…4/20-09: the gift of massage, and a message

48º in ABQ; 49% humidity at 6A…GAQ; fatal exposure to painkiller patch; Brad at the Food Bank; inmates should not be beaten while serving time in prison, especially if the attacks are by guards; child surrounded by toxic chemicals in meth house; Duke City will have to pay legal fees for ‘naked party’ suit of ABQ couple; teen drowns in Farmington lake; will Obama choose Farmington grad to head the Bureau of Indian Affairs; the ‘eviction man’ has received hate mail, and seen foreclosures rise by 60%; Walgreens’ sign: ALL Detergent - $4.99; recycling for points to purchase foods & clothing; new commitments for Rio Rancho school system; arroyo brush needs to be removed; Brad finished another painting; Four Corners marker is 2.5 miles too far W: interstate markers will have to be updated; ABQ is ‘sexy’…in a cheap way; Chris had a chance to see the black gunk from our old washer; the state has shrunk; more than an inch of moisture below normal; 9% humidity at 6P; Manny Aragon’s name will be removed from the tower at the Hispanic Cultural CTR;

constant skirmishes in Internal Medicine?; slow down, you move too fast; there is already a page of pseudo-codes, and more are needed; without these, PEDS is processing current charges, other areas are experiencing delays of at least one month; put the blame on Brent; send written DX codes to Charge Entry first; send CE errors to Susan; electronic ECG/EEG entries?; finished Rounds by 8A; does anyone know if there is no one in PEDS Charge Entry today?; more accidental poisonings by young children;

AL, parts of I-20, Carolinas, MD, DC & VA severe T’storms; snow in the W Great Lakes; Phoenix could reach the 100s; rain for Philly, NYC, Pittsburgh; temps from 30s to 100s; downpours across New England; NE N Dakota dam is leaking, could break; spring storms struck ATL; CO meltdown, means avalanches & floods;

FL ‘nude dude ranch’, banned because they did not get CNTY approval; marine highway built in the 1960s could cost the GOVT $100 billion in lawsuits; TX man was drunk, and talking on a cell phone, when in drove into a ravine; during 2008, there were 62 trillion junk E-mail; AVG of $3K credit card debt by students; recycle paper, save a tree; three children died after AR mother drove into manmade lake; stretching dollars of stimulus bill; Pizza Hut wants a college Twitter intern; inaccurate diagnosis found when searching the Internet; a credit card Bill of Rights?; Boston Marathon running on Patriots’ Day; the time & money spent sending people who possess pot to jail, when there are more pressing issues, and more states approving the use of medical marijuana; some suffer from ‘survivor guilt’; ten years ago, in Columbine…, America suffered a loss of innocence, event honored by sunset candlelight vigil; DOW has risen for six straight weeks; new WINDOWS this fall?; the Supremes & Lauren Bacall were on ‘What’s My Line’; Stephen Hawking, 67, is reported to be ‘very ill’, and is in the HOSP; it’s not ‘green’ to be fat; drugs being dumped into drinking water?; Bank of America: profits are up, but stocks are down; DOW drops 289 points, its worst decline in two months; Rudy Giuliani opposes gay marriage, but civil unions are OK; four people found dead in Towson hotel; FL also has ‘Four Corners’; Craigslist killer captured; two FBI agents accused of spying on women changing clothes in dressing rooms; banks want to return TARP money, they do not want to be under the thumb of the FED GOVT; Wall ST worried, what’s next from Washington, DC?; Obama says to cut $100 million in the next ninety days; 21 polo horses died in FL, just before a competition, was it something in the steroids?; the ‘lone danger’; 1,600 GM white-collar workers will be getting pink slips; there are now better relations between the schools, and the law; life on the other side of hard times; choosing health INS can give you a headache; SUV drives a glass window in a NYC parking lot, falls several floors, and lands on a roof; remember reality;

‘beer goggles’ do not make a woman look better; tiny dog can fit in a teapot, and eats plenty per day; how do you handle a dictator, what’s wrong in showing courtesy?; foreign markets rising; Obama will not lift the embargo against Cuba; a young, Welsh male singer impresses Simon to rise in ovation; airplane hostage situation in Jamaica; member of ‘Doctors Without Borders’ captured; 2012: a new era?; Canada also has a ‘Four Corners’; if we could talk to the enemies…; the Great Wall of China has been found to be 180 miles longer;