…10/24-08: a smile is worth a thousand words

46º in ABQ; 27% humidity at 6A…GAQ; four years: no interest, no payments; voting places will open on Saturday; burning eyes; first McCain, then Obama, Clinton visit NM this weekend; deadly crash at UNIV & Gibson; man found guilty of having sex with boys; firefighter bought alcohol while in uniform; woman was growing medical marijuana in bathroom; faster & easier unemployment benefits via debit cards; counterfeit cash found in Socorro police bust; Santa Fe student attacked by teen with razor blade; Bernalillo CNTY volunteers are being overwhelmed by so many people voting early; effects of NM forest fire makes CNN news; ‘Nightline’ visits the Land of Enchantment; how did a Las Cruces home explode?; 1K pounds of pot seized at NM border, near Alamogordo; The Beach is 100% occupied until December; Brad painted today; the education candy store;

Myrna on vacation for one week & one day; a ‘new Hope’; Jackie calls us detectives; Myrna going to Tina Turner concert; had corridor chat with Loretta, told her about her PICN visit, and the ‘seismic scripts; Code Purple all day; Menaul pool hall is closed; could not remember Dr. Noel’s first name, said to call him ‘BFG’ [for ‘Big, Fat Gut’]; finished Rounds about 9:30A; MGR said I should keep her informed as to why I’m working overtime…my reply was ‘Code Purple’; Dr. Pleacher lived at the end of the street in Richmond when the TV station was located; JoAnn was out today, did not inform me; the Pavilion is leaking in several places; empty AM R/R; O/P charges for Dr. Fahl are being deleted…with no reason; ran out of green cards yesterday; Brad phoned me at 3:29P, to return a call I had made an hour before; ran for one bus, waited for others, arrived home at 6:15P;

Friday football forecast; temps from 50s – 90s; rain: parts of I-55, I-75, I-80, I-88, I-85, I-95, I-10, I-4; Tampa, ATL, Chicago, Nashville, INDY, DC, Tidewater area; yet S CA fires, nearing Getty Museum; DE drought, 25% of the NE US; is very dry;

$10K Atlanta contest, but no premarital sex or live together: no couples qualified as contestants; Rays tie the series; McCain running out of money?; McCain campaign bus crossing CO & FL; Obama’s money intake is slowing; more questions about Palin’s use of power; Greenspan ‘partially wrong’, based on computer models that showed a downturn was approaching; many laws were broken, getting into this mess; Congress decides what to do to generate jobs; MICROSOFT foresees slower hiring, economy not improving fast enough; job losses at XEROX & Chrysler; many early voting numbers in IL, GA & NC; TN also having machine problems; low doses help children overcome allergies; NY Times supports Obama; Tampa won, 4 – 2; more political faces sold as Halloween masks; construction jobs to help the recovery; arthritis doesn’t know when to quit; ‘High School Musical’ drawing big crowds; migraines occur in women more than men; more doctors give placebos, without telling their patients; who dances better: Michelle & Barack Obama?; ring found in deep aquarium; no silly mistakes by political candidates; DELL introduces a new laptop; video game to beat up former ‘Baywatch’ & ‘Knight Rider’ male star; CA grandfather kept eleven month old child while going to a bar; white powder letters to banks say “it’s payback time”; stress from war causing soldiers to attack people at parties, these military personnel have to remain sedated at all times; less teens graduating from high school than their parents; DOW keeps falling; jobs slashed by the thousands; MERCK also giving pink slips to workers; because of 1960s law, OH River paddlewheel boat that provides overnight cruises may not be able to operate: considered ‘a fire hazard’; banks getting creative with mortgages again; gas dropped to $2.781 per gallon; the steeper slowdown: at the end of the week, the DOW toppled another 325 points; tech stock is not immune from downturn; Camelot 3000 can now be bought as one, big book; Jennifer Hudson’s mother & brother were found shot to death in their older woman’s Chicago home; nineteen hurt as three CT school buses collide; some chain restaurants may reopen under new MGMT; is TX dragging death a racist action?;

foreign markets deeply dropping; will OPEC cut oil production, after they meet today; oil at $64.15 per barrel; gold is $730.30 per ounce; a ‘perfect landing’ for American millionaire, who returns from flying in outer space, and spending time in the INTL Space Station; everyone ‘going for broke’; woman claims to be 134 years old;