Thursday, February 12, 2009

…2/11-09: safe, reliable transaction

20º in ABQ; 71% humidity at 6A…GAQ; more skeletal remains found on the W Mesa; Duke City mayor accused of speeding, going eleven MPH over the speed limit; body of man found in a river near Chimayo; a ‘no bid contract’ to continue Duke City Red Light Cameras?, could continue until 2013, or break the legal agreement; ‘freedom ride’ by minorities to Santa Fe; parts of NM got several inches of snow; car ignites in Osuna parking lot; ‘health bus’ in NM to help uninsured get benefits for obtaining medications at a cheaper cost; another NM priest accused of misconduct with children; unemployment debit cards nickel & dime people, changing fee for two monetary withdrawals in one week; sign of the times: modern freight train robbers reappear in NM; Sky–WI may disconnect Internet coverage across NM; 67 missing computers from LANL; Johnny Tapia arrested again;

everyone is overwhelmed; every week feels like Closing, everyone could do better; another child who fell out of a second story window, but landed safely on the ground, thanks to a screen; Code Purple at 9:30A, lasted all day; finished Rounds by 7:45A; Myrna tore a good blouse on a doorframe; I do not speak highly of myself; I am a person who keeps to himself; I generated twice as many charges as the IM I/P Coders, they are both new, compared workloads; processed over 2,700 charges in January, and was thanked for helping Darrell, told her I can handle my duties with minimal stress; saw Brandi & Linda [whose sister is in the HOSP]; still using techniques taught by my MGR to code charges; it was a decent annual evaluation, followed by a reminder to be careful when Coding; breezeway being built to link the old & new HOSP; Adonae & her mother were sleeping when I saw her this AM; I will teach Darrell, but not during Code Purple; I suggested a unit consisting of Hospitalists; and I was able to buy a Valentine’s Day Card; Adonae likes my CARS pen;

AM temps: in Erie, 50s: in DC, 40s; storms in: OK, LA, AR, MS, TN, IN, IL, MO; temps from 10s to 80s; many record highs broken yesterday; copter caught tornado forming, then touching the ground; walls pierced by shards of glass; fifteen deaths from OK twisters, supercells across the state; today: long squall lines; San Fran rain; the ‘hot spot’ is Orlando;

shape of things to come: increased state fines & rationed health care?; how to succeed in essay contest, include humor; become the ‘professional winner’; ‘green’ cars at Chicago Auto Show; Macy’s ‘Star Award Card’; a stimulus package full of waste; no vote of confidence on Wall ST, down 380 points on Tuesday; there is ‘no quick fix’, or ‘easy out’; complete audit of banks; more questions, less answers by Obama team; what did companies’ CEO did with the money they received last year; Michelle Obama graces the cover of Vogue; 70 ‘dog years’ canine won the Westminster Dog Show; Wii going to school, as a music teacher; ‘bubble baby syndrome’, children with no immune system; another baseball player pleads guilty in taking steroids; the common man is concerned about his job, his home & his health INS, not the other aspects of the stimulus plan, what is in this bill for him or her; Sesame ST is forty years old; 100 animals found in Buffalo, NY APT; DTV delay bill, signed by Obama; there are now nine salmonella deaths, items were shipped, even when people knew the germs existed in the products, and the owner said nothing; Phoenix, the kidnapping capital of the US, second only to MX City in the world, with 370 abductions in one year: a city at the mercy of MX drug cartels, who are expanding their business into TX & CA; would going to junkets actually be good for the economy?; woman almost strangled in car wash by her scarf; Val Kilmer insulted Vietnam Vets?; Obama insulted ‘the Las Vegas?; the $789 billion bill, it took only seventeen days for politicians to reach an agreement; ‘save’ vs. ‘create’ 3.5 million jobs; turn raw, tainted peanuts into profits; ‘trillion’ is becoming a commonplace word; to banks CEOs’: Americans first, banks, second…give us a break!; Nike cutting 1,400 jobs; Madoff’s wife withdrew $15 million prior to his arrest; UNK white powder sent to TX GOVT offices; man struck & dragged a body twenty miles around NYC;

Italian unemployed banker recreating classic painting using LEGO blocks; foreign markets falling; eyes focus on extremist party: no clear winner in Israel, most votes are counted; 85 al Qaeda terrorists are wanted by Saudi Arabia, sixteen years after the first WTC bombing; a private US satellite, and a defunct Russian satellite, collided in space; magnitude 7.0 quake rocked Indonesia; seal allergic to fish, hard to feed him; more Taliban attacks on Kabul, highly coordinated attacks against GOVT offices, right in the heart of the city;

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