…12/29-08: I know what good is!

26º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…Brad at the Food Bank; nicked my ear; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; teen shot & killed girl in SW ABQ party; man fired bullets at stripper club’ mysterious woman with no ID was hit & run victim in Santa Fe; callers cannot reach the unemployment ‘hot line’, but people will not be penalized if they are late; White Sands Monument closed for a few hours, so tourists will have a new entrance center & road; the mommas with their new puppies, that had been abandoned; two men opened fire at a supermarket parking lot, but no one was injured; in search of the Tiffany Ball; 20K rode the Rail Runner this weekend; NM Highlands & College of Santa Fe merger still on the table?; weekend fire at Aztec church; a letter from Martha; plenty of people at the River of Lights; Eclipse will probably be sold by early 2009;

semi-end to ‘vacation’; ripped pants fixing copier; finished Rounds by 8:30A; Hope was in for part of the day; Brent helped me locate ‘missing’ Nephrology patients; took PM Red Line, arrived home about 3:30P; when some people don’t feel like working, they just get up, and leave; two managers: Japanese vs. Spanish; slightly less crowded AM R/R;

snow in Buffalo, Burlington & Boston; E Coast record highs, from RI to GA; temps from 0s to 70s; Seattle rain; Richmond, along Powhite PKWY, and parts of I-64 & I-95; S FL fog; warm from the Midwest to TX; one million airline passengers travel plans disrupted; MI winds [400K in the dark], IL floods; strong winds bent goalpost in Buffalo; N Rockies snow; avalanches kill people in WY & British Columbia, others are still missing after Canadian blizzards: weaker snow causing avalanches;

buy the SEN Craig stall in airport?; Anniston beat Pitt at the box office; man lives undetected in PA attic for a week, stealing food from family; the worst year in stocks since the Great Depression; the day GM & Chrysler get billions of bailout bucks from Americans, considered the first installment, will be back for more, up to $100 billion; Amityville explosion wreck home, but no one was injured; $10K statue stolen from Madoff FL mansion; TN sludge is one week old; money in cracker box was ‘life savings: no person claimed the $10K, and no reward for family; who really owns the 850 pound emerald, could be worth $370 million; driver dies when fuel truck crashed, and exploded; yesterday, NYC residents shred away their problems on Good Riddance Day; enjoy a book via E-mail; fifteen year old girl killed two men, then dismembered one of the bodies; childhood stress can linger into adulthood; AZ grain silo explosion burnt three workers; how to paint like Pollack?; exploding manholes strike Savannah; the bad economy means Las Vegas is ‘out of luck, and low on money’; the good news: New England did it without Tom Brady; the bad news: both the Broncos & the Patriots are in ‘first’ place, but not in the playoffs; the DOW was down; the Duchess of Carnegie will not leave her NYC studio APT, except if paid $10 million; turn the Detroit Lions Stadium into a parking lot of unsold GM & Chrysler vehicles; $5 billion to GMAC; oldest man in the US has died at the age of 112; is yellow ‘the’ color for 2009?; [R]: old white, rural, rich [?];

asteroid impact video being sold on EBay?; it’s free on YouTube; foreign markets rising; Kuwait cancelled DOW deal; Obama cannot yet address the Middle East problem; Syria has cut off peace talks; Israel ready for ground assault, air strikes during day & night, controls the border, transport of goods; in the Gaza Strip, poverty & unemployment are high, at least 300 have been killed; what is the ‘next move’; ‘business as usual’ in Jerusalem, with tourists walking the streets, the Jewish ‘military machine’; Arabs are protesting both sides of this conflict; Israel has declared war on Hamas; the third day of the sixtieth year of peace initiatives; Gaza [now, 146 sq. miles, 1.4 million inhabitants] vs. Hamas vs. Israel; Britain rating websites; oil reached $40.89 per barrel; Israeli elections planned for next week;