…10/22-08: it’s all going to be OK

49º in ABQ; 12% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s Chiro visit; cold, dry & windy; person arrested in APT complex murder, but gun is missing, could be on a bike path; Cody East found guilty again; female inmate not getting medical treatment, she was an accomplice to a Duke City Downtown murder; doors locked at Torrance CNTY polling places; many Bernalillo CNTY voters have cast their ballots, waiting as long as two hours; prominent NM woman wrote ‘Muslims are our enemies’; Wind Advisories along I-40, E of ABQ; snow around Raton; too long setting in a dentist chair, plus the changing weather, and Brad is in pain; movie ‘shootings’ in Santa Fe; rough times for some Duke City restaurants, while others see no changes, some have been forced to close, some dodging the dining decline; $278 million shortfall for NM, could see cuts in education & health care; McCain in NM this weekend, plus visit Durango; call from Allen: one of the rare Trident INTL, DC members who was not HIV+…Steve’s cancer has returned, two tumors in his throat which are cutting off the air supply, he does not have long to live; Allen is doing well, also retired from the leather scene; Allen had a strange dream that included himself, the two of us, Pete, Eddie & perhaps others, we were playing UNO; NM has one of the higher states with hunger; arson fire burning near Moab; 1,800 people lost power when a vehicle struck a utility pole on Lomas; same woman said ‘war is just a part of life’; ABC Nightly News mentioned early voting in NM; an eleven year old boy was killed when a bullet from a drive by shooting went into his bedroom; the ‘deficit reduction plan’; time for ‘gutter politics’;

thank you, Denver!; change my work area design; for seven years I have been harassed; three new doctors do not want to be billed through UNMMG; tell a doctor every time a CPT code is changed, was this sparked by Kay; just tell me what to do, or if I have made some serious mistake, if so, I will not deliberately repeat it again; who is the ‘micro MGR’?; have I been audited by JoAnn?; finished Rounds by 9:30; someone has a PDI request, but there is no documentation: Myrna, Evelyn & myself scanned PowerChart; Code Purple all day; a ‘hello’ from JoAnn?; MGR told me I was not the first to submit the timesheet today; $620 in charges, and no documentation; for four months, PEDS ran smoothly, no one complained: now, every week there’s another problem; Dr. Anaya keeps telling residents to sign their notes; for a second day, PI security problems; MGR too much in a good mood towards me; Heinrich at UNM; CTI nurse received her bachelor’s degree;

WA snow, parts of I-90, also in Denver, along a stretch of I-70, where chains are required; freeze watches & warnings, per Weather Channel; dry in the OH Valley, NJ fires near Atlantic City; temps from 40s to 80s [90s?]; rain in Boston, Omaha, KC, areas of I-29 & I-80; snow in KS, very hot in S CA; more record highs than lows;

Blah letter did raise money; feel better with fish oil; ABC AM News focuses on female voter who was drunk, should not bring alcohol to a voting location, and should the ballot count?; should taxpayers pay for portraits, instead, use a digital photo; people using more frequent flyers miles; Palin & her family being dressed by taxpayers, totaling $150K, and charging AK for flying her children; Obama on ‘Ellen’; from 5 to 27 to possibly 41 states in a recession; all states facing cash crunches; citizen’s arrest of Karl Rove; powder laced letters, mostly sent from Amarillo, TX to Chase banks, is the motive revenge; PC price cuts during holidays?; GOOGLE phone arrives in San Fran; people are being screened, are they ‘contaminated’; the Tropicana Dome; housing crisis & unemployment could last until 2010; more people changing whom they ‘like’, or want for PRES; what happens when drugs don’t battle depression; APPLE profits soar; cable company billing for unit not returned because Hurricane Ike destroyed it; some max figures are hard to tell from fresh & blood stars; texting during a funeral or sex; people changing their basic buying habits, purchasing products based on paychecks; Palin does not know what the role is of the VP; two Cessna planes collide in the sky, S of Grand Junction, one was carrying inmates; Peabody police want 9–11 as paid holiday: unions say it should be a paid holiday; woman & three children die in house fire; digital mammography is better?; SC wants to jam cell phone signals into prisons; ‘Detox’ is the latest diet; poor public opinion of Paulson & bailout; were shots fired at W KY UNIV; will prostitution become legal in one city?; DOW is down, 514.45 points; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.858 per gallon; treat Halloween like New Year’s Eve?; celebrated more during ‘tough times’; Chantilly, VA drug store will not sell birth control pills, dispensing this drug goes against the pharmacist’s religious values; could the US benefit from Islamic banking principles; is N VA a communist state?; market at a five year low; fewer seasonal workers, quicker reaction by companies to cut losses; per Ar-nold, Palin [who spent $75K at Neiman Marcus] will ‘get there to become PRES’?; Obama campaign is tech savvy; Botox for Biden vs. lipstick on a pig; ‘all items will be donated to charity’; there have been 2,300 ‘mass layoffs’; same-sex marriage to be taught in public schools?; economic aftershocks, only the worst since last Wednesday; now, 45 banks have received the ‘powder letter’; food allergies in children on the rise;

foreign markets keep falling; oil at $66.75 per barrel, a sixteen month low; Iceland has closed its stock exchange, country of 320K people is collapsing and has severe money problems, currency losing its value; was once the wealthiest country in the world; Americans attacked in Ecuador; Russia Qatar & Iran: the next OPEC?; another Dramamine Day, as stocks plunged around the world; is there a global recession;