Saturday, January 10, 2009

…1/9-09: the best things in life are not free, but priceless

30º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…Brad’s Chiro visit; GAQ; Tribal Arts: buy a rug, they will give to a charity of your choice; Winter Weather Advisories; some PM MTN snow; High Fire Danger in parts of NM; Mesa del Sol needs a separate school district; Tucumcari needs a new City MGR; children served hot or cold meals, depending on a student’s lunch food debt; Bernalillo Sheriff accused of child abuse, burning a youngster six or seven years ago; NM GOV had donated money to IL GOV campaign; deadly rollover crash kills driver, shuts down I-25, near Tramway; another bank robbery in the Duke City: this time, on Fourth ST; this crime is now increasing in Valencia CNTY; speed chase turned deadly near Santa Fe, when a woman crashed into a truck; cockfighting ring one of many in several states; illegal killing of MX Care Wolf; computer glitch affects Duke City workers’ paychecks; the AVG price of gas in NM is $1.76: in the US, $1.78;

9:30A Compliance meeting at 1650; MGR mother in HOSP; Code Purple at 6:30A, and lasted all day; finished Rounds before 9A; almost forgot to submit my return from lunch E-mail; hard work paid off; Myrna’s granddaughter on KOAT Channel 7 News, one year B’day; UNMMG MGMT battleground; some people are constantly being written up; the ‘Shirley Harris era’ at UNMMG; do not believe anything you hear vs. these are two good Coders; comic quest; got home after 6P, after walking up Eubank;

I-90 avalanches; 1,400 acres burned near Boulder; NM MTN snow mentioned on ABC AM News; major weekend snowstorm from OH to New England, and parts of the mid-Atlantic area; temps from 0s to 70s; lake effect snow today; warm Miami; Winter Watches & Warnings from the N Plains, OH, MI, IL, IN; below zero high temps in AK; as I-5 is closed from Portland to Seattle, so $4 million per day in lost revenue; twenty miles of the interstate closed, 10K trucks are not moving; Twin Cities snow; heavy rains pound WA, causing more rivers to crest;

‘un-friend’ for a Whopper; Arlington, WA; Boeing will lay off 4,500 more workers; 4.5 – 5.0 quake shook San Bernardino Valley, tremor felt as S as MX: so far, no injuries or major damage reported; the Polaroid digital camera?; Patrick Swayze hospitalized for pneumonia; 2.6 million jobs were lost in 2008, the highest in over sixty years, numbers not seen in fifteen years; US unemployment rate has reached 7.2%; employers expect experience; will stimulus plan actually force jobs overseas?; PRES Elect in six page Spider Man story [Obama used to collect comic books]; impeachment process, based on abuse of power by Blagojevich; read books via IPod; fraud at the FDA; eight million American homes only have analog TV sets: people may need a new antenna [in the middle of winter], as well as a conversion box, and channel assignments may change, making people think device does not work, and will flood call centers with cries for help, that will swamp customer service personnel, and the allocated amount for coupon discounts [which have a 90 day expiration: no exception, nonrenewable], totaling $1.34 billion, has been reached; high-tech aimed at baby boomers; first ‘one day sale’ for 2009; new ‘bells & whistle’ cell phone unveiled; even a salad can be ‘fattening’; US job report released today; infrastructure needs repairs; Congress must act now; impact on energy, electronics & education; Baltimore mayor charged with theft & perjury; man arrested at LAX for possession of at least thirty weapons in his vehicle; more people are buying American vehicles; the DOW is in negative territory; in 32 states toxic coal ash appearing in lakes;

6.2 quake shook Costa Rica, 10 confirmed deaths: another tremor rocked Indonesia; UK woman passed away, buried under piles of junk & luggage; Gaza on the verge of collapse, but Hamas will not be bound by resolutions, and keeps shooting rockets; foreign markets falling; many children growing up in underground shelters, afraid all the time; temporary truce today; UN calling for immediate ceasefire, supported by the US;

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