…10/20-08: need to balance energy

53º in ABQ; 48% humidity at 6A… GAQ; Brad at the Food Bank; chance of rain across the state; the discovery of YouTube; night went by fast; road rage between truck & SUV in the S Valley, causing teen occupant in truck to be killed, smashing fence, alcohol was a factor, took place near I-25 & Isleta; still above AVG temps; woman caught on tape during her illegal shopping spree; Hillary will return to NM later this week; NM GOV will issue budget cuts to his congressional staff; Carlsbad Canyons NATL Park is 85 years old; Duke City handicapped woman says thieves came into her backyard, and stole her dog; Bush won S NM in PRES elections; Atrisco Heritage High opens; 12K have voted early in NM; empty lot, or abandoned cemetery, dating back to the Civil War; 10K people attended to Palin rally; another Clovis convict caught; early AM panic attack; E NM newspaper endorsed McCain; Brad found his missing dark blue sweater; Artesia man struck three parked cars; NM GOV says not to touch health services; pictures by Ansel Adams will be displayed in Carlsbad Caverns; gas is $2.65 per gallon; hard to access KOAT website;

while Katina is on a six month leave, her PDI requests will be done by Evelyn; female charm may have brought cooler temperatures to our office, as janitors warm up to the ladies; memories: the many battles I have had to fight, the many times I was ridiculed, and cried: the many times it was me against two [or, three] people, the time I begged Anita to not quit; the constant wars with JoAnn; also, explaining to Myrna, in a step-by-step manner, how to correct TES edits; basically, treated the same in 2008, as in 2002, a reason to keep a Blog; finished Rounds about 9:45A; PEDS in PICN again; one week for Family Practice; Code Purple at 6:30A, lasts through the entire day; still hot in the office; son of UNM PRES will not take $94K job; PM sun showers; Linda & Debbie were on my bus; JoAnn, once caught rummaging through my work area while I was on leave; Brandi broke up with boyfriend; stop watering UNM lawns in October; Loretta telling me she would be the PICN attending;

frost & freeze warnings in DC suburbs, Charlottesville; Newburgh, NY; W NC, W VA; Asheville, Roanoke; flooding & rip currents along E Coast; rain for WA, La Crosse, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit; parts of I-75, I-80, I-94, MI; temps from 40s to 90s;

Patriots play Broncos in New England; Rays going to the World Series; Powell: a generational change needed, captured the mood of the young; Obama can outspend McCain 8 to 1; choice of Palin going sour; Sara & spouse provide testimonies for ‘Palin Gate’; focus on fundamentals; some ‘seniors’ have lost $100K in savings, America telling older people to reenter the workforce; CA is on recession, and other specific parts of the country; arrests made, terrorists wanted to invade & attack Ft. Dix?; OR dragged himself one mile down WA MTN, with broken ankle; investment banking, helping you lose your money; a period of higher tuition, and fewer scholarships & loans; supermarket keep their prices high; NAVY recruitment postcards in comic books; Obama & Clinton campaign together; airlines not flying on Thanksgiving, harder to get home if people get bumped: holiday travelers should stay at home, higher fares, fewer flights & seats; fourteen million watched SNL with VP candidate Palin; Game Seven, Tampa won, 3 – 1; but Boston took it to the last innings; necessities are being affected more by markets, even if they don’t own stock; Vitto Mortensen is 50 years old; SIDS victims die in their sleep: keep cribs empty; PRES Bush heads to Wall ST; ‘instant’ WINDOWS access; increase in video games sold; hands-off cell phones to drivers ticketed for breaking that law; some cities suffering from depression, or recession; so says Bush advisors; ‘Max Payne’ the box officer winner during the last weekend, movie based on video game; Circuit City will close stores; donations vs. percentages; Palin says Obama has not been in office long enough to run for PRES; Kroger & Safeway may cut workers; is it ‘Sara’ or ‘Sarah’, keeps changing during the past weeks; drug dealer kidnapped NV youngster?; Dunkin Donuts beat Starbucks in coffee sales?; an increase in copper thefts means less nighttime football games for GA team; Bernanke wants another stimulus package?; economy will remain weak for ‘several quarters’; banks want bailout money; DOW has another strong rally; America in a ‘serious slowdown’; NATL AVG price for gas is $2.92 per gallon: and people still do not like to use public transportation; with the holidays approaching, if the price keeps dropping, then the demand may increase, resulting in lower stockpiles, causing the price of gas to increase; two fire trucks collide in St. Louis, aired on YouTube; dummy F-16 bomb landed on ‘the’ Las Vegas street; dollar has reached its highest level in the past eighteen months; diesel is now $3.637 per gallon; burglar beat & stabbed AR anchorwoman, she sustained life threatening injuries; one FEHB plan has a High Option & High Deductible Options; Obama & Alfred E. Newman have the same big ears; NV & FL: the lands of foreclosure; Rays beat 200 to 1 odds; early voting allowed in 35 states; formerly the ‘District of AK’; the ‘McCain mantra’; Obama, the socialist? so says Palin: or, ‘Caribou Barbie; is $250K 'rich'?; IL SEN could handle unexpected crisis better than an AZ SEN; Obama flies to HI, due to health concerns about his grandmother; Palin & McCain have different views on gay marriages; plane crashed, killed three on Catalina Island;

spend three years of our lives on the commode, need a good view to pass the time; World Toilet ORG; outer space smells liked ‘fried steak’, or hot metal; bin Laden been invaded by hackers; thousand mille off-road trek by Princes William & Harry in S Africa: private bet on who will take the fewest tumbles or falls?; foreign markets are optimistic, should they be?; fashion guru Mr. Blackwell has died at the age of 86 from an intestinal infection; S Korean man went on an arson & killing spree in Seoul, motive based on financial problems; oil is now $74.25 per barrel; more Westerners attacked in AFG; more UFOs over Britain during WWII?; spaceports to be potentially built in OK, NM, FL, VA, AK, WI, CA: UAE, Portugal, Russia, Austria & Sweden; twenty million jobs may be lost around the globe by the end of this year;