Thursday, May 28, 2009

…5/28-09: from the mysterious reaches of outer space…

53º in ABQ; 74% humidity at 6A…cable restored overnight, probably an accident or storm; no rain at The Beach; GAQ; B-52s will be performing in the Duke City; ABQ teacher has been missing for weeks; DWI charge dropped against NMSU coach; ABQ budget cuts put ‘on hold’; it has rained six of the last seven days across NM; Aztec student saves another child from drowning; Iris Farm: an inexpensive place to visit; crossing the Rio Grande at Paseo, a ‘light rail on rubber’ transit system; NM jobless rate drops to 5.8%; Tyrus’ mother blame ABQ police for her son’s murder: they should have arrested her earlier; June is usually the driest month; installed Internet Explorer 8; isolated vs. scattered storms; another PNM rate hike, but gradual: two raises over one year; mental health bill for NM Veterans; no charges against boy who abused a dead body; wearing heavy metal necklace; plowing hail in ‘our’ Las Vegas; fire danger is nearly gone in parts of NM; a return to my Ikea light; did a thirteen year old boy fall into the Rio Grande?; Brad prepared a Ragu of Pork Loin in Vin Rouge; home invasion hoax at APT complex; across ABQ, an increase in large screen TV thefts: one pair of burglars has been arrested; NM has the largest number of state run museums in the country; slightly blurred vision, saw better without glasses;


on call to help others; finished Rounds by 7:45A; patient allergic to nickel; took PM Central home; worked on Terry’s TES edits; Code Purple at 11A, and 3P; one of our Coders lost her father this week; while leaving work, I was asked if we were participating in Pridefest events…my answer: it is time for the next generation to continue what we started;

very foggy with drizzle from Boston to NYC, CT coast, along I-95; DC SE US storms, also in OH Valley & N MI; two fires in CA valley are merging, caused by arson; OH & PA twisters; flood watches in NY, VT, WV, VA & Carolinas; NM storms mentioned on the ABC AM News; bad weather in Baltimore, Philly, INDY, Mobile & ATL; Dakota couple trapped in their home for two months, surrounded by water; 12K acres have burned in AK; S TX has the worst drought in the US; temps from 50s to 100s; Dupont Circle was flooded;
words of the times: ‘gaydar’ & ‘threequel’, ‘ego surfing’; man used empty six pack box instead of mask to rob NE store, stole cigarettes; Obama says cannot return to the past; low interest rates helped; economy taking a step in the right direction? Obama thinks so; PRES stimulus plan is 100 years old; is Sotomayor a ‘racist’, so says Gingrich; new agencies to protect individuals; sales of flat screen TV sets are up; PA mom kidnapped in Philly, found in FL, at Disney World, arrested in Orlando; she abandoned very young baby at home, husband in the dark about the incident; prominent liberal & conservative lawyers say gay marriage should be thelaw of the land’, theright to marry the person you love’; Prop 8 could be on the CA ballot again next year; camera can ‘geo tag’ where a photo was taken; AOL will no longer be part of Time Warner; liver problems linked to acetaminophen; Batman is 70 years old; things that go bump in the night at Milwaukee hotel; more H1N1 deaths in AZ & IL; Burris & Blagojevich: the buying of a SEN seat, incriminating audio evidence; two men killed in HI copter crash; PTSD, and US soldiers; IL passes medical marijuana law; each of us pay $1K for the uninsured; Sotomayor has not expressed her views on abortion, is she too radical a pick?; pets dying from flea & tick medicine; Bill Clinton still upset that the Kennedy clan backed Obama; jobless claims declined; foreclosures rising for people with good credit, 12% of homeowners are now delinquent with their mortgage payments; ID boy shot father while the parent was sleeping; CA gay student crownedprom queen; movies rated ‘R’ if the film contains smoking scenes?;
mixed foreign markets; 7.1 quake in Honduras; S Korea & the US on higher ‘Watchcon’ alert, now at its second highest level; 14,557 ‘new flu’ cases, and 96 global deaths; China quarantines US student group from MD who might have H1N1 flu, will be allowed to return home tomorrow; rare blue whale found on New Zealand beach; more bombs strike NW PAK: more oil than previously predicted under Arctic ice?; oil is $65.08 per barrel; gold is $961.50 per ounce; the first tropical depression for 2009 has formed, with 35 mph winds, traveling NE at 16 mph; Susan Boyle buckles under stress, knows how to swear at the press;

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