…10/30/09: ideas are limitless: resources, aren’t

30º in ABQ; 53% humidity at 6A…GAQ; bringing out the inner Goth; MO bus driver tried to lure a Four Corners teenage girl into something more than friendship; teacher who had sex with a teenage boy has been fired, and arrested, charged with rape of a minor; today, ‘Bras Across the Bosque’ were placed along the Montano Bridge, to signify the NM Breast Cancer Society: the garments were later cleaned, and donated to charity; during the middle of last night [which was very cold] a two year old blind boy, not wearing shoes or socks, walked away from the APT where he lived: his guardians were drunk, having a party, and did not know the child was gone; NM needs to improve its education standards; roads are still slick & snow covered across NM; FBI investigating a Bank of America armed robbery on Isleta; NM state SEN caught driving 118 mph; Heather Wilson will not run for NM GOV; our Rose Bowl float, which will focus on the Balloon Fiesta, will cost $200K to build; I am the Dark Side, I am the Black Male, I am the Chain Male, I am the Goth male; turned the heat on this AM when I woke up;lunch with my co-workers; UNMMG Halloween Party, 11A – 2P; patient wants to leave UNMH so she can elope; finished Rounds by 7:30A; thanks to an upcoming JACHO inspection, our pile of paper has been removed; some people were bypassed for a higher position, which was filled by a female with short skirts, and nothing to hide; MGR treated us; combining forces against a common foe; arrived home by 5P; a Muscat wine sampling;

AR & MO floods; dangerous twisters struck Louisiana & AR; the ‘perfect storm’ anniversary being celebrated in Gloucester, MA; the 1K mile storm from MI to TX, the Gulf of MX to the Great Lakes; in WY, I-80 closed from Cheyenne to Laramie; rain in Cleveland, Chicago, Nashville, Memphis, St. Louis, Houston & Seattle; snow for NE, CO & KS; flurries fell in Rapid City; downpours in IL, IN & MI; four feet of snow fell in the Denver area; temps from the 40s to 80s;
Bay Bridge still shut down; 96% of Americans will be covered under the latest health plan reform, but at a cost to senior citizens?; a security breach on Capitol Hill?; a military plane & helicopter crashed & went down in the waters off S CA; the DOW collapsed; regular rates of credit card are reaching 30%; more Americans are conserving water; dentists across America are buying back Halloween candy at $1 per pound, then sending it to our troops overseas; nineteen more children have died in the US this week from the H1N1 virus; consumer spending has dropped again; the K-Mart Christmas club; record number of young people are attending college; another crying child & his mother are told to leave a Southwest Airlines flight; X-rated holiday cards sent to ex-girlfriend’s family; two die when plane crashed into ATL home; child labor can be found in any US state that grows fruit, these youngsters are from migrant families, and are exposed to dangerous pesticides on a daily basis;Hillary Clinton talks tough about the PAK GOVT, do they really know where al Qaeda is?; Obama lifts the ban on immigrants with HIV entering America; US Navy ship fired on Polish port city; Mongolia & Rwanda have reported their first cases of H1N1: three other nations have reported their first deaths; PAK is going after those they consider their enemies;

…10/29-09: the trade of trade

29º in ABQ; 56% humidity at 6A…GAQ; problems at local charter school, should it be shut down; female ABQ teacher had sex with a teenage boy: she was free after paying a $25K bond; the coldest AM so far across NM; I-40 has snow in W NM: slick conditions in Tijeras Canyon; CYFD faces budget cuts; deadly drive by shooting in ABQ; today I was ‘vested’; gay nightclub in downtown Duke City faces opposition: a liquor license has been granted, and the establishment should be open by next spring; W Mesa High is on lockdown this AM; it was four years ago that our Captain died; man kept stolen money under a pile of manure; hotel owner/MGR paid former employee in pennies;

today I hopefully catch up on my I/P charges; two patients with H1N1 & ARDS; finished Rounds about 7:30A, every ward is full; empty AM R/R; Code Purple at 9A; PM snow at UNMH; MGR’s rule: if Mike can get to work during snowy conditions [by using a bus]…then anyone can; dry by the time I got to The Beach;

parts of CO could see four feet of snow; N NM snow & I-40 collisions mentioned on the Weather Channel; violent storms for TX, Louisiana, OK, KS, AL, MS, accompanied with tornadoes; strong winds for CA; bad weather along parts of I-20, I-35, I-44; rain in KC, Dallas & Roswell; flurries in Cheyenne & Casper, into the Dakotas; wet in WI; MS Valley downpours; parts of I-80 & I-25 have been shut down in CO & WY; temps from the 30s to 90s;

the House will unveil its $900 billion, public option health reform bill; Detroit arrests not based on race or religion, but terrorist threats; in CO, people waited in freezing weather to get free food; burglars used black ink to paint masks on their faces; man said he was too fat to kill anyone?; Obama at Dover AFB in DE to receive the bodies of 18 Americans who were killed in the AFG conflict; Los Angeles has the highest number of job losses for one city; another day without a major San Fran span; how do pilots stay alert on long distance flights?; 5.7 million people in America may have the H1N1 virus; the NJ home of Lou Dobbs, CNN commentator was struck by a bullet; a big, but slow stimulus; Wal-Mart is selling coffins; technique vs. technology: a 60% alcohol base hand sanitizer kills the most E Coli; Denver flight delays; GDP on the rise by 3.5%, but still no jobs; TX parents are allowed to show their young children pornographic material; weird: CO teen killed both his parents for UNK reasons; the recession ended last summer? 82% of those polled say ‘No’; NORAD should have know, and sent fighter jets scrambling ten minutes after the ‘lost’ plane diverted from its planned route; Navy jet missing over the Gulf of MX; don’t blame the driver, blame the genes; the DOW ended up; 3.6 quake off the CA coast;

Ares rocket launch was a success; oil is $80.12 per barrel; gold is $1,047.50 an ounce; gamma ray burst detected that occurred when the universe was ‘young’; 6.0 quake rocked AFG; how much of al Qaeda is still in PAK?; Tiesto: the man of musical magic;

…10/28-09: what’s being served on the home plate?

43º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…GAQ; AM T’storms & snow for the Duke City; snow has already fallen in the Four Corners area, and I-40 W of ABQ is ‘tricky’; man who collided with a R/R bus said he was not texting; man arrested for causing a multi school lockdown in the Duke City yesterday; casting call for men, aged 50 – 65, who take Lipitor; another lottery game for NM?; very wet AM; bales of hay fell off a truck on Lomas, blocking the street; still filming on I-40, Coors was also shut down; gas is $2.59 per gallon; $5.4 million has been allocated to improve 16 tribal areas; Ruidoso child falls asleep on an empty school bus: the driver did not see him because he had slid off the seat, and onto the floor; snow in the Sandias, and another storm is approaching; five more H1N1 deaths in NM, bringing the total to 21; Brad found a set of 20 cookbooks called ‘Cooking for Two’; Nickelodeon star visits NM; an earthquake could pose a risk to LANL [what about the rest of the state?];

everyone has erroneous TES edits; I actually did have DX on the ECMO charges; very empty AM R/R; formally introduced to my AM R/R bicyclist: his name is Richard; empty AM R/R; finished Rounds by 7:30A;

wet in NY & New England; gusty winds across CA; rain in the mid Atlantic; snow in OR, UT, CO, WY & the Dakotas, including SLC, Casper, Rapid City, Denver & Cheyenne; rain & snow for ABQ, per the Weather Channel; dust storm causes major pileup hear Fresno, semis colliding into smaller vehicles; wet for DC, Philly, Boston, Erie, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Tampa & Savannah; dust in the AZ wind; temps from 30s to 80s;

the end of many Chrysler, Dodge & Jeep models; Hate Crimes Prevention Act signed by Obama, it is now a FED offense to attack a person based on their sexual orientation; PRES honors former MA SEN Ed Brooke with the Congressional Gold Medal, the first Afro-American to be elected to that political position by the popular vote; 3K die in house fires each year; jobless benefits’ extension clears another hurdle; needles being recalled, have defective syringes; GMAC needs another bailout; the DOW went down; did Ar-nold use the ‘F’ word?; shades of the Silver Bridge incident, and a similar event during the World Series twenty years ago: during rush hour, a 5K lb. rod & medal brace snapped on the upper deck of the San Fran Bay Bridge, damaging vehicles, causing a minor accident, and forcing traffic to come to a halt: this was part of the repairs that were just complete last month, span will be closed indefinitely; US Airways cutting 1K jobs; is the economy really getting better; the return of layaway at Sears; women was offering sex in exchange for two World Series tickets; Obama gives perks to donors?; many watched as a gang rape took place, and no one reported it: fear the risk of being ‘the individual’; house sales worse than expected; the House makes a ‘deal’ on a health reform plan; weird: in FL, brother kills brother over loud music, they were both teenagers; in MO, nine year old girl killed by fifteen year old girl; same-sex couples who consider themselves ‘married’ will have to determine who is the ‘husband’ and ‘wife’; if CA is in such a financial mess, where is the money coming from to repair the Bay Bridge?;attack on hotel in Kabul; Taliban attack UN guesthouse; Hillary in PAK; the Rube Goldberg device in the UK that completely makes breakfast; a green light for the Ares rocket; oil fell to $77.44 per barrel; gold fell to $1,030.50 an ounce; Versace cuts 20% of its workforce; the sun will align with the center of the Milky Way, only once every 26K years; diplomats attacked in AFG, the home of the leader’s sister was also damaged; some people live in tiny Hong Kong ‘cage homes’; the tiny cars of tomorrow at the Tokyo Auto Show;

…10/27-09: take the time to take a breath, and think peace

35º in ABQ; 69% humidity at 6A… GAQ; a comment on one of my Blog entries; man may have been texting when he collided with an ABQ bus; Red Flag Warnings for SW NM; use stimulus money to balance NM budget?; movie was filming along I-40, W of ABQ, last weekend; $8 million for NM energy projects; three Duke City schools on lockdown after gunman eludes police;

the ECMO error?; Robert Katz guilty of medical misconduct, may lose his license, offering drugs for sex?; prominent UNMH doctor makes ABQ headlines, for the wrong reason; while at CTI, received AM call from Denise Taylor; we have a Dr. Worcester; same charge entered during the same minute; said MD is now on a suicide watch?;

more TX floods; Santa Cruz MTN fire in CA is 50% contained; wet along parts of I-10, I-20 & I-95; also in Providence, DC, Detroit, JAX, ATL, St. Louis & Reno; mid-Atlantic showers, also in the Carolinas & TN; moist in the OH & MS Valleys; up to one foot of snow in the Grand Teton MTN; ABQ & Santa Fe rain & snow also a ‘weather in the news’ article on the Weather Channel; SE US storms; last weekend’s N NM snow in Angel Fire was mentioned on the Weather Channel; wet from NYC to Orlando; temps from the 40s to 80s;
none of the veteran crew was in control of the flight, eight text messages had been sent to them; two planes came too close at LAX; back to the GOVT-backed option; negotiate debt; dairy farmers are killing their cows to increase the price of milk; an easier 2010 Census form?; scams trying to cash in on the fake flu vaccines; where are the promised stimulus jobs?; Baltimore officer pulled his gun on a man with a chain saw at a local haunted house: the victim wanted to give the tour one last scream; consumer confidence on the decline; house prices rose for the fourth month in a row; the Chicago Cubs have been sold; the end of GeoCities; it takes twelve hours before a scorpion’s sting seriously affects you; PA gay, male student urinated on by football players: after numerous taunts, he killed himself; car struck coyote, when passengers looked for the animal, they found it was lodged into the front end of their vehicle, and had suffered only minor injuries; Michael Jackson movie ‘This Is It’ opens nationwide; Necco wafers still survive; the Jay Leno show has become a complete flop; MA has the most residents with health INS; old GM in DE plant will make new Fisker electric hybrid cars; denim purchases, bright colored ties & more restaurant garbage are signs the economy is improving; there is now a shortage of isolation masks; tip the police that you have seen someone driving drunk, but the cops have to catch the criminal in the act, also; ‘lost’ pilots lose their licenses; no more nudity on CA beaches; a night on the Queen Mary, that comes with breakfast and a haunted maze;an INTL pimp raid, with prostitutes as young as ten years old; in Europe food workers can handle burgers with their hands?; weather permitting in FL, the Ares next generation deep space missile may be launched today, bad weather cancelled liftoff until tomorrow; gold is $1,035.40 an ounce; oil is now $79.65 a barrel; Iraqi bombings were the work of al Qaeda; former Marine commander, now a diplomat, resigns his post because of our presence in AFG; deadliest month for the US in the eight year old AFG war; Brazilian leader & the media trapped in their Honduras embassy; sexual orientation has been the grounds for asylum in the US in order to escape being tortured, raped or killed; better armored vehicles being shipped to the war zone; sea monster fossil off the coast of England?;

…10/26-09: achieve peace, by peace

41º in ABQ; 62% humidity at 6A…GAQ; free legal advice in NM this week; slick roads in N NM; Magdalena school district faces budget crunch; Brad prepared Chili w/Beans; famous Native American Rodeo Cowboy killed this weekend; so far, NM is having a good peanut harvest; oil refinery explosion near Crownpoint; gunshots at a party wound one woman in NW ABQ; free spaghetti side dishes at local Duke City restaurant; female Zozobra protects the S Valley of ABQ; numerous H1N1 cases reported in Santa Fe; Navajo Nation First Lady participated in a MADD walk in the Duke City; NM cave hotel makes the AOL list of unusual lodgings; Brad also made a B-B-Q sauce; Navajo Nation leader placed on paid ADMIN Leave, faced with charges of criminal business involvements; freeze warnings in ABQ area for tonight; also, a freeze on capital outlay projects;

the day UNMH goes totally electronic in terms of record keeping & chart notes; one patient gets hives from the flu vaccine; Locksley returns from his suspension; finished Rounds by 7:30A; no weekend CTI Admits; doctor’s notes can still appear in charts, as well as sedations;

TX floods, Louisiana storms; rain for Miami, Chicago, Dallas, Tulsa, Baton Rouge & Seattle; fires in the Santa Cruz area; snow in the Cascades & the Rockies; traffic halted on I-70 in CO; rain & snow in the Pacific NW; fifty feet of rubble caused collisions, shut down major E-W US interstate in TN/NC; wet in St. Louis, New Orleans, and parts of I-35; Philly floods; temps from 40s to 90s;

major real estate lender files for bankruptcy; actor Lou Jacobi has died at the age of 95; children lack VIT D in their diet; surfer rescued fourteen miles out to see, lung to an oil rig; stress & depression at work is increasing; NATL AVG price of gas has jumped to $2.66 per gallon; the DOW went down; it’s the NY Yankees vs. the Philly Phillies in the World Series, transit strike may also occur in that PA city; WV mother stole some flu vaccine; CO coffin races; GA woman acted like a dog to scare away a would-be robber; homophobic slur from Kansas City Chiefs player; car crashes into home, trapping its residents; people just watched as a girl got raped outside a CA homecoming dance; are Americans rude to foreign tourists?; bad weather means poor attendance, so Brockton, MA baseball club may not see another season; strayed pilots were working on their laptops, which is in violation of company policy, failed to maintain contact with air traffic controllers; return of the ‘public option’ in health care reform; N NM hotel making employees change their last names is making NATL News;

AFG copter crashes kill several Americans soldiers & civilians; brunch, complete with faux grass, was held on the Sydney Harbor Bridge; the five year old with the six-pack abs; the smallest railroad set, no bigger than a fingernail; the worst Baghdad bombing in two years; gold is $1,047.30 an ounce; this is World Pasta Day; an era of nuclear peace?; oil is $78.66 per barrel; global warming may mean a cooling trend; Fidel Castro’s sister said she corroborated with the CIA?; too expensive for McDonald’s to survive in Iceland; forty years of Monty Python; people of Islam believe Americans have burned a copy of the Quran; three DEA agents die in AFG;

…10/25-09: touch the top

50º in ABQ; 42% humidity at 6A…it is better to get a good night’s sleep, than get the flu; you can tell when it’s weekends: I tend to add an opinion about something; overnight, Rail Runner renovations shut down N Valley roads; I add a daily blog entry on things that interest me, or are ‘weird’, my creation starts early in the AM, and I work off & on until I go to bed, this includes adding color & pictures: it’s fast & fun work; N NM Winter Storm Warnings, and a second low pressure is heading our way; men walk in high heels to raise money for MADD; Brad continues his largest painting project; Thornburg Mortgage accused of mishandling money; former Rio Rancho mayor embezzled city funds [is embezzling or mishandling cash this state’s hobby]?, and the funny part is that they always get caught!; we were probably one of the first Leather/Levi clubs to march in a DC Pride Parade, way back in ’81; cards on the table: to get a pet?; ‘Sanctuary’ episode had scenes in NM; Brad’s oregano garden keeps growing; the Bernalillo Fire DEPT has received a $185K grant from Homeland Security;

the homeless in ‘the’ Vegas live in underground tunnels; the girl found in NYC with amnesia has been identified; woman ticketed in Dallas, part of the reason was that she only spoke Spanish?; health workers in NY no longer required to get a flu shot; a car wash for charity where men dress in drag; sign of the time: a cell phone as a Halloween costume; MI man stuffs cockroaches into his mouth to beat the Guinness world’s record; hugging the PRES could hurt your political career; Halloween ‘scarecrow’ gets an unexpected punch to the head; Italian wedding soup served at Pittsburgh restaurant; rockslide on the TN/NC border may cause I-40 to be closed for several months; six Harvard researchers were poisoned by chemicals poured into their coffee; candy corn is the number one Halloween treat; the Patriots & the Steelers won; America’s new natural gas?; the worst cereals have the best advertisement: the industry cannot police itself; so far 90% of US flu cases are H1N1; IA pulls the plug on making movies in its state; Madoff ‘player’ found dead in his FL mansion’s pool; same–sex marriage debate moves to ME;another 7.0 quake shook Indonesia; Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, he expects a full recovery from the disease by next year; acid rain & toxic fumes remain after Puerto Rican fuel depot fire: Obama has declared the island an ‘emergency zone’; eighteen people have died in Egyptian train crash; dried fruit was introduced to Europe by traders to Islamic areas; for some people, how did they survive without cell phones; UN inspectors visit former ‘secret’ site in Iran; shattered dreams: the biggest Baghdad car bombings in years, striking GOVT structures;

…10/24-09: a journey starts better on a full stomach

43º in ABQ; 68% humidity at 6A…’hard hat’ tours will begin at Spaceport America in December of this year; Brad made Lobster Rolls; Halloween masks can contain & spread flu germs; double homicide reported in Cibola CNTY; six otters released into N NM rivers; there was another fatal crash yesterday AM in Tijeras Canyon; Roswell man shot in the stomach; former NM VFW leader guilty of embezzlement, used debit card to make $122K in personal purchases; did this special legislative session ‘do the right thing’?: only time will tell; NM participated in a global ‘Thriller’ dance event; local woman whose husband died in Iraq has dog tags stolen from her purse; vandals damage N NM football field; Santa Fe B’day budget & staff have been cut; family brewery in PA is still thriving, its business carved into a MTN; AK REP linked to $200K in corruption, illegally receiving gifts for favors; it’s back to the trillion dollar health care reform bill; Obama wants to give more money to small businesses; CA parents protest honoring Harvey Milk; another child, this time in CA, killed by attacking pit bulls; largest solar power plant is ready to operate in FL; ’Thriller’ is the theme for this year’s Halloween; the swine flu is now considered a NATL emergency; NY boy faces a world of trouble for faking his own suicide, and displaying it on his global website; ‘bong water’: an illegal drug?;

Russian airliner made a safe, but emergency landing in Moscow when the plane reported landing gear problems; Taliban forces tell Afghans not to vote in next month’s runoff elections; China preparing itself against cyber attacks; China: the land of billionaires; baby born on AirAsia plane has free flights for life, so does his mother;

…10/23-09: the better you sleep, the better you feel

40º in ABQ; 76% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Gay Rodeo in the Duke City this weekend; why can’t he see the difference between ‘mad’ & ‘sad’?; two bills in the legislature that may help balance the NM state budget; 2% cuts in ABQ school budgets; Navajo Nation may buy AZ ski resort; NM may also tap its reserve funds; this weekend Holloman AFB will hold an open house; the Old Turquoise Lodge may be turned into a halfway home for women; Latino group objects new mayor’s appointment; Baillo’s may be filing for bankruptcy; NM ‘should’ be receiving all its allocated amount of flu vaccines by January, 2010; fatal crash on I-40W in Tijeras Canyon, when a semi slammed into the side of a MTN; new ABQ mayor’s transition team is in its initial stages; by the end of the day, the NM House & Senate may have agreed upon a new budget…only Saturday will tell; malfunctioning plane safely landed at SunPort, faulty gear blamed; today was Brad’s doctor visit, and he picked up his new glasses;

left at noon, ate at Monica’s, it still has very good food; finished Rounds by 7:30A; no CTI Admits; no heat on the AM R/R; the strange, diverse people you can meet at bus stops; after lunch, our bus driver would not let me on, called me to the front of the vehicle, and said my pass was invalid: we talked & resolved the matter, and he apologized…on our trip from the NE Heights, he was our driver again, and greeted us with a smile, and waved when we got off the R/R; arrived home before 5P;

an EF-0 twister struck Louisiana, a small supercell; TX floods, coupled with 80 mph winds; record snow in NE; nine foot surf along CA coast; snow in the Twin Cities, more flurries in the Midwest; showers in DC & Pittsburgh; rain for ATL, Chicago, Spokane, INDY, Detroit, and parts of I-65; temps from 40s to 80s;

pilot error?; ground crew lost ‘awareness’ with the plane that flew over WI, and arrived one hour late at its destination: pilots say they were not asleep, yet ignored cockpit alarms & lighted displays: they were forced to make several flight maneuvers to prove they were not drunk or taken drugs; comic Soupy Sales has died at the age of 83; widespread cases of H1N1 reported in 46 states; first time home buyers helped September sales report; the flush rush for a low flow toilet; MN motorized lounge chair struck & damaged a parked car, its ‘driver’ faces DUI charges; girl found in NYC with no memory of who she is; an opt-out option for states in the reformed health bill; top execs will now receive ‘retention awards’; FL, GA, MN, IL & WI banks shut down, bringing the total to 106 in 2009, the worst year since 1992; same–sex couples may be counted in the 2010 census; 1K swine flu deaths reported in the US; the DOW ended down; 82% of those polled say the recession is not over; clean furniture with SPAM, and no accompanying food smell; the First Family portrait; mistake over Bryers’ ice cream errs in explanation of ingredients; seven killed in PAK attack; Chenille robes made in PAK are responsible for nine deaths; global warming is a hot topic around the world; fire at Puerto Rico fuel depot; there are now over 5K swine flu deaths around the world; MX millionaire states he made money by selling chemical to create meth; oil is $80.50 per gallon; gold is $1056.40 an ounce;

…10/22-09: finding faithful friends

44º in ABQ; 89% humidity at 6A…GAQ; NM investment officer has resigned; NM needs to ‘juggle’ money to balance the state’s budget; wind turbines for Edgewood; Brad made Pumpkin Pies; more NM suspects charged in the multi-state prostitution sting; price tag was still dangling on my jacket as I wore it; former LANL scientists being investigated by the FBI on espionage charges; gas has risen to $2.55 per gallon; AM E NM freeze warnings; police & fire trucks S of Gold in downtown ABQ; only $90 million earned by NM on oil & gas revenues during July – September; stopping speedsters in Tijeras Canyon; Santa Fe CNTY has run out of flu vaccines; NM jobless rate rises to 7.7%; Toys for Tots drive begins;

keep ½ step ahead of your allies; no consult changes for 2010; finished Rounds by 7:30A; no CTI Admits; received 2010 CPT code changes; Code Purple remains in effect; Myrna’s granddaughter has grown, she’s walking!; Channel 7 on UNM hill;

snow in ME & N Rockies, wet in Chicago, Houston, Little Rock & New Orleans; more E Coast rip current warnings; showers for the MS Valley; per Weather Channel, nine inches of snow fell in the Santa Fe area; N Plains rain/snow mix; snow along I-80 in NE & NY Thruway; wet in Chicago, Cleveland & the Twin Cities; Dallas floods, very wet across AR, MS & Louisiana; temps from 40s to 80s;

Microsoft 7 operating system is available starting today; too much rain producing mold on SE US crops; how to end INS ‘price fixing’ policies; opposition, fear & inventory are keeping people from getting the H1N1 inoculation: using antiquated means to produce the vaccine?, but 200 million doses should be available by this December; how healthy are cereals & snacks?; the US military is mostly white & male; plane overshoots runway by 150 miles because pilots were distracted, or were they asleep?; there are some days when the news does not seem interesting; widespread H1N1 outbreaks in N America; more housework can lead to more sex?; SEN still debating on extending unemployment; the two books with similar titles, one good, one bad about Sarah Palin are being released; for the first time in nearly forty years of living in the same home, a CA man sighted bears in his backyard tree; the Great Smokies and along the Blue Ridge Parkway are at peak foliage; many think the economy is ‘poor’, but that the worst is over; this will be a ‘jobless recovery’; tanker explodes on IN interstate, shuts down I-69 & I-465; the DEA has arrested 300 people in nineteen states; people don’t trust science; seasonal stores take over shopping malls; restaurant charging to toast your bagel; the flu has struck 20% of the children in the US;

snowball fights along the Seine; move nuclear stockpiles from Iran, to Russia & France; per Gates, N Korea is still a threat to world peace; 6.2 quake shook PAK & AFG; gold is $1,057.90 an ounce; oil is $80.38 an ounce; another hurricane forms in the Pacific; most of N Kenya has not seen rain in over a year;

…10/21-09: united in pride

47º in ABQ; 83% humidity at 6A…GAQ; fallen trees across ABQ, and downed power lines; one gated Duke City community has stopped building new homes; NM State Police face budget cuts; some ABQ city workers got huge pay raises; Mora CNTY school funds went to a slush fund instead; from 3 to 7 inches of snow is expected in N NM; NM college PRES faces DUI charges; Continental plane forced to make an emergency landing in Los Alamos; Garduno’s: pay up, or shut down; Sandia Crest got a foot of snow; three more H1N1 deaths in NM, bringing the total to sixteen; Brad made a tasty Green Tomato & Lemon Marmalade; employee embezzled $2 million from Garduno’s;

AM rain at UNMH; empty AM R/R; Coder dropped a bombshell, looking for work in other places; another does not feel good: drew the ‘thus far, and no further’ line with Lysol; AM rain at UNMH; finished Rounds by 7:15A; my batches passed the review by MGR; Code Purple at 10A; several patients insured by GEHA;

ABQ rain, winds & dime size hail a major headline on the Weather Channel NM snow mentioned on ABC AM News; Red Flag for rip currents along FL Coasts; TS Rick reaches resorts with 65 mph winds; OK & TX rain; wet in OKC, KC, Seattle, San Antonio, Denver, Detroit & Dallas; E Coast warmth; N MN, N Rockies snow, temps from 40s to 80s [or maybe 90s?];more credit for small businesses & banks; limited vaccines of both flu strains; five US children die from child abuse every day; march of the ‘survivor balls’ in DC; VA man arrested for making coffee in his house in his B’day suit; college tuition on the rise; WY man arrested for paying female exotic dancer with counterfeit money; pinup beauties for farm girl calendar; MA man charges with providing info to terrorist group, with plans to attack mall entrances; the H1N1 virus has reached Capitol Hill; the DOW was down; it’s expensive to provide healthy school meals; MI man caught masturbating on a public bus; mortgage applications are down; where are the stimulus jobs?; a diamond the size of a walnut will be auctioned at Christie’s; Bank of America will charge $98 per year for people who maintain a $0 balance; ships collide of TX coast; a ‘heat pattern’ to stocks?; missing FL child found in GA dumpsite; the White House wants financial institutions who got stimulus funds to lower the salaries of their top execs; ‘cow splat’ outside Los Angeles Police DEPT HQ?; TX store clerk took a $1 million winning lottery ticket & ran; is teacher’s aide guilty of waterboarding?; First Lady played with a hula hoop; many incorrect baseball calls during the World Series playoffs;

more nuclear talks with Iran; SEN Kerry from MA visited that nation, and talked to its leader, there will be a 11/7/09 runoff election; Gatwick Airport in London has been sold for $2.5 billion; Taliban attacks shut down PAK schools; INTL flight landed on Atlanta’s taxiway, not runway; oil is $80.11 per barrel; gold is $1,061 an ounce; more people disapprove the way Obama is handling the conflict in AFG; cargo ship sinks off Australian coast; GITMO detainees will be tried in American courts;

…10/20-09: me & you, and the universe

54º in ABQ; 41% humidity at 6A…GAQ; the powder of Tiramisu; did Espanola police officer strike two people without provocation; owing $750K in back taxes, all of Garduno’s restaurants may be forced to shut down; $1 million in diamonds stolen from a car belonging to gem brokers; EMSU male professor grabbed a student in his crotch?; COMCAST laying off 45 ABQ workers; Duke City officers shot & killed pet pit bull; Lance Armstrong will be in Durango; Brad forgot AM phone call, I kept walking up the UNMH stairs until I reached the fifth floor; children needed for movie being filmed across NM; home sales doing well in the ABQ area; PM rain at The Beach; per Condé Nest, Santa Fe is one of the best places to visit in the US; a very wet backpack; NM Symphony may not play this season, still stalled in contract talks; PM lockdown for NE ABQ school; two people rescued from arroyo at WY & Indian School;

Jenny leaves earlier to work than I do, catches the first Blue R/R in NW ABQ; we are all swamped with work; ‘Mistress Jade’ linked to UNM leaders?; Data for Dummies book needed; finished Rounds by 7:30A; UNMH has a cage for people to park their bicycles; Channel 4 on UNMH hill; dust storm, followed by a T’storm at UNMH;

ABQ rain mentioned on ABC AM News; NYC cold, ATL under ice; KC storms, Billings snow; TS Rick has 65 mph winds, moving NNE at 6 mph; rain in the N Plains; chilly from VA to GA; record lows in FL; ME snow showers; hoarfrost on flowers & trees; heavy rains leave San Fran under water, and BART flooded; Twin Cities showers; temps from 40s to 90s;

Broncos win, now 6–0; PRES keeps pushing for the public option; Obama has been in office for nine months…what has he accomplished; Chatham, MA home washed away by beach erosion; online Internet use helps older people maintain cognition skills; CO family would turn themselves in, and face charges; HI schools may close on Fridays to help balance their budgets; 33% of Americans fear losing their health INS coverage; school lunches need more fruits & vegetables; baby food recall, may contain botulism; Streisand earned thousands for charity; politicians playing ‘dealing with doctors’; loose lips sink [R] ships; former NYC police commissioner found guilty of taking bribes for contracts; Sun Microsystems is laying off 3K workers; more people favor legalizing marijuana: fourteen states allow it for medical use; the DOW ended down; one in six Americans live in poverty; 53% of the patients hospitalized with H1N1 are young children; 92 year old tried to smuggle cocaine in a wheelchair; building a better toilet paper; more people creating hoax to get into the TV spotlight; experts, not juries, should decide malpractice outcomes; ‘meatless Mondays’ at Baltimore schools; DC club with a dress code;

Sarah Boyle preparing for her debut album release next month; Islamic UNIV attacked; another US outpost in AFG has been shut down; AFG leader may have to approve election runoff; new NASA unmanned rocket will be launched; actor who portrayed Dr. No has died at the age of 91; foreign stocks still soaring; Asian mosquitoes live longer, and attack during the day; Tiesto, the ‘trance king’; Anglicans could join the Catholic Church, and still be allowed to marry; oil is $78.52 per barrel; gold is $1,056.20 an ounce; Dubai is building a half-mile skyscraper; female UK firefighters object to their new, bright yellow shirts that becomes see-through when wet;

…10/19-09: the beginning of the beginning is not always at the beginning

57º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…GAQ; ID thefts linked to stolen, sensitive MVD documents, that were inside an official’s car, parking in his APT complex; Brad’s AM Chiro visit; SUV driver was trapped for two hours after colliding with a Rapid Ride bus; two missing Sandia hikers have been found; more complaints against Zangara Dodge, owe customers $103K; gas is $2.49 per gallon; very warm today, chance of snow in N NM tomorrow?; early AM crash between a cab & a truck at Second & Gold; man struck roommate with a frying pan; NM legislature may not be able to solve the budget crisis; van stolen with special carseat for child with cerebral palsy; special needs student is a victim of a hit & run at Juan Tabo & Candelaria after he ran away from school; Brad preparing a Carrot, Potato & Pork Stew; NM has the tenth highest number of ID thefts; same fast food store at Central & Louisiana robbed twice in one week;return to the reprimand; make people look good, at what cost; PICU has ‘permanently’ expanded to two units in its ward; finished Rounds by 7:30A; patient shot in the chest with a pellet; two year old fell several feet, not accompanied by parents; more coughing & masks in the PEDS Clinic; rode with Jenny on the PM R/R;

snow fell in Baltimore this past weekend; Long Island floods, Los Angeles fog; Baja CA prepares for a weaker Rick, now with 100 mph winds, moving NW at 10 mph; Typhoon Lupit has 150 mph winds, heading for the Philippines; rain in MT, ID & N CA; frost & freeze warnings from ME to FL: very cold in most of New England, parts of PA, WV, TN, AL, GA & FL; wet in Portland, OR & Seattle; PRES fine tuning medical marijuana laws, giving more regulatory power to individual states; Los Angeles Halloween ‘dummy’ turns out to be a corpse; con artists selling fake online cures for H1N1; CO ‘balloon’ family facing child delinquency charges, not the way to find family fame & fortune; many children in that state are in poverty, or homeless; Simpsons have been on TV for twenty years; Obama wants a public option in his health plan bill; Dell recalling cartons of cantaloupes, fruit could contain salmonella; women are more likely to wash their hands after going to the bathroom than men do; are we ‘wired’ differently in terms of the music we like to hear?; in 1966, the Supremes became the first all female group to achieve a number one album; ABQ Rapid Ride crash makes CNN News; swine with swine flu been confirmed in MN pig; 250K education jobs saved by the stimulus; ATL is in the top ten of America’s emptiest cities, with ‘the’ Las Vegas at number one; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.57, up 9¢; US companies will allow fewer INC CO options during Open Enrollment; medical marijuana stores popping up across Los Angeles; Obama has a 57% approval rate, only 20% of those poll consider themselves [R], the lowest percentage since 1983; energy star on appliance may not be accurate; former US GOVT scientist arrested on spying charges; NJ man survives being run over by train; Oakland airport allows pot to be brought on a plane; Native American women suffer the most from domestic violence; NY Times cuts 100 jobs; prepare for higher health costs, deductibles & co-pays and lower coverage; the patient has no control of their health care; did transient start the August blaze that threatened Los Angeles?;Australian girl starts an eight month sail around the world; US, France & Russia will meet with Iran in Vienna to discuss that country’s nuclear progress; per Obama, no ADDL US troops in AFG until that country has a ‘credible’ GOVT: runoff may be required, or a unity GOVT; wanted: for one flight only, volunteers needed to pilot spaceships, being built by individuals or small groups, some consisting of scientists; real dolphins playing football, using a jellyfish; water levels are rising in NYC & Shanghai; oil is $78.65 a barrel; 32 planets have been found outside our solar system; gold is $1,058 an ounce; Iran threatens the US & Britain with ‘retaliation’ after the bombing that killed six Republican Guards; Iran frees Newsweek reporter;

…10/18-09: to be everything, be one

53º in ABQ; 54% humidity at 6A…a fifteen year old Chaves CNTY girl with existing health problems has died from the H1N1 virus, bringing the total NM deaths to thirteen; no new NM taxes?; yesterday PM, a car ran through a red light, and struck a Rapid Ride near Oak & I-25, no serious injuries were reported from that incident, as passengers were tossed about, but the worst bus crash in twenty years, pinning the smaller vehicle against a pylon, as well as pushing it into the windshield of the bus; Halloween sales are up in ABQ; NM man struck by lightning has fully recovered; ‘our’ Las Vegas teacher was fired for punching a student; the Heart HOSP of NM is ten years old; grant awarded to build computer centers in rural NM; people had a chance to see the inside of an Duke City mosque, as well as eat and shop for Muslim food & clothing; mine is a ‘no frills’ website; another weekend for drive through flu clinics; NM will have a float in the Tournament of Roses Parade;much to the disapproval of her neighbors, Madonna is using her NYC as a recording studio; Los Angeles mother shot & killed her five year old son, and injured her one year old child; record warmth in Phoenix yesterday; although some of the original members have retired, the rock band KISS has been going strong for over thirty years; think of it as an inability, not a disability; CO ‘balloon family’ may face criminal charges, such as jail time, and a whopping $500K fine; admit it was a hoax, which had been planned for two weeks, the father wants his own TV reality show; another death from the AZ sweat lodge tragedy, bringing the total to three; man dies after CA police struck him with a taser; the ‘happy house husbands of Hollywood’; woman sues drunk man & hotel after a drunk escapade sends her off the dance floor, causing serious injury to her wrist; WI black bear cools off in beer fridge; illegal alien Halloween customer gets mixed comments; twenty years after the Loma Prieta quake; people are reviewing movie trailers: it’s amazing how many ‘official’ websites exist for the movie 2012: one of the possible leaders of the world after the global cataclysm is “Michael S.”; turn dairy waste into methane?; witches, vampires & pirates are ‘in’ costumes this year; it’s the Religious Right vs. Capitol Hill on FED hate crime legislation that would expand to include gays, lesbians & transvestites; NYC man sold a BLDG he did not own; is Obama tough enough?; a new look for Motel 6; Patriots & Celtics won; thanks to his tie, viewers spot a man who had already been on ‘Jeopardy’; UConn football player stabbed to death after victory game; Ted Allen brings gayety to the kitchen, and cuisine;with sustained winds of 180 mph, and 220 mph gusts, moving WNW at 14 mph, Hurricane Rick is the second strongest storm in the past ten years, and on record in the E Pacific, classified as a CAT 5; the ‘polluting nations’ will meet in London to discuss global warming; gang violence is a real problem for Rio, but will not interfere with the 2016 Olympic games; will there be a halt in the number of women pregnant after March, 2012, if too many people really believe the end is approaching?; AFG & PAK: havens for terrorists & corruption; the 'punk rock priest' of Moscow;

…10/17-09: nothing is ever ‘obvious’

53º in ABQ; 50% humidity at 6A…Amber Alert for missing three year old boy from TX; how will NM handle a $650 million shortfall: start with a special session of the NM legislature in the City Different; more gang arrests in Deming; Isleta Casino is on the 11000 block of Broadway SE; Carlsbad MED CTR being renovated; aspens are some of the largest living organisms; NM gays & lesbians marched in the Walk on Washington, DC last weekend; there is a fractal mural on Third & Silver; no PM local or NATL news because of sports events; yesterday we saw a dust devil in an Uptown parking lot;

people are creating new sports, such as circular soccer, and office polo; CA bank failure brings the total number of financial closings to 99; all-male GA school banning students from wearing dresses; even with warnings of possible contamination, more people are eating more peanuts; ‘Clue’ games goes high-tech; is the CO ‘boy [not] in the balloon’ getting too much publicity?; beach erosion along the S MA coast from Nor’easter; earlier outbreaks of pneumonia & H1N1 this year, prisoners will one of the first groups to be vaccinated against the swine flu;

Hurricane Rick is now a ‘dangerous’ CAT 4 storm; oil is $78.53 per barrel; gold is $1.051.50 an ounce; the Australian beer that makes Snow White look ‘bad’; another pirate attack by Somali forces;