…1/17-09: experience vs. energy

35º in ABQ; 59% humidity at 6A…per Weather Channel, 60s & 70s for midweek for NM; an idea: keep track of all charges for that patient, on one registration report; Day Six for work; finished Rounds by 8:15A; ‘keep her happy, keep me happy?; fog alert in parts of NM; Code Purple this AM; rode to & from work on R/R; many people waiting for the Rail Runner; GAQ; drunk driver slammed into E San Jose School in SE ABQ, causing $100K in damage to structure, heating & plumbing; two shootings around a Tularosa laundry mat; Brad created a tasty Thai Chicken Coconut Soup, served with Chicken Sate & Peanut Sauce;

why a ‘sigh of relief’ on Inauguration Day, per Weather Channel?; Kellogg’s recalls more peanut butter items; “like, it’s one of my favorite [fill in the blank]”; traffic crawls in HI, with an entire town a NATL Historic Site; couple missing from cruise ship off S CA coast; nobody has any ideas or clue to solve any of our country’s economic problems: economic, banking or housing; chance of sleet in ATL; snow in WI, MI, OH, PA, storm heading towards New England; freight train derailed near Denver, the smell of sulfur permeates the CO air, and a light rail track was damaged; temps from 20s to 70s; rain in SE US; frozen food can stay safe 48 hours after a power outage; celebration of American people on Obama’s 137 mile journey from Philly to DC; “bringing the people’s voice to DC”; Biden always returned home on Amtrak; Abraham Lincoln took the same journey; pilot now considered a sex symbol; engine search hampered by mud & strong currents, only wing can be seen above the water; couple texting ‘our plane is crashing’; as of the AM, the pilot had not been interviewed; water in fire hoses frozen, salt does not work on roads; banks in WA & IL have failed , the first in 2009; Obama: Kansas & Kenya; Patrick Swayze released from the HOSP; ‘abnormally tight’ security at Philly train station; pilot considered a ‘hottie’, more popular than Hugh Jackman; 57 year old ‘Sully’ has uplifted America; he is getting a key to NYC, and a ticket to the inauguration [two million expected at that event]; IN teacher fired for taping the mouth of special needs student; little girl inspired Lincoln to grow a beard; the lucky number 1–5–4–9; salmonella poisoning has killed five people; FL money MGR steals $350 million; the ‘right’ engine is still on the plane; ‘Sully’, the US Icon; fire destroyed one block in downtown Columbus, caused by the frigid temps; when AL is colder than AK; FDA issues advice: do not eat food that contains peanut butter; Inaugural Express stopped in Biden’s hometown; traveled through 137 jurisdictions in PA, MD & DC; during Leather Weekend, and for the first time since 9–11, a state of emergency has been declared in DC; the ‘new age’ PRES; ‘now, it’s up to us’; a new declaration of independence; ‘electronic orgasm’ & ‘techno exorcism’; the one million pound plane; the new PRES will hit the ground, running; Michelle Obama is 45 years old today; a slave put freedom on the Capitol Dome; debris from a WA monster truck show flew into the grandstand, killing a six year old boy; 470 people are ill, six have died: death by peanut butter products; good episodes of ‘Smallville’ [writer also works for DC Comics] & ‘Supernatural’; Conoco Phillips cutting 4% of its workers; American public is optimistic; the Inauguration train: ten cars, two engines; DC is a different type of ‘cold’ than Chicago: dry vs. wet; Flight 1549 lifted from Hudson; Obama tells the people “I love you back”;

N Korea has enough plutonium to arm several missiles; suicide attack in AFG, destroys part of the German Embassy in Kabul, plus an area where Afghan forces were being trained; plagues can be attributed to nature; no assurance about shipping Russian gas to Europe are at a standstill; one-sided peace & ceasefire by Israel; two children in a UN school were killed by Israeli rockets;