…11/24-08: flex financial muscle

38º in ABQ; 37% humidity at 6A…Brad at the Food Bank; Curry CNTY jail had guards guilty of trafficking drugs; SW ABQ crash kills one man, scooter slammed into a telephone pole, texting while driving; ABQ bus riders keep increasing, even as gas prices decrease; early AM panic attack; AVG price of gasoline in NM is $2.04 per gallon; will Bill accept the Commerce Cabinet position; a visible Hispanic position; a shift in the political landscape in NM, to be confirmed after Thanksgiving?; men arrested in Olde Towne murders; solar energy booming business in NM; Denish has been serving as Lieu. GOV, plus PRES of the State Senate, for six years; two bomb threats reported in Valencia CNTY; motorcycle brigade drove through Rio Rancho, collecting toys for children; personal data found in dumpster at a bar on Menaul, it was forms from Discount Dave’s, an auto dealer that had been recently burglarized; ABQ police chase reached speeds of 100 mph, came to a halt at a dead end street; holiday related crimes are up; the AVG price for gasoline in the Duke City is $1.86 per gallon; the minimum wage for Santa Fe will increase to $9.92 per hour; in the W Mesa, thieves vandalize ABQ police cars, steal radio batteries; drug items found inside car involved in head-on collision on I-25 near Paseo; gas is now $1.74 per gallon; each night across NM, 2,500 kids are homeless;

JoAnn out; finished Rounds before 9:30A; audit examples for MGR, completed by 11:30A, first to turn them in; when it comes to work, I have zero confidence in myself, and I worry ‘all’ the time; updated 905 billing sheet; Evelyn has a cold; Brandi enjoyed Phoenix, but it’s more expensive than ABQ; Linda stubbed her little toe, and is in pain; MGR asked what Brad & I were doing for the holidays; forms were to have been turned in last Friday; Hope sent me the split month charges for November; Myrna’s mother is doing better; PDI sent to ‘Daniel Perea’;
area of disturbed weather…could be René?; temps from 30s to 70s; snow in WI & Chicago; rain along parts of I-40; plus TN, KY, GA, AR, AL, OH & MI; N Rockies warmth;

ATL City teacher’s aid has a porn movie past; unapproved drugs that are approved by Medicaid; placebo: the sugar ‘pill’, patients feel better, but they can also have serious side effects; 40K traveled to CO farm, owners offered free vegetables; more digital books being sold; gasoline $1.39 per gallon in TX; celebrities in a YouTube World; the swivel laptop?; plenty of zeroes in the amount to solve the domestic economic crisis; billions to bailout Citigroup, Treasury will infuse $20 billion into the bank; business has tentacles everywhere; buy bad debts; NYC second largest private employer; FED GOVT insuring more toxic assets; the time for workers not to be invisible, to show their best, and not to take vacations; mom gives birth on subway platform; American families face unemployment & repossessions of their vehicles during the holidays; Palin more popular after her defeat; boat collides, breaks apart at 240 mph; Obama speaks to the nation about his ‘New Deal’; his two year agenda; 2.5 million jobs by 2011?; during hard times, people turn to religion; CO pastor involved in sex & drugs scandal, is now a religious salesman; IPhones helps scan for police traps & red light cameras?; NATL AVG price of gas is $1.908 per gallon; anatomy of a meltdown, Bernanke did not think the mortgage problems would be this bad; US could lose one million more jobs before the PRES Elect takes office; existing home sales slump in October; Saudi visit helped MN city’s economy, spent at least one million dollars; New Orleans ranks highest in crime, but Detroit still a dangerous city; the DOW is rising; in 1964, Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald; is any USA bank ‘safe’?; Obama economic team started their jobs today, the PRES Elect is very involved with solving the nation’s problems; FED GOVT will buy $306 billion of Citigroup’s risky assets; plane crashed near Nashville, killing three people; school bus accident in SE AR, injuring 76; a number full of zeroes, and commas; hairspray used by mothers can cause birth defects in children; thanks to surgery, boy born without irises can now see color; the economy needs a ‘major jolt’; Obama has yet to convince the US Supreme Court that he was born in the US, the deadline is 12/1/08; Lenox China filing for bankruptcy; shoe repair stores do good business during bad times; Enterprise is the best car rental company; stocks had their biggest two day surge since 1987; people suffering from ‘Truman Syndrome’, believe they are TV stars; two straight session of stock market gains;

two died in Baghdad in rush hour suicide bombers, killing eighteen near the Green Zone; snow in Sydney, during summer?; astronauts attempt their fourth spacewalk; after several missile attacks, gold is $824 per ounce; PAK wants to cut ties with the US; in 1859, Darwin published his ‘Origin of Species’; astronauts lubing space station solar panels; N Korea stopping trains to S Korea; Iraqi translators can earn $100K, but are targeted by terrorists; Japanese business created a bra for cross-dressing men in black, pink or white, being bought by businessmen; oil rose to $54.50 per barrel; mixed foreign markets;