Tuesday, January 13, 2009

…1/12-09: should I compromise my point of view?

29º in ABQ; 61% humidity at 6A…Brad at the Food Bank; GAQ; NM GOV will announce his new budget plan, need to trim $500 million, no cut in services, and no new taxes; office involved shooting in Shiprock; freeze property values if you are at least 65 years old; this will be a 60–day legislative session; new pilot program for reforming heroin addicts; Central & Atrisco water main break last night, fifty people still without water; man did not show up for court date, charged with vehicular homicide that occurred in downtown Duke City; police chase ends in rollover on I-25; NM will be entering a dry period; new Double Eagle Air Traffic Control Tower opened today; Brad bought me comfortable dark blue slippers; ABQ teen violence on the rise; new daycare CTR on KAFB; in 2008, there were 1,300 water main break across the Duke City in 100 miles of mostly steel pipes; 2009: the year of fiscal restraints for the NM budget; ABQ will be one the fastest cities to recover from the housing slump; back to the beard?; Hobbs construction slumps, but still higher than NATL AVG; cult leader wants NM residents to pay for his court fees; water rates on the rise in Santa Fe; Saturday bus schedule for MLK Jr. Day; NM Highlands to buy College of Santa Fe?; no heat in eight Rio Rancho schools;

Upper MGMT too involved in tiny details; after one day of medicinal treatment, Rheumatic Fever is no longer contagious; turned in self evaluation, there is one person I indirectly indicate whom I find it difficult to work with; living in a world of fear; why am I always alone when the inspections take place?; fire drill at 3:30P; unplug, and hide the fans; finished Rounds about 9:45A; UNM entangled in NM GOV scandal?; was Hope at work last Friday?; Code Purple at 6:30A, and lasted all day; ‘stop yelling at me!’; Kay complimented Coders;

Midwest snow, N Plains blizzards; windy along parts of 1-35, 1-88, I-90 & I-94; Twin Cities snow, also in Buffalo, Omaha, Fargo, Des Moines; ‘warm’ in AK, and FL, plus S CA [from Santa Ana winds]; temps from – 0s to 70s; the coldest weather across the Great Plains will arrive this week;

Boxers & Briefs Day on transit system; Middle East rallies from coast to coast; colon cancer: the second more deadliest & most common; get a free screening test; rising lottery sales during hard times; Clint Eastwood movie was number one at the box office; release the remaining $350 billion; ‘multiple financial options’; $775 – $800 billion surplus package; transparency must be viable; worst recession since the Great Depression, prevent future economic problems; Obama lets his people ‘make the calls’; today, Morgan Stanley may acquire Citigroup; White House dog narrowed to two choices; NATL safety ban, to prevent cell phones when driving; 3K police posed as the real people; Golden Globe Awards: not just your typical dinner party; couple married at a Taco Bell; SONY camera with web browser; Zinc may help the common cold; Obama will honor McCain during inauguration weekend; pilot faked distress call flying over FL panhandle; Ricin threat does not prevent Seattle gay bars from staying open; copter crash on TX A&M; Obama’s promises may take longer time to fulfill than he planned; man carrying sword shot & killed in Modesto, CA; DOW is down; WaMu is now a subsidiary of CHASE; now, 3.6 million jobs will be saved, or created; SEN Burris will fill Obama’s IL seat; 10% of homeowners are in foreclosure; Bush won’t “lie on the beach’; Madoff is not a ‘fight risk’, but all mail will be screened, security guards are paid by his wife;; the final Bush press conference as PRES: time to ‘get offstage’; ‘mission accomplished’ was a mistake, things didn’t go as planned, there were no WMD in Iraq; the White House is not an isolated location: the PRES, an isolated position; for eight years, Bush was always reminded he was PRES of the US; nation’s oldest firehouse, located in Lexington, KY, is closing its doors; OH boy found guilty of killing mother over a video game; Phoenix house prices rose faster than anywhere else in the US;

Israel–Iran tensions increasing; have to spend the night in Stockholm, rent a ‘room’ in a Boeing 747 that is no longer used, if your plane is delayed overnight; Biden in Iraq; ceasefire talks taking place in Cairo; Israeli citizens & soldiers searching the narrow & most crowded alleyways of Gaza City, tanks entering neighborhoods; foreign markets falling; ‘Joe the Plumber is in Israel; alcohol in mouthwash may be linked to causing cancer;

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