…2/18-09: seriously, it matters

28º in ABQ; 53% humidity at 6A…GAQ; more bones found on the W Mesa; Zangara Dodge has closed its doors, gathered crew together, and told his workers this was their last day: business began in 1991; NM will get more money for Health INS, so says NM GOV; state audit finds mismanaged money; car dealer closed in Clovis, part of a ‘reorganization deal’; I didn’t have an appetite today; Four Corners woman stabbed in a case of mistaken identity; people of Columbus want their mayor to resign; add a $1 ‘tax increase’ on cigarettes?; loopholes found in job & salary freezes; 800 jobs gone at Eclipse Aviation [for the moment], workers will be paid until the end of this month, since its conception, the price of its planes has tripled, employees will be rehired when the European purchase is finalized?; dogs tortured in W Side home by samurai sword, and a sledge hammer; High Fire Danger remains; get KOAT on your cell phone, for a small fee; our utility bill was nine cents different than that of last month; gas dropped to $1.89 per gallon; layoff at Questa mine;

who can take a vacation?; nobody has said anything, but…do these people really believe I have over 8K TES edits in my pended file, do people me, I have to take the time to prove myself; how do you prove that you don’t have that many?; finished Rounds before 7:30A; is UNM on the road to recovery, or ruin; Code Purple at 6:30A, and all day; all wards are basically full; what happens if you pended a TES edit that been previously pended; the more we do, the more they want; some workers at UNM earn less than $30K per year; is Jenny here?; ID badges cannot get you in or out of PICU; ‘pending stress’; MGR wanted a list of our providers; while riding on the AM R/R, people were ‘comparing notes’ as to how long they were in jail, or have been on probation;

N New England snow; more Canadian cold air moving SE to ATL, which will have rain, as well as Detroit, Cincinnati, Charlotte, Richmond & Raleigh; from rain to snow in Boston; wet weather along I-40, I-75, I-85 & I-95; temps from 10s to 80s; SE US T’storms;

turn misery into money; SLC woman grabbed thief by pulling his baggy pants; eco-friendly plastic moving boxes; metal dress that you can change its size; Obama in AZ, deeply affected by hard times in the housing market; projects are ‘shovel ready’; TX fraud financier is nowhere to be found, some people trusted him with as much as half their life savings, another group of innocent people scammed; PM GEN told Congress that the mail service is in bad shape, and Capitol Hill approved his pay raise; Chrysler will cut 3K more jobs; DOW near a five-year low; it never ends: now, Chicago newspaper says Burris should resign; more banks that got FED GOVT money, have reduced the number of loans made; PRES unveils his foreclosure plan; what wrong with the chimp? animal mauled a woman’s face, police had to kill him, owner agreed; more fossils found in La Brea Tar Pits, in the middle of Los Angeles; ‘smart phones’ help students as much as laptops, and are much less expensive; debut of new GOOGLE phone; the $200K jet pack, on sale soon; Michael Jackson auctioning his ‘glitter gloves’?; some people doubt the country’s problems will be solved by billions of bucks; NY beheading took place in Buffalo suburb; signing the first piece of economic legislation; is American on the road to recovery, or ruin?; CA in a bind regarding their budget; the 76 foot long pencil; $75 billion to prevent foreclosures; MI mother accused of stealing $800K from a children’s hockey team; hot metal crashed through a NJ BLDG; US is ‘under new MGMT’; CNN says travel to N NM; the DOW is level; US ATY GEN says America is a ‘nation of cowards’; NM bones made CNN headlines; sewage dumped into San Fran Bay; 56% fewer house starts, the biggest drop in history; some homes have been empty for two years, with weeds growing in their garages; the era of the spy; Michelle Obama put children first; ‘neither a bank, nor a borrower, be’; was pilot error the cause of the Buffalo crash?; no one can locate the TX swindler: people on six continents were victims of this con artist who spent millions on DC, and was at the [D] CONV, head of the Sanford Financial Group; Obama had a phone conversation with the AFG leader; Palin owes back taxes; rescue homeowners who played by the rules; Goodyear cutting 5K jobs; man killed himself in CA Crystal Cathedral; gymnasium brawl at AL school; FL woman poisoned baby food while in a supermarket; some [R] GOV do not want stimulus funds;

man from India has the longest ear hair; mixed foreign markets, falling in Asia; Clinton travels to Indonesia, the country with most Muslims; visiting a school that Obama attended; copter crash off coast of Scotland; cruise ship stuck in Antarctica ice; squid has the largest eye in the world; Annie Lenox is 54, producing her ‘last’ album; Taiwan joins the countries in recession; backwards comet entering our solar system; bye, bye Dubai…the country without oil, and banked on real estate to keep it afloat; is the world on the road to recovery, or ruin?; the twenty million years old shark; Pelosi will meet the Pope; the green comet?; AIDS is the deadliest infectious disease in China; vodka bottle that comes with its own scorpion;

…2/17-09: change after change

38º in ABQ; 20% humidity at 6A…Brad at the Food Bank; entering my ‘too sensitive’ cycle; GAQ; the pizza that wasn’t; ‘I sue careless drivers’; doctor arrested for illegally prescribing illegal medications; 25% pay cut by College of Santa Fe workers?; now, NM will get $1.6 billion from the stimulus package; dangerous fire conditions across the state; decision to elect PRES by popular vs. electoral vote; fire in Belen home; woman attacked by dogs in Nambe Pueblo; gusts could reach 70 mph; chance of snow in N NM; Santa Fe robbery ring busted: most thieves were under twenty years old; domestic partnership bill goes to the NM SEN; modification to marijuana law?; this state has a ‘super computer’, which will be used by DreamWorks, the movie company; being first in line is the right thing to do; NM House approves higher unemployment compensation; Los Lunas home destroyed by fire; call from Daniel, Dr. Williams may be on jury duty: I will phone Truman Clinic to see if he will be there: if the doctor has been called to serve, the visit will be rescheduled; NM crime lab opens in Hobbs; Brad’s Pittsburgh pins arrived;

I wonder if anyone complained yesterday; finished Rounds by 7:40A; Code Purple by 7A, lasted through the day; used online Coding system; Nora ‘again’ says we are not sending charges to 1650, the electronic scream; Adonae was happy to be home; Schmidley says, prepare for job cuts; some Coders have no work; saw Gary Overturf;

Cape Cod showers, also in AR & Louisiana; per Weather Channel, all-day blowing winds across NM & TX; TN, AL, Louisiana & TX T’storms; light snow along N I-75; W Coast windy mess; temps from 0s to 80s; Los Angeles under water; snow shuts down fifty miles of I-5 closed; per ABC Morning News, expect snow in NM;

what will Obama look like after four years; the $99 Bernie Madoff doll, complete with pitchfork & golden hammer; “I believe in zero”; key plane parts found; San Fran & Chicago showers; how will GM & Chrysler become profitable; create up to three million jobs across America; KS suspends rebate checks & paychecks to state workers; was experience a factor in the jet crash?; plane collides with turkey over FL, pilot was able to land safely; Donald Trump casino cartel filing bankruptcy; brands disappearing on market shelves, on best sellers are staying; chimp went wild in CT; was CT chimp suffering from Lyme Disease; the ‘original’ day to go digital; wild TX police chase, pushing three vehicles; Romney selling two of his mansions; the new WINDOWS Mobile; women are more bloodthirsty when playing video games; CA could cut 20K jobs; the $787 billion question: will the bailout bill work?; financier charged with fraud, to the tune of $9.2 billion; the DOW is down; Chrysler wants another $5 billion; the founders of Bridges TV, a network station for Muslims, now the NY man accused of beheading his wife; PM GEN received more than $800K in ‘perks’, while the USPS lost money, and wants to eliminate Saturday delivery; there are more cell phones in the US, than there are people; A-Rod, and his ‘stupid mistake’; Mountain Dew corrodes teeth; the DOW dropped more than 297 points; the mayoral ‘wish list’ would spend billions, and would create $1.6 million jobs; Burris revised of statement of having contact with Blagojevich; Starbucks will serve instant coffee; crime is the growing industry of Trenton; go to recovery.gov: with the stimulus signed into law, now what: or, so what?; who gets the money that will help keep the American dream alive; the beginning of an end; CA will receive $3.9 billion: NY, $2.8 billion; KS found a way to borrow money; a decrease in the number of MRSA cases; GM will cut 47K jobs;

UK woman made jumper for chicken, to keep them warm; ban kissing on drop-off points, only at designated areas; Hillary attacking the economic problems of Japan, and the N Korea missile problems, do not become a nuclear threat; being received very well in Tokyo; Japan’s finance minister resigns after being drunk during summit talks, blames medications; the sobering aftereffects of being caught drunk in public; foreign markets falling; $100K paid for Phelps photo; dozen pirates were arrested; oil is $34.93 per barrel; Taliban fully controls part of PAK; 12K more troops will be sent to AFG, bringing the total to 55K soldiers; Australian deaths from wildfires exceeds 200 people; Hillary, Obama’s chief diplomat;

…2/16-09: you don’t need to be a pharaoh to afford a home!

33º in ABQ; 29% humidity at 6A…Saturday bus schedule for Presidents’ Day; GAQ; Winter Snow & High Wind warnings across NM; Peak the Plaza event, on 2/21/09; domestic partnership bill took a big step, it is heading to the floor…and not the ground; wider state support for domestic partnership bill: not gone, not forgotten; more unemployment compensation?; K-Mart cosmetic crooks caught; before the final confirmation, your YouTube response is spoken to you; ABQ schools are closed, but Rio Rancho’s are open; more new roads for W Side housing developments; NM stalker arrested; new urgent care CTR at Second & Rio Bravo opens today; the Desert Divas cliental is growing, more ‘Johns’ on list; INS CO accusing College of Santa Fe with fraud?; pig forced shutdown of I-25N near Candelaria, was struck & killed; NM NATL Guard did their job while serving at GITMO; Brad bought better tracing paper;

I don’t want to be her ‘best’ Coder, I just want to be an ‘employed’ Coder; fear returns on Monday; is this a holiday for UNMMG workers?; Evelyn here, but not better; finished Rounds by 8:20A; patient’s name is Jesse James; nothing about the HAZMAT situation last week at UNMH; first AM bus was R/R, ran to its stop, arrived at work about 6:38A; Adonae has been moved to CTI, due to overflow reasons, was discharged today; child tried to kill herself by ingesting laundry detergent, plus other liquid soaps; took PM Blue Line R/R; Medicaid wants critical care to be entered on separate lines; Evelyn continues to cough;

NC, S FL showers; light AM snow in VA, DC; heavy rain in Los Angeles, one – three feet of snow in S CA MTN; white weather along I-64 in WV & VA; very windy in San Fran; ‘the’ Las Vegas rain; temps from 10s to 70s; rain & snow in SLC; in CA, parts of the ‘Grapevine’ & I-15 were closed;

after forty years, Sam Donaldson is retiring; 800 foot fall in five seconds; Obama wants to restore stem cell research; Obama daughters get $1 for their weekly allowance; sign of the times: homeowners opening their dwellings to boarders; passengers protest peanuts on planes; 2K peanut products affected by salmonella threat, factory had filthy water, among other problems; the scrapbook of PRES progress; were FED guidelines ignored?; no ‘car czar’, but task force to monitor The Big Three; the failing financial system; Michael Phelps will not face any drug charges; the end of Saturn car models; parents wonder what they did ‘wrong’ to have an autistic child; biggest take for a horror movie; crisis in currency; GOVT takeover of banks?; plane had to turn around, return to LAX when one of its engines went out; bright lights in TX & NE?; the return of the peace symbol; stock market closed for Presidents Day; $1 trillion will be spent by the FED GOVT this week; $4 billion will be given to GM; will The Big Three have plans, or progress reports?; stimulus bill would help people pay for COBRA coverage; the Academy Awards are seventy years old; could NM GOV be nominated again for Commerce SECY?; start your car with your IPhone?; the ‘touch screen remote’?; Continental plane ran out of altitude, a similar plane flew the same route safely; sixteen states have AVG prices of gas at $2 per gallon, or more; ‘definitely in denial’; so far, analysts predict gasoline prices will not reach $4 per gallon; someone stole $10K bike belonging to Lance Armstrong; two AZ chic resorts facing foreclosure; people may discover that eating at home is fun, and less expensive; addicted to FaceBook; ten car crash at Daytona 500; solar guano: was Lincoln really the ‘best’ PRES?; natural phenomenon, or space junk; Congress flied first class; we were caught off guard for Pearl Harbor [more or less, depending on which history book you read...or which historian you hear], and for 9 - 11. History has a horrible habit of repeating itself. The actions in this 'broadcast' are just as much possible as any other catalyst that could start a global conflict, either during the 1980s, or in the twenty-first century; CT police kill chimp that attacked woman;

middleclass suffering in Germany; Hillary Clinton in Japan, start of a SE Asian tour; N Korea has the right to explore space; oil at $36.63 per gallon; Hugo Chavez has the right to retain power, the start of socialism in Venezuela; prosthetic leg for elephant; Iraq admits election fraud; huge contraction of Japanese economy; foreign markets falling; and the planet keeps warming; mutually aimed destruction; Moscow, the most expensive city in Europe, with $180K Maserati, and $2K pairs of shoes; French & British nuclear submarines collide in the Atlantic, no radioactive leakage reported; the first recycled solar phone, complete with camera; in 2009, pirates have attacked 22 ships;

…2/15-09: being healthy, be tough

24º in ABQ; 36% humidity at 6A…man’s roommate arrested in Rio Rancho murder; –2 º in Angel Fire this AM; one-third of NM women suffer heart diseases; meth can be absorbed through the skin; run to the top of the nineteen story ABQ Plaza BLDG for lung diseases; copper thefts cause power outages; more people are using Santa Fe prescription drug program; the number of homeless children & families is rising, nearly 6K in 2008; more families across NM are losing their homes, children being picked on by other students; two people charged with using meth in their home, which was close to a daycare CTR; three year old boy died in Fruitland house fire; renew NM driver’s license or ID cards online; Valentine’s Day considered a ‘holiday’; money in thirty-six year old state law to create trails has never been used; domestic violence situation: man barricaded in NW Duke City hotel room, it has been peacefully settled; Edgewood woman charged with terrorism, threatened to blow up business, collided into fuel truck in an attempt to ignite the vehicle: she suffered from various mental illnesses; was blue truck associated with NM Amber Alert?; yesterday, Rio Grande ballroom turned into a wedding altar; teen court system needs money; homicides & violent sexual assaults are the two most cold cases that get reopened, defined as those that have not been solved in two years, many new leads come from prisoners; High Fire Danger remains in E NM; Duke City treatment of mental conditions is deteriorating; protection for unreasonable cable interruption, looking for the regulatory gaps; $370K allocated to help NM homeless shelters; many Duke City APT complexes offering rental specials; I may have a strange inclination of watching the world go BOOM! [“regrettable, or necessary” action]!…but at least I don’t hurt anyone, nor want to do harm to anyone; that’s why people make ‘alien invasion’ movies, be it from outer space, or another country; ABQ woman killed her sister in a NE Heights APT, the cause is a domestic dispute gone bad; more problems & illegal items found in Curry CNTY jail, site of the 2008 ‘great eight escape’; state offices will be open on PRES Day; blowing dust warning in NE NM; small NM filmmakers want & need incentives or funds: otherwise, they may relocate;

Obama scheduled to sign stimulus bill; Daytona 500, even it is suffering from the poor economy; parents of a teen clawed to death by tiger in the San Fran Zoo have reached a settlement; fog in Miami; showers along the Gulf Coast states; is IL SEN Burris guilty of perjury?; ‘slave to the cigarette’; is the passage of this stimulus bill really an ‘Obama victory’…or, ‘only’ an Obama victory: how will this help the unemployed right now, not in June, this year, or in 2010?; what happens if this is his ‘only’ victory during his four years in office?; crucial clues in Continental crash?; more money in stimulus plan for conversion coupons [remember the 90 day expiration] to handle the digital transition: 28 million have applied, there is a long waiting list; Continental plane is still smoldering; talks between GM & UAW stall; two FL banks delay closing; now, the crew of Flight 3407 reported a ‘considerable’ amount of ice buildup; de-icer was turned on minutes after leaving Newark; MSL = ‘means sea level’; a ‘sudden, catastrophic event’; naked man in CA dies after being stunned by a Taser; ‘banks currently have a ½ trillion dollars in bad debt, is the answer post-privatization of banks; what is an ‘unnecessary panic’; Robert Gibbs, the Obama Press SECY; student pointed gun at U of OK professor; what happens in Vegas…should stay in Vegas’: ‘the’ Las Vegas encourages conventions should be held in ‘Sin City’; ‘Friday the Thirteenth’ has earned over $42 million during its first weekend; did Continental crew follow correct procedures during the ice storm, or did the violate company policies; is ego destroying our lives?: we should try to block out the constant flow of thinking; AZ used to sell a home every 69 seconds; is the stimulus package an ‘imperfect jolt’; having an education does not guarantee a job; ‘nationalization’ [a dirty word] of banks; another breach of ethics in IL?: [R] want resignation;

Australian fires are still burning, US firemen have flown to the S continent, offering help; global warming is heating up the world faster than originally predicted; 39,800 couples kissed for ten seconds in MX City to break the existing records; Hillary heads for Asia; US stimulus package does not ‘sit well’ with China, especially the provision to buy more American products; another N Korea – US peace talk?; Columbian volcano has erupted, no damage or injuries reported; is satellite debris falling in TX?; another tremor in Peru; can the world’s richest countries solve the global economic crisis?; ‘ours is the best’?;

…2/14-09: dreams coming true?

27º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…more bones found on the W Mesa, a possible burial ground for five people; men shot twenty-two times on the Pajarito Mesa, one year ago, could be linked to MX drug cartel, not living up to his side of his contract, kept the illegal substance; former American Idol performs in the thirtieth anniversary of Ain’t Misbehaving, that arrives in ABQ; daylong Duke City “Breakin Hearts” rap & bebop classes, fashion show & rapping contest; group wedding in Ralph Edwards park in T or C; DA charged with DUI, and carrying a loaded weapon in the front seat of her vehicle; enjoyed Valentine’s Day coffee; Extreme Fire Danger for SE NM; Santa Fe lawyer has been released from house arrest, and allowed to return to work in DC, but will return to NM to stand trial for hit & run charges; pregnant woman stabbed boyfriend’s current pregnant girlfriend with a pocket knife; former NM GOV named as the first director of NMSU Domenici Institute; chimney fire destroyed Santa Fe home; UNM coach has reached forty victories; easy bills get easily passed; plane had to make an emergency landing in Moriarty; cold across N NM, windy across the entire state; man accused of stealing $70K, charged with fraudulent use of a credit card from a local church daycare CTR, and spending it at a casino; men drove to Aztec, with the purpose of having sex with an underage teen, driving hundreds of miles to meet the child; so far in 2009, $128K spent by NM lobbyists; domestic partnership bill will be discussed again; student arrested at Robinson High for having crack cocaine in his car; NM revenue dropped by $5.4 million; exposing a child to meth will be considered as ‘child abuse’; are people the priority in the Round House, or deciding the state guitar?; hot air balloons in AM skies; natural gas deal to expand on the Jicarilla Nation; unemployment hotline will be down tomorrow AM for two hours; $1.1 billion of stimulus package targeted for NM; man tries to rob the Garcia’s in NE ABQ, stopped by a quick waitress, and several customers; the hoodlum that was caught by his hoodie; Obama wants to slash spending & upgrading at LANL & Sandia Labs, and prevent the agencies from choosing their own projects to handle; AVG price of gas in NM is $2.03: in ABQ, $1.97; Santa Fe turns four hundred years old in 2009; taxes on renting VFW halls; a Los Alamos anti-nuclear weapons activist, who owned the ‘Black Hole Surplus Store’, a store that sold local, amateur invented items, has died at the age of 85; NM may not see a surplus until 2013; ACLU pushing passage of a state domestic partnership bill; the ‘Velvet Teddy Bear’ appears in Broadway musical; eight year old boy shot in the chest; ‘in the presence of meth’; NM woman arrested for threatening to kill Obama; more Socorro CNTY copper crimes; gunfight in SW Santa Fe; 25 year old man was murdered in the Rio Rancho area of Enchanted Hills; we enjoyed the day with champagne & chocolates;

the $787 billion stimulus bill has passed, Obama’s first victory…but that money could have paid all the foreclosures across America, and still have surplus; a major milestone for the new PRES, but who will oversee how the money is spent, set standards before heading to states & agencies; Kevin Costner became a father at 53; Philly police officer killed during street fight; Judge Ginsberg has been released from the HOSP, eight days after undergoing pancreatic cancer surgery; the backwards bathrobe; 15% of women polled send themselves flowers on Valentine’s Day; a donated kidney can grow; does love fade after the first kiss?; another Madoff investor killed himself; a vote allowing DC to have equal rights [full voting representation] granted to all other states in the House; snow in NE, IL into New England; wet in New Orleans; a day to hide restaurant coupons; ice on the wings & windshield; ‘total liquidation prices’; $15 billion spent by Americans on Valentine’s Day gifts; where in the nation is it called ‘pop’ vs. ‘soda’ vs. ‘Coke’ [the choice of NM]; in spite of the bailout bill, welcome to the age of increased college tuition; another sign of the times: less demand means refineries are producing less gasoline, which means the price of that fuel will increase; how to lose billions; ‘Watchmen’ ads appearing on TV; update: there were 44 passengers on the plane that crashed near Buffalo; Phelps bong appears as EBay item, the asking price is $100K; tax cuts will add an AVG of $13 to a paycheck; is history repeating itself, reminiscent of the 1982 Air Florida crash in DC: did the Continental crew see ice on the wings?; all was calm before the crash: further investigation shows the plane landed flat, and the crash was over in thirty seconds; the jet was facing away from the airport; the color red is best served in small doses, like roses; OH thieves took entire store’s inventory of Valentine Day gifts; the ‘power house roundtable’; the Order of ‘Something or Other’; Obama, the ‘Urban PRES’ in the third largest American city; the NATL AVG price of gas is $1.97 per gallon; the stimulus package: the first step, not a quick fix; a stall & spin situation, like a weighted leaf; was the autopilot turned on inside the Continental plane, so that the crew did not have a ‘situational awareness’ it was too late; a possible problem: stimulus dollars spent in too many places; former HOSP worker killed four people in upscale NY; beware of ‘working at home’ scams; OR couple celebrated last night in a furniture store window as a publicity gimmick, they were treated to chocolates, and breakfast in bed; how to repair & reform the US financial system; banks already suffering with the burden of bad & risky loans; Valentine’s Day is the biggest & busiest twenty-four hours for cheating on spouses; ‘nothing says I love you than a GPS tracker’; ‘victory’ vs. ‘practicality’; Charlotte, called ‘Wall ST South’ also suffering financial hardships;

drone killed twenty-seven people in AFG; Hubble telescope will take a look at thirteen billion years in the past; NASA delays shuttle launch again; the first female Deputy Minister of Saudi Arabia, chosen by the king himself; space debris from the two destroyed satellites could circle the Earth for thousands of years; acid attacks on rural SE Asian women are common, females treated like commodities; Israel vs. Turkey: The Next Battleground?; in Columbia, there is a ‘red alert’, due to a volcano erupting;

…2/13-09: we’re not walking, so you’re not walking

30º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…GAQ; a bill to make smoking illegal if there are children in your vehicle; last night, engine problems forced two planes to make emergency landings at SunPort; Gallup bishop will be the nation’s youngest; light snow in N NM; Santa Fe Principal has been ousted; 38 hybrid buses to ABQ Ride; Cocaine drug bust in Gallup; Brad making Biscotti; when will NM get its share of the stimulus package;

MGR B’day; two free nights at Isleta Casino; people want to know where MGR buys her presents for the staff; an optimistic job fair at UNM; finished Rounds by 8A; Adonae is doing well, she was looking out the window with her mother: pens are out, crayons are on; smiling, the only concern is her high BP, monitoring to prevent toxic or septic shock; I don’t talk to her, she doesn’t talk to me; so, Jenny & I chat; Code Purple all day; minor glitch on revised PICU form, line missing; empty AM R/R; very full PM R/R; Adonae was able to take a bath today, she enjoyed watching her grandmother at the PC, then she sat on the monitor box, and was wheeled by her mother, both of them smiling; Evelyn was on Sick Leave; Valentine cookie from Myrna; walked N on Eubank; the PM Rapid Ride that wasn’t, it parked, and waited at each bus stop; got home at 6:15P; comics quest; HAZMAT situation at UNMH lobby, and drop-off point;

S FL fog, along the FL Turnpike & I-75; parts of I-90 & I-80, NE, IA, S Dakota snow; strong winds from RI to ME; flurries in Erie; rivers on the rise in the Midwest, especially MI & OH; T’storms from TX to AL; temps from 0s to 80s; people from TN to NY still without power;

25K children die because they are poor; credit card interest rates are rapidly rising; Continental Express Flight 3407 took off from Newark, plane broke into piece, no warning from pilots, no cried for help, everything was calm just before the crash, was it heading away from the airport; were other jets experiencing icing; the worst crash since 2006; turbo-prop Q-400 plane crashed into home outside of Buffalo, NY, killing fifty people, one passenger was a WTC widow from 9–11, her husband had died in the S Tower; airplane explosion created a crater; was weather the cause [ice, winds & light snow], or mechanical failure, generated a fireball; was the plane tilting too low?; other structures shook; multiple explosions heard after incident, a direct hit on one house; there were 34 passengers, plus crew; there may have been ice on the wings, which caused the jet to nosedive; so much for the ‘Golden Age of Aircraft & Flying’?; the airplane had a good safety record; Ted Kennedy is too ill to vote; the rocky road to being right; Obama not pleasing the American public when it comes to choosing Cabinet members; House voted 246 – 183 to approve the $787 billion stimulus plan; list of ‘Obama dropouts’ is growing; head of CIA has little INTEL gathering experience; more mandatory peanut butter item recalls, with ants, feces, feathers & rodents seen in the production plant; after 6/1/09, people will need passports to enter US from MX; thirty days for DC to work out the final details of the stimulus plan, one politician being flown from a funeral to cast their vote; more control of prosthetic limbs; Peanut CO of America is filing for bankruptcy; beware Valentine’s Day SPAM & viruses; investors have little faith in DC; the DOW is down; explosion flattens IL home; no more ‘golden parachutes’; NATL AVG price of gas rose to $1.96 per gallon; over 6,300 VA patients may have been exposed to infectious bodily fluids from a person who had a colonoscopy; free flavoring on select prescriptions; NE, OR, IL & FL banks fail, bringing the total in 2009 to thirteen [how timely]; too many ‘head shops’ in Haight – Ashbury area;

Clinton & the US want to talk with China & Russia; global economic vs. security threat; G–7 meet in Rome; broken water main flooded Canadian subway station; oil rose to $37.08 per barrel; four people hurt when the nose wheel collapsed on a British Airways jet that was landing at London City Airport; one passenger was transported to a HOSP, the emergency slides were used as a precautionary measure; if Russia stops helping Iran, the US will slow down the creation of a missile shield in E Europe; thirteen year old British boy becomes a father;

…2/12-09: the next generation of weather on the web

35º in ABQ; 36% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Red Light Camera company could make a profit; NM will abolish the death penalty: instead, life without a parole; now, 80 computers missing at LANL; car slams into wall of Coors & I-40; bobcat tested positive for rabies; Fire Danger in SE NM; ‘coupon parties’, the latest economic fad; health clinic opening in rural NM; Moriarty meth bust; there will be no Valentine’s Day weddings, because that special day falls on a Saturday, and the courts will be closed, due to budget cuts…so instead, couples will be wed on Friday the thirteenth; another response to my Blog; state police officer found dead in his home; this time, a Santa Fe bank robbery; a special session to tackle the 2010 state budget?;

no one in the PEDS area asks for my opinion; my MGR has higher hopes for Jenny, than she did of Anita; 9:30A area meeting; in times of recession, it is best not to make waves; I can never completely agree with my MGR; I’m not that stupid…in spite of the ‘praise’, I know I’m always being watched; UNM Job Fair; students filing for FED aid has doubled; Code Purple at 6:30A, and all day; finished Rounds by 8A; Adonae is getting better, being treated by Aaron; mother & daughter both in crib; TV vans parked in various places around the campus; Myrna knew I was going to see my MGR, because I was wearing my hat; Valentine’s Day gift from our MGR; I will start training Darrell during March; I have walked miles for Dr. Cordova; E-mailed MGR my yearly B’day card; per IT, I have 8K+ pended TES edits; PEDS is now handling YCHC; I want to be ‘the invisible Coder’; so many people do not like Rounds; Data Entry wants daily shipments of processed charges; by 2P, it was just me; I know doctors, she knows workers; Aaron & I talked about Hospitalists’ statistics; I generated $818K of charges;


Springfield, MO twisters; now, nine deaths from OK twisters; can restore structures, but not lives; 90 mph winds clocked in Pittsburgh; Rockies snow, E Coast rain; SLC showers; snow in Buffalo & Erie; very windy in NYC, Chicago, Detroit; temps from 0s to 80s; rare HI tornado; N New England snow; KY & WV [collapsed gymnasium roof] deaths from strong winds; one twister stayed on the ground for an hour; 600K without power; 60 mph winds reported in Leesburg, VA;


the ‘backwards bathrobe’; sales of condoms has increased during the recession; the deal may be done; not quite instant gratification; Obama in IL; real families, real jobs; the CEOs will get no bonus, as if in a alternate reality, have moved into a fishbowl; if the big banks don’t need the money, give it back to the FED GOVT; so far, a $789 billion ‘deal’, not ‘bill’, [R] are still unhappy, [D] ‘own’ the country; peanut power pleads the Fifth; number of foreclosures slowing; Blagojevich will tell all; the two hundred B’day of Abraham Lincoln, all eyes on Abe; video games bring families together; 95% of Americans will benefit of tax cuts; ninety days to distribute the stimulus money; corporate fraud is rampant; men getting more pink slips than women; the end of mortgage brokers?; Starbucks cutting over 1,300 jobs; PIONEER cutting jobs; Twitter, the next Blog; stem cells cure man of AIDS; what does girlfriend of FL father know about his missing five year old daughter, if anything?; parents being charged in deaths of drunken teenagers; Commerce SECY withdraws from nomination; thousands lined up for Atlanta Job Fair; San Jose ER is closed after possible contamination; the DOW is down; should the Joker be retired from future films?; African Killer Bees sighted in UT; OH teacher took time off to work as a hooker; does Michael Jackson have a flesh eating disease; per Abe Lincoln: “if I were two-faced, you’d think I’d be wearing this one?”; the LANL lost computers makes CNN headlines; magical economic fairies’?; US sales went up by 1%; Obama just cannot build a Cabinet; no proof between becoming autistic, and childhood vaccines; still light, on heavy construction; live with less profit; the life of Lincoln, captured on coins; scientists may be able to see the genetic design of the common cold; the woman who bore eight children is getting death threats; SW Airlines jet with engine on fire landed safely in ‘the’ Las Vegas;

heart-shaped island in the Adriatic sea; man rescued koala, the animal had burnt hands, the bear has fallen in love with another of its kind in a wildlife compound; a former Soviet collective compound is the former AFG home of Osama bin Laden; Russia & Latin America are more ‘possible’ political threats; bright lights to relieve gloom, and SADS; ‘secure’ area of Kabul attacked; day of mourning for Australia: two suspects in the continent’s wildfires, 200 deaths from fires; Charles Darwin is 200 years old!; was there a second Indonesian earthquake?; WBC = ‘World Broadcasting Channel’; ‘Ugly Betty’ is not as popular in other parts of the world: but ‘four eyes’ are in; 500 pieces of debris clouds from two collided satellites over Siberia, one contained communication equipment, the space junk could pose a threat to the Hubble Telescope, and the INTL Space Station; foreign markets falling; oil is below $34 per barrel;