Friday, January 16, 2009

…1/15-09: good got great

29º in ABQ; 69% humidity at 6A…GAQ; person attacked by six men on Central & PA, ended in peaceful police standoff; NM GOV wants to stop ‘drug driving’; unemployment office may be opened all week; sex crimes against children have dropped by 25%; fake bomb threat caused Carlsbad school to evacuate; Housing Authority defrauded $7 million, for trips that did not take place, or expensive luggage; VCU leader going to NMSU; Rail Runner being sued for using the title that a MA business has used for decades; NM wasted $90 million; Verizon is hiring, bilingual staff will get more pay; more diseases may be added for medical marijuana use; Duke City superintendent received a good report card on himself; Clovis charged with helping two inmates escape; now there are six cases of influenza in NM; minor fire in downtown Duke City restaurant; NM: a ‘solar resource’; NM woman will be on the PRES train from Philly to DC;

staff meeting at 9:30A; remember, no public outbursts; finished Rounds by 9A; let everyone else complain at meetings; do more Coding at your desk; watch everyone else panic; Myrna has taught this ‘old dog’ new tricks; no bikes allowed in offices; bad said: everything has to be electronically coded; do Rounds on ‘easy days’, Dr. Lunde is a ‘fellow’; I am breaking out of my ‘medical shell’; not Mondays or any with scheduled meetings; MGR stopped by my office, where was Evelyn; Isotopes mascot visited the PEDS DEPT yesterday; more output, with less errors?; still have to pick up PICN, Newborn & PICU billing sheets on a regular basis; told residents to include time spent when rendering a sedation; MGR saw many people cannot handle change; I have another new Learning CTR password; ‘I/P’ is a dirty word; E-mailed MGR I will work on Saturday AM [because of holiday weekend]; no shrugging allowed; production by quantity & dollar amount;

too cold to start cars & trucks; 151 inches of snow has fallen in Franklin Township, PA, near Erie; bitter cold from Fargo to the Twin Cities to St. Louis to Detroit; temps from –0 to 70s; windy with snow in DC & NYC; steam rising from Great Lakes; ‘fresh’ arctic air: but moisture so dry leaves could ignite; fire danger from Tampa to ATL; snow in Boston; HI & CA the hot spots; –38º in Bismarck this AM;

Obama is the first PRES to have his portrait taken by a digital camera; cannot be buried with your pet, except in an animal cemetery; $825 – $850 billion new surplus package; Junior IL SEN is sworn in today; final, farewell PRES Address to the nation by Bush takes place tonight; ‘miracle on the river’; US Airways flight heading to Charlotte made an emergency landing on the Hudson [which is 54 feet deep at the impact sight], when two birds flew into the engines upon takeoff: all of the 155 people onboard were rescued, they left the jet, stepped onto the wings; and calmly boarded ferries; “fasten your seat belts: it was a ’bumpy’ flight” when birds strike; water temps was 42º; US Airlines flight 1549; air smelled like gasoline; people told to prepare for a bump, used river as runway; good news: the Hudson was not frozen; these ‘fowl’ incidences cost $600 million in damages; seen by ABC anchorwoman while she was in her APT; the balance of the bailout bucks has been approved by the SEN; DOW slightly up; USA Today telling its workers to take a week off, with unpaid leave; 53 year old APPLE CEO who invented the IPod & IPhone; on Medical Leave; the H&R Block debit card; Stan Lee trying to create a gay superhero, who is also basketball player; Hillary hearings may confirm her as SECY of State; NV: the Saudi Arabia of solar energy; Bank of America needs more FED aid; gaywill be Obama’s civil rights issue: ‘being who you are’ vs. ‘weakening the military and ‘embracing soldiers’; many Peanut Butter crackers pulled off the shelves, fearing salmonella outbreak; 81% more homes under foreclosure than in 2007; Ravensthal: the mayor of Pittsburgh’s name; who will perform at the Super Bowl?; the PRES mother-in-law will also be the First Children’s babysitter; the dietetic smoothie; the LEGO digital camera; Treasury SECY nomination put on hold until next week; the ‘too much comfort clearance sale’; Obama family moving into Blair House; is Obama ‘too nice’?; 2009 Cadillac limousine will be used during the inauguration parade; Starbucks unveils Chinese coffee?; DC will be a haven of new jobs; today is Biden’s last day as DE SEN; Obama: the forty-forth PRES; NATL AVG price of gas is $1.799 per gallon; Americans do not like some of the decisions made by Bush; man dies after his car plunges off Santa Cruz, CA harbor; out of 1,400 entries, only ninety marching bands were chosen to appear in the inauguration parade; Detroit Lions hire Titans’ coach;

hard times for Dubai; a half built tower; FaceBook catches criminal in Britain; Obama called the ‘elected ruler’ by bin Laden; speaks of recent events; foreign markets falling; peace talks taking place in Egypt; the robotic cat that purrs; Japanese robot with synthetic skin; “waterboarding is torture”; another Hamas leader killed; oil dropped to $33.20 per barrel, but rose to $34.16; methane found on Mars?; UN compound bombed in Gaza;, Israel denies attack; China is the world’s third largest economy, speeding past Germany; 7.3 quake shook Pacific islands;

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