…11/29-08: for every holiday, there is a sale

37º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…ski slopes made money on Black Friday; Rail Runner will start its Santa Fe extension on 12/13/08, CNTY residents can ride for free; Brad prepared a great Chicken Noodle Casserole; City Different spent $800K to purchase 15 acre parcel of land for future schools; black ice along I-25, N of the Duke City; elderly couple faced foreclosure over $2 debt, they are without heat since repairs would cost them $3K; Eclipse Aviation legal hassle?: employee owed paycheck?, he turned his two weeks notice before the company declared bankruptcy, and company may not be responsible for their ‘debt’; October unemployment rate is 4.4%, was 4% in September; 3.3% last year; 6.5% for the US; N NM Winter Weather Advisory; SWAT situation ended at NW ABQ APT; ‘Night Magic, Flight Magic’ is the theme for the Twinkle Light Parade; three killed in yesterday’s I-25 crash when rear tire exploded; snow in E Central NM this AM; another man arrested on child porn charges; decoy ‘shopping’ car at Coronado Mall; $200K of floor material stolen from Santa Fe business that was to be recycled; ‘Hooker’ Furniture?; goal is ‘no child to be left behind’ during winter coat drive; KOAT weatherman was a tornado chaser; two police cars collided into each other on Second ST in ABQ during a police chase, getaway vehicle got away;

plenty of people, but were there plenty of purchases, or just crowds; very wet in ATL; Obama has had the most ‘death threats’ against him than any previous PRES Elect; woman who played ‘Lois Lane’ on Broadway died at the age of 74 from brain cancer; three people were killed when their vehicle lamed into a train near Orlando; ‘eyes on the discounts’; $10K found in restroom, bagboy returned it to owner; placebos: sedatives & antibiotics, is a doctor being deceptive in this type of distribution; should there be combat gear for shopping; 2008 ‘Black Friday’ sales up 3% than last year, what does it mean; only four states now have gas prices over $2 per gallon; the male ‘voice of doom’ in 1950s movies vs. the female ‘voice of doom’ in 2008 political ads; are the people who have committed murder during the past month heterosexual, or homosexual?;


violence in Mumbai has ended?; India will hold elections next month; al Qaeda telling Americans to embrace Islam; 195 people have been killed in Mumbai; has the last terrorist been killed?; did Hindu extremists attack Mumbai?; OPEC meeting does not conclude with reduction in production; the Saudi Arabia leader says oil should be priced at $75 per barrel; Sydney Opera House designer has died at the age of 90; six consecutive hurricanes struck the US; Endeavour waiting for permission to land, a half inch ‘ding’ sighted on their window; if all goes well, they return to Earth tomorrow, after four spacewalks, and doubling the size of the INTL Space Station; a split in the Antarctic ice shelf?;

…11/28-08: man vs. the elements

38º in ABQ; 89% humidity at 6A…GAQ; some icy spots; people asking for donations, in previous years, they were giving food items to the needy; for two days in a row, high winds & heavy rain caused the tram to stop; KOAT has online links to the best bargains; Eclipse Aviation had $1 billion debt before declaring bankruptcy; an ‘we’ in NM have to absorb their loss; fatal fire in Chimayo, caused by wooden stove; Carlsbad’s Christmas on the Pecos is a holiday attraction; NM has very good in vitro fertilization clinics; what’s the best way to save money…don’t shop!; fog near Raton, Las Vegas & Clayton; turkey grease can be recycled into fuel; long lines at Circuit City; did Domenici ever have brain illness; suicide affects many in NM, double the NATL AVG; Kotsafti Plaza at Seventh & Copper; saw ‘Indiana Jones’ film; Santa Domingo Pueblo member was killed in Santa Fe hit & run; people shopping in Olde Towne; crash killed three people, shut down I-25N, near Socorro; NM ski slopes open; Jenny Craig helping in Coats for Kids campaign;

Saturday schedule to work; is my MGR off the hook; Meangel readmitted: empty AM R/R, until the ATC; UNMMG MGMT allowed workers to leave at 3:30P this past Wednesday; Myrna’s mother was back in the E/R, had blood in her urine, they released her, and show enjoyed Thanksgiving & thunder with her family, but no one can diagnose her condition; the constant complaining, it never end; missed R/R, took Central bus home; JoAnn, and her ‘duplicates; finished Rounds by 8:45A; got a big hug from Myrna; I left about 11A;

temps from 20s to 70s; rain/snow: along parts of I-20, I-55, I-75, I-80, I-95, New England, MI, WI, SE US, Gulf Coast, Great Lakes area; flurries in Detroit;

today, they are called ‘Thanksgiving Day sales’; the American Express ‘charge card’; red, black or blue Friday: competition for the best deals, if anyone has extra bucks; big items have big discounts: if it goes down in price during December, customers will get the difference in price, if they keep the original receipt; Wall ST works until 1P; good day for plumbers; CA rogue wave killed three men; malls & hotels will be the next to suffer in the economic crunch; Glacier NATL Park may be losing its natural attraction, melting quicker than expected; in about a century, Boulder Glacier has disappeared; empty airports on the ‘busiest’ travel days; meteor streaked across Seattle skies; the ‘turkey hangover’; fiery crash killed seven people on I-25 near Denver; erosion vs. house: the elements won, as the structure finally fell into the sea; oldest woman in the world, who lived in the US, has died: she was 115 years old, now the title gets transferred to a Portuguese woman; Barbara Bush recovering well from surgery; more melamine found in baby formula; shoppers armed with sale coupons; Long Island man killed after being trampled by a crowd, who tore the doors off its hinges at a Wal-Mart store, and injured a pregnant woman; two killed in Palm Desert, CA Tory ‘R Us store, appeared to be gang related; no taxes on Black Friday gun purchases?; 69 million TV sets are not ready for digital; GM may also be dropping SAAB; Detroit Lions are 0 – 12; series of quakes have shaken AR; fifth day of stock gains, as poverty moves into the suburbs; the NATL AVG price of gas is $1.84 per gallon: only seven states exceed $2 per gallon;

events change the world; Endeavour heading back to Earth; India is indicating PAK knew attacks would take place; 400 people have been killed or injured, gunfire can still be heard; now, Indian police trapping the terrorists; struck transportation & commercial centers; one of the places attacked was the Trident Hotel; the city is not safe; what better way to get global attention; battle about Kashmir; al Qaeda says US will fail; travel alert across Asia for Americans; for sale: Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber, going for $150K; in India, ten pound hairball removed from woman’s stomach; 60% of British pets are overweight, and can also suffer from diabetes & respiratory illnesses; gay Chinese penguins stealing eggs, nurturing them as all males do; chemical tanker attacked by pirates; nine dead at Shiite mosque in Baghdad; India says PAK ‘elements’ responsible for attacks; event is being called India’s, or Bombay’s 9–11; fighting continued on Saturday AM; two Rabbis murdered; at least five Americans have died in Mumbai, including a father & daughter from Charlottesville, VA, who were part of Synchronicity, a meditation group; fourth day of protests: gunshots at Thailand’s two airports, want current GOVT leaders to step down; using prescribed heroin may become legal in Switzerland; oil is $54.43 per barrel; INTL Space Station has an added bathroom, kitchen & two bedrooms;

…11/27-08: take nothing for granted

41º in ABQ; 44% humidity at 6A…showers & storms this AM; 150 people were stuck at the top of the Duke City tramway for thirty minutes, the entire ordeal lasted five hours; later in the day, dangerous winds stalled the tram again, trapping riders for hours; SE ABQ shut down from fire caused by faulty heater; free parking at Olde Towne & Snob Hill; woman will be warden of Curry CNTY Detention CTR; seventeen year veteran on the police force, who had protected the NM Governor, was in the vehicle that struck a man, and there was a smell of alcohol; girl wore too much makeup, caused eye problems, told to discontinue cosmetics; Brad prepared a Sweet Potato Casserole; another Duke City man, a retired Army officer, arraigned with child porn charges; Winter Watches, Warnings & Advisories across N NM; warranties have expired on existing Eclipse Aviation jets; gas line leak near Tramway & Lomas; SEN Pete Domenici, father of eight, grandfather of thirteen; T’storms today; AVG gas prices: in the US, $1.87: in NM, $1.98: in ABQ, $1.81; homes near Lomas & Easterday are now priced starting in the $180s, as compared to the low $220s, a few months ago; traffic was light last night; man murdered in his Texico home; enjoyed ‘Stargate’ movie; T’storms during the PM, plus downpours; rollover near Rio Bravo shut down I-25; Lomas bus was late yesterday, walked up Eubank, then down the same street, walking past strip malls that were entirely empty, finally boarded a Eubank bus, transferred to Lomas then R/R, and arrived home about 6P; three youngsters, one as young as ten years old, broke into a home and stole weapons; Navajo Nation Head Start school in Torreon closed because of staffing shortages, 69 remain closed across that tribe’s lands; we live in a city of ‘polite punks’; people donating coats for children; will there be a new NM state college?;

GM may eliminate its Pontiac, Hummer & Saturn models; Macy’s is 150 years old; fog in S TX; flooding continues in ‘the’ Las Vegas; on Black Friday, stores offering free food & free gifts; there had been no struggle during the attack, but a man has been arrested for beating an AR newscaster to death last month; more stores have more liquidation sales; the new & improved Britney Spears, and her new video; Barack & Michelle Obama helped a needy center last night, they will have sixty guests at their home for Thanksgiving; PRES Elect hoping that things will be better in November, 2009; the ‘Sons of Anarchy’; will people shop, or just look, 51% polled say they will spend less; waterspout spotted near San Diego; NM snow mentioned on ABC AM News; Philly has the oldest parade in the US; people are traveling later, for a lesser period of time; the DOW rose nearly 250 points yesterday; deep frying turkey fire, erupted twice, burning down TN home; 2,100 twisters have struck the US this year; people already waiting outside shopping centers; Obama said ‘a new & brighter day is yet to come’; the political turkeys of 2008, building a bridge to somewhere; more Americans staying at home, so will focus on purchasing TV sets; thirty million people getting food stamps; this was the first billion dollar PRES election; robbery turned into a shooting at a FL Dunkin Donuts; naked driver arrested on DUI charge in S CA; long food lines, and empty shelves;

city under siege: well coordinated strike, ‘al Qaeda inspired’, but no large size bombs or suicide vests, as Hindu terrorists stormed luxury hotels, police station, restaurant, hospital, night club & movie theater targeting Americans or British tourists, the number dead has reached 125 in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, a home to thirteen million people, a formerly UNK group, thought to have PAK ties; India & PAK split from Britain in 1947; oil dropped to $53.58 per barrel; another suicide attack in AFG outside its US embassy in Kabul; all US soldiers should be out of Iraq by December, 2011; Japanese leader calls the elderly a ‘tax burden’; 2008 hurricane season caused the most damage, the longest in history, Bertha lasted 17 days; five classified as ‘major’, three were ‘extreme’; six storms struck the US; astronauts enjoyed freeze-dried turkey; at least 300 injured in Indian attack, considered ‘multi-pronged’; very professional in terms of size, scope & sophistication; terrorists sailed into the harbor on small boats, also targeted Jews, entire cost of the battle may have reached $200K; involved Americans so the group could get ‘free’ publicity; many tourists sought sanctuary; SAS flight from Stockholm to Chicago had an ‘unplanned landing’ in Norway; the attacks in India enter their second day, one battle at a Jewish CTR; Airbus crash in France killed seven passengers;

…11/26-08: be self-reliant

37º in ABQ; 46% humidity at 6A…Brad’s Chiro visit; GAQ; ‘idle’ weather today; we don’t want any debt; Rail Runner testing the new tracks to Santa Fe; Torrance CNTY animal ordinance may go too far; Pete Domenici wants more money for native Americans; heavy rain on Thanksgiving in the Duke City?; NM GOV declines Commerce comments with a smile; Sandoval CNTY has a surplus, relies on property taxes, more than state taxes; NM AVG gas price is $2.01 per gallon; Santa Fe lawyer & a City Different policemen charged with a hit & run that killed a pedestrian; this made NATL news: drunk truck driver run over by his own vehicle; changes in ABQ school year; man wants to legalize marijuana & prostitution, is he creating a cult in Columbus, NM?;

afternoon comic climb; Jenny will not be working this Friday; when Coders need to place a charge in Group 4, they must first contact Brent; when Data Entry workers see a message telling them to delete the service, but there is a question that has to be entered before the charge is moved to the not allowed category, they need no one’s approval; who audits Compliance?; Lea [head of Pulmonary] turned to me, and asked if we should keep Dr. Ogburn, I said ‘sounds good to me’; got a call from Kay…she does not remember which doctors attended her Pulmonary meeting; Evelyn needs a note from a doctor because she has a cough, and has to leave early [this request is from Candace]; accepted invitation to 12/19/08 holiday lunch with MGR; sent a joint Thanksgiving greeting to MGR: courier service lacks service; and then, there was no Myrna!; AM R/R stalled at ATC; Myrna’s mother keeps getting better;

per Weather Channel, snow in the Four Corners area for Friday; S CA floods & mudslides; rain: ‘the’ Las Vegas; snow: ME [complete with power outages and crashes], parts of I-95, NY TPK: Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland; FL Red Flag Fire Warnings; the era & errors of Rita & Katrina; temps from 30s to 80s;

child got keys stuck in his eyes; two months later, after treatment, he can see; new ‘Watchman’ trailer; ‘the’ Las Vegas, is ‘the’ busiest holiday airport; Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board will tackle the NATL economic crisis; PRES Elect wants his blackberry; Michael Vick gets charged in VA for dog fighting at his home; 83 year old Barbara Bush in HOSP, suffering from stomach pains, had ‘routine’ surgery to close a perforated ulcer; consumer confidence still at all-time low; AIG CEO will be paid $1 salary, no bonuses & salary increases; another $800 billion plan; ‘some signs the credit plan is working’; McDonald’s cutting costs by cutting cheese on its burgers; psychics & fortune tellers make good money during bad times; common forms of cancer cured; FL teacher struck eight year old student in the face over a crayon, now charged with child abuse; WV mom burned the word ‘wimp’ onto her child’s arm with a cigarette; runaway SUV struck two children, and one adult outside CA school; 171 banks bordering on the brink of failing; incorrect holiday designed card, complete with sleigh, sent for Hanukkah event; Bush pardons Thanksgiving Turkey; in the end, the girl won as the ‘best’ dancer’ with the Stars; APWU says to expect mail delays during the holidays, dealing with reduced staff; ‘family lanes’ at airports, for those with strollers or young children; slash spending when the economy is stable, and not ‘bleeding billions of dollars’, a $200 gadget can backup computer files in minutes; decline in holiday highway deaths; people with normal cholesterol levels could still suffer heart attacks; a GAMEBOY video that helps you cook the holiday meal; toxic toys & baby formula, still contain melamine; Obama will speak at a press conference today; shop for online cyber deals; airfares are 8% higher than this same time in 2007; suicide bombers may strike NYC subway system; the movie about Harvey Milk has received good reviews; 3.1 quake shook Los Angeles; for the economy, ‘help is on the way’ [but when?]; new home sales at its lowest point, numbers not seen since 1991; failed home invasion killed CA mother & attacker; Native American group protest the stereotyping of Indians at two CA schools’ Thanksgiving feasts; the DOW is rising;

UK boy used onions & Gatorade to power an IPod; Tina Turner is 69 years old; British star has flesh eating disease; water seen on Saturn’s moon; luxury hotels & train stations struck in India, at least 75 people have been killed, hostages being held; Thai civilians blocking tarmacs, to prevent their leader from returning from economic summit in Peru, but protestors are stopping tourists from leaving, two explosions occur at their airports;

…11/25-08: will our country be ‘better’, four years from now

33º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; Santa Fe has the highest minimum wage in the US; burglaries on the rise in the Duke City, wall of one business knocked down, attempting to steal ATM machine, the eighth break-in this year; golf shops are also being targeted; NM base hourly rate will be $7.50 per hour; school fire at Gold & Edith; woman stabbed in the abdomen by man who burglarized her Farmington home, while she was taking her shower; Eclipse Aviation files for bankruptcy, go into ‘Chapter 11’; give cash to catch crooks; actors’ strike will affect NM; ‘Hear on Earth’ store on Eubank; there may be money to solve Rio Rancho school budget problems; N NM cult leader released from jail; I have a ‘black screen’ TV, my little, twenty-two year old black box will not survive the digital transition; San Juan CNTY man stabbed to death; ‘differential sexual success’, push to its limits; gas is $1.69 per gallon; there have been 66 robberies in ABQ during the past two weeks; killed a wasp by using Lysol; Eclipse may be bought by a European firm; there were two more bank robberies in the Duke City; it was another digital TV test tonight;

per Weather Channel, wet in ABQ on Thanksgiving; temps from 30s to 70s; windy ATL; snow in higher elevations of VT, NH, ME MTN: Ashville, parts of MI, ME IN & WV; cold, blustery, rainy along MA Pike: parts of I-80, I-88, I-90 & I-95: New England, NYC, Boston [up to three inches of rain, and 50 mph gusts]: from Richmond to Baltimore; Los Angeles downpours may cause mudslides;

Sigma Chi reinstated at UNM; finished Rounds before 9A; Internal Medicine meeting with Upper MGMT; does the ‘sleepover’ policy at UNM also apply to hetero couples?; wakeup call from Kay, asking if I had any problems that needing to be addressed with Pulmonary providers; neither Candace or Jackie coded services correctly?; because of our teamwork, Susan & Candace have decided that ‘we three’ will be training a new Internal Medicine I/P Coder, starting 12/8/08; three strikes for Nora…and one more time: Lupe has stepped down from his Data Entry Supervisor position; the era of doing Rounds may be over; confinements will be ‘fed’ [by whom?] into Rupert, with the criteria for initial & subsequent visits; but what about specialists?; attending physicians will have seven days to write a note; this process is being tested by E/R Coders; what about the ‘exceptions’, such as consults [and their follow-up visits], PICC lines & the various types of sedations, and unplanned switching of attending provider, or signing on or off a patient to another doctor in another area, or emergency transfers; EEOC meeting held with UNMMG;

KS man pushed ATM down a hill, complete with his front end loader; OR man accidentally got shot by his dog; PRES Elect addressed as ‘Mr. Obama’; another press conference by him today; one in five homeowners owe more than their homes are worth, NV is in the worst ‘state’; gas is now $1.89 per gallon; NJ church killer arrested in GA; Houston has the seventh largest mall in the US; what they save fueling cars, will need to be used somewhere else; Bush pardoned fourteen people; Biden selects his SEN replacement; ‘no name brands allowed’ supermarket means lower prices, charge for carts, pay for bags, all items prepackaged, no credit cards allowed; home prices drop 16.6% for the third quarter this year; judge orders criminals to hear Barry Manilow songs for ‘punishment’; U MASS of Amherst female student told her teachers there was a death in the family…her abandoned car was found in NH, crashed into a tree: that was in 2004; TX Muslim charity group funneling money to Hamas; Phoenix industrial complex fire; dying boy’s wish was to feed the needy, he was too weak with leukemia to help himself, but the ripple effects of his cause spanned the country; man flew across deep CO canyon on a jetpack; FORD has the number one safest car; the most anemic economy since 2001; companies & retailers tip customers off to upcoming online holiday sales; dieting cannot completely be ‘cured’ by a pill; to save money, Tiger Woods will no longer star in GM ads; the massive memory card for video cameras; shoe shines fading in bad economy; is there a law preventing Hillary from accepting a Cabinet post?; roach ‘bug bomb’ causes GA APT to explode; math teachers lacking necessary skills; in WI, hit & run collision with pedestrian caught on camera; the DOW slightly gained; West Side Story, seen through the eyes of the deaf & the hearing; number of deaths from some types of cancer have declined, but those of skin & liver are on the rise; the personal data of 97K Starbucks workers were taken when a laptop was stolen; CA has some of the cleanest indoor air; 40 – 45 million people in America still smoke; $5 trillion has already been spent on the credit crisis, but what about all those people who don’t fall into any of those criteria?; there were slaves on both sides of the Obama family, a ‘tangled history story’ about the Negroes who built the White House; Robert Gates will remain as SECY of Defense; a new financial boost may become effective until February, 2009; CA pilot makes safe, emergency landing when the wheels in his nose gear fail; higher prices are perfectly legal during liquidation sales; FL judge does not approve ban on gays adopting children; who will win on ‘Dancing with the Stars’?: a gay, a girl or a guy; Obama meets Barbara Walters;

Germany has a lack of people who look like Santa Claus, would pay $75 per hour; Asian markets up, but Europe stocks are falling; the robotic orchestra?; the universal heart of hope; was the pirate ship actually a trawler?; explosion killed three at Russian subway station; has the astronaut’s toolkit reached Earth?; urine recycling device finally repaired; candidates from Hugo Chavez’s party won the majority of Venezuelan GOVT seats, but not considered an overwhelming amount; overcrowded Iraqi prisons, with no exercise areas, they are being renovated with US dollars: convicts wash once every three days, with pressures on the country’s judiciary system, a prisoner may wait months to have his day in court;

…11/24-08: flex financial muscle

38º in ABQ; 37% humidity at 6A…Brad at the Food Bank; Curry CNTY jail had guards guilty of trafficking drugs; SW ABQ crash kills one man, scooter slammed into a telephone pole, texting while driving; ABQ bus riders keep increasing, even as gas prices decrease; early AM panic attack; AVG price of gasoline in NM is $2.04 per gallon; will Bill accept the Commerce Cabinet position; a visible Hispanic position; a shift in the political landscape in NM, to be confirmed after Thanksgiving?; men arrested in Olde Towne murders; solar energy booming business in NM; Denish has been serving as Lieu. GOV, plus PRES of the State Senate, for six years; two bomb threats reported in Valencia CNTY; motorcycle brigade drove through Rio Rancho, collecting toys for children; personal data found in dumpster at a bar on Menaul, it was forms from Discount Dave’s, an auto dealer that had been recently burglarized; ABQ police chase reached speeds of 100 mph, came to a halt at a dead end street; holiday related crimes are up; the AVG price for gasoline in the Duke City is $1.86 per gallon; the minimum wage for Santa Fe will increase to $9.92 per hour; in the W Mesa, thieves vandalize ABQ police cars, steal radio batteries; drug items found inside car involved in head-on collision on I-25 near Paseo; gas is now $1.74 per gallon; each night across NM, 2,500 kids are homeless;

JoAnn out; finished Rounds before 9:30A; audit examples for MGR, completed by 11:30A, first to turn them in; when it comes to work, I have zero confidence in myself, and I worry ‘all’ the time; updated 905 billing sheet; Evelyn has a cold; Brandi enjoyed Phoenix, but it’s more expensive than ABQ; Linda stubbed her little toe, and is in pain; MGR asked what Brad & I were doing for the holidays; forms were to have been turned in last Friday; Hope sent me the split month charges for November; Myrna’s mother is doing better; PDI sent to ‘Daniel Perea’;
area of disturbed weather…could be René?; temps from 30s to 70s; snow in WI & Chicago; rain along parts of I-40; plus TN, KY, GA, AR, AL, OH & MI; N Rockies warmth;

ATL City teacher’s aid has a porn movie past; unapproved drugs that are approved by Medicaid; placebo: the sugar ‘pill’, patients feel better, but they can also have serious side effects; 40K traveled to CO farm, owners offered free vegetables; more digital books being sold; gasoline $1.39 per gallon in TX; celebrities in a YouTube World; the swivel laptop?; plenty of zeroes in the amount to solve the domestic economic crisis; billions to bailout Citigroup, Treasury will infuse $20 billion into the bank; business has tentacles everywhere; buy bad debts; NYC second largest private employer; FED GOVT insuring more toxic assets; the time for workers not to be invisible, to show their best, and not to take vacations; mom gives birth on subway platform; American families face unemployment & repossessions of their vehicles during the holidays; Palin more popular after her defeat; boat collides, breaks apart at 240 mph; Obama speaks to the nation about his ‘New Deal’; his two year agenda; 2.5 million jobs by 2011?; during hard times, people turn to religion; CO pastor involved in sex & drugs scandal, is now a religious salesman; IPhones helps scan for police traps & red light cameras?; NATL AVG price of gas is $1.908 per gallon; anatomy of a meltdown, Bernanke did not think the mortgage problems would be this bad; US could lose one million more jobs before the PRES Elect takes office; existing home sales slump in October; Saudi visit helped MN city’s economy, spent at least one million dollars; New Orleans ranks highest in crime, but Detroit still a dangerous city; the DOW is rising; in 1964, Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald; is any USA bank ‘safe’?; Obama economic team started their jobs today, the PRES Elect is very involved with solving the nation’s problems; FED GOVT will buy $306 billion of Citigroup’s risky assets; plane crashed near Nashville, killing three people; school bus accident in SE AR, injuring 76; a number full of zeroes, and commas; hairspray used by mothers can cause birth defects in children; thanks to surgery, boy born without irises can now see color; the economy needs a ‘major jolt’; Obama has yet to convince the US Supreme Court that he was born in the US, the deadline is 12/1/08; Lenox China filing for bankruptcy; shoe repair stores do good business during bad times; Enterprise is the best car rental company; stocks had their biggest two day surge since 1987; people suffering from ‘Truman Syndrome’, believe they are TV stars; two straight session of stock market gains;

two died in Baghdad in rush hour suicide bombers, killing eighteen near the Green Zone; snow in Sydney, during summer?; astronauts attempt their fourth spacewalk; after several missile attacks, gold is $824 per ounce; PAK wants to cut ties with the US; in 1859, Darwin published his ‘Origin of Species’; astronauts lubing space station solar panels; N Korea stopping trains to S Korea; Iraqi translators can earn $100K, but are targeted by terrorists; Japanese business created a bra for cross-dressing men in black, pink or white, being bought by businessmen; oil rose to $54.50 per barrel; mixed foreign markets;

…11/23-08: what I hope vs. what I think

32º in ABQ; 61% humidity at 6A…the Wii workout warrior; Warning! Cleaning your oven can be hazardous to your health & breath; two car critical crash followed a truck rollover, the roof collapsed, and its wheel flew off; shut down I-25 near Paseo; two cars & a truck struck a bear on I-25 in San Miguel CNTY, killing the animal; Duke City meth lab busted; on the state level, NM spends per capita on higher education than any other state; many new customers seen at thrift stores; ‘our’ Las Vegas needs to cut its budgets, reduce use of the town’s cell phones, and stop workers taking city cars home; some people spend 20% of their income on heating their homes; teen arrested for Santa Fe mall shooting; ABQ man has a $25K credit card debt; VISA would not lower its interest rate; one woman reduced her rate from 10.9% to 1.9%; charitable volunteer time asked by Duke City Police to patrol holiday events; internal & structural flaws allowed eight inmates to escape Curry CNTY jail; LANL physicist suing police, claiming physical abuse, suffering serious injuries, asking $320K in damages; Extreme Makeover owner asking for 150 turkeys to help feed the poor on Thanksgiving; NMMI cadets anxious to see their family during the holiday; third time someone has struck a bear who wandered on a highway; Santa Fe homeless man hit woman who was carrying her four month old daughter, took three construction workers to subdue the attacker; people associated with crooks may provide anonymous police tips, get money for be a tattler; Santa Fe man stabbed ten times in his own home, and survived; money raised at the Festival of Trees would help low income families pay rent or utility bills; the ‘after effects’ of a DWI; the day Brad cleaned the oven; Obama has offered the position of Commerce SECY to Bill, which would add an Hispanic to the PRES Elect’s cabinet; enjoyed a very good ‘no name’ pizza; combating graffiti problems in the Five Points area; AVG price of gas in ABQ is $1.88 per gallon; NATL wildlife habitat at ABQ church; a ‘living classroom’;

firefighter died in his own home on Staten Island; randomized control trial; twenty-five minutes per pound for cooking a turkey, add sea or Kosher salt, stuffing is added just before putting the bird in the oven, take the dressing out when the turkey is removed from the stove, roast on a rack, baste every five minutes for the first thirty minutes, after that, every half-hour, the temp should be 170º: deep frying is an old style that has become the ‘nouveau’ way to cook; couple is suing AR McDonald’s after nude photos on a cell phone that was accidentally left at an appeared online; “I think I’ve been a good customer, can you help me?”, the question to ask a credit card company; wildfire’s fumes filter into homes; Obama’s has self confidence, will his economic plan is the twenty-first century ‘New Deal’; rebuild schools, seek alternative sources of energy, build better cars & repair roads; is Obama looking for ‘perfect’ workers, without any flaws?; PRES Elect chosen his press SECY; carrying a little debt is OK; $21K Turkish rug bought for the home of the NY GOV John Travolta held meal for the opening of his new animated movie, amount collected would be donated to Boys & Girls Clubs of America; NM has the fifth least liked new quarter, ID has the worst looking, others have the opposite opinion; NATL AVG prices of gas is $1.929 per gallon; 36 states have AVG prices less than $2, and AK AVG cost is less than $3 per gallon: MO has the cheapest costs; NATL AVG cost of diesel fuel has dropped to $2.848 per gallon; a film & TV studio in Plymouth, MA?, would not be completed until 2011; the ‘evil’ credit card; Sara Palin is getting a book deal: that means Wasilla will get a book store; HI beaches closed, because of a jellyfish invasion; ‘racial deliciousness’?; ‘Twilight’ sucking in the big bucks; ninety neglected puppies found in squalid FL home; the number of bankruptcies are increasing; good news!: the unbeaten TN Titans are in the same division as the Colts, but the NY Jets gave them their first loss; as of today, the Boston Celtics are in first place; undamaged piano found in the woods near Harwich, MA; three people are killed as plane crashes into WI backyard; New England beat Miami, in Miami, 48 – 28; ‘Twilight’ took in $70+ million, with ‘Quantum’ in second place, its total earnings have exceeded $100 million, quicker than any other ‘Bond’ film; three people shot outside NJ church; tanker truck explodes in NJ Turnpike crash; man carrying a sword was shot & killed by a security guard outside a Scientology BLDG in Los Angeles; cofounder of SLINKY has died at the age of 90; the ‘big if’; raising gas prices should be considered ‘patriotic’; US unemployment rate is 6.5%; the man with the ‘buttermilk voice’?; KKK hate crimes on the rise, more membership rallies since Obama took office; gas is $1 lower than this same time, last year; the NATL AVG cost is $1.93 per gallon;

astronauts still working on ‘urine machine’; landslides caused by volcanic eruptions killed four in SW Columbia; how to rescue hijacked Saudi tanker; fire in the Canadian sky?; is Syria a safe have for terrorists?; Argentine officials commit suicide on TV; 6.8 quake rocked W Indonesia; gunshots fired at Georgian & Polish leaders; countdown: Asian leaders say it will be eighteen month before the global economic crisis is over; Citigroup: ‘world’s financial supermarket’, is too big to fail; three Icelandic banks have collapsed; no new global tariffs during this financial tsunami; Japanese man calling MX City Airport his home;

…11/22-08: when good becomes great

31º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…Bank of America robbery on Carlisle; three separate robberies within an hour in Santa Fe; NM GOV, as executor of a state, still has a place in the Obama Cabinet as Commerce SECY?; would not change for a couple of months, Lieu. GOV Denish is ready to assume his post, would be the first female NM GOV; will have to choose a successor to her former position; new Rio Rancho high school may not open, because of budget cuts; Hatch police justified for firing his gun during a confrontation; Winter Superblitz starts this weekend; how did bison escape through an electrified fence in the S Valley; NM/MX border fence reduces the number of undocumented immigrants; Valencia CNTY also has budget deficit; century old Duke City schools need repairs; quality standards need to improve: Sandia Labs cut corners for crucial part, outsourced to business that were not familiar in building nuclear warheads; Brad made an Omelet for breakfast, using the new Feta cheese he bought; ‘window of health’ program, providing health care by UNM to low income Hispanics, plus it’s good PR; Brad is adding more nature [and color] to the upstairs powder room; more ski resorts opening across the state; told Brandi to bring me sand from Phoenix; man threw rock at woman who was carrying a child; ABQ Police provide ‘tip line’, by using an ad in the Alibi, this idea dates back to the 1980s, but it makes NATL news; rollover wreck killed Rio Rancho woman; Farmington has a budget surplus; AVG price of gas…in the US, it’s $1.95 per gallon: in NM, it’s $2.10: in ABQ, it’s $1.91;

Obama will put lots of money into repairing the infrastructure of America; Paul Newman wills his race cars to the highest bidder; forty-five years ago, JFK was assassinated; avoiding peanuts as a child may result in an allergy to that food; Jamie Lee Curtis is fifty years old!; two feet of snow has fallen in the Great Lakes area; actors’ strike on the horizon?; three banks, two in CA, and one in GA forced to close; teen kills himself in front of Internet audience; GA campus shooter caught; extension benefits have been extended by Bush, ten million Americans are looking for work; has Hillary accepted the SECY of State position?; DOW did end down this week; even [R] are ready to see Bush leave DC; online prices better than those at a mall; US ATTY GEN suffered a syncope; inauguration attendees need to be prepared for the chance of cold and snowy weather in DC; biggest travel week of the year; right wing of fly contains more bacteria than its left; ‘Twilight’ vampire stories written by a Mormon woman; ‘Sanctuary’ is a very good Sci-Fi series; billions needed by Citicorp to be salvaged; has $2 trillion in assets, and interests in over one hundred countries; five million have their mortgages, 187 million people have their credit cards; but nine of their investments have recently failed; the 196 year old firm cannot raise money from outside investors, looking to the FED GOVT for more monetary aid; the best thing to do: ‘become more liquid’, and reduce debt; nutritional benefits in breast feeding; beauty: the ugly side of the abnormal world; man kills one person, injures another in a WA shopping mall; OH man used chloroform to subdue girls, then sexually assaulted them; stray bullet by MI hunter wounds two children at daycare CTR;

an American ‘surge’ in AFG; is Hugh Jackson gay?; pirates attack fishing boats; $150 million paid to criminals for oil tanker; Zimbabwe refuses entrance of Carter & Annan; another spacewalk, making more difficult repairs to the INTL Space Station; Iraqis burn Bush effigy; US missile has struck NW PAK; Taco Bell goes global;

…11/21-08: scientists who tell a story

30º in ABQ; 56% humidity at 6A…GAQ; ‘employee pricing, plus?’; no interest until 2014?; more cuts requested by NM GOV, may need state legislative approval; in terms of tuition of the eleven MTN states, NM Highlands is the lowest priced college; NM Medicaid INS companies been overpaid by $200 million over the past three years; ENMU PRES killed in car crash; KAFB daycare CTR may shut down by end of 2008; the Carrie Tingley Festival of Trees weekend, an auction where the winners will have the holiday greenery delivered & decorated at their homes; Brad made a Key Lime Pie & Meringues; people tried to shoplift at Kohl’s this past weekend, then beat up security personnel; museum entrance fees on the rise for non NM residents; Rio Rancho store a puppy mill?; very few vehicles in the Olde Towne parking lot this PM; for ten years, husband & wife ABQ Ride bus drivers would be sick when the other spouse were not working…after ten years, someone discovered the coincidence, and both were fired; woman’s car stolen at an Uptown hotel, now she says ABQ is not a safe city for tourists: but her vehicle was unattended, with luggage inside that was quite visible; Eclipse can now send their very light jets in Europe, but one of their domestic customers has declared bankruptcy; NM GOV as Commerce SECY?; collision in S Valley between buffalo & a car, animal uninjured, second bison sighted; gas is now $1.79 per gallon;

leave early?: yes, at 2:30P; training at 9:30A; Myrna’s mother being released today; JoAnn keeps wearing jeans on a regular basis; finished Rounds by 9A; UNMMG must be feeling poor, with the current stock market dips; break down charts, send billing sheets to Data Entry; patient’s name is Kal-El Rosas; walked N on Eubank, halfway on my downhill journey, an unexpected bus appeared, ran across WY to get the R/R, and arrived home a little after 4:30P; very empty AM R/R; no one has asked me about my meeting with the UNMMG legal counselor; this AM, too cold to think, or write; JoAnn going to a Broncos game; ‘you make a three dollar bill look real’; one of the PEDS Clinic workers was involved in a head-on collision with a drunk driver; both Ted & his wife are going through rehab; PDI at 2P;

temps from 20s to 70s [80s?]; record lows from NYC to ATL to Orlando; very dry in W SC; snow in DC?; plus parts of E NC, NYC & Philly; white in Central MI; more lake effect snow, in the N Rockies & Dakotas; warm in Phoenix & Los Angeles;

save a company, sell a jet; lowest factory orders; ATTY GEN collapsed while talking at a podium, 67 year old started stuttering & repeating himself, lost consciousness ‘for a while’; when will stocks stop sliding, especially those belonging to banks; a ‘serious recession’; SECY of State position leans towards Hillary; new Blackberry Storm phone, touch with a click, more added features, but IPhone preferred; free Dr. Pepper linked to a new Guns & Roses CD; Quantum of Solace video game; DOW futures look good; cost of living dropping its fastest since the late 1940s; fear of low prices causing more jobs; zero homes sold in Nashville, TN during October; Fred Thompson leaving politics, going back to acting; WAMU cuts 1,600 jobs; ‘aw’: the little word, with a lot of meaning; NATL AVG price of gas is $1.989 per gallon: still costs over $3 in AK; take a group of nerds, add a little alcohol, and it’s ‘Geeks Gone Wild’; 67 year old AG Mukasey doing well, alert after being hospitalized; GA children trying to build world’s biggest crayon; consumer confidence at all time low; neuroblastoma, 40% survival rate; someone hacked into Obama’s cell phone; three Hollywood couples make millions; people have no money to have pets; the DOW went up & down, then rallied at the end of the week to close above 8K, a jump of 494 points; student shot & wounded at GA UNIV; people like Obama’s choice for Treasury SECY; don’t buy on ‘Black Friday’; one man, fifty jobs, in fifty states, then he will write a book about his adventures; the selection for SECY of the Treasury would not need training; we are creating a generation of blind, deaf & obese people; the era of armchair psychotherapy; Obama former PRES opponents, the man is a risk taker; Citibank has lost half its value during the past three days; shares of stock has dropped from $30 to $3, the company needs $50 - $100 billion to survive; consist of eighty million bank accounts, facing $20 billion losses from bad business deals; but they are ‘providing stability, and securing the future’; reality check for interns trying to find rentals in DC; Cincinnati man threatened to blow up banks, bridges, sports arenas, airports & historic landmarks;

in Canada, obese people can take two seats to sit in a plane; two-headed kitty in Australia; more optimism in foreign markets; protests in their Parliament, some Iraqis do not want US presence in their country for another three years; the ‘civil’ Madonna divorce; more proof of water on Mars; Bush attends Asian-Pacific Economic Summit; $150K worth of tools ‘lost in space’; US could lose in top power status, making room for China, Indonesia, Iran & Turkey; the end of the Yugo [it’s a car]; AIDS is spreading fast in Russia; 20% of Amsterdam cafes must no longer allow marijuana smoking; cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe;

…11/20-08: easy to use, easy to mold

39º in ABQ; 41% humidity at 6A…Brad’s dental visit; go to bed earlier tonight!; another murder, in SE ABQ mobile home park; campers & hikers attacked while walking on trails; weekend storms?; police chase caused crash at Menaul & Vassar; brush fire sparked by semi burned 550 acres, shut down I-25 N of ‘our’ Las Vegas has been completely contained; Fire Rock Casino opened on Navajo Nation, the first of six to be built; petty cash stolen by workers in Duke City animal shelters; shooting near Santa Fe mall; the Navajo Nation is bigger than ten states, and is home to 205K people; teen brought loaded gun to ABQ High; Brad went to Café Istanbul; more bullets found in another Gallup school; Farmington bar loses its liquor license; George Clooney filming at NMMI;

CPT meeting, accompanied by Myrna; I brought TES examples to Candace: JoAnn gave hers to Carolyn, who would present them to out top MGR; JoAnn is ‘swamped; her daughter has strep throat; why does everything have to be an argument between JoAnn & myself; need to get my ‘evidence’ from her; JoAnn = ‘Anita’, or Sanae; turn in billing sheet revisions today; Code Purple the entire day; informed Candace that I am not close to a copier; Jenny with ‘01/05/08’ TES edit DOS; more Newborn charges in envelopes addressed to me; I’ve served my purpose; Myrna’s mother still in HOSP, she cannot urinate; now, Brandi wants to stay home, not leave Linda alone;

FL frost & freeze warnings; fog across Louisiana & S TX; temps from 10s to 80s; more lake effect snow, along parts of I-80 in PA; OK drought & fires; NW US rain & snow; warm in SW US;

man writes rap song, saying he shot someone; wild cat cub adopted by dog family; ‘jet pooled’ to hearings, may not be bailed out; still make ‘same, stupid decisions’; The Big Three could come back for more money; original Old Glory back on display; landing luxury jets, at a cost of $20K, carrying tin cups to beg, would not fly commercial airlines biofuel used in airplanes; “I don’t have a position on that today”; “I’m OK where I am”; the million dollar comments, for billion dollar bailouts; unsold cars remain at piers, look like E & W Coast ‘port parking lots’; NYC bridge renamed after Robert F. Kennedy; ‘green’ powered NYC billboard; AZ GOV as Homeland Security SECY; SEN won’t vote to bailout, but a compromise plan in the works on Capitol Hill; ‘cry poor’!; closing plants, but having CEO wives fly in luxury, to travel ‘more efficiently & safely’; Congress will think about the Big Three Bailout; less people favor the [R] than they did one month ago; families with no jobs, falling behind in mortgage payments, and no one out there will help them; there was always some students who knew that shootings would, could or might take place before they happened; new runways open at Seattle, Chicago & DC [Dulles]; stay in shape, socialize to minimize Alzheimer’s; CA neighborhood has been overrun by rats; anyone in a 120 mile radius from DC should expect company just before Inauguration Day; Biden is 66 years old; DOW drops 445 points, to its lowest level since 1997; jobless claims reaches sixteen year high; let Honda & Toyota expand their American invasion; six year high in new unemployment claims; woman loses $400K to scam; commuter & freight train sideswipe each other in CA; The Big Three have twelve days…if they cannot show a plan, they cannot have the money; the DOW has lost 11% in two days: 19%, this month; 43%, in 2008…as it the last eleven years never happened; fear of economic ‘deflation’; a power vacuum is churning in DC; Stevens brought more money to AK, than any other senator, from any other state; Fannie & Freddie will halt foreclosures; Taco Bell is fifty years old; black widow spider found in grapes bought at Costco;

enter a Spanish disco contest to win a breast enlargement?; another oil tanker seized by Somali pirates; Japanese failed missile system test, with device ‘made in the US’; foreign markets falling; girls love hundred year old vampire in ‘Twilight’; Russian ships patrolling pirate waters; flight attendant lands plane after pilot has heart attack; the INTL Space Station is ten years old; oil falls to $49.62 per gallon; the $20 million opening of a hotel in Dubai, complete with fireworks that could be seen from space; too lavish display of luxury in these economic times?; are oil prices too low?; cargo ships carry no weapons; midgets in Ecuador have a genetic mutation that prevents them from getting cancer & diabetes, but also prevents them from getting tall; this same gene makes mice live twice as long;

…11/19-08: getting your ‘sexy’ back

39º in ABQ; 44% humidity at 6A…GAQ; toilet rebates go down the drain next year; huge financial hurdles, but ABQ city jobs are safe; General Mills may create a $100 million expansion in the Duke City; vacant jobs will remain unfilled; one of Monday night’s shooting victims has died; Eclipse Aviation goes under the microscope again; ABQ teachers will have to work longer before retiring; NM Highlands has the lowest undergraduate tuition; Bank of America at Eubank & Candelaria was robbed; Alamogordo soldier was killed in Iraq; woman robbed medicine from Farmington drug store, but was later arrested; Duke City not immune to economic problems; Santa Ana Pueblo will temporarily get its own fire station; Rio Rancho residents will lose some of its Internet system; NM is helping to prevent teens from smoking cigarettes, one of the highest states in the US [ranks number eleven]; local students raise money for Ethiopian library; mixed verdict in child abuse case; gas at $1.85 per gallon;

PM meeting with Candace; teams are unbalanced, no cooperation, just resistance; can’t think of everything, people equate I/P & O/P; legal meeting, 10:30A, at 1650 UNIV; thrown to the wolves, I’m on my own; JoAnn has sick daughter, won’t be attending; Code Purple at 6:30A; finished Rounds by 9:15A; meeting took fifteen minutes, praised MGR, said she helped employees [me, with CARS]; EEOC lawsuit being filed; DOH in Pavilion; I work so hard for that place, and get nothing in return, but misery; caught the Blue Line, to the Red Line, and arrived home at 4:20P; Daily Lobo article about a New Bedford CO who had to pay $850K, for failing to pay their employees overtime, by giving them a second check from a bogus company, making it appear no one had worked more than forty hour week; empty AM R/R;

cold with snow in Erie; AM temps in the 20s along the E Coast, from Boston to JAX; 70s in Los Angeles; San Fran fog; N Rockies snow & rain; temps from 10s to 80s;

AK SEN is gone, but not forgotten; 58 [D], 40 [R] SEN seats; October housing starts were the lowest since 1959; Day Two for The Big Three to beg on Capitol Hill, switch from Senate to the House, workers protest across the country; three million people would become unemployed during 2009 if car companies ‘belly up’; lose money, lose jobs; bailout billions not helping homeowners, Paulson says the DEPT of Treasury is aggressively working to help prevent foreclosures; 1.4% less people on the go during this Thanksgiving than in 2007, more people will take trains to travel; bonfire by college students caused one of CA fire, thought to be extinguished; Michelle Obama looking at schools for her daughters to attend; home prices keep dropping; more foreclosed homes being sold, ‘as is’; Lieberman mostly unpunished; McCain will run for AZ SEN again, and he won the state of MO, making the electoral vote count 365 – 173; do not expect the economy to recover earlier than 2010; AZ eight year old admits to shooting his father, and another man; negative economy means more want to enlist; consumer prices should continue to drop; shoppers not ‘buying’ into lower prices; ‘no faster than bringing the turkey to the table’; many students are afraid to attend schools…the answer: medicine; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.047 per gallon: in 21 states, prices have dropped below $2; the touch screen PC should be on the market soon; woman’s windpipe recreated by stem cells; a boost to fashionable Fifth AVE: the NY Plaza Hotel has reopened, after $400 million facelift, more gilded; ‘begging for billions’; VP Cheney on trial in TX?; the ‘Batmobile’ version of police car, that contains a ‘cockpit’ of gadgets; ‘assistance for survival’: The Big Three, and the US, failure to do so could cause a colossal economic collapse; during PM DOW plunged 427 points, to close below 8K, the first time in five years; people making big bucks as ‘mortgage counselors’ to aid those nearing foreclosure; may mean a huge lifestyle change; PC magazine will only be published online; the three CEOs of the auto industry arrived in DC in private, luxury jets; mania in the media?, creating Generation ‘O’; was Obama’s father a Muslim?; this may be the lowest holiday gift spending since 1989; Chicago school for gays & Afro-Americans put on hold; NY father rescued his two sons after their vehicle plunged into a pond, buy could not save himself; Prop 8 being challenged in CA courts; sewer systems in posh Malibu?; some meats may contain the C difficile ‘bug’; e-Harmony to launch same sex site; Daschle as HHS SECY?;

overnight, three more ships attacked by pirates, mostly by unemployed Africans, who can easily make a quick buck; strike along Somalia coast; foreign markets falling; get free entrance into German brothel by tattooing its name on your arm, still have to pay for services: forty people have been inked, and there is a waiting list; a ‘wellness skull’ that’s a spa; another US missile strike in PAK; al Qaeda vs. Obama, said he is a disgrace to fellow blacks, adding racial slurs, calling him a Christian ‘House Negro’; the PRES Elect wants more troops to fight terrorists; 6.2 quake shook Panama; vampires make ‘blood money’; oil is $53.62 per barrel; FDA opened its first Beijing office;

…11/18-08: quantity is important

40º in ABQ; 43% humidity at 6A…NM, where women are kings; E vs. W Side on adding members to school board; people keep leaving doors or windows in their homes open while shopping; Equestrian CTR at EXPO NM?’ no one wants to be PRES of NMSU; cougar sightings near Santa Fe; I’m tired, and I want to cry; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; ten vehicle collision at WY & MONT; parents fear their 26 year old son, who has mental problems and has abused them; Brad made Salmon Cakes, Vegetable Stew & Cranberry Conserve [think, Sauce];now, NM faces a $500 million budget shortfall; ABQ expects a $20 million loss in revenue; shooting at PA & Montgomery, drove himself to the HOSP, then there was another one at Louisiana & Gibson; NMSU accused of having high mercury contents in its water supply; accident on I-40 at San Mateo after a high speed police chase; LANL supercomputer is the fastest in the world; PT Cruiser got towed out of The Beach parking lot;

Daily Lobo covered gay rally this past weekend; all meetings are mandatory; always JoAnn, MGR & myself; Evelyn & Myrna had to create job description for Jackie; UNM coach had winning seasons, but no championship seasons; finished Rounds by 8:45A; MGR out today, senior Coder in control; ‘incorrect DX’ TES edits are not correct, other MGR’s telling their staff to wait until tomorrow; Myrna’s mother ate Chinese food yesterday; PICU entering notes online; CPT training cancelled for one group, could not get audio connection; DOH investigating UNMH; coding I/P services can be overwhelming; Amtrak train with twelve passenger cars stopped PM R/R; Code Purple by 2P; divide & conquer the Coders?; Brandi will be in Phoenix this weekend; doctors saying to each other that we don’t have enough medical staff;

cold along the E Coast; snow: along I-80, I-90, NY Thruway; Erie, Cleveland, areas of NY & Cape Cod [ocean effect snow]; acrid cloud over the Fire Zone in S CA; considered a crime scene, like a bomb exploded; a new beginning for people burned out of homes; warm in SW US; more snow for WV; only one CA fire fully contained; temps from 30s – 90s, maybe only 20s for highs in N Plains?;

CA fires making less news; IA magician suing for furniture collapsing, cutting off his finger; Mickey Mouse is 80 years old, still is a NATL icon; military airspace will be opened for Thanksgiving traveling; L.E.D. lights on tree at Rockefeller CTR, wood recycled, used by Habitat for Humanity; retired military officials say the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy should be repealed; Ted Kennedy looks better than before he was diagnosed; can the TN Titans remain winners, with no losses?; on SNL, the style is simply black, with high heels; now, $290 billion in bailout money has been spent; more children with peanut allergy; more than half of US primary care doctors would leave their profession; CEO of The Big Three go to Capitol Hill; should they sell parts of their companies, or go bankrupt, could decrease wages, or workers could get jobs at Toyota & Honda; 83 year old loses home to foreclosure; SPAM sales increase during recession; couch potatoes can order pizza by TV, have to pay cash; fewer gift cards this holiday; could Bill Clinton be a liability to Hillary’s Cabinet position; YAHOO! CEO will step down; Lean Cuisine recalls meals after people find pieces of plastic in food; DOW ended up; October wholesale prices plunged by largest amount in the past 22 years, the biggest one month decline in the past sixty years; on 1/20/09, DC expects three million people to attend the Oath of Office inauguration, the METRO area has 90K hotel rooms; first drop in Thanksgiving traveling since 2002; after two murders, NFL players are beefing up their person security; five million more homeowners will be in foreclosure by 2010; ‘stabilizing the financial system’ vs. ‘helping the housing crisis’; a plan to rejuvenate Coney Island?; will the US have its first Afro-American ATTY GEN?; is there a ‘cheating’ DNA gene?; an incentive?: buy one new vehicle, and get a second, 2007 vehicle for $1…then there’s the INS, gas, upkeep & taxes; US had asylums for the insane until the 1950s, when medications took their place; Michelle Obama & her daughters were invited to the White House today; Stevens loses AK SEN seat; precious metals going down in price; Red Sox player won AL MVP award; Leather Weekend is twenty years old!;

huge cat in UK, participating in diet contest; Japanese girl drafted by basketball team; thirty years ago, the Jim Jones massacre took place; not enough rooms for pilgrims traveling to Najaf; today, more housing equipment was loaded onto the INTL Space Station, and the first spacewalk was made; eighty crafts have been plundered, so why not shadow ships along the E African coast?; religious leader calls Obama ‘apocalyptic’; NATL Geographic will turn news articles into video games; toolbox accidentally drifts into outer space; $100 million in oil hijacked by pirates; sheikh suing Michael Jackson;

…11/17-08: the gift of the good life

39º in ABQ; 36% humidity at 6A…Brad at the Food Bank; mild AM panic attack; new San Juan CNTY Meth Treatment CTR; Navajo casino will open this week; economic stimulus: improve Paseo del Norte interchange on I-25; attempted robbery at Sonic in Farmington; Rio Rancho teachers may walk off the job, need pay raises: building a new school vs. budget shortfall; Eclipse employees should get paid today or tomorrow; correction: Nancy will return on 12/2/08; inversion over ABQ; campaign sign must be removed from yards, deadline to remove them was last Friday; everyone in NM fighting for more money, from schools to art projects; two people killed in Roswell this weekend; we have both been having bus troubles; gas is $1.95 per gallon;

as soon as I started working at UPA/UNMMG, I started crying; as I left work at 3:35P, the Lomas bus arrived; last Friday, it did not appear until 4P; two lawsuits against UNMMG, [& my MGR?] having to do with maternity complaints; one went to the Holiday party, just after the supposed event took place; Hope can’t handle Nephrology flowchart billing sheets; Myrna’s mother was admitted to UNMH, appears to be getting better, had urinary problems, possibly UTI, will remain I/P until midweek; finished Rounds before 9:30A; Kay split 2009 Coding classes, one for each area; Candace split Coder meetings; worked on updating billing sheets with CPT codes; all my split month charges [Oct./Nov.] were sent back from Data Entry; MGR admitted to some degree of guilt; deleted circumcision from NICU sheet, per JoAnn’s request; today I arrived home before 4:20P; can’t write anything on AM R/R; exercise utmost diplomacy; Lobo Head Coach resigned;

temps from the 30s to 80; no local forecast on Weather Channel; light snow across New England, Great Lakes region, NY, OH, WV, along parts of I-81, I-90; caused by Alberta Clippers; smoke delays at LAX; temps from 30s to 80s; 200 ft. high flames in S CA; Los Angeles CNTY school students cannot go outdoors; 26K new evacuees; 800 homes totally destroyed; mobile homes leveled; winds may decrease in speed in the Los Angeles basin; very hot in SW US; up to 18 inches of snow could fall in the N Plains, two feet, along Lake Erie; 35K acres have burned in S CA, blazes are 40% contained; blaze could burn for days, and was started by someone; hoses have melted, there is a ‘sound’ to the fire; five CA counties have been declared disaster areas;

Obama ‘doodle’ for $100K; this winter, natural gas prices are up, oil prices are down; Obama & McCain met, and talk today; [R] want Hillary as SECY of State; the end of Yellow Pages?; postpone the inevitable?; should they just declare bankruptcy?; the next group that needs cash: Congress vs. ‘The Big Three’ automakers; Rudy for NY GOV, or PRES?; yoga for facial muscles?; Louisiana collision caused by fire engine; VIT C & E pills do not help men prevent cancer; charges filed against Postmaster GEN, received ‘special deal’ from Countrywide Mortgage CO?; ‘one laptop for child program’ donate a PC to children in third world countries; death threats against ‘pregnant man’; 53K Citicorp job cuts; one out of ten US workers are affected by what happens in the auto industry; as of now, 50% of the bailout money, or $350 billion, will remain untouched; DOW down 223 points; 4.1 quake in San Diego CNTY; McCain: World’s Greatest loser; the ‘champion of change’; three SEN races have yet to be determined: in AK, GA & MN; 700K children went without food in the US during 2007: total number of Americans struggling with hunger problems was 36 million; the NATL AVG price of gas is now $2.07, the lowest in four years; GM: the dinosaur that may soon become extinct; SEN Kennedy returned to Capitol Hill, cane in hand, ready to work; ‘watchdog dads’ at school; falling rocks in Yosemite have been ignore for years, even after they have caused serious damage; NY hunter ‘accidentally’ shot into home, killing a sixteen month old child; WI woman said she put a corpse on a toilet to collect the person’s retirement benefits; now, about $250 billion has been spent in the bailout, but since there is no oversight committee at this time, no one knows who has received the funds, and how much did they get; Bill Clinton can receive $300K per speech; eight million bottles of Crystal Geyser water are being recalled after a strange smell was detected when opening the lid;

give potted plants instead of bouquets to 2012 London Olympic winners, and wooden powered flame torch; no tsunamis after Indonesia earthquake; exercise machine added to INTL Space Station; Obama wants to capture, or kill bin Laden; peanut allergy increasing around the world; pollution cloud covers China & India; Somali pirates ‘steal’ Saudi oil tanker; it will over $20 million to repair the ‘atom smasher’; if all goes well, US troops should be withdrawn from Iraq by 2011; the city of Najaf has been considered ‘safe’ for years, controlled by Shiite forces; AirAsia Airlines will only charge airport tax for any flights between June & October next year;

…11/16-08: the look of luxurious lines

32º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…a new gaming system in the NM Lottery, with bigger & bolder print; Duke City businesses want consumers to spend money at local businesses; UNM, a smoke free campus?; Santa Fe increased living wage increase may be delayed; no problems at porn festival; slot machines, poker & Bingo will be games at the new Navajo Fire Rock Casino; flights begin between the Duke City & Chihuahua City, MX; brother of beaten security guard [who died from the attack] upset over judge’s decision of a minor sentence, four years sentences, another on nine month’s house arrest; ABQ man sexually abuse six year old girl: if she told anyone, the child would die; teens charged with throwing rocks on cars traveling along I-25; yesterday, cup got stuck on microwave plate; welder’s torch caused blaze at Las Cruces nursery; Film Making Channel website created by NM citizen; woman missing after fire destroyed her Dona Ana home; KOAT says hundreds attended gay rally in Civic Plaza, which is now a prominent, but secondary news item; took Sunday PM nap;

headaches know when your body is stressed; snow in the Great Lakes region; there were gay PROP 8 protests in ND; smaller pretzels given to Delta passengers, saves money & calories; former employee suspected in N CA business shooting is arrested; snow & storms in New England; people say they are proud to be gay; MO HOSP allowing mothers who just gave birth to donate stem cells blood from umbilical cord; young woman should receive the HPV vaccine, get a pap smear, there is still a 30% chance to get cervical cancer; jewelry robbery at NYC Waldorf-Astoria, security guard wounded, but no guests injured; street signs melted from fire; only three power lines not damaged by wildfire; another fire ignited this morning; 40K have been evacuated; Red Flag Warnings in S CA, being called ‘Firestorm’; flames reaching Camp Pendleton; but Santa Ana winds should decrease in speed today, yet most fires circling Los Angeles are only 20% contained, 1K structures destroyed, smoky air in Los Angeles Basin; ash from the blaze falls 25 feet from the actual fire; rolling blackouts could occur; more protests by gays, blacks & white across the country; Los Angeles mayor does not agree with PROP 8; allow ‘equal’, not ‘more’ rights for gays & lesbians, allow same-sex marriages; new ‘Watchman’ trailers, smoking allowed again in Atlantic City casinos; MA police have found abandoned safe with $178K; ‘Quantum of Solace’ took in $70.4 million; next year, Portland, OR will have an openly gay mayor; ‘we hold these truths to be self evident…’; the PRES believes in the ‘free enterprise’ system, but during his two terms, more regulations & restrictions were added; Obama has exposed us to the world; Obama cannot keep his Blackberry, for reasons of NATL security; 50% of the residents in Huntington, WV are obese, including the mayor; Burlington, VT is the healthiest city in the US; US Airways jet skidded down Philly runway, when its front landing gear refused to open; by end of day, 20K acres had burned in S CA; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.105 per gallon: AK & HI have the highest prices, with MO at the lowest;

4.8 quake shook China; attacks resume along the Gaza Strip; new security pact between Iraq & the US, American troops should be completely withdrawn from 12/31/11; Endeavour has arrived at the INTL Space Station today, there ‘appears’ to be no ‘obvious’ damage; MX City: the third largest city in the world; a 7.5 & 5.6 quake rocked Indonesia; Bush does not want another GOVT stimulus package; ‘declaration of principals’ created at G-20 Summit, and more oversight on economic adaptations; they will reconvene in April, 2009…more reforms are needed, responsibilities taken; Air France pilot strike; three people have been killed, as subway collapsed in China, many people missing, roadway above the tunnels caved in; add Japan, the world’s second largest economy, to the list of countries in a recession; pirates seize another ship near Somalia;

…11/15-08: different schools, different styles

32º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…W Musical ASSOC Festival begins in late November at the Duke City Marriott; students enjoy Atomic Museum in the Duke City; SEN Jeff Bingaman receiving honorary doctorate from NMSU; Brad baking Bread; Recycle Art Festival in Santa Fe; cool air to NM, bringing warm Santa Ana winds to S CA; more people looking at big cars in dealerships along Lomas; turned on the heat this AM; NM GOV term will end in 2011, is Bill the best candidate for SECY of State?; Milton Baca was discharged, he can walk & eat on his own, had five surgeries, including having part of his skull removed during his HOSP stay; but he cannot remember the accident; did NM abused children lie, and are they suffering from mental problems?; today is Recycling Awareness Day, as declared by the NM GOV; after 22 years, Comfort Zone stores will close its three NM locations; the largest employer in Socorro, NM Tech also imposing hiring freeze; changes in mobile park rules forces a woman to give away her two dogs; expanded hours for unemployment offices; a woman is walking around The Beach, knocking on doors during the early AM hours, hidden in the shadows is a male ‘accomplice’, tenants are advised not to open their doors, but this pair may live in the complex; TACT: Ticketing Aggressive Cars & Trucks; predictions: near normal temps, near AVG moisture for ABQ area during winter; talks begin in power shift from Wilson to Heinrich; UNM staff offered post in Obama transition team, cannot accept it because of her two children; cyber stalking meeting being held today in the Duke City; chaos when Brad cut his finger; but he did make Spaghetti in Clam Sauce; MGR’s mother does something wrong, nurse tells her not to do it, the older woman agrees, and proceeds to do it again; did not arrive home until after 6P last night; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; man arrested while trying to cash a forged check; ABQ rally in Civic Plaza, no one supported PROP 8; AVG price of gas in NM is $2.30 per gallon: in the Duke City, $2.12; gay protest rally made KOAT headline news;

tornado warnings for the Outer Banks; racial attacks taking place around the US, will this lead into riots, and uncontrollable NATL chaos; 150 homes, 6,500 acres have burned in S CA, high winds have reached 70 mph, blaze moving very fast, targeting an area known as America’s French Riviera; homes are exploding, horizontal flames; 10K people told to evacuate the area, blazes approaching Sylmar; high winds keep airplanes from battling the blaze, no relief for the next two days; very warm in DC, but storm front nearing the E Coast, people have been killed in NC from the bad weather; teen wins $2.5 million lawsuit against KKK; very high threat level against Obama; tie declared in MO PRES race; Obama one 1 electoral vote in NE; the ‘final’ electoral vote totals are 365 to 162; PRES – Elect will display his progress on YouTube; Obama being compared to FDR?; Nader received 1% of the popular vote; mustard & plum: the next in fashion color combos: same-sex marriage rallies taking place across the US, from San Diego to Boston; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.13 per gallon; in MO, $1.83; tornado warnings from DC to Boston; MO man held his ex-girlfriend hostage, and at gunpoint, in the health center where she worked; were certain brain regions not fully developed in psychopaths, who want to be cured; New Bedford is one of the best prepared, ABQ is one of the least prepared for the digital TV transition; an increase in Ambien ads; did Bush say the $700 billion bailout was to prevent a crisis greater than The Great Depression?; Yes!; ‘transition’: the word for late 2008; unscientific poll says Hillary would be the better person for that position; will a former ‘First Lady’ become, in a way, the ‘Second Lady’?; Clinton & Richardson vie for the same Cabinet post, and so does Kerry; increased interest in transit; America obsessed with the topic of prostitution; NE no longer wants to be the state where parents can legally abandon their children; another conservative diocese is splitting from the Episcopal Church; the ‘white envelopes containing white powder’ are considered ‘acts of domestic terrorism; what could happen if you are an ‘enemy’ of gays; fragile business:the new, the small, the fallen; entire HOSP told to evacuate as flames approach the structure; parts of I-5, I-405 & I-210 have been closed; the city of Los Angeles told to decrease its power consumption as fire continues to grow, or face ‘burning’ blackouts;

Endeavour launched in the glow of a full moon, heading toward the INTL Space Station; making sweat drinkable, that’s what the astronauts will try to do; two pieces of debris came off the Endeavour during liftoff, but there appears to be no sign of damage to the spacecraft; thousands of workers are being laid off around the world; Bank of Scotland gave pink slips to 3K employees; a collapse of global confidence; global economic summit of the G–20, taking place in DC, leaders should devise a plan by 3/31/09; what started as a peaceful prayer proposed by Iraqi cleric, a pan-Muslim protest would be held next Friday, to prevent US security forces in their sovereign nation…could erupt into a probable attack against US forces;