…5/31-09: what’s in you, is what’s around you

59º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…rain remains, slower movement of dry weather; another day of searching, and still the boy has not been found, the water is too murky; 8% of ABQ residents may lose TV reception when the digital conversion takes place on 6/12/09, the least prepared city in the US; brain disease that can only be found in NM, known as CCM; several hot air balloons in the AM sky; El Paso Electric CO will raise rates in 2010; four massive bells will be blessed in Santa Fe; Native Americans heading for DC to get compensation for uranium mine workers, and their children; bear walked into Rio Rancho HOSP; former Los Lunas chief said he worked overtime, but didn’t; $5 million stimulus money allocated for park & ride stations, and airports; dozens of police cars in Central & PA area: two women found dead in their APT; police will just tell street beggars to move: now, aggressive panhandlers using children & pets to encourage larger donations; the S Valley got soaked last night; man fell from canoe while rowing in N NM; shootout at 64th & Ouray; homeowner threatened by man with hatchet; 5K lbs. of bells will be placed in Santa Fe church, at a cost of $350K; ABQ Aardvarks Rugby Club;

new weight standards for pregnant women; NV SEN overrides GOV decision to override proposal that give equal rights to domestic partners, gay or straight; as of today, the Red Sox are in second [or third] place, tied with Toronto, while the Yankees are in the top spot; [R] criticized the Obama’s “Night on the Town” in NYC to see a play; Prince Harry toured Harlem children’s organization; ‘Star Trek’ is the first 2009 movie that has earned over $200 million; NY battle for same-sex marriages continues; blamed on a ‘mix-up’, tainted Sno-cones were served at KS Zoo; school shaved student’s hair, did not approve of his Mohawk; the realignment of car franchises; ‘what’s good for America, is good for GM’…the slogan used to be reversed; the NATL AVG price for gas has reached $2.50 per gallon, prices have increased 33 days in a row: AK, HI, CA & MI have the highest fuel costs, while SC has the lowest; Americans own a failing company, GM; ‘common sense rules’ to stay thrifty; the days of ‘fuzzy TV reception’ are over; there is ‘bear pepper spray’; the animated movie ‘Up’ was number one at the box office, earning $68.2 million; frost & freeze advisories in New England; the world’s most powerful laser has been created in CA; what is Sotomayor’s opinion on abortion; anti-abortion doctor killed while attending church;

ten country summit in S Korea; an El Nino forming in the Pacific; she did it for herself & Scotland: Susan Boyle received another standing ovation, the singer has global friends & audiences, plus a book deal; thirty killed in Chinese mine explosion; more ‘war drills’ by Israel; last Titanic survivor has died at the age of 97; Susan Boyle may also make a TV appearance in America; direct mail service between Cuba & the US?;

…5/30-09: enjoy the journey, then the destination

…and sometimes, we need a chance to smile, and laugh: thank you, Alpha Sound!;

58º in ABQ; 49% humidity at 6A…Las Cruces donate their art collection & 6K sq. ft. home to the state; ten NM NATL Guard soldiers are heading to Iraq; because of melting snowfall the temp of the Rio Grande is at its coldest this time of the year, teenage boy who fell into that river has yet to be found; the start of ‘lightning season’, NM has the highest death per capita in the US, take place between noon & 5P, we record over 1.8 million strikes per year; man who killed two woman in January, 2007 will spend sixty-two years in jail; bison call N NM home; last night, vigil held for the missing teen; FED harassment case against head UNM football coach; Brad made tasty Original All–Bran Muffins; even some N NM cities, such as Farmington, have seen reduced revenue; N NM rapist has been arrested; dam has closed parts of the Rio Grande in order to help find 13 year old boy, the rocks are also very slippery; another motel on Central, a haven of drugs & prostitutes, was demolished; man arrested in ABQ, linked to a triple murder in OH; June forecast for NM: above normal heat & moisture; 37 new ABQ police cadets; credit card workshop being held in Rio Rancho; monetary windfall for Duke City schools system should be used for bonuses; ‘Full Monty’ play being performed in the Duke City; Great American Cleanup in Deming; park being dedicated in SE ABQ; NM is the least prepared for the digital transition; homeless man was shot while invading another person’s property in Carnuel; eleven year old killed in Melrose rollover; Carlsbad Cavern: an inexpensive & fun place to see;

GM & the UAW come to terms: benefits will be sacrificed, 450 dealerships will close, factories will be revamped to create smaller, ‘greener’ more competitive vehicles: ‘GOVT Motors’: the unthinkable has become the inevitable; Obama says the US is unprepared for a cyber attack; after seventeen years, Jay Leno says farewell as nighttime talk show host, passes the torch to Conan O’Brien; during the past week, interest rates have risen, and a 19% drop in applications: will there be a second chance to afford a first mortgage; turn on IPod, turn off stress; music has a powerful healing effect; OK pharmacist arrested for killing a person robbing the store where he worked; most people want the FED to help provide health care coverage; subcompact GM cars will be built in the US, investors will initially lose money, workers will lose benefits; the First Couple attended a Broadway play; D&D: dancing & drugs; passport needed to enter MX; Prince Harry is also in America to raise money for African children whose parents died from AIDS; gay parades in ‘rural, conservative CA’: Fresno; some say that the Prop 8 has been passed, and the voters have decided: if that were true, America would still be part of Britain…if no one marched or protested, would women or Afro-Americans still be considered ‘second class citizens’;

UN says nations should enforce sanctions against N Korea, which may be preparing to launch another long-range missile; an AVG hurricane season predicted; badly beaten body was found in Paris luxury hotel; cruise ship that may have swine flu victims docked into Australian port, against the nation’s wishes; GM sells its European subsidiary, Opel; tear down illegal Israeli settlements; Susan Boyle may have only made it to second place, but she has a CD contract; between $8 – $14 million dollars in jewelry stolen from Paris store;

…5/29-09: I eye candy

59º in ABQ; 44% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Saturday’s child…born to worry; Rio Rancho boy fell into Rio Grande, rescue crews had to stop search at night; serious car crash at NE Heights; four children & electric shocking device removed from Valencia home, abuse suspected; child’s murderer wanted to be arrested, was offered police services, but declined; UNM Gallup Campus has new director; PNM allowed to raise rates; 2009 Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics being held today; NM rivers have strong currents during this time of year; ten possible suspects linked to W Mesa Murders; “if you’re willing, I’m giving”; forgot one of my bracelets; back up the system, to regain easier Blog access; the price of gas is now $2.39 per gallon; casinos are hiring; this AM, ABQ Police hid behind the beach to catch speeders on Central;

volunteer is the key; Code Purple at 6:30A, and at 3P; finished Rounds by 8A; someone asked me about what it takes to be a Coder; gave money to buy Terry a memorial plant; after finding written approval to release information, helped Dr. Susan Miller provide her psych documentation to Champus; from Lomas, ran to Eubank bus, bought books, then arrived home about 5:30P; spoke to Nancy, who was sitting outside, enjoying the weather;

wet along the E Coast; warm in the N Plains; SE US storms; FL has eased its drought; Midwest T’storms; damp weather in the SW US; Boston fog; NYC & Philly rain; temps from 60s to 100s; falling water on Falling Water; storms in the Rockies;

Chrysler will merge into Fiat, lower labor costs; KS student is Queen of the Spelling Bee; woman posed as media, came too close to Air Force One; record high for foreclosures & delinquent payments; PA mother charged with ID theft; DELL earnings drop; Prince Harry visits NYC for a polo match; Archie proposed to Veronica, what will happen to Betty & Jughead; entertainment economics, recession strikes ‘The Simpsons’, hard times are getting a star role, people getting pink slips; Obama turns his attention towards health care reform; GM will file for reorganization bankruptcy, 21K jobs lost, fourteen plants will close, auto CO getting an ADD’L $30 billion loans; more muscle may mean health problems as people get older; MICROSOFT ‘Bing’ search engine arrives next week; buy a battered cell phone for a penny, contract not included; the twentieth century views of the future have yet to become a reality; presenting, the ‘cyber czar’; NYC teacher accused of raping a student in a classroom; after Labor Day Hearst Castle could close for good, a victim of CA budget cuts; Prince Harry paid tribute at Ground Zero; GM stock is now worth 75¢ a share; the chief conservative critics say Sotomayor should withdraw her name from the possible nominees, because she is a ‘racist’; the NATL AVG price of gas is $2.47 per gallon; how ‘good’ is our ‘bad’ economy?; TN pizza delivery guy saves GA woman from rapist; TX man will spend 45 years in jail for infecting six women with the AIDS virus;

no need to worry about N Korea, so says Gates, no nuclear threat on the peninsula; man wants to visit every Starbucks in the world; bridge in Honduras collapsed due to quake; foreign markets rising; journalist falsely admitted she was a US spy; Bush & Clinton appear together in Toronto; how to protect US & MX from expanding drug cartels; even China ships pulling away from N Korean shores, launched another small range missile; gold is $980.30 per ounce; oil is $66.31 per barrel, double the price since December, 2008, and $15 higher than this past April; lethal virus discovered in Africa; British upset that French have not invited the Queen to the sixty-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Normandy, she served her country during WWII; this Sunday, Big Ben is 150 years old; Gates gets tough with N Korea?;

…5/28-09: from the mysterious reaches of outer space…

53º in ABQ; 74% humidity at 6A…cable restored overnight, probably an accident or storm; no rain at The Beach; GAQ; B-52s will be performing in the Duke City; ABQ teacher has been missing for weeks; DWI charge dropped against NMSU coach; ABQ budget cuts put ‘on hold’; it has rained six of the last seven days across NM; Aztec student saves another child from drowning; Iris Farm: an inexpensive place to visit; crossing the Rio Grande at Paseo, a ‘light rail on rubber’ transit system; NM jobless rate drops to 5.8%; Tyrus’ mother blame ABQ police for her son’s murder: they should have arrested her earlier; June is usually the driest month; installed Internet Explorer 8; isolated vs. scattered storms; another PNM rate hike, but gradual: two raises over one year; mental health bill for NM Veterans; no charges against boy who abused a dead body; wearing heavy metal necklace; plowing hail in ‘our’ Las Vegas; fire danger is nearly gone in parts of NM; a return to my Ikea light; did a thirteen year old boy fall into the Rio Grande?; Brad prepared a Ragu of Pork Loin in Vin Rouge; home invasion hoax at APT complex; across ABQ, an increase in large screen TV thefts: one pair of burglars has been arrested; NM has the largest number of state run museums in the country; slightly blurred vision, saw better without glasses;


on call to help others; finished Rounds by 7:45A; patient allergic to nickel; took PM Central home; worked on Terry’s TES edits; Code Purple at 11A, and 3P; one of our Coders lost her father this week; while leaving work, I was asked if we were participating in Pridefest events…my answer: it is time for the next generation to continue what we started;

very foggy with drizzle from Boston to NYC, CT coast, along I-95; DC SE US storms, also in OH Valley & N MI; two fires in CA valley are merging, caused by arson; OH & PA twisters; flood watches in NY, VT, WV, VA & Carolinas; NM storms mentioned on the ABC AM News; bad weather in Baltimore, Philly, INDY, Mobile & ATL; Dakota couple trapped in their home for two months, surrounded by water; 12K acres have burned in AK; S TX has the worst drought in the US; temps from 50s to 100s; Dupont Circle was flooded;
words of the times: ‘gaydar’ & ‘threequel’, ‘ego surfing’; man used empty six pack box instead of mask to rob NE store, stole cigarettes; Obama says cannot return to the past; low interest rates helped; economy taking a step in the right direction? Obama thinks so; PRES stimulus plan is 100 years old; is Sotomayor a ‘racist’, so says Gingrich; new agencies to protect individuals; sales of flat screen TV sets are up; PA mom kidnapped in Philly, found in FL, at Disney World, arrested in Orlando; she abandoned very young baby at home, husband in the dark about the incident; prominent liberal & conservative lawyers say gay marriage should be the ‘law of the land’, the ‘right to marry the person you love’; Prop 8 could be on the CA ballot again next year; camera can ‘geo tag’ where a photo was taken; AOL will no longer be part of Time Warner; liver problems linked to acetaminophen; Batman is 70 years old; things that go bump in the night at Milwaukee hotel; more H1N1 deaths in AZ & IL; Burris & Blagojevich: the buying of a SEN seat, incriminating audio evidence; two men killed in HI copter crash; PTSD, and US soldiers; IL passes medical marijuana law; each of us pay $1K for the uninsured; Sotomayor has not expressed her views on abortion, is she too radical a pick?; pets dying from flea & tick medicine; Bill Clinton still upset that the Kennedy clan backed Obama; jobless claims declined; foreclosures rising for people with good credit, 12% of homeowners are now delinquent with their mortgage payments; ID boy shot father while the parent was sleeping; CA gay student crowned ‘prom queen’; movies rated ‘R’ if the film contains smoking scenes?; mixed foreign markets; 7.1 quake in Honduras; S Korea & the US on higher ‘Watchcon’ alert, now at its second highest level; 14,557 ‘new flu’ cases, and 96 global deaths; China quarantines US student group from MD who might have H1N1 flu, will be allowed to return home tomorrow; rare blue whale found on New Zealand beach; more bombs strike NW PAK: more oil than previously predicted under Arctic ice?; oil is $65.08 per barrel; gold is $961.50 per ounce; the first tropical depression for 2009 has formed, with 35 mph winds, traveling NE at 16 mph; Susan Boyle buckles under stress, knows how to swear at the press;

…5/27-09: atomic reign

55º in ABQ; 63% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad has early AM Chiro visit; man broke into a funeral home, and beat up a corpse, charged with battery on the body; overnight rain at The Beach; did teen die from using alcohol & drugs at local hotel, given to him by his father & brother; man beaten when leaving work in Farmington; Greenpeace says that NM has the highest per capita pollution in the world; ABQ is one of the best city to live, per Kiplinger’s magazine: the list includes DC & Charlottesville; $37 million makeover for Del Norte school; people confess to crimes; Brad’s plants are growing; got the new lease paperwork from Nancy; because of bad economic times, the ‘Duke City Shootout’ will not be held this year; a dental school in NM?; inmate & female guard may become parents, she is pregnant; there are not too many laws protecting a corpse; haunted Memorial HOSP will become a hotel?; there have been eleven new H1N1 cases in NM, bringing the total to 108; NM has to do more in its search for missing people; ‘our’ Las Vegas looked like winter after a hailstorm; let’s drive to Ruidoso!; Taylor Dayne will perform at Pridefest; just after 7P, the cable stopped…so, went to bed, and read; Brent & Myrna asked about my holiday weekend; it couldn’t last forever, return to the “it doesn’t bother me” attitude, and that I will always be blamed for things I don’t know happened; at least I called my MGR back, and explained that others had accessed the charge during this May; time to stop, and smell the reality; Finished Rounds by 7:45A; how can a survey be ‘confidential’ if your E-mail address indicates who you are; 21 year old woman swallowed pencils & jewelry on a dare; Lovelace Coder given the pink slip after 25 years of service, apply for another job at that HOSP?; completed survey; JoAnn showed me her FL pictures, taken by her daughter; Brother Ear at CTI: talk too loud, and a warning sign will appear; burritos from Evelyn’s mother-in-law; worked Terry’s & Catina’s TES edits; necklace broke at work;

N Plains, Midwest rain; foggy Chicago, KC; Bangladesh & India struck by cyclone; wet along the Outer Banks; Boston & INDY rain; Houston & Mobile T’storms; S Rockies storms; NH, VT downpours; flood risk in VA & the Carolinas; temps from 50s to 100s; food rebus; lose weight with the appetite MGR; Obama in ‘Sin City’; Sotomayor will be approved by Congress, the third woman on the US Supreme Court, can relate to ‘everyday Americans’; decisions based on feelings, not legal criteria; people from her Bronx project look up to her; across America, many Prop 8 protests…we are not equally human; consumer confidence soared; can Chrysler sell its assets to Fiat; light at the end of the recession tunnel?; the electric jet ski can reach 50 mph; NV [R] GOV did not want to meet the PRES; some cities have seen 30% decline in house prices; suicide prevention classes need for soldiers; the battle for same-sex ceremonies will continue in CA, and America; health costs vs. cutting anti-smoking budgets; 6,764 H1N1 cases in the US; save money, make coffee at home; diet & exercise can lower stress & anxiety: try to eliminate the problems in your life; Mother Nature is God’s cathedral; WWII ship will become part of a Key West coral reef, was the ‘star’ in the movie ‘Virus’; the ‘blind’ car chase in Houston, when the car’s hood flipped up, blocking the suspect’s driver view of the road; Twitter will start charging fees on some services?; matching a picture to a paint color via cell phone; will the recession end this year?; support & scrutiny for Sotomayor, currently a US FED Court judge; lightning strike causes AK fire; the number of ‘problem banks’ rose to 305, the highest amount since 1994; the ‘bubble days’; seven year old NM girl drove for help after her father was killed in an auto accident…made NATL news; Hispanics are underrepresented on Capitol Hill; 15% of the population, but only 6% in Congress; four year old MI girl has been missing since last Sunday; someone killing cats in FL; Army suicides are the highest in thirty years: they take place after a soldier has returned home, or during the first tour of duty; GA CNTY school holds ‘whites only’ & ‘blacks only’ proms; will GM outsource its jobs, then turn around & ‘import’ its vehicles?; the DOW goes down; ‘abducted’ daughter seen getting on a plane at a Philly airport with her mother; the ‘no rush stool softener’; US may soon own 70% of GM; another mother allowing her son to have sex with his teacher; JetAmerica, the new airline with ‘some’ $9 flights; existing home sales rose by 2.9%, with the median price being $170,200, with many buying foreclosed houses; Ar-nold has voted against legalizing same-sex marriages;perhaps Susan Boyle might get marriage proposals; Butt Hole Road in Britain, lured tourists, still changed it to Archers Way; attacks getting bigger, and bolder; Lahore suicide bomb blast in PAK kills at least thirty people, many businesses destroyed; violence from the rural to urban areas; N Korea restarts its nuclear plants; foreign markets rising; six astronauts can now be housed at the INTL Space Station; 100 H1N1 deaths: 12,954 cases; Hyundai recalls 90K vehicles; oil is $63 per barrel; N Korean threatens to attack US warships, renounces 1953 truce ending the fight on that peninsula?; gold is $957 an ounce;

…5/26-09: an inflatable fun zone

56º in ABQ; 53% humidity at 6A…GAQ; thanks to KOAT, everyone will buy Comet, Formula 409 & Windex to keep their homes clean; Navajo Code Talker will be laid to rest in AZ; female inmate tries to flee YDDC; vandals destroy outdoor lights at Polk School; public ceremony for Tyrus Toribio; still trying to get streetcar line for ABQ; War on Terror Memorial upsets some local residents; best shopping tip is to do it alone, especially without children; too much rain falling in San Juan CNTY Navajo region made roads too wet, and too muddy, state of emergency declared; another day, another golf ball; ABQ school district ‘finds’ $16 million dollars; difficult to paint pants on a painting; man killed in a Cortez home;

finished Rounds by 8A; patient’s father found murdered in MX yesterday; the case of the year old charge; another golf ball; unicycle parking only; one MGR on jury duty;

warm from CA to MT; temps from 60s to 100s; wet in CO & NM, per the Weather Channel; heavy rain from DC to Charlotte; Newark showers; should majority of voters take away the rights of a minority; Dallas, Detroit, Chicago, Tulsa T’storms; frost & freezing warnings in NY & N New England; this week is a tax holiday for VA to buy designated ‘hurricane items’; floods in the Central plains; Baltimore moisture, along I-95; cool Boston; lower MS River flooding;

get ready for ‘The Real Housewives of DC’ series; CA Supreme Court decided Proposition 8 is legal, goes against Equal Protection law of that state: however, the 18K same-sex marriages that were performed are considered ‘valid’; voters have amended their state constitution; US Supreme Court judge needs real world experience, Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to fill the position, she would be the first Hispanic to be chosen, she has life experiences, and diabetes, an activist who doesn’t make laws, while Rush calls her a ‘racist’; beard contest in the US, winner comes from AK: it was a great year to grow facial hair; teen falls off cruise ship off the coast of FL; MN child must be rendered chemotherapy; students went to school in one state to make up a lost day earlier this year; too much texting by teens could lead to bad grades, and prevent a good night’s sleep; ‘daily distraction time’; home prices dropped 19.1% during the first quarter of 2009, to a level not seen since 2002; for sale: Belcourt Castle in Newport, RI…asking price is $7.2 million for sixty room home; music can lower blood pressure, ease stress; Twitter comes to TV?; IPhone art; I wonder why P’town does not have a gay bathhouse; the DOW ended up; NATL AVG price of gas is now $$2.44 per gallon, a seven month high; Mike Tyson’s four year old daughter has died after being on life support, she choked on a treadmill cord; DC has voted to approve same-sex marriages performed in other states; no inch of rain fell at airport, no free Memorial Day cars, but there was $700K in sales at that dealership;

Czech nurses perform free tummy tucks; erect statue for child who was the H1N1 ‘patient zero’ in small MX town; more missile testing by N Korea overnight, what should the global response be, trying to blackmail INTL community; fear America will attack them; two more short-range rockets launched; talks between the US, S Korea & Japan; ‘strongly worded’ UN resolution, bring them back to the peace table for talks; foreign markets falling, due to N Korea nuclear threat; Mel Gibson will be a dad again; Red Bull caffeine drink may contain cocaine, so says German leaders; there is a global ‘milk glut’; zoo kangaroo mother abandons her child after birth; Susan Boyle just wants a chance to perform in front of the Queen; N Korea is fueled by fear, afraid its GOVT will fail, the world should fear its regime; thousands of its missiles are aimed at Japan;

…5/25-09: your couch feels like a movie theater

54º in ABQ; 74% humidity at 6A…lesser chance of rain today; stabbing near Copper & RI sends one man to the HOSP; woman from NM found wandering in a daze in S TX; after years of debate, NM Veteran who died from war related injuries is on the Vietnam Veterans wall; NM band be marching in the DC parade; structural damage shut down Hollywood Hills Speedway; sex with a smile; Veterans Integration CTR on Central could get $500K for renovations; two students from NM will be going to the NATL Spelling Bee; Brad made Baked Beans; 7K visited the NM History Museum in Santa Fe; ABQ one of the top college town for jobs; summer & hard times are factors for a spike in domestic crimes; a small, early PM shower; Brad served Salmon with Poached Eggs, and Hollandaise Sauce; strong winds during the PM;

no GM/Prius Hybrid deal; ‘Night at the Museum’ was number one, earning $53 million; consumer confidence & housing reports later this week; Circuit City back in business, but only online; charred, or well-done meat, could cause pancreatic cancer; OH man tried to killed his neighbors, claiming they had captured & tortured his mother, because he did not receive his nightly call from her, invaded their home with guns: one man suffered life threatening injuries; ‘Terminator’ sequel made second place, followed by the Star Trek film, then ‘Angels & Demons’; Moment of Silence at 3P for those who have died serving our country; more FL flooding, two children killed in Orlando from storm related incidents; Times Square turning into a pedestrian only intersection; explosion at NYC Starbucks; people are camping, instead of staying at motels & hotels; rain from DC to St. Louis; rising sea levels, mean Fire Island & Jekyll Island beaches are eroding; Biltmore Estate is one of the top places to get married, one can stay on the estate, and purchase tableware; Obama was the first PRES to place a wreath on the Afro-American Civil War memorial; ‘Mine That Bird’ will race at the Belmont Stakes; CA school did not approve of sixth grader doing a PowerPoint project about Harvey Milk, it could only be shown in the lunchroom, but not the classroom; to all those who have served the United States, we salute you!; MN boy who needs chemo treatment returns home, all charges against the mother have been dropped; Chicago reports its first H1N1 death; two heterosexual women attacked in P’town by a young man, incident called ‘hate crime’;the belligerent country: unexpected, underground nuclear test by N Korea, at first it was reported as a 4.5 quake, then the country fired three short-range missiles as a show of strength, this is a matter of ‘grave concern’; Russia confirmed the detonation of the device, between 10 to 20 kilotons; Moscow condemns the action; now is the time for INTL action; flexing its ‘nuclear muscle’, but angering one of its only allies, China: an attempt to show strength further isolates the nation, S Korea is losing its patience; plus doing it on America’s Memorial Day; a ‘blatant violation of INTL law’; the small Communist country says its action was in ‘self defense’; it would be easier to ship a nuclear bomb into Tokyo harbor, than attack from the air; priest in Austrian Sikh temple has died; fourteen million people watched Susan Boyle perform ‘Memory’; replica of Noah’s Ark opened in Hong Kong; oil at $61.05 per barrel; Italy will also accept GITMO detainees;

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…5/24-09: when great is nearly right

55º in ABQ; 89% humidity at 6A…late last night, triple murderer turned himself in at Las Alamos police station; more rain last night, continuing today; one final tribute to Tyrus, a memorial is proposed for the child at Alvarado Park; how to get a spring on the Zia Pueblo to flow again; parts of US 491 near Shiprock was damaged last night due to flooding; N NM Flash Flood Advisory; two NM dogs were ‘stars’ in the latest ‘Terminator’ movie; gas well drilling vs. Aztec Ruins NATL Monument; father & son charged with embezzlement of political contributions; UNM endowment fund needs $3 million; court hearing for mother who murdered her three year old was cancelled for unexpected reasons; funnel clouds sighted across NM yesterday; wet roads caused a fatal triple crash on US 550 near Cuba; fire in abandoned Duke City motel on Central; American Bicycle ASSOC drew thousands of people yesterday for Spring NATL BMX contest; a blown tire resulted in a rollover crash that killed a driver along I-25 near T or C; Brad started his next picture; outrageous property value appraisals for Bernalillo CNTY businesses; last race at the Hollywood Hills racetrack [weather permitting]; public memorial for Tyrus Toribio will be held this Tuesday; liquidating sale at Unpainted Furniture this weekend; more sidewalks in the N Valley neighborhoods to protect residents from having to walk on the streets; pseudo twister captured on film, moving through Rio Rancho; NM sues investment firm to recover monetary losses; lower fares, more riders on Rail Runner this holiday weekend; people like my YouTube comments; skunk with rabies was found in Curry CNTY; very windy night;

stars gathered to raise money for AMFAR; Seattle nightclub ‘Hot For Teacher Party’ event being held by instructor who married her teenage student; two school buses crashed into a retaining walk during an OH demolition derby, injuring eleven spectators; good judicial philosophy needed in Supreme Court nominee; man arrested for threatening to kill former NYC mayor Giuliani; two people killed, four others injured during Mesa, AZ graduation party; Gulf Coast storm could affect NM; the end of surprise credit card rate increases; only one woman driver in the INDY 500; OR mom drowned her four year old son in a river; swarm of bees trap workers inside NYC store; big box stores are creating smaller versions; NV jobless rate keeps rising, while the number of tourists keeps falling; NY second H1N1 death reported, bringing the total to eleven in the US;; recession attacks the high tech industry; video made by students shows the steps to kill a classmate; NH House vs. GOV on the wording of gay marriage law: clergy cannot be forced to unite gays & lesbians; NY moving closer to allow same-sex weddings; Robert Duvall, a VA resident, tries to stop a Wal-Mart from being built near an historic battlefield; as of now, the Red Sox are in first place; Obama keeps in touch with PRES Bush; drunk Chicago police officer killed thirteen year old who was riding on a bicycle; Memorial Day was once called Decoration Day; Hardin, MT town, located in the poorest country of the state, eager to hold 240 GITMO prisoners at the empty Two Rivers Detention CTR; three small planes ‘touched’ the edge of restricted airspace around Camp David; fire threatening homes in the San Diego area; $55 million damage to central FL from storms; is Colin Powell a [R] ‘in name only’;

UFO over Brazilian beaches turned out to be a work of art; where & when will the Atlantis land, since it is still raining in FL, where a boat & a fish were found in a parking lot…the answer: CA was much drier for the space shuttle to return home; royal chauffer suspended for giving the media private tours of a royal home, in exchange for money; American teen missing in Switzerland; thirty people wounded by five gunmen at Sikh Temple in Vienna; Susan Boyle won the semifinal round with ‘Memory’, from ‘Cats’; man from Poland contracts the H1N1 virus after visiting America; there are 12,022 H1N1 cases around the world, with 86 deaths; Atlantis ‘drove’ over 5,270,00 miles; 21K people trapped by Australian floods; Church of Scotland appoints gay minister; equality would mean giving spouses of gay diplomats security & language training, plus tips on how to handle an evacuation; the ground shook again: this time, a 5.1 tremor near S Macedonia in Greece, others had been reported during the weekend; 4,299 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq; $700 billion has been spent on the Middle East wars;

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…5/23-09: coming to a community near you

57º in ABQ; 74% humidity at 6A…Brad prepared Saffron Rice, with Raisins & Onions; something happened last night that I would rather forget…my online disco ‘burned down, the cause was an violent explosion…but Max survived; gas is now $2.33 per gallon; Tyrus Toribio, name of the child buried in the sand; private ceremony to be held on the Zia Pueblo; finished Rounds before 7:30A; no two people are on the same page; Rupert screens display the ICD codes…but not their explanations; no CTI or PICU Admits; overnight & AM rain at The Beach; déjà vu: two girls, nearly the same age, suffering a fracture of the same bone, both caused by a trampoline incident, and Krista rendered both consults; overnight & AM rain at the Beach, and at UNMH; Brad cooked Spaghetti served with Linguica; when good ideas go bad; Gay Pride ads on ABQ R/R; arrived home about 11:15A; and now, ‘I Promised Myself’ pleasantly plays in my head; first Santa Fe murders: a pregnant girl & her father, killed by the woman’s boyfriend, who is armed & dangerous; man died at NE ABQ APT; is LANL lab well contaminated?;

lump our area as ‘the desert SW’; 8.9% NATL unemployment rate; the NATL AVG price of gas is $2.39; fuel has jumped twenty-five cents in one month; 96K lbs. of beef could contain E Coli; veterans, ‘at rest in final glory’ in Arlington NATL Cemetery; cigarette & suntan lotion ads are misleading; breaking another glass ceiling: an Afro-American woman will be leading a Fortune 500 CO, Xerox; six straight days of FL rain; there is no NATL WWI Memorial on the Mall; 32.4 million people will travel this holiday weekend; one million new cases of skin cases each year; New England showers; Fleet Week in NYC; missing boy with cancer may have left the US; Vortex2 is in S Dakota; Boston, from the 80s to the 60s; rain in the N Plains; Gulf Coast & MS Valley storms; AM ads for sleeping pills; temps from the 40s to the 100s; more road trips, more creative: cheap, but fun; Daytona 500 racetrack is underwater; Sunday school teacher furnishing ‘harmful substances’ to both an adult & child; no more ‘low tar’ in smoking ads; more money for GM, but it may still file for bankruptcy; in search of the perfect cell phone; amusement parks enter their second season of the bad economy; car steals, not deals; no see-through fashions at work where you can view the underwear; former astronaut, who is also Afro-American, will head NASA?; tax on health INS; 3–D Crayola crayons; the American flag was the first banner to symbolize the people, not their leader; the Supreme Court choice should both intellectual, yet have empathy: background checks for all candidates have been completed; the ‘fun five’ who must ‘kill the catwalk’; UT man also punched pregnant teen, so she would not have an abortion; AK rocked by 3.6 tremor; 4.7 quake shook central CA;

Bimini: gateway to the Bahamas, another Hemingway hangout; travel by golf cart; children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo accused of being in league with the Black Arts, and exorcized; dark rum: more sugar, more strength; charter a luxury yacht, with servants & chef; informal, first-class meals, enjoy massages, flat screen TVs, complete with DVD & music libraries Jacuzzi with champagne on the side; king size beds, monogrammed bathrobes; wet weather means Atlantis landing called off; Chinese citizen helped suicide jumper, by pushing him off a bridge; former S Korean leader committed suicide; cancer threatens Tasmanian Devil; SW China earthquake; eleven dead from plane crash in Brazil; sun spots: the solar equivalent of road rage; the Taliban: isolated, but powerful; thanks to Hillary Clinton, gay American diplomats’ family members will get the same coverage as heterosexual couples; swine flu in Persian Gulf countries, infecting US soldiers;

…5/22-09: passion for fashion

59º in ABQ; 67% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Baby Angel killer on suicide watch, she will face a judge today, and ‘could’ face the death penalty, people said woman was not a ‘typical mother’, and partied all the time, led a ‘high-risk’ lifestyle; never provided her child any support; the boy will have a proper Native American burial; should the park be renamed for him?, she had been kicked out of a friend’s APT; bike competition coming to NM this weekend; Las Cruces man wants his child abuse charge dropped; APT fire in NE ABQ; overnight crash on I-40 near Sedillo Hill; Aztec judge punished for tipping off a man to his possible arrest; 400 years of artifacts on display: NM Mexican History Museum opens; clean energy stimulus money coming to NM; peacocks roam N Valley streets; no more half day Wednesdays for Duke City schools; teacher accused of sadism & sexual abuse; PM rain; Brad has completed another painting; Duke City pools need drain covers;

helped Internal Medicine complete Group 4 forms; why do veteran Data Entry people not know ‘veteran’ ICD codes; finished Rounds before 7:45A; internal web server problems; will someone call me, and say something bad about me just before we start the holiday weekend?: no; is it for us to generate more revenue…or for others to look good, or better; no PICU Admits; no joint meeting with both Coders & Data Entry personnel, those above just say ‘no’; a TES edit for a March service just received, sent CC to add MOD 25; one DEPT has plenty of work; telling the same caller twice that was not connected to an adult Surgery Clinic; Myrna drove me home;

stormy SE US; NM T’storms mentioned on ABC AM News; Boston in the 90s; 80s in DC; rain in Fl, along I-75 & I-95; wet weather for the interior of New England, warm along its coastal areas; temps from 50s to 100s; two fires burning in N MI; Gulf Coast moisture; Midwest & N Plains showers; light rain in ATL; storms for Denver & New Orleans; fairly normal hurricane season this year;

sign of the times?: blind woman attacked on Seattle bus; Obama will always protect the American public; a war of words with Cheney, speaking on the other side of DC; ‘the worst of the worst terrorists will be jailed in the US', praised himself for protecting the country, this discussion is not over; military jet crashed in CA desert; is the child with cancer, and his mother, heading to MX; four NYC terrorists did not belong to any known group; two commuter planes bumped into each other at LAX, no one was injured; FED GOVT will give GM more money; 34 US banks have closed; AIG CEO steps down; Houston furniture store went up in flames; Coast Guard Beach in Cape Cod is one of the top ten best in the US; holiday travel will be down from this same time, last year; ‘Night of the Museum’ helped attendance; the rolling chapel to bring the church to the couple; man killed student at Harvard dorm; between the covers of the interactive coffee table book; some schools approve texting for answers; at least twenty girls were injured when a grate collapsed in Brooklyn: they were standing on it to take a graduation picture, some fell as much as fifteen feet; jobless rates: rose in 18 states & DC, leveled in eleven states, declined in 21 states; MI has the highest unemployment rate; 44 states lost jobs; 6,522 H1N1 cases in the US; America sets aside $1 billion to battle the disease; oil refineries are not running at peak processing; WA woman is the first to utilize that state’s assisted suicide law; the Midwest counties where whites are a minority; cast member quits soap opera because the plot demanded he kiss another man; Bush says it’s ‘refreshing’ to be out of office;

more market bombings in Baghdad; reporter imprisoned in Iran has arrived the US; oil priced at $61.11 per barrel; gold is at $958.90 an ounce; too wet for Atlantis to land in FL; foreign markets falling; MX drug cartel extends into MA, and beyond, cities like Richmond & Arlington, VA, also Frederick MD; zombie movie cost $70 to make; there are 11,186 cases of H1N1 around the world, and 86 deaths; 5.7 quake shakes the ground S of MX City;

…5/21-09: is having options, an option?

66º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…GAQ; former PRES Bush in Artesia; ‘fake father’ appeared at Alvarado Park, the man was drunk; based on a tip, 23 year old woman arrested in connection with Baby Angel murder, how did the boy die, signs point to internal methods; ‘our’ Las Vegas nearly struck police officer with his vehicle; now, NM could see as much as $3 billion in stimulus funds; City Council wants to avoid budget cuts in Duke City schools; NM H1N1 cases range from babies to 68 year old patients; ABQ stalker turns himself in; as you add song, the online playlist grows; my power…is that I don’t have any; so far, AM showers; and another early AM panic attack; Native Code Talker passed away; gas is now $2.31 per gallon; ‘Terminator 4’: the most expensive movie to be filmed in NM; did I forget to send JoAnn my end of work E-mail?; to avoid potential downpours tomorrow, will climb for comics today; missed the #5 E & the first #8 W, arrived home after 6P;

Code Orange Air Quality from MA to TX; Nebraska T’storms; Midwest moisture; five inches of rain fell on JAX; denting the drought in FL; wet along I-95 & I-10 in the Sunshine State; temps from 60s to 90s; Gulf coast showers; bad weather for Chicago & Phoenix; twister over Miami; wet ATL; ABQ rain mentioned on ABC AM News; man used drill to create burr hole, the only tool available to prevent a tumor; FED agents stop four terrorists’ plot to destroy NYC synagogues & military planes, they wanted ‘to do something to America’, plan was known in 2008; 56 pounds lost through hypnosis; Obama vs. Cheney speeches today; two men still missing off San Diego coast; new Chrysler chairman, after its merger; $7.6 billion to GMAC; millionaires met in NYC to discuss the global economic crisis; Baby Angel killer makes COMCAST & CNN Headline News: mother murdered him, revived him with CPR, then murdered him again; more planes have Wi-Fi access; insomnia is a major risk factor for depression, music helps; H1N1 deaths in the US reach double digits; is chemotherapy used too often on patients?; the cordless landline phone?; 83 year old man part of marijuana ring?; 750 pound corpse is dragged into morgue; SC mother & her 555 lb. son were located in Baltimore, she was charged with child neglect; MI postal worker arrested for hiding mail, some dating back to 2005; CA man killed father & pregnant wife in front of their child; the first female, Afro-American rabbi in American will be ordained next week; FDIC bails out closed FL bank, in the AMT of $4.9 billion; the DOW ended down; the $100K bionic limbs; US airman saved passengers’ lives when he noticed a fuel leak on the plane they were flying;
does the Canadian Olympic torch resemble a marijuana joint?; foreign markets falling; astronauts drank urine filtered water…yum!; space shuttle will land tomorrow; how does the world treat AIDS in 2009?; Iran missile could reach Israel, Iraq & Europe; torture video may mar US – UAE relations; cannot reform terrorists through training?;