…12/16-08: sharper, not blurred vision

26º in ABQ; 84% humidity at 6A… GAQ; next storm in Central AZ; bad traveling in E MTN; parts of I-25 was shut down last night, one woman was killed in accident; ice on minor roads; Brad knows I’m a ‘bad boy’; no bowel movement for a day; the ‘no fee guarantee’; by 5A, 267 school closings & delays across the state; police looking for the ‘Exorcist’; so far, about two inches of snow has fallen in the Duke City; NM is ‘in between’ two storms; dog stolen from Socorro couple, who were dining in the Duke City; E MTN schools closed; AM accidents on Rio Bravo; another fatal accident took place last night; Winter Weather Advisory issued this AM, for an area including ABQ; eighteen years in jail for cult leader?; he says ‘the world has been on trial’; focus on Gallup & Grants; schools closed for the day in the Duke City, perhaps after parents went to work; ‘The Mummy’ arrived; wearing new gloves, never shoes, and older jeans; no stimulants while shoveling snow, do it early, and often; early AM, and The Beach parking lot is a skating rink; I need more fiber, and stimulants; another day without a bowel movement;

two hour delay for UNM; don’t make waves, or rock the boat!; at least I won once; when all else fails, tell people you’re sad; Evelyn, and her foot long, cream filled pumpkin ‘log’; some people can blast their music, ignoring concerns of other Coders; Shannon was in a car accident, and the other driver was drunk; finished Rounds by 9:15A; finally found change for the $20; black SUV drove by Linda & Debbie, rolled down, gun appeared with a guy ‘asking’ for their purses: Debbie screamed, Linda ran, they both hid as the vehicle patrolled the neighborhood until the cops arrived; this happened as they were walking to the bus stop this AM; PEDS DEPT holiday party today?; very empty AM R/R; Myrna forgot her wallet in a ladies’ room, found & returned by UNMH staff; this AM, people were sleeping on hall beds; Myrna & Evelyn had a 4P meeting, they got gifts from Jackie; told Jenny I was sad; UNMMG needs to know what happens to an envelope after it is picked up by the courier, what is its route to a Data Entry Clerk;

per Weather Channel, NM had AVG precipitation, and slightly above AVG temps; temps from 0s to 80s; St. Cloud, MN had a record low of -23º; AZ, CA MTN covered with snow; twelve deaths from the deep freeze; Baltimore showers; rain: AL, GA; ice: AR, MO, KY, TX, TN; snow: OH,IN, KS Chicago, KC; water mains exploding; thirty degree drop in temp in one day; moist in NM until Thursday; CA vineyards see flurries; heavy rain caused roof to collapse; wind chills in the N Plains drop to –45º; below zero in Billings;

casinos losing money during this recession; PA child named after Adolph Hitler; FL millionaires now have no money, just mansions, that will need to be sold; scammer provided investment returns that no one else could beat; does she ‘just’ have ‘name recognition’ as an asset?; Caroline wants to follow father & two uncles’ footsteps; more Cabinet appointees by Obama; short-term loans for The Big Three; even Toyota is feeling the pain; NATL AVG price of gas is $1.66 per gallon; those ‘polled’ do not support FED bailout of automakers; elusive IL GOV, ‘not what you think it is’ [?]; wife apologizes to neighbors for media frenzy; bipartisan committee to start impeachment proceedings; initial candle of Hanukkah lit at the White House; the ‘out of pocket penny’; Cheney ‘changed’ by 9–11; SNL skit about blind NY GOV is insulting to the ‘lower frequencies of society’; Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland & Springfield, MA are America’s fastest ‘dying’ cities; Detroit newspaper cutting back to publishing only three days per week; Pittsburgh Steelers’ sale nearly completed; consumer prices drop by 1.7%, the biggest decline ‘in history’; the end of the hotel minibar?; NY woman attacked, called 911: police took 48 minutes to arrive, by that time, the victim was dead; the Winchester, VA home of Patsy Cline may open to the public; hackers could access Microsoft search engine, steal personal data; 76 year old CA grandmother was kidnapped, assaulted & thrown into the trunk of her car, while her teenage assailants took it for a 26 hour joyride; Peter Falk has Alzheimer’s; stocks soar 359 points; interest rate cut between 0 – .25%, the lowest since 1954; backed by SEN Reid, but comments & criticisms about Caroline Kennedy’s qualifications; Hearst Castle is 200 miles from Los Angeles; ‘shock & awe’: costs nothing by banks to buy money; trying to prod ‘risk taking’, but Americans have to pay the bill; ‘turn anger into action’; economy in uncharted territory, and cranking out the currency; running out of ‘recession ammunition’; first near total facial transplant in America took place at the Cleveland Clinic; ICE Air: no ticket, free meal, illegal status in US required: guards double as flight attendants, cost American taxpayers about $680 per person; the nominated SECY of Education wants to build a school just for lesbians & gays; in Phoenix, Secret Santa handed out $100 bills to needy baby, giving away $20K; letter to Santa ends in arrest of sex offender in family;

wing of biplane strikes cow while emergency landing in England; mixed foreign markets; ancient evidence reveals Cleopatra’s ‘true’ face; the ‘shoe hero’; his brother agrees with the action, five years of US killing & disrespecting Iraqis; Thailand elects a new PM; gay penguins in Chinese zoo can raise baby bird; eight US embassies have received ‘white powder envelopes’; floods in Columbia; bus accident in Israel killed 26 Russian tourists; Iraqi reporter charged with aggression against a PRES; Greek teens take over the airwaves;