…11/10-08: standing up for you in Congress

40º in ABQ; 67% humidity at 6A…Brad at the Food Bank; many people not buying homes in the Duke City, real estate agents finding different jobs; the goal is to diversify; forgery ring broken, HQ was in NE Heights APT; tire slashing at San Mateo & Gibson; ABQ must cut $15 million from its budget, less police security for events we both had strange dreams this weekend; ‘the’ Las Vegas man accused of sex crimes in our state; gasoline: NATL AVG is: $2.30 per gallon; in NM, $2.47: in the Duke City: $2.29; Columbus, NM searching for another new police chief; starting to build the River of Lights in the BioPark; GAQ; revenue less than predicted, or expected; ‘hairspray, it’s a windy day’; some snow in N NM; cold rain this AM; Brad found green pillow near dumpster, add one to our collection; Nancy got a piece of pie & some stew; Sports Authority near Eubank is closing, 35 jobs will be lost; one of two escaped youths turned himself in; snow removal will not be affected by budget cuts; $300 for flowers planted in front the two sided sign in front of The Beach; six football players on house arrest, say they are innocent of any sexual attacks; NM is ‘film friendly’; suddenly, there’s a ’money shortfall’; for the third time, same Rio Rancho Bank of the West has been robbed;

Great Lake Effect snow; wet along areas of I-81 & I-90; WV MTN snow; T’storms in KS, S part of I-35 OK, TX; GA frost & freeze warnings; Cuba flooded by Paloma; colorful people: on top of the world at Pt. Barrow, AK, 300 miles above the Arctic Circle, closer to Siberia than 48 US states; temps from 30s to 80s;

I do my work, I don’t complain; easy question: “did JoAnn stop by after I left?”; piece of peach pie for Myrna & Evelyn; time will tell if JoAnn snooped at my piles of work, and I’m in trouble; JoAnn are two of the rare Coders who use weekly billing sheets; $60 million renovation for The Pit at UNM; another fire on UNM, its fifth, arson suspected; treat me like a human; what happens if a charge is delayed because of the Registration or MIS DEPT; finished Rounds about 9:30A; the leaky Pavilion; still nothing about last week’s power outage; I have been reminded not to overwork myself; most duplicates are I/P services; so few edits after Closing; Data Entry people not entering the more high dollar charges during last week of Closing; Code Purple by 9:30A, and all day; have a picture of ‘Disco Brandi’, my adopted niece; as Brad & I were talking, Myrna enjoyed the pie, but was not feeling well, neither is her mother; Evelyn was out; cool AM rain while walking across the campus; Myrna goes to bed late; undergraduate surgeons will no longer have access to cadavers;

movies & shows on YouTube; PRES Bush host the next First Family at the White House, during the seamless transition; Obama may overturn Bush policies & strategies; are 18K weddings still ‘valid’?; equal rights: more churches protested by gays; military soldiers saved people from CA motel fire; nurse in famous WWII photo recreates picture with ‘Dames at Sea’ performers; white Supremacists having to be protected from other prisoners; future First Lady will look at schools for her daughters to attend; now, more money for AIG, a total of $150 billion needed, company reports more losses; can Obama keep his promises on energy & economy, will he be allocated the money by Congress; beliefs vs. politics; aspirin may not always prevent heart problems; Obama creates a website, the ‘American Moment’, for people to follow the transition, and possibly apply for jobs; 76% of those polled think do not approve the ‘Bush strategy’, worse than Nixon, another [R]; many climbed up the Sears Tower stairs this weekend; ‘peel away the plastic wall’ between whites & blacks; DHL cutting 9,500 jobs, ceasing all US operations; why does no one want to use the word ‘recession’?; headphones have magnets that could be bad for your pacemaker; more losses for Fannie Mae; all [D] are promising ‘high expectations’; Biden has appeared on ‘Ellen’; $50K tip for FL waitress, buys a new boat, hers had been destroyed; Circuit City has filed for bankruptcy, 700 more people will be unemployed; the final state quarter, for HI, will go into circulation today; SEN races still undecided in GA, MN & AK; people are buying SUV models again, price vs. cost; ‘to be, or not to be married…that is the question’; the DOW was slightly down; if AIG failed, so would many INS CO across the US; most ‘seminars’ are covered by corporative sponsors; still waiting for MO to determine which PRES candidate carried that state; the White House has a staff of 95 people; there is a basketball court & a swimming pool on the White House property; the Times Square “New Year’s Eve” ball will remain up the entire year; will Obama be able to shut down GITMO, reverse executive stem cell decision?; gays protest UT as tourist spot; a new, overpriced, overdue Capitol BLDFG Visitors CTR will open next month; only 16% believe America is heading in the right direction; AMEX will become a bank;

monks battle in Jerusalem; popular female African singer Miriam Makeba collapsed on stage, and died: she was 76 years old, and known as ‘Mama Africa’; foreign markets rising; Taiwan woman gives birth, using thirteen year old sperm; China is pumping money into its economy; 2,000 year old earring found; 6.5 quake struck NW China: 1,120 miles W of Beijing, 6.2 miles below the surface, no casualties reported; ‘broad order’ to attack al Qaeda anywhere in the world, including those in so-called ‘peaceful nations’; should foreign powers be allowed to attack US states ‘without permission’?; children born in the US from MX mothers deserve an American education; oil prices have reached $64 per barrel, but settled at $62.41; Freon gas killed men in Russian sub; at least 31 killed in one of the worst bombings across Baghdad;