…12/02-08: strategic decisions

39º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A…GAQ; breezy & mild today; two more bank robberies yesterday; drunk driver is free, because of a police paperwork mix-up, captured on police video camera; Santa Fe lawyer under house arrest after last week’s hit & run; now, PNM says gas bills may be lower this winter; AVG age of Family Practice physicians in NM is 54 years old; several hurdles before Rail Runner travels to the City Different; thieves targeting lawyers in downtown Duke City; gas is $1.64 per gallon; Red Flag Warning continues today; explaining to children that their mother hired a hit man to killer their father; Rio Rancho schools may eliminate most substitute teachers; ABQ has a new City Council PRES; burnt cars appearing across ABQ; TB carrier took a bus from El Paso to Greeley, CO, a route than ran through the Duke City; ABQ attorneys are the ‘targets of choice for thieves’; NM is one of many states of emergency; will Bill be nominated for SECY of Commerce tomorrow?; NM schools are under funded by $350 million; very windy; a little ‘night music’;

Hell Week, Day Two; the eyes & ears of the tattler; pulling codes from thin air; incorrectly parked bicycles at UNM ‘disappear’, students need to find where they are stored, wrongly taken by employee; MGR only ‘missing’ four forms; AM PC problems for Myrna, resolved by new IT guy, using my diskettes to store data [mostly pictures]; JoAnn asked about gift for MGR: $10 each Coder; there should be an I/P Coding MGR & DEPT; question of the day: if a patient is admitted at night, and is discharged the next PM, can observation codes be used? No; Aaron shook my hand; Lucille turns to me for patient location; Dr. Thornton is a very busy woman; Debbie & Linda got their bus passes today; I like Brad’s “repeated messages”; former UNM PRES will be head of the White House Military Office;

snow: W NC, N Plains, Chicago, IL, lake effect flurries; parts of I-86 & I-90; in 1977, snow fell as far S as Freeport, Bahamas; astral alignment mentioned on Weather Channel; cold in DC; temps from 10s to 80s; Sacramento & Los Angeles fog;

The Big Three beg Congress for $25 billion again, will drive, or fly commercial, suggest reduction in workforce; readjust you’re A.R.M.; buyer beware: mall stores raised the cost of items, then reduce the prices, calling them ‘discounts’ or ‘sale prices’, who would know, except those that worked at the store?; ‘bionic hand’ may help stroke victims; longest recession since 1982; Obama will help governors; another child found shackled by parents, this time, in CA; NATL AVG price of gas is $1.812 per gallon; PA man ate twenty pound burger, took over four hours to consume; ‘cleared by the FDA’; travel on ‘Marine One, the ‘flying carpet’; family doctors dislikes ‘poor’ reimbursement by INS companies, will it be the demise of Family Medicine providers; balancing risks with rewards; Obama believes in strong personalities & opinions; the Birmingham mayor charged with bribery; record year for 2008 movies, the ‘great cinematic escape’; Bush ‘unprepared’ for war; new home construction dropped; in October; chunk of air the last hurdle for free broadband?; gold coin tossed into Salvation Army kettle; the DOW heading up; deaf dog learned sign language commands; ‘Rosie Live’ goes off the air; one person shot in Philly K-Mart; Delta plans to cut more flights; there is a ‘New Dawn’ policy by Obama; Barbara Bush discharged from HOSP; ‘debt restructure’; cities cutting costs in zoos & animal shelters?; November auto sales 30% lower than same time, last year; are The Big Three out of other options, or is this one, huge sales pitch?; Chrysler will cut its workforce; reduce CEO salaries to $1 per year…just until their billion dollar deal is approved; no matter what, right now, there are not enough votes in Congress to pass another bailout bill; Pilgrim’s Pride filed for bankruptcy; new Capitol Welcome CTR opened; Bush ‘did not compromise his principles’, he was just a tragic pawn of history; plane safely landed at KC airport with broken windshield; American security is on the decline; bad economy means more reenlistments; NYC bus driver killed in front of his passengers; Easy Bake Oven toy is 45 years old; [R] wins GA Senate seat; IA man falls four stories, and survives; WI teacher accused of having drug parties with former students;

US should fear rogue nations, who may attack during the next five years; India wants PAK to turn over Mumbai militants; bomb blasts train in E Indian; well equipped attackers; terrorists started trip from Karachi, there were only ten of them, all belonging to the same radical group; Adriatic Sea flowing into Venice, a ‘fragile’ city; Thai protestors will end their siege tomorrow; SECY of State Rice showed her skills as a musician, playing the piano at Buckingham Palace for the Queen; foreign markets falling; US soldiers that were held in Nazi camps should be honored; carbon monoxide poisoning kills eleven girls in N China school;