…6/4-09: quilts, wine, foods, trinkets

61º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s AM exploratory surgery; 4:30A wake-up call for Brad; memorial for boy killed in the Rio Grande will be held this weekend; Duke City River Race will also take place; badges, guns, ammo & handcuffs taken from unmarked vehicle; did Holloman airman shoot himself; ABQ resident embezzled several companies, faces fraud & conspiracy charges; take a bus from Santa Fe to N NM; paperwork for Mine That Bird were stolen from Louisville motel parking lot; grocery owners may need workers, when union members go on strike; fifty Duke City children became US citizens; two women helped inmate escape youth detention CTR; Manny Aragon had farewell party before entering jail; man beat up & raped a woman in Las Cruces, appears to be a random attack, but the city is on high alert; the procedure took 1½ hours, Brad has heartburn, and needs to take Nexium; Brad says he feels like Steve Spiller felt at Dear Park Lodge…not exactly, Steve got very drunk, and I handcuffed him to a tree; plague kills Santa Fe boy, the first two cases of 2009 in the US are in NM; St. Vrain Post Office has closed because of poor revenue;

Lisa in crutches; Code Purple at 6:30A; finished Rounds by 7:30A; nurses are more apt to leave during summer months; looking back, it’s amazing they put me in a room with two other women, with my ‘past history’; the eyes of NM are upon you; ran, but couldn’t reach the PM Blue Line R/R in time [which left just as I reached it], so took the Red Line;

lightning struck plane en route to Oakland, no damage reported; temps from 50s to 100s; wet: AL, KY, TN, FL, MA, from Boston to NYC; DC downpours; ATL T’storms; Memphis rain; woman killed by bolt of lightning; San Bernardino CNTY, CA fires; N MI frost & freeze warnings; on ABC AM News, they mention near 90s in ABQ;

announcer gets wet as automatic sprinkles turn on; George Clooney look-alike getting divorce; statue of ‘Ronnie’ unveiled; AR killer wanted to strike Catholic & Jewish locations, in a number of major cities; too much acetaminophen can cause liver damage; Wal-Mart keeps hiring, and opening stores; how will car dealerships be compensated?; more GM factories face temporary shutdowns; 532K jobs cut in May; the order of a child getting their shots affect their discomfort; the car models that doomed GM; bags of body parts have been found across Miami; beware health care discount card fraud; ME topless coffee shop burns, owner had no INS, but will rebuild: arson suspected; David Carradine found hanging by a rope in his Bangkok hotel room, he was 72 years old; are US playgrounds safe?; Salvador Dali appeared on “What’s My Line”; four FL students sexually assaulted another male teenager, the boys will be charged as adults; debut of the new $200 Palm Phone; beware hidden fees in plane fares; Countrywide leader lied to customers…’king of the subprime’; prosecutors mishandled evidence in AK case; DOW ended up;

weird news: man’s hand pulled off during tug-of-war, able to be reattached; ships arrived at debris field; zero chance for survivors; in Cairo, Obama’s global speech to Muslims; will be translated into over a dozen languages, utilizing the Internet; return to dialogue between nations; Egypt, the big dictatorship; no more US air strikes; action plans, not just promises, visual proof; the ‘King Tut’ of the Modern world; US PRES has a one year honeymoon; two US journalists go on trial in N Korea, could spend ten years in a labor camp; mixed foreign markets; plane fragments found sixty miles from where is crashed, pilots had to manually control the airline; radar does not work in the middle of an ocean, cost billions to build, to locate planes when they are over water; Chinese blackout of infamous anniversary; British soccer fan gets shot for singing at a game; N Korean boat in S Korean waters; our PRES is ‘a wise enemy’; Obama toured a concentration camp; Muslims liked what they heard, now anticipating actions; don’t be bound by the past, or you will never move forward; both Israel & Palestine deserve its own territory; do not rely on ‘crude stereotypes’; Obama started his speech in Arabic; seeks a new beginning, relates personal experiences; gay male penguins in a Berlin Zoo are raising a chick; was the Air France jet maintaining a consistent speed;