…5/7-09: the future isn’t here yet

58º in ABQ; 24% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Pie Town Café still is in business; in NM, those that had or have the H1N1 virus have recovered, or are recovering; blaze near Timberon forcing resident out of their homes, staying at Cloudcroft; fire ban in Bosque for 140 days; all NM schools reopen; H1N1 cases across the state; next year’s school calendar shifts; Rail Runner used as target practice while it was in service, no one was injured; severe chronic pain could be treated by marijuana in NM; ‘Mine That Bird’ on the cover of Sports Illustrated; Comfort Suites hotel goes up in flames; AC not cooling, will contact Nancy: he did, the man should be here tomorrow; it’s not as hot as I expected; 6P SWAT situation at Eighth & Bridge SW; Walgreens’ knows Brad by his first name; the first Four Corners case of the H1N1 virus is a person who lives in La Plata CNTY, CO; Otero CNTY fire in the Lincoln NATL Forest is 20% contained; gas is up to $2.09 per gallon; groundbreaking for the Georgia O’Keeffe ELEM school;

providing assistance, and keeping up to date; helping without complaining; no one likes to work PDI requests; CNM now has more students [in the hundreds] than UNM; finished Rounds about 7:45A; the MOD 25 TES edits that would not clear yesterday, have disappeared today; Brandi is OK, but she was in a car that was struck by a speeding driver; patient shot in the abdomen with a B-B pellet; more pseudo-codes added for Internal Medicine; don’t tell the doctors about the changes; showed Jenny my Trident pin; this I reviewed & approved revisions to several billing sheets; no PM R/R walk; Debbie and the ‘L’ word [it’s not what you think];

AK floods, ice shifting structures; Midwest, N Plains T’storms, hail, flooding; twisters in Louisville & ATL; people keep driving into flooded roadways; dry heat in W TX; NYC fog, Boston showers; temps from 50s to 100s; ABQ heat was mentioned on ABC AM News; 10K people have been told to evacuate; fireball during the night have destroyed dozens of homes in Santa Barbara CNTY, three firemen have been injured, this is an extreme emergency, blaze is 0% contained; Vortex Two; per Weather Channel, ‘unusually high temps’, record heat in S FL & SW US; including Orlando & ABQ; flood conditions from Baltimore to Manassas; slap on the sunscreen in the S US; CA fire has consumed 1,300 acres; woman tattooed her pets on her body before she passed away; FORD fights failure; Wells Fargo needs more money to survive; save $17 billion, remove 121 projects in the 2010 budget; $6K incentives on new Chrysler vehicles; fewer jobs slashed last month; NYC flyover photo will be released; a union of two people, goes into effect in mid-September, but could be repealed by the voters; long lines of people waiting for two free pieces of KFC, thanks to Oprah; actor arrested, accused of head-butting; First Lady & Elmo exercise by walking down Sesame ST; 1K lb. hammerhead shark caught off the FL coast; three consecutive odd numbers today; so many phone calls at the end, some many papers shredded: Madoff secretary talks to the media: he seemed to be two people; larger size device to read novels; four-star Boston hotel was once a prison; both inmates & guards now staying as guests; more homes have cell phones than land lines, many have no phones at all; 17% of children under five years old face hunger; how do you battle bullying, when kids keep creating crueler tactics; Moulin Rouge casino destroyed by fire; now, H1N1 vaccine may not be ready for six months; is CT college killer targeting students & Jews; SEN confirms new drug czar; ‘transparency & clarity': ten banks have to raise $75 billion in the next six month, whatever it takes: ‘strong’ banks could return their TARP money; April consumer credit dropped by 5.2%, or $11 billion; air traffic controllers are very vulnerable to attack, causing planes to collide, or crash; gas explosion at MD mall injured nine people; Manny Ramirez tests positive for performance enhancing drugs, suspended for fifty games; the DOW ended down; the end of ‘shop until you drop’ era; song birds strapped, smuggling through Customs into the US; MX City reopens, employees still wearing face masks, the youngest victim is three months old; ‘Chuck Norris’ posters helps protect Croatians from break-ins; foreign markets rising; VW & Porsche may merge?; young people are the most vulnerable to the H1N1 virus; fixing a $6 billion Hubble telescope in space, with a minimal window of safety; 642 confirmed cases; over the next two years, the ‘new flu’ could infect two billion people; back to the moon by 2020?; radio talk show host Michael Savage has been banned from Britain;