Saturday, October 18, 2008

…10/17-08: endurance, as a life form

49º in ABQ; 63% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Biden at Las Cruces; some people feel NM Rail system is insufficient; if [R] has given up NM, then why is Palin speaking in Roswell this weekend?; Farmington man burned his own house after a fight with his wife; teen found guilty of killing another boy; Amber Alert for NV boy whose abductors may be heading through NM; Sandia Labs helping to create cyber predator software; teens skipped classes, caught stealing cars in UNM parking lots; Road Runner & Wiley Coyote on NM Rose Bowl float; car struck pole at Lomas, W of Louisiana; there is $600 million in the NM ‘rainy day’ fund; NM GOV wants 5% budget cuts, with a freeze on hiring, which means people will spend less, and less money will flow into NM; ten car collision clogged I-40 this AM; ID thefts on the rise in this state; the ‘politics of division being practiced’; a lower COMCAST bill?; Brad baked Portuguese Bread; taxes will not be raised in this state, but the budget will be balanced, and NM economy is doing better than the US during these hard times; no non-essential overtime; I forgot the ‘Crisis’ comics!; $340 million loss in NM, across the board belt tightening, no deficit spending;

MGR out this AM; empty AM R/R; Code Purple at 11:45A, remained that way for the rest of the day; who has learned the most?; taught myself how to change Coder ID on TES edit; trust me, I don’t trust her; I’m just a scared, old man; finally cleared away the fifteen HEM/ONC TES edits; worked on CTI TES [saved more charges from Group Four deletions] edits from MGR, who could not recall what my audit error was; finished Rounds by 9:30A; arrived home about 5:45P, after my comics climb;

more drought in N GA, TN; rain: VA, NC, AL, Dale City, Manassas, Richmond, parts of I-75, Blue Ridge Parkway; temps from 50s to 80s [90s?]; Asheville at peak foliage; 90s in Phoenix; CA fires almost contained; Omar weakening to TS; ATL the only airport with bad weather;

self molded mouthpiece; luggage sale at Macy’s; candidates enjoy a good laugh; ‘Barack’ means ‘that one’ in Swahili?; Hillary. A McCain supporter; ‘staying alive’; Red Sox rallied, Game Six at Tampa; CPR to the tune of disco song; ‘my old buddy Joe’?; he has had tax liens filed against him by OH; could see a tax increase, only if his small business is very successful; Palin will appear on SNL; plunging oil raised stocks; economy is in recession, or downturn; Warren Buffett says buy American stocks; caught on film: vague memory of details…being more time out of his office, near a casino, the US Chief Postal Inspector suddenly resigned, paid for others of his level to party in Phoenix; AIG ‘golden parachute’ falls fast, and empty, to the ground; medical copter may have struck radio station cable; allergic reaction to nickel on cell phone; more GM layoffs; American planes have engines with damaged or missing parts; McCain told Letterman ‘[the AZ SEN] screwed up’; GOOGLE stock soared; more money for food banks, less for political ads; time to worry about deflation; Obama not born in a manger, but on Krypton; ‘Titanic’ survivor selling mementoes to stay afloat; does anyone want Barry Bonds on their team?; Boston won, from 7 – 0, to 8 – 7: fight night at Fenway; one person trapped, four injured after explosion in a GA law firm office; another speech by PRES Bush to the public; troubling economic details; WA Post supports Obama, reluctantly; did grandfather help with the missing child’s kidnap?; FL REP had multiple affairs, but broke no laws; another surgery for Tom Brady; Mervyns will get rid of all its stores, and file Chapter 11 bankruptcy; so far, steady on the DOW, come the PM, and the decline; Wall St. execs earning money through fraud; mortgage rates still rising; Angelina wants more children?; TX budget error results in 375 teachers to be laid off, and 460 others to be relocated, caused by miscalculation of budget; when Bush speaks, the stock fall; the “W.” trailer; first cell phone cost $4K, weighed 25 lbs.; from convict to Caesar’s Palace chef, and a cookbook; the $8 million dollar CA blaze; Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops has died at the age of 72;

mixed foreign markets; too much oil on the market; Turkey, Austria, Japan, Mexico & Uganda are added to the UN Security Council; 6.5 quake shook S MX; Queen Elizabeth II knows how to E-mail; blue lobster has red belly; oil rose to $74.30 per barrel, but closed at $71.85;

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