…4/17-09: be kind to your friends, and kinder to your enemies

38º in ABQ; 37% humidity at 6A…Brad’s early AM Chiro visit; GAQ; more snow in N NM; tattoo shop fronted a drug cartel in Las Cruces; YDDC gang related fight put several in the HOSP; was Four Corners woman found at the bottom of a cliff; San Juan CNTY ‘disaster drill’; are three members of ‘our’ Las Vegas high school staff not part of sex scandal; Pojoaque Lt. GOV involved in hit & run this month; Bernalillo CNTY needs 100 temp workers, more details in the W Mesa Mystery; computer glitches halt money to NM Transportation DEPT; with jobs lasting up to six months; ‘cool’ cars come to the Duke City; prom dresses that rent for less than $50 in second hand store; new animal shelter for Farmington; MVD computer is thirty years old; College of Santa Fe may hold graduation services off campus; INTL Auto Show this weekend in the Duke City; ‘boys love to play with cars’; by noon, Chris took our washer, and replaced it with a GE model; 73% humidity at 6P; for sale: Val Kilmer’s ranch…6K acres, asking price: $33 million, makes COMCAST news; NM never had a ‘real estate bubble to break’; Brad made Portuguese Bread; evening rain at The Beach;

‘delegated’ meeting at 1P with Candy, more time not coding services; worked Family Practice I/P TES edits; Myrna out yesterday & today; finished Rounds about 7:30A; someone might agree that it is better to keep switching the duties of Coders, unless in an emergency; will some people remain where they are…and, do they like that idea; doctors vs. MGMT, who will win; did people want to relocate?; will PEDS be billing for HEM/ONC again?; renting a car, since not on Disney property, JoAnn would have to take taxis everywhere; no one communicates with Dr. Rose; teen patient with erections; some people do not like pseudo-codes; no one told PEDS we would be handling YCHC; Jenny is in ‘limbo’, and better lines of communications are needed; did some running to get the Eubank bus, and arrived home slightly after 5:30P; cold, wet & windy in NE Heights; no hiring in our area; they will go, before I go; when all else fails, talk to Tony; VIP tickets to the INTL Auto Show if you donated blood;

warming trend across the US; but winter weather in Denver, up to two feet of snow, bad driving along parts of I-25: across CO, heavy snow advisories; temps from 30s to 80s; New England & GA Fire Danger: Extreme Drought across 25% of TX; T’storms in Houston & OK City, along parts of I-10; hail in parts of TX; 80 miles of I-70, 140 miles of I-80 and 30 miles of I-25 were closed due to snow, totaling up to thirty inches in parts of WY & CO; hail shut down I-27 in TX, with four tornadoes also reported in that state;

‘divorce’ cakes; video games’ sales on the decline; air traffic revenue & passengers have declined; for the first time, GOOGLE profits are down; eat a ‘Super Burger’, get a T-shirt; now three people have died, CA HOSP murderer’s job was not in jeopardy; Oprah joins Twitter; GE profits are down by 35%; kidnapped captain arrives in the US; Palin says children should be born ‘perfect’; ‘Cadillac couch’ in ‘man cave’, no fluff allowed; bigger smiles, lower divorce rates; 91 species of bedbugs, do not transmit human disease, keep rooms clean, at home, or in a hotel; unemployment rose in 46 states; factory fire forces evacuation of MN town; twelve year old Afro-American boy in Springfield, MA killed himself: he was bullied by people who said he was gay; unusual economics: profits determined by manipulating money; pilot dies when small plane crashes into FL home; money contributed to colleges by anonymous donor, biggest amounts ever received, all led by women, money must be used for student scholarships, and no one should try to discover the ID of the benefactor; drugs in ‘hidden’ areas of trucks; Quincy mother killed her unborn fetus, and her nine year old daughter; McCain aide says [R] should support same-sex marriage; add Denver & Chicago to ‘drug hubs’; YouTube could go Hollywood, see TV episodes, charging for ‘some’ premium accesses; now, VA clinic errors have resulted in three people becoming HIV+; why is torture considered a ‘legal tactic’?; Hillary clears her campaign debt;

UK bar with air that smells like gin; dialogue between US & Cuba, both countries willing to meet & talk; 90% of weapons in MX are shipped from the US; foreign markets rising; harsh, physical techniques such as very cold water, used against high value detainees; about two dozen injured when trains collide near Berlin; Susan Boyle could win a lot of money; over twenty dead from 5.5 AFG quake, followed by 5.1 aftershock; Toshiba cuts 5,900 jobs; Obama at the Summit of the Americas; Kepler telescope starts sending outer space photos; nineteen million hits on YouTube for Susan Boyle; you can’t spell Earth without ‘art’; Hugo Chavez & Obama shook hands, a sign of friendship?;