…2/27-09: yesterday began tomorrow

43º in ABQ; 27% humidity at 6A…a Green Line R/R; Brad has a dry throat; BNSF furloughs; still hope for Eclipse Aviations; seventh day of record warmth; GAQ; NM lottery sales have slightly slumped; barrier on N NM bridge to prevent suicides; groundbreaking of CNM campus in Rio Rancho; ‘desperate homeowners’ in NM; more commercial airlines can fly into Santa Fe airport; Clovis man sentenced to 59 years in jail for beating & raping a woman; February was warm & dry; S NM Fire Warnings & Watches; more sexual harassment charges against Las Vegas school district; some ski slopes are still open; new company would be named ‘New Eclipse’, planes would cost more to buy; the guys and the customers at the bookstore are human, male, and not gay [as far as I know]; 9% humidity at 6P; last night, fell asleep without ever being under the covers, instead, I was wrapped in several blankets; gas is $1.95 per gallon; man charged with attempting to hit a newscaster; do some people work?; Downs of NM will remain at Expo NM for at least one year, maybe two; SunPort is one of two airports to have a whole body scanner; yard sales to pay for vacations; French – Vietnamese restaurant on Menaul has closed, to be replaced by a Garcia’s; Brad making Pizza Dough; more bone, more news, now thirteen bodies discovered; the new bus route would go from Downtown to Tramway on Central; Fiery Foods Festival at Sandia Casino;

Hell Week: Prelude; during vote, 70% do not approve UNM PRES Schmidley; Dr. Brandt forgot to include dates of service; Evelyn has been to Cape Cod; she was in Daytona Beach, and met a couple who were there because of winning a game show contest; she agrees that KS is ‘flat’, has friend in the Tidewater area; finished Rounds about 8A; gave JoAnn a copy of the providers’ list; helped with PATH TES edits; need fifteen examples for an audit; eight year old fell into fire pit, suffered third degree burns over 50% of his body; Housekeeping arrived at 3:30P to clean our office; better yet: don’t walk, talk; got home about 6P, using Carlisle to Menaul to Menaul to R/R; discussed ‘Dark Knight’ & ‘Watchmen’;

Omaha snow showers; rain parts of: PA, OH, WV, NY, PA, NJ; E Coast warmth, then winds; AL, TN, AR, MS, GA, NC, SC, KC Memphis, parts of I-20, I-55 & I-65; cold N plains; ‘beauty’ of tornadoes; Red Flag Fire Warnings across parts of TX; temps from 0s to 80s; Boston warmth; ‘no travel’ warnings in MN, trucks toppled by NV winds; record rainfall in Chicago, which has changed to snow;

GOVT buys more of Citibank, a large chunk of the largest bank; PRES budget will help the middle class, not those earning over $250K; bad for contributions to charities?; Fannie Mae needs more money to survive; GM lost $31 billion, need $17 billion more; Laura Bush needed to borrow a dining room table when entertaining guests in her Dallas home; fix health care coverage before adding enrollees; discount airfare & luggage prices for the unemployed; democratic vote on future FaceBook changes by its 175 million members; McDonalds’ worker may not have his medical treatment paid, after saving a customer from being attacked; APPLE, and the Internet ‘bookmarks’; CA has reached the 10.1% unemployment rate; 6½% decrease in the GDP for the last quarter in 2008; Grand Canyon NATL Park is ninety years old; Los Angeles is the most congested city in the US; six ‘trouble spots’ are in NY, two in both CA & IL; Tom Brady marries Brazilian model: she earned $31 million in 2008; man gets fined for jaywalking after saving pedestrians from being struck by a vehicle; doodling may actually allow a person to maintain info at a meeting; Sam Donaldson stepping down; airline tickets rising soon; COMCAST announces latest body count in ABQ; NATL Guard leaving New Orleans; five million people are unemployed, the last time that number was reached was in 1967; AZ father turned on the dryer while his one year old child was ‘playing’ inside the appliance; 23% decrease in US exports, part of the backbone in American economy; CA is in a serious drought; CA deacon, soccer coach, father, thief; another down day for the DOW; man sent HIV tainted blood to Obama; can the PRES live up to the hype?; as of now, NLP CONV in Buffalo;

UK girl fired for complaining online, saying her job is dull, and mentioning names; Obama gets [R] support for pulling 90K of 140K troops out of Iraq by August, 2010: is the number remaining too many?; will keep reviewing timeline; four Americans died in Amsterdam plane crash; Liz Taylor is 77 years old; octopus pulls the plug, floods an aquarium; more Australian wildfires; pilot error: Russian planes flew into Canadian airspace;

…2/26-09: find the floor tile that fits

51º in ABQ; 29% humidity at 6A…Strange Sustiva dream about putting on a play in an auditorium that looks condemned; GAQ; no need for AM heat at home; ABQ owns the Eclipse BLDG; SAQ at Santa Fe: state could lose jobs, so do not eliminate incentives to NM filmmakers; to get rid of pollen, shampoo at night; full Senate vote on controversial Domestic Partnership bill today…the nays won, 25 – 17, even the GOV is disappointed by the defeat, no equality for unmarried couples; Duke City trashcans are very expensive; a ban on texting while driving?; as I was trying to flag the bus to stop, the AM R/R just sped by; student with ‘white powder’ in school that was an amphetamine;

too many kids with facial swelling…mumps, or food allergies?; it takes just as much time writing info, compared to visiting the wards and getting labels; more UNM projects being postponed; Schmidley will not step down; 500 people showed up to cast ballots on ‘no confidence’ vote; Value Options will pay for multiple consults; finished modified Rounds by 8:15A; Evelyn is out today; what about PICN, and CTI Psych., and O/P Neuropsychology?; forgot to include PICU in my list to MGR; JoAnn always looks angry when I enter their area; Debbie is feeling better;

MN, Dakotas‘ snow; thrill of tornado chase; windy Dallas; Detroit rain; four types of snowflakes; Madison snow; MO, IL, St. Louis storms; temps from 0s to 80s [90s?]; snow in Rockies;

Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Boston Red Sox at Spring Training; girdle for men?; too reduce weight, stay on a diet, get a coach, or join a group whose goals are to lose pounds; improve efficiency in Medicare & Medicare; more money for innovative education; 30% traffic congestion on the roads; battling the ‘letter of the law’; banks ‘stress tests’ will be completed by April; passengers suing Denver Airport plane crash; complete Obama budget will be revealed by April; two men swindled $550 million from investors; Stevie Wonder has won 25 Grammy Awards; healthy people, who take them, do not need to include vitamins in their daily routine, just ‘expensive urine’; but take them when pregnant; 25% of those polled postponing health care during these hard times; there’s more to GOOGLE than web searching; ABQ ‘Mesa bodies’ keep making CNN headlines; PRES picks AIDS/HIV advisor; [D] upset over Obama budget; more new job claims than expected; housing sales at all-time low; a increase in hate groups, such as Neo-Nazis, the KKK, and those who are anti-Semitic; jobless rate at 26 year high; did a professor defraud NASA?; and the DOW dropped; photographers feeling the recession crunch; no funds for volcanic research; 46 million adults are uninsured, 25 million are underinsured, and 8.1 children are uninsured; DELL earnings not as strong as projected; Laura Bush has yet to cook, and their new home needs furniture; honoring the dead, photos when approved by the family…does that mean the parents, or the spouses decide?; the $3.5 trillion Obama budget; a cell phone that can diagnose health, such as asthma or diabetes; an orangutan that whistles at the NATL Zoo; is recession threatening our country’s security?; $750 billion in reserve to help banks…just in case; 252 financial institutions are in trouble; public money vs. private jet; the CEO who gave $3.6 billions to 700 workers; Zales will close 115 stores; Action Comics #1 for sale;

UK man lost job, and his girlfriend after streaking, and hurling arrows, playing Cupid; test run of Iranian nuclear power plant; the Grilled Cheese Toaster, made in Britain; why did plane lose speed, and drop from the sky over Amsterdam, two miles from the runway?; there was light fog in the area; at least four Americans on the jet; most people polled want to send troops to AFG, but also say that war is not worth fighting; mixed, unsure foreign markets; drugs, cash & weapons made in MX; envoy from America could visit N Korea ‘soon’; global warming could cause a five feet increase in sea level; students warned not to visit MX during Spring Break; a 6.4% increase in the price of oil; the ‘Cosmic Eye’; America has the right to shoot down a N Korean missile; ‘Slumdog’ children & their families get new homes;

…2/25-09: the feeling every body wants

41º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…GAQ; NMAS AM TV ad; no fire alarms at Roswell airport?; the ‘cheese sandwich plan’ in Duke City schools is working; Double Eagle Airport suing the Duke City; while CO is the thirtieth, NM is the ninth deadliest state, in terms of drunk driving deaths; QWEST will look for another Internet company to help those whose service will be cut; a slow trend to cooler, but still above AVG temps; College of Santa Fe will close this may; ‘economic development’: what will replace Eclipse in that BLDG; people should pay for crimes against animals; PM dust storm at The Beach; number eleven: bones of another body were found in the W Mesa, a pregnant woman; the Duke City owns most of Eclipse Aviation equipment; months ago, its workers should have been told the truth, many have specialized jobs; now, the FBI will not help in bone searching;

software training at 1650, that has been changed to mid March, because of the February Closing; two enemies, one room; Radiothon in the Pavilion; ‘no confidence’ vote today at UNM; ‘don’t look at me with that tone of voice’; finished Rounds by 7:30A; empty AM Central, asked the driver if he wanted to go for breakfast in Santa Fe; return to the ‘original’ PDI form; girl drank hair shampoo to kill herself; I am ‘just’ an I/P PEDS Coder, nothing mentioned about CTI, or CART, ECMO or I/P specialists…stings just enough to be felt; two days ago, the UNMH ER ‘shut down’ or ‘closed’ for one hour;

MN, WI showers; Winter Weather Warnings in Dakotas & MT; tornado aftermath; OR & WA rain; SE US showers; plans for S UT wind farm, consisting of fifty turbines; Watch, then Warnings; temps from – 0s to 80s;

Spring Training has started; people & planes don’t usually land successfully on the Hudson; man rescued from Half Dome in Yosemite; a rat as the new pet; economy in a ‘contraction’; Burris refusing to step down; Northern Trust Bank being told to return money, business used bailout bucks on parties; the impact is real; O, Obama…optimistic, or overconfident orator; after years of indulgence & excess, solve the credit crisis & crunch; time to act boldly & wisely; people are already getting weary of the recession; Obama could not find where Michelle was sitting; “Yes, we will”; met with numerous rounds of applause; ‘we’ will recover; the ‘rhino’ virus; when father figures cannot be found; a better site to locate soap opera reviews; Best Buy expands recycling; the twenty-first century ‘fireside chat’?; billions spent to help cure the common cold; honesty, and optimism; legalize, and tax marijuana?; ‘Watchmen’ preview on TV; the ‘super naked’ Dr. Manhattan; the DOW is slightly down; we are constantly being bombarded by the ‘fear factor’; text a maximum of 140 characters to the Twitter website; LOL = ‘lots of luck’, or ‘laugh out loud’; follow your diet; Dr. Manhattan is ‘true blue’; the Bush ADMIN increased the NATL debt more than all previous PRES combined; the topless coffee shop in ME; 70% polled say the recession won’t end until 2011; Americans are scared: terror is spreading across society; does Obama have too many priorities?, and can he multitask?; PRES wants to cap carbon emissions; lending at a standstill, need to trust banks; but some people don’t want loans, they want cash; for unknown reasons at this time, a FL man shot his wife, his two children, and then himself; ABQ bones make COMCAST headlines; [R] rebuttal panned by many; body rots in AL hearse; Biden could not remember the PRES website’s address; the resurrection of ‘Melrose Place’?; $634 billion over the next decade will improve health care?;

UK man caught 770 lb. stingray off Thailand; its barbs can puncture wood; foreign markets rising; now, a nineteen month withdrawal from Iraq; Spain will accept some GITMO prisoners; Turkish airline has crashed in Amsterdam, so far, nine deaths have been reported, the nose went up, then it crashed into mud, breaking into three pieces, just a few miles from the airport; the number of airplane crashes have started to increase; volcano bubbling in Chile; Sci-Fi writer Philip Jose Farmer died in his sleep at the age of 91;

…2/24-09: numbers & budgets

45º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Children’s Museum fire in Santa Fe; no available beds, means eight to ten hour waits at Presbyterian ER; increase in development discovering bodies; did the Duke City school & police systems do enough to protect the teenage girl who was raped; Red Flag Fire Warnings: Jet Stream on vacation?; Rail Runner expansion from El Paso & Taos; bad allergy weather; using high-tech equipment to detect more W Mesa corpses; Sandia ski slopes are closed, due to warm weather; is NM imposing same–sex marriages?; NM GOV will make a major DWI statement at Balloon Fiesta Park; CVS opening four stores in the Duke City by this summer; pre-ordered ‘Milk’; gas is now $1.85 per gallon; Eclipse Aviation has filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy, meaning that all assets must be sold; 70% of the Duke City’s water usage is in landscaping; more bodies, different location, near I-25 & Isleta;

one complains about what we do: the other, about what we don’t do; finished Rounds by 7:45A; are people seeking new jobs, or being persuaded to leave?; UNM archeologists finding W Mesa bodies, only one has been identified; Code Purple at 6:30A, lasted all day; Coders want to use tanning salons; Adonae ‘decorated’ my white shirt, with black ink, but she is doing well, and scheduled for a Renal visit; Debbie is not feeling well; Brandi has another modeling job; spilled milk twice on my pants; 61 year old tried to commit suicide by slashing their wrists; is ‘it’ ‘worth’ it, losing a day off vs. losing a job; praise to our MGR from the Big Boss: our dollar amount value for edits is about $18K, or only 3.79% of the grand total…but an ‘FYI’, not a ‘thank you’; for now, Adonae is not afraid of being in a HOSP;

record highs in TX; snow in the Finger Lakes; NYC cold; feels like 6º in Boston: 10º in DC; 125K without power in N New England; Seattle storm; showers from KS; Norman. OK fire, also in N Central FL, AL & GA; 72º high temp in ABQ, mentioned on ABC Morning News; tornado fascination; dry SE US, and New England; ‘cool’ in FL; ME ‘black ice’; Memphis showers; temps from 10s to 80s;

Mardi Gras; stocks down, gloom up; Snuggie parties; man was caught & arrested, when trying to sneak 44 reptiles through Security; some states are outlawing fish that do pedicures; ‘sacrifices must be made’; Obama will address Congress tonight; American Express asking people to close their accounts, and paying them $300 to as an incentive; bank CEO issued bonuses, which were GOVT bailout bucks, before merger; ABC AM News focuses on then bodies found near the Duke City, mostly drug dealers & prostitutes; free pancakes at IHOP; would you ‘look the other way’?; 20% polled are late to work at least once a week; $8K per person spent on health care; hard times means less money, and more burglaries, thefts & vandalisms; George Clooney met with Obama & Biden, to talk about Darfur; MA teacher & her student in WV, ‘taking a vacation’, she has been suspended; first Chinese–American GOV may become Commerce SECY; spending billions to replace Marine One, the Capitol copter; nationwide raid on child prostitutes; more people watching TV during fourth quarter of 2008; the DOW is up; flu season reaching its peak; the ‘universal vaccine’; to protect from the bird flu?; link between mercury, and autism?; will the stimulus package feed the hungry?; building a better, but cheaper electronic reader?; scare you’re your worries at a movie; higher interest rates to pay for the stimulus?; Obama will be ‘honest, but optimistic’; tough decisions, tough times; desert bodies make CNN news; how do Americans describe how they feel about America; consumer confidence still declining; ‘what are you doing for me?’; too much pressure on one man, having to solve all of the country’s problems at the same time; beautiful, warm weather means large crowds in New Orleans; tech firms cut 5K jobs; will we ever see Heath Ledger’s last film?; mother was trying to sell her baby for $130; Jackson Browne is suing McCain for using his ‘Running on Empty’ song without permission; CA wants to legalize marijuana; pilots’ salaries & employee benefits have been slashed; Tiger Woods recovered from his knee injury, and became a father; recover from the rebuilding; long-term recovery, and a short-term recession, that ‘might’ end this year; America is the patient, Obama is the doctor; is the US suffering from ‘bailout fatigue’; Val Kilmer spotted in New Orleans; home prices have fallen 18% during the last twelve months; Tropicana does not like its new product design; PRES is still finding it hard to be in the ‘bubble’, and handle all the cameras; this is our ‘day of reckoning’; to save $125K, the NY Post is dropping columnist Liz Smith; an infant & six others were shot while watching a Mardi Gras parade;

3-D art in Germany & Scotland, makes it looks like a crevice, or volcanic crater; Japan’s market at 26 year’s low, other countries in Asia are also acting negatively; woman has over 6K piercing, some are internal; four major fires still burn across Australia; foreign markets are falling; the YSL auction, bringing in over $380 million, including the very best of art, and ancient Chinese statues, money raised for AIDS research; NASA satellite crashed soon after liftoff; the tusk of a male elephant grow faster than those of a female; N Korea launching a satellite?; and another online super virus; Agatha Christie’s country home opens to the public;

…2/23-09: psychic lunch specials

40º in ABQ; 25% humidity at 6A…early AM panic attack; Brad at the Food Bank; GAQ; too ‘warm’ for the heat to stay on during the early AM; kidnap & rape of fourteen year old girl, met men by texting to them, taken from school; why was student unnoticed for most of the day; foreclosures have doubled in Rio Rancho; Domestic Partnership bill will be discussed this week in NM legislative session, continued heated meetings; [R] oppose the bill; ‘gay marriage in disguise’; was Navajo Nation cheated from fuel payments; an unbuckled seat belt led to a cocaine bust along I-40 near the Route 66 Casino; Sandoval CNTY has the biggest bankruptcy rate; E NM High Fire Danger; NM GOV not in DC because he does not want to leave the yearly legislative session; six confirmed flu cases in NM; state resident did win an Oscar for Visual Effects; record highs may be reached; this past weekend, did not get as much sleep as I would have liked; casino revenue still growing, just a little slower than in previous years; Brad prepared a tasty Potato Onion Soup; ten bodies have been found in a 30 sq. yard area, including a fetus, now the FBI is involved; overpriced vehicles are being sold in used car dealerships; an ABQ transportation czar; it’s not the altitude, it’s the oxygen; build a bridge over Jefferson at Paseo; ABQ buses are equipped to handle physically handicapped; two children watched their aunt stab their mother; stay more, pay more: increase lodging taxes to 25%;

two rivals, for stupid reasons; Myrna out; UNM AVG salary included retirement amount; midday problems with both PowerChart & RUPERT [logging people off, and communication errors, others have also called IT, cannot complete TES edits]; maybe these people are too young to remember the hard times of the 80s & 90s; Code Purple at 6:30A, and all day; finished Rounds at 7:30A; was Jenny here?; last week’s ‘lunch money’ could have been used for something better; we have a bunch of sick children waiting at the PEDS Clinic; arguing is futile;

deadly, fascinating tornadoes; ME blizzard, New England rain to snow; Burlington, VT has had 25 inches of heavy, wet snow; cold, windy DC; snow in the Cascades & Sierras; flurries from Cleveland to Pittsburgh; same AM temps in Tallahassee & Augusta, ME; OK fires; San Fran rain; ABC mentioned the 70º high for ABQ; temps from 10s to 80s; snow in MN; 150K in ME are still without power;

former SECY of State Rice has signed a deal to write three books; former Secret Service Agency will oversee the stimulus money; the sleek Blu-Ray player; kickbacks in PA CNTY: are corrupt judges jailing teens for money, then pleading guilty themselves, face jail time, plus besides being disbarred?; poverty & smoking can cause postpartum depression, seek medical help; the ‘unnecessary bleeper’; the return to free in-flight, non-alcoholic drinks; winners & losses; Sean Penn, Heath & ‘Slumdog’ won ‘big’; show panned by critics, looked like a Tony Awards program; received Oscars, Kate Winslet & Penelope Cruz also obtained Oscars; ‘Slumdog’ won eight, including movie & director; ‘Benjamin Button’, three: ‘Batman’ & ‘Milk’, two; US GOV will keep meeting with PRES; massive emergency spending vs. less, unnecessary spending; difference reactions in the country, states & parties; stimulus dollar values are estimates, if all goes well; tattoos on the eyeball, the latest ‘trend’; now, at some airports, the full body scanner; Citigroup has already received $45 billion; analysts say the economy will not start to rise until 2010; MICROSOFT wants to educate America in computer & software skills; people bought homes they could not afford; did Obama leave DC to sign stimulus bill?; small talk, big debate; is ‘Team Obama’ splitting the country?; Ar–nold wants to act again?; Obama needs a ‘constructive minority’; he gets ten letters each day in a purple folder, from Americans, asking him to help them; 68% still approve what the PRES is doing, such as reaching out to [R]; the flu kills 36K people in the US each year; Sean Penn is for gay rights, and gay marriage; ‘Milk’ also won for Best Screenplay; the other actor who received an Oscar after his death was Peter Finch; the next, new Commerce SECY may be the former GOV of WA; the DOW fell to a low not seen since 1997, closing at 7114, down 250+ points; states may get stimulus money starting this week; if you invested in the stock market during 1997, all the profits made during the past twelve years, were eliminated today; twenty-four years later, and the Barry Allen – Flash has yet to be brought back from oblivion; never skip a dose of medication, try not to ‘pill split’; NASDAQ closed at 1,388; developing ‘avian radar’ for airports; Ginsberg has returned to the US Supreme Court; “you do know I’m carrying a gun? Me, too, but I don’t like to brag”; temporarily nationalize banks for 1 – 2 years; can banks weather a severe ‘downturn’?; Oscar show ratings were up by 6%; Wall ST: the CTR of free market capitalism, with rules that don’t make dollars, or ‘sense’; Citibank has lost $27 million from the ‘Nigerian scam’; Ritz Camera files for bankruptcy; the NATL Debt is now $11 trillion; Obama had a free meeting, called to help solve the country’s economic problems;

weird animal bonding: right age, right size, right time; some of the ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ cast were from Mumbai, a city of thirteen million, some of the cast came from the Indian slums; 1950: the year the USSR said they had an atomic bomb; undercover US group in PAK, working to crush the Taliban; the ‘ghetto to glory’ film; the little movie that could; mixed foreign markets; oil dropped to $38.06 per barrel; Greek inmate committed a similar prison break three years ago, that jail’s director & two other workers resigned today; gold has fallen to $995 per ounce; the world is in a worse condition than it was in 1929; the $1 Jetstar airfare that crashed the airline’s website;

…2/22-09: freedom never goes out of style

33º in ABQ; 30% humidity at 6A…the start of the warmest days since November; the two S Valley men argued over a weapon, alcohol was a factor; man wanted for Las Cruces stabbing; more High Fire Danger; another man broke several ribs of one year old, plus fractured the victim’s arm & legs, charged with severe child abuse; hundreds of job openings at the ABQ Verizon Call CTR; against the law to have music so loud that it can be heard outside a vehicle when the windows are up; minor NE Duke City paint store fire; air too dry to rain; the NM state budget nearing $5.5 billion; Alameda water main break has been repaired; legislative proposal for adding more state agencies to an INS pool, to provide affordable health coverage; overall budget for state workers has dropped; screeching of wheels could be a ‘sound violation’; NM resident nominated for Visual Effects; veterans who live outside NM could qualify for low interest tuition loans, for themselves and their families; two suspects arrested in soda bottle explosions; disabled teen shows the true spirit of cheerleading; a 1.5% contribution increase by workers to pension plans; Duke City freezer means ruined meats for children’s meals, damage will cost $1,500 to repair; cuts in Valencia CNTY Dispatch Service; there have been state hires after the NM GOV put a freeze on new workers; from 248 to 1,222 state workers making more than $70K, the growth covers 2003 – 2008; no roads on the Pajarito Mesa, but about 300 families live in that area; Torrance CNTY grass fire near McIntosh; Buffalo Casino, the place with the most ‘bonuses’; plane made a safe, emergency landing on Highway 54 in Alamogordo; Brad won $2 in Albertson’s ‘Monopoly’ contest; PNM caused power outages & traffic jams at I-25 & Jefferson; ‘Wrestler’ is a low budget film, with a NM resident as its co-producer;

more N Plains, New England rain & snow showers; NAACP leader wants editor & cartoonist fired from NY Post, indirectly showing Obama [as a chimp] being shot & killed; people hated ‘Indiana Jones’ movie; Oscar Night, when Hollywood becomes the CTR of the universe; the evening of mystery guests; RI woman up for Supporting Actress award; emulate elegance of past shows, but the reality of recession has toned down post victory parties; a ‘sentimental choice’ for Mickey Rourke; avoid the never-ending speeches; ‘little, golden statues’; keeping it ‘mum’ on details & presenters; Hugh Jackman, this year’s host, has never been invited to the Oscars; after previous losses, will Kate Winslet finally win; Penn vs. Pitt; the Supporting Actor award would go to Heath Ledger’s three year old daughter; now, showers off NC coast; Pineapple Express man bring moisture to Los Angeles; Flight 3407 flew ‘by the book’; seven school buses torched in same town targeted by arsonists; Bush goes to Dallas, TX hardware store that offered him a job as a ‘greeter’; Obama will cut the budget deficit in half by the end of his four year; SAG has rejected deal from Hollywood producers; all eight babies are now doing well; borrowing & spending will not work vs. avoid ideology; VT store catalogue will include its sex toys; Halle Berry was the first Afro American woman to win the Best Actress award; NATL GOV meeting continues in DC; fourteen year old CA student disappears on her way to school; did a Seattle man sink his own yacht for the INS money?; more TV ads focusing on the bad economy; wooly mammoth skeleton found in Los Angeles; the Rodeo Drive recession, with stores closed along its golden path?; best ways to improve your credit score: lie, and cheat; a speedy rail system between Anaheim & ‘the’ Las Vegas; mayors want to start new, but not fix old, problems that affect their cities’ infrastructure; more ‘Watchmen’ ads on TV; another train route would link the ‘C’ cities in OH to Chicago; enjoyed ‘The Dark Knight’; Army charity who raised money to help returning soldiers, has been filling its own ‘reserves’, the Army Emergency Relief has hoarded $117 million, saying it was necessary, in order to handle future catastrophes; 100 years since the start of the first Mardi Gras flamboyant dance; Celtics beat the Suns; the ethical mortgage lenders, where 98% of their loans are paid on time; the ‘stealth ship’ which causes seasickness, but is a ‘military Batmobile’, and can cruise in three feet of water, but is rough at high speeds; ‘more show, and less biz’; snow in the Cascades; a ‘little known trick’ called cell phone swapping; the $10 trillion NATL Debt; terminate the CA [R] ‘country’ rule; disappearing dollars; suspicious white powder discovered at Disneyland ticket booths; stocks falling based future fears that bank will fail, because of bad assets on their books; one man died, three were injured in downtown Los Angeles shooting; is HI ready for civil unions?; Heath dominated the movie, so why wasn’t he nominated for ‘Best Actor’…whom did he ‘support’?;

polio vaccine needed in PAK & India; death toll has reached 74 from gas explosion in a Chinese mines, the most dangerous in the world; Cairo: the largest city in Egypt, and the Arab World…déjà vu?; attack on Cairo bazaar killed at least one person; are invisible UFOs floating above the world’s airports?; in-flight showers?; ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ won the Spirit Award; “can’t appease an invader”; $400 million a day spent on the war in Iraq;

…2/21-09: hooked on books

36º in ABQ; 26% humidity at 6A… two men died in the S Valley last night, may have shot each other; four people injured by chemical explosions in a bottle ignited at Smith’s near Paseo & WY; APT lights lowered during early AM; TX woman stabbed her husband to death, arrested & surrendered in Gallup; police funds in Santa Fe face a 5% budget cut, about $800K; cold in E NM, warm in W NM; Mayor Chavez has stopped LANL from becoming part of DEPT of Defense, remain under Energy DEPT; strict restrictions on man being released who killed four family members by driving the wrong way, put the crime in the past; there is still skiing in N NM; the seventh month of above AVG temps for the Duke City; using Coca Cola to clean a toilet; Efferdent to clean jewelry; PAM for soap scum; Maxi-Pads to protect knees when scrubbing floors & clean windshields [who knew?]; building the right rocket to rise above the others, and preventing a crash landing, protect the payload [an egg]; another bomb in a soda bottle found at the TARGET on Montgomery; Clovis man charged with beating his two month old child; to avoid dehydration, I have to refill my glass during TV commercials; man stabbed his ‘friend’ for not dropping him off closer to his home; hot air balloon seen at 6:30A; Survivor [‘Eye of the Tiger’] appearing in Espanola, one of the 80s ‘Big Hair & Tight Pants Band’; Verizon Call CTR in ABQ is hiring, and giving performance based bonuses; Portales peanut plant profiting from salmonella scare that has sickened 600 people; drug smuggler shot & killed in NM desert, near El Paso; the extra protection in interlock inhalers; Hank Williams III plays both C&W and heavy metal; another NM resident was killed in Iraq; SEN Public Affairs Committee passed domestic partnership bill, allowing companies who provide these health benefits for these people, heading to SEN judiciary committee; NATL Guard General may run for NM GOV; UNM paying big bucks to find ways of saving energy; train proposed between Las Cruces & El Paso; NM joining a group of states to determine PRES election by popular vote; Duke City GOVT officials were at Coronado Mall; Melloy Dodge will honor dealership’s contracts, maintenance agreements & warranties; NM GOV met with Zangara; hopes of Eclipse Aviation being sold are fading;

today, governors are meeting in DC to discuss recovery package; recession brings back popular toys of the past; major crash on Highway 101 when SUV goes out of control, slammed into a tree, and burst into flames; another OR bank shuts its doors; women are ten years older when they get a heart disease; 50% of ladies over fifty will died from cardiovascular problems; the median income in NYC is $63K: the median income of INDY is $65K; Joan Baez is celebrating her fiftieth year in music; Obama says to ‘use money responsibly’; no appropriate recall made by peanut company; hypodermic needles taped on Vancouver, WA door handles, and phone receivers; tax cuts will be seen by 4/1/09; money in Stanford’s bank accounts cannot be accessed by those who were scammed; now, the Buffalo pilot had enough experience; media should highlight more ‘happy’ news; ‘Silence of the Lambs’ was the first film to win an Academy Award after the movie was released on DVD; eleven year old PA boy shot & killed pregnant woman; snow showers in the Great Lakes area; could the CA mother be called ‘Octopussy’?; tanker runs aground along TX coast; hair today: hairless tomorrow; hard times in ‘90210 land’; students stand during class, with a foot fidget device; spirals & steel & stakes…oh my!; the return of regular size paper towels; unraveling of the Middle Class; raise taxes on people earning over $250K; damage, not wind speed, determines the strength of a tornado; governors say they need $2 trillion to solves states’ problems; proposal to raise MA gas tax by nineteen cents; credit card companies adding a $10 fee if a person has a balance; Philly newspaper files for bankruptcy, its stock was valued at less than a penny;

how will Hillary handle China?; the twentieth anniversary of Tiananmen SQ student revolt; Pelosi meeting with AFG leader in Kabul; Celine Dion ‘My Heart Will Go On’ video has been viewed over forty million times on YouTube; OPEC may reduce oil production; Swiss courts stops the revealing of UBS monetary transactions; global warming might trigger a 'world' war; eleven people killed in Chinese mine explosion; Hepatitis B outbreak in India from using recycled syringe & bogus medicines being used to treat the diseases;

…2/20-09: complex, global economy

29º in ABQ; 30% humidity at 6A…GAQ; more Duke City layoffs; wrong way driver released from jail; NM has the highest rate of postpartum depression; drug smugglers arrested at Gallup point of entry stop; stem cell debate at the Round House; teens may be allowed to work at polling sites; gas is $1.87 per gallon; Farmington tax revenue not affected by recession, yet; thrift store on Menaul is doing good business; Brad made a Cheesecake; for the past few days, I have not had much of an appetite, except when I got a whiff of Indian cooking from the Taj Palace; water main rupture collapses Alameda; another meth lab bust in Torrance CNTY; more movie crews in downtown Duke City; more people were eating out tonight; Brad & I both ache; other people say all debts should be elimination, start at Ground Zero, no debts; the empty parking lot near Mervyn’s;

comics climb; Myrna in ‘the’ Las Vegas; only as good as your last ‘victory’; speak softly, and don’t let them hear you complain; to serve, obey, and expect & accept being insulted; why is there a snake on the CPT book cover; create a brick wall of silence; Millennium hardware crash last night, IT messages appearing to indicate the system may be slower; Code Purple at 6:30A, and all day; MGR wanted the first names of our PEDS doctors, took me an hour to complete that task; finished modified Rounds by 8:15A; “I didn’t write the book…I just follow it”; Meangel readmitted; police called to GPU, abusive father would not leave; Ben is going to be a father again, but having a hard time finding a job; saw the UNMH SE Heights Clinic; walked S on Eubank, W on Lomas, and arrived home [via a faster PM R/R] by 6:30P;

snow along I-70, and N of the interstate in the Great Lakes area; very cold from New England to FL to N Plains; Cleveland snow flurries; EF2 & EF3 GA twisters, fourteen across AL & GA; snow in the Dakotas; OK, TX, FL & AL Red Flag Warnings; windy in Boston & NYC; cool New Orleans; temps from 10s to 80s; snow in parts of ME, along areas of I-81, I-90 & I-95;

second pyromaniac arrested in Philly suburb fires; TV stations would create website to air their programs, it would not be free; Wall ST does not see the light in Obama’s tunnel, do not think his plan will work; stock market, a crystal ball, future indicator; former PRES Clinton gives Obama an ‘A’ for his first month in office; auditing banking sheets; Madoff goes to court; fewer Afro American people support Burris; the 46 hour CA legislative session; did Bank of America CEO embezzle funds?; copter makes hard landing on CA beach; the yacht & mansion of the global swindler seized in Caribbean; people have to pay taxes on unemployment benefits; using laser to remove brain tumors; chimp severely maimed its victim; more authors creating online books; woman’s hair weave saves her from being injured by bullet; newspaper apologizes for monkey stimulus cartoon; George & Laura move into their Dallas home; First Lady visited DOT; who might vs. who will benefit from the stimulus package; Obama meets with 85 mayors; Celtics lose to Jazz; Burris being persuaded to resign by current IL GOV; PRES popularity slightly falling; more women robbing banks; get ready for more bank failures; taxes based on miles traveled?; the pawn shop business in Miami is booming; as the DOW dropped; suspicious letter addressed to former PRES Bush given to the Secret Service; cancer-free woman bilked thousands of dollars from people, saying she had the deadly disease; Madoff never bought any stocks for anyone, he traded money, making sure he kept ‘some’ [AKA, a lot] for himself; 14% unemployment rate in SC town; Obama does not like a mileage tax; George Mason UNIV chose a drag queen as their prom queen; spokesperson for SEN Burris resigns; three teenagers killed in Chicago’s S Side; sign of the times: empty malls, now used as places to walk, or exercise; banks, and the bad ‘N’ word; Louisville police standoff, had killed two IN officers ends with sniper killing himself;

runaway van hit parked UK vehicle, who gets a ticket for being taking two spaces; in Berlin, man left his money in a bathroom stall: when he returned to the men’s room, the cash was gone; NW Airlines his strong turbulence, many injured, not severe; Hillary in China this weekend, she pleads that N Korea resume peace talks; foreign stocks are falling; US base being may close in former Russian republic; new Israeli GOVT being formed?; is Iran ready to build a nuclear missile; the price of gold is $1,002.10, the highest value since March, 2008; Saab files for bankruptcy in Sweden;

…2/19-09: healthy lifestyle starts before getting out of bed

26º in ABQ; 46% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Centennial Logo will be unveiled; swastika paintings on Farmington vehicle, owner is a police officer; prescribed burn will last until next week; Luna CNTY MGR will be dismissed; new ignition interlock takes a picture of the inhaler; turning a downtown Duke City strip club to a teen CTR gets a green light; Chevron Mining slashed over 230 jobs, workers will be available for FED assistance; production, service & training has stopped at Eclipse Aviation; sexy teen texting is ‘in’; 36K clients’ data on stolen laptop; Aztec woman on the sex offender list: gave her daughter drugs, then had sex with her boyfriend; Zangara not paying off trade-ins, guilty of overcharging fees;

Kay’s Coding class, complete with lunch; from 10A to 1:30P; finished Rounds by 7:45A; all I want to be…is left alone; I am still the ‘computer nerd’; Code Purple at 6:30A, lasted all day; Linda & Debbie rode on the AM Central; some people are impatient, and follow others into bathrooms; SUBWAY tuna sandwiches are better; it’s amazing how many people think they have a lot of work to do, and complain to their MGR; we were also serve bottled water; others also complain about Nora; Kay mentioned JoAnn & I during the class, as the PEDS Neonatal Coders;

squall line across AL, SE GA & NE FL, chance of twisters; bad weather along parts of I-10, I-75 & I-95; temps from 10s to 70s; JAX & Savannah severe AM T’storms; jagged hail reported; fog in Raleigh & Boston; Great Lakes & snow across OH; Philly & Detroit winds; brush fires in parts of FL; N Rockies snow; lightning across ATL; New England will have ‘sloppy’ weather: rain to sleet to snow;

chimp attacks still makes headlines; grim economic future; Michelle Obama is comfortable in her new role; murder-suicide in OH, linked to financial problems; GOP going hip-hop?; the DOW Jones only represents thirty companies; the ‘statistical sin count’: woman [Pride] vs. men [Lust]; stock market has dropped 10% in ten days; this will be neither a quick, nor easy, recovery; when divorced couples cannot sell their home; Obama heads on his first foreign trip, traveling to Canada for six hours, that nation is our largest trading partner, Americans could not have a better friend than our N neighbor; work within our boundaries; some families are automatically eliminated from foreclosure package; Disney cutting staff at its theme parks; fun being a billionaire; conman bragged about his ‘performance’, misled investors since 2004; Allen Stanford could be linked to MX drug cartel; when greed ruled; he was found in VA, and surrendered in DC, saying he had no plans to leave the country: he had mingled with people such as Prince Charles & Tiger Woods; driving instructor sues for whiplash; IN woman has been married over twenty time, the most in history; banks facing a ‘stress test’, to prove if they should survive; CA home of the eight new babies [plus six other children] under foreclosure; wholesale prices are on the rise; very low scoring basketball game; FaceBook does not own its members’ information; more people going to movies during hard times; new Blackberry Curve gets good reviews; Girl Scout robbed of about $250 while selling cookies; Philly arson suspect arrested, accused of torching at least nine dwellings; least affordable place to buy a house is NYC; the DOW ends the day near a six year low; entering deflation; 4.99 million people filed for unemployment benefits last week; consumer confidence get lower; chimp was not taking Xanax; price for Citibank shores are the lowest in their history; only 10% of homeowners face foreclosure…is it fair that everyone has to help those ‘in need’; First Lady has strong bond with mothers; two NY boys find a boa constrictor in their sofa;

Australian surfer loses teeth while in the water, finds them two days later in better condition; three days of cloud seeded snow falls on Beijing; foreign markets up; Iraqi shoe thrower still a hero; Pan Am plane made a crash landing in the Pacific, during October of 1956, and all the passengers were saved; Hillary in S Korea, N Korea ready for a clash with its S neighbor; oil at $39.43 per barrel; Russia is also in an economic crisis; teen burned in British tanning salon bed;