…6/2-09: we have families, we have values!

59º in ABQ; 34% humidity at 6A…the curse of the tumbling lamp; ambulance at The Beach in the early AM; Code Yellow, Moderate Air Quality; Roswell reports its second homicide?; State Fair vendors required to use expensive cooking equipment; Eunice residents upset about toxic wastes filling a nearby TX landfill; juvenile detention CTR inmate escaped in N NM; more meetings for improving animal safety; budget talks stalled for Santa Fe; Marty wants to continue the search for Corbin Hayes, keep scanning the banks of the Rio Grande; this AM, Brad & I bid each other farewell in a British way; yesterday Brad got a call, reminding him of Thursday’s 7A APPT; bright colored Mustang missing at The Beach this AM: back again, in the PM; this PM, a child’s body was discovered in a hollow tree along the Rio Grande, just N of the Alameda Bridge; man made money at his Belen home; the Margarita Pizza: tomatoes, cheese & basil…topped with shrimp; I-25 closed near Cesar Chavez: suspicious package under bridge, placed there by a man [who was arrested] who has done this before;

Hell Week, Day Two; Myrna said ‘good for you’, MGR said nothing; another UNM parking garage to be built; finished Rounds about 7:30A; do we have a shortage of nurses?; patient was bitten by red fire ants; we have to explain why Coders make mistakes; Data Entry asking for our location at UNMH, then forwarding mistakes to our MGR, who get ‘angry’ at us [not!]; thunder & showers at UNM; a ‘thank you’ from Terry; was the charge on ‘hold’; thunder rain at UNM, and The Beach;

NW US warmth; bad weather in New England; huge Kalispell dust devil, storm can take the paint from a car; KS, CO, NE, also in OH, IL & TX twisters; NYC T’storms, also in Chicago, DFW; temps from 60s to 100s; showers from PA to DC, and the Central Plains; FL storms; wet in KC; Los Angeles water restrictions;

man will spend one month entirely on a jet, traveling across America; recent Islamic convict was arrested for AR shootings; trained derailed at Louisville, KY Zoo; the fear of fear is frightening; people need to eat smaller portions, and avoid sweet juice drinks; Pasadena, CA criminal was injured when he jumped from the top of a five story parking lot; the ‘full body Wii’; people are saving more money; 29K GM layoffs, all fifty states have GM retirees: Americans are reluctant shareholders; bowling shirts are ‘in’; FORD sales have reached July, 2008 level; IN man builds his own electric car; people suffering ‘cell phone elbow’; NY student’s ‘half haircut’ not acceptable, told to leave school…but there is nowhere in the dress code that prohibits any style; Dick Cheney = Darth Vader; Regan & Obama have both started ‘movements’; abortion clinics are on ‘high alert’; Kmart CEO found guilty of misleading investors; CA is $24 billion in debt, may seek FED stimulus money; case of the H1N1 virus has been confirmed in all fifty states; PA court decides that The Bible cannot be read at a school’s show & tell; some NATL parks will offer weekend free rates;10K bees surround plane in MA airport; NY armored car drops $300K from an open door; the DOW ended up;Hummer will be bought by Chinese businessman; mixed foreign markets; Daniel Craig is the man most women want to lick, so a popsicle looks like him; Muslims should ‘embrace democratic values’, so says our PRES, some do not feel Obama should be allowed in their region of the world; the jet was only four years old, flew out of the local range, but lightning does not usually harm a plane; did another pilot see a fire on the ATL Ocean, other airlines flew the same route without difficulty, some type of wreckage has been found by Brazil search group, a three mile debris field; items need to be verified as pieces belonging to the missing plane; oil is $68.12 per barrel; gold is $982.80 an ounce; WHO may raise the H1N1 to level ‘6’, its highest: there are 17,564 cases in 64 countries, and 115 deaths; N Korean leader selects his successor; Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Germany & France: itinerary of Obama’s next foreign tour;