Hell Week, Day One; building a better PEDS PATH; backup vs. standby; how much is ‘too much’ work?; CTI nurse lived in Yorktown, did not like the Hampton Tunnel; good yard sale this past weekend; finished Rounds by 7:40A, went to GPU, got labels; if Hope gets our charges in red envelopes, then why doesn’t she send our errors back in the same package?; backpack with slogan: ‘guys who touch this bag turn gay…and pretty’; correction: Brandi’s tryout is in March; Debbie & Linda were on the AM Central;
NC to ME ‘mega–storm’; light powder & windy in Boston; sleet from Plymouth to Cape Cod; four inches of heavy snow in ATL & Charlotte; ‘dry’ in Albany; ‘storm of the season’; bad driving along parts of I-64, I-66 & I-81 [in the Shenandoah Valley]; plenty of places without power; unusually warm temps in NM, per Weather Channel; BS = ‘blowing snow’; Philly & DC in snow emergency mode; 6K in SW VA in the dark; TN, AL car crashes; EF–2 twister struck AL; at least seven inches in parts of N VA; cold air in Dakotas; a massive mess in major metropolitan areas; roads are messy and dangerous; temps from 10s to 80s; the 1K mile blizzard; flights in Chicago grounded; CA rain; Capitol Hill in white; foot of snow fell in Richmond; Boston schools have closed; forty mile backup on I-85 near Spartanburg, SC; 100K in NC in the dark;
discuss team dynamics; people giving up technology for religious reasons; ‘no cussing week’ in Los Angeles; cat with no coat; $60 billion quarterly loss, the biggest in corporate history, we Americans now own 80% of AIG; thousands of applicants, for hundreds of jobs; an elderly woman was killed, and a man was wounded outside a K-Mart in Show Low, AZ; the ‘zombie economy’, throwing money into a big pit; lawyers & accountants are out of work; many will take any type of work, for any type of pay, as long as they are not unemployed; Barry Bonds may escape conviction on steroid use; want to hear “You’re hired”; Siegfried & Roy performed their final act with the same white Bengal tiger that ended their career; Paul Harvey, second most trusted man in America; the CIA destroyed 92 tapes that contained footage of illegal interrogation techniques; Blagojevich will write a book; an expensive device to hold 6K songs; the fourth infusion of money to AIG, bringing the total to $162 billion; man put cat in a bong; 17K sq. ft. ‘cave house’ for sale in MO; the CA economy is twice that of India; the ‘inland empire’, E of Los Angeles, is now a place where mosquitoes breed in unused swimming pools, containing green water; the DOW has dropped below 7K, losing nearly 300 points, ending the day at a twelve year low; AIG, the company that insures 74 million people & companies, including risky home loans by banks, lost money at the rate of $460K per minute; no promises this will solve the company’s financial problems; Freddie Mac CEO will resign; more people losing sleep, worrying if the recession will affect them; when tech gadgets become a luxury; building a better electronic reader; MRSA is a spreading disease; Madoff will keep his NYC penthouse; one person found from missing boat off W FL coast; new HHS SECY nominated; consumer spending rose .6% in January; ‘general discharge under honorable conditions’ for mother who has no one to take care of her children while she serves her country in Iraq; dog who sniffs for peanut products, to keep its allergic mistress safe & healthy; 25% of all prisoners are jailed within the US; there were 2.2 million incarcerated in this country in 1982: as of 2008, there are 7.3 million;
talks between N & S Korea; Hillary will travel to Israel & the West Bank; asteroid passing within 40K miles of Earth; meeting with several nations to restart Middle East peace talks; give the UK PM all the money the US has spent to bail out banks, and he can solve the global economic crisis; oil has fallen to $40.15 per barrel; foreign markets plunging;
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