…11/11-08: research & exploration

36º in ABQ; 69% humidity at 6A…GAQ; KOAT testing digital TV signal; homemade bomb found near Carlsbad residence; crawlspace fire in SW Duke City home; most of FED, state & city officers are closed to honor veterans, with several parades planned; red light cameras for Four Corners city?; ban Sunday liquor sales in Farmington?; abused children chained to chairs; yesterday, three bank robberies across the ABQ area, used to be on Fridays; sewage flooded from bathroom, spread across the home, does so on a yearly basis, every November in Belen; ABQ waitress stole $14K in fake gift cards from Olde Towne Bistro & Winery; guard & inmate’s wife accused of drug smuggling in jail; rival high school team laced brownies with marijuana; lawsuit against Eclipse Aviations; more vehicles vandalized in SE ABQ; price of gas in NM is $2.41: in ABQ, $2.24; Rio Rancho is the best place to raise children in NM;

received Winter Break working sheet from MGR; Saturday Bus Schedule; no ‘very early’ buses; training at 10:30A; Code Purple at 6:30A, and all day; Evelyn also on approved leave, then her MGR came back to tell me that after visiting our office, bringing calendars; time to revise CPT codes on billing sheets; “you don’t need me” vs. “You’re right, I don’t need you”; big pile of charges to be entered found at Reyna’s area; UNM fires, are these structures the targets of arsonists?; Coders need to know what Data Entry people are taught, such as DX linking; Myrna out sick today; finished Rounds by 9:30A; no one else in my work area; ‘resident alley’;

Midwest storm: parts of TX, AR, TN, parts of I-40, I-35; DFW, St. Louis, KC, Houston; Louisiana, MO; bad weather along the Great Plains route of I-80; snow in S MN; Twin Cities ice, parts of I-29, I-90 & I-94; Seattle storms; New England snow showers; temps from 30s to 80s; power outages in W SD;

Veterans Day; bald, toothless dog from Peru for Obama daughter?; no second stimulus package before the holidays?, blame a ‘lame duck’ session; the transition tour; Palin speaks on her own, blames Bush on [R] PRES loss; the making of ‘moose chili’; Dean no longer [D] chairman; AVG price of gas is $2.22, ninety cents lower than last year; Starbucks sales & profits both collapsing; McDonald’s is doing well; GM stock is nearly worthless; AMEX will accept deposits; Citigroup will help homeowners prevent foreclosures, negotiate lower terms; need new SECY of Treasury soon; so many homeless veterans, caused by PTSD & drug addiction; six people killed in SUVs in DE head-on collision; why did AZ child kill father, smart, no signs of abuse; ‘secret’ AIG meeting with financial advisors in posh Phoenix resort, yet company pleads for $40 billion to rescue them from bailout…total cost of affair: $350K; nude pictures sent by PA students; one year old OR girl lost, found under wood boards of grandparent’s home; plenty of restrooms & restaurants in Capitol tourist CTR; aspirins can help prevent heart problems; free bridal gowns for women whose husbands are serving in Iraq, or if they are fighting overseas; ‘family lines’ at airports; APPLE beats Motorola in IPhone sales; buy online for the holidays, and save money?; $7,500 found in donated shoes; funky jewelry is ‘in’; 68% have a favorable opinion of Obama, so far; Victoria’s Secret in trouble, bras containing formaldehyde?; Albertson’s is a healthy grocery store; body found in ID paper bale; the ‘bungee bridge’; the GM ‘indefinite layoff’; a seventeen week continuous drop in gas prices; these are ‘exciting, uncertain times’; the proposed ‘civilian security force’: women, Hispanics & Afro-Americans comprise the PRES-Elect advisory team; Obama will have a 450 member advisory staff, priced at $12 million, and ‘agency review teams’; flu cases, tracked by GOOGLE; C difficile, the newest ‘super bug’, infects 7K patients, and kills 300 of them…it can only be beaten by bleach; car companies could tap the $700 billion bailout?; changing mortgage terms means banks could lose money; ninetieth anniversary of WWI ending; no veterans, no United States; Palin is human, when not running for office; four million people are behind in their mortgage payments, foreclosures have risen by 150% during the past two years: will a loan modification program’ really work?; OK woman killed when leaving a Louisiana KKK initiation ritual; Bush does not want to help the auto industry, or create another stimulus plan…so more money will be allocated when Obama takes office;

stolen big screen TV in Munich, thief had no arms; ugliest dog has died from cancer; 4,300 year old Egyptian pyramid recently discovered; the Mars mission is officially over; QE2 ran aground off the coast of England; foreign markets falling; France & US searching for survivors of Haiti school collapse, over 90 people have died; the Maldives is sinking, soon to be underwater; biggest drop in two years: oil fell to $59.33 per barrel;