…11/21-08: scientists who tell a story

30º in ABQ; 56% humidity at 6A…GAQ; ‘employee pricing, plus?’; no interest until 2014?; more cuts requested by NM GOV, may need state legislative approval; in terms of tuition of the eleven MTN states, NM Highlands is the lowest priced college; NM Medicaid INS companies been overpaid by $200 million over the past three years; ENMU PRES killed in car crash; KAFB daycare CTR may shut down by end of 2008; the Carrie Tingley Festival of Trees weekend, an auction where the winners will have the holiday greenery delivered & decorated at their homes; Brad made a Key Lime Pie & Meringues; people tried to shoplift at Kohl’s this past weekend, then beat up security personnel; museum entrance fees on the rise for non NM residents; Rio Rancho store a puppy mill?; very few vehicles in the Olde Towne parking lot this PM; for ten years, husband & wife ABQ Ride bus drivers would be sick when the other spouse were not working…after ten years, someone discovered the coincidence, and both were fired; woman’s car stolen at an Uptown hotel, now she says ABQ is not a safe city for tourists: but her vehicle was unattended, with luggage inside that was quite visible; Eclipse can now send their very light jets in Europe, but one of their domestic customers has declared bankruptcy; NM GOV as Commerce SECY?; collision in S Valley between buffalo & a car, animal uninjured, second bison sighted; gas is now $1.79 per gallon;

leave early?: yes, at 2:30P; training at 9:30A; Myrna’s mother being released today; JoAnn keeps wearing jeans on a regular basis; finished Rounds by 9A; UNMMG must be feeling poor, with the current stock market dips; break down charts, send billing sheets to Data Entry; patient’s name is Kal-El Rosas; walked N on Eubank, halfway on my downhill journey, an unexpected bus appeared, ran across WY to get the R/R, and arrived home a little after 4:30P; very empty AM R/R; no one has asked me about my meeting with the UNMMG legal counselor; this AM, too cold to think, or write; JoAnn going to a Broncos game; ‘you make a three dollar bill look real’; one of the PEDS Clinic workers was involved in a head-on collision with a drunk driver; both Ted & his wife are going through rehab; PDI at 2P;

temps from 20s to 70s [80s?]; record lows from NYC to ATL to Orlando; very dry in W SC; snow in DC?; plus parts of E NC, NYC & Philly; white in Central MI; more lake effect snow, in the N Rockies & Dakotas; warm in Phoenix & Los Angeles;

save a company, sell a jet; lowest factory orders; ATTY GEN collapsed while talking at a podium, 67 year old started stuttering & repeating himself, lost consciousness ‘for a while’; when will stocks stop sliding, especially those belonging to banks; a ‘serious recession’; SECY of State position leans towards Hillary; new Blackberry Storm phone, touch with a click, more added features, but IPhone preferred; free Dr. Pepper linked to a new Guns & Roses CD; Quantum of Solace video game; DOW futures look good; cost of living dropping its fastest since the late 1940s; fear of low prices causing more jobs; zero homes sold in Nashville, TN during October; Fred Thompson leaving politics, going back to acting; WAMU cuts 1,600 jobs; ‘aw’: the little word, with a lot of meaning; NATL AVG price of gas is $1.989 per gallon: still costs over $3 in AK; take a group of nerds, add a little alcohol, and it’s ‘Geeks Gone Wild’; 67 year old AG Mukasey doing well, alert after being hospitalized; GA children trying to build world’s biggest crayon; consumer confidence at all time low; neuroblastoma, 40% survival rate; someone hacked into Obama’s cell phone; three Hollywood couples make millions; people have no money to have pets; the DOW went up & down, then rallied at the end of the week to close above 8K, a jump of 494 points; student shot & wounded at GA UNIV; people like Obama’s choice for Treasury SECY; don’t buy on ‘Black Friday’; one man, fifty jobs, in fifty states, then he will write a book about his adventures; the selection for SECY of the Treasury would not need training; we are creating a generation of blind, deaf & obese people; the era of armchair psychotherapy; Obama former PRES opponents, the man is a risk taker; Citibank has lost half its value during the past three days; shares of stock has dropped from $30 to $3, the company needs $50 - $100 billion to survive; consist of eighty million bank accounts, facing $20 billion losses from bad business deals; but they are ‘providing stability, and securing the future’; reality check for interns trying to find rentals in DC; Cincinnati man threatened to blow up banks, bridges, sports arenas, airports & historic landmarks;

in Canada, obese people can take two seats to sit in a plane; two-headed kitty in Australia; more optimism in foreign markets; protests in their Parliament, some Iraqis do not want US presence in their country for another three years; the ‘civil’ Madonna divorce; more proof of water on Mars; Bush attends Asian-Pacific Economic Summit; $150K worth of tools ‘lost in space’; US could lose in top power status, making room for China, Indonesia, Iran & Turkey; the end of the Yugo [it’s a car]; AIDS is spreading fast in Russia; 20% of Amsterdam cafes must no longer allow marijuana smoking; cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe;