…1/16-09: obviously elegant

30º in ABQ; 69% humidity at 6A…GAQ; will ABQ superintendent extend his contract for one more year, to 2012; head of Zuni schools on leave for mishandling funds; man yelling, banging on doors in Rio Rancho, died before reaching the HOSP; another Duke City robbery yesterday; so far, Wolf Creek has had 242 inches of snow; how would a similar plane crash be handled at the SunPort?; driver killed when truck struck by Amtrak train near ‘our’ Las Vegas; still time to get a flu vaccine; what projects can easily be eliminated?: NM GOV budget cuts coming under fire; NM woman in Obama political ad will travel on his inaugural train; Duke City is being spared the worst of bad economic times; gas is $1.75 per gallon; some ABQ bus routes could be eliminated, and fifty drivers could lose their jobs; Advent Solar cutting 55 positions; PC went back to my original colors; salary of Duke City school leader is $250K; woman overturned her vehicle near Santa Fe, to avoid striking a coyote; something resembling a bus or RV burning near Rio Bravo & Isleta in the S Valley; money through movies made in NM; 9K new jobs created in 2007; film techs earn $49K: the AVG NM resident gets $30K annually;

Brad fasted, doing blood work today; always be prepared…for the worst; reminded co-worker to save evaluation; completed HIPPA & Compliance courses; send billing reports on a weekly basis; MGR sent CC that had on a charge that had no errors; ‘revised’ Rounds ended at 8:15A; someone wanted to know if the deadline to turn in our evaluation was midnight, last night; comic climb to NE Heights; walked N on Eubank, ran to the W Menaul, arrived home just after 5:30P; a loud laugh from JoAnn when I told her about the situation with the mayor of Pittsburgh wanting to change his last name; empty AM R/R; crowded PM R/R; Code Purple all day; the hardest part of this new task: finding one week old charges; indicate on the sheet what’s been coded; neither MGR or JoAnn had an answer on displaying patients on a daily basis; Candace yelled at Coder, for no apparent reason?;

Arctic air is here!; high surf in HI; temps from 0s to 70s; record low of –33º in St. Cloud, MN; the coldest day of the year in parts of the US; this AM, feels like 0º in ATL; cold in Omaha; temp is –17º in Chicago, Pittsburgh is –6º: Baltimore, 11º; DC,12º; snow along parts of I-29, I-70, I-80, I-90, I-94, I-96; warmer in AK, than ATL; steam rising from Lake Michigan; yesterday, 15º in Boston;

plane stayed afloat; tired of morning arriving in the middle of the night?; ‘miracle’ & ‘hero’; crippled plane tied to a pier this AM; pilot did not panic, always in control, was to last to get off, small fire started, people told to brace for hard impact, orderly chaos, made sure all passengers & crew were off the jet; made crucial decisions at the right time, avoided hitting homes; during the coldest day of NYC; called a ‘splash landing’; using ‘sound guns’ to scare birds from airports; commuter ferries changed courses; so many things could have gone wrong; 4K strikes per year, usually when plane is close to the ground; $20 billion given to Bank of America; PRES Bush had his last word, last night; seven years without another attack on America; Bush followed his conscience; ‘we musts resist complacency’; ‘cool only goes so far’; watch YouTube on TV?; combo prescription drugs may be deadly, cause side effects, or provide better results; invisibility cloak being developed; artist Andrew Wyeth has died at the age of 91; Circuit City has run out of options, and will go out of business; will white supremacists head to DC for the inauguration?; Black Angus is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy; Saks is eliminating 1,100 jobs; US Airways plane made a ‘perfect water landing’: dilemma: taking clothes off to avoid drowning vs. hypothermia in frigid waters: what happened to the displaced Hudson when the plane struck the river; the ‘art of the aircraft’; Where did the engines go?; give our PRES Elect every tool possible to fix the economy; AVG American owes $5,700+, after spending 8% less last month; pay small debts first; the DOW ended up; the ‘Trinity’ series is a little padded; Chrysler gets $1.5 billion in bailout bucks;

dance of the commuters at Liverpool train stop, captured on YouTube; wax figure of PRES Elect in London; infectious ‘sleeping worm’ invading corporate computers around the world; Boy George going to jail for fifteen months; a US/UAE nuclear deal?;