Friday, March 6, 2009

…3/5-09: adapt to existing circumstances

43º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…neutral review of ‘Watchmen’ by Alibi; GAQ; suspicious death of elderly woman in her home near Tenth & Central; guns found in Taylor Ranch killer’s home; go to bed very early, stayed up too late flushing out the virus; should we feel sorry for Manny Aragon?; NM fire has burned 8K acres; police tracking all W Mesa Mystery Murder tips; juniper pollen count in the thousands; dust storm at The Beach, no sign of the Sandias during the PM, shrouded in darkness; Eclipse workers not given a sixty day notice they were losing their jobs; NM jobless rate rises to 5.1%; beware liquid wind; $28 million of stimulus for NM to improve infrastructure;

start training ‘brother’ Darrel, but my main focus is to ‘stay alive’; NEVER BRAG…just state facts; not everyone has the desire or ability to work O/T; ‘I was under the impression that…’; JoAnn is a better Coder than I; back into my shell; Myrna is here, still feeling ill; Maintenance asked us to leave our office at 6:30A so they could make repairs; finished Rounds before 8A; Code Purple at 6:30A, and all day; it’s what follows your name that makes you important, or intelligent: credentials make a person; still work on FP PDI requests; big, dead bug in office; your best friend’s friend could be your enemy;

record AM cold temps in New England; T’storms in NW US; KS could reach the 90s; fire danger in TX, OK; melting SE US snow; –3º in Concord, NH; showers in San Fran & Chicago; Extremely Critical Fire Danger, per Weather Danger, from Hobbs to Pueblo to Dallas; 90s in E NM to W TX; crosswinds on E – W highways; trapped in a swaying UT ski lift;

Barbara Bush had a faulty valve, solved by open heart surgery; she will recover quickly; health professionals & union leaders meet at the White House…reform starts today: health care the cause of bankruptcies; with costs that can crush families; samesex protests across CA; Brad Pitt meets with Nancy Pelosi, to discuss his homes being built in storm ravaged Louisiana; the Providence, RI ‘dancing cop’ created his movements, based on the beat, and his whistle, still doing his ‘job’; chimp may have permanently disfigured, its victim is considered brain-dead; Obama wants meetings across the country to discuss how to help the uninsured; American economy slowed during early 2009; McCain says there is too much ‘pork’ in “last year’s”, old business budget; abusive animal treatment at New Iberia Research CTR; ‘we know why you fly’; workers polled money, have become the latest millionaires; overqualified unemployed people just want a job; getting angry can cause cardiac arrest; the hybrid camera, smaller, lighter & thinner; Citigroup stock value drops below $1 per share, closes at $1.02;, the free, online sex trade site?; small banks thrive, make record profits; Hispanic children make up 25% of kindergarten classes: by 2023, minorities will no longer be in the minority; special interest groups at the White House; explosion in downtown Bozeman, MT damages structures; civil rights determined by the judicial system; couple have a deer as a pet; 11% of homeowners have mortgage problems; Dr. Gupta will not be the next Surgeon GEN; health care costs rising twice the rate of inflation; as its share price keeps falling, will GM survive, or go bankrupt [restructure, not go out of business: could mean 240K job cuts, and its CEO fired]; does Obama support socialism; student hid gun in school ceiling, had planned to ‘do harm’; who will watch the Watchman?; 2010 Census already falling behind; February unemployment rate was 7.9%, 650K more jobs are gone, the fourteenth monthly decline in a row; AVG weekly hours worked is at an all-time low; thirteen Marines injured in three bus collision on NC highway; the DOW keeps dropping, down another 281 points; RV maker files for bankruptcy; ME topless coffee shop doing ‘brisk’ business; single payer INS system not possible under current conditions; Robin Williams will have the same type of surgery as Barbara Bush…he can use that situation in a comedy routine; $2 flights from NYC to Detroit;

gold at $927.30 per ounce; 45 supertankers parked at sea, oil companies waiting for the right time to make the most money…talk about gluttony; this fuel three million cars during a year; two black holes merging in space?; Turkish man survived after being struck by a truck & train at the same time, only suffered minor ear bruises; UK scientists developed a $3K ‘virtual cocoon’; Hillary in Brussels; mixed foreign markets; ten London performances, part of the ‘Comeback Concerts’ by Michael Jackson, not seen onstage since 2001; forego tech items during Lent?; China not doing any better to help its sagging economy;

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