Wednesday, December 31, 2008

…12/30-08: one world, one whopper

28º in ABQ; 78% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; million dollar bail for man who shot & killed fourteen year old girl in the face at a Duke City party this past weekend, who laughed at his nickname; man beaten in Valencia CNTY; car crash on I-25 near San Felipe Pueblo; not enough parking spaces for Rail Runner riders at the Journal CTR; $198 million to buy Eclipse Aviation; SW ABQ home had history of complaints, owner was on parole, now charged with violation; police chase ended near Central & Tenth, after vehicle caused two crashes on I-40; Rio Rancho bank robbery at Southern & Unser; N NM cult leader learned his fate: ten years in jail; candle caused Aztec church fire; Red Line will run late tomorrow night, into New Year’s Day; frost on cars; ski accident on Sandia slopes; ten year old was also killed in another skiing incident, she was not wearing a helmet; truck struck SW ABQ home; there have now been 80 bank robberies in the Duke City this year; chemically happy people will have Gruet champagne; taxes collected for Valencia CNTY HOSP that is not being built, $2.8 million in a fund;

Day Five for work; very busy yesterday, in terms of admissions, eleven admissions; Dr. Greger is the primary endocrinology doctor; finished Rounds by 9A; saw Myrna, not Evelyn; took PM Red Line; Linda, Debbie, Steve & myself are going to spend New Year’s Eve…sleeping; Glenda, a head nurse who makes lots of money, making important decisions, did not want me to Brad & I to be lonely on New Year’s Day;

beware of blustery winds from Buffalo to Boston; Chicago: from 7º to 61º in five days; Twin Cities snow, parts of I-90 in NY; N Rockies snow; NW US rain; summer in Sydney; Spokane, WA supermarket roof collapsed under weight of snow, the most for this city in a December; temps from 0s to 70s; eleven men buried in Canadian avalanches; rivers overflowing from IA to OH; rain caused floods in WI & IL;

Eve of the ‘eve’; sell mismatched jewelry for cash: own our refinery, and its smelt; Chief of Staff formerly resigning his House seat, to become Chief of Staff for the PRES Elect; Holocaust romance was a hoax, memoirs have to be verified, book endorsed by Oprah; Bush lost all credibility with the American public after Katrina; IL GOV is innocent; passenger who jumped from cruise liner committed suicide, she was celebrated her first wedding anniversary?; NATL AVG price of gas is $1.61 per gallon; easier to get auto loans?; millionaire sells FORD stock for a loss; photos of early TV shows on US stamps; 250 minor quakes have shaken Yellowstone NATL Park; forty floats in Rose Bowl Parade; Lions & Jets looking for new coaches; Sarah Palin is a grandma; retail landscape keeps changing; sales & selling tactics failed; the inventor of a McDonald’s meal, the voice of Snoopy & Woodstock passed away in 2009; ‘Girls Who Want to Have Fun’ was written by a boy!; MICROSOFT wants a ‘pay to use’ PC?; 3K malls may close by June, 2009; America has twice the necessary retail space; the photo phone, shades of Dick Tracy!; ID father told his son & daughter to walk ten miles in snowy weather, when their truck got stock in snow, she died; acupuncture can help headaches; AIG has received $127.7 billion in bailout bucks; one PRES at a time!; consumer confidence collapsing; Cloris Leachman is the Grand Mistress for the Tournament of Roses Parade; crooks get captured, after accidentally dialing 911 by mistake; champagne sales have gone flat; home prices have dropped 27 months in a row, and by 18% from one year ago; Blagojevich will pick the new IL SEN; CA ‘Santa killer’ planned to murder his own mother; consumer confidence has dropped from 90% to 38% in one year; saw ‘Watchmen’ sneak peak on ET; ‘so help me God’ not in the original oath; the US is in an obesity epidemic; blazing dead body in CA trash can; Kevin Bacon bilked by Madoff; worst holiday season in forty years, hard times could continue another 2 – 3 years; former IL ATTY GEN maybe the next IL SEN, an act of political defiance; if the choice is not ‘tainted’, Congress is powerless in the decision; when it comes to ‘the’ Las Vegas, all bets are off, except for conventions;


Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus in Peru; Japanese ‘tenant’ leaving MX airport, with woman, drove away; foreign markets declined in 2008; oil dropped to $39.42 per gallon, the biggest decline in one year; Hamas retaliates, but 50% of their rockets have been destroyed Obama is being kept aware of Middle East activity; no ceasefire, or quick resolution, being discussed; Israel has allowed some food supplies into the Gaza Strip; trial for man known as the Bush ‘shoe thrower’ has been postponed; peace pact proposal by France, truce on the table: a 48 hour halt on attacks;

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