…11/13-08: everything about you is unique

44º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Medicare fraud costing states $212K; NM ranks in the top ten states for increases in gang activity, making it a deadlier state, needs more names on the state registry; Roswell bus company owes city & state millions of dollars; daycare at KAFB may shut down permanently; $4.5 million needed for moving the Downs from the Duke City to Moriarty; abused children had mental problems; Santa Fe good Samaritan foils supermarket robbery; MRSA found in two students at ABQ charter school; scam artists at a sandwich shop, workers gave names & other personal data of customers; AOL News features El Paso laced brownies; Rio Rancho residences are selling, new jobs are arriving, home prices are not dropping; put the building of a Duke City ‘event center’ to public vote; NM GOV as SECY of State?; too polluted in Four Corners area?; gas is $1.99 per gallon; no vacancies at The Beach until 2009; Nancy will be in ATL until Jan., 2009; the Econo Lodge near Olde Towne has the old logo; Eclipse is two months behind paying for rental space in ABQ, and no paychecks for their staff; Brad made a delicious soufflé;

area meeting; Code Purple: no vacancy; enough nurses & beds & rooms; maybe the curse has ended…MGR said she likes ‘teasing with me’ at meetings, saying I take too much time off; that’s proof; Myrna’s mother is not doing well; co-worker on the verge of tears; having a lesbian as a ‘fellow’ PEDS Coder has its good points; so far, I will not work 1/3 & 1/4/09; Jenny & her partner have been together for five years; we were reminded of the sick leave limits; holiday party still at a bowling alley; finished Rounds at 9A; if mother placed in hospice care, there would be limited service, and the patient would waive their rights to choose treatment; Myrna forgot her office key; Lisa on PM R/R; talked about work, using doctor’s first name; during meeting, JoAnn used a ‘threatening phrase’, but that won’t get her in trouble;

DC needs moisture, more than a drop in a bucket; temps from 30s to 80s; rain: upper Midwest; Pittsburgh; WV; Appalachians, E Coast cities, from NY to NC; parts of I-75, I-81, I-70 & I-76; Deadwood still digging from snow; children saved from vehicle in flooded OR river; a ‘dirty high’ pressure contains clouds;

a golf club that is really a portable urinal; TX pastor challenges married couples to have sex for the seven days in a row; same-sex wedding protests in NYC, rights denied in CA; did bus driver choke specially challenged student on a school bus; holiday flights may be 90% full; protest marches at several Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints temples; man ‘cured’ of AIDS?; INTEL sales slipping, the demand for computers is declining around the world; AK scandal could allow Sarah to become a SEN?; foreclosures are up 25% from last year, another 280K pieces of property: homeowners are on their own, FED GOVT won’t bail out banks, put people behind in mortgage payments at risk; people worried about their jobs; Congress calls a special session next week; Cheney meets Biden for a meal & a tour of his new residence; winter heating fuels may drop in price by at least 10%; Mrs. Biden’s first name is Jill; CA residents participating in mock quake drill; when does a natural disaster become a catastrophe; Carrie Underwood was a CMA winner, so was Kenny Chesney; US is a sleep deprived nation; Neverland ranch not completely owned by Michael Jackson; 80% of office bullies are bosses, 75% of workers get bullied; the amount of money remaining in the bailout fund keeps changing; Celtics beat Hawks, 103 – 102; more germs can be found on a shopping cart, than on a toilet; there are items excluded in SEARS layaway plan; Obama tickets to inaugurations are free, or $10K online; sitting on benches along the route are fetching $1K per seat; the Palin geography errors interview was just a hoax?; more interactive Wii games; banks are still providing loans, or extending credit; S CA polluted air kills more people than accidents in vehicles; bomb threat at North Pole, AK school warrants lockdown; pregnant man expecting a second child?; 76% of those polled think Obama can rescue our economy; caught on video, girl almost falls down OR cliff; the DOW is way up, over 550 points; an $8K machine to clean shopping carts; 500K new people filed for unemployment; jobless rate at seven year high; the DOW had dropped below 8K today; many men made billions before the bailout, and many of them may be broke; 60% of families participate in the stock market; take your pick: ‘Queen Salmon’; ‘Sarah, the Impaler’, or ‘Palin’s World’; no one knows what it went up today; one million people expected at Obama inauguration; spill your guts to work for Obama; four year old MS boy died from starvation;

Asian baby with no thumbs, and sixteen toes, due to global warming, or toxic chemicals; suicide bombers strike in AFG, US convoy attacked, twenty people killed; foreign markets falling; our first photos of planets beyond our solar system; against the law to spread HIV in most countries; Iran is testing long range missiles; Germany is in a recession; everything is ‘Bond…James Bond’ this week; Prince Charles: the sixty year old man would be king…maybe, and the woman who won’t be queen; British people both love & hate him; ‘developed world’ in a recession; REV Jim Jones had been buying cyanide before the mass murder; dangerous supply route from PAK to AFG, winding through treacherous terrain; patrolled by Taliban forces who attack US & NATO convoys;