Thursday, January 1, 2009

…12/31-08: a fan of the human race

37º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…of times past: good music, decent crowd, lousy floor; the body says it’s tired; I’m running out of headphones; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; water main broke at San Mateo & Candelaria in NE ABQ: geysers erupting, pavement collapsing; get home for free with Safe Ride; man arrested in Belen beating; Four Corners bank robbery; Brad prepared a delicious Pork Loin Roast, served with Savory Sauce; holdup in ABQ hold-ups?; our state’s Rose Bowl float is: “Hats Off to NM…Beep! Beep!”; the customized forecast; correction: 81 robberies in NM, not ABQ; tomorrow, NM minimum wage rises to $7.50; looking for a lawyer; Wilson for GOV in 2010?; Snob Hill makes money making movies; NM Highlands UNIV merger with College of Santa Fe is stalled; plenty of visitors at the River of Lights last night; NM computer system goes online 1/5/09; state survey on health;

one, small phrase: Day Six; JoAnn get ‘better’, MGR got ‘worse’; first time JoAnn get holiday gift from Brent; the times are changing; Myrna asked about Brad, she enjoyed the Mole; combine business with pleasure at work; Lucille has no heat; finished Rounds by 9A; I’m sorry for you ruining my day; told Brent about the transition of Coders during peak respiratory season; “I saw the way you were looking at that form”; Myrna, Evelyn & myself together this AM; nobody worked in Data Entry during Winter Break, are they all UNMMG employees; no one pulled apart PEDS Clinic charts, either; respiratory season has started; saw Maggie this PM; JoAnn & Jenny were there; Myrna left at noon: Evelyn, at 2P; myself: 3P; took the Red Line [since ‘regular’ buses supposedly stopped at 3P], and arrived at home before 3:45P; vicious people are lonely people;

deep freeze: from N Plains to New England to DC, plus the wind chill factor; snow in Cleveland & Buffalo, parts of OH TRPK & I-90; temps from 0s to 70s; more Spokane snow; Seattle rain; warm in Los Angeles & Phoenix; Midwest without power; semi toppled by winds in CO;

Eve of the Year; Mighty Mender; ten year old ‘reporter’ will attend Obama inauguration; economic turndown in ‘the’ Vegas; lose sleepless nights; the ‘Peach Drop’ in ATL; IL GOV playing ‘chicken’, acting within his power, never has happened before, to reject an appointee; being grumpy is contagious, nice & negative; the same is true for association with overweight people; MN SEN race still undecided; will GM, via GMAC, become a bank; consumers passing up ‘big ticket items’; Brooklyn business printing Obama inauguration invitations, using recycled paper, helped boost their income, with a ripple effect; car in DC ends in construction hole; bad economy canceling celebrations; Denver Broncos coach is fired; two CO ski employees shot & killed at resort; members of Congress getting a pay raise?; Celtics have only lost five games; Bill & Hillary will attend Times Square event; acupuncture is described as a ‘tap’; 2008: the year of $5 gas, economic fears and foreclosures; DOW ended the year on a positive note; TVA being sued $165 million for sludge damage; a seat surrounded by scandal; stop stalling the Senate selection; two MD teens set another boy’s hair on fire by using lighter fluid: then recorded the event on a camera phone; OR woman defeated a naked burglar by grabbing his testicles; the DOW ended 2008 down 34%, the worst decline since 1931; the twenty-first century Radio Flyer wagon, with padded seats & location for computer games; medical care before midnight; recession & robberies;

world’s oldest mother in India want to have another child, a brother for their sister; oil dropped to $36.94 per barrel, rose to $37.53, closed at $44.60 per barrel; one second has been added to 2008; Air New Zealand is going ‘green’ with its fuel; Jupiter is Earth’s protector from space debris; Obama faces Middle East problem started over 100 years ago; Russia says Hamas seeking quick, peaceful end; the truce has been rejected; more military objectives must be met before ceasefire, says Israel; mirage, not solution, will allow humanitarian aid; wounded Palestinian being treated in Israel; foreign markets rising; Columbia crew never had a chance, suffered blunt trauma before explosion; Bangkok discothèque fire kills dozens; bomb blast in Basque city, ‘ETA’ behind the explosion?; in London, the start of ‘swishing’: the art of trading clothes; Zune MP3 players freeze across the planet; New Year wishes from INTL Space Station; all eyes on Hamas;

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