…11/19-08: getting your ‘sexy’ back

39º in ABQ; 44% humidity at 6A…GAQ; toilet rebates go down the drain next year; huge financial hurdles, but ABQ city jobs are safe; General Mills may create a $100 million expansion in the Duke City; vacant jobs will remain unfilled; one of Monday night’s shooting victims has died; Eclipse Aviation goes under the microscope again; ABQ teachers will have to work longer before retiring; NM Highlands has the lowest undergraduate tuition; Bank of America at Eubank & Candelaria was robbed; Alamogordo soldier was killed in Iraq; woman robbed medicine from Farmington drug store, but was later arrested; Duke City not immune to economic problems; Santa Ana Pueblo will temporarily get its own fire station; Rio Rancho residents will lose some of its Internet system; NM is helping to prevent teens from smoking cigarettes, one of the highest states in the US [ranks number eleven]; local students raise money for Ethiopian library; mixed verdict in child abuse case; gas at $1.85 per gallon;

PM meeting with Candace; teams are unbalanced, no cooperation, just resistance; can’t think of everything, people equate I/P & O/P; legal meeting, 10:30A, at 1650 UNIV; thrown to the wolves, I’m on my own; JoAnn has sick daughter, won’t be attending; Code Purple at 6:30A; finished Rounds by 9:15A; meeting took fifteen minutes, praised MGR, said she helped employees [me, with CARS]; EEOC lawsuit being filed; DOH in Pavilion; I work so hard for that place, and get nothing in return, but misery; caught the Blue Line, to the Red Line, and arrived home at 4:20P; Daily Lobo article about a New Bedford CO who had to pay $850K, for failing to pay their employees overtime, by giving them a second check from a bogus company, making it appear no one had worked more than forty hour week; empty AM R/R;

cold with snow in Erie; AM temps in the 20s along the E Coast, from Boston to JAX; 70s in Los Angeles; San Fran fog; N Rockies snow & rain; temps from 10s to 80s;

AK SEN is gone, but not forgotten; 58 [D], 40 [R] SEN seats; October housing starts were the lowest since 1959; Day Two for The Big Three to beg on Capitol Hill, switch from Senate to the House, workers protest across the country; three million people would become unemployed during 2009 if car companies ‘belly up’; lose money, lose jobs; bailout billions not helping homeowners, Paulson says the DEPT of Treasury is aggressively working to help prevent foreclosures; 1.4% less people on the go during this Thanksgiving than in 2007, more people will take trains to travel; bonfire by college students caused one of CA fire, thought to be extinguished; Michelle Obama looking at schools for her daughters to attend; home prices keep dropping; more foreclosed homes being sold, ‘as is’; Lieberman mostly unpunished; McCain will run for AZ SEN again, and he won the state of MO, making the electoral vote count 365 – 173; do not expect the economy to recover earlier than 2010; AZ eight year old admits to shooting his father, and another man; negative economy means more want to enlist; consumer prices should continue to drop; shoppers not ‘buying’ into lower prices; ‘no faster than bringing the turkey to the table’; many students are afraid to attend schools…the answer: medicine; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.047 per gallon: in 21 states, prices have dropped below $2; the touch screen PC should be on the market soon; woman’s windpipe recreated by stem cells; a boost to fashionable Fifth AVE: the NY Plaza Hotel has reopened, after $400 million facelift, more gilded; ‘begging for billions’; VP Cheney on trial in TX?; the ‘Batmobile’ version of police car, that contains a ‘cockpit’ of gadgets; ‘assistance for survival’: The Big Three, and the US, failure to do so could cause a colossal economic collapse; during PM DOW plunged 427 points, to close below 8K, the first time in five years; people making big bucks as ‘mortgage counselors’ to aid those nearing foreclosure; may mean a huge lifestyle change; PC magazine will only be published online; the three CEOs of the auto industry arrived in DC in private, luxury jets; mania in the media?, creating Generation ‘O’; was Obama’s father a Muslim?; this may be the lowest holiday gift spending since 1989; Chicago school for gays & Afro-Americans put on hold; NY father rescued his two sons after their vehicle plunged into a pond, buy could not save himself; Prop 8 being challenged in CA courts; sewer systems in posh Malibu?; some meats may contain the C difficile ‘bug’; e-Harmony to launch same sex site; Daschle as HHS SECY?;

overnight, three more ships attacked by pirates, mostly by unemployed Africans, who can easily make a quick buck; strike along Somalia coast; foreign markets falling; get free entrance into German brothel by tattooing its name on your arm, still have to pay for services: forty people have been inked, and there is a waiting list; a ‘wellness skull’ that’s a spa; another US missile strike in PAK; al Qaeda vs. Obama, said he is a disgrace to fellow blacks, adding racial slurs, calling him a Christian ‘House Negro’; the PRES Elect wants more troops to fight terrorists; 6.2 quake shook Panama; vampires make ‘blood money’; oil is $53.62 per barrel; FDA opened its first Beijing office;