…4/30-09: loyalty & silence

53º in ABQ; 17% humidity at 6A…Nancy brought Brad some potting soil; GAQ; NM GOV says it is not time to overreact, constant contact with CDC; Brad’s back is bothering him; the Tour of the Gila continues today; 93 days in Extreme U.V. Index days; AM car wreck at Zuni & Dallas, drivers ran away from the incident; some CNM employees may have had their social security numbers ‘compromised’; 83 swabs from NM have been sent to the CDC; two more ‘potential’ cases, a fourteen & fifteen year old in Socorro CNTY; gas has risen to $1.95 per gallon; three Carlsbad students may have come down with the ‘new flu’; MX children attend NM border schools, especially in Deming or Columbus; listening to old Disco songs makes me homesick; Brad made Tuscan Tomato & Bread Soup; mother & son stabbed in Deming; 4% humidity at 5P; Joe Diaz had cancer;

Compliance MTG at 9A in PEDS DEPT; UNM professor drives an electric car; pulmonary consult prior to discharge; unlabeled blood sample appeared in PICN; gang fight near UNMH last night?; Native American Career Fair held at UNM; today, the UNMH Intranet is down; few are pleased at UNMMG with the way the ORG is being handled MGMT hang up on other people’s calls; end of an era: the Children’s HOSP mural has been covered with a fresh coat of white paint; am I given the option to attend PEDS Compliance meetings for the Clinic doctors?; the way to keep a medical area, tell them you don’t like it; Terror on the First, Second & Third Floors’; child can speak English, Zuni & Navajo; Pulmonary consults advised prior to discharge; no PICU admits;

In Boston: what a difference a day made…from 90s to 50s, with frost & freeze warnings tonight; FL panhandle & ATL Coast rip tides & currents; Dallas, INDY, KC storms; Chicago fog & rain; Cleveland showers; temps from 30s to 100s; six feet of snow in MT; N Rockies blizzards; Cincinnati, Little Rock & OK City could see hail, lightning & thunder, plus plenty of rain;

at least five people, French tourists, died in the Soledad, CA bus crash; Bank of AMER chairman ousted; Obama admits waterboarding was ‘torture’; hand sanitizers making money; we’re off to a good start; make a cake with ketchup as an ingredient; most schools in Fort Worth, TX closed; the ‘Parent in Chief’; suspected cases in ten other states; it will be autumn before a vaccine is ready; Cinco de Mayo festivals cancelled; an ‘off-road commode’; Chrysler still faces Chapter 11 bankruptcy; cameras that focus while shooting; Obama will do ‘what is required’ to keep America safe; PRES does not have ‘push button power’; more Americans living within their means, using debit instead of credit cards to purchase items; 160K children across America will not go to school; McCain thinks the MX/US borders should be closed; the virus is in America!; Michelle Obama putting together care packages for children; some of Obama’s staff are listed as the most beautiful people; put less in your trunk to save more gas; gridlock has declined, ‘thanks’ to the recession: spending less time, and using less fuel; less goods, less trucks on the road; 109 flu cases reported in the US, in eleven states; vacant building collapsed in Manhattan; fishing accomplished; the First Family fascination; a two parent, educated family; Starbucks profits keep falling; the ‘left [or, right] sided sunburn; are people making too much about this disease?; some people still believe 9–11 was not an attack by a terrorist group, or nation; want to win a Wii?; CA girl beats off muggers with parade baton; is Twitter a passing fad; waterboarding tactics occurred more than reported; fans protest shows from being cancelled; consumer spending drops; the DOW ended down; 50 million retirees will receive $250 stimulus checks; the disease is now called ‘H1N1 INFL A virus scare’; add CO & SC to the list of states; do baby boomers have a built-in immunity to the disease?; 120 cases in 16 states; only one surgical mask company in the US?; Obama is telling Americans to stay home if they have flu symptoms, but politicians should not play physicians, although one of Obama’s staff, who went to MX with the PRES, and his family, have become sick; benefits for retired Chrysler workers will not change; some factories will be shut for sixty days; children still gather outside school, instead of inside; an amino acid is missing in this new strain; former pirate captive supports military escorts for freighters;

UK man’s hair being used as a bird’s nest; pandemic is imminent; two swine flu level increases in one week; add Switzerland to the list of countries with a sick citizen; easing recession causes oil to rise at $51.97 per barrel; foreign markets rising; more Sadr City attacks; plane slammed into runway, it was too heavy, but no injuries reported on the Australian flight; add Peru to the list of swine flu countries; the number of people globally infected has increased from 147 to 236 in one day; add Netherlands to the list of nations with swine flu victims; attack on Dutch Queen’s bus, strikes crowd, killing five people, at least a dozen more injured; MX has the largest increase in flu cases; MX shutting down its economy; gunman killed twelve people at Azerbaijan UNIV; man mauled by rodents at Sydney, Australia nursing home; MX has literally ‘closed’ for five days, MX City has never seen such clean air;

…4/29-09: absolutely accurate

53º in ABQ; 17% humidity at 6A…Brad’s Chiro visit; the new cereal works; GAQ; kits on how to protect from the swine flu; no group childcare; very good hygiene; NM does not have the means to test for the swine flu; tests with a tiny swab into the nose; one twister, four reports of hail reported across NM; murdered captures in ‘our’ Las Vegas…why did she return to that town?; how & hard to tell children when both parents have cancer; hard bicycle race in high altitudes, and Lance Armstrong will compete; workers at Duke City Public Schools getting paychecks & pensions, from MGMT to custodians; pollen count in the thousands; YDDC superintendent has been reassigned; Zangara must honor customers requests in areas of registrations & unpaid trade-ins; men are wearing toenail polish; did Las Cruces six year old die from the swine flu?; both of us had a hard time falling asleep last night; a time for concern, not for panic; two ‘probable’ or ‘potential’ swine flu cases reported in NM, a one year old boy from Santa Fe CNTY, and an eighteen year old man from Valencia CNTY; both are recovering; Brad’s next painting progresses; two new schools open in NW ABQ; 8% humidity at 5P; due to the swine flu threat, NM Tech is closing one week early; new health questions on Brad’s NMAS form; former deputy sheriff busted at Bloomfield cockfighting ring; our Blog is on a news website;

good walk from the PEDS Clinic to the PEDS DEPT to MGR’s office, dropped off audit results; finished Rounds before 7:30A; man who approved the Air Force One flyover was once the UNM PRES; PM server severely crashed, just prior to Closing; a ‘general system failure’, came up about 3:30P; no PICU admits;

TN Valley T’storms: in OK, TX, KS; Houston floods; W Coast heat wave; blame a ‘parked’ high pressure parked over FL for its dry conditions; Dallas storms; NYC, Philly, DC rain, parts of I-95 & NJ TRPK; bad weather in Omaha; cowboys in kayaks moving cattle; Phoenix heat; N Plains, N Rockies spring snow, thousands without power, from 2 – 4 feet of packed powder; temps from 30s to 90s;

it’s 100 days…and still ticking; no cake or balloons; 69% approval rating = ‘pretty good’; graded as B+; stimulus bill a plus, then there are ‘broken promises’; harder problems lie ahead; some mistakes have been made; from slavery to the White House; more swine flu cases have been reported across the US; amalgamation of hair style competition, money raised for Food Bank; Mr. T has jury duty?; Specter says his party was too far to the right; solar panel, wind turbine driven RV; Board of Directors at Bank of America may be fired; Chrysler may survive, thanks to FIAT; GM trying to sale Saturn by this summer; special bankrupt bonuses to keep workers?; Yankees home tickets are slashing prices by 50%; religious designs on FL license plates?; Celtics beat the Bulls; someone fainted during Obama speech at the FBI, has occurred five separate times during his career; First Lady never cut class, she connects with kids; outrage over Manhattan, no one ‘approved’ the incident; cost $328K for the ‘flyover event’; obvious, but practical tips to save on health INS, if you are well or have an illness; Michelle Obama is a descendant of slaves; TX reports one death from the swine flu, a twenty-three month child; most people live in areas with unhealthy air; deposit check via cell phone, scanning checks; Internet interview listings, questions companies might ask; six vehicles that doomed Chrysler; 91 cases reported, any new illnesses at NYC school attributed to the swine flu; US economy still shrinking at a record rate, the second biggest decline in 26 years, and much worse than expected; two swine flu cases reported in MA: ten states, including AZ & MI; Obama: Communication in Chief; recession is easing, but economy is still weak; rent luxurious items, with options to buy; the DOW ended up; give McCain to the [D]?; many cities have jobless rates greater than 10% of the workforce; already, 51 cases in NY; WI Radio Sack clerk punched a customer who wanted to return an item; US Supreme Court debate over obscene language aired on TV; Obama is pleased with the progress, but not satisfied, held another ‘town hall meeting’ today; has he taken on too much?; thirty-nine Marines in CA may have become infected with the disease; add NV to the list; we are in Phase Five of a six level tier, created by WHO; many schools across America will close earlier than usual;

genetic bred dogs glow in the dark; Germany reports three cases of swine flu; MX only identified the disease when people died from it; vaccine will not be ready until September; cruse lines cancel stops at MX ports; London has reported one case; mixed foreign markets; add Costa Rica to the list of infected swine flu countries; gold is $900.50 per ounce; oil is $50.89 a barrel; fifty more people killed in bombings across Iraq; WHO raises the health concern level, bordering on pandemic; N Korea may resume nuclear testing, testing the patience of the world; scientists finally see a star that exploded 13 billion years ago; Egypt wants all pigs slaughtered; add Austria to the list of swine flu countries;

…4/28-09: energetic experience

57º in ABQ; 13% humidity at 6A…GAQ; rough weather in E NM, severe T’storms; the threat of swine flu is real, the disease could be in NM, and we don’t know it; Duke City mayoral candidates must turn in their required signatures today…in the end, there will be three candidates; overnight NE Heights power outage; NM has one of the highest educational standards; Eagle Nest Detention escapees are still on the loose; jobs at Spaceport America; pollen count on the rise; I got permission from Nancy to link my Blog to The Beach; NM GOV clears his campaign debt; Johnny Tapia will remain in jail; SWAT standoff in the Four Corners area ended quietly, suspect had a rifle; several tornado warnings in E NM; murderess on the run from ‘our’ Las Vegas; Brad made B–B–Q Country Style Pork Ribs; five NM cases being tested for swine new…more news in the AM; send suspicious swabs to the CDC; volunteers could also be affected, and infected;

explanation of PDI requests; MGR not feeling well?; finished Rounds by 7:30A; Code Purple at 6:30A; two seventeen year old girls admitted due to bites, animal vs. human; Meangel was readmitted; two children at UNMH following car crash in N NM that killed their father; worked on Family Practice PDI requests; Jenny has not done a PDI:

Red Flag Warnings & Poor Air Quality across New England & NY; Boston in the 90s, NYC, Philly, DC; Alligator Alley closed; T’s storms: OH Valley, Houston, KY, TN; Cleveland, Detroit, INDY showers; high surf & rip currents along the N & E coasts of FL; temps from 30s to 90s; MT blizzards, with snowfall totals being measured in feet; Louisiana storms, MA warmer than AZ;

there is always the possibility that people are immunized against the current swine flu, either by being vaccinated this year, or by their own immune defenses; ‘nitrogen enriched cleaning system’; return of the motorized barstool, coming to an OH bar near you; crew member suing the freighter CO for $75K, claiming they put his life in jeopardy; UGA professor & killer may be headed to the Netherlands; a cause for alert, not for alarm; fifty people infected in the US with swine flu, add NJ to the list; swine flu vaccine being sent to infected states; people do not want to be around crowds; the US still needs an HHS SECY; common flu drugs have to be taken forty-eight hours after people know they are infected; NYC mayor is angry, PRES is furious at the Air Force One photo-op; Manhattan office workers evacuated themselves from high-rises: stunt called ‘felony stupidity’; artists inspired by Obama; a ‘heightened state of alert’; HOSP stock prices are on the rise; Oldsmobile model was discontinued years ago; Chrysler could be liquidated; two Hollywood talent agencies are merging; millions have traveled back & forth, to & from MX; equal educational standards for all fifty states; Nationwide allows free applications for IPhones after an accident; the CDC is turning to Twitter to keep people informed of the swine flu; hand sanitizers doing good business; face masks are not needed, yet; Capitol Hill meets to discuss the disease; missing Eagle Scout from MA found on NH trails; Cincinnati has its own superhero, Shadowhare, he joins Aclyptico in PA, Wall Creeper in CO, Master Legend in FL: Captain Jackson, Queen of Hearts & Crimefighter Girl in MI and Mr. Extreme in CA; by midday, 64 US cases of the disease reported; Arlen Specter is now a [D]; 31 months in a row of declining house prices; add two more states reporting the disease: IN & FL; end of the ‘muscle car era’; deputy US marshal accused of selling info to the mob; at least two people killed by bus crash near Soledad, CA on HGWY 101; Specter cannot win another election in PA as an [R], time to ‘purify the party’; stunt called ‘plane crazy’; $1.5 billion to battle the disease, create a vaccine; Smithfield Farms Pig Plant, based in VA, has a factory in MX; calling for ‘aggressive surveillance’; ‘mistakes on a plane’; First Family settled in easily; the White House: the finest prison in the world’; the DOW was slightly down; Unity Temple is an ‘endangered’ historic place’;

UK man with one eye & one arm got a hole in one; even ABC reporters wearing masks; focus on poor people, or the disease is mutating; add Australia to new flu cases; the next week could ‘plateau’ or ‘increase’; foreign markets falling; decline in newspaper sales; closer to calling this disease a pandemic; person fired, claiming to be sick, but seen on FaceBook; oil is $49.24 per barrel; gold is $894 an ounce; a huge chunk of Antarctic ice has broken from the continent, forming icebergs; add Russia to the list of swine flu countries;

…4/27-09: tough, strong, big: it’s…

47º in ABQ; 23% humidity at 6A…Brad at NMAS; GAQ; SunPort on high alert; solar panel factory in Luna CNTY; will NM be confused with MX as the center of the swine flu?; Farmington teen who cut monitoring band is back in custody; 630 animals were adopted during weekend event; parents formed new daycare CTR near KAFB; children’s mortality & dropout rate is increasing, overall well-being on the decline; more Duke City GOVT software problems; gas is $1.92 per gallon; Nancy did not realize coyotes had been seen at The Beach; NM is treating the swine flu as a ‘potential serious situation’; not every Duke City school has a fulltime nurse; registered sex offender was sitting on the sidewalk with his zipper open;



Hell Week: Prologue; ‘you cannot see my injuries’; finished Rounds by 7:45A; JoAnn on vacation during Closing; Brandi had a modeling show, courtesy of Barbizon; patient has DX of voyeurism; baby allergic to brand of diapers; PICU using sticky forms for their notes; helping Jenny with her TES edits, and Kathy with her PDI requests; patient sprayed oven cleaner into his mouth; UN area considered ‘unsafe’; MGR still not getting everyone’s list of daily deleted charges;

on Sunday, fourteen twisters in five states; T’storms in AR, Dallas & St. Louis; Chicago showers; hit the beach, and the surf; Orlando showers; so far in April, 183 twisters, above AVG for the month; in 2009, 339 tornadoes; TX & KS floods & hail; record ‘lows’ in HI: low 50s; snow in N Rockies; DC in the 90s; chilly in Denver; Wichita rains, parts of I-35 underwater; temps from 30s to 90s; storms along parts of I-20 in TX; salmonella found in alfalfa sprouts?; six states have reported cases; by midday, forty US cases reported; how severe is the strain?; Capitol Hill says there is no need to panic; people will die from the swine flu in the US before it’s over; Americans have no immunity to this virus; America in a ‘heightened state of alert’; should we ‘close’ our border with MX…how?; there is no means to be immunized from this disease, avoid sick people, keep hands clean; disease is affecting healthy people; Beyoncé movie is the number one weekend film; a return to $5 meals at TGIF; ‘walk a mile in her shoes’: college men wore high heels to raise money for attacks against women; Hot Dog High, a $400 course, prepares ‘students’ for a thriving business during hard times; five people in Congress arrested in Darfur protest rally, held in DC; the Verizon IPhone; GA professor has not used his credit cards since killing his ex-wife; one DVD disk to hold hundreds of movies; Red Sox swept its series with the Yankees; a low flying Air Force One caused several NYC BLDG to be evacuated, the plane was part of a photo shoot, Director of the White House Military Office took the heat; FL police looking for gunmen who shot block party goers, who were celebrating a fallen friend; motorcyclist killed after struck by lightning; 28 swine flu cases reported in NY; FOX network will not air Obama’s 100-day press conference; 21% of Americans identify themselves as [R]; what about planes that are arriving from Los Angeles, but it had flown from MX City to LA first?; AZ man killed while repairing speed camera; GM will cut 21K jobs, reducing dealerships by 50%; part of the stimulus package was to protect the country from pandemics, but this was voted down by [R]; IBM vs. Jeopardy; GM selling Saab, Saturn & Hummer; the DOW was down;
motorized rickshaw covered in coconuts; UK cyclist goes up a tree, on the top of the fence, and the edge of buildings; nude hiking in the Swiss Alps banned; Prince Charles had an audience with the Pope, the first since the royal divorce; new flu cases in Brazil; 2K people have been infected in MX by the swine flu; spreading the virus before people show symptoms; 600 US flights to MX every day; mixed foreign markets; stocks dropping because of swine flu: decline in prices of airline & hotel stocks; oil has fallen to $49.58 per barrel; gold is $908.20 an ounce; Saudi Arabia wants to ban women from appearing on TV; soccer game played at an empty MX stadium, everyone is staying at home; masks & medicines are being purchase to protect people from the potential pandemic; thermo graphic scanning for fever at Asian airports; poor border protection; no proof the illness is spread through pork meat; ‘the world on high alert’ this germ is a combined strain from Europe, Asia & N America; possibility of a pandemic; more cases found in Scotland; could Hong Kong hold the answer?; 100 people have died from this disease in MX; all schools are closed in that country; on top of everything else, MX City & Acapulco are shaken by a 6.0 earthquake; Meryl Streep as Julia Child;

…4/26-09: making a parallel of yourself

52º in ABQ; 15% humidity at 6A…fire near Dunken has charred 31K acres; yesterday, two acres burned during AM fire near Rio Bravo & Second; substitute teacher who was fired did not think she did anything wrong; teacher will write a book about the incident from a victim’s point of view; walk for Cancer being held at the Cottonwood Mall, and will continue along the Rio Grande; $500 million in FED money will be allocated to American Indian tribes; Miss Indian World winner was interviewed on KOAT; wide variety of industries eyeing the state; the alternative energy sector, plus our oil & gas industry is keeping the NM economy stronger than other parts in the US; Brad prepared Turkey/Chicken Broth Vegetable Soup; Spirit of the N Valley Community Celebration Parade being held today; illegal tire fire burned near Belen; Duke City police have a variety of ‘weapons’ & tools of the trade, including shotguns, tasers and a $50K fully loaded car; S NM blaze threatening power lines; NM needs rain; Rio Rancher Observer is up for sale; Barbara Richardson hosted children’s bowling benefit event; S NM blaze threatening power lines; heart conference held at Santa Fe on Saturday; the W Mesa Mystery episode on ‘America’s Most Wanted’ appeared on TV last night; winds reached 40 mph in the Duke City yesterday; 500 tribes took part in the Gathering of Nations; Brad provided tips to Nancy on how to garden around the pool, went with her to garden store near I-40 to pick out plants; two men escaped from CYFD CTR, may have been seen near Raton; 10% of current staff has been laid off at the Isleta Casino; The Beach is nearly full, the complex will no longer allow new tenants to have pets; Nancy made, and gave us, some Calabacitas; SW ABQ shopping CTR to be built at Central & Unser;
dorm shooting injures three at the UVA campus in Hampton, school remains on lockdown; hail & twisters across OK, MO & KS; Blagojevich enjoyed his celebrity status; GA UNIV professor dropped his children at a movie theater, then shot his ex-wife; IA preparing for issuing same-sex marriage licenses; the Hyundai assurance; there will be a fourth season for ‘Heroes’, but with fewer episodes; ’The Soloist’ focuses on the Los Angeles homeless sector; lose your paycheck, lose your car?; US declaring a public health emergency; twenty swine flu cases reported in the US; no one knew what sickened Jay Leno; this weekend, the New Orleans Jazz Fest; Michelle Obama wardrobe: its pluses & minuses; $78 million paid for football player!; add OH to the list of ‘swine flu states’, causing schools to close around the country; Bulls beat the Celtics, tying the series; the Red Sox have won nine games in a row; IA son cuts out the pacemaker from his father’s chest; rape stand for breeding pit bulls to battle; Queens High have known swine flu cases; flights to MX may be cancelled without any penalties; love to make a person happy;

Italian cruise ship attacked by pirates; bull on the run in Irish supermarket; where did the swine flu start: avoid contact with others; N Korean leader ‘grooming’ his third son to take over leading that nation; Hillary Clinton is in Beirut; Peugeot has seen its profits decline; New Zealand school group went to MX, being examined for the illness; ‘public health event of INTL concern’; a body like a Lamborghini covered in jean; swine flu has crossed the border into Canada; areas are being quarantined to prevent a possible pandemic; Ming Dynasty junk collides with mystery vessel while finishing a Pacific voyage; 48 million hits on the Susan Boyle website; the beginning of pork bans; Australian flew a model airplane into the path of an airline, then placed the event on FaceBook, and set the tale to music; first flu death was in Oaxaca, MX; possible cases reported in Spain, France, Scotland & Israel; Europe reacts to the illness, and may ban pork from MX & the US; symptoms include;

Fever.
Cough.
Sore throat.
Muscle and joint pain.
Shortness of breath.

…4/25-09: you are the best in what you do

59º in ABQ; 22% humidity at 6A…does Brad have an ulcer, only an endoscopy will tell; Extreme Fire Danger & Wind Advisories, including the Duke City; teen under probation cut off his ankle bracelet, escaped from his job, and a crisis CTR: when he caught, he will be placed in detention CTR; money has been allocated to hire 500 new NM police officers…over the next five years; after eleven weeks, ABQ police say there is nothing more to find on the W Mesa; trolley service in Bernalillo & Sandoval counties; the Sandia Tram has reopened; 19K acres have burned in Chaves CNTY, sparked by a lightning spark; man attempted to jump from the third story of the Metro Court rotunda; the biggest powwow in the world; bartering era has resumed, it’s taxable income, and must be reported to the IRS: I have something you want, you have something I want, let’s trade; breast cancer survivor insulted the way she was treated at TSA security checkpoint in the SunPort; Lez Zeppelin appearing in the Duke City; casting call being held for both movie & TV series; student says cell phones can affect brain cells, ‘best friend’ can be bad for your health; bargain basement car prices; child has two pins in his arm after being physically abused; no barbecues today; SC uranium waste being sent to NM nuclear waste repository; NM resident, picked by Obama, will serve at OPM; Lance Armstrong will participate in the Tour of the Gila at Silver City; shake off ‘ring rust’ in the boxing business; Brad making Sopa De Ajo & Cole Slaw; Bosque blaze in SW ABQ has been contained; Los Lunas students took a substitute teacher’s car for a joyride that lasted several hours, followed by a ride to the Duke City & back by that same instructor, who was later fired; man stole security cameras from an ABQ carwash; final day for the Gathering of Nations; a story that made NATL news: three firemen died in plane crash in UT when they were heading to the fire in Chaves CNTY;

seven whole grains on a mission; processed vs. natural cheese; sex sells food; getting sloshed in a bath towel with sleeves; when the girls [boobs] are happy, I’m happy; a flight from NYC to Tel Aviv was diverted to Boston after an unruly man entered the cockpit; bad weather for OK City to Chicago; 75 NYC students from the same school; suffering from flu-like symptoms; large shark was placed in front of office door; MO high school student killed by baseball pitch; 63 year old plane found underwater in Lake Michigan; ’60 Minutes’ is not a ‘silly show’; Blagojevich, CDR CO, NM political contributions, and ‘pay to play’ scheme; NY murder–suicide case includes $20 million stolen from clients; bulletproof high fashion, with prices starting at $10K; Bea Arthur has died at the age of 86 from cancer; three people have been killed, two others injured at a shooting near the U of GA campus at Athens; in FL, two deputy sheriff’s were killed by a suspect, who was later fatally wounded himself; five people were killed, several more injured in a ten vehicle collision on the NJ TRPK; swine flu has struck in KS, this disease is beginning when the typical influenza season ends; Six Flags parks charge more if you print your tickets at home;

pirates take command of a German ship near Somalia; MX City shuts down, as fear of new swine flu spreads, thousands may be infected with the disease; albino buffalo found in Kenya; N Korea restarts nuclear facilities; Hillary Clinton is in Baghdad; WHO considers the swine flu ‘a serious threat’ that must be watched, officials feel this disease could spread around the world; ‘pump up the panic’; public events in MX City, which has twenty million people, have been cancelled; cyber attacks, which could destroy & its power grid, without firing a weapon, or killing anyone;

…4/24-09: even skeletons should come out of the closet

58º in ABQ; 20% humidity at 6A…Brad’s AM doctor visit; Gathering of Nations Weekend; Sustiva dream about waiting to see Dr. Bruni in the old mansions of New Bedford; very dehydrated, no refills at the diner; GAQ; holding patents; Extreme Fire Danger; Farmington teen is missing; murder–suicide pact in ABQ, but bodies found in various parts of the city; another fire at famous Duke City restaurant; more abuse claims due to the bad economy; NM job growth is down; FED money will resume for NM highway projects; the Hotel Clovis will be renovated, changed into affordable housing; Mountain police video prior to fatal car crash; cutting household bills is just a phone call away; red-tagged homes, yet their owners can sign a waiver, and continue living in those houses; no foul pay suspected on body found in Animas River; cougar found in Santa Fe yard; Rio Rancho Art Studio tour; health warning for NM, since swine flu cases were reported in CA & TX, five children & two adults: advisory issued by DOH; COMCAST truck was at The Beach; Brad & I are both tired; where is there a Clarion Hotel in the Duke City?; prominent people in pimp pages; PM tire fire near Belen has been contained; to support his drug habit, a man took his mom’s items & pawned them; 7% humidity at 5P; COMCAST is slow again; bicyclist struck & killed along I-25, S of Socorro; Metro Court was evacuated when a man threatened to jump inside the rotunda, a member of the Crisis MGMT team prevented that from happening; 150K Native Americans expected to attend the Duke City celebration; 10K acre fire burning SE of Alamogordo; police found acrylic fingernail, but bone search ends on the W Mesa;

leaving work at noon; why do you think they call it Alligator Alley?; time to be audited; I forgot my work pens on my home office desk; finished Rounds about 7:45A; Jenny was out yesterday & today; PM R/R broke down yesterday at Yale & Central; I forgot my pens & my notes;

wet in TX; AL, MS, N FL fog; AM T’storms in Cleveland; warm n TN; Twin Cities storms; Alligator Alley closed by blazes; drought from VA to FL; ‘the’ Las Vegas winds topple big rig; temps from 30s to 90s; SC fires are only 40% contained, flames fueled by strong winds; vehicles melted to the pavement, could burn for several weeks; lightning strike shut down ATL airport tower; MT, WY snow; storms from CA to WI; nearly 20K acres have burned in SC;

it’s not easy being the First Lady, she enjoys others' cooking for her, when she’s not sneaking out to Washington restaurants; quadriplegic girl found in storage area; the economic ripple effect of GM nine week summer vacation; results of the stress tests by banks, how they can handle an economic crisis; people declare Jedi as their worshipped faith; N Korea is indicting two US journalists; San Diego home patio turns into a pool; more GM layoffs, restructuring & plant closings, have a glut of vehicles in their inventory, beware the ripple effect; shoestring marks found around the neck of the Craigslist killer; Celtics beat the Bulls; after seventeen years, Jay Leno had to cancel appearing on his talk show, and admitted himself into the HOSP; man who faked falling off a MN bridge, then fell; actually FL students disciplined after placing chairs [in a neat fashion] on the roofs of their portable schools; MD teen deals with schizophrenia; AMEX see profits tumble; Johnston, PA airport, able to land any size airplane, three flights a day, but no passengers, averaging twenty people per day, and more money allocated for more tarmac; fishing pole for virtual games; Chrysler could be filing for bankruptcy; GA student with good grades killed himself after being bullied; FORD lost $1.4 billion; sexually transmitted disease can cause infertility: change sexual partners, see your doctor; thirteen injured when man has a seizure while driving his vehicle behind a TN parade; plastic jugs are turned into playground ‘lumber’; store clerk fought back after being attacked by a man with a machete; people can take the test to become an American citizen in their native language; GM will stop producing Pontiac car models; airspace invasion over DC by small planes prompts a security scare; [D] wins former NY SEN seat of Hillary Clinton; the DOW ended up; the new influenza is two parts swine, one part bird & one part human strains; demand declined less than expected; key question: do banks have a ‘cash cushion’?; Obama wants to create more affordable college loan system; $2 billion more has been loaned to GM, bringing the total to $15.4 billion; Merrill Lynch & Bank of America have merged;

abuse by Americans against foreigners in overseas’ prisons, photos released by ACLU; a new strain of flu, called H1N1, has appeared in both MX & the US, killing sixty people: a pandemic has not been declared but the disease is transmitted from human to human; how does 83 year old woman stay young: yoga; Russian daredevil dove into an active volcano; fifteen injured by turbulence on Air Canada flight; journalists charged with ‘hostile acts’ against N Korea, were captured near the Chinese border, they could spend ten years in a Communist prison; fear of Taliban spreads, as the militant group nears PAK capital; mixed foreign markets; Iranian pilgrims killed in Iraqi Shiite mosque; Spain’s jobless rate is over 17%; gold rose to $914.10 an ounce; oil closed at $51.56 an ounce;