…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;