Tuesday, February 10, 2009

…2/9-09: hopes, and challenges

35º in ABQ; 49% humidity at 6A… GAQ; Brad at the Food Bank, called before he started his journey, got Pop-Tarts; Air MX will start flying from NM to Chihuahua; I worry before, Brad worries after the luncheon if everything went right, did Nancy like the food; more wind today, more haze on the horizon; 2K people lost power yesterday; new Rio Grande principal under scrutiny & support; two people killed, two others injured on the Navajo Nation, 60 miles E of Gallup; Gold ST Lofts, from $279K; slept through the entire night; ABQ woman threw computer against a door, also facing child abuse charges; City of Vision facing school staff reductions; more chances of snow across NM; Nancy’s B’day is July twenty-first; gas has increased from $1.83 to $1.89 to $1.95 per gallon; For Sale: Casa Grande; another Food Bank item was Winter Spice Nuts & Fruits; four missing men & their snowmobiles located near Tres Piedres; ‘technical difficulties’ result in 23K unemployment checks being at least three days later than usual; save money: invest in the death penalty; school lockdown when person with a gun was sighted in the neighborhood;

February sixth was black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day; new UNM warning sirens, tested at 11:02A; PRES suggesting voluntary furloughs for UNM employees [such as during the school year?]; Myrna was chosen to work in Internal Medicine; finished Rounds by 8A; no one told me there are new PICU forms, and neither Jenny nor the PICU doctor knows why: they asked for more billing sheets, when the book is full [of both old & new forms]; Julia working four days per week; Anita said I looked ‘spiffy’ in red & black; the silent siren at UNM, which supposedly could be heard at the SunPort;

three more storms heading across the country; gusty showers for OK, TX; Twin Cities & San Fran showers; W Coast, SW US rain & snow; temps from 20s to 80s; MO in the dark after another ice storm; warm in Chicago & New Orleans; KC T’storms;

the 72 year old milkman, also a drug dealer who was raising money for his ailing wife; paid $3K to beat an alligator in a fight; to do nothing is not an option; Obama hits the road to convince constituents that a stimulus bill is needed; his first PRES primetime press conference tonight; embryonic stem cells may be used to treat currently incurable spinal diseases; Heath Ledger keeps winner acting awards; one Grammy Award winner was in jail; Led Zeppelin member Robert Plant, the group Cold Play & Jennifer Hudson [who thanked her family on earth, and in hear] were honored; running & winning the NC Golden Donut Medal, raising $35K for charity; stimulus more important than bank bailouts; people used ATV on Lake Erie ice; high-end millionaires still spending; stealth, ‘chic’ shopping’; Obama holds two Town Hall meetings; economic stimulus business packages; Sully was honored on Broadway, people want to hear ‘good news’; Tiger Woods became a father for the second time; holding tank buckled, resulting in 65K gallons sludge & hydraulic oil, contaminating a three mille area of the Des Plaines River near Chicago, poses no problem to sea life?; the ability to backup services on IPhones; recession can ruin weddings; the DOW is slightly down; female porn star seeking Louisiana SEN seat; Americans are worse spellers than the British; Las Vegas is desperately seeking tourists; the revamping of ‘Newsweek’; very pregnant rapper performed on state during Grammys; A-Rod admits taking steroids from 2001 – 2003, when they were not illegal, the Yankee player has the biggest salary, and states he was negligent & naïve; will he remain a ‘hero’?; on vs. off: 52 vs. 39 homeruns in a season; the Starbucks $3.95 value meal; the SEN votes tomorrow on the bailout; DC: the last city to be told what’s going wrong in the country; politics, and the rhetoric of fear; is the stimulus package really necessary, and self-evident?; what kind of income tax breaks?; Obama, the messiah, he is ‘all fired up’; this is ‘no ordinary recession’; former DC mayor Barry owes eight years of back taxes; Morgantown, WV has the lowest jobless rate, 2.7%; free breakfasts at IKEA; McDonald’s sales are rising; the ‘economic catastrophe’;

170 deaths, smoke can be seen from space; Australian inferno, firestorms blamed on arsonists, fueled by high winds, areas declared crime scenes, culprits will be charged with murder, 40K firemen battling the blazes: cars collided, then ignited, trapping victims: is the worst behind them?; $2,200 doll that looks & sounds like you, takes six months to make; mixed foreign markets; two US soldiers killed in AFG, in a area that grows poppies for opium, a country that does not like the US, the Middle East nation has little hope, and fears for the safety of its citizens; attacks have increased by 60%; 22 mummies discovered in Egypt; Nissan may post an entire year’s loss, the first time in nine years, slashing 20K jobs; AFG has no faith in American forces, blame the US, not the Taliban, for continuing problems; quake rocks N Peru; plane crash near Puerto Rico, onboard was six Americans; empty Beijing hotel goes up in flames; the small SONY laptop, selling for $900;

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