Saturday, December 6, 2008

…12/05-08: license to thrill

28º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…GAQ; lower hotel rates to attract tourists; $400 million water treatment plant goes online today, tapping the Rio Grande, running the water through six series of filters; man caught on police camera, freed by a technicality, may return to jail for other reasons; Clovis mother sentenced to parenting class because her children were truant too many times; hate crime against two Raton men who beat up another man in Colfax CNTY because he was gay; times are too tough for a $1 per hour pay increase for educational assistants; remove Manny Aragon’s name on Hispanic Cultural BLDG; airlines advertise the Carlsbad ‘Christmas on the Pecos’; driver accidentally ran over a child last night in NE ABQ; people were at the River of Lights last night; NM GOV transition teams being created; San Juan Chama Water Treatment Program; Rio Rancho teachers should consider the next six months on unpaid leave; gas is $1.49 per gallon; partial lane closure on E Central near The Beach; Rio Rancho school has the only lab in the country that deals with deadly infectious diseases, Level Two Bio Safety Lab, create a ‘super organism’ to counter the ‘super infection’; there are more than 8,700 auto related jobs in NM; NM has a 4.4% unemployment rate, 41K state residents do not have a job;

the Pit will be renovated; actually, the person who admits a patient is the attending in the ER or PEDS Clinic; why all this back & forth discussion with me, we just want a clarification, or decision; just tell us what to do!; the bottom line…am I in trouble?; why me? I’m only a Coder; finished Rounds by 9A; more ammo from MGR about observation Codes, directly from Medicare itself; very empty AM R/R; praised my MGR for helping me; left at 1P for comic quest with Brad, plus a visit to TARGET; doctors want me to attend meetings, but I have a job to do!; call it ‘diplomatic fury’; now, MGR says to not worry about overtime, that the topic should not have been mentioned during her Wednesday phone call; my response was that I completely understand, that we could face a reduction in work hours; Myrna thinks I’m a quiet person, who doesn’t talk much about his life; new Data Entry person, located near the PEDS Clinic; I keep turning PDI requests, and completing TES edits on time; took the Route 5 bus to Menaul, then we walked down Eubank; students at UNM & CNM can purchase tickets at half the regular price when the Rail Runner line opens from Santa Fe to ABQ; just like back East, during the demise of PBP, minimize the number of meetings I have to attend, just decide what I should do;

rain: parts of I-10 & I-75; SC fog, showers in Savannah; snow: W MI [up to four inches per hour], the Twin Cities, Chicago, Erie; N Plains, parts of I-90, I-64 & I-96; temps from 0s to 70s; N NY snow;

term life premiums have tumbled…you bet your life!; the trial of OJ Simpson, sentencing today, guns were used, guilty of armed robbery, stealing his own memorabilia, will spend at least six years in prison; mortgage rates are lowering, money is being allocated to banks for people to buy homes; during his campaign, Obama raised over $734 million; the rocky road for The Big Three, the last day plead they before Congress; need up to $125 billion to prevent ‘The End’; no bankruptcy, playing Russian Roulette with the US economy; 320K jobs lost during November; phone call tapes that reveal the last days of LBJ presidency; Bratz dolls will become collector’s items; weakest November store sales in 35 years, except Wal-Mart; 787 ‘Dreamliner’ delayed by another six month, a total of two years late; CA mother accused of drowning her baby in a toilet; happiness can help cure the common cold, except at work; 1.9 million jobs lost in 2008, the worst number since 1974; foreclosures increase by 76%; GM to cut 2K more jobs; “rare, but serious side effects”; auto sale ads on the increase, the three CEOs’ being grilled; cell phones powered by voice; ‘pay as you wish’ at an upscale NY restaurant; 533K job cuts in November, the most in 34 years; the US unemployment rate is now 6.7%; reflections of a recession; Caroline Kennedy, the next NY SEN; yet the DOW ended higher today; two million people have given up looking for work; The Big Three deal has stalled on Capitol Hill; FL is the state with the highest number of people who are unemployed; political popularity vs. the numerical facts;

UK LEGO terrorist toy banned, resembled Osama bin Laden; mixed foreign markets; terrorists told they were serving a higher power; Danish warships attacked pirates; men in drag rob Paris jewelry store; oil has fallen as low as $40.05 per barrel; Americans charged with the murder of seventeen unarmed Iraqis: but this will have no bad reflection against the company who employed these US workers, Blackwater; these men must surrender by this upcoming Monday;

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