…11/17-08: the gift of the good life

39º in ABQ; 36% humidity at 6A…Brad at the Food Bank; mild AM panic attack; new San Juan CNTY Meth Treatment CTR; Navajo casino will open this week; economic stimulus: improve Paseo del Norte interchange on I-25; attempted robbery at Sonic in Farmington; Rio Rancho teachers may walk off the job, need pay raises: building a new school vs. budget shortfall; Eclipse employees should get paid today or tomorrow; correction: Nancy will return on 12/2/08; inversion over ABQ; campaign sign must be removed from yards, deadline to remove them was last Friday; everyone in NM fighting for more money, from schools to art projects; two people killed in Roswell this weekend; we have both been having bus troubles; gas is $1.95 per gallon;

as soon as I started working at UPA/UNMMG, I started crying; as I left work at 3:35P, the Lomas bus arrived; last Friday, it did not appear until 4P; two lawsuits against UNMMG, [& my MGR?] having to do with maternity complaints; one went to the Holiday party, just after the supposed event took place; Hope can’t handle Nephrology flowchart billing sheets; Myrna’s mother was admitted to UNMH, appears to be getting better, had urinary problems, possibly UTI, will remain I/P until midweek; finished Rounds before 9:30A; Kay split 2009 Coding classes, one for each area; Candace split Coder meetings; worked on updating billing sheets with CPT codes; all my split month charges [Oct./Nov.] were sent back from Data Entry; MGR admitted to some degree of guilt; deleted circumcision from NICU sheet, per JoAnn’s request; today I arrived home before 4:20P; can’t write anything on AM R/R; exercise utmost diplomacy; Lobo Head Coach resigned;

temps from the 30s to 80; no local forecast on Weather Channel; light snow across New England, Great Lakes region, NY, OH, WV, along parts of I-81, I-90; caused by Alberta Clippers; smoke delays at LAX; temps from 30s to 80s; 200 ft. high flames in S CA; Los Angeles CNTY school students cannot go outdoors; 26K new evacuees; 800 homes totally destroyed; mobile homes leveled; winds may decrease in speed in the Los Angeles basin; very hot in SW US; up to 18 inches of snow could fall in the N Plains, two feet, along Lake Erie; 35K acres have burned in S CA, blazes are 40% contained; blaze could burn for days, and was started by someone; hoses have melted, there is a ‘sound’ to the fire; five CA counties have been declared disaster areas;

Obama ‘doodle’ for $100K; this winter, natural gas prices are up, oil prices are down; Obama & McCain met, and talk today; [R] want Hillary as SECY of State; the end of Yellow Pages?; postpone the inevitable?; should they just declare bankruptcy?; the next group that needs cash: Congress vs. ‘The Big Three’ automakers; Rudy for NY GOV, or PRES?; yoga for facial muscles?; Louisiana collision caused by fire engine; VIT C & E pills do not help men prevent cancer; charges filed against Postmaster GEN, received ‘special deal’ from Countrywide Mortgage CO?; ‘one laptop for child program’ donate a PC to children in third world countries; death threats against ‘pregnant man’; 53K Citicorp job cuts; one out of ten US workers are affected by what happens in the auto industry; as of now, 50% of the bailout money, or $350 billion, will remain untouched; DOW down 223 points; 4.1 quake in San Diego CNTY; McCain: World’s Greatest loser; the ‘champion of change’; three SEN races have yet to be determined: in AK, GA & MN; 700K children went without food in the US during 2007: total number of Americans struggling with hunger problems was 36 million; the NATL AVG price of gas is now $2.07, the lowest in four years; GM: the dinosaur that may soon become extinct; SEN Kennedy returned to Capitol Hill, cane in hand, ready to work; ‘watchdog dads’ at school; falling rocks in Yosemite have been ignore for years, even after they have caused serious damage; NY hunter ‘accidentally’ shot into home, killing a sixteen month old child; WI woman said she put a corpse on a toilet to collect the person’s retirement benefits; now, about $250 billion has been spent in the bailout, but since there is no oversight committee at this time, no one knows who has received the funds, and how much did they get; Bill Clinton can receive $300K per speech; eight million bottles of Crystal Geyser water are being recalled after a strange smell was detected when opening the lid;

give potted plants instead of bouquets to 2012 London Olympic winners, and wooden powered flame torch; no tsunamis after Indonesia earthquake; exercise machine added to INTL Space Station; Obama wants to capture, or kill bin Laden; peanut allergy increasing around the world; pollution cloud covers China & India; Somali pirates ‘steal’ Saudi oil tanker; it will over $20 million to repair the ‘atom smasher’; if all goes well, US troops should be withdrawn from Iraq by 2011; the city of Najaf has been considered ‘safe’ for years, controlled by Shiite forces; AirAsia Airlines will only charge airport tax for any flights between June & October next year;