others; upset customer shot MGR of TN Hooter’s, critically wounding him & a customer; San Fran Zoo will reopen; writers’ strike now into its eighth week: as a result, more people buying video games; ‘after vetoing the bill twice, Bush extends the SCHIP health program; mutant common flu virus has killed ten people in the US; the Patriots play tonight; no more ‘McRib’ candidates are selling ‘change’; there could be protesters for various causes at the Rose Bowl parade; mother wrote essay for daughter, in order to get tickets for the ‘Hannah Montana’ show: said her husband/father had been killed in Iraq: by someone found out that no one with that last name had ever served, or died, in the Middle East conflict; the daughter’s dad never died overseas; a $2 file cabinet, purchased at a MA yard sale, contained AT&T stocks & bonds worth millions of dollars; the housing market is gasping for breath; boy survives after being trapped under snow from an avalanche; Traci Scoggins is one year older than myself; Dubai owns 6.5% of MGM Grand Hotel; thirty people dead in PAK, will elections be held, workers are staying at home in fear; a country in flames, is al Qaeda responsible; when did Bhutto die, and how: trains & planes are not moving; a country afraid to travel; continued cover-ups; was Benazir alive when she arrived at the HOSP: will her body be exhumed?; she vocalized her distaste of terrorists; did she die from a bullet, shrapnel, trauma, or something else; 44 passengers in from seventeen states may have become infected with dangerous strain of TB by a woman who flew from India to the US; déjà vu: cruise ship with 300 aboard strikes glacier near Antarctica; Nepal may change from a monarchy to a republic; Saddam Hussein died one year ago; rumors that a new bin Laden tape is being shown on the Internet; ‘perpetual anticipation is good for the soul, but it’s bad for your heart; a world wide helium shortage?; …12/30-07: stay on the universe’s good side 21º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…do Rounds twice; fireplace in the Pavilion’s first floor; a Sunday that is Friday: end of the week vs. end of the weekend; forget about doughnuts, cops eat at the Frontier; at 4A, the smoke alarm screamed again; but my body is burned out; always carry CARS pen; ‘covering the world, one rug at a time’; Brad has felt the ‘shifted work week effect’; good air quality; what about the Sunday bus schedules?; Drury Hotels purchases downtown Santa Fe property; alone on the AM Central [with a new driver who was uncertain of the route, and had worked at UNMH Eye Clinic] until I got off at Frontier; finished Rounds by 9:30A; I now have a ‘Pyramid Pen’ from Marriott; working backwards in my Black Book; patient’s “first” name: Genesis; ABQ has a dangerous dog website; no Edie; Brad starting to slow cook his New Year’s Day pork meal; ‘brown nosing from a distance’; on my way, three people got on the R/R Blue Line by mistake, even though the driver told them where it was going; when I got off the bus at Olde Towne, there were no other passengers: but two ladies boarded at that stop; in 2007, there were 54 murders in ABQ: 13 unresolved, many of them gang killings; cars vandalized in Santa Fe; work area wastepaper basket not cleaned; took ‘lunch bag’ home; GOC fridge raided of food; how typewriters & telephones have changed!: nurse & I compared progress in the UK & US, including the size of trucks & cars, and the number of small villages, compared to big cities; another good game: Pittsburgh at Baltimore; game went back & forth, [watched the score keep changing] but the Patriots beat the Giants, 38 – 35, the season without a loss; whatever loan they took out to build Gillette Stadium has to be nearly paid; is New England ‘the greatest football team’?: to me, not exactly; pride is still a sin; lake levels have risen in SE US, but the area needs twenty inches of rain to make up for the deficit; heat, humidity & sunlight can spoil, or harm medications; prepare for E Coast storms; temps from 0s to 80s; athletes talk slower, use less ‘buzzwords’; businessman hide behind the fine print; Green Bay fans cleaned the field for today’s game; mid-Atlantic mess, with rain changing to snow in some areas; ABQ listed on GMA temp screen; the race is close for [D] & [R] candidates in IA; Obama says Edwards can’t win; caucuses are a hard fight; the man [or, woman] on top keeps shifting, per day, per newspaper, per poll; Iowans still hate negative ads, and mistruths; in both parties; youth for Obama, mature for Hillary, and Edwards relies on his four year history; the win that wasn’t easy: politics & the Patriots, thanks to Brady [who has earned several accolades], because Giants lead during most of the game; are they ‘perfect’; heat in Orlando, snow in ID, rain in NW US; the best is not always the best; a wonderful wine, or the proud name?; the DOM stays bubbly longer, but many people prefer sweeter drinks: therefore, the less expensive brands; from the elite, to the man on the street; most people didn’t like the middle of the road bottle of wine; champagne christens ships, used in celebrations; driver drives his truck off San Diego pier; an ‘ocean of sand’, at White Sands, NM; ‘connect to the land’; the only living coral reef, at Key Largo; OK MTN provide natural beauty; breathtaking, inspirational; after a year on the market, MD couple decide to raffle their home; Brady & Manning are the tops; Romney’s faith the target of a ‘hate flyer’; IN woman found lost diamond ring inside a piece of fudge; AZ ‘Psycho’ killer murdered six people and a dog; NATL Treasure remains the number one movie this weekend, earning $35.6 million; rent jewelry for that special occasion; rain breaks record drought in ATL; this season, Miami was 1 – 15; for the final week, Redskins beat the Cowboys, 27 – 6; Pittsburgh lost to Baltimore, 27 – 21; ‘perfect’ vs. ‘the best’; home where monks lived for 400 years; rocks embedded in the walls; events, parties & weddings [plus receptions] held in the former refectory; small areas to explore; sparse rooms, with all amenities; landscaped garden carved into the mountain with pools, showers, grotto, & spa; in Naples, Italy, where pizza was ‘born’; the ‘best’ found at a ‘hole in the wall’ restaurant; a variety of cheeses, different toppings on the slices of one pizza; home of the volatile Vesuvius; yoga: mind, body & spirit: unlock potential; can help young & old basketball players; ‘democracy is the best revenge’; no INTL investigation on Bhutto’s death, per PAK GOVT: later in the day, the response was ‘maybe’; citizens do not trust those in power: her son will become their party’s new leader; photos show a gunman, could be more than one, last will & testament read today by her 19 year old son; the military control the nukes; now, al Qaeda is a more powerful threat in PAK: nation may get nicknamed ‘Jihad Central’; more suicide attacks in that country, because of their allegiance with the US; Iran’s nuclear plant will go online in the summer of 2008; Kenya unplugs TV stations blaming violence at polling areas, which leave several dead; Saddam not a hero in Iraq, the former leader who died in a botched execution; that country is still struggling, this month, only 18 US military deaths; …12/31-07: next year is another year; tomorrow is another day 30º in ABQ; 49% humidity at 6A…three words: changes that worked; a typical holiday tree can last four weeks; but each year 300 house fires are cased by them in the Duke City; crawlspaces attract radon, an colorless, odorless gas; man killed walking down Isleta High: sparks ignited storage facility housing sports equipment, arson not ruled out, everything was charred or ruined; APT fire in SE ABQ; anti-gay graffiti tagged for vandalism at Rainbow Community, among others neighborhoods; NM ranks fifteenth in tobacco prevention; our Rose Bowl contribution: NM float is 55 feet long & 20 feet tall; NM may be tired, but he is making breakfast; 911 calls have increased in the Four Corners, thanks [?] to cell phones; no chance of rain or snow today or tomorrow; Brad made Herbed Baked Eggs, very, very good; very cold, very windy day; The Beach has no occupancies until March [the earliest]; two month old Dona Ana CNTY baby died in mother’s arms, five children slept with their single parent in one bed; home had no heat, only desktop warmer; Brad’s scanner arrived; no celebratory gunfire, with weapons; mail was also delivered today; Brad can make his own CD jackets; I enjoyed having lunch today; my Winter work Break filled two envelopes; drunk rides from 10P – 2A; Sustiva dream about Jacques INS CO, taking place in 2007; “permanently disturbed by the experience”; when one copy of ‘Jericho’ fails, finds another one; for 9P on New Year’s Eve, Central is quiet; does each of us have a quota of dumb things to do in his or her life?; New Year’s Eve: forced frivolity; 672 Waterford crystals ball glow brighter, and be more energy efficient [glow greener] in NYC: no snow or rain expected; the ‘ball’ is 100 years old, display a different passions; NM GOV pulling out all stops in IA; Disneyland: the world of a million dreams; Oakland Zoo will reopen, but make changers to prevent tigers from escaping: what fines or lawsuits could they face?; Oak Forest, IL APT fire caused by arson; Nicole Kidman is pregnant; there were more than 79 million ID thefts, hackers always one step ahead of people; more MA snow will break the December record; global warming could eliminate CA Wine Country, there could be less snow & more fires; ‘Crocs’, a bad fad?; the UNK ‘subway savior’ that pulled a woman off the tracks; no lithium batteries can be packed inside carry-on luggage; girl who survived Panama plane crash released from the hospital; Los Angeles gangs killing blacks; courting & counting voters; IA will stand up for their candidates; people now know more about Huckabee, is that good or bad for the PRES candidate; negative ads are uncalled for, especially those that put down another person’s religion; ‘interesting’ comments?; the numbers keep changing; who is more ‘honest’?; ‘a moment in the life of every generation’, so says Obama, who will show Ms. Clinton is ‘vulnerable’; ‘experience makes change’, so says Hillary, can she unite the country; ‘get rid of political interest groups’, so says Edwards; ‘we will shake the world’, so says Richardson; ‘consistent conservatism’ for Thompson; will the current NYC mayor try a run for the White House, as a third party candidate; owl trapped in power lines, released & unharmed; 1970 had been the snowiest December in Boston; I-70 closed in parts of CO; text on confetti, the Big Ball has gained weight: from 700 to 1,200 lbs., worth $1 million, 9,576 bulbs, smaller, yet brighter; 16 million color combos, but ‘greener’, turned on by the biggest light switch; one billion effects; irony: when the play begins, man in ‘Rent’ musical is mugged, and has his coat stolen; get acquainted with exercise machines; Britney items sold on EBay; so did Transformers & Bonds, the IPod, “Grey’s Anatomy” & “Heroes” items; looking at the snapshots of 2007 is gone; five killed in OH crash, in Toledo, where I-280 & I-75 meet; floods in ATL after 2½ inches of rain fell this weekend, so 2007 will be the second driest year; will the next ‘Evel Knievel’ succeed in the ‘Big Jump’; did police think the tiger call was a prank?; CA SEN carjacked during broad daylight at gunpoint; the TX daughter whose father did not die in Iraq, the mother who will not answer questions, except that the essay was’ just a story’, parents want their children to succeed; Botox cosmetics?; will retirement become passé?; in homes under foreclosure, pets abandoned, cannot feed another mouth, animal cruelty is against the law; clutter can cause stress; the ‘perfect Patriots pin’; New England, INDY, Green Bay & Dallas have a week to rest during the playoffs; bad year for car sales; as a UFO sighted over O’Hare in Chicago; what was the thing that appeared in AK skies; the ‘perfect team’ vs. the ‘perfect season’: they are not the same; I-70 closed in both directions W of Denver; both the DOW & NASDAQ ended the year on a negative note; gas end 2007 at $3 per gallon; $4 per gallon is quite likely in 2008; which sells faster: new or existing homes?; report reveals many more pilot errors than first reported; RI teen openly confessed to murdering four people: he looked like a big, but kind person, but he confessed to the crimes, knowing that since he had committed them as a teenage, and would be released when he turned 21: but law offices prevented that [plus the killer’s own actions in court], and now he is in jail until 2020; you decide the truth: Huckabee ‘negative ad’ shown to reporters; 2007 is still the worse year for US military deaths in Iraq; Harry Potter may be brought back to life for an eighth novel: magic never dies; PAK elections will be delayed for at least six weeks; France could ban indoor smoking; American passports could trigger bombs?; son is a shy, but well trained warrior in the martial arts; her husband had been arrested on stealing GOVT money; still uncertain what killed her; will civil war spread across Kenya?; could ‘love conquer all’; N Korea may be late for achieving nuclear goals, but no sanction will be imposed; PAK people’s party; oil ends 2007 at $96 per barrel, the biggest increase since 1999; $100 per barrel is quite possible in 2008; blaming the US for Bhutto’s death; …12/29-07: any moisture is good moisture 24º in ABQ; 48% humidity at 6A…smoke alarm at 4A; the ‘amazing energy’ at Sky-7; time in, time out; early AM panic attack; ‘silent crying’; good air quality; bacteria & enzymes help breakup the backup; a Saturday, that’s Thursday?; per Weather Channel, clear skies for ABQ; unsure of schedules, take the first AM bus; ‘keep the boss happy’; no call from Brad, or response when I called him; could gain access from HOSP to Pavilion, but not in reverse, had to use an elevator which took me to 3-W, then walk back to the PEDS DEPT; tired this AM; my work area was cleaned; Edie’s phone rings on Saturdays; people say it takes no time to see a doctor at the Pres. Ortho Clinic: if no one knows it exists, then it wouldn’t have too many patients; Brad called at 10:45A, he is OK, just sleepy; yesterday, ‘greeted’ by a prisoner at old HOSP entrance; a little girl named ‘Mildred’?; saw three young people, ‘stoned’ walking across the campus at 6:30A; only three people on the AM R/R, the bus was nearly full when it left the ATC; I heard the toilet flush, and footsteps while I sat at my work area; Richardson has ‘real world experience’; local Iraqi served under Saddam Hussein; remembered the Brian’s CTI billing sheet; if MGR wants to blame someone, look no further than me; cleaned up work area; AM R/R filled up at the ATC; at 6:30A, saw three stoned kids walking across the campus; at 6:30P, saw car with flat tire outside the BioPark; local company gets a $90 million NASA contract, will manage inventory the Johnson Space CTR, in Houston; house explosion S of Cerillos killed two people; man taught women how to become prostitutes, and pick up ‘clients’ at an ABQ Super 6; Brad prepared delicious Pumpkin Soup; moisture may materialize in the SE US; ‘buzz driving’ is drunk driving; take stock of your portfolio; make sacrifices, use common sense; 2008: the year of giving up luxuries, trade in a larger car, change it into a more affordable vehicle that’s better on gas; mothers do not like speaking ‘baby talk’, worry about what the neighbors will think?; husband travels, talks with adults; if the housing market keeps slumping, property taxes may increase; one problem is selling property after a [nasty] divorce; temps from 10s to 80s; Grinch on the trading floor; election year makes the stock market more volatile, or a split Congress; amazing what the ‘other world’ thinks; single door refrigerators use less energy; a ‘green’ mortgage, cuts closing costs; barnstorming IA; businesspeople talk at the speed of sound; people still stuck in Chicago; people starting to realizing the flying during the holidays is hazardous to one’s schedule, and holidays; staff cuts at airports adding to the negative attack by flyers; video cameras capture a FL explosion; bad weather, blizzards in the NW US, where high humidity is knocking on your door; candidates still trying to ‘define’ themselves; optimistic Romney looks to the future vs. desperate & dishonest speeches; Iowans don’t like negative talk, such as the ‘tea comment’ by Obama; the tiger wall was too small; people like to dine out as a ‘hobby’; what about ‘the perfect storm’?; are the Patriots ‘perfect’ [AKA, ‘flawless’]?; could Tom Brady be ‘more perfect’; time to actually dine on the dining room table; writers have lost more than they could win from any talks; NE US storms, record highs in DC & Boston; two planes came within 8K feet from colliding each other on the LAX tarmac; good time to buy luggage; get covered in cashmere; men’s & women’s apparel did not do well this holiday season; how accurate are 2008 house predictions; squirrel stole US flag; women stole three rolls of toilet paper in courthouse; mans found amputated foot in barbecue smoker; ‘trade in a gift card for fun’; we are full of free radicals!; SUV slid down muddy GA road, crashed into trees, exploded, and killed four people, injuring two others; upset customer shot MGR of TN Hooter’s, critically wounding him & a customer; San Fran Zoo will reopen; writers’ strike now into its eighth week: as a result, more people buying video games; ‘after vetoing the bill twice, Bush extends the SCHIP health program; mutant common flu virus has killed ten people in the US; the Patriots play tonight; no more ‘McRib’ candidates are selling ‘change’; there could be protesters for various causes at the Rose Bowl parade; mother wrote essay for daughter, in order to get tickets for the ‘Hannah Montana’ show: said her husband/father had been killed in Iraq: by someone found out that no one with that last name had ever served, or died, in the Middle East conflict; the daughter’s dad never died overseas; a $2 file cabinet, purchased at a MA yard sale, contained AT&T stocks & bonds worth millions of dollars; the housing market is gasping for breath; boy survives after being trapped under snow from an avalanche; Traci Scoggins is one year older than myself; Dubai owns 6.5% of MGM Grand Hotel; thirty people dead in PAK, will elections be held, workers are staying at home in fear; a country in flames, is al Qaeda responsible; when did Bhutto die, and how: trains & planes are not moving; a country afraid to travel; continued cover-ups; was Benazir alive when she arrived at the HOSP: will her body be exhumed?; she vocalized her distaste of terrorists; did she die from a bullet, shrapnel, trauma, or something else; 44 passengers in from seventeen states may have become infected with dangerous strain of TB by a woman who flew from India to the US; déjà vu: cruise ship with 300 aboard strikes glacier near Antarctica; Nepal may change from a monarchy to a republic; Saddam Hussein died one year ago; rumors that a new bin Laden tape is being shown on the Internet; ‘perpetual anticipation is good for the soul, but it’s bad for your heart; a world wide helium shortage?; …12/30-07: stay on the universe’s good side 21º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…do Rounds twice; fireplace in the Pavilion’s first floor; a Sunday that is Friday: end of the week vs. end of the weekend; forget about doughnuts, cops eat at the Frontier; at 4A, the smoke alarm screamed again; but my body is burned out; always carry CARS pen; ‘covering the world, one rug at a time’; Brad has felt the ‘shifted work week effect’; good air quality; what about the Sunday bus schedules?; Drury Hotels purchases downtown Santa Fe property; alone on the AM Central [with a new driver who was uncertain of the route, and had worked at UNMH Eye Clinic] until I got off at Frontier; finished Rounds by 9:30A; I now have a ‘Pyramid Pen’ from Marriott; working backwards in my Black Book; patient’s “first” name: Genesis; ABQ has a dangerous dog website; no Edie; Brad starting to slow cook his New Year’s Day pork meal; ‘brown nosing from a distance’; on my way, three people got on the R/R Blue Line by mistake, even though the driver told them where it was going; when I got off the bus at Olde Towne, there were no other passengers: but two ladies boarded at that stop; in 2007, there were 54 murders in ABQ: 13 unresolved, many of them gang killings; cars vandalized in Santa Fe; work area wastepaper basket not cleaned; took ‘lunch bag’ home; GOC fridge raided of food; how typewriters & telephones have changed!: nurse & I compared progress in the UK & US, including the size of trucks & cars, and the number of small villages, compared to big cities; another good game: Pittsburgh at Baltimore; game went back & forth, [watched the score keep changing] but the Patriots beat the Giants, 38 – 35, the season without a loss; whatever loan they took out to build Gillette Stadium has to be nearly paid; is New England ‘the greatest football team’?: to me, not exactly; pride is still a sin; lake levels have risen in SE US, but the area needs twenty inches of rain to make up for the deficit; heat, humidity & sunlight can spoil, or harm medications; prepare for E Coast storms; temps from 0s to 80s; athletes talk slower, use less ‘buzzwords’; businessman hide behind the fine print; Green Bay fans cleaned the field for today’s game; mid-Atlantic mess, with rain changing to snow in some areas; ABQ listed on GMA temp screen; the race is close for [D] & [R] candidates in IA; Obama says Edwards can’t win; caucuses are a hard fight; the man [or, woman] on top keeps shifting, per day, per newspaper, per poll; Iowans still hate negative ads, and mistruths; in both parties; youth for Obama, mature for Hillary, and Edwards relies on his four year history; the win that wasn’t easy: politics & the Patriots, thanks to Brady [who has earned several accolades], because Giants lead during most of the game; are they ‘perfect’; heat in Orlando, snow in ID, rain in NW US; the best is not always the best; a wonderful wine, or the proud name?; the DOM stays bubbly longer, but many people prefer sweeter drinks: therefore, the less expensive brands; from the elite, to the man on the street; most people didn’t like the middle of the road bottle of wine; champagne christens ships, used in celebrations; driver drives his truck off San Diego pier; an ‘ocean of sand’, at White Sands, NM; ‘connect to the land’; the only living coral reef, at Key Largo; OK MTN provide natural beauty; breathtaking, inspirational; after a year on the market, MD couple decide to raffle their home; Brady & Manning are the tops; Romney’s faith the target of a ‘hate flyer’; IN woman found lost diamond ring inside a piece of fudge; AZ ‘Psycho’ killer murdered six people and a dog; NATL Treasure remains the number one movie this weekend, earning $35.6 million; rent jewelry for that special occasion; rain breaks record drought in ATL; this season, Miami was 1 – 15; for the final week, Redskins beat the Cowboys, 27 – 6; Pittsburgh lost to Baltimore, 27 – 21; ‘perfect’ vs. ‘the best’; home where monks lived for 400 years; rocks embedded in the walls; events, parties & weddings [plus receptions] held in the former refectory; small areas to explore; sparse rooms, with all amenities; landscaped garden carved into the mountain with pools, showers, grotto, & spa; in Naples, Italy, where pizza was ‘born’; the ‘best’ found at a ‘hole in the wall’ restaurant; a variety of cheeses, different toppings on the slices of one pizza; home of the volatile Vesuvius; yoga: mind, body & spirit: unlock potential; can help young & old basketball players; ‘democracy is the best revenge’; no INTL investigation on Bhutto’s death, per PAK GOVT: later in the day, the response was ‘maybe’; citizens do not trust those in power: her son will become their party’s new leader; photos show a gunman, could be more than one, last will & testament read today by her 19 year old son; the military control the nukes; now, al Qaeda is a more powerful threat in PAK: nation may get nicknamed ‘Jihad Central’; more suicide attacks in that country, because of their allegiance with the US; Iran’s nuclear plant will go online in the summer of 2008; Kenya unplugs TV stations blaming violence at polling areas, which leave several dead; Saddam not a hero in Iraq, the former leader who died in a botched execution; that country is still struggling, this month, only 18 US military deaths; …12/31-07: next year is another year; tomorrow is another day 30º in ABQ; 49% humidity at 6A…three words: changes that worked; a typical holiday tree can last four weeks; but each year 300 house fires are cased by them in the Duke City; crawlspaces attract radon, an colorless, odorless gas; man killed walking down Isleta High: sparks ignited storage facility housing sports equipment, arson not ruled out, everything was charred or ruined; APT fire in SE ABQ; anti-gay graffiti tagged for vandalism at Rainbow Community, among others neighborhoods; NM ranks fifteenth in tobacco prevention; our Rose Bowl contribution: NM float is 55 feet long & 20 feet tall; NM may be tired, but he is making breakfast; 911 calls have increased in the Four Corners, thanks [?] to cell phones; no chance of rain or snow today or tomorrow; Brad made Herbed Baked Eggs, very, very good; very cold, very windy day; The Beach has no occupancies until March [the earliest]; two month old Dona Ana CNTY baby died in mother’s arms, five children slept with their single parent in one bed; home had no heat, only desktop warmer; Brad’s scanner arrived; no celebratory gunfire, with weapons; mail was also delivered today; Brad can make his own CD jackets; I enjoyed having lunch today; my Winter work Break filled two envelopes; drunk rides from 10P – 2A; Sustiva dream about Jacques INS CO, taking place in 2007; “permanently disturbed by the experience”; when one copy of ‘Jericho’ fails, finds another one; for 9P on New Year’s Eve, Central is quiet; does each of us have a quota of dumb things to do in his or her life?; New Year’s Eve: forced frivolity; 672 Waterford crystals ball glow brighter, and be more energy efficient [glow greener] in NYC: no snow or rain expected; the ‘ball’ is 100 years old, display a different passions; NM GOV pulling out all stops in IA; Disneyland: the world of a million dreams; Oakland Zoo will reopen, but make changers to prevent tigers from escaping: what fines or lawsuits could they face?; Oak Forest, IL APT fire caused by arson; Nicole Kidman is pregnant; there were more than 79 million ID thefts, hackers always one step ahead of people; more MA snow will break the December record; global warming could eliminate CA Wine Country, there could be less snow & more fires; ‘Crocs’, a bad fad?; the UNK ‘subway savior’ that pulled a woman off the tracks; no lithium batteries can be packed inside carry-on luggage; girl who survived Panama plane crash released from the hospital; Los Angeles gangs killing blacks; courting & counting voters; IA will stand up for their candidates; people now know more about Huckabee, is that good or bad for the PRES candidate; negative ads are uncalled for, especially those that put down another person’s religion; ‘interesting’ comments?; the numbers keep changing; who is more ‘honest’?; ‘a moment in the life of every generation’, so says Obama, who will show Ms. Clinton is ‘vulnerable’; ‘experience makes change’, so says Hillary, can she unite the country; ‘get rid of political interest groups’, so says Edwards; ‘we will shake the world’, so says Richardson; ‘consistent conservatism’ for Thompson; will the current NYC mayor try a run for the White House, as a third party candidate; owl trapped in power lines, released & unharmed; 1970 had been the snowiest December in Boston; I-70 closed in parts of CO; text on confetti, the Big Ball has gained weight: from 700 to 1,200 lbs., worth $1 million, 9,576 bulbs, smaller, yet brighter; 16 million color combos, but ‘greener’, turned on by the biggest light switch; one billion effects; irony: when the play begins, man in ‘Rent’ musical is mugged, and has his coat stolen; get acquainted with exercise machines; Britney items sold on EBay; so did Transformers & Bonds, the IPod, “Grey’s Anatomy” & “Heroes” items; looking at the snapshots of 2007 is gone; five killed in OH crash, in Toledo, where I-280 & I-75 meet; floods in ATL after 2½ inches of rain fell this weekend, so 2007 will be the second driest year; will the next ‘Evel Knievel’ succeed in the ‘Big Jump’; did police think the tiger call was a prank?; CA SEN carjacked during broad daylight at gunpoint; the TX daughter whose father did not die in Iraq, the mother who will not answer questions, except that the essay was’ just a story’, parents want their children to succeed; Botox cosmetics?; will retirement become passé?; in homes under foreclosure, pets abandoned, cannot feed another mouth, animal cruelty is against the law; clutter can cause stress; the ‘perfect Patriots pin’; New England, INDY, Green Bay & Dallas have a week to rest during the playoffs; bad year for car sales; as a UFO sighted over O’Hare in Chicago; what was the thing that appeared in AK skies; the ‘perfect team’ vs. the ‘perfect season’: they are not the same; I-70 closed in both directions W of Denver; both the DOW & NASDAQ ended the year on a negative note; gas end 2007 at $3 per gallon; $4 per gallon is quite likely in 2008; which sells faster: new or existing homes?; report reveals many more pilot errors than first reported; RI teen openly confessed to murdering four people: he looked like a big, but kind person, but he confessed to the crimes, knowing that since he had committed them as a teenage, and would be released when he turned 21: but law offices prevented that [plus the killer’s own actions in court], and now he is in jail until 2020; you decide the truth: Huckabee ‘negative ad’ shown to reporters; 2007 is still the worse year for US military deaths in Iraq; Harry Potter may be brought back to life for an eighth novel: magic never dies; PAK elections will be delayed for at least six weeks; France could ban indoor smoking; American passports could trigger bombs?; son is a shy, but well trained warrior in the martial arts; her husband had been arrested on stealing GOVT money; still uncertain what killed her; will civil war spread across Kenya?; could ‘love conquer all’; N Korea may be late for achieving nuclear goals, but no sanction will be imposed; PAK people’s party; oil ends 2007 at $96 per barrel, the biggest increase since 1999; $100 per barrel is quite possible in 2008; blaming the US for Bhutto’s death; …1/1-08: everybody needs a holiday 15º in ABQ; 40% humidity at 6A…and so, we begin; Brad topped his Custard Bread with Maple Syrup; minimum wage raises to $6.50; gunshots into the air still took place at midnight, but no one was hurt; SUV crashed into a truck, killing the two occupants, after fatal accident at Fourth & Menaul, man charged with DWI & aggravated assault, he was stationed at KAFB in the Air Force who was two times the legal limit; Farmington real estate prices has one of the nation’s highest increase in sales; S Valley high speed chase ended after driver, who was responsible for a drive-by shooting, struck two police cars in a stolen vehicle; but Isleta needs street lights; DUI at Central & PA; ten degrees below normal; did Phyllis receive our holiday card?; SWAT situation at Bernalillo campsite, two children were inside a tent; man turned himself in after being the hit & run driver along Isleta; two men shot in hand & arm trying to design a gun tattoo; water leak in SW ABQ school, vandals struck other schools; E Coli detected in La Cueva homes; downtown Duke City was quiet, a few ‘safe’ fireworks displays across ABQ; software in Brad’s new hardware has solved some minor problems; chance of weekend rain?; – 20º in Angel Fire; weekend partygoers beaten by bats attacked in Santa Fe; 50K green roses in 55 foot Rose Bowl float, but should the state’s natural beauty been the key factors, and not Roswell or UFOs?; learned how to copy data onto a CD; tainted, tinted & painted; again, a Monday & Tuesday, that feel like a Saturday & Sunday; diskette got stuck, used tweezers to pry it out, with no damage to hard drive; today: a variety of emotions, and lots of love; Brad needs a new down jacket; Brad baked wonderful Biscuits; ended the day with Egg Nog, served with Kahlua & Bourbon; more snow in MI, IL, and New England; another drunk, wrong-way driver caused several deaths in OH; Golden Globe Awards will be televised; AIDS cannot be transmitted through CPR; plenty of sleep can prevent a common form of diabetes; woman who had tried to kill PRES Ford was released from jail; avalanche fears end, I-70 reopens; people want quick changes in exercise & weight loss programs: tell friends about your plans, most lose motivation by February; huge same-sex ceremony held at midnight: civil unions legal in NH, the fourth state to allow them: these couples will have the same rights except being considered ‘married’; forty tons of garbage to clean up at Times Square: no protestors during the event; most candidates didn’t stop campaigning from 2007 to 2008; NH snow didn’t stop either McCain or Romney; women for Hillary, first timers for Obama [who is leading Hillary]; negative ads do work; IA Caucus takes place during Winter Break; banking on the youth vote; ‘Cloverfield’ TV ads; one NYC ball dropping did not take place during WWII; more snow for New England, a foot has already fallen this weekend; current NYC mayor will not enter the PRES race; Janet Reno, who has Parkinson’s disease, sings patriotic songs; fugitive grabbed police dog, jumped 200 feet from an I-5 in San Diego overpass, he survived, but the dog died; biker soared six stories high, motorcyclist beat the previous record, and did it twice, even farther the second time, speeding at 95 mph; 250K Americans get locked out of their homes, beware swindles & scams, most should cost about $100, many charge $1K, some with local phone numbers, but are located in other states, others ‘told’ to charge more; Passenger Bill of Rights will be enforced; housing & stock market both dropped at the end on 2007; Joe Biden may run for the White House; man discovered rare purple pearl produced in a clam, but was found while eating an oyster; snow still delays Chicago flights; the ‘Big Orange’ ball dropped in Miami; low humidity, strong Santa Ana winds in S CA; increased home sales based on less expensive houses: prices need to be cut more, compete with foreclosures, forget the big profit, and hard to get a loan; adjusted payments will increase in 2008; a man’s girdle by 2010; the writers strike effects are rippling across Los Angeles & the US; by 9A on 1/1/08, Times Square is clean; Dick Clark welcomed 2008 in NYC; a million people partied, temps in the 30s, and no portable bathrooms; Boston condo fire kills one man; Wal-Mart stops online movie download service; man charged with abusing sexual conduct after groping a female passenger; how to change a baby’s first name, without too many hassles: child should not be branded, or subject to ridicule when he or she grows up; five people shot, one killed at INDY New Year’s Eve Party; bullet holes fired into water tower deplete NC town of its precious liquid; Los Angeles has six METRO lines; get a coupon to convert old TV sets into new, digital televisions; CBS corrected ‘Jericho’ clarity; beware snow blower thefts in winter weather states; two Denver deaths from one bullet; ‘reverse your thinking’; no news?, good news?; second death in Boston condo fire; ‘warm & cuddly’ Clinton?; coal: the first dumb ad of 2008: a source of energy, and pollution; a six year old girl is killed after fifty bullets are fired at a house with children in Little Rock, AR; the power of an independent organization; US INTEL warned Bhutto to increase security around her; were talks in the work for rigging the outcome; upcoming PAK elections on 1/8/08; will be delayed, ‘impossible; France bans inside smoking, including cafés; woman knew she had TB when boarding a flight in India; big opening events for 2008 in S Korea & Beijing; new currency for Venezuela; US diplomat killed in Khartoum; the odds of an asteroid hitting Mars are increasing; …1/2-08: celebrate the optimist 16º in ABQ; 49% humidity at 6A…Brad’s Chiro visit at 10:30A; ‘incredible journalist’ at KOAT; 4A smoke ‘alarm’; – 17º in Angel Fire; active KAFB military personnel in Metro Detention CTR, facing DUI charges; one of the victims restored historic structures; did mother drive drunk with her seven year old child?; San Mateo & MONT robber nabbed by police; float won Grand Marshall’s Award in Creative Concept & Design; at Tournament of Roses Parade; now if the place you live was once a meth house; first New Year’s Baby born just after midnight; moderate air quality; NM GOV needs a ‘miracle’; Eclipse Aviation has produced 100 jets in the fastest amount of time; Spaceport will begin breaking ground later in 2008; more Westside neighborhood watch groups; pecan harvest is ready to pick, 110 million pounds; Santa Fe cab service during Super Bowl weekend; Polar Bear Plunge at Paseo & Coors; Pacific Storm arrives this weekend; many E NM residents still without homes, living in FEMA trailers, waiting for INS payments to rebuild; more animals adopted in 2007 from ABQ shelters; a Christmas cactus?; Phyllis did receive our Christmas card; Tuesday AM, man stopped on I-40 at the NM/TX border for DUI; back to the leather baseball jacket; Brad’s back feeling better; NM GOV has 100 paid campaign helpers [be a VP, or SECY of State?]; another Wednesday, that feels like a ‘Monday’; $208K, the AVG price of Farmington homes; another series of storms approach NM; truck driver gets several citations for colliding with car containing cop [ankle fracture] & his canine [unharmed], causing them to strike another vehicle; bring envelopes up; will I have a co-worker doing Rounds with me?; on a daily basis, takes less time doing Rounds by myself; the era of peace is over; as I return to silence, blending into the shadows; back to being timid, and picked on; Hell Week, Day One; still don’t know how to split I/P services; when Family Practice performs the majority of Newborn Services, Myrna’s production will obviously decrease; split by wards, by names, the odds don’t favor an even split; she’s still just learning; reduce lunch shift to half hour; 7A – 3:30P; don’t put yourself down: there are lots of people who will do it for you; JoAnn will contact me when CHC forms arrive; finished Rounds by 8:45A; shortened lunch shift approved; empty AM R/R; no Linda; very windy walking across the campus; Sara & Dr. Vigil attending; Edie on vacation; Myrna still has a slight cold, did Rounds with me; revised call sheet; ice on duck pond; trash not picked up at my work area; another day, boy + hill + no helmet + tree = PICU patient; couldn’t find production folder; another wrong rider on the PM R/R; Brent noticed that nothing was entered on the system during Winter Break; buy an ad on ‘Wrapabus.com’; Dr. Brandt brought November charges; heavy snow in MI & New England; FL crops already on the vine; FL frost & freeze warnings; Midwest with sub-zero wind chills; DC Deep Freeze; temps from 0s to 60s; clouds from the Baja to NM; plenty of snow in WV; the first busiest travel day of 2008; ‘guaranteed acceptance life’; “That’s Entertainment, Part III”?; AZ buffalo cannot be ridden by a man, with or without a saddle; $15K – $20K to repair NC water tower; MI woman kept driving, unaware her truck was on fire; Caucus countdown; three-way [D] tie; respects vs. trust; two-way struggle in [R]; Chuck Norris for Mike Huckabee; still courting a religious vote, and a negative ad; bio-fuels added to petrol from corn crops in IA; fuel for people, now a fuel for cars; means everything will go up in price; first outdoor hockey game in the US; CA man accumulated trash for one year in his APT, most cannot be recycled, most from food product; taking the plunge into cold, Atlantic waters; “tear people down, lift people up”; pundits vs. popularity; no one votes for yesterday; children should sleep more than nine hours to prevent obesity; Vitamin D aids Calcium production; websites to monitor your goals, and budgets; people plunging into cold lakes; a Viagra for women; an ottoman that doubles as a game seat; fewer painkillers give to minorities in ER centers; New Orleans: murder capitol; recession vs. reality; gunfire at a MD HOSP as inmate [who was not handcuffed], sentenced to life in jail, escaped in police car, abandons vehicle in DC, killed by PM; IL father kills pregnant daughter by setting her APT on fire; mudslinging at its best; triple digit drop in the DOW; OH copter makes hard landing, part of it dangles over the side of the HOSP roof; male voter says he wants Hillary as PRES ‘because men haven’t got it right in over 200 years’; one person dies from TX bus crash; some people get ill because they are on vacation; energy saving light bulb may cause headaches; victims say tiger was loose for 30 minutes before police arrived; another bus – semi crash, this time in NC; Winterset, IA: home of John Wayne, site for ‘Bridges of Madison CNTY’; most candidates’ guilty pleasure is chocolate, it’s sleep for Edwards, and Richardson wasn’t asked; “if it’s got a ‘name’, it doesn’t need to be good”; Bush bought his Crawford ranch after he was elected PRES for the first time, or term; people who talk on cell phones while driving go 2 mph slower, and are not quick to pass other vehicles; IA: CTR of the political universe: three million people between the rectangle & the rivers; Hillary says we will soon not recognize America; Huckabee flunks ‘Current Events’; preparing the recipe for recession; TN judge resigns after his biggest fantasy is recorded on tape [heavy on the pain]; IA leads in corn, soybeans & hogs; two chubby men banned from Chinese buffet, waitress charged them twice the price, insulted them, police were called, the guys paid the tab, but will never return; MS man shoots, kills wife, thought she was a burglar; trained barn owl will deliver wedding rings; PAK rigging elections?; 10 polling centers destroyed, delay the voting until 2/18/08; what type of documents was Benazir going to give the US?; people want more, better & expensive food; fifty people burned in Kenyan church, 275 deaths after elections; greed, violence in Nigeria, lower US inventories and problems in MX pushed oil prices over $100 per barrel, but settled in the $99 range: one year ago, it was just $50 per barrel; the Tiber is a dirty river; Scotland Yard investigates Bhutto’s death; all bottles from the Champagne province get sold; fire in London HOSP, first place to treat cancer patients; people fleeing from Chile’s erupting volcano; only coffee made in Italy will be sold in Italy cafés; Great White Shark chases man in kayak; …1/3-08: motivate your mind 21º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A…another Thursday, another Tuesday; moderate AQ; today is ‘make it, or break it’ in IA for NM GOV, nothing less than fourth place will be accepted; NM pays legal damages to family whose lost a relative when her car slid on ice covered roads near Los Alamos that were protected by chemical de-icing solution; would Bill accept the VP position?; man robbed couple leaving Santa Fe cinema; NM Zoo exceeds FED standards for fence height; PNM predict lower natural gas prices, due to lese severe hurricane season; Ski Rio slopes will reopen; ‘Extreme Makeover’ will be coming to NM, will build a new structure for one of five families in this state; Brad drawing blood; vandals have cost Duke City school system thousands of dollars, taking away from classrooms; cheap thrills that aren’t; slight AM panic attack; Brad needed to fast, he didn’t, will go to work with me tomorrow; for the person who dropped the $5 bill, could he or she please up the ante?; déjà vu? I wanted to see how the IKEA desk lamp would look, but didn’t have enough motivation: today, the bulb burned out on my home office lamp, and now I have the answer; and the golf ball bounced off the rim, and onto the bear, sitting on the clock; still no pay raises for Carlsbad firefighters; no mailboxes in W Mesa subdivision; “where do horses go on their honeymoon? Niagara Stalls, or Horse Necking Beach”; Brad, and the dawdling man at Wal-Mart; cars backed to MX bus station on Central, thanks to a broken water main; I walked from Olde Towne, and arrived home about 6P; I got a response to my comment of a video on YouTube; Hell Week, Day Two; going up for comics; shifting work weeks; if asked, Myrna would give me a ride; hug & kiss from Charlotte; finished Rounds by 8:35A; some Senior in foul mood; fear can make you fail; losing my emotions; so much for getting home earlier today [see above]; I forgot to take my lunch pills; 46 hours of overtime; Record cold across FL; CA snow, up to five feet, Sierra Nevada blizzard warnings with 100 mph winds & gusts; some peaks could receive ten feet of flurries; cold, windy DC; temps from 10s to 70s; FL crops were picked through the night; 32º for four hours could destroy fruits & vegetables; cold, but not cold enough to destroy FL crops; the ‘big night’ in IA; “D” day in IA; more than 200K voters will decide; less than 15%, voters can switch sides; ‘odor grabbing filter bags’; boiling down IA Caucus [complete with crazy rules]; Huckabee & Hillary ‘appear’ on talk shows, McCain will bring experience, knowledge & judgment; late night hosts are ‘live’ again; CIA cover-up tapes, the agency has done ‘nothing wrong’, says who?; have they lied to Congress?; ‘kill the cough’; US has a sluggish economy; ‘think global’; in some areas of the US, the time is good to buy a house; a little bit of negative growth ahead in 2008; ATL had more flights than CHI; in IA, there is a three person [D], and two person [R] races; more picketing then writing late night shows, two hosts have grown beards, people are reading, and talking to each other; CA suing the US GOVT in controlling greenhouse gases; man water-skied on cold river, without a lifejacket; fighting each other vs. solving the problems; community theater created an optimistic musical based on the IA Caucus; low fat milk linked to prostate cancer?; man overcame five guards at MD HOSP, stole two getaway cars, this is the second time a prisoner has escaped from that facility; junk food getting cheaper, healthy food prices rising; faulty gas furnaces can emit carbon monoxide, place detectors outside bedrooms; two year old MN boy dies outside in subzero temps; cell phones delay drivers’ reactions; ‘stay with me, and change the world’; US gasoline could exceed $3.25 per gallon soon; woman & her dog missing in GA MTN; for sale: The Weather Channel, price: $5 billion; today, the DOW is so-so; snow plows in Truckee brace for blizzard conditions; 2008: the year of low raises: as economic growth stalls, are jobs in jeopardy?; NJ guard committed suicide, blamed himself for two prisoners’ escape; Huckabee, the wannabe; never buy a ‘no name’ TV; twelve year old catches 550 lb. shark; both Richardson & Romney are suffering from ‘caucus fatigue’, not saying what they mean; NY man using GPS slams into train, tearing up track, and delaying passengers; it appears Huckabee won, but the [D] candidates are still in a three-way tie, with Obama slightly in the lead; an albino penguin does not breed, are prey to predators; no ‘million man march’ in Kenya, 300 deaths after elections; foreign markets falling; $99.62 per barrel for oil, after reaching the big ‘100’, was $50.48 at the start of 2007; tourists flee Chilean eruptions, eruptions flow into Argentina; oil is creeping towards $100 hurdle; bomb intended for military strike lands near Turkish luxury hotel & shopping mall, at least four people killed; …1/4-08: it’s all about getting there 35º in ABQ; 45% humidity at 6A…another Wednesday/Friday feeling; Brad, and the broken bottle of Tabasco; NM GOV in a very distant fourth place, getting only 2% of the votes, but Bill will not give up; he beat all the second tier politicians; moderate air quality; needs NH to keep his dream alive; Santa Fe will start recycling program; man pleads guilty of road rage charges; Brad went to work with me; tailored test for NM schools; Sandoval CNTY E Coli warning is lifted; Marty wants to change the rules so he can run for a third term as mayor; Santa Fe bishop on medical leave; animal cruelty for horses & llamas left to CA for vacation; Rio Rancho pond water is contaminated: no cleanup plan has been created, which was due 12/31/07, must be cleaned before this summer [or, what?]; NM police officers donate their gear to Iraqi counterparts; yesterday, for a few moments, while stuck in traffic, I thought about the Mothman Chronicles: did the Rio Grande bridge collapse; renewed skate park in Rio Rancho; Navajos urged to register, so they can vote in PRES elections; teen may be charged as an adult in Carlsbad Christmas shooting; two consecutive terms, must drop out of office for four year; Mayor Chavez has led the Duke City three terms, starting in ’93, them ’01 & ’05; no flu in NM, just the common cold, which can take up to 10 days before leaving; yesterday, gas leak caused evacuation at the Round House; PNM needs more money, 14% increase, since no rate hike in twenty years; feet of snow possible in N NM; old wells may reopen, their water filtered to eliminate arsenic; Hell Week, Day 2.25; Linda also got a new winter jacket; when having a two-week backlog is too much; went with JoAnn to Newborn, to find Mona [who shook my hand]; then went to remodeled PEDS Clinics to find her ‘in’ box; Myrna running late, did Rounds by myself, completed them by 9A; Myrna will also be learning how to code Medicine services; holiday greetings from Surgery Transplant staff; helped Myrna with diagnoses; Data Entry working on October & November charges; JoAnn was walking the first floor corridors before 7A; no use crying over it, but I spilled milk on some paperwork; PM online system problems; Millennium glitches; no one in Data Entry came in during Winter Break; they have at least 87 batches to enter; Reyna was out yesterday; MGR says I reversed codes, did CC, not my mistake in the first place, overlook senility; Data Entry stayed at least until 7P last night; more wedding pictures taken in spring like settings & temps; yesterday, two women and one man were told to leave after open bottle of alcohol found; see more pierced chins; did 130 I/P TES edits; took no lunch; snow falling in CA at the rate of 6 – 8 inches per hour; W Coast mega storm: do not drive through MTN passes, beware mudslides; ice saved FL plants; teens in Boston this AM; more areas facing 100 mph gusts; placing sandbags & plastic on CA hillsides; Los Angeles could see up to five inches of rain; I-80 snow & wind, travel on US 395 not advised, Bay Bridge wind warning, tipped truck stops traffic, the same thing happened on the Richmond Bridge; San Fran Airport saw delayed flights; some gusts could reach 145 mph, a CAT 4 storm; ; 100K without power in Sacramento; temps from 20s to 80s; by end of day, 1 million were in the dark; bad weather from CO to CA; potbelly pig sets shed on fire; Jay Leno broke rules by writing his own dialogue; lose weight, lose carbs, keep whole grains in your diet; Roger Clemens said he received Vitamin B-12 injections, but no steroids; in November, NYC window washer plummets 47 stories, survived blood clots & broken bones, will make a full recovery, and is talking about it: his brother, who was working with him, died from the fall; less jobs created in 2007 than expected; ‘change is tomorrow, tomorrow we change’: and, thus, never do; $3.1 million lawsuit against company that made pet food containing fungus; retired director of the NATL Museum of the American Indians paid over $48K to have a portrait be painted of himself, not by an Native American, and hang inside the structure’s lobby; we are becoming a ‘police state’, requiring schools to do everything but teach; security over education; politician pet peeves: inconsiderate people, people screaming on cell phones and airlines stranding passengers on the tarmac, and giving them a bag of pretzels, and no bathroom privileges; the political landscape has been changed; our country is ‘hemorrhaging money’; heading N to NH, doing it all over again in less than one week, followed by FL, MI & SC; physical battles & fights over the IA Caucus; Iowans came out in record numbers who want a change: Obama [a defining moment in history], Edwards then Clinton: 100K more than last time 204K [D], over 110K [R]; first timers, all ages came out, men & women, urban & rural; ‘status quo lost’; does ‘change’ make ‘sense’, or ‘cents’; Huckabee, Romney, Thompson and McCain [tied for third]; money didn’t talk [or work], religion did; two [D] candidates, Biden & Dodd, have dropped out of the race; back to back [R] & [D] debates tomorrow; glass barriers & additional warnings in San Fran Zoo; put Mercury on your list; debit cards for seniors, Social Security payments gets added to it; fund managers play risky business; more battles: scientists vs. creationists; faith vs. science; what comes from the soul; a pocket sized TV; man sold items on EBay, that he had stolen from work; Britney taken to HOSP; took an UNK substance, after a three hour custodial standoff, giving up her children to ex-husband; overload of New Year’s text messages; for a second year in a row, Johnny Depp was the biggest box office actor in 2007, followed by Will Smith, Nicholas Cage & George Clooney; first father, now daughter is the first born in the new year; bed monitors & compensates temp & movement; Philly cops shoot person, puts him in a coma, from New Year’s gunfire, was deadly force necessary?; in IL, two cleaning women trapped two days in elevator; dog saved after being stuck on mountain trail; Bush says ‘financial markets are strong’; triple digit downs in the DOW; unemployment rising; $60 billion will be ‘loaned’ to banks, help ease the credit crunch; rumor has it: bad news for Chrysler; Manhattan house prices in the millions; anti-missile protection will be installed on passenger planes; unemployment stands at 5%, the highest in two years; the lowest number of new jobs created since August, 2003; Philly children tortured & killed a man’s dog, just because they thought it would be fun; mixed foreign markets; Nauru, third smallest country in the world; in terms of sales, Toyota is now in second place, topping Ford; world’s largest arsenic plant takes two people to operate; al Qaeda threat cancels N African ‘Dakar’ road rally; fourteen people in plane crash off coast of Venezuela; problem with fuel gauge delays Atlantis launch until February; …1/5-08: I can do this! 39º in ABQ; 72% humidity at 6A…work about four hours: I’m tired, I worked during Holiday Break, and the museum exhibit we want to see ends this weekend; my ID badge can access the GPU nursing lounge; it’s a ‘Closing’ thing; the Saturday/Thursday complex; good air quality; Brad vs. hiccups; still no voicemail today; the upgrade to voicemail that was still shut down this AM; morning exercises at AM R/R stop; pushed into hyper drive; I am tired; the Museum was filled with families, Monica’s was closed, so we at Lam’s, and had a decent lunch; took a PM nap; brought part of Monday’s lunch with me; another NM native died in Iraq, part of the NV NATL Guard; another ABQ APT fire; who wants to adopt a 25 lb. Duke City cat?; warmest weather in ABQ since late last year; up to three feet of snow could fall in N NM; a ‘thank you’ note from Warren; an encrypted hard drive was stolen from NMSU, listing the name & SSN; burglaries in Santa Fe CNTY are own; I/P TES edits are done, two O/P cannot be found on PowerChart, and no additional entries appeared during the AM; Housekeeping dead bolted GOC again, so I unlocked the door, and departed, with a bag ‘fee’; the ‘monster’ storm; 165 mph gusts recorded in CA MTN; “don’t know, don’t go”: can’t see safety, stay in car; run vehicle ten minutes per hour, floor mats can double as sweaters; a triple threat of winds, blizzards & floods could prove deadly in the W US; temps from 10s to 80s; storm after storm strike the W Coast; temps twenty degrees above normal; heavy rains on I-5 & I-15; I-80 shut down; the ‘instant blizzard’; ABC in Truckee, CA need chains, not change; scaffold rips in San Fran; rain follows fires in S CA; ten inches fell in Loma Prieta; 70s in Dallas; that was storm #2; wild weather across the West; 80 miles of I-80 was shut down in CA; Reno received almost two inches of rain, its yearly AVG is eight; 17 vehicle pileup on I-80, near the CA/NV border; many areas have already seen five feet of snow; levee broke in NV town, caused by gophers?; at least 400K without power; the threat of avalanches has shut down several roads; JAX at Pittsburgh, 8P [ET] playoff game; two parties tonight, [R] & [D]; electronic martini maker; solar backpacks, that can become very heavy, cost as much as $250; the $25 super size remote control that you can’t lose; $30 toothbrush sanitizer; the pushbutton ‘flameless candle’ for $3; ‘magic’ of Macy’s; the $125 high-tech ‘wired’ weather umbrella; a $9K superior TV, without superior sound, buy a ‘sound bar’: can fit on top of, or below the screen, prices from $400 to $1K, the better ‘sound theater’; access your home equity, without additional payments, so says Robert Wagner; “don’t let bankruptcy enter your thoughts”; where the DOW ends at the end of January is a good economic barometer for the entire year; money houses in trouble; but overall, stocks gained, as much as 9% by NASDAQ; ‘trademark optimism’; DELL & Wal-Mart doing better; XEROX is ‘family friendly’; keep ‘corporate culture intact’; more people need color copies; get rid of functions nobody wanted; a pivotal day politically; don’t lecture them about ‘change’; McCain has a ‘Mac attack’, GOV Romney negative ads against the AZ candidate; religion not the same emphasis in NH; can Hillary halt Obama [who does not provide answers to questions about the country], a survival weekend with momentum; Edwards compares himself to the horse Seabiscuit; ‘status quo’ has been rejected; ‘agents of transformation’, because Washington, DC is ‘broken’; we live in troubled times; do we need to change again?; just jumping on the bandwagon; the Internet is the new newspaper; most think the US economy is very weak; Bush says it is ‘strong’; the US Supreme Court decides the death penalty of a child rapist; Spears cannot visit her children; Disney World restaurant will no longer allow children, this chic place to eat has meals starting at $125 per person [for a seven course meal], and proper dress is required; Romney won the WY caucus; San Fran Zoo sees more people than prior to tiger attack; be proud to be a deviant; Tom Brady: the NFL MVP; the good news: the Redskins lost: the bad news, the Steelers lost; a trip on the Old Comeback Trail; vote for Obama, vote for change [what kind, or type?]; Hillary wants ‘a new beginning’, she is the problem solver; is female GA MTN hiker still alive, man arrested as person of interest, dog walked into market thirty miles away from the area the woman was reported lost; rebellious NH, but is its decisions, based on religion?; don’t oppose Obama, the Messenger of Change; after losing custody & some of her sanity, Britney was released from the HOSP; people should sleep in 90 minute segments; is Romney too rich for America, he owns a home in NH; less actors may attend the Golden Globe Awards; Dorothy Hamill has breast cancer; many NH residents are rooting for Patriots, and are independent voters; voters voting for the people, not the party, or the color; Musharraf says Bhutto arranged her own death; crude market stockpiles dropped; a 6.7 quake detected in British Columbia, no tsunamis reported; were two US soldiers killed by friendly fire?; will we be as ‘careful going out [of Iraq], as we were careless going in’ Portugal to Senegal road race cancelled, due to terrorist threats, and unable to provide protection; …1/6-08: I am, the other side of life! 47º in ABQ; 53% humidity at 6A…Brad made Grilled Cheese Sandwiches for breakfast; Weather Channel indicated winter weather advisories for NM; six people from two families are missing in different areas of N NM, near the CO border; KS man lost snowshoeing in Santa Fe ski basin, but he has a cell phone with him; high wind warnings across NM; people are advised not to drive in N NM; snow could be measured in feet in that part of the state; 6½ inches of snow has fallen in Chama; people guilty of minor crimes, such as traffic violations, should not be jailed in Bernalillo CNTY, cost more money to keep them in jail; Special Events DEPT data contained on hard drive; Farmington teen killer not listed as escaped for a month; another KAFB soldier arrested on DUI charges; Purple Heart recipient, Navajo Nation man, who lost a leg, returned home after being wounded by shrapnel in Iraq; Clovis AFB military personnel died under suspicious circumstances in his home; Del Cerro drive by shooting in Dona Ana CNTY, could be gang related; $2,300 bronze statue stolen from Santa Fe gallery; ABQ homeless try their talents on Art Street; snow could keep falling through Monday; the Lobos, AKA ‘Road Warriors’, just keep winning; keep paperwork, woman did, now the Duke City has to dig up the weeds & provide its upkeep, ABQ said it had no documents, should tar the entire alleyway, turning it into a walkway; oil & gas audits to be held in spite of what Eddy CNTY court decision; eight month old tested positive for cocaine, her Las Cruces parents charged with child abuse; N NM won millions of dollars in lottery money; continuous countdown to digital; Warren has lived at The Beach since 1997; I-40E has been shut down by a six vehicle pile-up E of ABQ; 24 vehicles vandalized in a W Rio Rancho neighborhood; AM fog in Farmington; save the sand, dump the bags; hiker got turned around on a trail; rainy, windy PM; two men from ABQ who were hiking are now missing near Pagosa Springs, CO, parts of that state are without power; saw ‘Things to Come’, 1940 was better than 2036; the ‘deco tanks’; pictures of cuddly creatures; Mt. Washington has some of the worst weather in the world; six people were killed in plane crash near Kodiak IS, AK: four passengers had survived, all were fishermen; man tried to bring a live grenade into a Detroit ER; in N CA eight feet of water vs. nine feet of snow, eleven feet in Lake Tahoe; a sharp mind, or a sharp chisel; female GA hiker feared dead; a time for political posturing: what do candidates say when they meet their rivals?; Hillary has 35 years of experience; look at ‘the political positive’; so far, in NH, Obama & McCain [who wants a ‘league of democracy’] are ahead; an ‘alliance of conviction’; toy wagons being recalled, too much lead in paint, ATV bolts can come loose, and bathroom cabinets can break, causing cuts & lacerations; the CA conveyor belt of bad weather; milk & steak from cloned food, has it been fully tested?; their tastes would be ‘similar’; but…only small studies have been performed by FDA, would it be healthier?; faulty furnaces could cause carbon monoxide poisonings; Celtics win ninth game in a row; Bruins also won; more snow & rain from Los Angeles to San Fran; today, Chargers, Giants, Buccaneers & Titans battle to advance in the playoffs: Giants won; no corporate lobbyists in the White House; maximum interaction between Huckabee, McCain & Romney [who was on the defense]; does Hillary ‘flip flop’, or change her mind [why is that wrong?], more attacks by Clinton because she ended in third place; Romney, the ‘agent of change’?; NM GOV got the audience to laugh, gained NATL recognition, played the peacemaker: saying ‘he has been in hostage negotiations that are a lot more civil than this’; six [R], four [D] debated; Romney, ever on the defensive; more slings & arrows by Huckabee; they all attacked the ‘liberal’ Obama, he could debate himself; losing carbs vs. losing nutrients; whole grain food is very good; ‘Subprime’ the word of 2007; why was a NV town built in an area that needed a levee?; déjà vu: the 1950s’ song ‘Old Cape Cod’ is correct: fewer babies are being born; the young may be moving away, but MA area gains plenty of people who live year-round: house prices have tripled, to an AVG of $350K; while it’s 13% nationwide, 25% of Cape Cod’s population is over 65 years old; when poll percentages change, are the same people being polled?; ‘NATL Treasure’ remains the number one box office hit this weekend, earning $20+ million, and $171 mil overall; “I Am Legend’ is still at number two, taking in over $16 million; AZ woman sells Tazers at party; NH favor McCain & Obama, cross party voters also support these candidates; McCain has minimal money to spend; the sun has set on NH this Sunday night; ‘take us inside poll numbers’; Tom Brady threw a total of 4,806 yards in passes; a decline in hiring educational workers; retailers laid off workers during the holiday season, not a good sign; “it’s the fear of torture that makes people speak”; rhetoric vs. reality: Obama has to stop the preaching, and the talking in broad generalities: and answer questions; NH residents feel Romney is the best to handle the US economy; feel the Obama energy, the unifier; Mike Huckabee, the insurgent; NH is the premier primary state; health care universally addressed; the lost Farmington families make CNN & ABC News; the ‘landless’ Little Shell tribe of MT, wants to gain tribal status again; FL boy beat baby with a baseball bat for crying too much; add San Diego to the list of winning football teams; 6.5 underground quake rocks Greece, no injuries or damage reported; greet Bush with bombs, says al Qaeda spokesman, when the PRES arrives on an eight day Middle East tour; …1/7-08: unique opportunity & responsibility 37º in ABQ; 85% humidity at 6A…good air quality; moist outside at 3A; woke up with H/A; limit time big rigs can remain idle; food slipped through my fingers, caused crumbs; roll back mattress prices; if weather can change, why not people; time to use a different font when Arial won’t work; a foot of snow has fallen overnight in Chama; families & snowboarders still missing; two men missing near Wolf Creek; Tijeras Canyon & Sedillo Hill; again, snow, wind & rain; missing people could be sitting in cabins; NM GOV will visit eight NH towns today; the ‘Richardson Watch’; software being created to learn the Navajo dialect; El Dorado woman got stuck, drowned in rain barrel, trying to rescue her cat, made CNN news; most of the storm in AZ this AM; more watches & warnings across the state, for longer periods of time; Farmington pizza delivery man killed; 70 mph winds in S NM; power outages may have prevented lost people from contacting for help; by the PM, two feet has fallen in Chama; two families were found near the midway stop of the Cumbres & Toltec RR; gas has jumped a dime, now at $2.89; forty vehicles on Santa Fe street have had their tires slashed; KS snowshoe hiker is safe, walked out of the area he was crossing; one of the snowmobile families had packed a survival kit; next time, they will remember more things to include, one man climbed to the highest elevation in order to call for help: those rescue roads are now closed; there are still four men missing; still windy this evening; Brad received a box, but bad weather prevented him from getting it , at Nancy’s office; Hell Week, Day 2½; in inclement weather, keep MGR informed; CTI nurse learning how to weld; will Arlene, Reyna, both or neither be at work; do your fingers burn when writing praise; do you stay up all night, thinking about ways to hurt people?, either by word, or deed; why are others not afraid of her, but I am?; a Monday, that’s really a Monday; voicemail off, then on by Monday AM; Myrna calls, tells me why she can’t do the Rounds; she came in on Sunday; finished Rounds by 8:45A; some workers take pay cuts to get this job; will Myrna continue helping Medicine?; she worked yesterday; Edie has a very bad, barking cough, worked yesterday, finally convinced to leave today; JoAnn doing some of my O/P TES edits; some charges being missed; I told JoAnn I took her advice, and keep written records of my patients, and my TES edits, some of these are NICU services; Housekeeping used my cloth cleaning my work area, but didn’t empty my waste basket; door not dead bolted this AM; about 4:30, a quick blast of rain & wind; two patient’s names: Jordy & Janeway; Myrna recuperating; JoAnn was holding November charges; mo charge for Duke City recycling; 165 mph gusts; temps from 10s to 80s; twenty-two degrees warmer than AVG in NYC; Weather Channel says several feet could fall in the Four Corners area; 132 inches of snow has fallen in CA MTN; others are driving through feet of mud; a third storms is in the Pacific, heading W; more rain, fog & flight delays at Chicago; Midwest T’storms; NM weather makes the news; Silverton, CO avalanche, can move at 80 mph; ABQ & Santa Fe mentioned on Weather Channel; up to fifty inches of snow has fallen in S CO; nine die in fatal bus crash near Mexican Hat UT, going from Telluride to Phoenix; NM sending aid; dozens of cars collided in fog on I-90 E of Madison; tornado threat for IL, MO, OK & AR; a Medicare plan that will provide little or no cost to you; Romney vs. Clinton, McCain & Obama; insults vs. issues; slip up on the facts; 150K IND in NH, 44%, don’t want to pick a party, listen to every politician; people want a change; the Spears’ meltdown: will make it on Page One, and headlines; a list of toxic substances she took; insomniacs like ABC Early AM News; was a baggage door open before a plane crashed in AK; some TVs may lose their signals go digital; people lost on NM/CO border make ABC AM News; DOW dropped 565 points: NASDAQ plunged 170 points; people afraid to spread, US is on the precipice of recession; a big increase in unemployment rate; credit & wealth falling; homeowners hurt hard; strike in its third months, no actors will attend award shows, as acceptors or presenters; films are now severely affected by the strike; San Diego Charges are the last semifinal football team to win; “when I was in college [high school], I wanted to be an architect”; candidates cover & crisscross every corner of NH; why don’t voters allow candidates to change their minds; protect data from fire & floods, for $300; self-driving cars heading to Local Street; a three inch thick TV monitor; nearly sideswiped by a cyclist at Frontier; Roger Clemens will take a lie detector test; Detroit man caught on camera beating his girlfriend’s child; did Scientology ruin Tom Cruise’s marriage?, is he really gay?; PA gym teacher had sex with one of her male students; Talbots closing its men’s & children’s stores, focus on the ‘over 40’ women; the ‘fake check’ scam, people liable for the draft amount if cashed; many people have increased cognitive problems after a long-term hospital stay, especially following a surgical procedure; ABC News was in Chama, NM; McCain has been saved by the successful surge; people must change on a daily basis: ‘you are the wave’ vs. an emotional response’; man opened fire in CA grocery store, killing one, injuring many; TX man cut up his ex-girlfriend, started to cook her ear, eating her flesh; the DOW went down, then up; how to handle Subprime home rates; there is a NATL nursing shortage; the dead body of GA female hiker has been found, not identified or verified; 81 year old Queen Liz II into the Wii; greet Bush with bombs & booby-trapped vehicles; foreign markets falling; new E Europe country may gain independence in 2008; bacteria are 3.5 billion years old, have not changed in form or design through all those years, and are not destroying themselves, or how & where they live; museum takes a look at laziness vs. work & success; a clash between US Navy & speedboats from Iran was averted, another 200 yards closer to the US naval ships might have began a political incident; the situation became exceptionally provocative, phrases like ‘prepare to be bombed’ were heard; ‘war often starts by accident’; Georgia, the latest European democracy; last Thursday, a NM sailor fell overboard and drowned while serving in Iraq; …1/8-08: imperial texture 28º in ABQ; 69% humidity at 6A…ABQ, the Green City; be ‘landfill free’; areas of fog across NM; snow near Santa Fe; develop Lovelace into a medical mall; four people still missing; avalanche warnings in effect, two of them have made contact, Blackhawk copter will be used in that search, so will METRO One from ABQ; could be in a ‘snow cave’; the man & woman were found, at an altitude of 11K feet, built a snow cabin, using their feet, they stamped ‘SOS’ in the snow; E-mail from Brad has disappeared from my list; arson blamed for mobile home fire; good air quality; El Vado Motel is now a Historical Landmark, was once name ‘Pueblo Bonita’; nicked my ear; the ‘advanced fee loan’ scams; NM GOV still has ‘hope’, will stay in the race until ‘Super Tuesday’, did he tell volunteers to join the Obama bandwagon?; NM the seventeenth state for smoking in public areas; plenty of delays & cancellations in N & W NM; Brad’s new winter jacket arrived; the two families were housed in the midpoint train station of Cumbres & Toltec RR [news reports keep changing facts]; Bill still somewhat concerned about his state; Yma Sumac CD arrived; perhaps Tasmanian Devils at the BioPark by this summer?; Brad made tasty Turkey Noodle Soup; time to being very quiet; Maggie knows about my AM anxiety attacks; received a 12/13/07 batch last week; how can I compare services, if JoAnn holds them?; remember NICU; play by her rules, why wait so long, holding NOV charges; can’t get me mad, just unhappy; Myrna knows more about what’s going on, than I do; Edie out; Myrna received December charges yesterday; many UNMH employees suffer from stress; Tom is sick, has not picked up items that will be processed at 1650; finished Rounds by 8:35, plenty of admits; we all received charges from November & December today; look on the back of my Green Cards, there you will see the date I received them; JoAnn just codes the services, and puts NICU charges through without reviewing PowerChart; the first Tuesday at work for several weeks; making excuses, covering up guilt; keep them smiling & laughing; expect voicemail problems; Meangel is back in the HOSP; being impolite could get me into trouble; rare, Midwest tornado outbreak; 50s in the Granite State; temps from 10s to 80s; millions without power in CA, record snowfalls reported; 85 cities with record high heat; snow, rain, T’storms, twisters & floods; a meltdown of ice jams in Central Park, and the Hudson; more tornadoes for AR, IL, IN & MO: 36 in a 24 hour period; two deaths reported, wind knocked over train in IL that was carrying chemicals, line of storms is now heading into the MS Valley; WI also struck; now, it begins!; the NH primaries; Obama losing voice, not voters; the Maverick McCain; still with undecided IND, Bill got several votes from first town to vote; Colin Powell supports Obama; a candidate who happens to be black, not a black candidate; woman drove into her mistress’ home, then had a fight the wife; man confessed to crime, brought police to her body, may have killed other hikers; DOW was down to 12,000; economy the number one concern for Americans; how to prove a ‘negative’; Clemens being indirectly called a liar; Huckabee is a ‘man of the people’, want a ‘new tax’ to remove an existing one; while APT is fumigated, man lives in IKEA; the world of housing discrimination still exists; NH is the only state that’s growing in population; the remnants of sexism alive & well, per protestor at Clinton rally; rescued families found in an empty cabin featured on ABC AM News; US Supreme Court will have an answer on lethal injection by this summer; $3.11, up six cents in the last week; Golden Globes Awards being cancelled, as writers strike enters its third month; NJ finally apologizes for supporting slavery, last state to repeal its practice; how high will gas go!; does Hillary really care about his country; someone said the chef also ‘served’ eight years in the White House during Clinton’s two terms; Edwards looks like he’s falling asleep; people affected by 9/11 events, just by watching them on TV; for income taxes, use people, not boxes; less testosterone lowers bone mass & memory, but good cholesterol goes down; GA hiker’s body was mutilated; bring YouTube website to TV, via GOOGLE & Panasonic [and a very large big screen, plasma TV, the price has not been revealed]; Joe Gibbs retiring from the Redskins; WI man broke into house, stole girl’s piggybank; tour bus had plunged over a shoulder, while traveling through UT; ‘Nicorette’, the cinnamon surge; by midday, Obama ahead, so is Romney, but the balance will be deter mined by the [IND]; in UT, the windows exploded as the bus rolled over, and passengers were tossed away from the wreck; the DOW inched upwards, then it fell nearly 240 points; home sales are lower in November; no optimism for 2008; Countrywide stocks fell after the business is caught in a lie about a letter from a bankruptcy borrower; maternity leave for students; bride designs wedding cake in her own image; who & when do the Patriots play?; ‘Trivial Pursuit’ returns to TV again; buy a $300K FL home, get four ‘free’ Hannah Montana’ tickets; the temp reached 61º in NH; huge turnout, long lines; is Hillary ‘polarizing’ the public; people have a voice, and a vote; running out of ballots at [D] polling places; after tonight, it’s onward to MI & SC; people in NH have a Yankee philosophy & tradition: to be different, open minded and independent; “Don’t spend what you don’t have” thinking; are IND for Obama?; thinks of himself as the ‘Underdog’; Krispy Kreme goes ‘trans fat’; last year, America spent $2 trillion on health care; get out in the sun, and get Vitamin D; will the ‘change’ be for better or worst?; new & improved MA milk causing miscarriages?; McCain is a definite winner, too close to call between Obama & Clinton; CT police have sex with prostitutes while both are ‘on duty’; Naomi Campbell interviewed Hugo Chavez, would appear without a shirt in public; says Bush is ‘completely crazy’; speedboats said they were going to blow up US naval ships, harassed & provoked; foreign markets rising; NM GOV is ‘a free trader’, not Edwards, Clinton & Obama in the middle; UK has issued Ian Fleming/James Bond stamps, photo-op of their debut by Moneypenny; video games sent to Iraq so soldiers can learn how to handle situations diplomatically; during the current Middle East conflict, fewer gay soldiers have been dismissed from the military; …1/9-08: I like what I see; I see what I like 26º in ABQ; 84% humidity at 6A…when new breaks; good AQ; a new arena football team for Rio Rancho, the NM Wildcats; mobile home fire at Central & Juan Tabo; ABQ could see snow showers; NM GOV has a ‘Santa Claus smile’, Bill will not give up, only a distant fourth place, stronger in the W US; he is upbeat, positive and thanks NH; our state legislation starts next week; infrared search for two men still lost; while stuck in snow, doctor who was found called in sick; Duke City’s first homicide last night; wind advisories today; Rio Rancho: pay taxes, to pay for roads, could be in the thousands of dollars; no more LANL layoffs; grass fire burned 3K acres near Hobbs; man died from SE ABQ house fire; pizza delivery is Farmington’s first homicide; Bill did his best; early AM panic attack; NM GOV has done freelance INTL work; Brad baked an Apple Pie; rumors of Bill dropping out of the PRES race?: ‘no comment’ vs. “don’t know”; ‘stay found’; Brad keeps coughing, I keep quiet; another CD arrived for him today; the news has reached the Internet about the NM GOV that is no longer in the running: money is a big factor; even Myrna takes naps; Dr. Miller turns in her green cards late; Myrna still exercising; out of sight, out of mind, out of trouble?; at least JoAnn saw the CHC delivery; Maggie on vacation, going to wedding in NYC; copy batch ticket; UNM wants to raise admission requirements to get a higher graduation rate; E-mail that I am leaving early tomorrow; Edie is out; Maggie’s phone is ringing; the second floor doors could open towards the Pavilion, but not towards the Clinics, neither were the HSC elevators working, not even with a badge swipe; asked JoAnn’s opinion about patient ready to be discharged, but parents cannot afford the medical care; code on the health of the child, not the social issue, unless the diagnosis supports a higher level; introduced Myrna to Anne Schaefer-Kelly; Myrna’s daughter’s contractions are getting closer, nine days from due date; I have two objectives: survival, and employment; staff meetings are moved to Thursdays, from 9:30A – 11A; verbal consult requests are common; I will have to change my leave requests; depends which Data Entry person gets our charges; there is a new I/P area: PEDS Intermediate Care Nursery; BA is 915; MGR may have bronchitis; need to give MGR weekly on-hand count, due Fridays at noon [including TES edits]; the first allegation investigation in 30 years; UNM football team guilty of fraud, have placed self-imposed penalties on themselves; CO snow slides; 70 cities reached record highs; I-80 collisions across NV, people drove too fast; temps from 10s to 80s; twisters struck, gone in 30 seconds; NY Thruway T’storms; a rare winter tornado breakout; 60s at 6A in DC; TN tornadoes today; IN floods continue; Denver snow; Clinton & McCain [too old to be called a ‘kid’] win NH, the ‘comeback kids’ reign; a ‘Mac’ attack; a rare family photo, but Bill, with tears in his eyes, mostly stays offstage, and the polls were wrong; Hillary won by women, a total of 500K residents voted, a record number; Richardson ends in fourth, Romney in second [‘another silver’], so is Obama; MI, NV, SC & FL before ‘Super Tuesday’; the ‘off air reporters’, carrying 40 pounds of video equipment, seeing America, long hours, little recognition; results considered surprising; Huckabee was a distant third; ‘Mamma Mia’ YouTube preview; ‘love your salad’; man killed by tiger is laid to rest; ‘up, out & away’; $1600 puppy stolen from FL pet store; higher car rental rates in 2008; AT&T cutting off more customers who are not paying bills; those employed say 5% unemployed is not too high; more jobs in retired baby boomer ‘industry’; need communication & technology or computer skills; men with a 40 inch waist, or women with a 35 inch waistline are considered ‘fat’; 25 states choose delegates on ‘Super Tuesday’; security programs slow computers; one of two escaped NJ prisoners are arrested again; 3.1 tremor under Lake Erie shook Cleveland; as of now the Academy Awards will still be aired; asthma linked to depression, kids don’t like taking medicine in public; multi-car wreck caused by brush fire shuts down I-4, at least 70 vehicles [some semis rolled over & were destroyed by the blaze] involved in multiple incidents, which resulted in six deaths, and shut down the interstate for at least fifteen miles; why did bus driver take a winding road through Monument Valley in UT; multitasking slows traffic; Comcast going faster; AL father threw his four young children off a bridge, killing them, just for spite; nothing gained from NH; DOW is rising; four children found dead in DC APT, discovered when eviction notice was served; “let’s remove all the warning labels, and let the problem take care of itself”; be a stripper, write a book, make a movie; the one-eighth TV; IN mother watches as two of her children die from flood waters, trapped inside SUV; Katrina victims sue for quadrillions; JAX at Foxboro, 1/12/08, 6P EST; has the recession arrived, but no one has officially told us?: Congress wants to give Americans more money to spend; ‘meanest mother on the planet’ sells son’s car, after finding a bottle of alcohol in it; layoffs at Warner Bros.: so far, Hollywood has lost $1.4 billion; Hillary surprised the party; history is being made in 2008: white woman vs. Afro-American male; close campaign contest, the tightest races in almost fifty years; MY school denies boy from becoming a cheerleader; ID cat causes power outage; Bush in Israel, country not seen a US PRES in a decade, greeted by protestors; Ecuador volcano erupts, homemade cable car used to evacuate townsfolk; how close was too close; “I am coming to you; you will explode in a few minutes’, then Iranian boats turned away, and calm returned; Bush says Iran is a ‘threat to world peace’; Iran says the video footage is a fake; Asian markets falling; Posh Spice is one of the world’s worst dressers; Operation: Phantom Phoenix, the last major battle against the al Qaeda in Iraq, attacking their strongest stronghold; …1/10-08: never too late to do the right thing 30º in ABQ; 63% humidity at 6A…’hip’ kids in ABQ not into the new look of ‘hip gangstas’; keep pets in, as you go out; man sent Rio Rancho District Court judge threatening E-mails & voicemails; NM GOV announced his resignation from the PRES race today, could still be a great SECY of State, yet no one wants to confirm or deny that rumor: Bill woke up in NM today, any access money could be given to charity, or the [D]; first NM native to die in Iraq during 2008 will be honored today; heavy snow hampers search for two men, will be suspended at noon; NM is still low ranked in education; high-rise, high priced hotel could be built where MEM HOSP now stands; Rio Rancho residents could pay up to $30K to pave roads; 450 new jobs, flat screen TVs in hotel rooms at the new casino on Laguna Pueblo, every tribal member owns a part of the profits; slick, icy road conditions caused fatal Four Corners crash, as truck smashed into a semi near Farmington, one woman died in the crash; free tour of a furniture store; good air quality; ‘Take the Lead’ on YouTube; Taos Ski Resort wants to go year-round, with condos & an amphitheater; still too crowded at METRO detention CTR, no space or money; Sandia Casino is giving away small cars, not big trucks; Durango appears to have become a NM city; man caught using crack cocaine at the Downs of ABQ; while you were napping, I was nibbling; Bill ends his running with pride, and with a smile: 68K donors gave $22 million; as of now, he is not supporting any [D] candidate; Bill will take a long, hard independent look at the other candidates; ‘smiling second stringers’ don’t win, even one with an impressive résumé as he has; the NM GOV entered the race one year ago, and still retains political clout as an Hispanic; returning to a job he loves; leave work at 10:30A; lunch at Owl Café; enjoyed a green chili cheeseburger & onion rings; UNM football team violated NCAA rules in 2004 & 2005; Brent said Robert Katz should give Myrna & myself some money for correcting his chart notes: all critical care services require an amount of time spent with the patient; Edie still out; finished Rounds by 9:15A; fewer people on AM R/R; got two weeks worth of comics; Mike Green is swamped with respiratory patients; alone, doctors treat me differently; everyone is coughing; I did the Rounds alone today, because Myrna became a grandmother last night; at 11P her daughter gave birth to a baby girl [both are doing well, Grandma is a little tired, would not be in today]; we went to the office store, TARGET, then home; voicemail not working at 7A; this AM, a cold, windy walk across the campus; blinking red lights at Lomas & UNMH; cross-country weather systems; severe weather in OH Valley; Omaha snow, with strong winds; twenty degrees cooler in DC this AM; I-55 & I-20 T’storms & twisters; temps from 10s to 80s; more snow for Lake Tahoe; another online site to find inexpensive hotel rooms & car rentals; zoo should not let guests feed the animals, like the staff does; only four people died in FL collisions, and forty people were injured; six burned semis along I-4, from brush smoke & fog, where the interstate speed limit is 70 mph; honorary mayor of Hollywood has died at the age of 84; fiberglass seven foot roster stands in front of restaurant, always getting stolen by students before or after football games; pregnant soldier missing; Edwards was ‘proud in what he did’ [what, resigning?]; will Romney rule, where Romney’s family ruled as former GOV, in MI; what are Obama’s beliefs, what does Romney really believe: what people want to hear?; the glass ceiling being shattered in PRES political race; landowners may required to build fence on US/MX border, and completed by end of 2008; expensive dog returned to store; teens using cold drugs to get high?; the autistic gene?, disease not linked to mercury; people getting eye strain from tiny screens; start your own small business to pay holiday credit card bills, take on too much work, could get deeper in debt, but be professional; Celtics lose their second home game; the Armani cell phone; 6.4 quake 150 miles off OR coast, no tsunamis reported; ‘Buddy’ LeRoux, former part owner of Red Sox, has died at the age of 77; crippled or maimed pit bulls thrown into NYC garbage cans; ‘Chariots of Fire’, one of most played theme songs in history [so far]; the movie is really called ‘Cloverfield’; FBI drops wiretaps due to unpaid phone charges, one as much as $66K; will Bloomberg replace Bill?; stationery belonging to PRES candidate Ron Paul includes ‘rants’ against blacks & gays; Kerry supports Obama; tanker truck struck a cement barrier on I-75 in SW Detroit, igniting its contents, and killing its driver; and setting a home on fire; DOW up triple digits again; a faulty support beam in the F-15 jets have them grounded most of them; time to enter the political world of blacks, Hispanics & unions; Romney needs to win ‘somewhere significant; in the US, nine million children are uninsured; many people in MI are unemployed; INS CO not paying for the only food a child can eat, calling it a ‘food supplement’; the age of retiring air traffic controllers; retail stores have reported the worst holiday sales period in five years; recession: when people don’t spend, and becomes a vicious cycle which slows the country; ‘slash those rate’, when lack of interest is a good thing; a twenty-nine pound lobster in Baltimore: has escaped capture, he is whole, old & inedible; husband walks into a brothel, finds his wife working as a hooker, and she’s angry at him!; Asian markets falling; Bush at the W Bank; fog requires him to drive, not fly; wants a peace pact before leaving office; suicide bomber near courthouse kills police officers in PAK; massive offensive against al Qaeda; US fights alone in AFG, a similar ‘surge’ of 3,200 troops in that country, 26K total: no help from Coalition nations; military says too many insurgents; coastal countries could disappear from global warming; Bush will never see the real Gaza, being trapped in his security bubble; Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mt. Everest, has died at the age of 88; “give us your tired, your poor, your jobs & your eggs”; ten passengers injured when an Air Canada jet encountered heavy turbulence; $2,500 car [the Nano] made in India, with one windshield wiper, no radio or A/C; going on sale later this year; …1/11-08: commit to what’s proven to work 29º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…Brad at NMAS; female KOAT anchorwoman is more relaxed, settling in; how do they know, what I need to know; Bill pulled the plug, praised, but did not endorse any candidate; in the end, NM won; fire truck rollover injured two men, truck may be a total loss, did alcohol play a factor; Farmington couple accused of biting & abusing their children; another native NM has died in Iraq; good air quality; snow in N NM; 70 NM NATL Guard head to GITMO; Scientology structure in the Downtown bar district of the Duke City is questioned; Rio Rancho residents could have expressed their opinion by E-mail or phone calls on the topic of paying for road repairs; more schools for the W Side?; will Denish endorse Clinton?; Bill supports Udall; state employee killed in Four Corners truck/semi crash; 800 police calls in a year, just for one Duke City Wal-Marts; Rio Rancho has high tech schools; when is MLK Day?; Monday, 1/21/08; man’s thirteenth DWI offense; Curry CNTY state fair money missing; first husband, then wife, will start their GITMO tour of duty; the pink gun, colored weapons are selling; Nancy has the flu; a possible weekend storm?; NM GOV says state police will help in the search for the missing hikers; why do we clearly remember the people who upset, or hate us; this year, a 30 day NM legislative session; Bill’s goal is statewide mandates for domestic partnerships; oh, to find a Band-Aid in a HOSP; Data Entry has worked beyond 5P; some November charges recently entered; Edie not in; payroll info is now online; new TES upgrade next week, have to work edits before close of day in the new system for the next two weeks; MGR upset that everyone did not turn in their weekly status reports on time; Dr. Monge returned after becoming a father again; did Rounds solo, since Myrna had a backlog; finished them by 9:15A; a very empty AM R/R; I told Holly about my writing a book; Hello, Grandma!: her granddaughter weighed 6 lbs., 7 oz., and was 20 inches in length; Myrna’s children were natural born: her daughter tried to do the same thing, but changed her mind & said “give me the f***ing anesthesia!”; Brad has to recreate his brochures & card, because the data has been ‘lost’; politely asked Reyna to process November charges winter thaw, followed by Great lakes snow; dense DC fog, followed by T’storms; ice & snow in N New England; snow along W I-80, gains on tires required; the search for two hikers near Wolf Creek is mentioned on Weather Channel; snowfall and avalanches hamper people on the ground, or in the air; MS saw ten twisters; temps from 10s to 80s; first twister in Vancouver, WA; a Chase Education One Loan for college; ‘dude’, the other overused word; plus populism; ABC AM News is 16 years old; [R] used the phrase “the Regan Revolution” many times; [R] debate in SC, the land of Christian conservatives: Thompson looked like he wanted to win; NYC potties, a quarter a flush; is another interest rate cut the best thing for the country; takes six months for the country to know if it is in a recession [two consecutive quarters of negative growth]; get rid of credit card debt; keep a piggy bank half full; tanker truck landed on a Detroit home Detroit; jets pose structural problems in the air, and for security; dismal holiday sales; F-15 broke in two; 40% are of the jets remain grounded; have to avoid inflation; napping improves memory; air traffic controllers: fatigued, overworked & inexperienced; years of practice, most have new workers, with less than five years on the job; the DOW has dropped by triple digits; the era of fashionable PCs; more people than companies buying computers; “based on available research”; ‘lost’ Farmington families make NATL news; driver’s license will get security improvements; trackers better than cell phones, cost in the hundreds; battery powered roller-skates, cost $600; slurred speech & seizure can result from legal medicine overdose; Marion Jones sent to jail; Bank of America may buy Countrywide; pileup on I-5 near Bakersfield; WI couple found $12K in APT fridge; Kilauea lava threatens homes; tax rebate checks to jumpstart the economy?; nasal surgery should be considered as a last resort; two evangelists resign as regents of Oral Roberts UNIV; Orlando father wanted a son, so he killed his baby daughter; motorcyclist killed while traveling on I-4 at excessive speeds; a drug to end drug addiction; twins accidentally marry each other; AZ GOV supports Obama; MO wants to ban cursing in bars; AMEX dropped, so did McDonald’s & Tiffany; Merrill Lynch face $15 billion losses; gold prices see a record high, 30% increase over the past year; another mother says demons possessed her, that’s why she killed her children; Dallas plays the last weekend game in this next step to the Super Bowl; DC mayor blames social services & himself for children’s deaths, parents were drug addicts, and there were several ‘red flags’; the American steroid saga continues, should athletes be suspended, or jailed: they have let their country down; to make a quick backstage change, Hannah Montana used a body double; DOWN has been falling, bad economic times?; 6K babies born by donated eggs: Russian roulette with future fertility, just in for the money; to prevent fraud & ID theft: and foil terrorist, a $4 billion project: six states say they won’t comply, a FED certified ID, how to create a database for this info: one, or one for each state?; no ID, face additional screening; will privacy be protected, and by whom?; how to verify social security numbers, used to prove legal citizenship, this ‘REAL ID’ is for drivers & non-drivers, too: to sum it up, a person needs an ID to create a REAL ID; an increase in arson, to beat foreclosure; man disguised himself as a Brinks security guard, and stole $370K from a DC Bank of America, located just across from the FBI BLDG; oil is now $92.69 per barrel; Bush and the ambitious, but vague, signed peace accord, something that is long overdue, and will benefit Israel: let the countries themselves determine how to proceed; only the second PRES to visit Palestine, then traveled to Bethlehem; visited a Holocaust Memorial; Ecuador volcano violently erupts; new Clean Air Law means no smoking inside, and across France; deadly crash on US/MX bridge; US Navy ship did fire a warning shot at an Iranian boat; Baghdad saw snow, not seen in a century, interpret it as a message from God, or a sign of peace; foreign markets fell; many ‘storms of the century’ could mean more rain &/or snow: greenhouse gases produce more water vapor; as of now, the asteroid won’t hit Mars; …1/12-08: clean world, healthy world 30º in ABQ; 25% humidity at 6A…Brad made a Grilled Cheese Sandwich; oil permit protesters marched on the Santa Fe Plaza, NM GOV mandated a six month moratorium, companies should seek alternative sources of energy; ‘lost’ families will appear on ‘Ellen’; another NM man faces Internet child porn charges; foul play still not linked to missing snowboarders, no unusual use of their credit cards; about at 11P, car going S on I-25 crossed the median, sideswiped another vehicle, struck a guardrail driver was killed, accident took place near I-25 at Tramway; robbery suspect held police in SWAT situation at I-25 & Isleta, lasted five hours, surrendered around 3A; man charged with 100 counts, from assault to stalking to burglary, is on the loose; driver faces DUI charges, he refused to take a breath analyzer test, had a hot toddy & cold medicine when he failed to negotiate a curve, and caused a fire engine rollover, has been suspended, a $120K fire engine; – 13º in Angel Fire; Holly Holm won again, won on seventh round TKO; male Lobos basketball team have seven victories in a row; people who entertained Prince Harry will be in the Duke City at Theatre X; METRO courthouse kickback schemers appear in court, this time in front of a judge, facing criminal charges; should summer school be required for second & third graders who are not doing well in reading & math; will there be a Sunday storm; my hands are very dry & cracked; NM GOV “gave the race the best he could”: he is “an American, proud to be an Hispanic”: Bill is back, proposing universal health care for the state, his five years as GOV have been ‘the most productive; fashionable pink guns sell like hotcakes; ate lunch at 3P, a semi homemade pizza; Harlem Globetrotters perform in ABQ; KOAT: the number one news source for women; 2008 is a La Nina year: will NM stay warm & dry?; Lovelace Health Plan is now ABQ Health Partners; discovered both Washington state & DC have a Gonzaga team, found that out while talking to a resident while riding an elevator yesterday; a tiny, digital color TV?; had an AM/PM nap; Brad got an NMAS T-shirt, with the slogan AIDS.KNOW.MORE; it was ‘Pack the Pit’ night; ATL & Asheville still suffering from severe drought; NYC woman tried to burn her child in an oven; JAX vs. Patriots at Foxboro this evening; license to music to exercise; snow in the Dakotas; FED will set the standard, states have to do the rest of the work; more security measures at airports, using ‘the REAL ID’; those over 50 will be exempt: but by 2017, it will be mandatory for everyone; multiple licenses will not be allowed; KY man killed two people, wounded one, fled with a hostage; Carl Karcher, the founder of Carl’s JR, has died at the age of 90; OH mother & four children; the DOW dropped 1.5% in one week; MS twister tossed school bus on school; one death from WA twister; at the same San Fran zoo where a tiger leapt over a wall, darts were needed to subdue a polar bear back into its enclosure, snow leopard tore a hole in its cage; more aggressive recruiting for border patrol guards; two planes were two seconds from colliding on the ATL tarmac; IL mother killed her autistic child; more unemployment benefits, food stamps & tax rebates to stimulate the economy?; killer bees now found in Louisiana; Hillary Clinton gets marriage proposal; does Giuliani campaign face money problems, unpaid staffers; MI man tried to steal knives from a store, tripped & stabbed himself; airline food: still lousy; Green Bay beat Seattle, 42 – 20; at halftime, the Patriots & Jaguars are tied, 14 all; Will Smith supports Obama; Hillary send surrogate to SC: both her & Bill have said some things that have unintentionally upset Afro Americans; gun control ends at gun shows; Cascadian Fault in the NW US: its last major eruption was in the 1700s, created a tsunami that reached Japan, but named ‘the Orphan Tsunami’ because it did not originate in that part of the globe; the quake would have registered as a 9+ tremor; the Cascadian fault ‘created’ the mountains of MT ST Helens, Rainier, Hood, Shasta & Lassen; today, fifteen million live in this quake zone, which is 600 miles long; the eighteenth century quake produced the largest landslide in recorded history; tremors have ‘primary’ & ‘secondary’ waves; a ‘habit of happiness’ vs. a ‘chunk of words’; child kept in freezing van while went to a strip club, and not a supermarket; ‘tangibly believable’; Jennifer Hudson was the first woman of color who appeared in ‘Vogue’ [ironic, since a scene from ‘Dreamgirls’ is a photo-op for the magazine], and a former ‘American Idol’ contestant; missing CO State UNIV employee could be trapped under an avalanche; McCain will create ‘a new economy’; MI unemployment is 50% more that the US rate; ‘the old jobs won’t come back to that state’; APPLE computers have a 90 day warranty, laptops don’t usually last long; why did some candidates drop out before the ‘super state’ primaries & caucuses; a half hour for 2:30 minutes to go by; New England won, 31 – 20 over JAX; Brady had three TDs; Green Bay played in snow; Global protests to shut down GITMO; sun is the source of the planet’s weather; an Antarctic ice runway; more ‘solar storms’ on the horizon; man posing as priest arrested for cocaine possession, which he called ‘holy sand’; now, Iran is bombing Iraq; Musharraf tells the US to not get involved in the Asian country’s affairs; fault lines that cross Japan are from 2½ to 16 miles below the surface; a S American volcano only erupts in the winter; cooling water pressure pushed lava into the air; Bush was in Bahrain & Kuwait; he says troop withdrawals from Iraq may by halted, so democracy can be protected & preserved in that part of the world; …1/13-08: what do you need to know 23º in ABQ; 72% humidity at 6A…MLK Parade in the Duke City; – 17º in Angel Fire; the search has been officially called off for the two missing snowboarder: father will keep looking for the two men, so will staff from Wolf Creek; SONIC, the ‘ultimate drink spot’; burned body found in Duke City landfill; Brad showed me how to change uppercase to lowercase, created in error; violent carjacking took place near Menaul & Louisiana, driver was shot several times; Brad used ROXIO to copy a CD; snowmobiling in the Jemez MTN Preserve; discussed; ABQ artist who painted Biblical & Native Americans has passed away; sun screen should be used on clear or cloudy days; ABQ is not as ‘green’ as the ‘good’ numbers show on the city’s website, newspaper uncovers the real percentages; 17K people attended last night’s men’s Lobos basketball game; three Duke City runaway girls given beer, alcohol, cocaine & sex by ABQ man; escape blames police for the death of his wife during a high speed chase; tax benefits & incentives may fade in NM, when the state legislative meets, such as 25% tax rebates, up to a $15 million loan with no interest and 50% reimbursement of wages for training skills: are they buying property, and/or creating jobs, analysis will be made, will be provided in 2009 session; other states copying our enticements; easy to impose, hard to enforce laws; $350K for a UNM ‘think tank’ being rerouted to women’s “rugby club”?; 20% of New Mexicans have no INS, Bill fighting for alternative means of energy; what has happened to Allen Grim?; casting call: military men, or those who could pass as Taliban; Lobos lost first home loss; Lobo women won first road game; Scorpions have won six in a row; yellow & gambling green casino ads on R/R; ABQ girl with serious disease helped build a Habitat for Humanity home, 85% of the labor is unskilled; Jimmy Olsen has renamed Krypto, ‘Pal’; NM police face budget cuts in FED money for battling drug related crimes, will receive less than half as much as last years; finished first draft of Performance Review; updated Classmates profile of myself [how things & things change]; Santa Fe church organist faces child porn charges; Brad prepared Stir Fried Beef With Onions; my backpack is getting ‘aired out’; dead body found inside a car at a Juan Tabo car wash; E Gateway Area rebirth with high tech business, restaurants & condos on Central from Tramway to Zuni; irony that the Dallas game is on about the same time as ‘Asteroid’, a sci-fi movie in which that city is destroyed; some ‘senior’ actors & actresses survive; time to win the Hispanic vote; ‘just say no’ to food & carbohydrates; Romney leads in MI; Obama claims Hillary for racial slurs; cheaper to repair or replace then put item under warranty; first, cigarette smokers have to admit they have an addiction; during cold & flu season, buffets may be hazardous to your health; rear projection TVs could break down; screen TV sets have high repair rates; a ‘no cost child activity center’; many people started the year sick; others use IPods to help them exercise [?]; Bush signs bill to prevent people with mental illnesses from buying guns, who are mentally ill, as determined by a court: but combat related stress veterans would also be included; electrical house exhaust fans [could catch fire], Tinker Bell lamps [too much lead] & pacifiers [could choke children]: return for refunds; murderer of pregnant Marine may have been found; TX man beat his stepson, then sodomized him, after the teen raped his stepfather’s eight year old child; Hillary is in NV, no injection of race concerns in campaigns; four people died in OH plane crash; MS is the fattest state in the US: most people consider themselves ‘fat’; man displayed a hand grenade while eating at a TN Waffle House; seven year old saves the life of a choking classmate; a man who had too many drinks fell several stories to his death when attempting to slide down a banister at a Hollywood mall; Chevrolet Malibu is Car of the Year; ‘The Hunt for Red October’ includes Fred Thompson in its cast; the Chargers beat the Colts, 28 – 24: San Diego will play at New England next Sunday, at 3P; satire, masquerading as sci-fi, so much for “Hitchhiker’s Guide”; ‘no pants day’ on Boston subways; Ramen noodles used in art; warmth turns into winter as another nor’easter heads towards New England; an avalanche near Vail kills one person; the Giants beat the Cowboys, 21 – 17; “NATL Treasure” drops to fourth place in money making movies this weekend, but has earned $187 million; BET founder does not support Obama; has the recession arrived; tonight, the Golden Globe press conference; ‘Queen of the Cult Movies’; a ‘slow’ vs. a ‘weak’ economy; a movie with ‘senior’ actors, Freeman & Nicholson, is the box office best; sixth anniversary of GITMO detention camp; NM lawyer represents one of the prisoners, a man from Mauritania; many have been tortured, no charges officially filed against him; stays in isolation; the female lawyer cannot talk to him about current events, the male prisoner has not had a hearing or trial; statements taken through torture; Bush in the UAE, says Coalition should ‘confront’ Iran; nuclear power becoming ‘fashionable’; accused Interpol chief resigns from his position; ‘Dame Edna’ told to relax for six months; ‘restaurant at the end of the universe’; flight delays spark riots in Buenos Aires airport; Saudi Arabia allows Baath party members to hold GOVT positions; Bush comes within 200 miles of Iran; the US is trying to “fool Middle East countries”: exactly where did the threatening voice originate?; the $80K, ‘green friendly’ Ferrari; …1/14-08: cultivate your dreams 25º in ABQ; 58% humidity at 6A…Brad at NMAS, will work every Monday; the scent of onion lasts forever; moderate air quality; – 13º in Angel Fire; tear gas used to subdue violent prison riot at Lincoln CNTY Prison near Carrizozo, surveillance cameras and one pod was damaged; discussion to decide the future of medical marijuana, deal with private companies?; people could still face FED charges; 70 NM residents use the drug to treat their diseases; two women suing for wrongful discrimination in misspent funds; changing street closures affect Downtown Duke City revenue, but movie companies compensate these business, but not for loss of parking spaces; will fines be reduced for red light runners?; fund has been established to hire a professional tracker being used search officially over, but not for families of lost snowboarders; Eclipse will add jobs to ABQ; bring new life to E ABQ; Santa Fe CNTY has discount drug card for themselves & their pets; new solar power panel plant S of ABQ; Santa Fe skiers lost in the snow will appear on GMA; a new sex offender in Four Corner; ABQ man sees bobcats in the back yard, sitting in patio chairs, humans moving into the roaming areas; Nancy said she needs two more days to recuperate; backpack rules, as satchel broke two times, once on Central; bullet holes in Ma’s windows; Eclipse Aviation now has a long-term financial deal; high paying jobs coming to ABQ, with a new solar power manufacturer, to be built near Mesa del Sol, would by the state’s third largest private employer, needing 1,500 workers; NM GOV asking for $8 million as start-up fees; ‘Licensed to LASIX’; best tips: don’t make friends at work; make no sudden movements; “if I don’t praise myself, who will?”; get ready for a new type of TES edit for two weeks, with no instructions included, were informed this AM; déjà vu?: told to turn in my performance review by 1/31/08, so I gave it to my MGR today; Edie has returned, she had pneumonia; Arlene works on Saturdays; finished Rounds before 9A; former UNM athletic director still collecting a paycheck; always feel like I’ve done something wrong; school resumes at UNM; told MGR I would work this weekend; Denver is still homophobic; MGR did allow me to take time off when Brad fell down the stairs; when the test edits have been cleared for the day, will others be added through the day?; I could cry, because I get no answers to my questions; told MGR I would work this weekend; voicemail working on & off; at 11A: “License Limit exceeded” on Rupert; these ‘test edits could appear at any time of the day; Myrna’s granddaughter is named Andonae Evangelynn Rice; no Linda; early AM panic attack; empty AM R/R; I am ‘the person who gets blamed for everything’; one patient, with eight medical record numbers; I have reasons, not excuses; by end of the day, Edie was coughing; directed person to Admitting, with help from Joseph; lake effect snow; winter weather, but no severe storm: big flakes in Taunton; about a foot of snow in Boston; Worcester, Newark & Hartford also turning white; hundreds of flights cancelled at Logan; NW US rain; temps from 10s to 70s; Santa Ana CA winds; seven inches of snow fell in Boston; “tough on dirt, easy on you”; the latest cars: James Bond meets Al Gore; report looks for a story at the Golden Globe Awards; CA mother’s boyfriend gave a jar of mercury [a common practice in MX], which has poisoned the children; FL groom calls off wedding at the altar, just before saying “I do”; some guests stayed for the reception; McCain in MI, way ahead of Giuliani, in FL; Edward backs Obama [for VP?; ]‘ill advised statements’; Clintons & the racist comments?; the ‘youth quake’ of young voters, born between 1978 – 90, children of the baby boomers; the ‘Millennium’ generation who worry about health, economy & environment; Clinton’s first place numbers are declining; is Marine who killed pregnant fellow officer heading from LA to TX; ‘gas going green’: economy vs. environment; three states hold primaries: MI, SC & NV; Obama closing the ‘gap’; prevent dehydration in children with colds; no gowns, jewelry or other accessories bought or needed for the star event, who cared who won; “The Bucket List” was the number one weekend movie; solar storms can affect power grids & cell phone use, can last up to a day in terms of sports, winter is “a man’s thing”; the era of digital coupons on Kroger’s; the MP3 jackets; did Dallas play sloppy; Johnny Depp won his first Golden Globe for Best Actor in ‘Sweeny Todd’, as did the movie itself; the writers strike started 11/5/07; NATL AVG price of gas is $3.07, down 4¢; no bling, just change; six fired for failing to do their job following DC children’s murder case; a flying saucer seen in TX skies by several people; an Asian Indian as the new GOV of LA; Edwards daughter is doing well, after being hit by a drunk driver; correction [for now]: 23 states compete in ‘Super Tuesday’; DOW up by triple digits?; older homes will also be harder to sell in 2008; scientists create beating rat’s heart; is right popular, or is popular right?; perfection, as seen in Mitt Romney; ‘Cloverfield’: some thing has found us; the day has come, it has arrived; one man died when he fell thirty feet after the scaffolding broke on a Trump Tower, CA child shot when caught in police crossfire; playing the ‘race card’?; more E Coli found in restaurant hamburger patties; a rebuilt rat hear: “give nature the tools, then get out of the way”, but could be decades before it is available for a human; Zetia does not work; Ford produces one truck per minute: the 2009 has rolled off the assembly line; consumers generate 70% of the country’s monetary transactions; another bad quarter, more people falling behind in credit card payments; be prepared for past due car loans & phone services; more mortgage messes; confront the new Middle East threat: Iran, a ‘threat to global security’, rallying nations around the world, person on the small boat spoke English; situation is ‘deadly serious’; will he be able to compete in the Beijing Olympics?; is South African man, a double amputee, being discriminated by his disability, his prosthetics have become an unfair advantage; Bush travels to Saudi Arabia; GITMO has damaged the image of America; Dubai declared a NATL holiday, in honor of Bush’s visit; US PRES accused of fueling the flames against Iran; Indonesian leader in failing health; six people killed by explosion at Kabul luxury hotel; was the possible Iranian conflict possibly a prank, started on our side?; US sending ‘smart bombs’ to Saudi Arabia; unfair mechanical advantage for potential Olympic athlete; he has been allowed to run in other races; the Smurfs are 50 years old, born & bred in Belgium; …1/15-08: make weather work around you 23º in ABQ; 68% humidity at 6A…the 4A old fire alarm that will not stop beeping, buy a battery one; Sky 7 launches for you; moderate air quality; – 13º in Angel Fire; the ambitious $6 billion legislative agenda, more rights for domestic partners; the unarmed, Taylor Ranch neighborhood patrol; Farmington fog; 700 new jobs for Eclipse Aviation; $500 million solar power facility S of the Duke City; moderate air quality; more money on juvenile justice systems; PNM is selling its gas division for $620 million; no job losses [has 800 workers], just new bill formats for its 490K customers; focus on NM electrical utilities; Brad had good results at his doctor’s visit; task forces wants the red light cameras running until the end of 2009, lower fines, and no increase for repeat offenders; State of the State address by NM GOV today; wants more resources of renewable energy, and ethics rules for public officials, and better benefits for same-sex couples that are ‘not exactly married’; enjoy the above AVG temps today; ban cell phones in Rio Rancho schools; customers will not see changes right away; ‘Countdown to Digital’ is now less than 400 days away; 6K coats donated this holiday season; why was there a prison riot; use red light revenue for traffic improvements; a $30 million Round House expansion has been put on hold; DVD player would not play at my work area; man accused of domestic abuse against his live-in girlfriend; for the third time; tear down El Vado, to build condos & town homes; 60 bills to be considered during this year’s legislative session; two year limit for New Mexicans filing flood claims is near over; man guilty of embezzling funds from Alamogordo Space museum; ‘Ellen’ welcomed the snowboarding families; cell phones kept failing; they will be spending five days in the Bahamas; the ‘symphony’ of building a house: ‘Extreme Makeover’ will create a home in SE ABQ for a family who allows homeless sleep with them at night; it will take 93 hours to finish; Brad’s great Mongolian Stroganoff; when straps snapped on Central; purge past record in the Red Light Runner program; the gas deal will take one year to close: PNM serves 22 counties, and 110 towns; have I become too paranoid?; my interpretation of how things have transpired; do I complain too much?; finished Rounds by 8:45A; the Dr. Bluett ‘affair’; Edie’s phone would not stop ringing; if you don’t praise yourself, who will?; yesterday, Myrna could not access the new TES system; at least this will tell me how I am perceived, seen through the eyes of my MGR, as a good or bad Coder; it’s hard being told to attend an event, then feel that no one wants you there, or wants you to be there, or cares if you were there; another voicemail ‘fix’; Myrna has been divorced for eleven years, likes tall men; Yasmine may be returning; other people have drier than usual skin; Linda’s work check bounced to the bank; Myrna wore jeans; early AM anxiety attack; “I will be blamed”; I don’t know how to split I/P charges; Maggie’s phone keeps ringing: since she has no voicemail, it rang over two minutes; PM R/R stopped by Amtrak; girl told her story to her cell phone, and the Clinic; so many people judging me; winter weather cripples airline profits; frozen fog in NV; foot of snow in ME; temps from the 0s to 70s; snowfall in MI; changes: the first Indian GOV; ‘Fluffy’ the python, is a permanent resident at a zoo, too heavy to fly; dog survives with arrow in his body; IBM stock shares soared; $20 billion mortgage meltdown, cut 20K jobs; now, a very bad holiday season, people are buying smaller items; people living a simpler life, don’t live the ‘material life’; MI casts their ballots, a state with 7.4% unemployment, auto jobs will never come back; no bank in the US doing well; bury the hatchet on race, so say Obama & Clinton; Bush has only a 32% approval rate; woman whose last name is ‘Popcorn’; Washington Wizards causes Celtics to lose consecutive games; Zetia does not help the heart; WA moose rescued by firefighters, after falling through an icy pond; money makes wine taste better; ‘Seniors’ like to play video games, too; Congress addresses steroids in sports again, suggest no advance warnings when drug testing athletes; will found out what caused the I-35 bridge to collapse: what may have happened: defective plates were used, that might be found in 465 other bridges: cars & construction crew caused concrete to collapse; drug use on the rise in ‘Rust Belt’ cities; ‘certain events have taken place’; private MySpace sites for people under 20; the ‘ultra thin laptops’; more money for more ads, than more advances; ‘power dock’ to charge up to four IPods; McCain vs. Romney; “doesn’t affect your heart, or your head”; DOW takes a triple digit drop; billboard search for Marine on the run; another big turnout for MI primary, will its Native Son [Romney] win?; missing OR hikers call home; two women, two children found dead inside IN home; bullet from CA gas robbery enters a house, paralyzes a boy practicing on his piano; is fibromyalgia a real disease?; MT avalanche kills two people; time to raise the gas tax?; Hillary’s ‘proposing paramour’ is gay!; retail sales down in December: banks & mortgage companies helped the high risk borrowers & buyers, and then the bubble broke, and billions more could be lost; cloned milk & meat, will be safe to eat [and drink]?: with no change in current label descriptions; most people polled think the economy has serious problems; an $18 billion loss for Citicorp these last six months, could build & prepay for 85K homes; in Germany, man accidentally swallows a cup of gasoline while smoking; Rice has ‘unexpectedly’ taken a trip to Baghdad, media made a faux pas, said ‘the beginning of the end’, of what?; Bush trying to convince OPEC that oil production should be increased; 3,200 Marines will be sent to AFG; Iraqi internal security will not be completely secure until 2020; the first attack in Lebanon against Americans since the 1980s; Bush dancing with swords & leaders in a Middle East country: Saudi Arabia &/or OPEC will raise the output of oil when the market justifies it; foreign markets falling; …1/16-08: having options is important 27º in ABQ; 53% humidity at 6A…Brad has Chiro visit at 10A; the Arctic air arrives; weird position I wound up in bed; could the Duke City see snow?; do not travel in NE NM; 0º in Angel Fire; man shot by police, speeding on Academy, knife found at the scene of the incident; man died from being beaten at Economy Inn; new F-35 fighter jet for KAFB, a multi-mission base; El Vado: tear it down, to build it up; College of Santa Fe may face bankruptcy; people had a chance to question representative from red light cameras; 7,100 acre blaze put out in Portales, no structures damaged; tenants see the destroyed ruins of mobile home which burned, and the first fire engine never made it to the blaze, rolled over because of a drunk driver; some snow could fall in the Duke City; same store robbed four times in one day, robber wore a hoodie; wrong numbers generated for animals adopted & euthanized in Duke City animal shelter: blame ‘faulty programs & calculations; Brad got a skull cap; last night, Artesia mayor died of leukemia at the age of 65; Brad’s test results were very good; police patrols again on Central at San Mateo?; ACLU claims where supporters vs. protestors stood along PRES parade route, claim discrimination; going to bed much earlier than yesterday; a store opens for business, and suddenly there’s a sale!; the warmth before the storm; last night, body kept me from getting a good night’s sleep; good air quality; recycled material will be used for running field at Acoma; “you’re going the wrong way” vs. “you’re on the wrong bus!”; the city was going to spend $9 million on that neighborhood to renovate the structures; ‘Extreme Makeover’ first visit to NM; thieves target cars at W Side TARGET; proposed universal health care could drive specialists away; ‘milky rain’ that fell on Silver City being examined; cold, comics quest; I have been self-trained to be scared; haven’t seen Dr. McLaughlin for several days; do my job, keep my mouth shut; add training doctors to our undone deeds; a hospital of extremes, in many way, especially the heat & cold; Myrna out , food poisoning?; Code Purple since yesterday PM, faded during the day; JoAnn running late; manipulating O/T & time off; neither Myrna nor JoAnn could access the test TES system, helped them, doing my previous job at PBP/NLP; I hope Myrna’s absences don’t hurt her; too cold for words this early AM; JoAnn told MGR I was helping her access the test TES system; I slightly helped Geri; I need a hoodie, and Brad bought me one; Edie not feeling well; Myrna’ s under the weather: I’m over it!; arrived home before 5:30P; the TES test is over; heavy SE US rain, chance of flooding around New Orleans & Houston; hurricane winds in S CA; wintry mix along I-85, I-81, I-26, I-77, I-71 & I-75; wintry mix in western VA; blowing snow in KS, NE & MO; winter returns to WI; rain/snow for DC; temps from the 0s to 70s; Listerine contains lots of alcohol; man shot himself in the testicle during a robbery; Romney wins in MI; [R] PRES runner in the air, followed by McCain [“we don’t mind a fight”], then Huckabee; onward to SC; candidates played in the snow together; another [D] debate in NV; everyone was so nice; talk as a team: call a truce on race, overzealous staff; add cloned pig & goat on the cloned menu, animals that are considered a pedigree; after ‘extensive study’ vs. ‘too many unknowns’; farmers say we should go green; design flaw caused span to collapse, even after retrofitting; longer waits in ER areas, no rooms for serious illnesses, taking more than an hour just to see a doctor; more people, less emergency DEPT, since they are uninsured; four people walk away from copter crash; yesterday was one of the worst days of the DOW: has a global, ripple effect; too much debate during 911 call after tiger escaped; a laptop battery usually lasts four hours; the $1800 one inch thin APPLE laptop, that can fit in a manila envelope, thirteen inch screen, and a full-sized keyboard; dinner that should taste, feel & look good; “the person denies the charges…”, wouldn’t you?; teens sets SUV on fire for revenge, blaze spreads & burns boy’s jeans; what about watching ‘the little game’; Leather Weekend now costs $160; CO teen apologizes for stabbing a woman eighteen times, and gets forty years in jail; Oprah got her own TV station; three-way tie between both [R] & [D] PRES candidates; breast cancer in men are extremely rare; three children get ‘strangely’ sick in AZ home; easy to beat the myspace.com restriction system; cloned food will cost more; Charlotte student shot in shoulder in school parking lot; people painting false ads on trucks, with phone numbers of drug dealers; coyote roamed Boston; TX teenage gangs prostituting girls; the DOW appears to be unsteady; ATL schools put on lockdown, as police search for cop killer; too long for tiger response; highest price jumps in 17 years; airlines merge, air fares reach the skies; put money in the hands of those who will spend it: the businesses, not Americans; S Korea & Kuwait own part of our nation; provide ‘private stimulants’ [?]; repairing the economy could cost $150 billion; industrial goods have flat lined; four million dogs have cancer; OPEC could buy GM in with six days of revenue; the race for the White House moves to SC this Saturday; don’t save the whales, says Bush: keep using sonar; Huckabee wants to redesign the Constitution, by adding religious values to the document; Merrill Lynch seeks Saudi Arabia monetary aid; Bush in Egypt; encourages OPEC for more oil, Iran is still a threat; Foreign markets plunging; Euro countries feel the pinch a little less; the scandal of the French PRES & latest, new supermodel romance, have they wed?, play ‘follow the press’; social scandal in the INTL jet set; he has recently divorced another ‘good looks girl’; more troops in AFG not considered a ‘surge’; Communist man killed by inspectors who patrol Chinese cities, honored as a hero on Blog; former congressman charged with sending money to al Qaeda; the new source of antimatter: stars being ripped apart by neutron stars & black holes: new helmets for soldiers, to prevent TBI; …1/17-08: make the most of every mile 13º in ABQ; 56% humidity at 6A…a did Marty help with the extreme rebuilding; Carl’s JR burgers for lunch; man shot by police had long criminal record; carjacker & driver began shooting at each other at Wal-Mart parking lot; Brad took apart smoke detector, beeping while he was working; good air quality; did mayor change the ‘red light runner’ contract; BLDG would house fidelity investment company, ABQ provides the infra structure, they provide 2K of jobs, with $60K salaries, built at Mesa del Sol, completed by 2009; – 6º in Angel Fire; ; – 32º in Alamosa, – 17º in Chama; everyone was safe, including the dog, when a plane had to make an emergency landing at Taos Airport; although not defined as a ‘marriage’, domestic partners should have similar benefits; will Farmington get a new community center, or better city streets; low income families will get assistance with their heating bills; Asian man with crutch robbed a bank; only room for one more racing casino in NM; Chris replaced the smoke detector; ‘seniors’ get the tools to determine false checks; bank robbery at San Mateo & Zuni; one good night’s sleep, hope for repeat performances during the weekend; more vehicles stolen on the W Side; NM GOV wants more money for road projects; NATL nuclear watchdog group has moved its HQ to Santa Fe; the houses are down, the rebuilding begins; will benefits benefit us as domestic partners?; the bill is starting to move, has been approved by the House Panel; NM is the only state that allows human trafficking; I am very tired today; a $5 NM ‘strip club tax’; running shuttles to the Extreme Makeover site, volunteers are needed, crew working 24 hours a day; super sized meal from Carl’s JR; early to bed again tonight; leave work at 10:30A; Pres. Has more comfortable beds; Spanish & Portuguese swear words are similar; X-rays, like batteries, do expire; received our UNMMG holiday present of a cup, some cookies & coffee: delivered by Amy & MGR, who actually looked like she was smiling at me; I was asked how long it took from here to Belen; finished Rounds by 8:30A; Myrna had eaten shrimp at Lam’s; Krista’s father is dying; told her about ‘the Medicare shuffle’; MGR saw I wore jeans; saved by a hoodie; cold air actually feels good; 2008 competencies due by 2/2/08; looking for signs of regression; kids sledding in ATL, on a ½ inch of snow; temps from – 0s to 80s; plenty of polar air in Canada; snow, changing to rain in DC & Richmond; toasty in Orlando; Valley warnings along I-270, 1-70 & 1-66; Asheville is a slushy mess; snow à freezing rain; Boston on ice; Charlottesville could see 3 – 4 inches of snow; there is a ‘deep pocket’ of cold weather; sat & waited for the Blue Line to leave Yale & Central; no one can do what Countrywide can; marijuana in juice boxes; $50 million spent on ads; not for preschoolers, another warning for risky medications, OTC cold medicine could have life threatening side effects; OJ put up his house as collateral to get out of jail, advised to remain at his FL home until his trial starts this April; the Navy, not the whales, protect NATL security off the CA coast: so Bush created an exception; WI father charged with abuse, wanted his son to be a Packers fan: so he taped a Green Bay T-shirt to him; ‘simple’ blood tests; after two home defeats, Celtics win it by ten; pump up the economy, cost billions; should be timely, targeted & temporary; but please be quick: Karl Rove says a [R] could win the White House again; Obama will attack drug crimes [how?]; speak a child’s language; the ‘hoodless horseman’; ‘technically’ vs. ‘feels like’ a recession, fueled by higher food & gas prices; are we turning America into a foreign nation; China & Singapore [among others] buying up our companies; undermine our sovereignty & security vs. prevent a worse recession; the biggest merger: Delta & NW Airlines, not good for the flyer; Romney, a former businessman, a former MI resident; CO helping to feed deer, what cash can carry germs for 1 – 17 days; they eat is covered by ice; no smoke, better eating habits, alcohol & exercise can increase a lifespan: but what about the stress factor?; child’s Girl Scout Cookie money stolen by her friend; man arrested for walking down the street with his python; online Scrabble may go offline; buy back old electrical products for store credits; Navy helicopter crash in TX, kills three; many fear cloned meats, want ‘natural’ foods; Best Buy’s “Geek Squad” nabs janitor with ‘kiddie porn’ on his hard drive; the man who started Wham-O has died at the age of 82; CT babysitter placed a child inside a laundry bag, jumped around an APT, and bumped him twice into a door, killing him; caucuses held at the casinos; the DOW is in ‘correction territory’; is Wall ST ‘for sale’?; clones could be created by states, but could not use FED funds to do so; VA was in a recession during 2001; worst housing market since 1980; banks now putting liens on homes, not foreclosing them, so the property value won’t drop; Listeria found at MA dairy; the DOW dropped another 300+ points; The Case of ‘Symbolic’ Marriage; abortions are at the lowest rate since 1974; MI teens head to Los Angeles in a stolen van; three expensive Andy Warhol paintings were stolen from an INDY restaurant; Enterprise is planting trees; Jenna Bush will be married on 5/10/08 at the Crawford ranch, just a ‘small’ wedding; call your doctor before going to an ER; fewer abortion clinics vs. crisis pregnancy centers; the ‘lie to wounded soldiers’: there are two charities that are not spending donations on disabled veterans, but on condos, their salaries & golf course fees; the DOW has dropped 8% in 2008, erasing all the gains in 2007; need a ‘quick, short-term relief’; if only 50% of the people will spend their rebate checks, it will help our economy; manufacturing is in a decline; two years to release dubious results of Vitoran, even doctors are kept in the dark; seven grains, on a mission; British women in love with Jake, like men who hate football, must make more than £30K; foreign markets rising; did Diana want Prince William to be king, so Britain could advance into the twenty-first century, but keep a Muslim away from the Royal Family; ½ million balls down the Spanish Steps: one ball = one political lie; Marine murderer may be in MX; a ‘great trip’, but no results from Bush trip; rough landing at Heathrow snaps wing from British Airways jet; the first ‘crash’ for a 777, skidded across the grass; the Taliban now control a PAK camp at the AFG border; …1/18-08: respect, and dignity 18º in ABQ; 41% humidity at 6A…from Leather Cocktails, 25+ years ago; another Sustiva dream, taking place in & around Dupont Circle; another night of reasonable sleep; World Theatre comes to the Duke City; ‘Cloverfield’ made its ABQ debut at midnight ‘last night’; sleep: doesn’t that sound beautiful; the ‘First Sale of 2008’ sale; Brad made Guacamole; Extreme Makeover crew working through the frigid temps; Park & Ride to see the house; ABQ has not been above freezing since three days ago; no more news about the two men lost in N NM; good air quality; – 18º in Angel Fire; paralyzed man arrested for growing medical marijuana; Patricia Madrid will attend [D] NATL Convention; ‘girl power’ on KOAT this AM; slight chance of snow around the state; man high on drugs led police on a 115 mile chase on I-40 that ended near the TX border; heaters to keep concrete warm; frozen fountains across the Duke City; Rio Rancho cop could face domestic charges; ‘warmer’ this weekend; I am tired today; doctor’s visit on 2/29/08, at 2:30; went to be after I walked from Olde Towne [took the Blue Line home]; party at White Sands; trained at 9:30A; yesterday, doctor’s stethoscope got stuck in my leather jacket; finished Rounds by 8:30; in Code Purple this AM, at 7A & 10A, continued into the PM, indicating the condition at 1P & 3P; Brent out for surgery; told Judith if she should mug a policeman if she wants doughnuts; GOC got lab coats, that say ‘we care’; button ripped off black jeans; MGR out; Myrna, Julia & I discussed how to remove stains from clothing, or restore original color; Boston rain, ice on MA Pike; temps from – 0s to 80s; ATL rain to snow; semis stuck in snow, some rollovers in Augusta CNTY, VA; S FL stays warm; dentist licked patient’s toes, as part of ‘exam’; the stimulating money package, PRES does not want tax cuts; rebates that will help ‘nearly everyone’; increased food stamps, unemployment benefits, get money to low & middle income families; more GM buyoffs & early retirements, get rid of 40K high paid workers; in HI, man wearing hospital gear threw toddler 30 feet off pedestrian overpass, landed on a highway, and was killed instantly; Hollywood directors make deals; don’t go into denial, the recession is here: be aware of cash flow, but do not horde: get rid of products that are not moving; soft surface hold odors; ‘articulate competitive advantage’, something has to be done; Huckabee is neutral over the Confederate flag, Romney calls it racist; be counted in NV casinos during caucus; teens admits taunting San Fran tiger, may have been drunk; Jack Nicholson wants to fall in love again; while exact reason is UNK as to why abortions have decreased, there are fewer clinics to remove a fetus, plus more access to contraception medicine or devices; hidden corridors under Mt. Vernon? Yes: the lost city of Cibola in the Black Hills of SD?, No; the benefits of soymilk; the Patriots have the lowest number of turnovers in any franchise; the signs of the slumping economy have been noticeable for months, why did nobody see the signs: the housing market has been staring loan companies in their eyes; Citicorp has had the largest quarterly loss in its 196 year history; AM EX seen its slowest customer spending since 2001, effective measures needed, and now, before the country slides into a deeper recession; personal info, including social security numbers, on 650K JC Penney customers has been lost; the US is in ‘emergency mode’; is it too late to recovery, and will both parties agree on a ‘new deal’?; today, a faux pas by Obama, about Reagan, and that he had the desire to change: when, in fact, he hated unions; people need more ‘deep sleep; spanked employee may lose lawsuit; reclusive chess master Bobby Fischer has died at the age of 64; bosses could determine your health by what you access on the Internet; the Dow heading down; aunt [who had had mental problems] & two children walked onto I-495 in MA, all were killed; tiered level of cable service can cut cost, eliminate unnecessary items; ‘nothing stays a secret forever’; bystanders saved children from burning vehicle; secret recipes & ingredients are often forgotten; child attacked thief with baseball bat; smalltime hood killed Bhutto?; PAK troops abandon forts, now possessed by Taliban; terrorist group’s goal is to ‘stabilize’ nation; there was no fire, deaths or serious injuries; the jet’s wheels broke away from the airliner; 777 was American made; fuel shortage vs. loss of power vs. something that started far away from Heathrow: being called a miracle & mystery, ‘the engines just suddenly stopped functioning’; Asian markets falling; one of Osama’s children wants to be an ambassador of peace; baby polar bear in Nuremburg zoo, 22K names suggested for the baby; Columbia volcano erupting; …1/19-08: when sleep sounds beautiful 14º in ABQ; 64% humidity at 6A…first Obama PRES ad will air in NM today; Hispanic found body near Socorro; NW ABQ house fire that destroyed structure; S NM man accused of kiddie porn; Navajo Nation power plant may provide energy to N NM; is Cowboy strip club a public nuisance; saw Reyna, her son has RSV & B OM, so she took him to the Urgent Care Clinic to see if there was anything that could be done, so he could feel better: the answer is plenty of rest & liquids; Myrna was also at work; Los Lunas another meth lab bust: Valencia CNTY house so dangerous, it may have to be demolished; seventh Scorpions win; some snow in N NM; a suit does not make a man; Johnny Tapia will fight again this spring, opponent UNK; – 20º in Angel Fire; – 8º in Taos; went to do Rounds; phonebook recycling held today; tax counties where Rail Runner roams; five men have died from hypothermia during past few days; keep people off the cold ground; the relevant rapper in ABQ; ‘arena cross’ races come to the Duke City; White Sands is 75 years old; Extreme Makeover house several hours behind schedule because cold weather preventing cement from solidifying; Carlsbad sixth graders held a ‘silent protest’ by walking out of classes: they are upset seventh & eighth graders are getting laptops, and the lower classes are not; the Round House Comedy Revue, poking fun at the legislative session; the new Newborn I/P Unit has arrived, a task for Myrna?; a hole grows on Central near The Beach; frost on windshields; chatted with Dr. Hickey; still Code Purple at 1P today; Times New Roman may rule!; woman arrested after one year old tested positive for cocaine; Pan American corridor a hot spot for vehicle theft, mostly Dodge & Ford trucks; during lunch & dinner hours; drivers still talk on cell phones; fish & chips restaurant being torn down on Central; Egyptian exhibit, and the museum itself were a pleasure to visit; three inches of snow fell in Raton; empty my wallet, get rid of junk; Santa Fe artist donates sculpture to ER that saved her life; left for work at 9A; majority rules: everything is my fault: so say Brad, JoAnn & Rosanne; return to ‘across the board silence; no one was manning the HOSP info booths; ate from SUBWAY; the new homes are the most popular story in ABQ; frozen campus ponds; very warm PM R/R; white Sands has 275 sq. mi. of gypsum; another bridal party photo-op at the campus; Taylor Ranch now prepared for the ‘less than savory sort of people’, are these people not vigilantes?, taking the law into their own hands; ABQ cold weather deaths mentioned on ABC Nightly News; I coded two days of services in many areas; ‘you give the time, they give the tasks; coffee fights liver cancer, and diabetes; rebate ‘checks’ will be in the mail late summer?; N tier of US below zero; snow & rain in SE US; Huckabee, the ‘pastor PRES’; men on trial for putting a burning cross on a black family’s lawn; Family, friends & ‘the big game’; carbon monoxide kills PA hotel guest; Hollywood writers may start talking again; MC Cain has to ‘recalibrate his position’; it is against the law for a PRES to disobey a law that Congress passes, and Bush has done that, several times during his terms in office; man arrested for carrying a shotgun near the US Capitol; the ‘NATL catastrophic fund’?; tornado watches in FL, two twisters touched down near Tampa; Clinton won in NV, so did Romney, but McCain took SC [in spite of bad water & voting booth problems]; 1K flights to & from ATL cancelled due to snow, de-icing a serious problem; MO sisters dangled in truck that balanced over the side of a bridge, vehicle that cause the incident drove away; a primary & a caucus were held today; Ron Paul & McCain basically both took second place in NV, the first state that has a strong Hispanic voice, and vote; ‘small towns can have big secrets’;; fix Washington, and you fix health care’; robbers hide in the same closet as victim, and never see her; a ‘court diversion program’; the Beach vs. the Bible Belt in SC; Huckabee, the ‘religious PRES’, who is ‘culturally conservative’; there are 78.2 million baby boomers who are ready to retire; NV cathouse choose candidate Ron Paul; high heels that can change in height; ‘Cloverfield’ may be a box office success this weekend, working with a $25 million budget; should money for AIDS in Africa be shifted to other ‘important’ areas, such as hunger, since the number of new cases has decreased since the 1990s; fourteen arrests, Islamic groups that threatened attacks on Barcelona; a porn star will go to bed with you for $1 million; Russia is not afraid to use nukes if attacked; two people arrested in Bhutto assassination, one is a fifteen year old boy; …1/20-08: welcome great design 21º in ABQ; 59% humidity at 6A…water pipes burst on Tramway, near Lomas & Indian School, water should be restored by tonight; a prisoner [non-dangerous] escaped while at a bathroom break at Sky City Casino, near Gallup; – 11º in Angel Fire; one of the top five former race car drivers helping to build the new house; a five story tower for I/P HOSP care may be built in Rio Rancho; CNM campus will be completed in Rio Rancho by fall 2009; a tax increase will be needed to build a UNM campus at the same site; Extreme Makeover gets closer to their Tuesday deadline, they should be finished inside & out; the house is being built fast, but with quality always on the crew’s minds, and will be a work of art; we may see a ‘warm’ day, in the 40s; captain of volunteer firefighter accused of several arson charges; the ‘Tee Hee’ fee, the stripper club entrance ‘donation’; several car thefts stolen per day, used for paying drug fees, or chop shops, winter is a time when people turn on their cars, then walk back inside their homes to get a cup of coffee; ‘baseball bat’ attacks rise in Santa Fe; a Sunday that feels like a Saturday; the Lobos won again; more MLK celebrations being held today; I’m feeling better; ‘baseball bat’ attacks rise in Santa Fe; more wind across NM today; another strange Sustiva dream: a gay pride event with my parents present, I drove a car to a gas station, then walked down Brock Ave as part of a Pride Parade in New Bedford, followed by sitting in a tent for awards events, held in Hazelwood Park, with UNK, strange leather gay groups; people will be warmer across the state; two hour shifts for Taylor Ranch Vigilantes; yesterday, a record low of 10º, not seen this season since January, 2007; robber pulls quick thefts, has female who drives getaway vehicle; woman in Las Cruces accused of killing another female by stabbing her several times at a rescue mission; MRSA cases on the rise of Las Vegas schools, especially contact in athletic sports: buses also need to be washed down on a daily basis; now, too many volunteers have wanted to build the new homes; since last May, UNM working with NATL ‘high-power’ Consultant, who is a also a crisis coordinator, a PR specialist and a media strategist; PNM selling SHELL its natural gas resources; there is also a chic place to eat at the Art Museum; don’t go to a museum with a backpack; I feel dehydrated; create an Office of Hispanic Affairs for NM?; utility bill was high: but this same time, last year, was worse; two days ago, too tired to climb up & down stairs; black pants patched; prostitutes at the Flying J truck stop on I-40; Route 66 Casino/Hotel on I-40, exit 140; Frontier restaurant will no longer be open 24 hours, it will close during the early AM hours, due to staff & INS concerns; a ‘good’ problem for Extreme Makeover: too many volunteers; Brad prepared a tasty Cranberry-Apple Mulled Cider; Patriots play San Diego at 3P EST; Romney’s second victory, McCain’s second win; [D] are still the problem solvers; at Green Bay playoff game [6:30 EST] there will be a – 28º wind chill factor, and they have to play without gloves; Suzanne Pleshette has died at the age of 70 from respiratory failure: two of her husbands were Troy Donahue, and Tom Poston; John Stewart, one of the Kingston Trio, died at the age of 68 of a brain aneurysm; snow moves to New England; too many winners in both parties; ‘how the West was won’ by Hillary [and Obama]; moderate & IND voters helped McCain win in SC; more snow in ATL, with morning temp of 17º; barge struck sunken warship in the MS River; blacks are going to white churches on Sunday, is the same true for whites to black places of worship?; a ‘structured settlement specialist’; more recalls include: candle coating can ignite, board game contains too much lead, ‘play stove’ could tip over, and burn children; but blacks back Obama, SC [D] primary will be held next week; FL [R] on 1/29/08; why are N football stadiums uncovered, but those in the S are; yesterday snow canceled more flights in S cities; “what’s eight years among friends”; border patrol policeman was killed when putting down a spike strip to stop a speeding vehicle; Citicorp seeks foreign aid to end falling profits, mainly from Asian countries; women & Hispanics support Hillary; most US dogs are mix breeds; playoff talk is good for work environment; NYC suburb school student stabbed to death after having his MP3 player & cell phone by nine other teens, some wearing masks; bill to ban fake genitals on rear view mirror proposed in VA; mystery man visits Poe’s grave on author’s birthday; next, no Grammy Awards?; fire & stabbings at AR home, that many knew took place, no one reported to police; heading for an early death?: Britney’s obituary already being written; norovirus plagued an IA restaurant; punishment used to control, not punish people; is there a Generation: Obama?; Jack Kent Cooke once had a stadium named for him; SEARS may split into several, separate divisions; a ‘chemical induced coma’; should rebates be limited, previous attempt did not ease inflation; the worst DOW since 1950; Brady’s 100th win!; the first team to reach 18 – 0; Patriots are the AFC champs!; a 21 – 12 victory; highs in Foxboro were in the 20s; blame San Diego’s defeat, or Patriots victory, on injured players?; onward, to Super Bowl XLII; I found Celebration, FL; is MRSA spreading to the general public by homosexuals? It appears to be happening in NYC & San Fran; day walker: the world isn’t ‘nice’; ‘Cloverfield’ was number one, earning $41 million for the weekend; two killed in separate Los Angeles parties last night; the Giants & Packers go into OT, with a 20 – 20 tie; the first team the scores is the winner, and that time is New York, as the Giants beat the Packers, 23 – 20; four people died as two private planes collided over Corona, CA; [R] head to FL, the [D] campaign in SC, the ‘race’ race; Obama attacks statements by Bill Clinton; where are all the heroes when you need them; two dozen Taliban killed or wounded in E AFG; Bhutto killed by suicide blast?; the Amazon might be the longest river on our planet; more new clues for missing British girl?; suicide bomber kills six in the Anbar province of Baghdad, using a candy box to hide the explosives; advise for hatchlings: ‘don’t look back, and don’t talk to strangers’; the Abu Dhabi Golf Tournament; no electricity in the Gaza Strip, Israel blew up that country’s main generator; …1/21-08: from top billing, to ‘Top Gun’ 23º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A…nearly $10 million in FED funds for Mesa Del Sol infrastructure, including an interstate exit ; fundraisers held all day yesterday from the Carom Club to the Launchpad will try to start an independent search, including a copter rental, for two missing hikers in the Wolf Creek area; water fountains being cleaned in Las Vegas schools to prevent the spread of MRSA; even Angel Fire is above zero; more sunshine, more breezes; NM GOV supports stem cell research; a ‘warmer’ day, but nights remain ‘cold’; limited bus service today; from 1A – 5A, the Frontier will close; knocked the light off my bedroom stand during the night; two NM educators won a chance to vie for the PRES teaching award; what are the seventh romantic places in NM: KOAT will profile the places; two men accused for child abuse stealing a girlfriend’s baby; technical parole violators will be accepted at METRO Detention CTR; the city of Rio Rancho has to clean the sludge from the ponds in its golf courses by this summer; higher enrollment in Duke City high school; people who participated in cockfighting are moving from NM to CA; ‘no place to check out the night life’, or cram food for finals; the Extreme Makeover house has to be completed by tomorrow when the family returns tomorrow: the final inside touches are being finished, the house will have a Santa Fe style and/or influence; are the missing hikers a gay couple, fleeing from their parents?; if I’m sad most of the time, and told that I am sad, how easy will it be to become happy?; the [D] debate, trying to woo SC; the [R] reach to FL, one of the most important race so far; ‘right has no sex, truth has no color’; SC is Edwards’ home state; a master’s degree could mean a $10K better salary; Obama’s mother died of cancer at age fifty-three, that won’t change my mind; pregnant mother should not drink coffee during pregnancies; doctors suggest placebos, instead of drugs, to make people feel better, and stop complaining [saying it’s all in the brain], encourage vitamins; more GM consolidated car dealerships; Chuck Norris said McCain is too old to be PRES: now, Huckabee [who added the actor to his team] wants to distance himself from those comments; ‘Cloverfield’ became a January box office money making record; today is global ‘Blue Monday’; a sloppy game; instant frozen beer sold at Green Bay; there are six foods to banish when starting a diet; a frozen hydrant hampered putting out a fourteen structure fire [one was a nightclub, and that housed people with special needs] at Lawrence, MA; white supremacist groups will also march on MLK JR Day; fire destroys Grand Junction, CO TV station, but no injuries reported, the blaze caused $6 million in damage; ice on Lake Michigan; it’s warmer in AK; deep freeze covering 90% of the state; spilled oil from a tanker truck caused accidents along I-4; FL grandma arrested & fingerprinted for parking in the wrong area at a McDonald’s; need peace, to have love; young, MI runaway lovers might be in NV: they took $700, a pet dog, but not take her medicines, the girl has a bipolar disorder; a record breaking one inch of snow fell in ATL yesterday, colder in GA than in Barrow, AK; more people in TX claim they saw a UFO; now, five have died in CA plane crash, a fifth person on the ground perished; will cutting interest rates solve our country’s problems?; Philly teen jumped from his ninth story bedroom window, and survived, but may never walk again; New England vs. New York: the Giants – Patriots Super Bowl game should be great; police in Lima, OH shot girlfriend of drug dealer, her son’s finger had to be amputated: white officer vs. black victims; Los Angeles newspaper editor fired for refusing to make budget cuts; man attacked four people with a chain saw & a knife outside a MO homeless shelter, critically injuring two victims; are MLK JR’s words losing their meaning?; Asian markets falling fast; blaming Bush & the US economy, with its recession; not stimulated by our stimulus; Israel has launched a spy satellite; Americans overseas will choose the PRES candidates using online ballots; six months of hard labor for three men convicted of being homosexuals, a crime in Cameroon; …1/22-08: neutral notes 38º in ABQ; 25% humidity at 6A… six years working for UPA/UNMMG, and I still feel like I’m treated like a new employee; ‘inclement weather’ should be defined in terms of cold, as well as snowy conditions;
…1/29-08: ‘pure’ protection 25º in ABQ; 25% humidity at 6A…blinding, horizontal snow at 11P; white at 3A, very windy, also; jeans today, Brad creating NMAS calendar; had a very bad Sustiva nightmare: in P’town, wearing only shorts, with no money, and the same songs [which I can’t remember] playing over & over again; wreck puts Los Lunas in the dark; all lanes of Paseo have reopened; even police cars have slid & crashed, tow trucks cannot reach the vehicles; numerous accidents on I-25 near Tramway; I-40 slick from W of ABQ, to AZ border; many schools & roads closed; hail, lightning & ice in the Four Corners; judge excused from extortion case for UNK reasons; floods feared on Navajo Nation; but good air quality; next storm arrives tonight; Gila River will crest again, be prepared for more flooding; howling winds outside at 5P; box fell from truck onto border guard, and pot fell from the package; Bill Clinton will be in NM this Thursday; Red Light Camera plan needs revamping; Paseo will have to be repaved again this weekend; got bus pass; foot of snow fell on Durango; from whiteouts to black ice; two hour delay for UNM; KOAT reported over 100 closings and/or delays; leave early, arrive on time, a two hour ‘break’; ABQ school closed all day; Brad prepared Fried Rice with Tuna served with Mulled Cider [good over ice, too!]; don’t take things personally: learn from mistakes; praise never hurts; patient’s first name: Aires; got February bus pass; spent 50% of day doing charge corrections; two providers in the same billing area cannot charge for separate, different services on the same day; Linda told me Albert’s cancer has returned, he is going through chemo; I am sure our MGR has a list of what time each of us arrived; Kim told all of us when our MGR reprimanded her; Myrna didn’t know about the delay until she was on I-40, ‘speeding’ at 30 mph; keep thinking, ‘you are not going to bother me’, ‘you are not going to upset me’, and always be polite; UNM ‘Zip Cars’: $35 yearly fee [waived for those who enroll in the next 90 days], $9/hr., $66/day, 180 miles/day, $50 late fee, if you are at fault, there is a $500 deductible; and always remember that you are not liked, and are considered a threat; some ‘pencils’ do not contain notes; an empty PM R/R; Linda showed me Brandi’s very good report card; everyone around me forgets that one important piece of info; AM R/R on time this AM; snow fell on ABQ; wallop of winter weather in OP, WA, CA & NM; Tucson floods; pileups on UT roads, caused by roads & cars; icy in PA & NY; wet & wind with T’storms in the S US; Weather Channel forecaster has sore throat; close the dome: rain for the Super Bowl?; today, temps from – 10s to 70s; in two hours, a thirty degree temp drop in St. Louis; get drunk, binge drinking based on repetitive phrases; TX teen gets intoxicated by hair gel?; man ran into the ocean after committing robbery; return to Camelot?; Obama can reach people of all ages, in all parts of the country, so say the Kennedy family; McCain to Romney: ’consistently taking two sides on a subject’; Giuliani is lagging behind; the all or nothing [R] FL 57 delegates: who will Cubans support?; rekindle the Kennedy ‘Camelot’ culture?; be prepared for higher tolls across the country, an increase of $5 – $8, especially on bridges; to raise money for the US GOVT; the Super Bowl is considered a high level security event; San Fran Zoo raising the tiger fences; can [R] & [D] work together this year?; Bush actually indicated the economy is slowing; ESP: economic stimulus package, moves from the House to the Senate; can Social Security be revised? highly unlikely; Bush: ‘pass the stimulus plan ASAP’; 1980 was the previous worst home sales percentage; Hollywood writers allow the Grammy Awards to go on without picketers; measure age from body’s cells; exercise relieves stress; ‘battling governors’; LEGO is fifty years old; demolition crew in CA accidentally causes structure to collapse, killing one, trapping one, injuring several other workers; more cold meds send more children to the ER; the NY Giants wore black to Phoenix, meaning they ‘mean business’; dead 3 – 6 month old baby found in car seat along TX road; the number of homeowners in America have declined, the largest drop ever reported; the Senate wants a $160 billion package, that includes higher rebates for everyone; foreclosures in 2007 up 75%; NV & FL have seen the highest numbers; bullies cause MO boy to commit suicide, parents suing school; DOW is up again; drunk driver calls 911, tells police to arrest her; Hershey’s raises its prices again; is the White House ‘The Great White Jail’?; fourteen firms, facing mortgage frauds; dog eats Super Bowl tickets; for the [D] in FL, this primary is just a ‘beauty pageant’: face value, with no delegates; McCain the winner?; FEMA ‘Katrina trailers’ contaminated with formaldehyde; Mike Wallace had triple bypass surgery; more [R] in the S & W US, much more conservative than bygone days; Huckabee on ‘GodTube’; PEPSI Super Bowl ad, using only sign language; people are concerned about: economy, terrorism, immigration & the Iraq War; no income cap with [R] rebates; from 2006 to 2007, a 79% increase in foreclosures; one family paid their mortgage first, needed to borrow from their children, sought second jobs, the electric company threatened to turn off their power, saved by ABC News; an alternative: just walk away, since they had put $0 down; come clean about nuclear plan, says US to Iran; the enemy is dangerous; the worst snow in fifty years falls on China, halting trains; Chinese like to travel fast; foreign markets rising; ‘coyotes’: people helping others flee from MX to US, get paid plenty; illegal immigrants labeled ‘bodies’, many hauling marijuana; living in a militarized zone, as people crawl across the ground to escape being caught; a fully naked German airline will fly to various nudist resorts; asteroid will pass by, about 330K miles away from Earth; …1/30-08: dreams start here 25º in ABQ; 63% humidity at 6A…Brad has a 10A Chiro visit; more Winter Weather advisories, more Fire Dangers; ABQ could see snow; is bottled NM water bad for your health?; NM Senate passed stem cell research; thirteen year old suspended for carrying a knife as protection at a Carlsbad school; what happens if a student has to go to the bathroom during a school lockdown?; bootleggers arrested, sell alcohol from their car; computers not installed in Santa Fe, to be used as a backup system; LANL detected a small radiation leak, no one was harmed; gunfire at Juan Tabo & Central pizza shop, but who shot the clerk, the robbers, or a co-worker?; more wind today; good air quality; mutilated animals found in man’s garbage; two teens tied up during home robbery; ‘snake wrangler’ in Deming died from a recent fang bite; former soldier had truck impounded when he could not renew his license, which expired during his overseas tour of duty; NM lacks entertainment, except gambling, which breeds addicts; FAA certifies Eclipse Aviation’s two week training program for customers & pilots; could train sixty people per month; meeting to be held on Santa Fe Rail Runner extension; PM Winter Weather Advisory for ABQ; someone asked what will I be eating during the Super Bowl; fifteen vehicle pileup E of Gallup had shut down I-40 in both directions, heavy snow reported; dust storms near Deming; cars vandalized near Lomas & Juan Tabo; PM snow in the Four Corners; is health reform possible in a 30-day state legislative session, an option is to not insure all NM citizens; gambling: the only game in town, with $800K spent to help addicts; turn fear into strength; saw a yellow Aztek pull out of the patient drop-off area of UNMH; closing gets closer; training scheduled for 1:30P [she was a ‘no show’, so the three of us sat around & talked about a variety of topics]; did a quick CC; everyone’s self evaluation was due on 1/31/08; people keep upsetting our MGR, by not turning requests on time; saving my ‘weather favor chip’; teamwork: some teams work; ask the Guru, ask our MGR, add JoAnn’s name; Bill Clinton will be at UNM; finished ‘very full’ Rounds about 9:15A; time to kick into overdrive; know when to apologize; stressed, and stretched; Susan ‘understands our situation’, and is doing whatever possible to hire new Coders; volunteered to work on 2/9/08, testing the new TES system; had headache all day; at the end of the day, Edie was coughing a lot; two dead from IN T’storms; more snow in OR; grass fires in N & Central TX; temps from 0s to 70s; wind chills will plunge to – 40º; E Coast winds, sleet, snow & ice; FBI investigates financial service industry; $80K combined salary cannot afford a modest home, $2K monthly home payments; ABC News set demolished, moved to DC; John’s victory! Rudy’s ruined! Orange Crushed!; McCain may have won, but no one lost?; Romney will not give up!; Giuliani has given up, ended in third place; endorse McCain?; the largest ‘prize’ to date, but conservatives not convinced by AZ candidate; Hillary symbolically won; get read for the 22 state Super Tuesday; crowbar falls out of woman’s pants leg while she was burglarizing a church; I-Phones being hacked into other telephone systems; EBay changing its fees, will be increasing some commissions; ‘share the media’; Edwards is dropping out of the PRES race?; marriage proposal by reporter to Tom Brady at Media Day: he’s “a one woman man”, but also said he has ‘many female Brady women’; how to fight a recession: another rate cut?; true growth, not through temporary fix; a Senate stall on stimulus; FED Reserve cuts interest rates by ½%, now at 3%; severed head & body parts of one person found along I-80 in PA; ‘crutch bandit’ arrested in MO; drugs with similar names, but different effects get dispensed in error; hand gels clean, but do not disinfect: wash jewelry, and, on the larger scale, hospital areas, or kitchens & bathrooms at home; the earnings cap returns to the stimulus package; people in their 40s feel their worst, across the world: 44 is the lowest point, gets better in their 50s, accepting limitations; expect the largest watched Super Bowl, Patriots go for 19 – 0: Giants have the largest viewing base of NY & NJ; protests surround Boston that depicts naked man, and two nuns at sketching pads; DOW on shaky ground; Obama opens a office on the Navajo Nation; Starbucks will close 100 stores; last quarter saw a .6% economic growth, the worst in five years: for the entire year of 2007, it was 2.2% ‘dropping out with dignity’ vs. ‘get out’; Giuliani, America’s Mayor, supports McCain; wind blew train cars crossing a bridge in Toledo; it feels like a recession, flattening labor & housing markets; foreclosure bus tours; NM will be the first state with a strong Native American vote for PRES; the ‘book of political idioms’; US military may have a strategy just in case the falling spy satellite strikes America; 2007 saw 1.3 million foreclosures; CT hotel rooftop fire; 42 plastic surgeries on 36 year old Brazilian woman, desired to change before Carnival; foreign markets falling; robot helps lost shoppers in Osaka shopping mall; because of the snow & cold weather, the Chinese economy has lost an estimated $4.5 billion; 70 year old Pinewood Studios in Britain may be turned into a community; 6.6 quake rocked Indonesia; two astronauts attempt difficult spacewalk to fix broken equipment; Tunguska asteroid was smaller than first reported, verified by NM lab; 50 Chinese deaths blamed on the winter weather: more people in train stations that people living in Boston, people waiting to board a cancelled train; snow fell in Jerusalem; …1/31-08: known by your name, not your number 20º in ABQ; 50% humidity at 6A…more school delays; still Weather Warnings across NM; four inches of snow fell on Tucumcari; – 9º in Angel Fire; landlord killed renters’ cats; no power to remove pets left out in cold weather; Ted Kennedy in ABQ & Santa Fe; Obama is also arriving, speaking at an economic summit in the Duke City CONV CTR, then travels to the City Different; $14K by homeowners to pave Rio Rancho roads; ABQ female teen’s neck was slightly slit by knife before being raped; strong winds damaged Carlsbad holiday boat; 3% school staff cut in Las Cruces; remember the ‘grass roots’ groups in NM, the ‘behind the scenes staff’; NM wind turbines will help power the Super Bowl stadium; bad batch causes sick stomach; Fire Weather advisories in parts of NM; slightly sick in my stomach this AM; icy roads in E MTN; flooding in Navajo Nation, near Leupp, AZ; Navajo Tribal Council table law to give outsiders the right to determine how to handle pollutants and hazardous substances; hoods up!; Brad made delicious Chicken Satay; drivers not at risk on NM bridges, 18% are deficient or obsolete, examiners are only 1% behind schedule; Navajo Nation will allow alcohol to be served at its first casino, which will open in Window Rock, AZ; work on Green Cards & CTI; Edie vomited yesterday; JoAnn rides me of turning in things early to my MGR; Bill in Johnston CTR at 3P; a topic of discussion has come to a conclusion; courier out today; Edie, and the $3 salad; the problem of the prolonged service lingers on, in spite of the charge correction; Myrna wants to resume doing the Rounds with me; I reviewed 82 charts today; ‘team player’ vs. ‘being needed’; the ceiling in a PSAC corridor leaks; crowded AM R/R; my monitor & keyboard had been tilted; [Bill] Clinton on Campus; Code Purple at 7A; more people on the wrong colored PM R/R; and for a few minutes this AM, I wanted to call it quits, call my MGR, call Brad, and say ‘good-bye’ to everything: and fate would not allow me to reach Rosanne; stopped by a dial tone; I told my MGR I was fully aware how to code critical code service, but that I was ‘persuaded to do so, yet not to ‘blame’ JoAnn; Bill pumped up the college kids; snow along I-44; sleet falling in Bartlesville, OK; five confirmed twisters struck Tuesday: an F2 tornado touched ground, damaged IN structures; others were sighted near Cape Girardeau, MO, plus places in KY & AR; temps from 10s to 80s; temperatures fell fifty degree Buffalo, NY; in WA state, an avalanche shut down I-90, and buried vehicles; T’storms threaten Dallas, Houston & New Orleans; wrong telephone message told MA parents their children had skipped school; dating agency: rich, sugar mamas searching for boy toys; restless leg syndrome caused man to stalk women; the landscape has changed in both parties; Clinton & Obama praise Edwards to the hilt; McCain & Romney resume their battle for truth, justice & the American way?; beware IRS rebate scams; PRES Bill criticized 9-11 heckler; growth has grounded in the American economy: even the interest rate cut could not stop the DOW from declining; what good will one rebate check do?; SEN still stalling stimulus package, theirs is a $157 billion bill, that adds unemployment benefits, prevents illegal immigrants from getting checks; inner windshield broke, hurt six people on plane; 90% of adult diabetes linked to obesity; NYC man fell from a scaffold to his death; Super Bowl Sunday could be hazardous to men’s health, especially their hearts; San Diego has high number of foreclosures; an electrical spark to rekindle lost memories; going ten miles over the speed limit on I-15 between Los Angeles & Las Vegas is very different that traveling ten miles above the posted speed in Scottsdale, AZ; Oak Lawn, IL added a creative touch to stop signs; today, more people are unemployed for longer periods of time, double than during the last recession in 2000, 17.6% vs. 11.4%; DOW hading up; man arrested for creating his own crosswalks; Interior DEPT guilty of mismanaging funds allocated to Native Americans; Domino will deliver a million pizzas on Super Bowl Sunday, can track it from their business, to your home; Britney goes bipolar, in & out of the HOSP!, she is a menace to herself; Ar-nold may endorse McCain today; [D] debate in CA today; ISUZU will no longer sell trucks in N America; Elizabeth Edwards will have a chance to rest; gas prices could rise by spring; a Plan B for Oscar Awards, if the show does not go on, event to be held 2/24/08; Home Depot will cut 500 jobs at ATL home office; price of GOOGLE shares plunge; Spears, 26, escorted from her home by police; NYPD officer accused of pimping teen; there will be no ‘new’ money in the US, and some may be spent on foreign goods; 24 car pileup in TX at I-40 & US 287; worst January in eight years; the two second ad: do it fast, do it quick, and get off the air; Super Bowl said it didn’t have the time to air the ad; the ‘countdown to history’ as Clinton vs. Obama in CA debate; Obama raised $32 million in January, he is pushing his multi-national roots; for better or worse: Kerry for Obama; Hillary has visited CA 30 times; a ‘sea of people’, Chinese have been waiting for three days to take the train home; Americans will have to show a passport when traveling from anywhere in the world; senior al Qaeda member killed by a missile in N PAK: another suicide bomb in AFG; a ‘high-tech’ Internet failure, caused by an anchor from a ship in the Mediterranean, has swept across parts of Europe, Asia & Africa; …2/1-08: outsmarting the elements 18º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A…nude yoga class in the Duke City; missing software, missing info on state W-2 forms; woman in jail, charged with ‘murder for hire’ assassination plot; there Carlsbad students stabbed each other with pencils; for a fifth day, Red Flag Warnings; Obama at Kiva auditorium; NM has 20 [D] delegates; Balloon Fiesta Museum cost exploded in costs; Gallup tire recycling plant may not be built, could cost 150 jobs, revenge by the NM GOV for that city getting control of Red Rock Park; Hannah Montana 3-D movie debuts in the Duke City; good air quality; Bill tries find funds for Rail Runner extension; Super NATL Auto Show at Expo NM; black mold fungus, a type of yeast, was found in bottled water: how many ‘bad batches’ have been distributed, could be from bottling plant; pure, but clear water will come out of NM water taps, some time in the future; filtering process is ‘pure’; some Bernalillo CNTY GOVT phone numbers are missing in yellow pages; more roadwork on Paseo tonight; the ‘Wildfire’ TV show, which was film in NM, has been cancelled; a TV & video game tax, the first in the US, to help the ‘No Child Left Behind’ program; another windy day; Hillary will speak at Highland High tomorrow night at 8P; more snow in the forecast?; Hell Week, Day One; voicemail down again; never ‘argue’, just ‘discuss’; patient fell to the floor in GOC, hurting her head; some people have not turned in their self evaluations; only person to volunteer for TES testing; Code Purple at 7A; seventeen year old patient exposed himself, complete with erection, made sexual advances to nursing staff; trained Jenny, the KAPLAN student; finished Rounds at 9:45A; everyone fears the fiery Dr. McLaughlin; always praise JoAnn in front of Myrna, called ‘feeding the ego’; I told JoAnn & Myrna it’s a pleasure to work with them: we all agreed mistakes should be considered ‘a learning experience’; Arlene never told JoAnn that she got TES edit on ‘prolonged’ NICU charges; climb up to comics, met my Native American friend on the very crowded PM R/R; rode the MONT/Carlisle bus to Menaul, took same amount of time, but with less uphill walking; Barbara gave me a V-8; guess which three people [and Kim] volunteered to work next weekend, from 9A – 1P?; thanks to an E-mail, guess who now has my phone number?; I still feel like a prisoner on parole, one wrong move and I’m back in trouble; 600 O’Hare flight are cancelled; S US twisters; some like it hot in FL; up to six inches of snow fell along I-65 in NW IN to Chicago; W VA, PA freezing rain; from rain to sleet in NYC; temps from 0s to 80s; VA is one of six states hardest hit by the flu; epileptic drugs can cause suicides; ‘we are a nation of speedsters’; a ‘rescue inhaler’?; $15 million loss for FL strawberry crop; do speed cameras, used on both city streets & interstates, have a lasting effect?; now, 94 million viewers will watch Super Bowl XLII; monkey picks Patriots as winner?; the AZ retractable stadium?; retaining wall near Craggy Gardens has collapsed, may shut down Blue Ridge Parkway; NC plane crash kills all six onboard; US cut 17K jobs in January, ending a 52 month growth record: Bush says we are in ‘a rough patch’; there is a Volvo factory in Dublin, VA; 800K may attend Mardi Gras in the Big Easy; convicted sex offender raped a six year old boy in New Bedford Public library while mother was at a computer: the event took place in a secluded corner of the building around 5P; more car seats recalled; Little Richard is 75 years old; civil obedience at the debate; the Hollywood historical event, filled with ‘niceness’; no war, just peace; the candidates will remain ‘friends’; Clintons will keep cleaning the country after the Bushes; Romney will spend $3 million before ‘Super Tuesday’; absent Senators campaigning across the country will delay stimulus bills, will be discussed next Monday: if not, then by midweek; now, salary caps at $150K/$300K per person/family; the DOW ended the week on a positive note; the stubborn drug resistance strains; an Obama/Clinton ticket, he was polite, holding Hillary’s chair for her; last night, a red carpet affair for stars, but not for movies; Americans cannot afford another four years without getting help; women have higher risks for heart attack deaths; passports will cost $100; and again, PRES wants to cut funding for both Medicare & Medicaid; Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo!?; Native Americans may have been the first to brew beer; George Clooney, a UN messenger of peace; British jogger attacked by frozen MARS candy bar thrown from car, suffered ankle injury; has AFG war been ‘neglected’; more deaths in Baghdad, female bomber strikes pet store, other areas with animals attacked; violence means victory?; UK ferry battered by high seas, issued an SOS, was rescued, then ran aground; mixed foreign stocks; 300 portable potties burn in St. Petersburg, Russia; not cheap to fly naked on planes to resorts, detested by Nazis [where do you put your wallet & keys?]; everyone survived after a 727 crashed into a Bolivian bog; third Internet cable has snapped in the Persian Gulf, repairs for the other two may not be finished until 2/12/08; …2/2-08: share conservative values 27º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…already snow showers in the Four Corners area; a busy day across the Duke City; E-bound lanes of Paseo being paved in W Side; man received thirty-eighth traffic citations, most of which have been dismissed by an ABQ police officer; do cigar bars have the proper credentials, allowing people to smoke inside the establishment; more water will be diverted to S NM; the candidates court NM voters; someone breached KAFB security gate near Gibson without presenting proper ID; see Hillary, no ticket required; everyone is blaming everybody except themselves for tainted water bottles; ABQ student has invented a solar motorcycle, using a drill for a motor, can go three hours without recharging; ; who does NM GOV support for PRES, and the Super Bowl, will he be watching the game with Bill Clinton in Red River home; the ABQ Journal purchase is no longer certain; in the Duke City, Obama Mania, and Obama Mia, the IL SEN seemed to speak to each attendee, talked about the economy, Native American sovereignty & irrigation, over 5K turned were in Santa Fe to see him speak about improving education; Santa Fe CNTY will offer ‘Caddy Program’ during Super Bowl Sunday; there may be a leveling of ABQ property taxes; Jupiter & Venus can be seen in NM skies; officer, who became a whistleblower, filing suit after she told of cops who beat prisoners & visited bars while on duty; fake ID ring busted by Duke City officer; Durango will see lots more snow today, but the bigger storm will arrive late weekend; but a series of systems will move through the state; NM ‘groundhog’ is the prairie dog; Bill’s Universal Health Care proposal is heading to the House; state has not issued permits for cigar bar patrons to smoke, just that establishments have been designated as cigar bars; policeman tried to cover up a friend’s drunk driving accident, claiming it was stolen; next ‘big’ storm could last for several days; met Maggie’s husband, the ‘big boy’ going to see the ‘big cars’ at EXPO NM; Deming is finding it hard finding funds to replace fifty year old school; Mardi Gras parties celebrated in many NM ski resorts; ABQ mayor does not approve the process of bottling public water, and the private water authority, but Marty is on its board; Tommy Lee Jones & Jessica Alba put down ABQ food, also say it is a noisy city with too many planes to concentrate, and lacks places that serve good food; better NM snow pack, not seen in thirty years; long lines waited to see Hillary, who flew from Los Angeles to the Duke City; the villainess ‘Amnesia: Mistress of Memory’; I’m as old as ‘Them!’, who was filmed in the famous Fourth ST Tunnel in the City of Angels; Bernalillo police officer hit by car that had been speeding from a crime in Cuba; Brad created “T2: Turkey-Chili –Topped Turkey Chili Burgers”, great to eat; ‘The Ant That Ate Albuquerque’; Vigil: the longest serving NM SECY of State; Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, six more weeks of winter; double dipping chips contaminates salsa with germs; why did an F-15 crash in the Pacific Ocean, near HI?; the pilot was not injured; 200 crashes along the NY State Thruway; Los Angeles Times supports Obama & McCain; W Coast railways & highways are digging out of numerous snowstorm & avalanches; O’Hare cancelled 500 more flights; Marin CNTY dumped sewage into San Fran Bay water; WI nun charged with assaulting boys years ago; perceptions vs. deceptions; Britney’s father will assume control of her life, her current boyfriend was part of the paparazzi; NYC cab drivers cannot talk on cell phones while driving, they can accept payment by credit card; proposal to create a street wide ‘personal safety zone’ between the media & the stars; more debates on how much, and how to allocate, global AIDS money donated by the US to battle the disease; poor Pete: Ground Hog Day is only 33% accurate, and there is always six more weeks of winter; female MI inmates suing correction CTR for sexually abusing prisoners; foot of snow fell in Springfield, IL; man started shooting at IL Lane Bryant store, unknown why, or how many; Bill: the Number One Surrogate; on the campaign trail: Oprah vs. Magic Johnson; fifteen million CA voters; is Obama more ‘liberal’ than Hillary?; MA, ‘a Latino state’; largest Latino newspaper supports Obama supports giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants; there are eight ‘strong Hispanic states’; Captain America rises from the dead: this time, he is armed!; do heroes need guns?; ‘bury the smell in a flowery box’; a border wall is just another challenge for aliens; YAHOO! Vs. GOOGLE; bizarre new breed of animal found in Tanzania; beer found in Africa, use corn, not hops; after two years, did student lie about being with Natalie Holloway on the day of her disappearance; handicapped women bring used as suicide bombers in Baghdad; did Ground Hog Day originate in Germany?; three times as many asteroids approach Earth than previously reported; this is the Year of the Rat in Chinese New Year, will start on Thursday; …2/3-08: polar protection 32º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…Santa Fe fog; seven inches of snow, so far, in Chama; woman will could spend 30 years in prison, charged with child abuse, leading to death of an 18 month old child; Hillary addressed the entire group, focused on energy [if Germany could use solar power, so could NM], universal health care & education solutions, to help combat the higher college tuition problems; relatively ‘warm’ this AM; two men raped two students, subdued with drugs & alcohol, then being driven back to school; domestic violence is just a misdemeanor; too much use from ABQ substance, domestic & child abuse CTR, 33K sq. ft. building, a ‘one of a kind’ structure’, only a dozen across the US to handle these victims; used by 1,200 victims; this is a temporary structure, a permanent building is being built; SE NM Red Flag, and Fire Dangers; Durango could see feet of snow; the snow advisories keep increasing; 3K people watched Hillary speak last night; out of hand protestors at Obama rallies; man tazed by police considered a homicide, died from drugs he took, and breathing problems after being pushed into the police car; Wind Advisories across the state, 50 mph gusts; Duke City could see flurries; another day, another fight; city MGR seeking back pay from both Rio Rancho, and Bay City, MI: he now holds the same position in Gastonia, NC; it has begun: Vigil-Giron tries for Congressional seat, to replace Heather Wilson; policewoman struck by getaway vehicle has been released from the HOSP; Santa Fe man fell into manhole, and died; Hillary will create ‘renewable energy’ jobs in NM; bad weather along I-40 from ABQ to Gallup; some NM schools have already stated they will be closed all day on Monday; I actually had the thought of going to AZ to see the Super Bowl, but changed my mind, so I would not be in any trouble, by missing the January Closing; Brad’s Warm Vichyssoise tastes very good; postal theft: taking place at the first of the month, when W-2 forms are being mailed, and monthly checks; mailboxes only held on their posts by four bolts; there are brush fires in Torrance CNTY & SW ABQ; children getting more cavities from drinking less milk, and eating more sweet foods; the next PRES will face two wars, plus a poor economy; Madonna earned the most money last year, followed by Barbra, then Celine; the problems with sending or receiving while driving, this is another form of traffic distraction, causing 75% of accidents, cars slowly swerve into other lanes, eyes follow what hands are doing: some teens consider themselves ‘veteran text callers’; Mardi Gras parades vs. Super Bowl: the ‘moving billboard’ across ABQ, and other cities; a ‘cult following’ football game; DELL is cutting 1,200 jobs; Romney won Maine caucus, attended funeral of Mormon leader; get ready fro more mergers & layoffs; did Patriots pre-tape a 2002 game?; now, New England has a twelve point favored lead; cake eating contest to win two Super Bowl tickets; eighteen year old college teen killed his parents in their GA home; Volvo recalls 82K cars; OR has had several snowstorms, towns using inmates to dig out; nine people arrested for selling forged Super Bowl XLII tickets; five women, customers & salespeople, killed at Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park, IL; T’storms over Phoenix; typical Super Bowl tickets sold for $700 each, there are now 1,632 comments to the ‘Patriots hater’ blog, both the Giants & the Patriots have gone to the Super Bowl in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s; monastery opened its doors for $250 per night rooms, but no drinking or smoking allowed before, during & after the Super Bowl; AZ newspapers have front page headlines & photos ready for either team’s victory; fifteen year old family member killed his parents & siblings in their Baltimore home; Colonel Sanders created the first fast food franchise; 92 year old blind golfer makes a hole in one; Hannah Montana movie is the number one weekend movie, taking in over $29 million; crib toys, hot melt mini glue gun [short circuit & ignite] and hooded jackets that could strangle young girls; being recalled; deal may be in the works between writers & studios this week; the US military would be defeated if an enemy invaded our country; Britney will remain in the HOSP for two weeks; Romney seeing his conservative stand based on where he sat: but what’s right for him is left for others; former MA GOV confident he will win his ‘own’ state; 1,020 [R] delegates up for grabs on Super Tuesday; ads don’t ‘buy’ elections; debt is not a ‘sin’; Exxon/Mobil made a $40.6 billion profit, earning $1,200 per second; that company has kept gas prices high; McCain needs to entice conservative [R] voters; blacks & women for Obama?; no security cameras in women’s clothing store; man killed when crushed by Mardi Gras float; at halftime, the Patriots were ahead, 7 – 3; after Super Tuesday, TX & OH decide in March: PA, in April; CA man sued by city for not having enough garbage; I-80 shut down in AZ: Los Angeles basin expects a foot of snow; skier missing near Lake Tahoe; so far, McCain & Clinton are leading; ‘streaming rallies’; is Chrysler declaring bankruptcy?; mother is convinced Natalie Holloway is dead, can now start the mourning process, but did teen confess having her body thrown overboard a friend’s boat?: evidence using hidden cameras; five deaths from Sri Lanka bombings at trains & bus terminals; earthquakes struck Rwanda & the Congo; Egypt has closed its border with the Gaza Strip; US embassy personnel have been told to leave Chad; a Beatles themed ‘Hard Days Night’ hotel opened in Liverpool; French PRES has married famous supermodel; more soldiers under stress means more suicides; eight people in India die when building collapsed on them; Japanese dumplings sicken ten people; …2/4-08: our strength, and our guarantee 39º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…Mrs. Obama in Las Cruces; fell up stairs on Saturday; good air quality; per Brad, no more grocery shopping for me, such is my ‘punishment’; I-25 from ABQ to Santa Fe could be tricky; more snow across NM; many people snowed in; shooting in SW ABQ; will the El Vado Motel be demolished; today will be the last speech for Pete Domenici as a senator; Sandia Labs still facing budget cut; Red Light Camera decision may be made tonight; I feel like crying this AM; Michelle Obama speaks in NM; the two Bills watched the Super Bowl at the Santa Fe mansion: snow blocked access to Red River locale, the original location to see the game; hail at 6A; Casitas Guest House is one of the state’s romantic getaways; I got plenty of sleep this weekend; can same-sex couples compete for Valentine’s Day prizes?; started snowing at 4P, still snowing at 6P; ‘super flu’ infecting NM?; the stress of ‘the game’ is off my shoulders; R arm, L side of ribs hurt; man suing Sandia Casino for failure to pay him his winnings; their response is that the winning machine had a $1500 maximum payout, not over $1 million: and the judicial answer was a ‘proven malfunction’; Brad at NMAS; at least eight inches of snow has fallen in Gallup; blowing dust in S NM; US Postal Service should had contacted all customers, using all possible means, but people who had mail stolen called a number that was outdated; a construction worker was struck at Second & Paseo; ABQ Journal endorses Obama; Hell Week, Day 2; finished Rounds by 10:30A; remember ‘professional courtesy’; Edie was out; America Ferreira [AKA, Ugly Betty’] was at UNM, supporting Clinton; Spring in New Orleans, and the SE US; I-55 rain; temps from 0s to 80s; 60s in DC; snow melting from downpours; 1/10 mile visibility in St. Louis & KC; very wet weather year for Los Angeles; OH Valley T’storms; bad weather in Four Corners area; snow in Denver; the ‘wild card’ team won; plastic egg with pellets being called a ‘weapon of mass destruction’; WY girls ‘started a riot’ by hurling French Fries, facing adult charges; Giants beat the Patriots, 17 – 14; the year we didn’t make it; undefeated, until the end; the final game was New England’s ‘wake up call’; but they will always be champions to me; Manning was the MVP; Obama would beat McCain if the elections were tomorrow: Hillary would lose; [D] in MO [Hillary] & DE [Obama]; the $3 trillion budget presented by Bush; MX may be America’s ‘land of opportunity’; 67% think the stimulus package will not work, and that we are already in a recession; agreement between Hollywood writers & producers; ‘show me your credit card & check book’: give 10% to your church, so says the electronic preacher; pay home mortgages as quick as possible; Super Bowl Game went to the last seconds of the last quarter; 1,191 delegates is the winning number; many people spent ‘mega bucks’ to spend ‘super weekend’ in Phoenix; how to prevent the ‘perfect season’; Hannah Montana movie made the most money ever during a Super Bowl weekend; a ‘new age of prosperity’ under Hillary; Obamas: the ‘power couple’; the biggest upset; but, to me, New England had ‘the perfect season’; the medulla malfunction never tells the brain that a person has eaten enough, or too much; gone, in 39 seconds; see Super Bowl ads on AOL Cyber Space; hunting season for scammers, going after rebate checks; the DOW is down; the FBI requesting eyes & palm scans: the ‘surveillance society’ vs. ‘ terrorist protection’; three people killed, two in the bar & one in the parking lot of MD restaurant after Super Bowl feud; missing CA hikers & skiers; KY man kills two people, then has sex with corpse; use holograms to help medical crunch, help take care of patients; stimulus is stagnant in creating new jobs; 97.5 million people watched the Super Bowl, the largest number of TV viewers for this event, the second highest amount of people; fashion models have to wear ugly outfits; 225K Ford vehicles recalled for faulty wiring issues; Abercrombie & Fitch MGR charged with obscenity in his ads; by end of day, two Lake Tahoe skiers were found; security at NATL monuments is lacking; proposed MS law banning restaurants from serving to obese people; place on Denali Highway called ‘Poison Point’, where ‘one drop will kill you’; Miami ‘irony’: this was ‘the worst of times’ for them: but they are the only team to go unbeatable throughout the entire season, including the Super Bowl; mighty Brady has struck out; did the Patriots cheat so they could lose the game?; McCain & Obama have ‘momentum’; the game of ‘most delegates’ vs. ‘most states’ won; next Tuesday [2/12/08] is ‘Beltway Tuesday’ for MD, VA & DC; CNN = ‘politics’; ‘Huck Me’ vs. “Yes, we can!’; are there [D] in ID; Hillary appear in Worcester, MA, and on the Hallmark Channel; profanity from a crow: ‘caw cuss’ [AKA, ‘caucus’]; money spent keeps America ‘safe’; an 7% increase in Homeland Security funding; Go West, and search for gold; US forces accidentally killed nine civilians in a home S of Baghdad, action blamed on ‘mistaken identities’; space shuttle Atlantis has started its countdown launch; Asian markets rising; is the Holloway suspect telling the truth, was he with her that night on the beach, or lying, trying to impress his friends, and a reporter; Iran launched rocket from its new ‘space center’, one big step for its technology; NASA is fifty years old, blasting Beatles song ‘Across the Universe’ [which is 40 years old] across the universe to the North Star, Polaris; a flying hotel by 2020?; the first suicide bomber in Israel for over a year; …2/5-08: history will come to life 25º in ABQ; 100% humidity at 6A…a little snow, shiny streets; good air quality; beware black ice; High Wind Warnings; Chama & Rio Arriba CNTY declared disaster areas; low turnout for NM on Super Tuesday?; freezing rain in Clayton, and other parts of the state; NM official guilty of embezzling $12,500; more travel by NM employees on Rail Runner for state business; shooting up, and having sex in library bathrooms?; reduced Red Light Camera fines, that can be paid in installments, drivers can opt for traffic class; strep throat outbreak in a NM HOSP, but CDC won’t say which one; still Winter Storm Warnings across N NM; Gallup fog; man New Mexicans worked on Oscar nominated movies; heavy snow forced Durango to shut down all businesses; even Domenici has begun growing a beard, gave his last speech to the NM state legislature, one of a few group of people who have served in politics over thirty years; the ‘haunted lodge’ in Cloudcroft, all NM GOV have stayed there, could it be its haunted magic; the song that Jeffrey & I could not play in the dark, that’s how much it frightened us; Chris said ‘it was a very good game’, as he spread ice removal on the stairs; my left should slightly hurt this AM; many were scrapping off ice & snow; House agrees to create task force that will study ‘universal health care’ [whatever that really means] for NM; more than 100 delays across NM; roof on Chama grocery store collapsed under the weight of snow; the same thing happened to a Durango skating rink, that was a museum, but was going to be torn down, and condos built in its place; Michelle Obama was also in SLC, plus Las Cruces; 40 inches of snow had fallen in Chama; voting problems in Rio Rancho & Espanola; the City of Vision: blurred, and not farsighted; several areas were running out of ballots; even the NM GOV waited in line; Hell Week 2.5; as always, I remain neutral; Maggie’s husband will start collecting Social Security benefits when he turns 62 this year; I wore jeans again, but at least I was at work; GPU had 39 patients; Julia has a cold; future hint: take a leak, take a break, take a walk; everybody likes me when I act dumb; asked by MGR to help work PEDS O/P edits; finished Rounds about 9:30A; Brad told to call him when I arrived at work [which I did]; Dorothy has a bad cold; flash floods in HI, spilling contaminated water; Orlando remains warm; more hail, strong storms & twisters from TX to OH; dense DC fog; temps from 10s to 80s; IN floods; twisters touch ground in TN & AR; will the good luck hold for Mardi Grad?; the faces of fatigue, face fatigue; Sponge Bob Balloon got stuck in Yarmouth power lines; NY naked martial arts man; the monkey dog rider; Obama trekked to ID, then to MA, McCain, the ‘true conservative’ was also in the Romney territory; Super Tuesday, The NATL Primary; 1,600 [D] delegates at stake; PRES budget does not include the war allotment, social programs cuts or limited; Roger Clemens faces more steroid accusations; $407 billion deficit; 10K workers idle in Chrysler factories across the US, over a parts dispute; gold is $900 an ounce, so people are digging for high grade ore in AZ, chunks are bedded in tons of rock; weekend prospectors up; need persistence & luck; every day the price gets high near Quartzite; both sides closing on an agreement, hopefully before the Academy Awards, the three hour promo, significant movement in the works; the bottom line: there is hope; Wii Syndrome; Park Police no longer patriotically patrol NATL monuments; coach retires after 902 victories; there are also marijuana withdrawals’ , similar to smoking; spend hours online finding the best price for one flight; giant tickertape parade today for the Giants; Hillary spent a late night on Letterman; Romney thinks he will win CA; pregnant women should not drink coffee, risk miscarriage; others dislike Starbuck’s; plane landed on ‘moving’ moving van; Hillary was in twenty states via satellite; DOW in deep downslide, dropped 370+ points; Huckabee wins WV; in-depth analysis; CA man crashed his car into a utility pole, causing 8,300 viewers to miss the Super Bowl; CA uses paper ballots; baby found in church van; in terms of delays, 2007 was a very bad year for airlines; Brady will not play in the Pro Bowl; 70% of the economy is on the decline, reaching into the service area; so far, the DOW is down 7.5%: the NASDAQ, 13%; has Obama won GA?; some machine malfunctions; there 1,681 [D] delegates to be won today; [D] win by percentages: [R], winner take all; NV cities have the most foreclosures, followed by CA & FL urban & rural areas; there are ‘super delegates’; Hollywood Video will close 400 more stores; projecting predictions; tycoon buys Oral Roberts UNIV, for the chairman’s seat on its board of power; make no mistake: the recession has arrived in the US; a hole in the wall Chinese take-out in Baghdad, do not speak Iraq, or English, no menu, kitchen in the middle of the restaurant; overseas, Americans in Asia voters voted at midnight for primaries; foreign markets falling; member of the Royal Family criticizes American foreign policy in the Middle East; oil is priced less than $89 per barrel; child thrown 40 feet from a German APT house, saved by firemen; can a hidden tape recording be used against Natalie’s friend; …2/6-08: life with extras, without the extra cost 20º in ABQ; 68% humidity at 6A…tied in NM; sing without formal training; NM is the only state that cannot declare a winner, less than 120 vote difference; again, counties vs. delegates; provisional ballots left to count, about 16,900 ballots; only one place to vote in Rio Rancho?; where’s the vision?; is democracy blind?; much larger turnout than expected; we are considered an important state; people in Chama are trapped in their homes, city & Rio Arriba CNTY is a disaster area; woman beat her mother with a cross; many schools are still closed; the only undecided state; Obama took Bernalillo & Santa Fe counties; how to remain in the NATL spotlight; slight chance of snow tonight; the eyes of the country are focused on NM; more storms passing through the state; two counties are still undecided; easy to access the Internet last night; early AM panic attack; Jemez Spring Lodge is another NM romantic getaway, their rooms have pellet stoves; does Valentine’s Day romantic getaways apply to ‘significant others’?; parents want random school drug testing; ‘I Promise Myself’ mantra; time to hide; forever disliked, forever afraid; I have changed my entire life; because of the Super Bowl, JoAnn lost her voice; spoke to Dr. McLoughlin about using V42.7 as a primary code; then told by JoAnn that PEDS should meet with the provider for other reasons, and ‘forgot to tell me; I am ‘the man who never sits’; finished Rounds about 9:30A; people on the commode, still talking on their cell phones; excuse me, I have to go outside and find a tree!; variant in a name: Terisa; too cold to talk this AM; try to remember Kim’s laughter; 54 dead from a series of twisters in AR & TN, people trapped in mall, voters looked for safety & shelters, people are in the dark; lots of now for KS; 70s in DC; temps from 20s to 80s; WA avalanches; SE US sees more severe storms & twisters; Maumee River overflowed its banks; hillside collapsed near Cincinnati; Boston rain, ATL T’storms; Danville, IL flood; KY & TN twister deaths; N NV snow; there were sixty twisters across five states; tornado threat for DC & VA; NY Giants earn their tickertape Parade for Fame in lower Manhattan; change vs. shared values vs. experience; trends are ties, in both parties; candidates take their own states; some voters were told their pens contained invisible ink; McCain is in command; Romney has spent $1 million per delegate he has won; ‘hyper-inflation’ vs. ‘ultra recession’; the [D] draw won delegate rich states in CA, Hillary won eight vs. twelve states; Hillary victories in NY, CA & MA; Obama won IL, DE, CT & MN; for [R], McCain won nine states, including CA, CT, NJ & IL; Romney in MA & UT, plus four other states; AL, AR & WV sided with Huckabee; McCain won the most delegates, with 517; 799 vs. 736 for the [D]; so…what’s next; there are no victories; the worst DOW drop in six months; Bush admits to using waterboarding tactics, but only as a last measure; not treating is not an option; both the writers & produces still have significant issues to resolve; cutback in production, consumer comfort index down 13 points; this is ‘the morning after’; the heart of the US economy is the service services; current stimulus package will not work, interest cuts don’t interest people; Romney wins were scattered across the US; OH, TX & PA are next; ‘change is coming to America’ vs. ‘we need a person that is ready on Day One’ vs. ‘we are the [R] frontrunner; lead paint found in old homes can make children sick; cell phones do not cause cancer; TN gas pump fire, caused by bad weather, killed several people; caffeine can make a breast tender; Heath Ledger had six prescribed drugs in his system, and was suffering from respiratory distress; the middle class can’t buy homes these days; [D] party chairman sorry for the tally delay, as NM makes CNN news; both [D] candidates praised each other; no one is pulling out of the race; men easier to become addicted to video games; cells from other parents could prevent a child from dying, all her internal functions are shutting down, getting healthy DNA, without ‘changing the code’; wear your laptop?; 300 teenagers kill family members each year; some people are just walking away from their homes, and their mortgages; to reduce costs & boost sales, Macy’s cuts 2,300 MGMT jobs; the DOW is falling; 53K difference in the [D] race; more [D] than [R] voted; about 14.4 million [D] vs. 8.7 million [R] voted; the upcoming ‘Potomac primaries’; gas could drop by 50¢ before spring arrives; Hillary loaned her campaign $5 million; delegate count for the [D] are Clinton: 1,038: Obama, 940; more people cast their ballot for Clinton, they were mainly women and Hispanics, but not the ‘change voters’; is Obama still ‘the unifier’?; ‘the [Oval] Office is not for sale’; for the [R]: McCain: 696 vs. 253 for Romney, and 187 for Huckabee, who won the S US [and nowhere else]; McCain needs to win over the conservative voter; the stimulus bill has stalled; legal drug abuse taking place over the Internet; Asian markets falling fast, the US will not be able to buy foreign goods; cat surfboards, took time to overcome its fear of water; AFG opium crop is growing; Italy’s PRES dissolves Parliament; new Iraqi flag flies over Baghdad; China, and the pet food scandal; Beatles guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has died; volcano erupts again in Ecuador; the polar bear baby & the mirror; full relations’ with N Korea in the near future?; …2/7-08: choose the size of your circle 28º in ABQ; 44% humidity at 6A… good air quality; the PC Security package; no winner in Super Tuesday, but Hillary’s lead is increasing; sex, drugs & violence in public libraries; overwhelming voter turnout; [D] party was not prepared, NM GOV also angry, some people left before casting their ballot; computers stolen from ABQ Public schools; rapist roams Santa Fe & ABQ; UPS employee accused of stealing high-tech gadgets; IPod, I-Phone or blackberry devices are easy to steal; ‘heavy metal rain’; waiting for one more county’s totals; three year old found wandering Duke City streets around midnight, mother charged with abuse & neglect; man charged with killing his daughter; I have twinges of pain in my back, on the middle part of the left side; Los Poblanos Guest Ranch, another romantic locale, found along the Santa Fe Trail; Brad made CD for Nancy, who is familiar with most of the singers or groups; update security system via online site; Obama won the NM white vote; many web sites have accessed my Blog; the ‘Die Another Day’ mantra; a single MRSA case reported at Durango High; stat employees, state business, use state train [AKA, Rail Runner]; Sunflower Markets paying owed O/T; the ‘shadow MGR’; teamwork vs. jealousy, who needs help; how to relieve stress; tackle the big blues; when things get tough, find a telephone pole; Meangel has been readmitted; finished Rounds at 9:30A; outside temperature vs. the ‘feel factor’; Edie is constantly complaining; early AM panic attack’; Dorothy still out sick; pee in the Pavilion; on the verge of tears; patient’s first name is ‘Jazz’; Maumee, OH & Tippecanoe rivers flooding, high water threatening Pittsburgh; amazing recovery stories, a doll that was really a baby [still alive], 58 deaths reported; 2 EF Four twisters reported; school bus tossed in the air, across the miles, PRES Bush will visit the destruction; cities destroyed; deadliest outbreak in two decades; sirens helped saved lives; others buries in twenty inches of new snow; 80s in Orlando [again]; 1K more flights cancelled in Chicago; now, 33 twisters reported; second worst outbreak; snow & ice along I-80/90; people in the N Plains have too much snow; most deaths from twisters in TN; snow caused pileup on I-44 near Springfield, MO; Homeland Security, NATL Guard, Red Cross & FEMA will help provide help; no monetary value on the damage, or disaster declaration issued yet; more N NV snow; temps from 10s to 80s; snow halts 800 vehicles along I-90 in WI; states vs. delegates vs. people; the delegated caucuses; stranded stimulus plan stalled in the Senate; campaigns & caucuses; conservatives don’t like McCain; tough fight for Romney & Huckabee; SONY Playstation burned up in MI student’s backpack; the merging of Macy’s; Chama mentioned on ABC AM news, and its three feet of snow collapsing roofs; executives knew the pet food was tainted with poison; ingredients falsely labeled in China; ABC newsman is dead at the age of 61from a skiing accident; Delta & NW Airlines closer to merging, creating the biggest airline; if doctors prescribe them, how can a mixture of medications be bad; six drugs taken together can prove deadly; hundreds online sites, only credit card required; indoor sky diving in CO, with 175 winds; marijuana has the same effect as tobacco on a person’s lungs & gums; cell phones lower sperm counts?; man survived after trapped under an avalanche; a online ‘how to’ web site; Motorola no more?; Britney ‘quietly’ discharged herself out of the HOSP, people fear for her safety; Cher has a new Las Vegas show?; 99% more accurate tax forms on the Internet; Romney drops out of the [R] race; OH man found dead in his home, he had shot his wife while she was teaching in a classroom of students; will McCain be able to unite the [R]?; home prices will continue to slide in 2008; a bad sign: people aren’t buying at Wal-Mart; after spending twelve days, missing UT couple located; the DOW stays stable; by end of day, a stimulus packaged passed; MECRK, kickbacks, bilking the GOVT INS companies with higher prices, filed under ‘training expenses’; five dead after Los Angeles SWAT situation; Romney had spent $40 million, was it a smart move to pull out after ‘Super Tuesday’?; a ‘sexy, bald’ Robin Roberts conquering the catwalk; controversial chemicals released from baby bottles; eleven month old baby thrown 150 yards by a twister, survived the ordeal, his mother died; Rice in AFG, talking up the Taliban terror; Bhutto mourning has come to its end; Asian markets rising; worst eruption in two years, blasting smoke & ash six miles into the air, other eruptions expected from the S American volcano; ‘the Brazilian blur’; largest mall in the world can be found in S China; will Atlantis launch? signs & storms point to ‘no’, but there was enough of a window for the shuttle to liftoff; as it ‘kept a date with the heavens’; Angelina Jolie in Iraq, dining with the troops; as we enter The Year of The Rat; specially designed paper planes will be launched from the INTL Space Station, will they reach Earth intact?; …2/8-08: ‘free’ info; ‘free’ gift 30º in ABQ; 72% humidity at 6A…I may be a nobody, but at least I am; be on the lookout for ‘the Big Story’; Hillary leads by about 1K votes, but it may take more than a week to produce the final totals; the ‘caucus chaos’; never use volunteers again; fast-food restaurant robbed near Coors & Central; fake charity scam for Ronald McDonald House; is LANL contaminating local water?; two counties declared disaster areas from too much snow; crossing guards & gates are now state property; school roof rusting, leaks are increasing; domestic partnership bill appears doomed, cannot get out of committee, constantly postponed; battling the rising property taxes; fewer grey wolves reported; traffic cameras & road gates on I-40, E of ABQ should be completed in about a month; roof of Durango Wal-Mart was on the verge of collapsing; 1,800 NM soldiers will be rewarded for their part in the Bataan Death March; many people have helped Chama residents dig out of the snow; Brad made Key Lime Pies; Hyatt Tamaya Resort are another romantic resort: Native American food & culture are included in the luxurious lodgings; very tired this AM; renewed Norton security; Maggie out; another rough week in ‘Paradise’; I had ‘late’ [AKA, early January] charges; cleared my area of as many ‘old’ services as possible; big bonus checks to UNM Athletics Staff, even those that were no longer employed; keep getting instructions on testing the TES system as if we were conducting the conversion: how many sessions, and when to leave; Coding will be shorthanded for at least another month; Arlene cannot find another missing billing sheet, she did have it at one time; very tired this PM; made good bus connections, traffic slowed at Olde Towne, so I walked home; JoAnn asked if I had any I/P Pulmonary sheets: I said no, so I went to Mike Green, and asked him for a blank form, made plenty of copies, and gave some to Joann; the return of Marvin; ‘eternal priorities’; Lena gave me a calendar; the hidden main entrance to UNMH will open on 2/18/08; went to comics country; forty-one inches of snow has fallen in Chicago: in Green Bay, 57 inches; Burlington, VT recently received 16 inches of snow; yet NYC is ‘snow starved’; 59 deaths from at least 46 twisters, some with winds more than 200 mph; MD family had just moved to AR; I-75 storms; parts of I-70 W of Denver still closed; more flurries for IA; temps from – 0s to 80s; IL, IN, OH & NY floods, thieves, power outages & cold weather plague tornado victims; ‘simplify loans’; the era of urban wineries; will NE support Obama; Cher is 61, has signed a three year Las Vegas contract, has Epstein-Barr virus, and dated Tom Cruise; anchorman suspended for his rude comments about Chelsea Clinton; man grabbed officer’s gun, angry about citations issued by the city; Kirkwood, MO shootout, killed two police, the mayor, several city officials & bystanders during a City Council meeting; the dead were those that had ‘harmed him’; more security [such as metal detectors] & plainclothes policemen; Bush will sign the stimulus, checks will be in the mail by the summer; over time, 95% of plastic baby bottles may release toxic chemicals: baby have a lower immune system: therefore, they are more susceptible; BOTOX may be very hazardous to your health; Roger Clemens will give DNA sample to determine if he was on steroids; Romney withdrew because he loves America; explosion at GA sugar refinery kills six; three people die from Louisiana college campus shooting; people would rather be indoors, watching TV, than outdoors; Bush says ‘keep it conservative’; Berkeley residents do not want Marine recruiters in their city; the dollar may be worthless in a decade; the DOW drops; ten mile backup after forty foot sinkhole opens on I-25 near Denver; MERCK must pay $671 million in fines; Phoenix restaurateur threatened to open fire at the Super Bowl for being denied a liquor license; use a knee brace to charge a cell phone?; ‘contraction of jobs’; even Wal-Mart is suffering; several caucuses & primaries being held this weekend, over 180 [D] & 70 [R] delegates in the balance; Romney ‘hates to lose’; the end of printed newspapers; Mafia arrests on the rise in NYC; NM makes NATL news as being the last state to tally ballots; steam baths are good to help cure sinus infections; when benefits outweigh the risk; now, stimulus checks may be in the mail by May; working with a staff that is both under trained & overwhelmed, customer service employees at mortgage companies cannot cope with the onslaught of calls from people with monthly payments they can’t afford, fines & penalties actually make more money for banks or financial institutions; GOOGLE news may go local; Swedish man hit by tin of fish; Asian markets falling; Bhutto died from a ‘crushing head blow’; in Ecuador, ash is erupting three miles from volcano; Atlantis carrying lab to INTL Space Station; veterans will get awarded for surviving the Bataan Death March; 85 million still affected by Internet cable cut, was this a terrorist act?; space shuttle examined after three piece of foam strike the craft; Iraqi women must cover their hair, or face death; soldier killed in Iraq sent his adopted dogs back to his family’s MI home; …2/9-08: positively ageless 32º in ABQ; 45% humidity at 6A…testing the TES system; puppy’s ears cut off; Susan has a list of the volunteers; yesterday, Krista singing, her last day was the day before; great weather to both ski & golf; Marine recruiters face Duke City DUI charges; Aztec rape victim failed to appear in court to testify; one person stole lip gloss during daylight hours; another business requires patrons to remove their hats & sunglasses; teen fight captured on YouTube; red light camera fines will be lowered, but will still reach hundreds of dollars, based on how much a vehicle is over the speed limit; the Super Tuesday ballots are still being counted; Holly Holm was the winner again; after the testing, do the Rounds; Chama residents may see the ground today, as snow was removed by plenty of helpers from across the area; Italian Film Festival across ABQ, money raised to benefit UNM Children’s HOSP; Los Lunas High senior has patent for determining the sex of a salmon, she will be going to Alexandria, Egypt to present her research; NM military school is seeing a drop in enrollment; so far, Hillary is still the ‘winner’ in NM; another weekend, another wrong E-mail, another fight, and more forced silence; JoAnn not being able to access system, Myrna not knowing how to delete duplicate entries; me going up & down stairs several times; Jenny is here today; in all, a very stressful Saturday for me; I really wish I could get enough courage to kill myself; finished Rounds by 2:30P, arrived home before 3:30P; corridor elevators weren’t working; totally forgot about Kim, my mind feels clouded; a sinkhole growing on Central, a ‘way out’ bus stop; too expensive to setup shops in Downtown Duke City; bear the burden myself; pass allowed me to access stairwell; when I got home, I could not fall asleep; 70s in S NM; PM stabbing at Coronado Mall; I lock myself in my home office; skate park opens, thanks to one person, and many donations; domestic partnership law will not be further address this legislative session; Farmington tries to keep its airport open; went to bed by 8P; nothing really eaten since breakfast; Celtics won; a week of rivalries; ‘Kill the Mayor’ was uttered by the Kirkwood killer; red wine have good antioxidants, is good for the heart, but it also has ‘empty calories’; three people survive small plane crash in CA; tonight, temps in the N Plains may drop to – 30º; YAHOO turns down Microsoft buyout bid; avalanches threaten several WA state passes; a chance Hollywood writers strike could end; PT Cruiser may bite the dust; Huckabee wins KS; Obama campaigning in Seattle; eleven people killed in one hour in Milwaukee; Obama wins WA & NE; during the ‘afternoon’, Atlantis docked at the INTL Space Station, will install a lab built in Europe; sick astronaut delayed spacewalk, will be done two days from now; Friday was a deadly day in Iraq, five soldiers were killed by IED; London’s famous Camden Market destroyed by fire; the G-7 meet in Japan, trying to prevent a global recession; people in PAK fears for their lives, as suicide bombers claim lives on a weekly basis; 5.4 quake rocked the Baja region of MX, 400K+ without power, tremor also felt in CA & AZ: hundreds of aftershocks felt, phone service disrupted; …2/10-08: speak children’s language 33º in ABQ; 58% humidity at 6A…’bring the world home with you’?, hell, NO!; today is another day, thank heavens; artifacts stolen from Thailand, China & El Malpais have been located, smuggling pots & ladle stolen five years ago, they appeared in Los Angeles & Asian art galleries; NM spent $850K to help drivers navigate the road, but shut down for five hours during blizzards, the state DOT ‘hot line’ needs more funding & sophistication, which includes a web site, what NM needs is a ‘511’ call center, manned 24 hours per day, something 32 other states have: where did the money go?; Boy Scouts had food drive, got 12K pounds of food, donated to Roadrunner Food Bank; big demand for recycling bins, need more trucks to collect that trash, some are being emptied twice daily; $10K damage for spraying graffiti in Agua Fria School in Santa Fe, taking laptops; create a ‘do not knock’ list to prevent traveling salesmen from soliciting at homes; two raises in the thousands of dollars given to a UNM official, who has only been in his position in twenty months; shelve the domestic partnership bill; students competed in ‘Science Bowl’, training for DC contest, to be held this May; Mister Horrific: Master of Menace; ‘spring fever’ today’; NM NATL Guard heading to the Philippines, the first time soldiers from this state being sent to the island nation; $20K in vandalism to file cabinets & a truck stolen from Belen Conservancy; provisional ballots from Super Tuesday votes are still being counted; ‘peeping tom’ has been charged; 20 year old gang member, who was walking with his family, was stabbing while trying to break up a fight at Coronado Mall; Brad preparing City Chicken, a Depression dish; above normal temps today; a typical ABQ crash takes an hour to clear, as compared to 4 – 6 hours years ago: factors include if a crime is involved, time of day, location or the size & numbers of vehicles: when air bags get deployed, the fuel switch becomes locked, a big factor is when fatalities occur, and lawsuits could be filed; NM: one of the largest oil producer; proposal to use the Lobo Dollars debit card to buy food at Nob Hill restaurants, can only use them at few locations on UNM campus itself; several ABQ school workers’ salaries have been drastically cut because of ‘initial errors’; fundraiser today for two hikers still missing; the $5.6 million NM Lottery winner is state resident; enjoy a ‘stress free zone’ in Silver City romantic resort; more NM crimes being committed by juveniles; flu cases spreading across S NM & Bernalillo CNTY, the disease will last until spring; – 6º in Angel Fire; Hillary still leading in NM, sixteen hour days for workers counting ballots; Performing & Visual Arts school may become a reality, built in Santa Fe; discrepancies in the number of hours worked by school behavioral management specialist; a win-win that’s a yum-yum; Lobos men’s’ basketball wins again; in ABQ, a lion dance plus a 60 foot dragon celebrate the start of the Chinese New Year; more murders being committed by juveniles; the limitations of one day weekends; NMSU student fees may increase; overturned van shuts down I-25S, near Rio Bravo exit; Hollywood writers could resume talks, and work, this week; recalls: girl’s bicycles, toy hand rakes [too much lead] & egg shakers; Gay Mormons want to meet with their new religious leader; passenger strikes flight attendant; the candidates now focus on ME; Hillary had no victories; but Obama swept LA, WA, NE & Virgin Islands; Huckabee won in KS & LA; McCain in WA; Paris Hilton looks like a porn star after a long weekend; wind chill warnings in Chicago, could feel like – 60º; Obama talks like a preacher; Oprah opens her own store in Chicago; gravitating to candidates; fifth body found in Savannah refinery explosion; Hillary wants to improve history; ‘embrace your fashion side’; sex offender wins $10 million lottery; Falcon Studios is 35 years old; currently, ten states & the DC allow domestic partners the same rights as married couples; Sci-Fi producing ‘B’ horror movies; maybe six episodes could be produced if the strike ends this week: but then there is the actors’ contract which expires in June; Obama won ME; mosque in Columbia, TN destroyed by fire: arson suspected, swastikas scribbled on its walks; Obama home state is HI; Bush about McCain: “I know his convictions”; don’t alienate independents; do you want a ‘big, wet kiss from a disliked PRES’?; the Paris Hilton movie earned an AVG $225 per theater; Final services for Heath Ledger at Perth Australia; the Luna Year celebrated in Hong Kong; 500 workers flee N Sea oil rig after explosion alert, and security threat: in the end, it was a big hoax; Gates say European allies should fear AFG; US soldier found guilty of killing Iraqi, then planting evidence on the victim; no casualties from major London fire; how big is the space shuttle tear?; after a sixteen year delay, the $2 billion ‘space lab’ will be installed; an astronaut has come down with a ‘non-life threatening illness’, causing spacewalk to be delayed until tomorrow; ship sank near the Straits of Gibraltar, spilling its oil on N African beaches; the contents of an al Qaeda diary, found in a ‘safe house’, will be released soon; the plagued VTOL, AKA ‘Osprey’, being sent to Iraq; just when you think things are getting better, suicide bombers strike in that country again; Nigella Lawson is worth $10 million: her husband, $100 mil, and he does not want their children to inherit the family fortune; the 9/11 conspirators may face a military tribunal soon; China facing inflation worries; …2/11-08: a montage of music 34º in ABQ; 61% humidity at 6A…Brad at NMAS; a recycled can is able to power a TV for three hours; Dense Fog & Fire Warnings across E NM; auto thieves still plague the Duke City, one had been a gift for a husband to his wife; there is an Albuquerque Q Studios; memorial funds for families were used to produce pins & memorabilia, honoring a NM copter crash in CA; two Santa Fe schools vandalized this weekend; the leaky health INS mandate, but a boost for film industries; good air quality; 1,000 year old El Malpais artifact recovered, donated a tax write-off, now, the site is monitored for looters; Hillary is still ahead, but the Super Tuesday votes keep getting counted; Super Glue stabilized my home office desk; fire & floods have prevented library from opening; a Sustiva dream I can’t remember; 57 security lapses at LANL, 65% affecting NATL security; on the W Side, 60+ vehicles had their tires slashed; another NM romantic getaway, this one near Santa Fe: 10,000 Waves, with Asian styled messages, pools & décor; NM GOV has line item veto; Farmington mayor performs his duties while battling cancer; soldier from Grants injured his back in Iraq attack, being flown home for recovery, has a small earring in upper lobe; ABQ teen missing from VT college that he was attending; unusual circumstance, brought about by unusual people; all of our batches have been entered; finished Rounds by 9:30A; thanked by our MGR for coming in this weekend, and working our TES edits; PowerChart down this AM, felt like a bat, not know which charts to review; there was ‘a general system failure’, corrected by 9:15A; the ‘human hemorrhoid’; do we have a new PEDS Coder, Evelyn?; Geri has been found, working in Katina’s area; Edie still coughing; Dorothy has returned to work, looks thinner & tired; felt like a contestant on ‘Project Runway’; people take the ‘indoor arctic plunge’; wildfires in S US, such as Carolinas & VA, forcing people to leave their homes, and causing power outages in the Old Dominion; 68 car pileup on I-81 in PA; 36 car pileup near Rochester, NY, one death reported: every vehicle was a total loss; at 6A, 17º in DC; more NE US blizzards; people pray for better weather, church on ‘sacred ground’; this week, colder in SE US; last week’s tornadoes: struck 10 states, 59 deaths, five EF Category 4 twisters in AL, TN & AR; WI, IL & IN may see more snow; temps from 10s to 80s; one tornado had a 124 mile long path; N Rockies could see another snowstorm; – 40º in INTL Falls, MN; parts of W VA declared a state of disaster from blazes, half of the commonwealth’s 95 counties have reported fires; put calorie content on fast food chain drinks; up to 1600 calories for mixed alcohol libations; ‘light to moderate’ credit card user; lower limits, high interest rates, keep unnecessary expenses low; people will not, or cannot stop spending; Marines are called ‘leather necks’ & ‘devil dogs’; it’s ‘all about Obama’, the new page in history; walking away from destruction; ‘path to victory is harder than the path to defeat’, so says Huckabee; she sound sincere, Hillary campaign MGR replaced; Edwards being ‘courted’; some production staff will be out of work for several more months; rate the rates; Roy Scheider has died at the age of 75; DOW fell 561 points; hire a pro to help you propose; ‘conservative credentials’; hockey player has neck sliced by a skate, he is in stable condition; a tentative deal in the writer’s strike, could conclude two days from now; doctors find new ways HIV attacks healthy cells; using sugar substitutes may cause people to gain weight; Herbie Hancock win Best Album Grammy; now, Patriots fans feel the team was cheated out of 1½ minutes of play; Obama won a Grammy for the audio version of his new book, Hillary had won a similar award in the past; a computer chip to make cell phone calls easier to hear; Edwards not backing anyone, yet; TX cotton crop being threatened by dry weather; 180K Ford SUV & minivans recalled for door handle & fuel line defects; four Americans spied for China?; economic uncertainties vs. recession; 5.1 quake in the Baja region along the MX/US border; 44% unemployment rate for special needs people, who sometimes work hard than those without disabilities; TN teen shot in school gym; when going through security, should laptops be searched; price of mail rises to 42 cents in May, 2008; police car burst into flames after collision on I-4; the power of positive political pointing; E-mails scams with threats of murdering victims; Polaroid end its instant film; back injuries postpone 62 year old Dolly Parton’s music tour promoting her new CD; there will be no ‘McCain coronation’; Cher will be paid $12 million for her Las Vegas ‘return tour’; Blackberry ‘service disruption’; some credit card are increasing their interest rates [sometimes tripling the amount] without notice, many as high as 19%, companies facing a $1 trillion loss, on the entire amount owed: the plan is to offset mortgage losses, thought to be ‘easy money’, which will cause people to spend less, thus worsen the economy; six police officers fired after making sexual advances to a drunk woman that had been arrested; ‘definitive distinctions’; Hillary has ‘institutional strength’; dog survived after jumping more than 60 feet to the ground; two people still missing in GA refinery blaze; Gates made ‘surprise’ visit to Iraq, says we should not withdraw troops at this time; 9/11 terrorists face 169 charges: trial designed to convict the GITMO detainees, considered murderers; ailing astronaut does not have contagious disease; get ready for the Mach 5 supersonic jet, flying at 4K mph; four spies selling space shuttle statistics; 30K paintings have been stolen, used to pay drug dealers, with only 20% ever recovered; $163 million heist in Zurich: featuring works of art by Cezanne, Monet, Degas & Van Gogh; PRES Hugo Chavez could halt Venezuelan oil to the US, the price per barrel has increase to $93.41; foreign markets falling; …2/12-08: good rest, good mood 37º in ABQ; 59% humidity at 6A…good air quality; more Rail Runner safety gates, total cost for all upgrades is $1 million; trial begins against Cannon AFB military husband who killed his wife, in front of his child; NM student still missing in VT, left his dorm without a coat & cell phone; LANL questionable accounting practices; flat one-rate income tax by 2012; 82 year old Code Talker died this past Saturday; NM native, a US soldier had spinal cord injury; $10 million animal center in Edgewood?; $5.6 million lottery winner will end up with $2.5 million after taxes, plans on sharing his wealth; Lieut. GOV will not get state police protection when NM GOV is out of the state; and the Super Tuesday votes keeps getting counted; another late week winter storm warning; Roswell woman found shot to death; teens will not spend time in jail for serving burgers laced with marijuana to police officers; crime lab put cases on hold; educational assistants going on strike, not paid enough; students awarded money for good attendance; more snow for Chama?; hot air ballooning is a ‘romantic getaway’, at the whim of Mother Nature, but diamond rings, wicker baskets & Rio Grande River can be risky; pork projects & reauthorizations, 45 are those are from the NM GOV; domestic fine penalties will include jail time after four convictions; some ‘pork projects’ do a lot of good for a lot of people; thief who steals from the Rio Rancho; early AM panic attack; rabies has been reported in a Grant CNTY fox; NM soldier from Alamogordo has died in Iraq; water bottles being pulled off shelves, yeast found in the liquid samples; railroad gates needed for 16 crossings; there is $150 million, and a vault of unclaimed items in a Santa Fe safe; NM GOV wants a new plane; ‘perfect attendance’ payment program may run out of money; work on blue sheets; remember MGR fund money; security pass would not allow me to enter, or leave, PICU; JoAnn didn’t remember the $2 per month ‘fund’; Code Purple at 7A; Evelyn working where Myrna used to sit, Myrna is with Reyna; finished Rounds by 9:15A; expanding my education; AC on PM R/R; MGR asked for my ‘TES edit numbers’, which are 56 & 57; ‘seldom seen, rarely heard’; two R/R buses broke down yesterday; Phoenix may see the 80s; tricky along I-70, I-80, I-90 & I-94; IN frozen floods; twister sighted near Kennedy Space CTR; another pileup, this time on I-70 near Pittsburgh, where snow was falling; temps from 10s to 70s; Dallas T’storms; DC weather ‘mix’; freezing rain from KY to IN; rain & light snow in VA, DC & MD; the second Blackberry failure in two years; the steroid scandal continues in Congress, athletes said they used them wisely; $50K bouquet of roses burned in IA truck fire; 98% of teens say they lie, but why?; six mortgage lenders are creating Project: Lifeline, provide a thirty day reprieve from foreclosures; US is $8 trillion in debt; economy is structurally sound, but with ‘soft spots’; sugar substitutes could make people gain weight, especially around the stomach; want more sweet foods; before the increase, buy the ‘forever stamp’; today are the Potomac Primaries for both [R] & [D]; will a beagle win the top dog prize at the Westminster Show?; Philly school cancelled after hens, complete with food, brought in at 5A; Shrek the Musical will premier on Broadway in late 2008; the GOOGLE android on cell phones; is Hillary in hot water, she has recently lost five states; Jeb Bush endorses McCain; [D]: the party of tomorrow; TX GOV told Huckabee to withdraw from campaign; writers’ strike may see a finale; Blu-Ray vs. DVD; a Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in DC?; an increase in heart problems, after 40 years of decline; 45 minute wait to vote in VA, long lines in several cities; living to 100 years old is ‘easy’; Icy Hot patches being recalled, burning skin; tell doctors when you trip & fall; Berkeley vs. the military; GM lost $39 billion last year, the biggest loss in the carmaker’s history: offering buyouts to all its US workers, up to $140K; is the DOW going up?; fifteen year old eighth grader shot at Oxnard, CA Junior High School; FL prisons similar to Roman orgies; mall violence bad for US economy; Buffett offers loans to ease mortgage woes, to help stop a ‘full blown’ recession, debit cards for all Americans, with a ‘use it or lose it’ stipulation?; another season for ‘Jericho’?; ship slams into New Orleans levee; MD extended its voting hours; FL police push a man out of his wheelchair; the end of writers’ strike may still mean the end of some series; ‘my brother is an only child!’; GA boy shot himself in the eye with his babysitter’s gun; many people owe more than the actual value of the home they bought; upgrading process caused power failure to Blackberries; the era of ‘time shared dogs’ is here; sugar finery flames reached 4Kº, it is still burning, the goal is to have the surface solidify; the plan is a voluntary participation of mortgage companies; Obama won VA & MD, his seventh victory in a row; he now has more delegates than Hillary; the ‘conception cap’ when ‘I feel fertile’; compassion vs. diversity; writers were voting during the PM hours; could Obama ‘beat’ McCain?; the foreclosure deals for people who are 90 days past due on mortgage payments, or about 1.3 million homeowners, not all will qualify, must be financially fit’: this is not a permanent solution; red roses banned for Saudi sweethearts; E Europe seeing a rise in exorcism; foreign markets on the rise; while inside mother, UK twins kicked out a tumor, woman thought it was false labor; torture by US vs. murder by terrorists; first tribunal since WWII; second recent Swiss art theft in recent weeks; 23 foot long lab attached to INTL Space Station; oil has dropped to $93.05 per barrel; a 6.4 quake shook the Oaxaca region of MX, no injuries reported; Venezuela has prevented Exxon/Mobil from pumping oil from that S American country; …2/13-08: behind every detail, is a detail 31º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…Brad’s Chiro visit; prepare for blowing dust; heavy snow in VT stops search for ABQ graduate; the crazy NM tax system & deductions; high wind & fire danger across E NM, warnings that will last until Friday PM; Brad made Pickled Eggs; NM GOV locked himself away from the legislative session, and the pending bills; Duke City Downtown arena may still become a reality; mother brought daughter to UNMH ER on Saturday, arrested for child abuse; the increase in flu cases is placing visitors’ restrictions in hospitals; thieves stole van for Rio Rancho food service; good air quality; snow watches & warnings; contaminated bottles with bottles water; another debate on Rio Rancho road paving, and who will pay for the upgrades; still waiting for the [D] winner in NM PRES caucus; the list of people running for NM political positions is now finalized; rain to snow in ABQ; will a special session be called for NM lawmakers; vandalized campaign signs, considered a misdemeanor; yesterday, our cable went out; early AM panic attack; Dona Pena: the same, but renamed; ‘Instant Replay’ mantra; mother of lost student works at UNM OR; proposal to move Red Light Camera fines into state coffers; Sunday bus schedule on Presidents’ Day, take Central, but no way to reach SunPort; far W Mesa ‘working brush fire’ burned 120 acres, came close to the METRO Detention CTR; is there a gloomy NM financial forecast?; NM GOV is $374K in debt, asking contributors for money; Sustiva dream featuring the JLA & JSA; the comics before the storm; nurses attempting 24 hour shifts; patients complaining of increased pain; MGR B’day, sent her a birthday E-mail; read, and analyze; the revised timesheet; finished Rounds about 9:15A; 1/29/08: patient with respiratory problems, but no bed available; mother admitted to hitting her child with a wooden object, but in different parts of the patient’s body, and has been arrested; Code Purple at 1:15P; yearly review, 2/21/08 at 9:30A; yesterday: Cocoa Beach, FL twister; MS ice storm; today, High Wind Warnings in SW US; cool in ATL; heavy rain along I-95 in the Carolinas; five inches of rain fell in Frostburg, MD; freezing rain in the Valley; a Boston ‘mix’; DC needs more snow, Boston doesn’t; ice across OH; communities running out of salt for their roads; ice on the MA Pike, also in DC & Baltimore; temps from – 0s to 80s; S FL tornado watch this AM; de-icing at Memphis airports, among others; MD had ice storm warnings: a bus slid and struck a truck, sending people to the hospital; more flights cancelled at O’Hare; MI & OH storms cause house fires, killing adults & children; Durango elderly woman used axe to break into her home, forgot her keys; woman put meth inside her bank deposit envelope; Hillary focusing on W states, her deputy campaign MGR stepped down; has Roger Clemens, the ‘best pitcher in baseball’, been lying about using steroids ‘to get ahead’?: ten years ago, he was addicted to it: battle between two men, and their lawyers; five million Americans have heart failure, new pump could eliminate risky transplants; one connection, for all devices; the rising cost of back pains, some treatments do not work; spy satellites used on US citizens, without their knowledge?; economic stimulus package signed by Bush; Hillary has more of the 800 ‘super delegates’, 400 of which are not committed; these are the ‘party insiders’; airline mergers mean less airport congestion vs. higher fares; $50 to check a second bag on a round trip, higher fees to land or takeoff during peak times; how to quit quitting; HGH should be used by AIDS patients or children with growth delays, but is it illegal?; people are losing their homes in many major cities; PA pregnant woman got drunk: at last call, threw bottle at bartender; Hollywood writers return to work, Los Angeles has lost $2 billion; Obama & McCain sweeps the Potomac primaries, IL SEN has more states & delegates; clinched first place, eight straight wins; tug of war in VA votes, McCain called Huckabee to end his campaign, is the former AR GOV still considered a potential threat; Blackberry, the ‘addictive little device’; MN woman beat her three year old cousin’s son to death, while two of her own children held him down, and a third watched; UNO, the three year old beagle wins ‘best in show’ Westminster, got a standing ovation; gone are the days when people have seen Oscar nominee movies; NYC psychologist hacked to death with a meat cleaver; the DOW is up again; Defense SECY slips on ice, break arm; Detroit is the highest ‘big city’ in terms of foreclosures; student duct taped to desk; ‘momentum isn’t everything; Hillary is losing support from whites & women; steroids & scandals & circuses, oh, my!; dust storms caused a 50 vehicle pileup on CA Highway 99; if the level of Lake Mead keeps lowering, there will not be enough water available for AZ & NV: this could occur by 2021; another Star Wars movie?; Philly mayor predicts the greatest American city turnaround in 50 years, this is a city that is one-sixth the size of NYC; Asian markets falling; Hezbollah top leader killed; the Russian ‘walruses’, who play chess while swimming in freezing water; the end of charities with Concerts, full of live musical bands, everything will take place on YouTube; double-decker bus didn’t make it under a London bridge; beagles date back to ancient Rome; …2/14-08: get involved in health care 46º in ABQ; 34% humidity at 6A…work up tired; make Valentine’s Day a weekend event; good air quality; flu is ‘widespread’ in NM; the winter storm is slowing and dipping S; all the ballots have finally been counted, with Hillary the winner: she will gain 1 delegates, while Obama will add 12 more to his list; fire in the Bosque near Isleta BLVD can be seen from The Beach; “it’s just my tired talking”; as repairs are made to our retaining wall, the cable goes down & up; started in October, 2004, enforced as of May, 2005, the Red Light Camera Program has ended; Rio Rancho residents must pay thousands of dollars to pave their roads; Cloudcroft emergency, leak has resulted in lost water, 175K gallons per day; Mountainair man shot in the head at his home; sister-in-law of NM GOV charged with DUI; search for missing ABQ student in VT has been called off; NM nursing home lost its certification; Alamogordo mother dealing meth, child taken away from her; Duke City wants to buy El Vado Motel; seminary fire in Farmington; the NM legislative session should end today; more snow for Chama?; Lovelace nurse faces criminal charges, drank alcohol before coming on duty; V-Day card from Brad; ‘do the math’; staff meeting at 9:30A; UNMMG meeting from 3 – 4 PM: not mandatory, but advised; ‘love’ in the air?; Leah got married today; some people take comical things said at meetings too seriously; some parents find any excuse to beat their children; JoAnn had ‘training issues’; we have been generating $6 million in revenue for several months; Judy was out sick; presents from Lena, Julia & Rosanne [my gift had a ‘boy toy’]; PEDS got chewed out for not training new doctors who attend in Newborn; nurse used to live in Falls Church, VA; Code Purple at 2P; there are people who don’t turn in time sheets on time; just another ‘pep rally’; sounds like ‘League’ vs. ‘Plan’; Myrna speaks highly of me, but may become an I/P Internal Medicine Coder; Geri is ‘politically polite’; saying nothing we didn’t already know; people who don’t sign in & out for lunch; are there people who are specifically hired to get other people into trouble?; I can do Data Entry’s job; WI & CO snow, along 1-25, 1-70, 1-90 & I-94; freezing rain collapsed roof in Providence, RI; per Weather Channel, windy in SW US; N Plains & Piedmont snow; temps from – 10s to 80s; fifteen deaths from NE US storms; Madison, WI has had 45 inches above normal snowfall; strong winds for ‘the’ Las Vegas; Romeoville & Joliet, plus Valentine & Kissimmee; beware Valentine Day E-mails, scams & Trojan horses, the most popular day for sending text messages; spring training starts; missing cat in wheel rim of fire truck; 911 phone number connects you to a sex ‘hot line’; crumbs: they are, what they are; Roger Clemens vs. his trainer, who’s telling the truth?; more lies revealed during Congressional session; SEN says Patriots have been spying since 2000; Billy Graham is hospitalized, has fluid in his brain; Bush said the terror threat against the US is increasing; more police violence on video, on cell phones or security cameras; flu shots are only 30% effective, mutated strains have appeared; get $20 air filter, to use when flying; Obama has momentum, Hillary halting; promises vs. solutions; McCain looking past Huckabee, to Obama; JFK ‘love child’ appears; people will buy Valentine’s Day presents for everyone, including their pets; over the past two years, gold has risen from $500 to $900 per ounce; the new Indiana Jones movie will debut this year; the dreaded ‘R’ word: recession vs. ‘fundamentally slow growth’, blame the various unstable markets; metal blade found in candy at FL convenience store; while we may have economic problems, ‘experts’ say the US is not in a recession; Romney endorsed McCain; women who was taken off life support suddenly comes back to life, and keeps improving: the couple have both ‘woke up’; David Groh, who played ‘Joe’ on ‘Rhoda’ has died at the age of 68 from cancer; the DOW is dropping, and so are house prices during the last quarter of 2007; from NM, Hillary won 14 delegates: Obama, 12; four dead, including the gunmen, at a N IL UNIV, a school with 25K students, man opened fire during a lecture hall class; the warrant less wire tapping; 35K FEMA trailers [each costing $60K] have been proven to release formaldehyde fumes, maybe they can live in foreclosure homes, since sales have fallen in 45 states; being in a long-term, loving relationship can keep people healthy; as one of several options, America may shoot down a US spy satellite that is plummeting to Earth, it is 130 miles above the Earth: a USA193, weighing 5K pounds, ‘high confidence’, but never done before; yet we were not pleased when China [who has scattered space with more debris than any other nation] destroyed a weather satellite, fuel tank has toxic ingredients; walkout at Capitol Hill: Congress tries to restrict the CIA from using ‘waterboarding’ as a means of interrogation; silver fillings that contain mercury are not harmful; ‘talk vs. action’; Bush would pardon Roger Clemens; Beagles have a very good nose, and are no longer the ‘underdog’, they are ‘high maintenance roommates’; Amber Alert for three CA children; Lake Mead & Powell could be dry for 2021; flowers are ‘magical’; SEN Craig accused of ‘improper behavior’ after sex scandal; there is an Obama, Japan!; Hezbollah is hailed as a martyr; foreign markets rising; a gun is kept on the INTL Space Station; ‘cautious optimism’ in Iraq; 6.7 quake shook S Greece, located twelve miles offshore the country; oil prices are over $93 per barrel again; …2/15-08: what’s your shade 39º in ABQ; 50% humidity at 6A…Brad’s visit to the dentist has been cancelled; Durango is 3½ hours from ABQ?; chance of T’storms today; Winter Storm Watch for ABQ; good air quality; chances of snow until tomorrow AM; freezing rain in SE NM; the very slow storm; 30 acre fire near I-25 & Isleta is 100% contained, helped by high humidity & low winds; no injuries reported or structures destroyed, two men seen running away from the scene; bad weather late PM, moving W to E; will Bill cause a special session, as early as this Monday, to discuss health care reform?; red light fines have been eliminated, too expensive to run the camera without the generated revenue, which would have to be given to the state; I-40 roadwork between San Mateo & PA; the health care reform that will not die; Santa Fe school audit; the opening of more game rooms means more revenue at Sandia Casino; ID theft ring broken up; NM GOV says this was the ‘least productive legislative session’?; the number of NM flu cases is rising, clinics & emergency rooms are overcrowded; flag repeatedly torn down & vandalized at 98th & Central; no plutonium pit at LANL; I have the sniffles; the eyes over the NM interstates; ancestral land has been returned to SAN ILDEFONSO Pueblo; Lord Lunas: Monarch of the Moon; Bank of American robbery by the ‘Babyfaced bandit’; gas has risen 10¢, now at $2.99; candies from Brad; another day, another blaze in the Bosque; Brad prepared a Pear & Apple Crisp, plus yummy Hot & Sour Soup; Lubbock also ended its Red Light Program last night; searchers using ground penetrating radar to find former ABQ student, missing in VT, there have been no cell phone calls or E-mails from him, he had attended a get-together that night; it is too late to use thermal energy gear to find him; warm enough to open up the window in my home office; an irrigation ditch prevented last night’s Bosque fire from expanding; and there’s still a chance of snow tonight & tomorrow: we shall see; difficult, not impossible; feel good about yourself; the 2% raise; I don’t want people to think I’m a monster; very tired today; give Evelyn the Pavilion tour; Julia going to MX this weekend; from Closing to Conversion to Code Purple, that has lasted until 3P; employees at 1650 better be prepared for smaller work spaces; Myrna may return as my I/P partner on Monday; finished Round about 10:45A; two Coders may not be returning?; who will have the smaller work areas in the new UNNMG BLDG; was Evelyn too overwhelmed by everything a person needs to remember?; “she’s with me”; in new offices by mid-2009; both of us helped Child Life worker get an EOB statement; TX hail & tornadoes; IN river jams; 100 inches of snow could fall in WI; IN river jams; snow near Tucson; temps from 0s to 80s; two men saved in Waltham, MA when their SUV slid into any icy pond, where the ice broke apart under the vehicle’s weight; 60s in Richmond; snow, mud & ice being removed from San Diego interstate, 500 stranded motorists along I-8; blowing snow in Buffalo; CO town worries about floods when snowfall quickly melts during warm weekend; rain, hail & snow in Palm Beach; more campaign endorsements keep coming in: any tensions in the past; ‘speeches don’t put food on the table’; worker on the weekend means fewer interruptions; harder to redeem Frequent Flyer Miles; passengers will add more fees to make a profit; eavesdropping law will be let to expire; FEMA, and the $9 billion debacle; fourteen year old charged with CA hate crime; when house prices ‘bottom out’, the recession will end; the ‘naked cowboy’ of NYC; why was there another campus shooting?: fourth time in one week, another death reported this AM, bringing the total to six; weapon found in his APT, but he had no prior arrests; considered an ‘outstanding student’; the shooter [a grad student himself] went into a lecture hall, randomly shot people and killed himself; this AM, the killer was off his medications, killed himself in front of auditorium: so far, the motive is unknown; later in the day, found out he carried some of the weapons in a guitar case: a bright & gifted man, studied criminal justice, tried to join the military, and fired 50 bullets; Daytona 500 this weekend; ‘dirty, sexy money’; peel & lick grape juice ads; book stores go digital; now, economy is worse than originally predicted; 20% of fatal collisions are caused by driver fatigue; man with a gun terrorized Wal-Mart customers in WA state; the DOW is down; OH ex-cop guilty of killing girlfriend & unborn baby; explosions & injuries at a S TX pipeline; McCain says it may be necessary to maintain some form of military presence in Iraq for the next 100 years; two teens from WA state throw would-be robber out of window; AZ busts drug ring; driver of bus containing prisoners leaves vehicle when her workday ended; the ‘mixed orientation marriage’; if new ‘policy changes’ are approved, TX & NM wetlands at risk of being polluted; drunk man collapsed on small child, killing the infant; London ladies like hairy men; Bush goes to seven African countries, those that like, or favor, the US; fire missile from Pacific Ocean, a relatively small window, so parts burn up, or fall in the water mixed foreign markets, will target practice result in a direct hit?, dangerous rocket fuel in the year old satellite, are there other secrets inside its capsule, or being shot down ‘for the public good’; the last spacewalk for shuttle astronauts; Madonna, the Director?, after plenty of pleading, her movie will appear at the Berlin Film Festival; the fifty year old singer received mixed movie reviews; Operation: Baghdad pup rescues canines from war zones; Beijing is one of the world’s most polluted city; every day, an additional 1K cars drive into that city; the Pope will visit the White House during April of 2008; the convertible, underwater car, a toy for the rich; shooting the descending satellite could cost into the billions;
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