…5/18-09: smart, informed decision

62º in ABQ; 40% humidity at 6A…Brad’s arm is feeling better; last night it took me fifteen minutes to download two more songs [from Polish website]; GAQ; small boy’s identity found in a Duke City park has yet to be identified; an unimportant tip may provide a clue; Marty vs. the City Council tonight, both have budget proposals; the NM AVG price of gas is $2.32 per gallon: in ABQ, it’s $2.26; NM GOV must tackle the high Duke City dropout rate; dry T’storms today in E NM; more Sustiva dreams; use a timer to determine how long to paint?; I need more sleep; I forgot to take the trash out; Valencia CNTY dog had his mouth wired shut, could not eat or drink for a week; Max may have to become a VJ, but he will think about it; I will spend more time with Brad next weekend, now that I have solved how to play ‘real’ music at the disco; we have renewed our rent for $920/month; told Nancy I have pictures of The Beach on my website, plus praise from tenants; gas is $2.22 per gallon; was the buried boy seen in a downtown Duke City FED BLDG; French Mortuary will prepare a proper burial for the child; Espanola officer fell asleep at the wheel; still sanding stairs at The Beach; more INTEL jobs will be lost this week; either stay & retrain, or get severance pay; easy come, easy go, I lost my Playlist; another tuition increase for UNM; finished Rounds about 7:45A; personnel retention is good, for both staff & nurses; in terms of paperwork, it takes a long time to ‘recover’ after a long vacation;

storms in New England, N Plains & NW US; rain from VA, Carolinas to FL, including Orlando & the Keys, plus parts of the Gulf Coast; windy in NYC & NJ; reached into the 100s in ‘the’ Las Vegas, CA, AZ; temps from 50s to 100s; ABC AM News predicts T’storms for NM; cold in W PA, N OH;

‘Angels & Demons’ earned $48 million at the weekend box office; New Bedford resident owns an electric scooter that can go 60 mph, and travel 244 miles on one charge; 4.7 quake shook Los Angeles last night, the city should be prepared for more aftershocks; the epicenter was three miles east of LAX, felt in Long Beach; a FaceBook site of amusing pictures taken years ago; Chrysler dealers may make great deals to reduce their inventory; as compared to medical illnesses, US spends very little money on mental health problems; mother faces jail time for MySpace hoax; the vague memories of Pelosi: prove or apologize, torture is inappropriate; Obama will be tackling unfavorable issues, but we should all work together; agree on some things, not on others; NYC reports its first H1N1 death; Nintendo Wii sales have dropped; DE oil refinery fire contained; a middle school assistant principal’s death, who had other health complications; eleven Big Apple schools will be closed today; DELL female website described as ‘too feminine’; WINDOWS 7 is worth the wait; INTEL updates laced with faith; Wal-Mart vs. Best Buy for electronic sales; people spending less on doctor’s visits; fifteen year old Louisiana student brings gun to school, attempts to shoot teacher, then fires the weapon into his own head; Star Trek movie made $43 million this past weekend; the NATL AVG price of gas is $2.31 per gallon; SEN Byrd of WV admitted to the HOSP because of INFX; seek common ground on issues; ‘girl power’ won at the Preakness; Magic beats the Celtics, Boston out of the playoffs; Tamiflu is OK for pregnant women; OH mother called 911 so the police would make her son clean up his room; the DOW is up; Bill Clinton to become US Envoy; the toughest emissions & gas standards for vehicle will be in place within the next ten years; one day old ducklings can swim; 5,123 H1N1 cases, and six deaths in the US; PBP ‘survived’ until 2006, still under Tom Ernst, who heads Medicure…the things you find out when ‘fishing’ Frank is the NLP Director; low tar cigarettes, high risk for cancer; now, 17 NYC schools are closed, due to 'new flu';

European ‘dog wash’, fad spreading across the continent; Israel visits DC; Palestine state should be formed; Israel wants ‘natural growth’, worried about US PRES talking with Iranian leader, the first two minutes will be the most important; mixed foreign markets; the last spacewalk for this mission; 111 tiny screws had to be removed, with big, bulky gloves; Peru & Indonesia has the H1N1 virus; Iran has until the end of 2009 to end its nuclear program; 25 Sri Lanka civil war has ended; gold is $923 per ounce; oil is $58.75 per barrel; one site, 57+ million hits on Susan Boyle’s song;