Tuesday, March 17, 2009

…3/16-09: backing into basics

41º in ABQ; 44% humidity at 6A…Happy Anniversary, Day Two; Brad at the Food Bank, and his Dentist Visit; GAQ; NATL Guard investigating teen party that got out of control, one person admitted to HOSP, not a typical ‘rave’; ABQ man accused of killing his sister; could man who hired woman to dance for him at a party be involved with the W Mesa murders?; equal amounts of day & night; still waiting for NM GOV to decide on the death penalty issue; adopt a ‘clean slate’ bill for ‘minor’ crimes?; CN company starts the building of Duke City buses, they are completed in MN; widespread flu across NM; life has to change; another mayoral candidate has dropped out; 2009 NM legislative session will end this weekend; Brad spilled his glass on an Indian rug, with an ice cube landing in each of his slippers: these items were placed in the dryer, and we switched lamps, just like we did in my office; new, affordable housing being built on Lomas; needed to know someone wasn’t leaving me; enjoyed an Oriental meal;

wet SE US; IN floods; San Fran showers; very dry Miami, NW US needs rain; temps from 30s to 80s; light rain in the mid-Atlantic states; more Seattle snow; AL T’storms; heavy snow in N Rockies; hot in Orlando;

as usual, people in power ruined my weekend, and will keep trying; Myrna’s B’day; people keep leaving our team; Jenny gets certified, moves to Psych, and PEDS gets a new Coder; finished Rounds before 8:15A; why is one of the first people I meet, the one person I do not like; was twenty month old patient bitten by someone?; if I survive ten years, I can win the Worst Coder of the Decade Award; met Brad as he was coming out of Lam’s; AM R/R drove past the Frontier stop; Myrna’s surprise Saturday B’day bash; it’s always dangerous when MGMT thinks; UNM wants to increase student fees;

nitrogen enriched gasoline; 27 years old is ‘over the hill’?; we are paying for AIG bonuses, about $165 million, because of ‘contractual obligations’; if they had failed, it would have meant the downfall of America; please customers & shareholders; VP Cheney's wife is hospitalized after falling; at least 3% of the DC population has HIV, or AIDS…bad health system, more junkies, afraid to get tested, affecting straights & gays, and IV drug users; airfares dropping, more than 50% discount, but buy on Wednesday; will people board planes; banking by bartering, paying by time, involve 60+ ‘banks’, with 11K depositors across the country; weather maps on ABC AM News have changed, they include ABQ in their regional temps; networking is better than want ads, talk to people; more contacts via FaceBook; survival tactics during hard times; fast food restaurants in your area increase chance of stroke; more means to stream videos; mortgage fraud at record high; the rise of cigarette taxes, if a person wants to kill themselves by smoking, why should anyone stop them; tree falls on MA girl in hammock, killing her; fewer teenagers sniffing inhalants to get high; 29% of workers polled fear losing their jobs; pursue your passion; when is it time to make a change?; the Grim Reaper will haunt Heroes, Smallville & Supernatural; will the DOW do it for a fifth day…signs & arrows point to ‘no’; rainbow flag originated after Harvey Milk died?; VT tries to become the next same–sex marriage state; the term ‘Afro-American’ was created in the 80s; a 100% gay state?; crazy for a cause; NATL AVG price of gasoline is $1.91 per barrel: in NM, it’s $2.00: in ABQ, it’s $1.94; taking Americans’ money: AIG bonuses have been paid to the Financial area, the section that started the economic meltdown; this goes against the fundamental values of this country; are there any legal means to make those people forfeit their pay hikes?; the ‘claw back option’: minimize risks; bottom line: the FED GOVT may not be able to retrieve these millions; adults should take one baby aspirin per day; what do we have the right to know?;

UK schools take away junk food from students, only healthy items allowed, or they will be taken by teachers; British thief used GOOGLE to steal certain types of tiles on roofs; oil prices drop below $40 per barrel; all is calm in PAK?; Iraqi leader does not want US troops to leave ‘soon’, and its citizens want either a democracy or an Islamic state; after attempting to get off the ground since mid-February, it was not perfect, but one of the prettiest liftoffs into the night sky; foreign markets rising; OPEC will not cut oil production; delay means shorter space mission, by one day; low risk for the seventeen INTL passengers who may have had contact with person diagnosed with TB; rare dinosaur bone found in the Gobi Desert; 89% of those polled say their Iraqi neighborhoods are safer; 75% trust their country’s security force [who spends most of their time writing traffic tickets]; seeing the light in Iraq, six years after our invasion; 59% of Iraqis say they feel ‘safe’, and are able to take road trips; are MX trucks safe; seven me, seven thirty mile marathons [about 30 miles each], on seven continents in seven days;

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