Friday, January 30, 2009

…1/29-09: come visit our community

29º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…GAQ; restless night; domestic partnership overcomes another hurdle, by one vote: ‘right’ or ‘wrongrights?; more credits needed to graduate from ABQ high schools; beryllium could get into lungs, cause respiratory problems, this makes NATL news; one of the warmest January on record; water rates going up in Santa Fe; woman found in mesa had been died a year ago; hard to download pictures on my Blog: pictures too small; fewer drunk drivers on the road, staying home to get inebriated; gas is $1.79 per gallon; NM GOV has cut his security staff; 1K state jobs will remain vacant; 2% pay cut for exempt state workers; Brad made an Apple Pie; people worry about crematorium smoke; NM unemployment for Dec., 2008 was 4.9%; police ‘kidnapped’ woman who was a cult follower, and whose leader was in jail; dress code dilemma;

fear of a lifetime; risk not capturing info on patients who transfer from PICU to PSCU or PGPU; Internal Medicine should be doing their usual Rounds, in addition to the extra paperwork; Cardiology meeting at 10:30A, that other people knew about, but not me; get example of CHC chart note; don’t cut free rides for UNM students; specialists see patients in other parts of UNMH, such as NICU, PICN plus Labor & Delivery; some people don’t have to turn in reports on time; Myrna’s granddaughter was locked in a car, and quickly freed; actually, this was a training session for a CHC Nurse Practitioner, and how she should bill her services [via UNMH]; Val has also resigned from her duties in the PEDS DEPT; no Code Purple today; the day started with a search for baby powder, to soak up butter that had dropped on Myrna’s slacks;

Light flurries in Chicago & Pittsburgh; warm in Los Angeles; cold & windy from Boston to NYC, across the Great Plains; DC is icy; rains across FL, parts of SE US; KY & AR under ice, declared states of emergency; the largest power outage in KY history; Cleveland may reach record January snowfall; roofs collapsing in New England; thirty foot ice mountains in MI; hours of freezing precipitation, 1.33 million in the dark from OK – MD, power may not be restored until mid-February; temps from 10s to 70s;
doctor discussion guide?; billions in 2008 Wall ST bonuses, called ‘the height of irresponsibility’; AOL is cutting 700 workers; very few not accessing FaceBook; salmonella outbreak spreading to more products, dry & roasted peanuts, inspections found mold, insects & holes in the roof of the GA factory that produced the paste; TX electronic ‘zombie signs’, created by hackers; ship of state moving in the right direction; job losses at Best Buy; economic gurus want more money spent; IL GOV pleads his case; more money needs to be spent quickly; bargain high couture fashion, jets & golf courses; NYC hotel room, all decorated in Godiva chocolate; more child molestation cases in Los Angeles diocese; some body armor is flawed; AK mountain eruption imminent, ash & debris could reach Anchorage; Bush at basketball game; dead body found in the bottom of an elevator shaft; NJ woman abandoned on a rural road in freezing temps, because of an auto insurance lawsuit, the victim suffered frostbite; OH family of four, killed in a murder–suicide pact; house moved across MN frozen lake; the DOW dropped; equal pay law signed by PRES; Super Bowl ads: violence, sex & alcohol; small screen distractions; quake off S CA coast; how to tell you hate your work: even jobsite may have commercial; car on fire during ice storm when power lines ignite vehicle; homeless man dead in a Detroit warehouse, two days before police did anything, nobody cares; people are staying home, not traveling to Tampa; $100K a second for Super Bowl ads; cheating way to solve Rubik’s Cube; Happy Hour, last night at the White House; MA mailman attacked by turkey; more same-sex equality rights for WA state?; rice, as a means to feeding millions; vegetable ads too ‘hot’ for TV?; call centers returning to the US; the First Family must pay for its own groceries; the ‘one leg of a stool’ speech; there are 4.78 million unemployed, ‘all collar jobs’; the highest ever recorded, more collecting for longer periods of time; the NATL AVG is now 7.2%; Blagojevich has been ousted, impeached, barred from holding another public office…and that’s just for starters; SPAM, the favorite food in HI;

MX soccer team creating magic dolls, so they can beat American players; mixed foreign markets; AFG, no longer ‘the other war’; Russia & Cuba had trade talks; the Arctic thaw, making fossil fuels more accessible, and starting a global battle to claim once frozen land; Argentina faces drought; Blackwater is banned from Iraq; oil is $41.44 per barrel;

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