…11/5-08: what to do with the news

49º in ABQ; 46% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Udall, Heinrich, Teague, Lujan won; complete [D] victory; NM is 100% blue; a windy, chilly change; still winter weather in N NM; minimal voting problems across the state; 57% – 42% victory by Obama in NM; Otero CNTY did not approve spaceport tax; saw our Alexandria polling place last night; what happens to the NM GOV?; will he fit in the Cabinet?; why did he shave his beard?; earlier to bed tonight; gas is $2.29 per gallon; in one word: hopeful;


Hell Week, Day 2.5; three PEDS attending until end of 2008; is Jenny here?; AM panic attack; Data Entry staff need some basic knowledge; Myrna’s mother is not doing well, has a fever, went to the HOSP last night…she may have had an allergic reaction to the flu vaccine; MGR met with Candace; PICN copier was not working again, needed toner; JoAnn will report to you that I’ve missed something; Mike W.: the Coder you love to hate; give in, and give up; tried to explain cities in VA, as separate from counties; all the charges I submitted yesterday had not been entered by the end of today; today’s ‘HOSP talk’ was about yesterday’s election; people at UNMH commented on both candidate’s speeches, saying both men spoke humbly;


Mid-Atlantic storm, slowly moving: heavy rains, strong winds, from NC to NYC, the Tidewater & Outer Banks; severe weather in OK, KS: blizzard warnings in the Dakotas; maybe 20s?; Denver: rain, snow, wind; temps from 30s – 80s; the third ‘P’ storm since the 1950s, Paloma may be churning in the Caribbean;


Yes, We Can!, on Vote ’08!; 150K screamed victory in Grant Park, Chicago; the banished Bush; victory when the IL SEN won PA, then CA; the [D] ‘controls 1600 PA AVE; age of the moderate [D]; 85K saw Obama near Manassas; ‘time to get the country moving again’; gave a humble acceptance speech; Obama needs the help of Americans; two young children in the White House; 349 – 163 electoral votes, three states still undecided, NC, IN, & MO; the first person since LBJ to win by over with 52% majority, an event not since LBJ; the US belongs to us; lowest [R] turnout since 1980; history has been made in the beginning of the twenty-first century; Americans never quit or surrender; McCain faced adversity, the odds were against him; the new forty-fourth PRES; now is the time to come together, in a dangerous world; OH, NM, VA , NV, IA & FL were [D] victories; need a new SECY of the Treasurer; McCain had an invisible obstacle…Bush; 19 seats won by [D] in the house, praised McCain [whose supporters booed at the triumph], Obama included ‘gays & straights’ in his speech; I won’t let you down; very good conceding speech; time to heal the harmed economy; celebration in DC; Barack said his grandmother helped him; unyielding hope; 251 – 173; 56 – 40 in the House & SEN; so far, no [D] majority achieved; [R] could see their defeat weeks ago; different vitamins for teen guys & gals; McCain will not longer try for PRES, will remain the AZ Senior SEN; “this is your victory!”; 7 of 11 GOV go [D]; the morning after the momentous election; what will TV newscasters talk about, and what ads will air again; parents can monitor children’s text phone calls, the youngsters will know when spying takes place; Internet wasn’t as slow as expected; get ready for ‘organic motion’ with computers; a chance to answer America’s call; Obama transformed the electoral map; a PRES for all, praised by Bush via phone call; great threats inside & outside the US; CA may allow same-sex marriages, AZ & FL will not; the [R] will rebound; the DOW lost 486 points; MA voters approved the repeal of its state income tax; age beat race as factor in voting; how large a turnout, some say 130+ million; ‘we shall see’; time will tell; Michael Crichton died at the age of 66; the phrase keep perpetuating themselves; “it’s finally happened”; Jesse Jackson in tears, Oprah elated; “color takes a holiday”; an “extraordinary step”; both men honored, and humbled; “the time has come!”; need to “grow jobs in America”; a “rebirth of our nation”, and Obama cannot do it alone; a “night for the history books”; 12% more people voted in this election, than in 2004; Chicago pyrotechnics cancelled; we still have the worst job loss in twenty years; they are ‘just a typical family’; the ‘congressional correspondent’; where will the daughters go to school?; reality check: gay marriage ban approved in CA; 95% of blacks voted for Obama…so did a majority of young & new voters; “one election, one man”; how do you measure the magnitude of this moment; some feel the country has made a mistake…and will ‘they’ correct it?; what’s in store for the White House style?; a “triumph of America’s story”;


world leaders feel there will be a change in their opinion towards America; Russia threatens to put its own missiles next to Poland; MX Interior Minister died in plane crash; son of bin Laden denied asylum in Spain; AFG claims NATO rockets killed twenty civilians; PRES victory prompts mostly cheers around the globe;