…2/3-09: keep love in your heart

34º in ABQ; 31% humidity at 6A…GAQ; someone responded to my YouTube E-mail; body found in burned SW ABQ home, roof collapsed, fire labeled ‘suspicious’; ABQ saw increase in tourism during 2008; new Santa Fe bus routes that link to Rail Runner stations; Farmington plant layoff, career criminal behind bars again; more Red Light cameras in the Duke City future; current employees could relocate across NM; powder sent to school was tested, found harmless; Rio Rancho school teacher facing ten charges of child exploitation; Oxycodone is in limited supply in NM; Memorial HOSP, a boutique hotel?; empty TARGET shelves, less inventory, and opening earlier; Duke City Gang Worker Unit charged with mishandling evidence, being handled by Internal Affairs; how to avoid gridlock on I-25 in S ABQ; Duke City mayor in DC; NM man arrested at SunPort for sending envelopes containing white powder to US banks;

Hell Week, Day Two; Surgery is working on November charges; the PEDS wards are full; finished revised Rounds by 7:30A, saw Julia; POS journals are not being submitted to MGR, this process should start ASAP; gave Myrna & Evelyn Brad’s cookies; at least I volunteered to help Darrell’s TES file, found where he worked; calm people are stressed out from changing situations; pneumatic doors in the front of UNMH are not working; hard to code long admissions, when nothing appears in PowerChart; I forgot to remind MGR that she should not forget to submit charge corrections; JoAnn got a Group Four Psych charge, did not tell me, gave to Brent who told MGR another service could be substituted, given to me, found a valid CPT code: MGR agreed that if there is an alternate service code, use it; Schmidley strikes back; sometimes it pays to be stupid; Gail also volunteered to help Pathology; Eula is leaving;

Key West rain; ATL winds; snow along parts of I-81 & I-95; flurries from DC to Boston, about 1–2 inches, up to a foot in Cape Cod; windy in New England; very cold N Plains; temps from 10s to 80s; one OK CNTY could be in the dark for three weeks; lake effect snow from Chicago to Cleveland; more snow fell in KY;

Steelers celebrate in Pittsburgh; an alarm clock that cooks bacon; ‘Total Diva Hair’, wig for pets; the ‘trillion dollar bill’; debate ‘modest’ vs. ‘dramatic’ differences’; don’t kill the bill; people afraid of losing everything they have, or own; GM also trying to buyout hourly workers; founder of Habitat for Humanity has died; Daschle, a bad mark against Obama, so the Cabinet candidate has withdrawn; the last time Mt. Redoubt erupted, AK was covered in ash for five months; 31.1 million people on food stamps; NATL AVG price of gas is $1.89 per gallon, a slow, steady increase; there are not ‘two sets of rules on Capitol Hill’; old TV sets being tossed into landfills when America goes digital; another [R] in Obama’s Cabinet?; the ‘self induced injury’, PRES sidestepped blame, and answering question; something needs to help both the employed, and unemployed; a ‘Moment in History’ DVD; the Chief Performance Officer has resigned over tax scandal; plenty of pork found in stimulus package; Obama needs ‘damage control’, for he has really ‘screwed up’; four people injured at WI power plant explosion; more people use mobile banking services; longest living set of eight babies born at the same time, hired a PR consulting firm for books & TV offers: how ‘wonderful a mother is she; need a nanny; has a spokesperson; a ‘listening tour’ by Michelle Obama, and say ‘Hello’; former Detroit mayor out of jail; Sully: calm vs. turmoil when landing a plane on the Hudson River; auto sales have not been this bad since 1982; the super man gets caught flying high; ‘hooked on Phelps’; second most watched Super Bowl; Michael Phelps in legal hassles?; free Grand Slam by Denny’s; the first ‘video book’; Wells Fargo threw a party in ‘the’ Las Vegas using bailout or buyout bucks?; home sales rose during the fourth quarter of 2008; Motorola posts losses for same time period; UPS & DOW Chemical late year losses; million dollar personal ad; the DOW went up; the Watchmen movie has received an ‘R’ rating; the new ATTY GEN welcomed at Justice DEPT; $1.15 billion being provided to 42 banks; Michelle Obama, ‘The First Ma’, constantly scrutinized & criticized; we return to the world of ‘partisan gridlock’; more cuts to please [R]; now, two people have withdrawn from Cabinet positions for failing to pay taxes; an embarrassing day for Obama, Oops!; Liz Clair borne cutting workers; the number of ‘long-term’ unemployed is growing; what’s wrong, with a bong?; Whoopi has smoked the weed; NM ‘white powder’ criminal made NATL news; MI man accused of filming girl while she was in the bathroom;

in Australia, man smuggled pigeons in his pants; cardboard cutouts of cops in UK, cheaper than
hiring real people; long range rockets fired from Gaza Strip into Israel; major road destroyed by bombs in AFG; the 3-D GOOGLE map, shows images of ocean floors; foreign markets falling; Australian floods; six inches of snow caused a thirty mile backup in Britain; Paris is on ice; SAS cut 3K jobs; $5 billion loss from the Great Britain Blizzard; a second al Qaeda message?; Sumo wrestler arrested for possession of pot; Iran has launched its first satellite, the event is a ‘source of pride’; Iceland PM wants that country to join the EU;