…7/29-09: do people look like they know what they’re doing?

65º in ABQ; 58% humidity at 6A…GAQ; shooting outside Grandview Motel in SW ABQ, at 98th & Central; who was the Cookie Bandit; mobile meth lab busted near I-25 & Comanche; Rio Grande river levees need to be improved; man accused of stealing mail in all parts of NM; thanks to stimulus funds, NM will be able to hire more police officers; my batch of medicines arrived; small Bernalillo CNTY brush fire; NM school counselor accused of accosting a fifteen year old girl; A/C repairs moved to Monday, the company had an emergency job that had to be done; more quiet Rail Runner crossings;

Code Purple at 7A; finished Rounds by 7:30A; no PICU Admits; as of this AM, we have over 460 patients in UNMH; mailed my E-mail to Denise; MGMT watching amount of OT used; took PM Central: weathered dust storm, lightning, thunder & rain;

temps from 70s to 100s; downpours in AL, OK, KY, AR, NY; heavy rains for the Gulf Coast; DC storms, as well as in Philly, Miami ATL, New Orleans & Richmond; floods in Topeka; extreme heat in Seattle: 100s in Portland, OR; wet in Detroit, also along parts of I-20; MI, PA, OH, Carolinas; power outages in Charlotte;

MICROSOFT & Yahoo! vs. GOOGLE; note: Boston cab driver cleared of any wrongdoing; Key West: the Conch Republic; health workers should be the first to receive the H1N1 vaccine; five Capitol Hill pages have signs & symptoms of the illness; ask the voters what should be in the NATL health INS policy; a new, stronger taser; teen strip club raided in suburban ATL home; pregnant Worcester, MA woman killed, her fetus stolen; MRSA spreads because there are no standard procedures in HOSP for keeping people & equipment clean; 43,771 H1N1 cases in the US, with 302 deaths; NYC mayor wants the homeless to leave his city, and he will pay for a one-way plane ticket so these people can return to their families…or, the city of their choice: so what if other metropolitan areas do the same thing, and ship people to NYC, paying to get rid of human beings that nobody wants; Medicare scam busted in Houston, Boston & Miami; UT boy leads police on a wild church…he did not want to attend church service; more smaller businesses would be exempt from having to insure their employees, there may be a bill by December of this year; 160 million on the ‘priority list’, but there is only sixty million H1N1 vaccines available; the DOW went slightly down;

pipe bomb explodes in front of police station in Spain; 300 people applied for one position: to be a ‘magical’ tour guide in UK caves; $200K ticket to take a ride in space; the $1 million Mercedes; QE II is now England’s oldest monarch; oil has dropped to $63.35 per barrel; gold dropped to $929.70 an ounce; 134,503 H1N1 cases worldwide, with 816 deaths reported from this illness; lemurs live in Madagascar;