30º in ABQ; 69% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; leg pain going away; Marty is in DC for the conference of mayors, have to spend any stimulus money fast; two years: use it, or lose it; ABQ restaurants suddenly shutting down; second cockfighting ring found in S Valley; former Chief of Staff part of the ‘pay to play’ scheme; N NM Pueblo declared disaster area because of heavy snow; ‘talk to the NM GOV’ Day, people asked about health INS needs & job security, plus the state of the state; Valencia CNTY homicide?; Strep INFX kills 2 in Curry CNTY; NM education report card is a ‘C’, but that grade is higher than previous years; Scorpions team facing money problems; are NM cities following the hiring creed?; ABQ Journal will stop home delivery in parts of NM; Brad created homemade Steamed Pork Buns;
Hell Week, Day 3.5; where are Dr. Fahl’s green cards for his recent I/P visits?; people don’t know the color of forms; needed to correct my mistakes on PICU forms, and procures that were requested by said DEPT, but never told us, this was done in about thirty minutes…no need to thank me; half of NM must be in the Pavilion; we now have a new toner; MGMT vs. MGR vs. Data Entry area backlog; Code Purple at 6:30A, lasted all day; avoid questions, or questioning; finished busy Rounds by 9A; Hope & I in constant contact; tapped into overdrive; more scathing comments continue from Compliance to Coding; MGR ‘borrows’ a PC when she is at home?; no one on AM R/R when I boarded the bus; Linda has the start of a cold; staff & their families are ill; very crowded ER; MGR called me one hour prior to Closing; time to tone down the evaluation rhetoric; nobody else caught the ‘905’ mistake;
snow squalls across E NY to W MA, parts of I-90, NY Thruway & MA Pike; flurries in VA, WV, PA, KY, Great Smokies, MI; cool SE US; one year ago, severe Midwest tornado outbreak; waters rise in WA, 30K have left their homes; CO brushfire can be seen from I-25, three separate blazes, winds exceeding 100 mph, blackened 7K acres; GA rain fills dry lakes; I-5 shut down in OR & WA; below zero temps in AK; very cold in the Twin Cities; semis pushed aside by strong winds; temps from 0s to 80s; more San Fran showers;
Mr. Obama needs your support, will speak to Americans today; 139 year old baseball card found on EBay, could be worth $100K, picture of the first baseball team; officials predict 10% unemployment in 2009; violence escalates after police shot BART rider; oil stockpiles on the rise; Obama becomes a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor, for one month only; man wants kidney as divorce settlement, or $1.5 million dollars; double-digit unemployment rate by mid-2009?; coupons have run out: Obama wants to delay the digital transition, Congress disagrees; 0% interest rate [on approved credit] on car loans, with prices not seen since the mid–1990s’; the DOW was down; court ruled that if one ‘owner’ of a mortgage says ‘no’, a family can still refinance their property; presently, an $800 billion stimulus program; Barack bonded with ‘Baby’ the three-legged dog; Madoff mailed brooches & necklaces & cufflinks…oh, my!; everyone entering DC on inauguration day will be scanned; OR teens ignoring cell phone ban while talking; Celtics have to turn their losing streak around; in electronics, thin is ‘in; switch to menthol to help quit smoking; helps if doctor tells you to stop; forty members of Congress live in their offices; in retaliation, man burns ‘No Smoking’ sign; stores keep cutting prices; WINDOWS 7 will be released by 2010?; Tetris can help trauma victims?; focus on energy, infrastructure & education; 250K Nissan vehicles recalled; pitching his PRES policy & plan to the public; several Macy’s stores will close; how to improve the energy grid, and make healthcare more high-tech; would this be a permanent, or temporary fix?; 30 year mortgage rates drop to 5.01%; eat bacon, live longer?; consumers borrowing less than predicted; St Louis shooting puts neighborhood school on lockdown; most people still don’t want to spend money, or take out loans; it is official: Obama is the new PRES: 365 vs. 175 electoral votes for McCain; SONIC restaurants may have economic problems; Madoff was betrayed by his own sons, the swindler had $173 million in checks in his desk, to be sent to his families & friends; salmonella strikes 42 states; has the American economy already reached the turning point, and it’s uphill from here?;
MX City bans spitting gum on their brand new sidewalk; swallow the substance; ‘Joe the Plumber’ going to Iraq; Venezuela will continue to provide oil to those in need in the US; foreign markets falling; oil rose to $43.05 per barrel; 600 year old Stag Brewery in the UK closing its doors; is Lebanon entering the Middle East conflict, so many false reports; children of war suffer from ulcers; food getting scarce again in Gaza;
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