…11/12-08: put MPG on top?

37º in ABQ; 64% humidity at 6A…Brad’s dental visit; GAQ; at some stations, regular gas prices dip below $2 per gallon; after the Duke City reached $3.99 this past summer; ABQ real estate has the best chance in the nation to recover the quickest after the housing crisis ends; Valencia CNTY parents charged with torturing their children; an ‘arena tax’?; CNM, and emergency scholarships; ABQ AVG gas prices is $2.24 per gallon, the cheapest in the state; schools may start later next year; bike accident at Central & 98th ST shut down traffic; gas is $2.09 per gallon; second YDCC escapee has been caught; Grant CNTY prison guards charged with forcing inmates to have boxing matches, caught on camera; boy admits stashing ammo in Gallup school bathroom so he would not get in trouble with his parents; the company that owns Coronado Mall could face bankruptcy; Randy Travis & Lynn Anderson call NM their home; correction: El Paso dance team laced rival contestants with laxative, bleach & rat poison; AVG price in ABQ is $2.20 per gallon; layoffs at Chino Mine near Hurley; one in ten people have been bullied in the past year, or during a person’s career: band together and talk to the boss; it’s cheaper to make a pizza, than to buy one; NM & the US get a ‘D’ grade for prenatal care & premature births: VT received the highest grade, a ‘B’; some food tastes ‘beyond spices’;

need to teach Dr. Manuel; will she be working in the PEDS Clinics; Sangeeta does not work in the PEDS Clinics; Myrna out sick today; Evelyn has returned; Code Purple at 6:30A; Hope entering charges that I sent on 10/29/08; UNM Rio Rancho campus breaks ground; don’t “promise her [MGR] anything”, then don’t show up for work during Winter Break; Jenny asked about Brad’s job search; man sold drugs outside UNM bookstore; she will be going to her partner’s family during the holidays; an ‘empty’ AM R/R, as compared to yesterday’s SRO PM R/R; Debbie & Linda took the first morning R/R, and were sitting in the Frontier, drinking coffee; Dr. Manuel thinks I was going to tell her that she did something wrong; the orange tie;

rain: KY, TN, E TX, IA, Louisiana, parts of I-10 & I-20 in SE US; Detroit, Chicago & Memphis; SW MN fog; Houston floods; temps from 30s to 80s; warm Orlando, cool Boston;

‘shot dead’; no McRib in S CA: sales, they say; man stole wafers from church, used at religious ceremonies; more criticism by Congress on Capitol Hill about credit crunch; indirectly, the FED GOVT has been ‘spying’ on sick & healthy people for decades; teen has face of Obama shaved on his hair of his head; the return of McCain to the spotlight; sleeps, and cries; does not speak about Palin after the election; AZ SEN will not run for PRES again; don’t push people out of their homes; $75 billion for the auto industry, or risk $175 billion NATL disaster; a bailout plan progress report; grandmother carries embryo, gives birth to her own grandchildren; Kobe, and the LA Lakers stay victorious; New Years Eve Waterford ‘crystal ball’ can withstand 140 mph winds; for now, 72% have confidence in Obama: 44% of [R]; today, gay couples can get married in CT; ‘rebates go down next year' [?]; recession is spreading across the country; local artists create Obama items for TX store; John Edwards ‘coming out of hiding’; Obama clashes with religious leaders on abortion; Pelosi will introduce legislation for another surplus package; will interest rates be cut again?; $60 billion remains in bailout package; Obama paid homage to those that have died in wars; smallest HD camcorder makes its debut; honey is good for a cough, but not for infants; the ‘modified mortgage’; one CA community where most homeowners are ‘under water’; Abercrombie & Fitch ads are ‘too sexy’?; more people added to Obama transition team; student shot at FL high school this week has died; abandoned baby left at NC McDonald’s; short term survival vs. long term care; this is the toughest retail environment in years; the DOW fell 411 points; toxic assets, that would take too long to buy from banks; AMEX wants $3.5 billion from Uncle Sam; where’s Palin US flag pin?; Americans have been conned!; the US GOVT will not buy bad bank assets: stocks, yes; bailout, no; to wed on Wed.; Palin would ‘help’ Obama; polygamy vs. same-sex marriages; spot in the Pacific off the CA coast where any type of floatable trash collects, called ‘The E Pacific Garbage Dump’; there is also a W Pacific version; the ‘troubled assets relief program’, or TARP; not effective, or efficient, just an illusion; the toxic mortgages; there has been a ‘seismic shift’ in buying trends: people don’t know if they should spend, save, or use credit; the Navy & NATL Security won over whales; how did the world of the past survive to create the world of the future?; the KKK vs. the law in brutal beating;

will Endeavour launch this Friday night?; Dead Sea: the lowest spot on Earth; during the Iraq war, the incorrect message by ‘Mission: Accomplished’ message on another aircraft carrier; oil dropped to $56.16 per barrel; astronauts will attempt to create water from urine?; man in Iraqi military uniform is killing US troops; another school collapsed in Haiti; foreign markets mixed; we wage two wars;