Thursday, January 29, 2009

…1/28-09: choices & flexibility

28º in ABQ; 29% humidity at 6A…Brad going to Social Security to apply for retirement benefits; GAQ; Wal-Mart wins…but there will be restrictions; Rio Rancho INTEL workers face unemployment, will know who is on the pink slip list in the next few days; $700 million would go from stimulus plan to NM for state projects; social work is paying off, leader gets paid lots of money; only one water company for the Duke City?; fourteen inches of snow fell in parts of N NM; about 2K LANL workers have been exposed to Beryllium during the past seven years; another virus on the loose, another comprehensive computer scan; domestic partnership law will be discussed today in the Round House; man faces 300 years in jail for fathering a child with his stepdaughter; one ABQ bank robbed twice in two days; Belen lumber yard fire; Brad now has an Social Security APPT for 2/10/09; Coldstone Creamery has closed on Gold, which will be widened, and buses will use another road [to be built]; Nob Hill Improvement Project?; PM crash in front of The Beach; former Rio Rancho mayor Kevin Jackson now in a PA jail;

JoAnn came to visit Myrna: so I asked about tomorrow’s meeting…and was told we have done nothing wrong, Dr. Goens is concerned about bundling codes, and fee schedules; actually they miss some surgical procedures that need to be included when they bill, this is determined by reviewing their PowerChart Surgical notes; is it time to stop the eternal worrying; and leave the Duke City; no one on my side; maybe it’s time to stop fooling myself, stop working so hard, and fighting a battle I cannot win, and join another group of Coders; time to take time off?; ‘if’ this has something to do with the ‘missing’ Green Cards; Code Purple by 6:30A, but not at the end of the day; getting too old for all this stress; how much is ‘truth’?; finished Rounds by 7:30A, MGMT still wants I/P Coders to do all their Rounds; JoAnn let me borrow a red envelope, I returned the favor; saw Stan on the PM R/R; PowerChart problems; give Jenny an overview of my I/P duties, which freaked her out: neither of us want to switch; similar problems faced by Internal Medicine;

twenty-three deaths, 334K people without power; school closed in KY, ice on the ground being measured in inches; some place are without any communication because of snapped power lines; snow to freezing rain to rain in DC [numerous crashes on the Beltway] to Philly to NYC to Boston; difficult day for driving; tricky traveling in TX; OK under state of emergency; AR, KY & OK in the dark; temps from the 0s to 80s; T’storms in SE US, but warm in FL; treacherous roads in OH, PA & KY; power outages in the millions across a huge section of the country; cell towers affected by storms; heavy snow still falling across OH; ice & snow across NW AR;

AK ‘mobile ferry’ to service drunk patrons, needs to get an alcohol license; man attacks lawyer & juror with feces, still found mentally competent; CA couple had both worked for Kaiser Permanente, and were both laid off; Obama will keep talking to Congress, but which plan [less taxes vs. more spending] will get people to spend more money; trying to get [R] support; renegotiate before foreclosures; where you use your credit card might lower your score; layoffs in TARGET & IBM; members of Congress just got an annual pay hike; it will be easier to sue for pay discrimination; Clinton made millions in ‘speaking fees’; billions of bonuses before being bought, top man forced to resign; babies weighed from 1.8 to 3.4 pounds; John Updike died in MA, life dedicated to the printed book; $155K cloned dog; cruise ship stuck on the Great Lakes; ID theft worries after personal documents blow out of office windows, land on NYC sidewalks; put politics aside, and please the American people; the revised digital date would be 6/12/09; will our country have the first Afro-American ATTY GEN; Apollo Theater in NYC is 75 years old; wrongful death lawsuits being filed by families for deaths by salmonella poisoning from peanut butter; automatic, robotic snow shovel; Obama is open to compromises from both sides; another Philly area fire; you can see where your money is being spent by accessing recovery.gov; US roads get a ‘D’ grade; there will be no NATL Mall improvements; $8K painting found in the trash; for sale: home in ATL that is a duplicate of the White House, with an asking price of $9.8 million; the DOW ending up; VP apologizes for comment made to Supreme Court Chief Judge Roberts; the country is looking to Washington for help: economists say the PRES ‘might not get it [the stimulus he wants] right the first time; the one second Super Bowl ad; Ted Haggard, the heterosexual, with ‘urges’: a sin to him’, is being gay; ‘not all spending is equal’; AIG spent $450 million for ‘retention bonuses’, or $1 million per person: the company received $152 billion in bailout bucks; ruin a company, keep your job, and get plenty of money for accomplishing that task’; the House rejects extending analog until 6/12/09; from $80K salary to unemployment to eviction; in a sober moment, Obama said “we don’t have a moment to spare”; PRES was surprised that DC schools were closed today, due to snow & ice; crisis is an understatement; Postmaster GEN wants to stop delivering mail on either Tuesday or Saturdays, to offset a $2.8 billion deficit; it will cost $2.2 trillion to improve the infrastructure; interest rates remain near 0%, economy not getting any better; have a personal mini-cell tower; Starbucks will be closing more stores; not one House [R] voted for the stimulus package; people knew the peanut butter was tainted;

UK cat stuck in a drain, paddled away as water came closer; provincial elections taking place in Iraq; more troops will head to AFG; ‘nobody stays clothed in my expensive sheets’: with that said, a CIA agent laced drinks with Xanax & Valium, then raped Muslim women in both Algeria & Egypt, the females were ‘physically paralyzed’; the next PM for Iceland may be a lesbian;

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