…8/25-09: the future will be back in a few moments

64º in ABQ; 80% humidity at 6A…Brad made Moroccan Chicken; the amazing maze; the era of driver interlock cameras?; a bag of bags to be recycled; Tom Udall hosts a town hall health care reform meeting in Ruidoso; 100 Los Alamos students have come down with flu-like symptoms; H1N1 vaccines may not be shipped to NM until November; Four Corners man suffered burns, and his horse was killed after being struck by lightning; man charged with faking slot machine payouts in excess of $1.2 million; GAQ; become a Doctor of oriental Medicine; Farmington Salvation Army burglarized; saw new penny, with Lincoln sitting on a bench; Garduno’s on the Green will close next month; if you knew what I knew, then you’d know why I wonder how the first refrigerator was moved into this APT; because 20% of the students have called in sick, the plan is to disinfect the entire Los Alamos School District;

3P meeting with Dysmorphology; ‘flu meals’ will be delivered to sick UNM students; beware full files; the UNM ‘Veggie Bus’; finished Rounds by 7:15A; our office now has a ‘Medical Coding Analysts’ sign on the wall next to our door; no PICU Admits; had to reproduce audit charges; someday, at the spur of the moment, I should ask my MGR: “if you could, would you trade me for another Coder?”; define the ‘busy season’ at UNMH; I need more envelopes of various colors;

severe weather in NM mentioned on ABC AM News; wet weather for SC, S & Central FL, IA, KS, & the N Rockies; Santa Fe T’storms mentioned on the Weather Channel; rain in the Twin Cities, Eau Claire & Omaha; showers in Madison; Hurricane Bill eroded New England beaches; temps from 60s to 100s;

50% of Americans ‘could’ become infected with the H1N1 virus; Giuliani may run for NY GOV; RI wants to shut down for twelve days as a means of handling its budget crunch; Obama says consistency is crucial, will reappoint Bernanke for a second term, says economy is getting better; bandit appears on billboards; multitasking may be bad for your health; WA wildfires under control; consumer confidence is up?; health claim costs may increase by 10.5%; on AVG, MRSA kills more people than AIDS; again, is health care a right, or a privilege; one man, four states, ten bank robberies; Michael Jackson’s doctor may get charged with manslaughter, not murder; distribute H1N1 vaccines before the are fully tested?; meth dealers use comic books to move money; student pilot flies into restricted DC airspace; $1.6 trillion deficit by next year: $9 trillion, by 2019; build a Wal-Mart near an historic VA battlefield?; is the term ‘master bedroom’ politically incorrect?;
oil is $73.95 per barrel; former UK pickpockets now put money in people’s pockets; storms scrub Discovery launch, valve problems cancel it for a second launch; which is carrying a $5 million treadmill to the INTL Space Station; gold is $949 an ounce; drunk British skipper runs his ship aground; Japanese prefer going to IKEA than theme parks for ‘fun’; S Korea launched its first rocket, but failed to reach its planned orbit;