…6/29-09: return to Chapter One

61º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality for Ozone; the teen driver involved in a head-on collision near Santa Fe is at UNMH; horse virus in Farmington; fatal collision in Valencia CNTY; Duke City man raped his fourteen year old niece, and got her pregnant; the AVG price of gas in NM is $2.63 per gallon: in ABQ, it’s $2.56; autistic children fascinated by small toy; film crew in downtown Duke City; Santa Fe rail yard BLDG fire, started by angry employee; save money: buy from, or join into a co-op; Native American hate crimes on the increase in NM; I saw gas for $2.49 per gallon;

in a world where no one cares anymore; 10:05 Compliance meeting [cancelled]; finished Rounds by 7:45A; another nurse leaving, this time from CTI; more Pit rebuilding controversies; worked Catina’s TES edits; JoAnn out; the ten day warning TES edit that will not go away; some people chose to stay at work, and not attend last Friday’s picnic; Channel 13 on UNMH hill;

rain from MN to ME, soggy New England; per Weather Channel, midweek moisture in the Four Corners; TX, MS & Louisiana baking in 100 degree heat, hot temps not breaking; snake outbreak in TX; storms in S FL; S TX is still very dry; wet weather in Boston, Miami, Houston & New Orleans; showers along parts of I-20; temps from 50s to 100s; NM T’storms mentioned on ABC AM News; 100s in N CA;

Gale Storm has died at the age of 87 from failing health; Miami bus brawl when people heard of Michael Jackson’s death; the singer may have had several wills; the White House celebrates Gay Rights today; 400K lbs. of ‘bad beef’; Madoff, the 71 year old man with no remorse, learns his fate today; his wife Ruth will not be in court: she does not want see his victim’s faces, the judge sentenced him to 150 years in jail; Michael Jackson & Iran compete for top headline news; too many loopholes in hate crime laws; ‘Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen’ was the number one weekend box office hit; “Who’s the Best”: Michael Jackson; a healthy diet will help prevent premature births; 15% of teens polled say they expect to die at a young age; 62% of those polled favor Sotomayor; NM weekend teen car crash makes CNN headline; the King of Pop’s mother gets temporary custody of his children; is the energy/climate bill a ‘job killer’?; mushroom clouds over NYC; FDA finally says aspirin can cause liver damage; gays claim police brutality at local bar in Ft. Worth, TX, paddy wagon was near premises; driver escaped parking garage collapse in ATL at Spring & Fifth; Billy Mays died from an enlarged heart; Diane Keaton injured herself on a movie set, but will return to work tomorrow; impersonator Frank Travalena died from cancer at the age of 66; race ruling reversal: US Supreme Court favors white & Hispanic fire fighters in discrimination decision; Madoff described as ‘deeply flawed individual’ with an ‘extraordinarily evil’ personality, none of his family were in the courthouse when the judge made his decision; is it ‘safer’ to rely on prescription drugs?; Judge Souter’s last day on the Supreme Court, and in the legal system; the DOW went up; 70% of those who consider themselves homosexuals voted for Obama;Australian wallabies eating opium, getting high, jumping in circles; Honduras leader is in exile in Costa Rica; both Chavez & Obama oppose coup; Iranians resume their protests; MX man tried to sell his wife & children; oil is $71.49 per barrel; gold is $940.70 an ounce; the number of UK H1N1 cases are on the rise; Iran has a new leader…its old one; first motorcyclist to jump across the Rio Grande from TX to MX…near El Paso; German scientists still stable after poking her finger with a needle that contained the Ebola virus; fireworks over Baghdad;