…6/30-09: the steps to create an original

72º in ABQ; 43% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow for Ozone: Moderate Air Quality; teen killer faced a judge today, only sustained minor injuries; friends of those killed were in another vehicle, and saw the crash take place; state narcotics officer charged with using cocaine; Domenici had successful shoulder surgery; NM police officer failed sobriety test, after he was seen swerving across a road; The Beach is 100% occupied until September, 2009; $3 million bail for wrong way teen killer; the custom Mustang in The Beach parking lot has DC tags; NM ranks number nine for DUI deaths per capita; $40K contribution from Smith’s to the Road Runner Food Bank; free drug discount card for Bernalillo CNTY; NM has the second highest honor of people who did not know when they will have their next meal; fatal, accidental shooting in SW ABQ; propertyroom.com, a state run auction;

when Katy screamed ‘Michael’; ten-day warning TES edit cleared overnight; finished Rounds about 7:45A;

showers in Miami FL & Abilene, TX, parts of I-20, I-75 & I-90; Red Flag warnings across N GA & the FL panhandle; heat in SE TX; storms in KS, MO, AR; rain in New England, Philly & NYC; Boston & Providence have below AVG temps; the Big Apple has its third wettest, and fifth coldest June; TX is in the dark; Finger Lakes floods, spreading into Erie; N FL storms; S NM T’storms mentioned on ABC AM News;

the new look of COMCAST online; Farrah’s son will be released from jail to attend her funeral; man jumps from helicopter to catch a marlin?; FOX reporter’s foot was run over by a car as the vehicle sped near Michael Jackson’s last home: father is not mentioned in the singer’s will; sign reads ‘People are eating children in this area’; funeral arrangements for the King of Pop are put on hold, more drugs confiscated from his home; others say he was ‘anti-drug’; Madoff’s wife also feels ashamed & misled, other family members are to be arraigned; people clapped when judge read his decision; none injured during ATL parking garage collapse; three people die in SC pool accident; as day progressed, Michael Jackson’s will was found, he will have a public showing this Friday: a private viewing, this Sunday; more healthcare ads being aired; SC GOV has a different definition of ‘faithful’ & ‘honest’: his wife should start taking an inventory of their possessions; millions being made in Michael Jackson’s memorabilia; good or bad: 10% of homeowners will face foreclosures, 10% of Americans will lose their jobs; house prices are 18% lower than last year, but dropping at a slower pace; ‘Vibe’ magazine will stop publishing, another victim of hard economic times; seven people injured at Detroit bus stop; Duke UNIV official offered his five year old son for Internet sex; Michael Jackson honored at Apollo Theater; refund vs. souvenir from an upcoming Michael Jackson concert; DOW ends down; OTC drugs are unsafe, acetaminophen is the reason, and ingredient found in many ‘pain killers’; SC GOV found his ‘soul mate’, he is a broken man who got caught; eight months in the making: the [D] supermajority

NATL holiday of sovereignty for Iraq, the country takes control of its urban areas; train carrying liquefied natural gas derailed, crashed into houses in Italian coastal town along the Riviera, killing at least 12 people, injuring another fifty; does the Queen of England deserve a pay raise?; a body was found in the water following a Yemeni Airbus 310 crash off the coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean, at least 150 people were onboard, ‘number of faults’ found in its structure; oil ends at $69.89 per barrel; gold closed the day at $927.40 an ounce; al Qaeda threatens France; now is the time to leave Iraq?;

…6/29-09: return to Chapter One

61º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality for Ozone; the teen driver involved in a head-on collision near Santa Fe is at UNMH; horse virus in Farmington; fatal collision in Valencia CNTY; Duke City man raped his fourteen year old niece, and got her pregnant; the AVG price of gas in NM is $2.63 per gallon: in ABQ, it’s $2.56; autistic children fascinated by small toy; film crew in downtown Duke City; Santa Fe rail yard BLDG fire, started by angry employee; save money: buy from, or join into a co-op; Native American hate crimes on the increase in NM; I saw gas for $2.49 per gallon;

in a world where no one cares anymore; 10:05 Compliance meeting [cancelled]; finished Rounds by 7:45A; another nurse leaving, this time from CTI; more Pit rebuilding controversies; worked Catina’s TES edits; JoAnn out; the ten day warning TES edit that will not go away; some people chose to stay at work, and not attend last Friday’s picnic; Channel 13 on UNMH hill;

rain from MN to ME, soggy New England; per Weather Channel, midweek moisture in the Four Corners; TX, MS & Louisiana baking in 100 degree heat, hot temps not breaking; snake outbreak in TX; storms in S FL; S TX is still very dry; wet weather in Boston, Miami, Houston & New Orleans; showers along parts of I-20; temps from 50s to 100s; NM T’storms mentioned on ABC AM News; 100s in N CA;

Gale Storm has died at the age of 87 from failing health; Miami bus brawl when people heard of Michael Jackson’s death; the singer may have had several wills; the White House celebrates Gay Rights today; 400K lbs. of ‘bad beef’; Madoff, the 71 year old man with no remorse, learns his fate today; his wife Ruth will not be in court: she does not want see his victim’s faces, the judge sentenced him to 150 years in jail; Michael Jackson & Iran compete for top headline news; too many loopholes in hate crime laws; ‘Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen’ was the number one weekend box office hit; “Who’s the Best”: Michael Jackson; a healthy diet will help prevent premature births; 15% of teens polled say they expect to die at a young age; 62% of those polled favor Sotomayor; NM weekend teen car crash makes CNN headline; the King of Pop’s mother gets temporary custody of his children; is the energy/climate bill a ‘job killer’?; mushroom clouds over NYC; FDA finally says aspirin can cause liver damage; gays claim police brutality at local bar in Ft. Worth, TX, paddy wagon was near premises; driver escaped parking garage collapse in ATL at Spring & Fifth; Billy Mays died from an enlarged heart; Diane Keaton injured herself on a movie set, but will return to work tomorrow; impersonator Frank Travalena died from cancer at the age of 66; race ruling reversal: US Supreme Court favors white & Hispanic fire fighters in discrimination decision; Madoff described as ‘deeply flawed individual’ with an ‘extraordinarily evil’ personality, none of his family were in the courthouse when the judge made his decision; is it ‘safer’ to rely on prescription drugs?; Judge Souter’s last day on the Supreme Court, and in the legal system; the DOW went up; 70% of those who consider themselves homosexuals voted for Obama;Australian wallabies eating opium, getting high, jumping in circles; Honduras leader is in exile in Costa Rica; both Chavez & Obama oppose coup; Iranians resume their protests; MX man tried to sell his wife & children; oil is $71.49 per barrel; gold is $940.70 an ounce; the number of UK H1N1 cases are on the rise; Iran has a new leader…its old one; first motorcyclist to jump across the Rio Grande from TX to MX…near El Paso; German scientists still stable after poking her finger with a needle that contained the Ebola virus; fireworks over Baghdad;

…6/28-09: starting right back at the beginning with you

72º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…man stabbed in the stomach by a screwdriver, double shooting on Central & Aztec; a robbery near WY & Lomas…just another night in the Duke City; rollover yesterday on I-25 near the Isleta exit; College of Santa Fe may reopen next semester; NM version of ‘Iron Chefs’ being held at the ABQ CONV CTR today; a Las Cruces inmate with cancer has escaped; heavy rain, flash floods, multiple car accidents along I-40 near Grants; four Santa Fe teens were killed by a wrong way driver, possibly under the influence, collided into their vehicle on the Old Las Vegas HGWY; more medians needed to E Central; vandals broke into vehicles at UNM parking lot, taking whatever they could find inside them;more beef being recalled for possible E Coli contamination; more accessibility & better treatment for disabled people are needed at MA hospitals; unhappy at work, keep it to yourself; Nestlé’s will not release production data to FDA inspectors, nor provide complaint logs; three people killed, seven others injured during a drive by shooting at a Pico Rivera pizzeria fundraiser, held by a biker group; forty years ago today, the patrons in the Stonewall Inn in NYC fought back against police attacks, the day the ‘gay revolution’ began…a group consisting of men & women, young & old, and all nationalities: one of those people had the last name of ‘Castro’; NYC daycare CTR was also a drug haven; Good Morning America featured Biltmore, and Asheville, NC; many children of same-sex couples are heterosexual, but fear the feedback from others if they describe their families, or home life, their parents do not raise boys and girls to become homosexuals; private funeral for Farrah Fawcett; people in power think they can do anything to anyone, and not pay the price; GA plane crash killed two; SC GOV may resign; TV ad man Billy Mays has died at the age of fifty, he had just suffered a bump when the plane he was flying blew its tires, and a piece of luggage hit his head; custody question: biological mother vs. grandparents; Madoff didn’t care about his victims: the scheme started in the 60s’, have to give up homes in the Hamptons, and France; CO meat plant, and cows walking in their droppings, are the blame for current infection; Vincent Price was never paid for his role in Thriller; a brown wall of dust & dirt blew across America during the 1930s, the ‘black blizzard’ that spread to the E Coast; 4/14/35, 300 million tons of dust; one man has a degree in Soil Science; the Soil Conservation Service was formed when OK literally arrived in DC; everyone sounds the same in old newsreels;Somali pirates have released a Belgian’s ship crew; Honduras PRES arrested by the country’s military, injured during the coup; an ‘eco-oasis’ in Dubai, a carbon-neutral, zero-waste city; no regular cars allowed; tensions heightening between England & US, and Iran; British journalists in the Arab nation must remain in their hotel rooms, say they are being harassed & detained by that country; police & protesters keep clashing, the verbal mudslinging by Ahmadinejad, and the call for NATL unity by its religious leader; US combat troops preparing to leave Iraq, a nation with no Navy or Air Force;

…6/27-09: silver is second to gold!

66º in ABQ; 72% humidity at 6A…by the way, we did enjoy our meal at Saggio’s; cable contact ‘burped’ again last night; Silver City storms this AM; once again, overnight rain at The Beach; man still waiting for police action after he was robbed & shot at an ATM last month; boy with Down’s Syndrome was found near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry in S NM, after wandering away from his group home, he is now in the custody of the MX consulate; oldest NM meth dealer has been arrested; police officer fired because of an allegation; $30K in damage to schools from this week’s vandalism; Jose Feliciano will be appearing at the Camel Rock Casino; children should get booster shoots to prevent bacterial meningitis; by January, 2010, the new name for the S Valley could be ‘Valle de Atrisco’; storms & cold front nearing NM; though 6.5%, the jobless rate in NM is much lower than most other states; Brad prepared Chopped Chicken Livers with Egg; lost cable access this AM; KAFB needs 430 workers, both military & civilian; Duke City Wal-mart has 450 positions open; Brad completed another painting; six Deming police officers are on paid leave, pending an ‘undisclosed criminal matter’; another VHS tape bites the dust; Rio Rancho wife has been found guilty of murdering her husband earlier this year; we watched an updated version of ‘As You Like It’; a stabbing at the Rainbow Gathering outside Cuba; the new Interior ASST SECY of Indian Affairs is from NM;nine people killed on OK interstate yesterday, tow trucks & ambulances had to work in scorching heat to remove bodies & wreckage; new, ‘green’ job need a new type of education to produce a ‘new’ type of worker; energy bill barely passed the US House; 45 banks have shut down across the US: the most recent in GA, MN & CA; [R] want to know where the jobs are that Obama said would be created by the stimulus package; American are earning more, saving more, spending less; Detroit, the most hated & dirtiest city in the US?; SC GOV still in hot water; 100 pounds of pot found in a casket, but no cadaver; Boston has the hardest accent to understand: Atlanta, the easiest; a romantic tryst between Jackie O & Marlon Brando?; semi failed to stop, traveling 75 mph on the Will Rogers Turnpike; second autopsy by the Jackson family, who live in Encino, CA; the case of the curious cardiologist, who has thousands of dollars in rulings against him; selling ‘pollution allowances’ for industries?; the King of Pop had a half billion dollar debt, owed to creditors, lawyers & agents; Michael Jackson was one of the first Afro-Americans to have his videos aired on MTV; TMZ had the scope on the scoop; toxic amounts of lead found in some handbags; the first formal picture of the First Dog;N Korea says it will shoot down Japanese planes; Brazil ends its search for Air France victims; the number of millionaires dropped by 15% in 2008; Iran threatens the US; the Arab world mourns the passing of Michael Jackson; Abercrombie & Fitch move salesperson to stock position because of her prosthetic arm; Iranian political opponent is under house arrest, rioters are reduced to releasing green balloons to show their anger;

…6/26-09: rebirth of an American car

66º in ABQ; 83% humidity at 6A…part of the AIDS quilt is in Santa Fe this weekend; GAQ; more monsoon moisture for NM; 6.5% jobless rate in NM, only GOVT jobs for the 2010 census & health care posted increases in workforce; casting for series ‘Crash’ takes place in the Duke City, everyone is asked to try out, but they especially need people have a military look; NM GOV tours the state, begins tackling domestic violence; some fire restrictions have been lifted; solar power will provide electricity to parts of the Navajo Nation; no leads to missing ABQ man; more Duke City schools vandalized; seventeen year old boy linked to another teen’s shooting has been located; met ‘Chewy’, The Beach dog; Brad made more Bran Muffins, and has nearly completed another painting; Manny Ramirez was a no-show last night, he was on his way back to Los Angeles, fans can be compensated with a future free Isotopes ticket; NM man will be a White House Fellow, in a FED DEPT; 311 calls linked to the ABQ Twitter; gas prices: in the US, $2.66: in NM, $2.65: in ABQ, $2.59;

UNMMG picnic; left work at noon to be with Brad for lunch at Saggio’s; continue for comics; trying to prove their way is the best way; finished Rounds before 8A; seven week old that was dropped to the floor by his intoxicated mother; MGR out; no UNMH Data Entry people can attend the picnic; this from people who keep preaching ‘teamwork’; who preys call from Data Entry on where to route a pharmacy charge; expanding the gap between Coders & Charge Entry; both enjoyed Saggio’s; then we got caught in a NE Heights downpour, talked with the guys at the bookstore, and arrived home about 3:30P; leaks along the Pavilion walkway; keep track of all the mistakes made by Data Entry; through the years Data Entry has placed batch sheets on top of billing sheets which were not ours; JoAnn also left for the day; my MGR has Dr. Brandt in a tizzy, for a request of his spreadsheet;

have strong shutters that can survive being struck by big pieces of wood; stormy in Chicago, KC, NYC, Philly, DC; Detroit in the dark this AM; storms in mid-Atlantic & New England; twisters from NE to the Dakotas; wet along parts of I-95; excessive heat in the N CA, the S Central states, from MO to TX; temps from 60s to 100s;

screening for yeast; $500K bail for TX swindler Stanford; the Golden Girl of Hollywood, and the Man with the Silver Glove are gone; death threats against abortion opponents; SC GOV working with his family on damage control after the recent disclosure of his affair; using drugs & other treatment to cope with hard economic times; stories of Michael Jackson’s death crashed Internet websites; how many of his song titles reflected his life; he had thirteen number one songs, and won 13 Grammy Awards; his life had ups & downs; millions of hits on his YouTube songs; the wife of the SC GOV told him not to visit his mistress again, which he died, and he lied to his spouse; Detroit city councilwoman arrested for bribery; two children lost in W NC have been recovered; VA tourist killed on vacation by Miami police…because he looked Arabic?; should ‘Providence Plantations’ be removed from Rhode Island’s official name; when repeating the METRO crash, a device failed to detect that something was on the tracks; the DOW ended down; DC honors killed subway driver; the simple HIV test that can save lives; climate change bill moves through Congress; the autopsy took three hours to complete; did the King of Pop have a heart attack; he did say ‘this is it’…it may take eight weeks to determine how Michael Jackson died, but it was not by foul play; he leaves behind three children: even in the US House of Reps there was a moment of silence to honor him; the ‘black Elvis’; if I correctly heard this, there were 65K text message per second after the news was released about his death; was it a case of mixed medicines, a pharmacological passing?; mom charged with changing child’s grades; Madoff forced to forfeit $170 billion in assets;

the end of the ‘icon’ era; people who shaped the world; like Elvis, the Beatles & Princess Diana, and may include Madonna, who had a long-lasting impression on daily life, Michael Jackson was taking medications for his mind & body; people close to him include Liz Taylor, Madonna & Quincy Jones; the world will miss his music; gave his fans a ‘rush’; the shock felt around the world; the day when music died; the Iranian candidate who lost cannot leave his country; the Argentine ‘other woman’ beats Farrah & Michael Jackson for GOOGLE hits; he was the ‘forbidden fruit’ of Russia; then there’s the Saudi version of ‘Smooth Criminal’;

…6/25-09: summer to the rescue

71º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow for Ozone: Moderate Air Quality; do not take two Tamazepam: leaves you calm, but sleepy; possible closure of several Alamogordo schools?; where’s the rain, slowing moving; keyboard froze this AM; NM GOV broke ground for affordable housing in ‘our’ Las Vegas; two men raped a woman after a party in Los Alamos; remains of helicopter will be removed from mountain side; tonight is the last game for Manny Ramirez as an Isotopes player; 5.5% jobless rate in Farmington; Buffalo Thunder cannot repay bond; ten year old Roswell boy drove his grandfather to the HOSP when the older man had a heart attack; gas has dropped to $2.53 per gallon; a little bit of late PM rain at The Beach; Brad prepared a tasty Moroccan Chicken; Smith’s groceries are recalling several varieties of beef which may contain E Coli; after the showers, we lost the cable; Santa Ana Star Casino is sixteen years old;

I have survived many slings & arrows; no PICU Admits; finished Rounds by 7:45; PEDS Clinics are empty; the flooded PICN; I have been submitting Nephrology DEPT spreadsheets the same way for years, and now Data Entry is complaining; tickets are needed for tomorrow’s picnic; wet seat on the AM R/R; a hint of UNMMG layoffs?; there were overnight showers at UNMH; UNM student is returning to his home country of Iran; the ‘psycho codes’;

AM fog across NH & Boston; severe weather surrounded the Great Lakes in cities such as Erie, Pittsburgh & Cleveland; excessive heat for MO, TX, OK, KS & S FL; strong winds struck Chicago; TX remains dry; showers in the Twin Cities, St. Louis and along parts of I-94, INDY T’storms; Code Red Air Quality in Houston: Code Orange, in DC; temps from 60s to 100s; NM storms mentioned on ABC AM News, plus our temps will reach the 90s; Midwest storms;

the ‘cocaine hairdo’; steamy E-mails between SC GOV and his mistress, stayed in Buenos Aires; his wife has known about the affair for five months, wife ‘threw’ him out of their home…can he overcome this scandal; quality of life is major concern for Americans; Sanford vs. Stanford; jobless claims increase more than expected; Farrah Fawcett has died from cancer at the age of 62; in 2008, the AVG wait in an ER was over four hours; white supremacists group targeting Chicago leaders; APPLE allows porn on its IPhone; nineteen states in financial trouble; DC METRO accident is uncommon, one of the rare cities that uses a certain type of automated system; the US Supreme Court said the strip search tactics used by an AZ school were wrong…the justices used words such as ‘degradation’, ‘vulnerability’, ‘abusive’, went too far, and made one student the sacrificial lamb: in the end, nothing was found, and authorities were searching for aspirins; the end of Red Roof Inns?; an icon has passed on; Michael Jackson has died at the age of fifty from cardiac arrest at the UCLA Medical CTR; Rite-Aid pharmacies may be closing; states starting to receive stimulus money for road projects; the economy shrunk by 5.5%; the politicians who cheat: ‘bicoastal’ bipartisan’ and ‘bisexual’; these men [only!] are rise takers, with plenty of testosterone; Camel ‘Wides’ cigarettes?; the ‘King of Pop’; his ‘Thriller’ album has sold the most number of records, over 100 million copies; the DOW went up; over twelve million copies of Farrah’s red swimsuit poster were sold; the SC GOV will reimburse the state for his ‘travel expenses’; there may be one million H1N1 cases in America;monkey urinated on African leader’s jacket…a sign of good luck?; N Korea vows a ‘fire shower of nuclear retaliation’; Ahmadinejad tells the US to stop interfering; oil rose to $70.40 a barrel; gold rose to $939.50 an ounce; Romanian teen dies while ‘tweeting’ in the bathtub; al Qaeda said it has murdered an American who was in Mauritania; during the past five days,160 Iraqis have been killed;

…6/24-09: freedom means freedom for everyone

68º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…Brad’s Chiro visit; ‘humble’ Manny: “everybody loves me where I go!”; Ross may open a store in Santa Fe; we ate snow peas & tomatoes from our rooftop garden; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality for Ozone; suspicious home invasion in the Duke City; thirteen year old boy & a truck swept away by arroyo waters which were nine feet deep in some places; full house, over 15K fans at Isotopes Park, people wearing ‘Manny hair’; Raton racing casino breaks ground; Valencia CNTY couple face fraud charges; there is still a $200K unclaimed NM lottery winner from April, the deadline to claim the prize is early July; revamp the YDC; Belen teachers face a month without pay; NM schools will get $213 million in surplus funds; Espanola bans the use of cell phones while driving; Las Cruces man sentenced for raping two girls; The Beach puppy belongs to Nancy’s daughter; another Navajo Code Talker has died; NM has the fastest supercomputer in the world; Second Turn Scooters; the largest crowd ever recorded attended the ABQ game last night; woman shot in Moriarty, missing husband suspected as gunman, shot & killed himself along I-40, near Unser;

maybe decision today for Friday…yes, leave approved; MGR forgot about to answer my request; finished Rounds by 7:45A; E-mailed MGR I would work a few hours on 7/5/09; an increase in teenagers overdosing on aspirin; Nancy gave me a PM ride from Central & Rio Grande; PEDS receptionist collects cocktail umbrellas;

hot & humid in the SE US, plus the Great Plains; storm survival kit should contain items similar as those used when camping; T’storms along parts of I-29, in Omaha, Chicago, St. Louis, KC, S FL & the Keys; per Weather Channel, Four Corners heat next week?; high surf along VA Beach; rain for Boston, Twin Cities & Miami; the “T’storm equation”; in Louisiana, heat collapsed streets; ABQ storms mentioned on ABC AM News; temps from 60s to 100s; Andres weakens as it heads out to open waters;

METRO will be conducting experiments on trains to recreate the accident, emergency brake was working: $250K emergency relief fund has been allocated, was the driver texting?; that would not matter since the trains are electronically controlled…all a driver does is open & close doors, and call out station stops; drunk NJ man stuffed into bus luggage compartment by his friends; IA coach shot & killed while school was in session, a adult [former student] has been arrested for the crime; SC GOV admits having an affair, and going to Argentina; baking no preservatives bread for circus elephants; 700 NYC teachers are paid to do nothing, waiting for accusation decisions; Obama keeps pushing the public health plan, will there be competitive coverage?; people in small & large cities are breathing unhealthy air; Cheney signs $2 million book deal for his memoirs; missing OH girl & her mother are found with sex offender in CA; did the subway train stop, then restart?; $3 billion requested for METRO; Wal-Mart trying to attract wealthier customers; home sales fell in May, down nearly 33% from last year; big bank money problems are not going away; Boston Globe & its union come to a deal; surfing on the CO River; anomaly on the METRO tracks; Johnny Depp leaves a $4K tip?; people polled like their current coverage, but fear rising costs; Obama is open to alternative options in health coverage, but will not give into pressure; N Dakota found guilty of breastfeeding her daughter while drunk; suggestive burger ad gone bad; time to retrofit Metrorail cars, repair circuit problems; Black & Decker recalling coffeemakers; still keep bringing up the topic of taxing health coverage; budget cuts may eliminate Fourth of July fireworks; who paid for his travels?; the [R] SC GOV sheds a tear while confessing, wife was not by his side; his car was parked in Columbia airport: ‘I ask for your forgiveness’: he was also out of town during Myrtle Beach blazes, but he will not resign, and put on a ‘remarkable performance’; many ‘sex text’ to strangers; fifty doctors & health care executive accused of Medicare fraud; the DOW was down;so far, Africa has been unaffected by the H1N1 virus; the number of older people in the world will triple by 2050; officials allowed to see jailed journalists in N Korea; protesters in Iran get the message: less public display; turning on headlights to express discontent, videos still being released to the world; security forces beating demonstrators, but the law is not allowed in hospitals; there is violent opposition to oppositionists; oil is $68.66 per barrel; gold is now $940 an ounce; another bombing in Sadr City kills 60+ people;

…6/23-09: scanning for secret software

73º in ABQ; 36% humidity at 6A…Brad made a Chili Stew Combo; new skate park opened in the Duke City; historic hotel Eklund in Clayton, which had just been renovated, will be closing; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality for Ozone; the NM GOV trip to Rome cost $13K; rent a 2 bedroom, 2 bath two level home in the Duke City for $375…and a deposit of $10K, and be compensated [to some extent] for any upgrades made to the property; being chased by a puppy at The Beach; five people were swept away by arroyo water in the Duke City; man died in rollover when the armored truck he was driving had a tire blowout on I-25; bicyclist has died after being struck by a car near the Double Eagle Airport; Santa Ana Star CTR owes $300K; document proves NM GOV part of a ‘pay to play’ scheme; more monsoon moisture in NM, plus Flash Flood advisories across SW NM; now, three or four gunmen killed a 34 year old cook at Denny’s, part of MS-13 gang;

both of them have been too quiet; not a day goes by that I don’t worry; people are not anxious to attended an outing; Meangel was admitted yesterday; finished Rounds before 7:45A; by end of the day, still in the dark; asked by MGR who was going to the picnic: my response was “I don’t know”; new father who likes the Red Sox logo;

per Weather Channel, storms in the Four Corners, the SE US & the N plains; showers in Boston & Miami; cool & wet across the entire New England area; after nine months, Galveston is showing signs of life, after being battered by hurricane Ike; E Coast rough surf; 16 states under heat advisories; temps from 70s to 100s; Andres struck Acapulco, became a hurricane today, has caused one death; tourism has dropped along RI beaches;

NATL AVG price of gas is now $2.69 per gallon; 7/11: skinny-dip day at NC nudist camp’s pool, trying to break the world record; there is naked counseling, but no ‘touchy, feely’ sessions; cat found in MA post office box gets adopted; HIV cases increasing more in the SE US; GA man wins two lotteries in one week; IN girl called 911 to report ‘daddy stabbed mommy’; the 1950s home had less than 1K sq. ft., smaller homes are selling; Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter; the highest number of renters in a decade; Ennis House is for sale, with a price tag of more than $55 million, closed after ’97 quake; majority of Americans do not want tobacco regulated by the FED GOVT; rogue Minutemen pas as AZ marshals; now, salmonella contamination in pistachios; Exxon unveils its electric car, made its debut in Baltimore; Obama: stronger emphasis on Iran, less aggressive on health plan…you can keep your current plan, or coverage; ‘jaws of life’ were used to free METRO passengers, now it is said the first train had derailed: nine people have died in the subway’s deadliest incident, and there have been several during its 33 year history; older, lighter cars were being used…the only ‘good news’: the Red Line train was inbound, carrying fewer passengers, suspect sabotage since the surrounding area is a park…computer systems were properly functioning, some doors would not open, and there was a smell of toxic chemicals in the air?; the Boeing Dreamliner faces another delay; grasshopper invasion of UT; SC GOV was hiking the Appalachian trail; home sales rise, home prices fall; Wal-Mart cannot tell a customer how much they will save if shopping there; Ed McMahon has died at the age of 86 from pneumonia & other health issues; DC & the Duke City are two of the top ten cities for jobs, so says Kiplinger; FBI reopens 1959 case; Lancaster, PA has the highest amount of surveillance per capita; US H1N1 cases: 17,855; deaths, 45; attacking the younger population, most increases in number of infected people occurring through New England & mid-Atlantic areas; price of AOL increasing to $11.99 per month;insult the staff at a Spanish bar, get a free drink; faint signals from Flight 447?; Obama calls the situation ‘unjust actions by an iron fist’; GOVT clampdown in Iran, and opposition outrage; but that nation says there has been no major fraud; coerced confessions; gold declined to $917.40 an ounce; oil drops to $67.05 per barrel; N Korea tells the world: ‘stay out of its waters’; global H1N1 cases: 35,928; deaths: 163, first cases being reported in Middle East countries;

…6/22-09: never give up, or slow down

69º in ABQ; 30% humidity at 6A…GAQ; no bus service on 7/3/09; human foot found in Valencia CNTY near Belen, I-25 & railroad tracks: does it actually belong to a bear?; people raising money for murdered child, could not say which charities would benefit from these donations; cops nabbed vagrant on Central near Yale; the price of gas dropped to $2.55 per gallon; Saggio’s got an excellent yearly review by city health inspectors; two more suspects still on the loose following robbery at Denny’s, police say they are members of a violent El Salvador gang, those in jail are not being allowed to post bail; get ready for Cottonwood allergy; we got accurate INS ID cards; tickets for ‘Manny mania’ have been selling at the rate of three per minute during the last four days; water main broke at Truman & San Mateo; Presbyterian HOSP is only one of three medical centers in the country honored for their energy efficiency; a very big moving van unloading at The Beach;

Darrel returns from being on vacation last week; finished Rounds by 7:45A; patient with GSW to head; child from Clovis with snakebite; only ½ allowed for nurse shift change; this past weekend, there were protests at UNM over the Iranian elections; why did charges for S. Miller go to Group 4?; because we have so few Coders, sometimes we have to put our work aside, and help other areas; Julia came back from, and Anita will be starting a vacation;

tropical depression Andres forming in the Pacific, near MX, will make landfall, and could affect NM weather, storm deflected when it reached the coast, heading back into the water; moisture means more mosquitoes, looking for ‘blood meals’; parts of the country, from Orlando to Omaha, could feel like its 120º; severe weather in: Gulf states, S & Central FL; IL, IN, KY, parts of I-75 [during the AM]; MN, WI; have windows that can withstand 130 mph winds; showers in New England & NY; very hot ATL; mild & muggy Detroit; this is Lightning Awareness Week: when there’s thunder, there’s lightning; temps from 60s to 100s;the Denny’s incident that will not go away; couple get married in zero gravity, another wed while both had the H1N1 virus; new tobacco regulations will become law; no more ‘lite’ or ‘mild’ wording, and bigger warnings; 72% polled favor a NATL health plan; Church Hill area in Richmond, VA is considered a ‘dangerous neighborhood’, many are in Chicago & FL cities; ABQ murder appears on AOL News; NYC HOSP tampered with medical records to cover-up botched treatment; finally, after 54 days of gas price increases, the cost actually dropped, only CA & HI have AVG gas prices over $3; Styx visited the White House; could the recession see the start of more rapid rail service?; Los Angeles mayor will not run for CA GOV; no one was injured, but the interstate was closed after a truck carrying 8K gallons of gasoline crashed & burned along I-95 in FL; SC GOV has been ‘missing’ for five days, including Father’s Day, he has suffered several defeats in his state, and sometimes seeks solitude when writing something; special needs children need not attend public schools before being placed in classes that teach students with disabilities; the DOW lost 200 points; collision on an inbound Red Line: six people killed, including the driver, when two trains collided near the Ft. Totten stop…one of the busiest lines, seat were thrown from the cars and landed on the side of the collision, unclear why the first train was stopped, was it waiting for another one to leave the station in front of them?; after 74 years, the end of Kodachrome; Obama is more popular than his policies; 5.4 quake shook a more populated area of AK, but no injuries were reported;

if attacked, N Korea will ‘harm’ America; worldwide recession getting worse; the first H1N1 death reported in the Philippines; oil dropped to $67.07 per barrel, gold slipped to $921 an ounce; is N Korea actually bringing weapons to Myanmar…and for what reason?; voting inconsistencies reported in major cities, GOVT finally admits irregularities; opposition candidate has not been seen for days; the worst power struggle in Iran since 1979; violence is also on the rise in Iraq; bomb destroys mosque in Kirkuk; Australia pilot buried copter crash victim to prevent hypothermia; Barbie goes Bulgarian; Portugal agrees to accept GITMO detainees;

…6/21-09: want it big? want it beautiful?

59º in ABQ; 67% humidity at 6A…good morning from NM, Courtney Godbolt!; NMSU enrollment is up; ABQ, UNM & Sandia Labs will join forces in a research agreement to solve ‘real world problems’; flooding in Carlsbad; NM may allow students to ‘opt out’ in saying the Pledge of Allegiance?; policeman who survived copter crash is mow at home; yesterday’s robbery is still today’s news; two people have been arrested in connection with the Denny’s robbery-murder, some of the suspects had machine guns, and are from S America, could be responsible for ten other crimes across the city: there were about 100 patrons inside the restaurant [which remained closed today], and the shooting still makes COMCAST news; Manny Ramirez will be in the Duke City to play for the Isotopes, put NM baseball in the NATL spotlight; bandits struck the Wells Fargo branch in Alamogordo yesterday; Farmington woman won $102K in the Roadrunner Lottery;

Naked Hiking Day, Father’s Day & the first day of Summer; for most people, spending money for luxury items is still on the back burner; fifteen Dali drawings will be on display in Buffalo, NY; this is the longest day of the year, over 14½ hours of sunlight; as of today, the Red Sox are in first place; SLC rock & mudslides; no ‘bad doctors’ entered in NATL Practitioners Databank, since hospitals face no penalties for failing to report anyone; people throwing out less during recession, more items recycled; Alexandria, VA clothing store is restoring as well as reselling items; four story building collapsed in Brooklyn; pagans & partygoers surround Stonehenge; N Korea says America is planning an atomic war, its ship is presumed to be carrying missiles; many arrests have taken place, including a US tourist; at least 17 killed in during riots, there were no ‘major’ demonstrations’ today; is Obama too timid or passive; the White House is watching; many citizens love the current Iranian regime; new walls are made of electrons;

…6/20-09: pay less, save more

69º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…former Bernalillo City MGR accused of questionable expenses; man arrested for drug related shooting of a boy & his father; thirteen year old boy shot while at a group home in NE ABQ, a seventeen year old male is wanted as a ‘person of interest’; yesterday, boy on PM R/R asked if I had a cigarette so he could give it to his mother; Garduno’s owes $750K in back gross receipts taxes; Brad prepared a Grilled Cheese Sandwich for breakfast; women afraid to walk in SE Duke City area, one female was raped, another appears to have been stalked while she was driving, later exposing himself; Santa Fe man who was guilty of stealing Native American artifacts was found dead in IL APT; this AM, half a dozen people entered the Denny’s restaurant near Coors & I-40, and began firing their weapons: one female worker was killed, this crime made CNN News, bandits fled to a SW ABQ mobile home park; NM man guilty of fraud & money laundering $5 million in state housing authority bonds; daytime showers at The Beach; saw ‘Were the World Mine’, a very good gay movie;the number of miles driven by Americans increased in April, following an eighteen month decline; plane carrying Ar-nold made an emergency landing at a Santa Monica airport when smoke was detected in the cockpit; will Tom Brady become a daddy soon?; no report of damage or injuries in the area after a 4.6 quake shook Paso Robles, CA; more fires from foreclosed homes; Beverly Hills’ mayor, and 20% of its population, are Iranian Nationalists; Los Angeles has the largest concentration of Iranians in the US; protests also took place in DC & NYC; the ‘YUMP’s = ‘young, upwardly mobile professionals’; NM space station made CNN news; COMCAST article says NM farmers are worried than sick cows could cross the MX border, bringing their illnesses with them; ammonia leak killed one person at a NC chicken processing plant; drug manufacturers agree to allow discounts for Medicare recipients; man struck by lightning at CO golf course, loss consciousness, but survived; Sotomayor no longer a member of elite women’s club; tank cars carrying ethanol caught fire & exploded after a train derailed near Rockford, IL, forcing people to evacuate their homes;in terms of the Olympics, Beijing had the most polluted air; an American journalist, working for the NY Times, escaped the Taliban, and fled from N PAK to AFG; the defeated Iranian candidate is ready to become a martyr; the ‘Lipstick Revolution’ in Iran, as more woman participate in the protests; chaos like this has not been seen since 1979; more media restrictions in Iran, people told to ‘stay home’, religious military forces subduing rioters; the power of the pen, the computer, and the Voice of America; ‘Afghan Star’, an ‘American Idol’ program held in a country where TV & music are banned, and women cannot dance in public;