…10/29-08: invest, investigate & investigation

47º in ABQ; 58% humidity at 6A…Code: Yellow, Moderate Quality for Fine Particles; budget cuts in Santa Fe?; changes need to happen now; review outside contracts; but some politicians voted to get $10K raises; the ‘their point, plus one’ theory; Michelle called NM residents, asking them to cast ballots; high cheek boned bandit has been arrested; can the Duke City afford a downtown arena?; Olde Towne Boys & Girls Club needs $30K to obey fire codes; fireball sighted across NM skies, probably meteor, or space junk; signs point to a warm, dry winter: NM State Fair down 17% from last years, lost $600K in revenue: the people who went did enjoy themselves, but the event has to be more ‘green’ and ‘money friendly’; Tingley Coliseum made more revenue this year; fake cash being circulated in Rio Rancho; Reno children make news for Children’s HOSP; NM Sun News getting world attention for prediction Obama’s victory; gang violence rising in Four Corners area; Michelle Obama does not want to accept a copy of the newspaper; $4 million shortfall for the City Different, what about elected officials; picture of handicapped drivers placed on their windshields could cause more personal attacks; stomach hurts this AM, after large meal yesterday for supper; in Santa Fe, a stolen car, combined with a crime spree; NM is the third highest state in the number of uninsured children; NM GOV thinks Obama will win; Brad made a tasty Salmon & Shrimp Terrine; one vehicle pushed another onto the tracks, just as the Rail Runner was approaching: fortunately, police cadets were training at a nearby academy, and pushed the trapped car to safety; gas is $2.39 per gallon;

helping Evelyn with Consult coding vs. template, which is yielding lower results; finished Rounds by 9:30A; Code Purple by 9:30A; doors closing in wards; Dr. Anaya consult for Dr. Vigil on child abuse, turning spreadsheets into Green Cards for Nephrology; temps entering charges, but why are they also deleting them; brought Newborn forms, need to order more; people need to learn doctors’ handwriting styles; could UNM lose state funding because of economy?; JoAnn says I have more patience than her, to handle Hope’s errors; Coders should enter their own charges, I will support that idea; in the long run, it would save time; and I E-mailed JoAnn that I would; patient ‘shipped’ here?; nothing about Monday’s power outage; the ‘pulse ox’; Brandi not doing well in Physics; homeless tucked in corners across the campus; watered Myrna’s plant; early AM panic attack;

ME is warmer than PA; temps from 30s to 90s; warm in Phoenix & Los Angeles; cool in FL, ATL & DC; snow, up to twenty inches in NY & New England, more is expected; flurries in Elkins, WV; very windy in Hartford, 100K without power in NJ; relatively ‘warm’ in Erie; 230K in upstate NY are without power; record lows in OK;

the new Pepsi logo; how much will FED Reserve cut the interest rate…answer: down to 1%; money should loan money, not use bailout to pay CEO bonuses; Detroit mayor spent his first night in jail; is currency worth less than the cost of its paper; the gap is shrinking between the candidates; Perot did it years ago; polling places in FL are being kept open longer; John McCain on cable TV channels; Obama airs his thirty minute ad on prime time in prime channels, ‘bumping’ the World Series Game; Clinton will join [D] candidate; do people have ‘extra money’?; Christian Science Monitor on Internet during part of the week; bargain hunters buying cheap stocks; new security checkpoints at ATL airport; Kennedy returns to Capitol Hill to continue his health care campaign; later this year, cost of houses may be lower; the ‘pumpkin chucking contest’; tourism down in HI; Las Vegas motels at $1 per night; time to buy travel INS; McDonald’s raising the cost of cheeseburgers; Game Five of the World Series should be played today; Boston Celtics & the Championship Banner; CA man killed by police in a case of mistake identities; Cloris has been eliminated from dancing with the stars; Obama, and his campaign finance promise; no suspect for the Hudson murders; ABC won’t broadcast Obama’s ad; investors still feel they are on shaky ground; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.589 per gallon; McCain, the ‘moderate’?; parts of MICROSOFT software packages going online, called Beta; sixteen years after a brutal murder took place on Halloween in Oil City, PA…the town again celebrates the holiday; so far, an up & down day on Wall ST; market motion momentum; people still watch TV between 8P – midnight; the dollar is losing value; one hundred letters containing white powder have been mailed; one IN gas station has $1.95 per gallon fuel, prices have dropped over $1.20 during the past forty days; Aetna posed third quarter losses; McCain keeps pushing NATL security, and the risks a novice leader would pose to the US; FED crime fighters mixing business with pleasures, going to conferences in exotic locations, all paid by US citizens: this includes ‘double dipping’; the DOW ended in negative territory; banks & finance companies still fear lending money, even when they have plenty of currency; having one person from the other political party would make the next Cabinet ‘bipartisan’; Obama ‘stole good ideas from whatever source’; three million dollars, for a thirty minute ad; will the IL SEN go from a Socialist to a Communist?; the interest rate has only been lower during the Eisenhower era; early leads do not make a winner; Palin vs. ethics: having children’s fare paid by the state; AOL Pictures will close on 12/31/08; recession may be good for your health; the end of the PT Cruiser?; Delta & NW Airlines will merge; who is leading vs. who will lead?;

bigger rat population in the UK, reasons: budget cuts, bigger cities, more people, milder winters, more food tossed on streets & open trash cans, more animals; British surgery on fish with hernia; oil had reached $68.91 per barrel, as the world starts to worry, but fell to $67.45; punk rock auction at Christie’s; 6.4 tremor in SW PAK, centered SW of Islamabad: at least 170 dead, mud homes, remote areas; foreign markets rising; cruise ship tours for $99; British white men can jump; the new ‘Casino Royale’ has made more money than any other Bond film; there have been eleven US air strikes in PAK, the Asian country said these attacks must halt!;