…5/4-09: innovative ideas on energy

61º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Nancy, and the ‘laughing Einstein’ photo; school closures in S NM, including Head Start & alternative programs; like TX & AL, all state extracurricular activities are cancelled for one week; ‘probable’ means ‘likely’; my leather bracelet broke; on AVG, ABQ has 63 ninety degree days; extended program for Native American eye care; fewer NM residents applying for jobless benefits; Brad planting peas & Brussels Sprouts; I write, I ink, I color; ‘Mind That Bird’ on ABC Nightly News; now, sixteen schools across the state are closed, and two more confirmed cases: the fourteen year old girl, and the fifteen year old boy, both from Socorro CNTY; NM is ‘positive’; 7,500 ran for the Duke City Zoo;

Hell Week, Day Two; UNM students will not travel to MX this summer; JoAnn is on vacation in FL all week; time to return to my shell, no stress allowed; finished Rounds before 7:45A; nineteen month old run over by his intoxicated mother; empty AM Central; helping Jenny with NICU Daily Baby; AM panic attack; met Debbie’s boyfriend, they were eating side by side at the Frontier; two charges vanished from a billing sheet, corrected with a PDI;

W Plains, MS Valley rain; wet ATL; WV mudslides; use sunscreen in Orlando; very dry in Tampa, Orlando & Ft. Lauderdale; weekend storms for VA & Carolinas; twister carved eight mile path in AL; no power in TN, GA, AL; NYC rain, T’storms in the SE US; San Fran showers, and from DC to Boston; I-10 is wet in AL & MS; W Coast rain; temps from 50s to 100s;
Is the ‘new flu’ a political diversion?; Clark Kent could not be made into a ‘supermodel’; TN couple saved their ‘first kiss’ until married, or ‘virgin lips movement’; storms beat flu for headlines; elbow rubs & shoulder pats; mulch fire in Phoenix, could burn for several days; Cowboys coach is paralyzed from the waist down; a ‘quiet dinner’ at Citronelle in Georgetown for the Obamas; best two month stock increase in 35 years; nine FED Appeals judges on the US Supreme Court; flu fears fading?; football prepares you for politics; economy will rise again: reduce borrowing money; Celtics won the playoffs; Boston Globe may stop publishing; did A-rod use steroids in high school?; Obama immortalized in chocolate; hockey game goes into third O/T; six stolen bases in one game; Michelle Obama, and the $500 dollar sneakers she wore to a food bank; People giving up Pugs Party in San Diego; FL father killed his wife, two sons, then himself; to help sell a home, keep it smelling good; ‘morning glory’ is a psychotropic drug; pending home sales jump 3.2%; facial factor from recession: teeth grinding; three year old is taken at gunpoint from his CA home; free Wi-Fi access by Verizon; a SONY TV that can turn itself on & off when you leave the room; on the same page of a website, the H1N1 pandemic is both slowing & increasing; add RI, AL, WI & NH to the ‘sick states’; ‘taking the right health protocol’; cautious calm; raccoon roundworm leaves one NYC child blind in one eye, and another with brain damage; banks tighten home loan qualifications; ‘Heroes’ will return; Filene’s Basement has filed for bankruptcy; when ‘freelance’ means ‘full time’; the glass box in Chicago with the ‘big view’; the DOW ends up; 286 ‘new flu’ cases, in 36 states; add TN to H1N1 list; Nicholas Cage movie stunt goes out of control, injuring two NYC bystanders; no more 50 – 1 odds for ‘Mine That Bird’; the ‘traffic cam scam’; stocks finally post a gain for 2009, but what happens when auto plants close, will there be a ‘new normal’; why were football players playing during a violent storm?; 78% the jobs lost had been filled by men, some wives are losing respect of their ‘stay at home husbands’; man who could get into trouble, and did: Elizabeth should file divorce papers after her book is released; Buffett: a Doberman, not a cocker spaniel; do not question Rice; add MD, Louisiana, OR, ID & PA to the ‘sick state status’; a new bridge in FL, or a waste of money?;

Italy’s First Lady seeking a divorce; UK artist painted an ‘invisible car’ using paints; 1K cases are ill worldwide; 70 MX tourists trapped in China; pandemic is slowing; forty-four flu cases in Spain; Fiat will buy the European branch of GM; 500 flu victims in MX; Vatican objects Ron Howard new movie, ‘Angels & Demons’?; Asia markets rising; a second wave of ‘global flu’; 985 cases, and 26 deaths; add Ireland to the ‘sick countries’; WHO might declare a flu pandemic; disease increasing tension between nations; oil is $53.72 per barrel; gold is $906 per ounce; H1N1 can be carried by plane; 1,025 cases of ‘new flu’ in twenty countries; Iraq wants to see US military leave the major cities by 6/30/09; faces of the H1N1; one of Susan Boyle YouTube sites has had over 51 million hits, a woman who promised her dying mother to try out for the talent show; S hemisphere could see ‘new flu’ cases as their winter arrives; by end of day, 1,085 global H1N1 cases; pirates captured by the French Navy when the bandits mistook the ship as a cargo carrier; creature comforts for the quarantined; British woman swallowed drugs, wine & liquid soap before attacking flight attendants: now, the passenger is in custody in ME; cut the tax loopholes in the Caymans; ‘pandemic’ is based on how far a disease spreads, not its severity; add Portugal & Ireland to the ‘new flu’ country cases; MX sending a plane to fly those citizens trapped in China;