…3/30-09: putting a few more presidents in your pocket, and wallet

47º in ABQ; 20% humidity at 6A…Brad at the Food Bank; go to bed early!; GAQ; Rural Economic Recovery Initiative, with Lieu. GOV trying to get stimulus funds for small towns; quick & crazy weekend; the system of gambling; most fruit trees in N NM survived winter weekend; pit bull attacked small dog & its owner, the canine who did the biting was put to sleep; blowing dust across state; two women stole money from dead veteran’s bank account; feel more pain & colder; rodeo champion is 'Dancing with the Stars’ contestant; NAACP rates race relations in NM; the country’s first female Native American judge has died; could not access Internet at 4:30P, but the little lightning bolts are flashing: problem solved by unplugging the box, then plugging it in again; Brad made Avocado Soup, and we used it also as a salad dressing; digging on the W Mesa will halt this week; never got a chance this weekend to look for blinking lights images; mail arrived late; several fires near Roswell, one blaze near Hobbs; man walked through SunPort detector with gun without security machines detecting the weapon; four escapes crawled under a fence; man shot nightclub security guard;

MGR out; dedication has a price; finished labeled Rounds before 8A; only as good until your next goof; several burn victims this weekend, copying scene from ‘Watchmen’ movie; fuel dripped, ignited on patient; door to third floor of old HOSP still not working; more reasons by MGMT for Coders to be written up: not obeying the rules or guidelines; Data Entry is behind; police banging on PICN doors, which is on the third floor, looking for person who is on the fourth floor; Ice Cream Social today; UNM is going to ‘self insure’ itself; when do I do my own work?; Hell Week, on the horizon;

rain in E New England, snow in NY, gusty winds across entire NE US; Flood Warnings across Dakotas & MN; more snow, from WY to WI; wild winds in Dallas & Denver; stuck in Seattle because of AK ash; temps from 20s to 80s; has the Red River crested?; a make or break situation, more sandbags being filled, just in case; twisters in PA; OK to IA showers; warm in Phoenix; FG-1 twister confirmed to have touched ground in PA; snow in ME, NH & VT;

what’s Olde is New; discuss PAD with your MD, ASAP; ‘too liberal with the mugs’; stores ordering inventory for the holidays; use panties in the Arctic when compass fails; scared, desperate & vulnerable; six Bush officials accused of torture charges at GITMO by Spanish judge; home mortgage fraud reports up 30% during 2008, displaying ads at cinemas; rubbery testicles festival; some video games can help eyesight of adults; CEO gone, to keep company from collapsing, reshuffle Board of Directors; the high profile resignation, an auto industry casualty; merge Fiat & Chrysler, so business can be lean, mean & competitive; Carthage killer saw estranged wife, she was not injured, he was reclusive & violent, eleven individuals shot, brave action by local police officer; gold fever leads to gold digging in CA; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.04 per gallon; two million suffer from the disease: so depression screens for teens; too much exercise may be hazardous to your health, just walk; Acer makes very good small computers; six people have died during Santa Clara APT shooting, including one child; father and his two sons found dead in rural IL; fewer people are buying second homes; foreclosures still on the rise; bright lights seen & explosions heard last night above MD, VA & the Carolinas: answer? Soyuz space junk; Obama not pleased with the progress of The Big Three; another GA bank closes, increasing the number across the country to 21 this year; could DC become a state while Obama is in office?; auto fears cause the DOW to drop 250 points; Alexandria, VA is in a recession; Chrysler must merge with Fiat; GM CEO got a $20 million pension; man shot a SLC McDonald’s because it was not serving lunch yet; GM gets sixty more days to correct the company’s problem…yet end of the road, no more money; 31 states, including NM, recall pistachios, which might contain salmonella; tax credits for trading in gas guzzlers; the little blue ‘combo pill’ that can ‘cure five ailments; more pain & suffering on the horizon; could GM be forced into bankruptcy; ‘pride on the part of the country’; MD mother starved her son because he ‘refused’ to say ‘Amen’ at the end of a meal…part of a cult following who believe the boy will be resurrected; two MA men were heroes when they saved a child that fell out of a third floor window; candy sales on the rise; costar of ‘Angel’ died at the age of 33 from heart failure…he was from Cape Cod;

one woman, 5K photos on FaceBook; ten individuals shot in PAK; as day draws nears, so does US ships, as they head towards N Korea, prior to missile launch; foreign markets plunging; oil dropped to $48.70 per barrel: supply high…demand, low; the world waits for N Korean liftoff; is China the cyber spy?; Turkey held NATL elections;

…3/29-09: region by region

36º in ABQ; 31% humidity at 6A…Extreme Fire Danger across NM; our computers are protected from the “April’s Fool Worm”; Fruitland family say fire officials took long, about an hour, to arrive at their home; Fire Rock Casino on Navajo Nation doing three times better than expected, earned $32 million during the past year; no outdoor burning across the state; some Duke City mayoral candidates are not seeking public funds; KOAT weatherman has a male roommate Bataan Death March walk took place this AM; local thief caught on surveillance camera; only NE NM not under fire alert; more people seeking food assistance, number of NM citizens in debt is keeps rising, more seeking financial aid & free bankruptcy suggestions; all black cats look like Captain; 5.4% NM jobless rate, 3% lower than NATL AVG; more people filing false police reports on torched vehicles, to get money during hard economic times; glass with VIN etching makes stolen vehicle hard to sell; Durango school system may lay off sixteen teachers, because of new charter school in the district, retirements & resignations welcomed; 5K cats were euthanized in 2008; FED charges if person found who sent envelope filled with heroin; grace period ends on Tuesday in Las Cruces Red Light Camera project, face fines up to $100, during the ‘free time’, 6K people sped through intersections ; warm & windy today, cool tomorrow; NW Duke City house full of filth: overwhelming bad odor, child was hungry, but nothing in refrigerator, rotting food & piles of feces, stench overwhelmed the home, mother charged with child abuse, animal & child are in custody: this was public housing, which should inspect residences on a regular basis, every 30 – 60 days, house will be cleaned, not torn down; Brad has solved his online security deadline problem, again: E-mailed comment to NORTON; high-speed car chase, vehicle sped at eighty miles per hour, struck & damaged home at Constitution & WY, driver may have been under the influence, who will pay for the damage?; stunt school in the Duke City, $2K cost for course; body of an elderly person was found at Tingley Beach; cable TV snafu…some channels work, others don’t; Los Lunas Rail Runner station will expand, thanks to FED dollars; four inmates escaped the Youth Detention CTR, two have been apprehended;

Anchorage airport closed, due to ash, as Mt. Redoubt continues to erupt, flights resume by end of day; hunks in trunks; military forces being sent to N Dakota; snow in Chicago & Detroit; GM CEO will resign immediately, Obama asked him to step down; more coyotes in urban areas; Carthage, NC HOSP on lockdown after gunman killed eight people at a nursing–rehab home, protecting the integrity of the investigation; Le Tache, fulfill fetish dreams & desires…in Olde Towne Alexandria, on King ST, where porn reaches out & touches pedestrians walking down the street, the business with a twenty-five year lease; high anxiety as the Red River reached 41 feet; few people in Fargo had flood INS; MA brother killed his two sisters…decapitating one of them, during a birthday party; Fargo still on ‘high water high alert’; N Dakota still worried about dikes breaking: Fargo does not need warm weather, but levee breach floods schools in the city; 54 million homeowners are behind in mortgage payments, and becoming prey to con artists; twisters destroy KY homes, two people are missing; MD prisoners on work duty take care of a baby abandoned on a highway; more woman want to be stunt persons; turn beer into biofuel; Lance Armstrong injury worse than initially diagnosed; ‘Watchmen’ has earned over $100 million; the past week: weak improvements, economy getting worse at a slower pace, will coup become another crisis; positive religious coping can help people survive a health crisis; new elephant calf born at an OH zoo, gestation period is over 650 days; ‘put Mercury on your list’;

N Korea’s ‘space development program’; 35K London protestors prior to G–20 meeting, seeking jobs & economic justice; Obama travels to Europe this week; 88 countries participated in turning off the lights, the time the Earth went dark, sponsored by World Wildlife Fund; Peruvian woman can levitate?; four people killed in Baghdad gunfight, started by radical Sunni group; should Madonna adopt another Malawi child, their law does not allow sing women to do so; meningitis epidemic spreading across parts of Africa; doctor in Spain has died from Mad Cow Disease; cyber spies ‘invade’ over 100 countries; jobs, justice, climate; mysterious menace stalks Poland; 25 year old rows across the Atlantic;

…3/28-09: skills, and talents

29º in ABQ; 49% humidity at 6A…millions of dollars to help train unemployed in getting new jobs; ATTY GEN Gary King investigating abuse charges of the Grand Jury System; I am starting to miss ‘life’, and, I am getting homesick; Brad create a tasty Mushroom, Italian Sausage & Several Cheeses Quiche; Global Spectrum of PA, who runs over eighty locations across the US, will take over the Santa Ana Star CTR MGMT: no final financial contract yet; Veterans Museum will be built in Las Cruces; lockdown after a brown substance found in an envelope sent to the METRO Detention CTR, tests reveled it was heroin; Brad making a Pineapple Upside Down Cake; Navajo casino doing better than expected; it has snowed in May in NM, during 1935; hookers found at motel near Juan Tabo & I-40, meth found in their shoes; ‘discus golf’ sport growing in Carlsbad; Nancy not feeling well, postponed planting with Brad; the Green Light: one ounce of Green Chartreuse & Gran Marniner, ¼ ounce of Lemon & Orange Juice; tried allergy relief liquid; Great Deflation Sale at local car dealership; Wayne Newton performing this weekend at Inn of the Mountain Gods; Pork & Brew State B-B-Q Championship in Rio Rancho Civic CTR; should there be an Amber Alert for adults; man was stabbed at SW ABQ park this week; VIN Etching at Cottonwood Mall; during the night, I-40 will be shut down from Carlisle to Louisiana to continue building the new San Mateo span; twenty-one years in jail for a man who killed another person over loud music; hunting elks can still legally graze on people’s crops; more money for community health centers; the UNM ‘Energy Initiative’; NM students competing to build a robot that will complete several tasks, such as ‘blowing out’ a candle, there are no remote controls; traditional Hawaiian music arrives in NM this weekend; serial robber arrested for the twentieth time, confessed to at least five thefts, may be responsible for fifteen more; digging for bones on the W Mesa will come to an end; Clovis nursing home has to pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit, submitted fraudulent Medicaid claims; two men captured two CO women, forced them to become prostitutes in NM; more NM Hispanics are uninsured than Anglos; some NM ski slopes will stay open until April; a new walkway, ten feet wide…a span that will cross the Rio Grande, linking the Bosque trail; three computers stolen from LANL employee, seek action from NATL Nuclear Security ADMIN; from snow to Fire Danger…I-40 closed from Santa Rosa to TX border, and later from Moriarty to Santa Rosa, roads starting to thaw; warehouse fire destroys two downtown Portales structures;

turn off the lights tonight for sixty minutes to honor Earth Hour; chilly temps have slowed the Red River from rising near Fargo; KS & OK blizzards, more SE US twisters; ‘my life & future mean more to me than smoking’; thirty years ago, the Three Mile Island partial core meltdown occurred, when ‘small amount of radiation’ was released in the air; Katherine Heigl will continue her role in Grey’s Anatomy; drinking too hot liquids, such as tea, could cause throat cancer; Mt. Redoubt keeps erupting; forty-three: the unlucky number in N Dakota; ‘large scale seafood fraud’ is on the rise, from restaurants to markets: pay big bucks for cheap fish to make big profits, beware ‘too good to believe’ bargains, lack of adequate oversight by the FDA; bankruptcy faced Las Vegas casino backed by Dubai dollars; wealthiest city in the US is NY; two feet of snow has fallen on parts of KS; One WTC will not be completed until 2013, many dislike the unpatriotic name change; using recycled traffic lights as jewelry; Red River rose to 40.82 feet; female lawyer stabbed 38 times, husband is prime suspect; CA Central Valley is drying up, 40K people are no longer working, in an area that produces 25% of the country’s produce; ‘jobs won’t grow, if food won’t grow’; the US is spending, taxing & borrowing too much money; ‘you can only be a novelty once’; hard times for Brenda Starr, she lost her job as a reporter; Mt. Redoubt belched ash 50K feet into the air; MN towns are underwater, four shelters opened for homeless families, yet one house burned to the ground; computer worm will affect ten million computers, check Security Update mode: if ON, OK;

‘Dancing with the Stars’ contestant owes $2.3 million in taxes; Japan preparing for N Korea launch, but if the missile is shot down, that action may be interpreted an act of war; both the ground war, and the war on drugs in AFG lacks focus & resources, battle needs benchmarks: a timeline to disrupt, dismantle & defeat the Taliban & al Qaeda; neither war had an end in sight; all systems were 'GO' for a Discovery landing in FL today, good weather expected; Canadian researchers have uncovered computerized spy network, stealing valuable documents from important people; Russia building nuclear subs, armed with cruise missiles; Soyuz capsule has arrived at the INTL Space Station; Earth Hour: the time the lights went out; US will work with corrupt AFG officials; terrorists may be planning another attack on America;

…3/27-09: wise words…think twice, then say nothing

30º in ABQ; 35% humidity at 6A…3A, and no snow or rain in the Duke City; but below zero wind chill across N NM; flurries in Santa Fe; heavy snow closed I-40 E of ABQ; 6A snow at The Beach; bad weather in Rio Rancho; parts of I-25 closed near the City Different; Duke City has been spared of snow; NM is seeing it worst negative job growth since 1961; cables being repositioned on Sandia tram; always look your best at job fairs, create an inexpensive business wardrobe at thrift shops; ‘Tales of the Black Freighter’ DVD arrived; man shot at park near Central & Atrisco; blizzard conditions at NM–CO border; worst conditions in N & E NM, where both motels & community centers were filled; SE metal warehouse blaze injured on fireman; dangerous weather & road conditions along I-40E to the TX border; icy conditions closed I-25 S of ABQ; areas of N NM had a foot of snow, with drifts that were five feet tall; from boards to bull, 400 tons of dirt were brought in to transform the stadium; by end of day, parts of I-40 E of ABQ were still closed; a new span for San Mateo;

comic quest?: signs point to ‘yes’; 9A sunshine at UNMH; finished Rounds by 8A; helped work other people’s TES edits; met someone in the Clinic who used to live in the Ft. Hunt area of Alexandria; always remember to enter reason when a charge is deleted, or face someone’s wrath; I even admitted I made the mistake; I hope the issue is closed…we all get stressed out, that’s humanity’s flaw; arrived home by 6P; UNM has cut campus energy use by 13%;

per Weather Channel, blizzard conditions for CO, NM, TX & KS; tornado threat: parts of MS, AL, N FL, AR, LA, OK…parts of I-10, ; New Orleans to Mobile downpours; T’storms across TX, AM snow in Denver; dense fog along I-83, MD, VA & Carolinas; ash over Anchorage; temps from 20s to 80s; cracks found in N Dakota levee, rescued by planes & boats; because of whiteout conditions, fifty vehicle pileup along I-25, on the CO–WY border, from three accidents; Red River will crest tomorrow; sixteen inches of snow in Denver; many injured from MS tornadoes; mandatory evacuation in parts of Fargo; AK Airlines cancelling Anchorage flights as Mt. Redoubt erupts again; Red River still rising; thousands are told to flee Fargo; blizzard conditions in OK; twisters strike NC;

chief banking execs met at the White House; boy brought box of marijuana to school; winds caused window washers to crash into casino in ‘the’ Las Vegas; PRES budget basically approved; fourteen year old NJ girl may become a sex offender, for posting nude pictures of herself online; did Dallas, TX police officer traffic stop result in athlete & his wife not being with his dying relative?; $150 million mansion for sale in Los Angeles neighborhood, with hundreds of square feet, and rooms; doctor’s advice, plus faith, religion & meditation can help cancer patients; variable pricing scheme on I–Tunes; upscale restaurants offering dining incentives; more older people signing onto FaceBook; MGM CityCenter facing bankruptcy in ‘the’ Las Vegas; American incomes fall, but spending increases for the second month in a row; jobless rate on the rise in 49 states; the DOW is down; eco-friendly dishwashing detergent just doesn’t clean the plates; criminal attempted robbery at PA police officers’ convention; Irving R. Levine has died at the age of 86; Disney theme parks cutting jobs; Americans are becoming more optimistic; Freedom Tower will now be known as One World Trade CTR;

acne light used to disperse crowds of British teens; the Gorilla ‘stud book’; mixed foreign markets; MX, the next Iraq, the next ‘war’…this time. based on drugs; psychological tactics & videos being used; political vs. PR battle; more troops being sent to AFG; go to Congo, see our closest relatives, use sex to resolve problems, females of this endangered species rule the roost; US & Japan prepare for N Korean missile launch; oil is $51.90 per barrel; gold is $926 an ounce; Yanni arrested; in London, largest egg on sale for $7K; attack on PAK mosques;

…3/26-09: are you taking care of your smile?

49º in ABQ; 23% humidity at 6A…GAQ; more time in jail for stealing a car; Zangara Auto part of Ponzi scheme?, never paid off trade-ins, ruined customers’ credit; new MGMT for Santa Ana Star CTR in Rio Rancho; ABQ mayoral candidate faces criminal charges; NM military bases may see $90 million in stimulus money; N NM could see a foot of snow; inmate attacked at Metro Detention CTR; spiritual vs. sexual contact by cult leader; charter school staff paid herself $275K?; animal dumped in the middle of nowhere; across the Duke City, Monday, Senior & First Matinee movie showings save plenty of money; snow could last until Saturday AM; PM drive by attack, which was followed by a shooting in a NW ABQ park; gas is $1.95 per gallon; Brad owes the IRS $92; ‘economic warfare’ motive for NM man who sent ‘toxic’ envelopes; Blogger informed its users of PM site maintenance; by evening, poor visibility at Raton Pass; motorists being warned to use caution when driving on I-25;

Hell Week, Prelude; Brad & I enjoyed Evelyn’s burrito; crazy & cramped; finished Rounds before 8A; Meangel readmitted; Myrna feeling much better; Evelyn was out; produced report for MGR, grouping neonatal ICD codes into categories; anything you say could be used against you;

Fargo river rising into ‘uncharted territory’; blasting ice blocks in Bismarck; millions of sandbags to hold back floods; showers for MO, IL, IN, OH; bad weather across most of the US…CO blizzard, squall line, SE US super cells & possible twisters with lightning & strong winds across OK, TX; T’storms for AL, MS, LA, KY, TN, parts of I-10, I-20, I-24 & I-40: FROM New Orleans to Mobile, Gulfport & Biloxi; and into ATL, the Carolinas; Boston rain; damp Pittsburgh; temps from 20s to 80s; warm in Orlando & Phoenix; TX hail; twisters from Dallas to Montgomery; state of emergency declared in parts of MS; a twister 500 yards wide, with 150 mph winds, tore a 17.5 mile path: in spite of this fury, no one was killed; PM snow in Denver; a twelve mile sandbag wall in Fargo, ND; ash from AK volcano rises twelve miles in the air;

Obama online ‘town hall meeting’; capture the moment when a bullet pierces an object, turn into art; purchase the Comedian’s weapon; how long you stare at a person across a bar is different between men & women; a buyer’s market, realtors closing more contracts, but home prices down 15.5% than last year; but unemployment always on the horizon; raptor crashed near Edwards AFB; armed man arrested backstage at ‘Dancing with the Stars’; the first US Braille coin; Celtics lose to Magic; the risks & benefits from allergy medicine; college students crammed into phone booth; what is behind a brick wall…secrets of an NYC subway tunnel under Atlantic AVE; netbook: the shrunken down laptop; random drug testing for those receiving Food Stamps, and other welfare assistance?; new lending regulations proposed by Treasury SECY; ‘digital drugs’: teens using technology [both light & sound] to get high, similar to music calming people; 90K web users ask questions to Obama; mortgage rates drop to 52 year low; economy not this bad since 1983; 5.5 million people filing for unemployment benefits; are flesh eating fish, used in foot massages, a potential health threat?; more US soldiers injured in Iraq being told to pay for medical services rendered to them, it takes another [threat of] war to undo the expense; NY Times cuts salaries & jobs; the DOW ends up; FBI focus on financial fraud; recession sees the return to camping; GOOGLE lays off 200 workers; Obama just says ‘NO’ to legalizing marijuana; an increase in kidney stones in children; music helps the brain; buy replica of Comedian’s weapon; Lance Armstrong had twelve screws placed in his collarbone; decadent entrée; the ‘smiley face murders’; there were 104K E–question choices for the PRES to answer, or address; NH House approved same–sex marriages, knowing that the state’s GOV will veto the bill; ‘multiple financing options’; the number of homeless in America is increasing; corruption on the rise: on the take, on the tape…but how did anyone install the secret cameras in rooms & offices, and when did they know when to do so, what tipped FED agents to kickbacks; syphilis outbreak in OK City; wild, rabid bobcat attacks patrons in an AZ bar; Diana Ross is 65 years old; the electronic Tesla;

next month, N Korea says it will launch a rocket; foreign markets rising; 5.8 quake shook coastal, N Peru: the epicenter was nine miles deep; IBM keeps shipping jobs to India; Discovery heading back to Earth; gold is $940.10 an ounce; for sale: English village…asking price $33 million; two ships containing chemicals have been hijacked by pirates; oil is $53.55 per barrel; the ‘humane’ Israeli army, which has a ‘shoot first’ attitude;

…3/25-09: primary primates

40º in ABQ; 34% humidity at 6A…GAQ; prepare for a March snowstorm; Farmington jobless rate on the rise, but much lower than NATL AVG; SWAT situation last night in NW ABQ; what type of ‘small’ businesses will benefit from stimulus dollars; WIPP turns ten years old; Fire Danger today; rocket moved down I-40 by truck; million dollar lawsuit against Flying Star Restaurant; Winter Storm Watches will start tomorrow, up to eight inches in N NM; another Job Fair today, this time at the Radisson on Carlisle, from 11A – 3P; think about switching positions; be on your best behavior, and don’t bring your children; ABQ, and the ‘big red dot’; did W Mesa dig site fry family’s TV; man punched, stabbed, kicked, bit & attacked by pit bulls, left ear was torn off; another NM soldier was killed in Iraq; hundreds of bills were not acted upon during the 2009 legislative session; EU approves NM abolishment of the death penalty; someone won a house in the Monopoly contest, the winning ticket was at the Coors & Central Albertson’s; $2K apiece for new street signs around the Duke City: the old ones cost $150 each; Brad baking Hot Cross Buns; ABQ mayor had conference call with VP Biden; nighttime, Brad & the remote; NM ranks lowest in insured residents; NM families will receive more Food Stamps; see a movie for fifty cents in ABQ; new cross for Santa Fe church; Nativo Hotel offering the third night stay for $1;

I have a bunch of UNMH construction guys, young & old, as my friends; even JoAnn thinks Nora should tell the managers which of their Coders send bulky batches; seventeen patients in PICU; finished Rounds by 8A; Internal Medicine doctors like the I/P Coder; Brad’s new rice container is the identical to the one that held animal crackers in the PEDS DEPT; some people think their jobs are not in jeopardy; Adonae stopped by yesterday; Debbie says I have a ‘young voice’; saw ‘Mamma Mia!’ truck;

exciting lightning; Bismarck evacuations; N Dakota declared FED a disaster area; ATL showers, T’storms in ATL, New Orleans & Houston; Detroit rain & wind; wet SE US; snow in NW US & N Rockies; temps from 20s to 90s; warm in Phoenix; Richmond downpours; forty-two high wall of sandbags needed in Fargo to prevent water from flooding structures;

Obama: please be patient…; there is no quick fix; no questions about Iraq, focused on the US economy; America is on the road to recovery; stimulus savings jobs; spend, tax or borrow too much, so says [R], and doubtful [D]; PRES took answers from magazines & Univision; cane-fu fighting; defensive weapons; increase online dating; PMS or Menopause website for men, mood detectors, keep track of women’s’ cycles; the ‘pop-up garage’; hundreds honor slain Oakland police officers; job loss is slowing; $165K: median price of houses; but future home construction is up; Rice also did the late night circuit; 5.3 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s; FORD exec took a big pay cut; during Obama’s speech, people buried in blackberries; FL judge restrains man during courtroom case; more GM layoffs; PRES inherited a deep deficit; presenting the Honda hybrid; Academic Earth online courses; 24K high chairs being recalled; FaceBook still tweaking; the four pound, 4,800 calorie burger; Obama went to Arlington Cemetery, to pay his respects, and pay tribute to Medal of Honor recipients; CA man broke windows so his glass business could survive; for a limited time, rooms in Philly hotel are $1 per night, no minimum stay required; an Air Force F-22 jet crashed Edwards AFB; within a decade, the per-family debt has more than doubled; NY man hides his mother in a freezer so he can continue to receive her retirement checks; Morgan Stanley duped retirees, now will pay $7.2 million to these people; DOW goes up; the US says the dollar should be the global currency; Blagojevich, on the air; a two year old pool shark from NY; February saw a 4.7% increase in house sales; the Post Office will run out of money this year; American Express Plum Card; AIG exec resigns;

foreign markets falling; oil is $52.97 per barrel; the new lunar rover, complete with a pressurized cabin, easy to wear spacesuits and a bottom area of glass to provide close encounters of the best kind; Hillary visits MX, to discuss drug wars, says the US is partially to blame for the problem; gold is $926 an ounce; the new lunar rover, complete with a pressurized cabin, easy to wear spacesuits and a bottom area of glass to provide close encounters of the best kind; there have been 125 space shuttle flights, will return to the moon, with humans living for weeks on the lunar surface, aiming at 2020 dream date: how does the public & Congress feel about spending money in a vacuum; the Amero, the money of the future N American Union?; China says we should create a global currency; there is a ‘missile’ readied to be launched from N Korean, that supposedly contains a ‘commercial satellite’; Ms. Clinton says this action ‘could prove provocative’; very few saleswoman in Saudi Arabia;

…3/24-09: look up & in, not down & out

36º in ABQ; 42% humidity at 6A…GAQ; yesterday’s police chase on I-40 reached speeds of 100 mph; NM GOV death penalty decision making NATL news; harmless ‘suspicious package’ found at Farmington political office; man stabbed several times in ABQ APT complex; ‘talk to the GOV’ tomorrow; raise taxes or cut Duke City bus routes; NM museum revenue has dropped; Roswell Boys & Girls Club faces closing due to budget problems; more money by state employees to pensions; the ‘snoop sisters’; NM ranks number one for workers without health INS; gas leak shut down San Mateo & Cutler, near the I-40 ramp; CO business wants to build solar plant in NM; task force formed to keep the College of Santa Fe open, should have initial results by 4/30/09; selling crushed peanuts as ‘crack to make money, and buy real drugs; eleven states, including NM, received a ‘D’ grade in battling teen dating violence: only five states got an ‘A’; we are one inch below AVG rainfall this year;

it’s only a matter of time before the cycle turns, and she’s mad at me again; sat to the L of Susan, across Joann; door slammed into my R pinky finger; a ‘self insured system’ at UNM, with no increase in cost; Candace asked JoAnn how many drop-off locations for coded charges…the answer: one; finished Rounds [by label] by 8A; Internal Medicine on the Third Floor shares the same courier stop; Kay was at the meeting, I sat next to Susan, JoAnn was across from me; there is something wrong with the online Coding software; training for doctors held on a quarterly basis; Jenny going to Psych: Darrell, to PEDS; are ‘extremities’ one, or four?; I forgot to take my lunch medication; where will Darrell sit?; we hide our hatred;

overnight, sixth volcanic eruption of Mt. Redoubt, ash could be hazardous to health; WY blizzard, some parts of I-94 is still closed; get ready for Day Two of blizzards; CO snow; temps from 20s to 80s; severe weather in the Midwest; Rapid City snowstorm, with strong winds & ice pellets, up to 90 ph gusts; wet & windy in Chicago; 30s & dry in DC; MS Valley, Madison & Houston T’storms;

the ‘seeing eye horse’ for blind TARGET shopper; man used part of Madoff’s convict number, and won $1,500 in a lottery; both parties think the ‘bank plan’ will work, a sign of confidence; equity firms will take the chance & invest, many are ‘wait & see’, because ‘will it work’; H&R Block has not helped fewer people on their taxes; PRES News Conference tonight; after decades living together, David Letterman gets married; $30 million in bonuses have been returned; Treasury DEPT completing its hiring process; mall stores cutting hours; man killed himself, and his girlfriend at an Orlando hotel; renters still being evicted from homes whose landlords do not make mortgage payments; 4.7 quake shook S CA this AM; FL 911 operator didn’t believe a caller who later was found dead; beware the “April’s Fool Day” worm; prostate cancer: could remain as a benign disease; the case of the cloned car; nudists camps making money during recession; should drugs be legalized, then taxed; the newest ‘recession-proof boom town’ is Houston, with a 6.5% jobless rate, thanks to 2008 high oil & gas prices, more security in employment; MT flight may have passed through an ice cloud, which could be a crash factor, too much weight in the plane could cause a plane to stall; did not have a flight data recorder; DOW dropped; VT Senate OKs gay marriage law, but could be stopped by that state’s GOV; Obama: the Teflon PRES?; abducted baby found unharmed in FL; CT woman handcuffed herself to her husband in order that would make amends; give up ‘risk rating’ to calculate health INS premiums?; less red meat, live longer life; more homes in the US being bought by ‘vultures’; TB + HIV = ‘; deadly; more volcanic eruptions threaten AK oil terminal; American condom factories move overseas;

the Colbert Room at the INTL Space Station?: joining Destiny, Unity & Harmony; gold is $921.80 per ounce; the Tata…a ‘good buy’, or ‘goodbye’?; as wide as a twin bed, the basic model, that looks like a toy, has no A/C, no airbag, one windshield, no power windows, two cylinders; foreign markets rally; oil is $53.10 per barrel; how to deal with underwear in outer space, Japanese firm creating stink-free items that can be worn one week at a time; an increase Nuclear or chemical attack against England?; Jamie Oliver will cook at the G–20;

…3/23-09: sex is everywhere

41º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A…Brad at the Food Bank; GAQ; very wind, by mild AM; own a lot in CO; Extreme Fire Danger across most of NM; gallons on jet fuel spilled onto road, must be completely repaved; I-40 fatal crash near Santa Rosa; shortage of bullets, problem known for several months, two month delay for some types of ammo; Rail Runner ramp construction near Santa Fe on SR 599; some gas stations are priced over $2 per gallon for regular unleaded; APT complex fire at Twelfth & Coal; ten acre grass fire threatened Silver City; Valencia CNTY brush fire yesterday; Sandia ski slopes had fewer skiers due to shorter season; sandblasting the steps at The Beach; Brad made very good German Potato Salad; after decades serving the city, and illness issues, Los Lunas mayor is resigning; very windy PM; $15K reward for W Mesa Murderer; human bones found in N NM dumpster; high-speed crash on I-40W, nearly hit a deputy; widening of Broadway near I-25;

1P meeting at 1650; finished labeled Rounds by 8A; Brandi graduated from her modeling school, she followed instructions by wearing a gown to the ceremony; UNM canopy looks like the entrance to a gay bar, with blinking lights of various colors; young teen with asthma smoking 3 – 4 cigarettes per day; the Coding software gives two codes for the same entries; Myrna off; no lunch, because of audit, left at 3P; at meeting, no mention of testing Coders; spoke about Courier, and ‘missing’ charges, which do not include Consults or Sedations; Presbyterian stopped building HOSP, due to lack of funds; fourteen PICU patients; tried to show my boss I know my job; no sedations were included on my audit;

snow in the Dakotas; people smile more in Spring; N Rockies blizzards; storms & twisters in the Midwest; nine mile plume of smoke & ash from the exploding Mt. Redoubt: parts of AK are under a Red Alert; so far, it has erupted five times, ash lands N of Anchorage; NE twisters; Omaha & KC T’storms; parts of I-90, I-80 & I-25 were closed in WY; Bismarck blizzards; ABQ on regional weather map of ABC AM News; S FL rain & wind, plus dangerous surf; windy for Dallas & NYC; temps from 20s to 80s;

no one wanted to bid for dinosaur bones at NYC auction; Twitter tweeter troubles; murders at the Homestead; tramp stamp Barbie, complete with tattoos for the doll, and little girls; the VISA Black Card, made of carbon graphite, with limited membership; FDIC will buy toxic assets; head to TX for jobs?; son took in ashes to prove his father was dead; TX school denies student ‘cage fights’; children aboard MT plane that burst into flames, heading to Bozeman, was it overloaded, flight had been rerouted to Butte, and had been heading to a ski trip…one of the passengers was Dr. Erin Jacobson, crash caused a ten foot crater; will the White House work with Wall ST to entice hedge funds into buying 7% of toxic assets: convince them they will make money from the deals; big oil, big banks, big businesses; more old movies being digitally restored for DVD; credit is critical: existing home sales rose by 5%; Spring Break student falls from twenty-fourth floor of hotel balcony; Obama accurate in basketball predictions; twittering during PRES speech, pose problems in legal system; it’s time to ask tough questions; some AIG execs return their bonuses; the phrase ‘stop the presses’ has taken a bad twist: fewer newspapers will be published; $4K Canon camera can shoot digital movies; headaches know when you are stressed?; is retroactive taxing legal?; use PDA to transmit & receive ‘stop smoking’ messages; GM closer to Chapter 11; C-17 crash in TX proved to be false; ABC newsman found murdered in his APT; DOW up nearly 500 points, the fifth biggest point gain in history, but stocks are still 45% below their record high; the futuristic police car, a Batmobile for Bismarck; $30 million returned by AIG execs; could icing have caused the MT plane to crash? during hard economic times, more women becoming strippers; Richmond, VA is one the ten best cities for commuters; Assistant Fire Chief a suspect in Coatesville blazes;

American crew on Tokyo cargo plane crash at main INTL airport, flipped over, caught by a gust of wind, just a routine flight from China; foreign markets rising; Tata: no safety, cheap price [about $2,500]; another quarterly loss for Daimler; third & final spacewalk today; man paying $35 million for his next, and final, space journey; Obama’s hard decision to send more troops to AFG; third spacewalk today; pirates attack Japanese ship; Lance Armstrong broke collarbone while racing in Spain; oil ends the day at over $53 per barrel; two bombings in Iraq; Tiffany sales & profits dropped during the fourth quarter of 2008;

…3/22-09: trust me, ‘it’ matters

55º in ABQ; 31% humidity at 6A… women who ‘went down the wrong path’ may be buried in the W Mesa; bones found where children play, mystery makes NATL news; another ‘pay for play’ scheme uncovered; near Grants, in Cibola CNTY, drunk driver struck sheriff’s cruiser; Extreme Fire Danger for NM; no more money for College of Santa Fe; also, bills that died in the heat of the night; Byron attended a Science Fair which awarded gifted students; detention officers needed; don’t drive into smoke; home invasion injured Carlsbad resident; extend school year for students in Las Lunas; tempers flared at end of legislative session; DEA agents found marijuana in luggage on bus, heading to Chicago, where the drug would be cut, then sold; the ‘domino effect’ of criminal activity; Lobos baseball team playing very good; more Duke City parks needed; still collecting clues on the W Mesa; former Los Lunas police chief accused of creating vouches for services not rendered by him; people want ‘quick’ jobs to provide them income until the economy improves; a wall of windows; KOAT uses DELL monitors; strong winds across the state; NMSU losing money from global investments; tank truck spilled fuel at Broadway & Rio Bravo, road will have to be repaved; Las Cruces teen arrested for selling pot at school; some bills died in the heat of the battle, NM GOV upset the domestic partnership law failed; of 1,685 bills, 361 passed; agreed to cap campaign contributions; ethics bills got lost in the shuffle; over $498K allocated to hospitals as payments for low income or uninsured patients; no layoffs, no furloughs, no shortfalls; NM unemployed could get more benefits; accomplishments & disappointments: the 2009 legislative session, another special session to be held in September; some small towns do not have projects that need many money; the end of 70s temps in NM; Inn of the MT Gods is in financial trouble, have an upcoming $12 million bond payment, due on 5/15/09; flames & black smoke from Bosque Farms fire;

nationwide protests to end the Middle East conflicts; Natasha Richardson married Liam Nelson in 1993; the return of ‘Melrose Place’;?; eat more food that are low on carbohydrates; ‘dinosaur dig’ to be auctioned at NYC, found in WY; ‘Sanctuary’ will return in late 2009, series started as website episodes; positive attitude helps keeping a jobs; remain optimistic, and focused; the comments about the Special Olympics comment by Obama that will never end; more floods for Fargo; ‘body candy’; adding screws & bolts to increase the number of piano notes; smile for success; as of now, three police officers are dead, four wounded from Oakland traffic stop: suspect had violated his parole; a better economy by 2010, so says Obama; E PA residents can return home after toxic spill; ‘Knowing’ is the box office hit; four dead from upper NY group home blaze; young people can handle life without health INS; the Ninth Ward of New Orleans is still a disaster, 3½ years after Katrina struck; angry activists attack AIG; ‘breaking new wind!’; a fourth police officer is brain-dead from the Bay area shootings, sniper had hidden in a closet; too much money is bad!; 40 – 50 tremors per hour have been felt since this AM: AK volcano has begun to smolder again, high alert issued; Bruce Willis got married in the Caribbean; ‘Watchmen’ earned $6.7 million this weekend; swirls of shampoo; ‘Dancing With the Stars’ contestants get paid at least $200K, even if they lose in the first round; does the bonus bill go too far?; seventeen people killed when a plane crashed into a Butte, MT cemetery, just short of the runway; AIG, and the illusion of money, power, and influence; all this talk on Capitol Hill has been a waste of time; last night, a Homestead kitchen worker killed two supervisors, officials cannot find the murderer, warning the top of Hot Springs to turn on their outdoor lights, and stay inside, the crime took place while hotel guests were eating in a nearby dining room;

new CIA chief in PAK, discussing what to do about the Taliban; Gatwick Airport evacuated when a threatening note & a ‘suspicious device’ was found aboard an Emirates airline: male suspect has been arrested for planning elaborate hoax; a trail of bad luck…pin entered upside down in INTL Space Station joint, and jammed an equipment storage case…time for astronauts to take time off; secret talks captured on Twitter; quiet unrest in the Muslim world; the ‘hidden Taliban’; car bomb defused near shopping mall in Israel; AIDS has killed 25 million Africans since 1980; curb thy tongue; violence is up by 90% in some parts of PAK; Discovery moved to avoid space junk; in Tokyo, Fed-Ex plane skidded off the tarmac, and ignited; it is just a matter of time…crude discovery: oil storm;