…4/16-09: is right now more important than tomorrow, or yesterday

35º in ABQ; 85% humidity at 6A…windy last night; early AM Blogger maintenance; GAQ; it’s not what you see, or maybe what you see; focus on academic excellence; abandoned homes lower property values: no buyers, just burglars; 80 mph police chase ended in NW Duke City; NM GOV shook the Holy Father’s hand; double homicide in NE ABQ; light snow across in N NM, and ABQ; use make-up school to get ready for Prom Night; free chicken for a year at new ABQ fast-food restaurant; motorcyclist killed in NW ABQ accident; the W Mesa Mystery gets NATL exposure; Four Corners woman has been missing for more than two weeks; three die in Rio Arriba crash, alcohol was a factor; Brad talked to Nancy, and we will be getting a new washer; the dry, sunny weather makes ABQ a ‘Bad Hair City’; Brad made Marinated Mushrooms & Liptauer Cheese;

MGR is stressed out; cell phone usage banned in some DEPT by MGR; how the Holter Monitor has shrunk; less meetings, could mean more work; hotel in front of 1650 UNIV has halted; Code Purple at 6:30A; finished Rounds before 7:45A; empty AM R/R; after several months recovering from an auto accident, Ted has returned, looking well; next stop for JoAnn: Chicago?; Aaron is in Peru; Dr. Anaya is going to Ecuador; Hmmm…why is my MGR in a good mood?; alone in the office during the AM; PEDS worker was a ‘disco queen’; framed Nora’s E-mal message of no charges; smashup at Yale & Central; GroupWise not working at 6:20A, phoned my MGR, then E-mailed her through my AOL account, had to reboot system, then the software worked; tents around the campus topped with various colored flags; fellow worker has voice problems: now’s the time to make an obscene phone call;

TX, AR, Louisiana rain; N Plains floods; high surf from NJ to NC; ABQ Fire Danger mentioned on the Weather Channel; Dallas showers; fog in Pittsburgh & Johnstown; temps from 30s to 80s; FL floods; N Rockies snow; 80s in Orlando;

may not be as easy to pass a same-sex ceremony bill in NY; crew have arrived in the US, admit they were scared; safe & sound on American soil; Hartford ‘Trash Museum’; ‘caveman’ homeless person prevented robbery; propane & oxygen used to detonate & collapse underground rodent homes; demand of drugs in US keeps the illegal cartels growing; Obama books earned revenue; $172K donated by First Family to charities; foreclosures rose in February; relief money for big banks; DELL drops to number two in computer sales; more people are anxious are unhappy, but think god times are getting closer; photos of the face of this recession; more concessions to get a job; cameras shooting, and showing casualties; nothing left say, but ‘crisis’; woman rented ‘hire me’ billboard on I-95 in CT; scum on the skin; 62 years ago, Jackie Robinson, number 42, broke the color barrier in baseball; Scottish singer on Good Morning, America; when real bears ruled Wall ST, the Green Gotham; NYC boy parachuted to his death, trying to mimic a video game stunt; generic drugs getting cheaper; keep running after fifty; Domino Pizza workers in off-color act on YouTube, charged in a food crime, and fired; 804K homes under foreclosure in 2009; smaller, user-friendly camera that costs $850; sort out social life online; blackberries upset work ethics; ‘spam’ is bad for the environment, wastes electricity; new home building dropped to the second lowest on record; no one at home when people call for foreclosure help; skier survives Mt. Washington avalanche; Obama proposes a rapid rail system; Pittsburgh is the second most polluted city in the US; two people died, one was injured as HOSP worker began firing outside the BLDG; nurse laid off while part of surgery team; mall operator may declare bankruptcy, controls several in MA, NM & the DC Metro area; Freedom Plaza in NYC may not be completed for many years; ‘increased pressure phase on possible 9 – 11 terrorists vs. illegal acts of interrogation; one in 159 homes are foreclosed in the US, mostly in four states; bottom line: banks won’t lend to the unemployed; now serving a NATL controversy: NM serving cold lunches to poor students; baby pythons on a plane; should TX secede?; DOW ended up; only 5% of large trucks are inspected at US borders; new American ‘drug hubs’ include: Phoenix, Houston & Los Angeles;







mixed foreign markets; tens of millions have seen her on the Internet; if she wins on “Britain’s Got Talent”, Susan Boyle would have a chance to sing for the Queen; oil rose to $50.06 per barrel; gold fell to $879.80 an ounce; second American ship that was attacked has arrived in Kenya, while Somalia has not had a functioning GOVT in twenty years; pirates say to America ‘prepare for revenge’; AFG returning to Shiite Family laws, repealing women’s rights; bacteria located under an Antarctic glacier;