…11/3-08: technology needs guidance

53º in ABQ; 41% humidity at 6A…GAQ; need a Rapid Ride down Menaul, or Lomas, or to the NE Heights; man gave people pot at party; early blog entries lack pictures: will use CD memories to add ‘life’ to them; Brad at Food Bank; McCain in Roswell today; more volunteers needed for both parties, ground wars & door knocking across NM; the [D] candidate gaps are widening this state have the most powerful votes, including in the electoral college; motorcycle crash kills one person in N NM; Silver City billboard shows Obama with a turban, and a negative bar across his face, belongs to an auto shop; Farmington school system need to filter websites accessed by students; fire at mobile home kills woman last night; the mermaid shows her boobs again on Snob Hill; Nancy will buy the jump ropes for us; American Home has failed for bankruptcy; Brad baked Biscuits; 492K New Mexicans have already voted; NM employers must allow two hours of leave for their workers to vote; NM has the ‘most powerful votes in the nation’; no political clothing at the polling areas, people must be in line by 7P; need current photos of Brad & myself;

Hell Week, Day One; Hope has come & gone several times; the Cassandra cruelty; back to being me, not the Halloween image; feel that people know you have what it takes to code, and ‘bite the bullet’ with JoAnn; MGR has returned; finished Rounds about 9:30A; PICN printer broken; submitted 1.5 hour Annual Leave Request for this Friday, 11/7/08, approved; Code Purple at 11:22A; have to avoid people attacking my integrity…AKA, consider the source; ‘hits where it hurts’; Data Entry not linking diagnosis; Tina was fantastic, sang for several hours; sang ‘Mad Max’, dressed in appropriate costume, surrounded by musclemen; and nothing said about last week’s power outage; ran, caught PM R/R; there were crop circles around the Campus;

floods in France; rain: along parts of I-95, I-20; San Fran, Seattle, Detroit, Toledo, Buffalo; ‘Low Country’, Piedmont, thanks to slow E Coast storm: Charleston, Columbia, SC: Wilmington; fog in N MN, N WI, N MI; record highs in Chicago; TS Polo in E Pacific; temps from 30s – 80s; FL T’storms; snow in ID & MT; hot in Dallas; per Weather Channel, future forecasts indicate drier & warmer in parts of NM;

no candy for children of Obama supporters by Detroit woman; prologue to voting; Obama has an eleven point lead; McCain wants to go ‘on one more mission’, because America never gives up; people are less enthused by Palin; 11 GOV, 35 SEN & 435 House Reps up for grabs; Bush will make no public appearances today; funeral services for Hudson family members; NYC Marathon; down to the wire, but the Colts beat the Patriots, 18 – 15; no money allowed for GM – Chrysler merger; free cup of coffee for voters tomorrow by Starbucks; eight week Boeing strike ended, cost millions of dollar per day in losses; Marathon vs. Countdown; McCain in QVC skit on SNL; Rocky MTN Red may become CO blue; soothing TV ads breaks between campaign commercial; the Titans remain unbeaten; warm weather means more rattlesnakes on the prowl in TX town; the rallies continue; taller candidates win?; economy & Bush hurt McCain; politicians have their own lucky charms; the most face mask sold for Halloween was Sara Palin; five people killed at Los Angeles homeless site; babies need double the dosage of VIT D; Twinkies are slimming down; three year old girl shot & killed by gunman at her home; the waterproof laptop?; violent video games make teens more physically aggressive; MO girl’s playhouse is a big as a small home, with 450 sq. ft. of playspace; the ‘snowball gun’ fires three at a time; more voters, more anger as people wait in long lines; tax credits considered welfare?; FORD sales drop by 30%; at noon in ABQ, some banks do not want GOVT bailout money; there are still undecided voters; ten month old missing in Oakland canal, after truck crash; the DOW was basically steady; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.415 per gallon; Obama’s 86 year old grandmother has died from cancer; banks still making it harder to get a loan; “I’m not doing this for naught”…so, Sara vs. Hillary in 2012?; extra sleep is good for the heart; creeping feudalism; both candidates support bipartisan unity; today, McCain traveled to seven states; FL & AZ also have anti-gay amendments; 24 million people have already voted, 140 million total are expected to cast ballots; ‘now is not the time to slow down’; the answer to ‘why are we waiting?’: Bush!; Sara cleared of any Troopergate charges; Keanu Reeves won his court case against the paparazzi; the ‘Mc’ is back!; ABC Nightly News was in Roswell, NM; SEN Dole is fighting to keep her NC seat; midnight Miami rally by McCain; FL has the worst voting problems; Jeph Loeb left ‘Heroes’; candidates campaigning tomorrow; New England is ‘tied’ for first place with two other teams; Circuit City shuts down 155 stores;

Saddam Hussein’s $35 million yacht being sold by Iraq, complete with rocket launching system; mixed foreign markets; did N Korean leader have a stroke; US drone crashed in AFG; in 2009, Britain will be in a recession; Zimbabwe misused AIDS funds; famous Berlin airport permanently shuts down; Palin burned in a British bonfire;