…4/14-09: basically speaking

49º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…GAQ; ‘tea party’ protests across NM; keep adding color to my ‘canvas’; ‘court’ to be held at Raton high school, students watch a DUI case; rabbits are dying across NM; man faked his own death to avoid arrest, made CNN news, also wanted on embezzlement charges: his family is guilty of harboring a fugitive; anti-violence art by children will be displayed; animal shelter officer broken into a cage to free his pet; man offered ten year old girl money for sex, she told him his age, but he continued; better bus stops & kiosks for ABQ Ride; first Native American radio announcer has died; limos can be rented for $12 per person per hour; sixteen year old Acoma girl still missing; High Fire Danger watches & warnings; Aztec clinic still closed, waiting for a qualified ‘small town’ doctor; BP: 129/80; Duke City man beat his girlfriend’s Chihuahua to death; 8% humidity at 5P; repairman called, no reason why we should have black spots on our wash…when Brad tested washing on a hot/cold cycle, spots appeared, but not on a cold/cold wash, so could it be a deteriorating rubber hose?; Brad will relay this info to Nancy; Brad made a Greek Salad;

Bruce knows the ID doctors I work with; stop worrying; overcome psychological obstacles; need to relax; two meetings, HIPPA at 8:30A & Kay at 1P; finished Rounds before 7:30A; no shuttle service to or from Truman Clinic, considered ‘the ugly stepchild’, or ‘the black sheep’; put a ‘bug’ in someone’s ear about recent UNMMG events, told him it’s easier that people known I’m HIV+; Internal Medicine hiring another Coding helper?; Jenny likes a variety of food; Code Purple by 6:30A, and all day; Mike, Kay’s ASST?; she got six inches of snow this past weekend; person allergic to grapes; JoAnn & I will have to work as a team; working three years at UNMMG is considered ‘a long time’; JoAnn was wearing house slippers; speak softly, and carry a big backpack, or purse [or both]; the other ‘in’ phrase: ‘write them up’;

Chicago rains; cycles of turbulent storms; AL, GA twisters, 250K without power; more N Dakota floods; repairing dikes; rain & snow in NW US; Tampa & Orlando tornadoes; ’Las Vegas’ winds; dreary Detroit; record high in Key West; N FL T’storms; downpours across Carolinas, MD, DE, DC, VA; wet in Philly; temps from 40s to 80s;








plugging X-Men: Wolverine; Blagojevich goes to FED court, he will plead ‘not guilty’?; gas prices will not be as bad as in 2008, not reaching $3 per gallon; in a collision, micro-cars are not safe; Michael Jackson selling his ‘stuff’, but not the ‘glove’; cat roams NY baseball stadium during game; fishing poles & bicycles sitting in basements & garages, thanks to allergies; Twitter being used by police & firemen; too hard to read Amazon online books, print is too small; conflicting stories by crying, female CA killer; teen claims he created April Fool’s Worm, because he was bored; ‘Prince’ purple IPod, 950 made, of them costing over $2,100 each; economic speech by Obama today; Doris Day was one of the Top Ten box office attractions for every year from 1948 – 1964, the longest for any actress; AZ teen killed by his teacher’s boyfriend when caught in her bedroom; Obama creates the SW Border Czar; [R] want to send [D] transparent teabags; conflicting economic signals: mixed messages, ‘the sky is still dark’; America needs ‘pillars of a new foundation’; Bo meets the media, First Dog is ‘coming out’; NY GOV asking state legislature to legalize same-sex marriage; Hallmark is laying off 750 workers; retail sales fell by 1.1% in March, a larger drop than predicted; NM is one of eighteen states who have tried four day school weeks: but the start of forty week school year?;






artist adds ear to his arm; UK woman eats the snails that are taking over her backyard, a cheap & healthy way to eliminate a problem; nuclear activity restarting in N Korea, ordered all inspectors to leave, restarting reactors; the Scottish spinster who can sing; Prince William overheats his plane’s engine; Burger King in trouble for treatment of MX flag in its ad; overnight, three more cargo ships attacked by Somali pirates, $100 million in ransom received during 2008, ships must choose a route that lengthens its journey; revenge vs. money in this ‘business’; American captain is in Kenya, will soon be reunited with his wife, try greasing the side of a ship, or positioning fake security guards; there are 1.5 million Cubans in America; the infinite audience of the Internet; mixed foreign markets; via the Internet, British landlord viewed a party in her rented, with wallpaper dangling, and people swinging on light structures;