…3/30-09: putting a few more presidents in your pocket, and wallet

47º in ABQ; 20% humidity at 6A…Brad at the Food Bank; go to bed early!; GAQ; Rural Economic Recovery Initiative, with Lieu. GOV trying to get stimulus funds for small towns; quick & crazy weekend; the system of gambling; most fruit trees in N NM survived winter weekend; pit bull attacked small dog & its owner, the canine who did the biting was put to sleep; blowing dust across state; two women stole money from dead veteran’s bank account; feel more pain & colder; rodeo champion is 'Dancing with the Stars’ contestant; NAACP rates race relations in NM; the country’s first female Native American judge has died; could not access Internet at 4:30P, but the little lightning bolts are flashing: problem solved by unplugging the box, then plugging it in again; Brad made Avocado Soup, and we used it also as a salad dressing; digging on the W Mesa will halt this week; never got a chance this weekend to look for blinking lights images; mail arrived late; several fires near Roswell, one blaze near Hobbs; man walked through SunPort detector with gun without security machines detecting the weapon; four escapes crawled under a fence; man shot nightclub security guard;

MGR out; dedication has a price; finished labeled Rounds before 8A; only as good until your next goof; several burn victims this weekend, copying scene from ‘Watchmen’ movie; fuel dripped, ignited on patient; door to third floor of old HOSP still not working; more reasons by MGMT for Coders to be written up: not obeying the rules or guidelines; Data Entry is behind; police banging on PICN doors, which is on the third floor, looking for person who is on the fourth floor; Ice Cream Social today; UNM is going to ‘self insure’ itself; when do I do my own work?; Hell Week, on the horizon;

rain in E New England, snow in NY, gusty winds across entire NE US; Flood Warnings across Dakotas & MN; more snow, from WY to WI; wild winds in Dallas & Denver; stuck in Seattle because of AK ash; temps from 20s to 80s; has the Red River crested?; a make or break situation, more sandbags being filled, just in case; twisters in PA; OK to IA showers; warm in Phoenix; FG-1 twister confirmed to have touched ground in PA; snow in ME, NH & VT;

what’s Olde is New; discuss PAD with your MD, ASAP; ‘too liberal with the mugs’; stores ordering inventory for the holidays; use panties in the Arctic when compass fails; scared, desperate & vulnerable; six Bush officials accused of torture charges at GITMO by Spanish judge; home mortgage fraud reports up 30% during 2008, displaying ads at cinemas; rubbery testicles festival; some video games can help eyesight of adults; CEO gone, to keep company from collapsing, reshuffle Board of Directors; the high profile resignation, an auto industry casualty; merge Fiat & Chrysler, so business can be lean, mean & competitive; Carthage killer saw estranged wife, she was not injured, he was reclusive & violent, eleven individuals shot, brave action by local police officer; gold fever leads to gold digging in CA; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.04 per gallon; two million suffer from the disease: so depression screens for teens; too much exercise may be hazardous to your health, just walk; Acer makes very good small computers; six people have died during Santa Clara APT shooting, including one child; father and his two sons found dead in rural IL; fewer people are buying second homes; foreclosures still on the rise; bright lights seen & explosions heard last night above MD, VA & the Carolinas: answer? Soyuz space junk; Obama not pleased with the progress of The Big Three; another GA bank closes, increasing the number across the country to 21 this year; could DC become a state while Obama is in office?; auto fears cause the DOW to drop 250 points; Alexandria, VA is in a recession; Chrysler must merge with Fiat; GM CEO got a $20 million pension; man shot a SLC McDonald’s because it was not serving lunch yet; GM gets sixty more days to correct the company’s problem…yet end of the road, no more money; 31 states, including NM, recall pistachios, which might contain salmonella; tax credits for trading in gas guzzlers; the little blue ‘combo pill’ that can ‘cure five ailments; more pain & suffering on the horizon; could GM be forced into bankruptcy; ‘pride on the part of the country’; MD mother starved her son because he ‘refused’ to say ‘Amen’ at the end of a meal…part of a cult following who believe the boy will be resurrected; two MA men were heroes when they saved a child that fell out of a third floor window; candy sales on the rise; costar of ‘Angel’ died at the age of 33 from heart failure…he was from Cape Cod;

one woman, 5K photos on FaceBook; ten individuals shot in PAK; as day draws nears, so does US ships, as they head towards N Korea, prior to missile launch; foreign markets plunging; oil dropped to $48.70 per barrel: supply high…demand, low; the world waits for N Korean liftoff; is China the cyber spy?; Turkey held NATL elections;