Monday, September 27, 2010

…9/25–10: respect what matters

59º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…Brad has a slight head cold; body swept in arroyo on Thursday has been found in the Rio Grande; proposal to change the Los Ranchos/Journal CTR Rail Runner stop to ‘El Pueblo’; missing local photographer safely found in MT; more cars vandalized on the E Side, and more arrests made; CYFD will not cut daycare coverage, but they will pay less money to the providers of these services; the S Valley GE plant where engine parts for planes were made has permanently closed its doors; last week’s storm pushed ABQ over its monthly, and yearly, rainfall average; there will be forty drop-off locations across NM for unused, or unwanted prescribed medications; last night, Johnny Tapia scored another victory; NM GOV is having a yard sale; stepped into the shower while still wearing my glasses;
The bodies of missing NM hikers make NATL news; today is NATL Hunting & Fishing Day; one person killed at Los Angeles party; it is always better for a doctor to admit a medical mistake;
Bomb threat forced a plane to make an emergency landing in Sweden; a capsule has arrived in Chile to free the captive miners; three astronauts, who were at the INTL Space Station, have returned to Earth; five fo
ot spiders live in Africa;

…9/26–10: mutual admiration with friends
64º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…two local motorcyclists involved in serious accidents; armed & dangerous men elude police, causing a SWAT situation at Juan Tabo & Indian School, threatened to shoot one officer; mother accused of sexually abusing her two children since they were born; Estancia boil water warnings, due to E Coli; jockey died at the Zia racetrack when his horse fell to the ground; the NM GOV candidates held a forum today; ‘our’ Las Vegas is 175 years old; ABQ man won millions of dumplings at the World Karaoke Championship in Moscow; on our own, or with eac
h other’s help, Brad & I solve computer problems; NM State Fair fireworks tonight;
Seattle to Amsterdam flight had to return to its point of origin because of an unruly passenger; OR mother robs a bank, then picks up her children from school; a NYC woman & her boyfriend are accused of beating her two year old son to death; no one was hurt after a landing gear resulted in a plane’s wing to scrape the tarmac at Kennedy Airport in NYC; shark attack at VA Beach; the Patriots won; because of a hot, dry summer, fall foliage season may fall flat; OH male cheerleader being bullied, he has even had his arm broken; no ‘safe’ or ‘true blue’ [D] states this election;
Two NATO workers were killed during an AFG bombing; another E Coli strain that may become drug resistant; the US/MX border is the ‘safest’ it has ever been; rain from Matthew is still falling in MX; Operation: Dra
gon Strike will attempt to rid AFG of the Taliban; during London Fashion Week, model fell out of her high heels, and onto the catwalk; Hyundai recalls 140K Sonatas; will there be new conflicts between Israel and Palestine as the Jewish settlement freeze will end tonight; young fashion: red, black, white & leather;

…9/27–10: effective efficiency
58º in ABQ; 69% humidity at 6A…GAQ; female NM inmate dies while in jail; ABC World News was in ABQ; fatal shooting in Santa Fe; Obama held an ‘outdoor economic forum’ in Los Padillas;
Sex offender roaming UNM Campus; I am the only Coder in my area; this past weekend, kept working on my Pseudo Code directions; empty AM R/R;
Wet in: Tallahassee, DC, Raleigh, the Twin Cities, Seattle, Charlotte, NYC, Orlando, Savannah, ATL, Macon [GA}, Baltimore, Philly, Roanoke & Knoxville, sunny conditions for ABQ mentioned on the Weather Channel; rainy weather along parts of I-10, I-81 & I-95; more flooding in WI & MN, as disaster emergencies declared; a Tidewater Tornado Threat; Los Angeles reached 113º; temps from the 50s to the 100s;
Children do not drink enough water; se
curity vs. privacy on the Internet; only 70% of US students graduate from high school, teachers complain about inadequate salaries; bedbugs have appeared in 28 states, and now stinkbugs are invading America; children’s ice hockey injuries are on the rise; 3.1 tremor shook NH, 2.1 miles below the ground; the DOW ended down; Obama wants a longer school year; five people are injured when a Seattle water taxi struck a pier; murder-suicide in FL, two children were killed during the incident; SW Airlines will be buying Air Tran;Iraqi & Iranian forces clash along their border; a change in leadership for N Korea; did drugs, and a ‘crazy’ sergeant, cause US soldiers to kill AFG citizens; ‘give them weapons, and they will fight’; oil is $75.86 per barrel; gold is $1,296.00 an ounce; 5.5 quake shook Iran; PRES Obama said if America was threatened, we would attack PAK;

Saturday, September 25, 2010

…9/18–10: sweet techno

66º in ABQ; 58% humidity at 6A…Obama will visit NM on 9/28/10; 19.3% of NM residents live in poverty; ABQ teacher had pot plants in her house; plenty of people at the NM State Fair yesterday; both Coal & Lead streets in the Duke City will be widened; there are eighteen breweries & brew pubs in NM; ‘peaceful protest’ will be held for the W Mesa murder victims; [R] spending lot of money on NM political races; local woman owes $12K in fraudulent Medicare charges; Urban Farm Fest in ABQ, this state has ‘unique’ food; a new UNMH will be completed in Rio Rancho by the end of 2011; 91º: record high temp for the day; Brad & Warren vs. Warren’s PC;
Two tornadoes, plus a 125 mph microburst, struck NYC this past Thursday; there will be a merger of United and Continental Airlines; MT wants to make it illegal to be a homosexual in that state; 40% of Americans carry a gene that causes celiac disease which could be triggered by gluten;
Igor has 110 mph winds, moving NW at 13 mph, with Bermuda in its sights; Chilean miners may be rescued sooner than originally expected;

…9/19–10: from tomorrow, to today
69º in ABQ; 50% humidity at 6A…some of the MX/US governors met in Santa Fe to discuss the increase in border violence; NM ads say not to vote for one candidate, but do not support the opponent; citizen CSI Academy will be held in the Duke City; abandoned cave in SE NM will become a new home for bats; drunk images of people appear in the restrooms of the UNM stadium; S CO fire warnings; NM Black Expo was held yesterday at the ABQ Civic CTR; record high temps yesterday in Gallup & Chama; Cooking Channel episode took place on the Santa Fe Plaza; fatal st
abbing in NW ABQ; a diplomatic dinner will be held at the NM GOV mansion;
BP has officially stated that the Gulf oil well/spill has been capped, and the crisis is over…or, is it; laptops could be used to detect earthquakes; the ‘Jeep’ brand has been around since 1941; bus driver reading an E-book while behind the wheel, caught on a passenger’s cell phone camera; thirteen people of a CA cult may be planning a mass suicide; fewer Americans now have health INS coverage; the Tea Party may do more harm than good to the [R]; some OR crab meat products may contain Listeria; [R] wants to repeal Obama’s health care reform bill; TX father accused of killing his three children;
More car bomb attacks in Baghdad; Igor has 85 mph winds, moving N at 13 mph, and heading for Bermuda, where power outages have already been reported; also causing high waves from FL to Cape Cod; Iranian leader traveled to NYC;

…9/20–10: as life leisurely continues
67º in ABQ; 58% humidity at 6A…GAQ; three people accused of stealing copper pipes at an ABQ store; a NM highway may be renamed for a Navajo Code Talker; bones of a mastodon-like animal have been found in S NM; W side residents wants weeds removed; saw Jean this PM; NM GOV meeting cost $200K, but did not cost the state taxpayers’ one penny; water main at Fourth & Griegos;
UNM grad students face budget cuts; more money going to UNM film industry courses; Brent is very sick; no weekend CTI Admits; printed, but did not rely on Census or Registration Reports;
Wet in: Corpus Christi, Fargo, San Antonio, Roswell, Seattle, Chicago & Houston; rainy across sections of I-35; Igor battered Bermuda with 93 mph gusts, and major beach erosion reported, there are boulders on the tarmacs have hindered people leaving the island via airplane, the storm’s peak winds were reported as WSW, at 60 mph; is there a TS Lisa in the Atlantic; SE US heat wave; temps from the 50s to the 100s;
The last light bulb has been produced at t
he Winchester, VA General Electric plant: the future is complete walls with LED bulbs; the era of genetically produced salmon has begun; UT wildfires burning near SLC; the DOW ended up; NYC railway bridge fire halts traffic; secret Motrin recall; the recession is over, lasted eighteen months, and came to a close in July, 2009; 79% say it has not ended; man claims ‘caffeine insanity’; the Gulf oil spill has cost BP $9.5 billion;
Train crash in India has killed ten people; tension rising between Japan & China; oil is $75.34 per barrel; gold is $1,279.00 an ounce;

…9/21–10: the ability of equality
66º in ABQ; 67% humidity at 6A…GAQ; overnight rain at The Beach; as of 11/1/10, VP Biden will also be visiting NM; 5K children will no longer have daycare, because of CYFD budget cuts; stabbing at a Motel 6 in NW ABQ; human remains found at a Carlsbad construction site; Carlsbad is one of the best communities in the US for youths; ABQ native was on the ‘Ellen’ show;
Director visiting the PEDS Coders, there is also a ‘surprise’ B’day party for her at the Bradbury; there are different procedures for var
ious Coders; print, but don’t rely on Census or Registration reports;
Wet in: Chicago, Des Moines, Dallas, Tucson, Great Falls [MT], the Twin Cities, San Antonio, KC, Omaha, Houston, Corpus Christi and Des Moines; TS Lisa has 40 mph winds, moving N at 5 mph; rainy along areas of I-10 & I-80; frost & freeze warnings for New England; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
Political ads say that global warming destroys our freedoms; when swallowed, Tinker Bell will get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; disk ‘button batteries’ can burn the esophagus; cyber bullying is worse than verbal or physical attacks; the 4K acre fire in UT was caused by the NATL Guard, who were practicing outside SLC; the DOW ended slightly up; using heat & cold to kill bedbugs; man has a worm inside his retina; huge fire in the Bronx; man threw bricks from the roof of a CO school; two people killed, another injured after shooting at Ft. Bliss; “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal rejected in the Senate; the 1K lb. WV pumpkin; more people support/favor the First Lady, than the PRES;
Jupiter is at its closest point to Earth; oil is $73.05 per barrel; oil is $1,272.40 an ounce; hackers invaded Twitter; at least 100 people were injured when bleachers collapsed during a Brazilian car race; money laundering at the Vatican; the next step, transparent airplanes; nine special ops forces died when their helicopter crashed in AFG; Bermuda cleans up after Igor leaves;

…9/22–10: love, laugh, live
72º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…GAQ; man w
as arrested after he exposed himself to a mother & her children at a local park; pipe bomb exploded in an ABQ mailbox; man stabbed near a Duke City train station at First & Central in the downtown ABQ area; Flood Watch for W NM; a rise in heroin use among Duke City students; a man dressed like a ninja, and holding an ax, robbed a Santa Fe store of $4K in jewelry; Brad made Blackened Mahi; there is an auto museum in Rio Rancho; five men arrested for vandalizing cars in NW ABQ; more people are being stalked in the Duke City; NM leads the US in recovering from the recession;
People ask ‘what do I want’; to decrease classroom size, UNM will offer more online courses; can still use info from specialists; PM downpours at UNMH, leaks were appearing in the roof;
Wet in: Detroit, St. Louis, ABQ, Corpus Christi, Des Moines, El Paso, Sioux Falls, Houston, KC, Dallas, San Antonio St. Louis, INDY Buffalo, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, the Twin Cities & Green Bay; rain along sections of I-10, I-35, I-70 & I-90; Igor struck Canada, causing bridges to collapse; TD Georgette has 35 mph winds, moving NNW at 14 mph; severe weather struck Chicago last night; Lisa has 45 m
ph winds, moving ENE at 5 mph; NE US Fire Threat; temps from the 60s to the 90s;
Bitter battle in the White House, called the “Obama’s Wars”; a heightened terror threat in the US; the end of ‘child only’ INS policies; high altitudes may be linked to more suicide attempts; only 30% of those polled support the health care reform bill; the DOW ended down; three people died in Fairfax, VA house fire; a Baltimore house fire forced people to jump out of second story windows; FL courts struck down a ban on gays & lesbians adopting children;
Paris Hilton detained in Japan for possessing drugs in the US; bombs killed ten people in W Iran; oil is $74.33 per barrel; gold is $1,290.20 an ounce; people are angry about a proposed new road that would run through the Serengeti NATL Park in Tanzania; Russia will not sell weapons to Iran;

…9/23–10: the world class
60º in ABQ; 96% humidity at 6A…GAQ; overnight rain at The Beach; man swept away by arroyo waters has yet to be found; ABQ received 1.74” of rain yesterday, the most in 50+ years; parents upset over CYFD daycare cuts in coverage; does the Duke City need another bridge to cross the Rio Grande; semi burned on Jefferson; local photographer missing from ‘our’ Las Vegas; forum being held to help small businesses start in NM, and provide initial funding;
MGR out for two days; quarterly UNMMG meeting at 3P: dropped off at Central & UNIV, walked to the R/R bus stop, and arriv
ed home before 5P; UNM professor accused of being a dominatrix;
Wet in: Twin Cities, KC, Billings, Des Moines, Wichita, Seattle, Green Bay, Omaha, Rapid City, Miami, ABQ, Amarillo, Duluth & Madison; Richmond may reach 100º; wet along sections of I-35 & I-90; for now, TD Lisa poses no threat; temps from the 50s to the 90s;
Obama addressed the UN today; more health care reform benefits go in effect today: the [R] have created a ‘Pledge to America’, or ‘Midterm Manifesto’, which includes vetoing that bill; the DOW ended down; cake that circled the entire New Orleans Superdome; five million cans of Similac being recalled because of beetle parts found in the formula; people with illnesses will have to pay more for INS; one man, one state [OK], one day, four robberies; computer coding problems shut down Facebook again;
Human error may have caused the Titanic to sink; union workers in France may go on strike; oil is $75.39 per barrel; gold is $1,294.30 an ounce; ‘live with pandas for a month’ contest; Iran leader says he respects both the Quran, and the Bible: was this said before or after the US walked out of his speech;

…9/24–10: respecting respect
57º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…GAQ; teen slams into a gas meter, causing a gas leak; racial tensions at Volcano Vista High School; are chemicals or pesticides in the water causing deformed frogs; more police patrol around Old
e Towne during the Balloon Fiesta;
Left at 12:30P: ate at Saggio’s; some people have worked thirty years at UNMMG; UNM police dog has retired;
MN & WI floods; TS Matthew may move into the Gulf of MX next week: currently, it has 50 mph winds, moving W at 16 mph and moving towards Central America; wet in: Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, New Orleans, Tulsa, INDY, Seattle, Dallas, Portland [ME], Duluth, Miami & Tallahassee; storms along sections of I-90; new fires in CO & IN; temps from the 50s to the 100s;
Homes sales are flat; greed is still ‘good’ in the twenty-first century; Eddie Fisher has died at the age of 82; female inmate has been executed in VA; the DOW ended up; three credit unions shut down in TX, CT & IL for possessing toxic assets; another computer worm wormed its way through the business computer world; Seattle grandmother killed herself and three people; female sleepwalker found strolling in a swamp; fire destroyed Manassas, VA homes;
UK raised its terror threat level; undocking problem at the INTL Space Station; oil is $76.49 per barrel; gold is $1,296.00 an ounce;

Saturday, September 18, 2010

…9/12–10: let me be myself

62º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…Brad made Ma Po Tofu yesterday: it was wonderful: today, he prepared Scrambled Eggs for breakfast; local man was at the Pentagon on 9–11; more NM men charged with sexually assaulting minors, or sex texting them; a women who may have been drunk was walking on Central in W ABQ when she was struck and killed by a vehicle; $1.64 million grant awarded to NM for improving public safety; Duke City Solar Festival being held this weekend; Valencia CNTY police officer is again ‘under investigation’; Navajo Code Talker has died at the age of 91 years old; to help the state’s economy, NM GOV is traveling to Madrid, Spain;
There is a ‘hospital hierarchy, most people believe surgeons are male; Eminem video has 100 million views; American families are addicted to technology, when forced to live without it for 48 hours, there is a return to family night, plus going out to bowl, and reading a newspaper: but they began feeling withdrawal syndromes, and boredom near the end; fires in San Bruno, and Boulder, where YouTube & GOOGLE are located; let the football games begin; the mini-toothbrush; now, San Bruno knew for three years that there were gas line problems, and people still cannot return to their homes; the Patriots won; more US f
amilies are in homeless shelters; oil can still be found on the seabed oin the Gulf of MX;
Hurricane Igor has 140 mph winds making it a CAT 4 storm], moving W at 14 mph; again, Iran says it will set free the female US political prisoner, but the country requires a $500 million bond for her release; Armenia may have produced the largest chocolate bar; accidental US missile strike on PAK; newborn found in garbage bag at Philippine airport; Julia & Karl are also in the Atlantic; electricity, water & cigarettes have been provided to the trapped Chilean miners;

…9/13–10: jumping into infinity
65º in ABQ; 28% humidity at 6A… GAQ; ABQ man charged with raping two woman, he may have been dressed as a police officer; is the new Coors/Atrisco bike bridge too bumpy; Kim had a baby boy;
UNM football player accused of theft; so many GPU patients in PICU; slowly but surely getting the pattern of entering charges; empty AM R/R;
Wet in: Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, NYC, Erie, Syracuse, Boston, Tampa, Dallas, ABQ, OKC and San Antonio; NM burrito eating contest mentioned on the Weather Channel; Igor has 150 mph winds, moving W at 13 mph, with 935 MB of barometric pressure; TS Julia has 40 mph winds; wet along parts of I-35, I-45, I-75 & I-90; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
New CO wildfire, near Loveland; CA pipeline that exploded in San Bruno was over fifty years old, and scheduled to be replaced; gossiping could be good for your health; ‘superbug’ is infecting people in CA, IL & MA: it tra
vels from hand to mouth; the DOW ended up; burnt Quran left outside a MI Islamic CTR; Lady Gaga was the top winner at the MTV Awards: her dress was made of meat; 9–11 ‘survivor’ tree is brought back to life, and stands 35 feet high; Walgreen’s is offering a $30 gift card when you get a flu shot; scanners in supermarkets are making mistakes; across America, there is 2.5 million miles of pipeline under the ground; crime is down in the US; Oprah gave all the members of her audience a trip to Australia;
Major MX drug lord arrested; weather conditions are prevented an American suffering from an illness to be transported from Antarctica; several killed in Venezuelan plane crash; Team USA won the world basketball championship; Cuba to lay off 500K state workers; gold is $1,245.10 an ounce; China is facing major water shortages; oil is $77.30 per barrel; MX students taught how to dodge bullets;

…9/14–10: looking into the past
66º in ABQ; 60% humidity at 6A…GAQ; murder rate is up in NM; director of financial affairs for the NM State Fair is arrested on DUI charges; Brad’s Kindle arrived; mold at Rio Rancho middle school is making students sick; probation officer was selling ‘clean urine’ to criminals; more NM residents will have access to the Internet; downtown Duke City shooting this AM, over a increase in a bus fare, the man confr
onted police with a large knife; monsoon season can increase allergies, as weeds begin to bloom; NM couple were part of the audience on Oprah’s first show of her last season: they will be flying to Australia; downloading pictures t o a CD during dinner;
Work on GPU charges; no PICU Admits;
Wet in: KC, OKC, Rapid City, Yellowstone, Roswell, St. Louis, Dallas, Des Moines & Miami; wet driving along parts of I-35, I-75 & I-80; CAT 4 Hurricane Igor has 135 mph winds, and now moving WNW at 8 mph; Hurricane Julia has 75 mph winds, moving WNW at 12 mph; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
No leaks reported after a train containing various acids derailed in WI; $100 million set aside by Pacific Gas to pay for damages caused by last week’s pipeline explosion: the San Bruno area had been inspected for leaks twice during the past year; real estate reality vs. religion in the building of a ‘Ground Zero’ mosque in NYC; more teens getting high off cough syrup; the DOW ended down; woman washing their hands more often than men, prior to leaving a bathroom; the ‘enthusiasm gap’ may caus
e the [D] to lose Control over Congress; can one ever have too many YouTube videos; police failing to follow-up on rape cases; ‘Disco’ is the theme at the NY Fashion week; ‘thought pollution’;
Hillary Clinton in Egypt, where peace talks are being held; gold is $1,269.70 an ounce; after 410 days, the female American hostage has arrived home: the remaining US ‘prisoners’ will have to face trial before the Revolutionary Guard; Eiffel Tower evacuated due to bomb threat; inebriated American pilot relieved of his duties before leaving from Europe on a commercial jet; oil is $76.60 per barrel;

…9/15–10: the art of diplomatic thought
62º in ABQ; 60% humidity at 6A…GAQ; major Santa Fe crim
inal escaped from a moving police car last night, but was later caught; CYFD worker admits he collected child porn; ABQ now has a ‘graffiti tracking system’; NM Golf Open begins at the Santa Ana Golf Club; nudity ban in Santa Fe challenged; more minorities in NM are taking SAT tests;
Try again to work on CTI charges; many autos vandalized at UNM: thieves strike cars with clearly visible items, such as purses & computers; impromptu meeting in the late PM; no PICU Admits; former MGR’s last day; our director will be watching what we do during the next week;
Karl has 65 mph winds, moving WNW at 13 mph; Igor has 145 mph winds, moving WNW at 10 mph, heading towards Bermuda; rain along parts of I-35, I-70 & I-90; wet in: Twin Cities, KC, Wichita, Des Moines, Duluth, Fargo, Oma
ha, Miami, Tampa, Seattle, Tulsa & Rapid City; wildfires burning near Reno, NV, and Loveland, CO; temps from the 50s to the 100s;
The Tea Party claims a victory in DE; a 9+ lb. lobster was caught off the FL coast; broken water mains hampered battling the San Bruno fire last week; ninth child in CA has died from whooping cough; a surgical way, or ‘freezing fat’ methods to remove love handles; Americans unsure how to define a ‘gay family’; the DOW ended up; Prince Poppycock…America’s latest talent; naked man went on a shooting spree in PA; naked woman in Louisiana tried to steal a taxi, to take her home in MI; dead man found in an LAX bathroom; OH mother taught her two year old how to smoke pot; the BP leaking oil well in the Gulf of MX may be completely sealed by this weekend; TX man stung by 1,200 bees; camel pulled from OR sinkhole; 44% of those polled strongly support the Tea Party, dislike the [R], and hate the [D]; AVG age of child prostitutes is 13 years old, and there are 100K youngsters forced into this line of work; the basis of a ‘family’, is children;
Palestinians are anxious for peace in that area; France bans burqas; oil is $75.84 per barrel; gold is $1,266.70 an ounce;

…9/16–10: predicted, and prepared
67º in ABQ; 23% humidity at 6A…GAQ; new Four Corners monument will officially opened; vases on Rio Rancho veterans’ graves have been stolen; Rio Rancho student will be reprimanded for bringing a pellet gun into school, even though it was not going to be used for criminal purposes; Santa Fe nudity ban discussion was put on hold; NM leads the nation when it come to handling Amber Alerts; Espa
nola teen found with hit list, which included teachers; computer equipment stolen at security protected racing car park; local woman has urn stolen, it contained her brother’s ashes; truck fell into sinkhole at Copper & WY; saw Jean yesterday; Brad gave Warren our old printer;
Much clearer on how the pseudo system works, pieces falling into place, have to change the way I handle PICN charges;
Wet in: Green Bay, Cincinnati, Memphis, Pittsburgh, Detroit NYC, Erie, Nashville, Roswell, INDY, Chicago and Detroit; rainy along parts of I-4, I-64, I-70, I-75 & I-90; snow in Tasmania; Igor has 145 mph winds, traveling WNW at 7 mph, threatening the E Coast with rip currents; Karl threatens MX, with 50 mph winds, moving WNW at 13 mph; temps from the 50s to the 100s;
TN leads the nation with the high obesity rate; own a pet turns a couple into a ‘family’; illegal drug use on the rise; man more homes in August taken by banks because of foreclosure reasons; the DO
W ended up; doctor shot, patient & her son killed at Johns Hopkins HOSP in Baltimore; poverty on the rise in the US: one in seven people, or 44 million citizens, fall into that category; dashboard camera filmed TX police beating its motorcyclist; woman admits she threw acid on her own face;
Middle East peace talks stalled, but will persist; Susan Boyle sung for Queen Elizabeth II; gold is $1,271.90 an ounce; sixteen mysterious infant deaths at Dominican Republic HOSP; Boeing will fly you into outer space…for a hefty price; oil is $74.61 per barrel; explosion ay Philippine cheerleading event; MX is 200 years old, and is celebrating with a parade that cost $40 million;

…9/17–10: lovely dreams
66º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…GAQ; female Volcano Vista student was sexually assaulted by a jogger while walking home from school; teen set fire to an APT; should condoms be distributed at ABQ schools; former LANL scientist accused of providing nuclear secrets to Venezuela; use methane from landfills to produce energy;
Another piece of the pseudo code problem is falling in place; copy the TES pages, and work from them; left at 12:30, ate at Saggio’s; no PICU Admits; Coder wants to meet with Dr. Cordova; learned, by myself, how to delete incorrect patient entries from the lists;
Wet in: Twin Cities, Seattle, Omaha, Corpus Christi, Billings, Knoxville, Asheville, Des Moines, Salinas, Providence, Boston and Cape Cod; a twister may have touched down in NYC during rush hour last night, with 80 mph winds, causing trees to fall, and power outages; Igor will pass over Bermuda with 125 mph winds, as it moves NW at 9 mph; Karl has 120 mph winds, and is headi
ng for the E MX coast; temps from the 50s to the 100s;
Superbug is fatal in 30–60 percent of reported cases; Broadway play, massive fish killing in the Gulf of MX; ‘Swimming Upstream’ is written & based on the lives of woman who survived the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; US ranks ninth in the number of college graduates; the DOW ended up; DC police shot & wounded a man who pointed a gun at them near the US Capitol; after decades on the air, ‘As the World Turns’ aired its last episode today; the era of gluten free food; helicopter crashed on Pikes Peak; Prince Poppycock did not win;
The start of Yom Kippur; parliamentary election in AFG; Prince William graduates as a military search & rescue helicopter pilot; oil is $73.66 per barrel; gold is $1,275.60 an ounce;

Sunday, September 12, 2010

…9/8–10: layers of love

70º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…GAQ; I now have 10K YouTube hits; three year old ABQ child has tested positive for meth; some Rio Grande High School students have incorrect schedules; three more W Nile Virus cases in NM; Duke City man set his home on fire; body found in NE ABQ park; PM showers at The Beach; ABQ has 290 city parks;
Since I had work dumped on me these past years, I know how to handle complex entry situations; UNM students oppose the burning of Quran event, scheduled in FL on 9–11; keep people in their seats, and out of my business; we still have the problem of capturing follow-up specialist services;
Wet in: Tam
pa, Boston, Hartford, Providence, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, St. Louis, Denver, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, SLC, Little Rock, OKC, Abilene, Wichita, Lake Charles [LA], Santa Fe, Seattle & JAX; Hermine is flooding TX, shutting down interstates; rainy along sections of I-10, I-20, I-35, I-40 & I-90; mid-Atlantic fire danger, temps from the 60s to the 90s;
Wildfires are burning near Boulder, CO, with 7,100 acres charred, and are still considered out of control; several blocks in De
troit have been consumed by fires; lion attendant attacked by animal at the MGM Grand in ‘the’ Las Vegas; many American have negative opinions against those who worship the Islamic faith; in order to fell pleasure, teens are embedding themselves with sharp objects; the DOW ended up;
Two asteroids passed by Earth; written bomb threat found in the bathroom of a Thai airline forced the jet to make an emergency landing in Los Angeles; N Ireland student brought a bomb to school that he had found along his walk; oil is $74.95 per barrel; gold is $1,255.60 an ounce; fake translators, who failed translation courses, are working with US soldiers in AFG;

…9/9–10: peacefu
l soul
64º in ABQ; 69% humidity at 6A…GAQ; NM will receive $5 million to improve neighborhoods; ID Amber Alert ended safely in NM; NM: the land of great cooks; during the past 18 years, there have been nine Rio Grande High principals; dog registered to vote in NM elections; three NM schools received Blue Ribbon Awards; garbage truck accident at I-40W & Coors; Zozobra burns tonight; NAACP will hold its yearly meeting in Las Cruces;
Starting to find patterns in entering pseudo code charges; we are in Code Purple; knowing how to enter services should reduce Group 4 charges…but, for some reason, the date if admission appears on some TES entries, which means the service should be routed into the ‘past due’ category; for every day, there is a TES entry; pseudo codes cannot handle O/P services;
Wet in: Springfield [MO], Twin Cities, Dallas, OKC, Little Rock, St. Louis, Orlando, Billings, Tulsa, Memphis, Bismarck, SLC, Denver & Wichita; Hermine, and the ‘renegade showers’; up to fifteen inches of rain fell in parts of TX; yesterday, tornadoes touched down in downtown Dallas; wet along secti
ons of I-44 & I-70; temps from the 60s to 90s;
Café du Monde opened in 1862; US traffic deaths have dropped by 9.7%, the lowest in 60 years; BP blames themselves, and others, for the oil rig disaster, but did not issue an apology: the company’s stock has risen in price; the burning of the Quran has been cancelled; the DOW ended up; CO blaze is threatening Boulder; divorce INS; increase in cotton prices may mean more expensive jeans & towels; tarantula invaded a NV newsroom; US trade deficit in July shrunk by 14%; will the NYC Cultural CTR be relocated: anti-US protests across the Muslim world; SECY of State called the FL pastor;
Castro says communism is no longer working in Cuba; Jewish New Year begins; MX mayors are being murdered; oil is $74.21 per barrel; gold is $1,248.90 an ounce; spam attack of GOVT agencies & major companies around the world;


…9/10–10: infinity, and beyond
65º in ABQ; 38% humi
dity at 6A…GAQ; N NM school evacuation due to bomb threat; local Iraq vet has been told his truck may get repossessed for not making payments; child predator has been sending child porn using computers in ABQ libraries; the Gathering of Nations & the Balloon Fiesta are two of the top 100 events in the US; prairie dogs still pose a problem at the SunPort; Rail Runner struck an abandoned car on the tracks in N ABQ;
Trying to understand how multiple TES entries for the same patient are appearing; only three days into the new pseudo code system, and people are finding faults;
Wet in: St. Louis, Nashville, Little Rock, INDY, KC, Wichita, Duluth, Fargo & Billings; bad weather along parts of I-35; temps from the 50s to the 90s;
Natural gas line break in San Bruno, CA caused in a huge blaze in a densely populated area, with hundreds of homes destroyed, and creating a crater in a mountainside: residents had detected the smell of gas for several weeks, and fire hydrants have been disabled by the blast..but by the end of the day, the blaze was fully contained; Red Flag Warnings in CO, which include the Den
ver area; suspended Philly employee killed two of her former co-workers; parts of Boulder, CO are under an evacuation order as wildfire heads towards that city; the DOW ended up; five year old boy wandered IL highways, without his parents’ permission; drive through supermarket opened in FL;
One of three Americans who were arrested for ‘invading’ Iran may be released: later in the day, it appears no one will leave that country; oil is $76.46 per barrel; gold is $1,244.50 an ounce;

…9/11–10: take the time to remember, and remember
58º in ABQ; 26% humidity at 6A…more money may be taken out of state workers’ paychecks in order to provide better pension benefits at retirement; bad economic times mean more grandparents are taking care of their families; unemployed NM residents cannot access their benefits when they use their new debit cards; Bernalillo CNTY dog is a registered voter; women beaten in her own home by a man with a baseball bat; Sandia Labs has designed a method of using water to disarm roadside bombs; three rare guitars stolen from a SW ABQ man, these musical instruments we
re especially made for him; the State Fair Parade will travel two miles down Central AVE; can local prostitutes help solve the W Mesa murders;Religious tensions on the increase during this solemn day for American; VP Biden was in NYC to honor those who died on 9–11, Michele Obama was in Shanksville, PA & our PRES paid tribute in DC; audiences may be tired of reality shows; the Flintstones are fifty years old; bus crash in N NY kills four people; KY man shot his family, then himself, because of the way his wife cooked eggs;
Igor may become a hurricane;

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

…9/4–10: code of freedom

64º in ABQ; 60% humidity at 6A…man shot in the back near UNM; guns, ammo, grenade & pot were found in a Goodwill donation box; the bedbug problem has reached NM, can be found in luxurious homes; NM ranks number in the best roads of America; street lights on Central in downtown ABQ need to be lit at night; NM Wine Festival being held in Bernalillo this weekend; wild hog roaming S NM; local man stole credit cards from his son’s teachers; NM could $100K in an INTL texting contest; a different kind of Saturday: ate at Saggio’s, then went to Albertson’s; marijuana discovered in cantaloupes inside an illegally parked vehicle in E NM; gas is $2.59 per gallon; fatal shooting in Crownpoint; had a fabulous dessert, and now it is time to return to our diet;
People eat more when they are dining out, than when they eat at home; Earl became a nor’easter by the time the storm struck Cape Cod: it now has 70 mph winds, moving NE at 30 mph;
Bar fire in Cancun; still assessing the damage from New Zealand quake, some injuries & damage reported, and a new fault line has been crea
ted; Earl finally made landfall in Nova Scotia; more fires are burning across Russia; the sun is in chaos;

…9/5–10: music is life
70º in ABQ; 45% humidity at 6A…a return to being diet conscious; ‘our’ Las Vegas has seen an increase in whooping cough cases; NM Artists for Autism Auction will be held next weekend; Brazilians tried to illegally obtain driver’s licenses in NM; Mac’s Steak House will begin a three month renovation; Alamogordo mother stabbed her son in the arms & shoulders during a drunken fight; teen killed in ABQ rollover crash; my closet has been cleaned;
Two babies killed in a collision on I-10 in Phoenix, AZ which involved a gas tanker; more people are driving drunk during the hours of 7A–noon; OH man allowed maggots to feed on his wife while she was still alive; sharks bite two surfers along the FL coast; Craigslist is shutting down its adult section, fearing prostitution charges; AZ woman had acid thrown in her face & torso: this is the second time an event like this has happened during the past week; dangerous shark found in the Potomac River; private sector controls the recovery of the US economy; Obama will be announcing his ne
xt ‘targeted initiative’ plan to help our country; ice crystals are forming around the BP oil cap;
One person is killed during an air show in Germany;

…9/6–10: love blossoms
66º in ABQ; 37% humidity at 6A…last night, fireworks in the Duke City; woman beaten, raped in her ABQ APT, then wrapped inside a rug; rice cake ignited; NM economy will take five years to improve; Labor Day B-B-Q in Tiguex Park; 8.2% jobless rate in NM; local teen accused of stealing 19 computers, worth $20K, from ABQ school; Espanola woman was killed during a police car chase, that ended in the vehicle that she stole was involved in an accident; CNM needs more part-time teachers; fresh, roasted chilies should not be immediately placed in a plastic bag; Lin
coln CNTY voters will decide on a sales tax increase to keep a racing casino in business; cocaine bust in Las Cruces; drivers whose vehicles are not ‘in motion’ can use their cell phones; the ‘Duke City Cleanup’, prior to the Balloon Fiesta; 10K views of my YouTube website; Aztec High School students will be required to wear ID badges around their neck;
NC auto theft, two year old was inside the vehicle at the time; Tropical storm Hermine formed in the Gulf of MX, could pose a threat to TX & NM; a US mortgage relief plan being created by Obama; whooping cough vaccine does not contain mercury; patio deck collapsed during picnic, injuring several people; FDA recalled 75K bags of dog treats that could be contaminated with salmonella; workers may be responsible to pay their portion of credit card balances on company credit cards if the business goes bankrupt; mummified babies found in Los Angeles APT; on average, it takes, six months for a jobless person to find work; wildfire near Boulder, CO; the t
erm ‘casual encounters’ is the new sex category on Craigslist;
British minister accused of fraud marriage scheme; landslides in Guatemala; suicide bombing in N PAK killed 17 people; Chilean miners have been trapped for one month; meeting of N Korean GOVT could mean a change in leadership in that country; possible hurricane in the Gulf of MX;

…9/7–10: walking in the rain with nature
65º in ABQ; 34% humidity at 6A…GAQ; man with a machete tried to rob a local pet food store; the third US flag has b
een stolen from the ‘9–11’ park in Belen; military grave desecrations in Deming; still no schedules for Rio Grande High; gas leak evacuated homes, and shut down roads in the Five Points area; NM border security has not gotten any better;
The official first day of ‘pseudo codes’ in PEDS; created primary steps to create P-Code records; very crowded PM R/R; I was asked for assistance; too much data to create after three-day weekend; Newborn Nursery has the most missing charges; many patients from GPU were in PICU this weekend;
Wet in: Boston, Tin Cities, Miami, Orlando, Seattle, Cleveland, Duluth, Little Rock, New Orleans, KC & Flagstaff; bad weather along sections of I-90 & I-10; TS Hermine made landfall, yet still has a well defined eye: 50 mph winds, moving NNW at 17 mph: will bring up to eight inches of rain to: San Antonio, Hou
ston, Dallas, Corpus Christi, OKC & S Padre Island; temps from the 50s to the 100s;
Why did the BP ‘fail safe’ device fail to stop the oil leak; houses burned in Boulder, CO blaze; the PRES wants to improve runways, railways & roads; medical malpractice costs have reached $55 billion; if the [D] lose Congress in 2010, they could regain it in 2012; the DOW ended down; more money being spent on election campaigns; naked bicyclists in Philly to promote clean air; 81% of those polled give the economy a ‘poor’ rating; 81 year old man set off a bomb in an AL senior citizen CTR; this is the ‘summer of discontent’; splints may ne better than casts; Quran burning in FL on 9–11 may endanger US troops in AFG; money ‘can’ buy happiness;
Another volcanic eruption in Indonesia; there is another chance an earthquake may strike New Zealand in the next few days; 6.3 quake shook Fiji; it’s Castro vs. Ahmadinejad; oil is $74.16 per barrel; gold is $1,257.30 an ounce;

Friday, September 3, 2010

…8/31–10: is reality a dream?

68º in ABQ; 50% humidity at 6A…GAQ; arrest made of a person who threatened to kill a Santa Fe judge, and forced a school into lockdown; Johnny Tapia has been reunited with his biological father; CNM has a record enrollment of 30K; Ever Ready gas stations are open for business again; more security for structures in the EMCORE area; Duke City cop bit by a pit bull while serving a warrant; Brad prepared City Chicken; Rio Grande High classrooms are overcrowded, so says fire marshals; Rio Rancho student brought a knife on to a school bus; meth lab busted near Coronado Mall; a proposal to raise NM medical marijuana fees; Obama was in Ft. Bliss, speaking to the troops at Ft. Bliss, TX;
By end of day, no Pseudo Code TES edits; more construction workers on AM R/R; PICU is the ‘spill over’ for GPU; we are in Code Purple; Prelude to Pseudo coding; how will one handle the Daily Baby programs;
Wet in: Twin Cities, Des Moines, Duluth, Wichita, Orlando, New Orleans, KC, Amarillo, Yakima, Little Rock, Omaha, Madison & Chicago; bad weather along parts of I-35; Earl is a CAT 4 storm, with warnings posted from NC to Canada, heading to the US, the storm has 135 mph winds, moving WNW at 13 mph with 931 barometric pressure; the storm has a well defined, has shut down Caribbean airports, and could strike the E Coast by Friday; the hurricane is being affected by both a high & low pressure in that area; temps from the 60s to the 90s;
We have a record supply of flu shots for this upcoming season; MX drug lord captured; 34 million people will travel during this Labor Day weekend; more woman having C-sections; Obama spoke to the nation tonight regarding our pullout from Iraq; bedbugs send a man to the E/R; a good credit score is 660 or better; the DOW ended slightly up;
MX 500 peso will bear the faces of that country’s famous artists; Rihanna has a model of herself in famous British wax museum; MX City: the new, gay honeymoon resort city; the Iraqi war has been the third longest conflict in US history: now, Iraq is ‘in transition’; the beginning of ‘Operation: New Dawn’; oil is $72.93 per barrel; gold is $1,248.30 an ounce;

…9/1–10: perso
nal space
68º in ABQ; 48% humidity at 6A…GAQ; LANL worker tried to steal two ounces of gold from that complex; N NM man tried to rob an elderly woman in a supermarket’s parking lot; ABQ fraud & wasteful spending are up by 1K%; Obama approval rating in NM has dropped below 50%; saw Jean after work; mother & three children are on the run, trying to escape drug tests; a fellow teenager shot a Rio Rancho student with a B–B gun;
Hell Week, Day One; the powers that be in the PEDS DEPT do not agree that pseudo codes are the way to go; we remain in Code Purple; pseudo codes started appearing by 10A; NM will receive $65 million for education jobs;
Earl is a CAT 3 hurricane, with 125 mph winds, moving NW at 16 mph: watches & warnings from the Outer Banks to ME, and emergency precautions & preparations are going into effect; it may strike the NC shoreline, and Cape Code is getting ready for windy, wet weather; wet in: Chicago, KC, Toledo, INDY, St. Louis, Detroit, OKC, Omaha, Rapid City, Madison & Dallas; wet weather along sections of I-35, I-40, I-44 & I-90; through the day, Earl became a CAT 4 hurricane with 135 mph winds; temps from the 60s to 100s;
CA will not ban the use of plastic bags at stores; marijuana commercials appear on TV; the Tea Party claims victory in the AK SEN race; acid is eating away at abandoned CA mine; the DOW ended way up; Burger King may be for sale; hostage situation at the Discovery Channel HQ in Silver Spring, MD ended with the perpetrator killed by police; CA magician accused of molesting a teenage girl; NYC man survived a 39 story fall; auto sales are plunging;
Middle East peace talks resume; Greece imposes a nationwide smoking ban; the end of ‘combat operations’ in Iraq, by the US; this is the start of Ramadan; oil is $74.23 per barrel; gold is $1,246.30 per oun
ce; first day of a ‘new life’ for Iraq;

…9/2–10: self confidence
60º in ABQ; 32% humidity at 6A…GAQ; scammers are targeting job searchers; Duke City baby had a rag in its mouth, and was covered in feces; in Estancia, a man with mental problems is charged with animal abuse: pets were found in the walls & the freezer; CYFD may face budget cuts; Santa Fe city councilor faces ethics violation charges; AM skunk alert at The Beach; IED found near a Wal-Mart, and a middle school, in Los Lunas; woman killed in NE ABQ;
Hell Week, Day Two; Pseudo Code meeting at 9:30A; I will ask Brent to attend it; ‘no confidence’ vote by faculty & staff on UNM ADMIN; no CTI Admits; we remain in Code Purple; water problems at UNM;
Wet in: Omaha, Twin Cities, KC, Chicago, INDY, St. Louis, Dallas, Fargo & Duluth; bad weather along sections of I-70; Earl has 145 mph winds, moving NNW at 18 mph, with 928 barometric pressure: the storm threatens both Long Island & Fire Island, and mandatory evacuations for everyone along the NC coast; Obama has signed a disaster declaration for that state; storms warnings for the Outer Banks, Cape Cod & its Islands: Westport, Plymouth & Sagamore beaches; MA has alre
ady declared a state of emergency; although the storm has weakened during the day, it is still is 400 miles wide…there is also Fiona & Gaston; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
More peace talks will be held at the State DEPT in DC; ‘90210’ party on Rodeo Drive; the DOW ended up; another oil/gas platform explosion in the Gulf of MX; should teachers’ performance be posted in a newspaper, or online: a ‘name & shame’ tactic; college students have thousands of dollars in credit card debt; the ‘Discovery Channel’ attacker had explosives attached to his body;
Three dead children found in a garden of a Dutch home; 3K year old temple found in Jordan; oil is $74.47 per barrel; W Nile Virus has killed 16 in Greece; gold is $1,251.50 an ounce; men enjoy a sauna atop Mt. Blanc; male prostitution ring shut down in Spain;

…9/3–10: a calm & peaceful solution
63º in ABQ; 42% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Hobbs athletic coach killed in a motorcycle crash; local movers stole $7K ring from woman; pipe bomb discovered in Rio Rancho APT complex; The Beach is full until November;
Hell Week, Day 2.5; another pseudo code meeting with my MGR; comic book climb; empty AM R/R; now, the ‘geek’ is being asked for help; gave my Director, who has visited Truman Clinic, a copy of PEDS doctors; also gave her a list of PEDS providers; kept entering charges today; UNMH file sharer went down; arrived home slightly after 5P; no more instant messages allowed, nor unnecessary cell phone usage; some do not see the advantage of entering one’s own charges;
Wet in: Boston, NYC, Miam
i, Norfolk, Detroit, San Antonio, Pittsburgh & Houston; in the AM, Earl is affecting the NC coast as a CAT 2 storm: advisories reach up to Nova Scotia, with rain expected in Richmond, Raleigh & the Tidewater area; the hurricane has 105 mph winds, moving NNE at 18 mph, and heading away from the E Coast; Amtrak service has been cancelled, but the storm, which is being considered as the most well documented, should be a ‘one day event’, so the holiday weekend will not be a ‘wash out’; 25 million people could be affected by this storm; bad weather along parts of I-10, I-35, I-70, I-85 & I-95;
Was the stimulus too small; ; jobless rate at 9.6%; several concourses at Miami INTL Airport were evacuated due to a potential bomb threat, and security scare at a bagger scanning device; bottle of acid thrown at WA wom
an’s face; the DOW ended up;New economic sanctions will be issued against Iran; oil is $74.60 per barrel; gold is $1,249.20 an ounce; 95 snakes found in luggage at Malaysian Airport; 7.2 quake shook Christchurch, New Zealand; in Iraq, a dark future is better than a darker past; massive glacier is on the move near Greenland; Kia, and the flammable electric wiring systems;