Monday, April 6, 2009

…4/6-09: shop, save, smile!

35º in ABQ; 33% humidity at 6A… GAQ; Brad at the Food Bank, he also received an Easter ham; ‘seven promises’ from KOAT; ENMU is 75 years old; another night with so-so sleep; cockfighting ring in man’s front yard; another film crew in downtown Duke City; starting in 2010, NM state employees would have to work 30 years before retiring; female driver hit man walking along the highway near Pojoaque; more monetary rewards for good grades; homeless sleep in hospitals; what are the options for Santa Fe College; Carlsbad Caverns has seen an increase of tourists in 2009; Cliff’s Amusement Park saw record number of attendance this weekend; having washing machine problems, and repairmen are in demand; self-publishing a book online, it worked for a fifty year old woman who wrote about her Alzheimer’s, the process is called ‘print on demand’; last frost threat for mid-NM is mid-April; the Montebello APTS in NE Heights; reinstate the NM death penalty in 2010?;

the Registration & AM Census reports do not display the same patients as admissions; meeting added for 4/15/09, plus one for 4/17/09; how much paperwork has increased for Data Entry; get blood drawn today, after Rounds [non-labeled, ended at 7:30A]…no can do, because the order has lapsed, due to delayed doctor’s visit; so Brad called Tim, by PM, Truman Clinic had been reached, and lab tests had been reordered; Coders have become paper pushers; all deletions must be recorded on a form, that is sent to Brent; this is ‘the’ week in the month for MGMT; eating has become a luxury; people wonder how I survive without taking Annual Leave, and so am I; the best advice to survive…slow down!; ‘coding without a cause’; Code Purple at 9:11A, and nearly all day;

snow: OH, IL, IN, into the Carolinas & N GA; WY, Dakotas, NE, & IL blizzards; winds in NYC & DC; Pittsburgh rain & snow showers; 15K acres blaze destroyed homes in Wheeler, TX; rain from Philly to ME; I-95 T’storms, especially in FL & S GA; temps from 30s to 80s;

airline complaints are dropping, based on GOVT statistics; should bank execs be fired by Capitol Hill; dignified transfer from plane to the ground of soldiers killed in Iraq & AFG, photos capturing families’ emotions, the ‘silent homecoming’; love Yankees, hate Mets [who also have a new stadium], beer will be allowed in the new NY stadiums, as well as lobster & sushi; it’s ‘play ball’ at Fenway Park; veteran who was treated with medical equipment that had not been sterilized, has tested positive for HIV; of ‘lost’ NE family are now in custody; free dental care for the underemployed nay be a thing of the past; ‘evil burst through the door’; ‘Waldo Weekend” at Rutgers’ UNIV; is Obama the ‘polarizing PRES’?; some doctors don’t believe fibromyalgia exists, a disease with no cure; traffic deaths are down; Ritz Cameras closing 300 locations across the US; TV station received a letter from the Birmingham killer; brain development causes teenagers to be moody; US Airways & American each has high number of customer complaints; NE is the ‘happiest’ state, while NM ranks as number 16; fifty more drones needed by the military; what is ‘an irregular war’?; adding make-up can provide more stability, prevent a fatal fall; investment losses, used to provide money for state pensions, need $270 million to provide retirement benefits; another new APPLE IPod?; Americans unsure how to handle the N Korean missile crisis; health system ‘behind the times’ when displaying medical data on the Internet; proposed defense budget cuts?; Farrah Fawcett’s cancer has spread to her liver; the DOW ended down; foreclosure scams on the rise;

Madonna appeals adoption rejection; Americans can send money to Cuba, but trade embargos remain; no sanctions from UN Security Council, blocked by Russia & China; was the N Korean satellite launch a success?; Obama wants to rid the world of a nuclear weapons, and the Communist country should be punished; a strong INTL response is needed; US PRES talks in Turkey, seeking peace with the Muslim world; Michelle wears clothes by American designers; pirates seize British ship; Baghdad bombing kills at least twenty people; digging through ruins by hands; entire towns destroyed, 70K are homeless; 6.3 Italian quake N of Rome [which felt the tremor] has killed nearly 100 people, injured 1,500 others, struck in the early morning, and injured many people, five story APT BLDG collapsed, dorms crumbled, Italy has declared a state of emergency; tremor struck a city 800 years old, no running water in shaken cities; how you handle a problem like N Korea; foreign markets on the rise; ‘good nuke news’ from Iran?; first political killing in Dubai, that of a Chechnya citizen, linked to the PRES of that former Soviet republic; in Turkey, an assassination attempt on Obama was foiled; ‘we are not, nor will we ever be, at war with Islam’; oil is $51.05 per barrel; gold is $872.80 an ounce; al Qaeda keeps attacking Iraq;

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