Tuesday, January 27, 2009

…1/26-09: seize the senses

38º in ABQ; 46% humidity at 6A…Brad at the Food Bank; a Sustiva dream where I told someone: ‘I don’t know where I live anymore’; GAQ; wind advisories across NM; ABQ school lunch program under scrutiny; domestic violence in S Valley home; old & new scandals plague NM; blowing dust along I-10; ABQ failing in its recycling program; snow in N NM; cheese sandwich controversy; this was a weekend without food, or ‘rest’; APS not reporting items correctly, per audit, but problems have been fixed; try to consolidate INS plans & coverage in NM; gas is $1.79 per gallon; forgot to wear necklace today; people want to buy ‘green’ homes in ABQ;

man who walks the children’s wards, carrying a holy book; finished the revised Rounds by 7:30A; back to the coal mines; Code Purple at 6:30A, and all day; no ‘official’ lunch’ today; MGR has her own opinions of Intelicode; collision near Presbyterian HOSP; I have comments & concerns about the current UNMMG policies…I just won’t express my opinions out loud; did PDI that belongs to FAM PRAC MGR; Brent vs. MGR on paperwork & praise for their effort; several people who want you to drop everything you’re doing, and help them with their problem, which has nothing to do with Coding; JoAnn returned to work; explained ‘critical care’ in PICU to MGR; Myrna out today & tomorrow; get all the charges vs. get rid of the Coders; by end of workday, I am very tired; Dr. Alberta Kong talked about obesity in children;

winter storm watches, icy conditions for DC; this AM, 7º in Boston, –8º in Concord, NH; freezing rain & ice storms in Midwest, parts of I-44 & OK; temps from 0s to 70 [80s?]; very cold in MN & WI; more snow in SLC & S Rockies; MD, IN & MO need snow; dense fog along Gulf Coast & FL; TX & CA need moisture; rain in Richmond & Dallas;

many people have Medicare, and ‘other INS coverage’; Obama intent on fixing economy; tapping into religion during hard times?; 71K jobs lost in one day; AMEX earnings plummet; median home price is 15.3% lower than this same time, last year; MI man freezes to death in his own home; Citibank buying $50 million private jet, selling two older ones; the risk of ‘scheduling C-sections’, for the doctor or the baby, which is not fully developed, not the mother; Air Force One, a ‘status symbol’?; Obama has yet to fly the jet as PRES: complete with soundproof conference room, private bedroom area; menu of regular flyers stored in computer; Caterpillar & Pfizer also elimination workforce; Home Depot cutting 7K jobs; Blagojevich doing the NYC talk show circuit, calls trial a ‘sham’; GM trimming 2K jobs; McDonald’s will open 1K new restaurants; people want answers to PA arson cases; tough year for employment in 2009; PRES allows NM [and, thirteen other states] to enforce tougher auto emissions standards; most [R] do not approve the new stimulus bill, not spending money fast enough; but banks still refusing to give loans; FL prison staff used gunshots to break up riot where eight inmates were injured; Karl Rove subpoenaed; man killed in WI monster truck rally, he was promoter of the event; Pfizer & Wyeth drug merger?; should Obama stop picking on previous PRES?; free download of WINDOWS 7?; people still prefer Post-It note to PC message; Sean Penn won SAG award for ‘Milk’: Meryl Streep, for ‘Doubt’, Heath Ledger for ‘Dark Knight’; Biden does not want to be a ‘deputy PRES’, he says what’s on his mind, and cannot be quieted, has DC savvy; stimulus package needs ‘pork’ for [R] support; 39% of businesses surveyed say they will cut staff in this year; Treasury SECY sworn in; lose weight, gain memory?; American dreams being put on hold; SEN approved a four month digital TV delay; hiring freezes in some GA companies; job cuts at Boeing; White House E-mail service was down all day; ‘Ellen’ is 51 years old; fewer Girl Scouts cookies in a box; teenager posed as Chicago cop; high end home improvements, a thing of the past?; Oprah, as IL SEN?;

even Zsa Zsa Gabor lost millions by Madoff; Prince Harry dumped via FaceBook; gold has risen to $910.70 per ounce; ‘dancing eyebrows’ on UK Cadbury bar TV ad; Swat Valley in PAK, man injured after being dragged by a subway train in MX City; a Taliban haven;

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