56º in ABQ; 11% humidity at 6A…GAQ; schools encourage students to go home if they have flu symptoms, need a doctor’s approval to return to class; third stage of the Tour of the Gila; ‘chronic poor performance’ at LANL , problem has been addressed and has been corrected; chance of snow this weekend in N NM; wash your hand every day, several times per day; Brad’s Chiro visit, back still hurting when he stands, signs of a storm?; class action suit against Bernalillo CNTY for unpaid O/T; fire burning in D NM; today starts Cinco de Mayo Superblitz; test kits will be available early next week, with can produce results in about a day; there are now nine ‘probable’ cases in NM, ranging from 1 – 27 years old: add Eddy, Hidalgo & Bernalillo counties; 7% humidity at 6P; Carlsbad reached 97º;
Hell Week, Day One; dry weather means fragile fingers, more paper cuts; finished Rounds about 7:30A; earlier this year, Compliance was severely understaffed; patient fell out a second story window, onto a swamp cooler, then fell a second time onto another swamp cooler, finally landing on the ground; treating a three month old HIV baby, who has a very high viral load; use R/R to reach the comics store; nope, the MONT bus arrived, took it to Menaul, both E & W, then R/R, and arrived home by 5:30P; old NICU area nearly renovated; UNM employees are advised to postpone travel to MX, and return home immediately if they are in that country, for any reason; this AM, cars stopped on the campus, so soldiers could run en masse; no one at work but me; UNM has cancelled travel to MX until 5/31/09;NE snow; lightning sparks fire, ignites home in Springfield, MO; MS, AL, OK, AR T’storms; parts of I-40, I-70 & I-75; per weather Channel, record heat across NM; Albany & Boston showers; Philly fog; flash floods for the Great Plains, IL, IN; rain for TN, KY, MO, OH, PA, Joplin to Pittsburgh; three twisters struck KS; temps from 30s to 100s; hail in the Midwest; moist in CA & OR;
US Supreme Court judge David Souter to retire, the moderate, pragmatic & liberal man from NH is not the oldest on the bench; will his replacement be a woman, or a GOV; twelve states with the H1N1; the disease no worse than any other illness, just a new strain, with no vaccine, but not a major cause of death; no out of pocket pennies; when drinking costs your job; cockatoo dances; Los Angeles man may have killed dozens of women; ‘surgical bankruptcy’ for Chrysler, who merges with Fiat; Chrysler CEO will lose his job; the ‘bad bar scene chatter’; Rice vs. college student about interrogation tactics, do anything that was legal; 1976 flu panic may have cost Gerald Ford his presidency; David Souter is 69 years old; father & son window washers dangles above CA street, when their bench snapped, due to high winds; eleven states have the ‘new flu’; triple O/T, Bulls win, series with Celtics go to Game Seven; man learned how to deliver a baby by watching YouTube; more minority statues are needed in DC; many family members cannot deal with talking about cancer, some turn to support groups; 300 schools remain closed because of the disease, we have enough medicine to battle the outbreak; man opened fired, shot people eating near a Los Angeles Taco Truck; H1N1 presents problems for prom season; some people who fall into certain categories may have to pay more to the IRS next year; Dan Hartman was gay?; SUV belonging to the GA professor & murderer has been found near Athens, GA; people who were on vacation may not be able to return to work; the number of flu cases in the US has reached 141; add DE, VA, NJ, NE, KY, IL [maybe I have already mentioned that state] to the list of H1N1 states; DOW ended up; auto sales are falling; churchgoers approve torturing terrorists for info; Cartier’s is 100 years old; ‘9 to 5’, the musical, hits the Broadway stage; ATL bank closed, costing FDIC $1.3 billion; another HIV case from equipment not sterilized at a VA HOSP; where is the ‘thumper monster’?; NH SEN passed same-sex marriage law; Hydroxycut banned, could cause liver damage; add MN to ‘flu states’; there has been a 900% increase in purchasing anti-viral flu medicine; now, H1N1 vaccine may be ready by end of 2009; walk into a cube completely made of glass at the top of the Sears Tower; COMCAST reports drug smugglers taking over NM border towns; 
April has been the deadliest month in Iraq this year; MX flu cases have leveled off; repair mission to the Hubble Telescope, liftoff may take place 5/11/09, using the space shuttle Atlantis; people may be prevented from leaving MX if they test positive for the H1N1 virus; college professor missing when hiking a volcano in S Japan; male figure skating has to become more macho; add Hong Kong to the growing list of ailing nations; the number of H1N1 flu cases has increased to 363; Fidel Castro, seen wearing a US/Cuba pin, but this is not a sign of weakness; oil is $53.26 per barrel; gold is $888.20 per ounce; flight from Munich to DC was diverted to Boston when a female passenger complained about having flu-like symptoms; 
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