…7/30-09: in deed, and, indeed

63º in ABQ; 67% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; no more lavish parties by ABQ Public Schools to entice possible employees, or clients; College of Santa Fe will reopen this fall; no new police officers for the Duke City; state unemployment ‘hot lines’ were down for three hours this AM; Four Corners hair salon robbed at gunpoint; the ABQ Isotopes were once known as the Dukes; $1,800 to ‘fix’ the A/C…so Nancy looked for a second opinion; so far, NM lottery has raised nearly $41 million in 2009; chance for PM twisters along I-40 in E NM; man, possibly on drugs, had sex with his car in ABQ parking lot?; NM agent has sold the first space flight ticket has been sold by Air World Travel; will Southwest Airways buy Frontier Airlines?; more PM showers;meeting with Infectious Disease DEPT at 10A; Code Purple at 6:30A; UNM housing described as ‘dungeon dorms’; Dr. Davies does not blame me for the unbilled Sleep Study charges; every week gets worse; eight years of hell; another new Coder for Internal Medicine;

severe NM weather mentioned on ABC AM News; temps from the 60s to 100s; one more day of excessive heat in the NW US; T’storms in Miami & Dallas; bad weather for WI, MI, KY, IN, AR, OK, AL, MS & GA; twisters were reported in PA & CO; up to six inches of rain fell in parts of New England; N NJ is in the dark; W WA wildfires, that area is twenty-five degrees warmer than normal, especially in Seattle & Portland, OR;coroner’s report on Michael Jackson’s death has yet to be released; 69 year old VA pilot got lost, ended his flight in NYC, miles away from his original destination; TX A&M was evacuated after a factory explosion released ammonium nitrate; sex toys for dogs?; the ‘beer summit’: White House ‘happy hour’ with the MA policeman & professor, and [unexpected] Biden makes four: a ‘teachable moment’ that could spark more conversations about race relations in the US; organic foods are not healthier; people critical of Obama’s beer choice, should have been a New England brand, his ratings keep sliding; PRES Medal of Honor will be awarded to Ted Kennedy, Sandra Day O’Connor & Stephen Hawking, among other notable recipients; for sale: AZ Capitol buildings?; no one seriously injured during a forty vehicle pile-up on I-40, near Raleigh; public opposition to NATL health plan increases; MO man saved family after their vehicle plunged into a creek; the DOW reached a high ‘high’; another group of ‘high priority’ candidates: college students should also be immunized against the H1N1 virus; a second wave of H1N1 virus could arrive this fall; Red Sox players on steroids during World Series games?; CARS = Car Allowance Rebate System has been put on hold, the FED GOVT fears it will run out of money sooner than predicted, about 22K vehicles have been purchased by people using this program, and its website keeps crashing; ‘super marijuana’ is being grown in FL; Michael Jackson’s mother will be his children’s guardian; MS copper plant explosion; hold a rave party at an unsold home; the same unsafe trucks & buses are still on the road, only under another company’s name; MA fetus found alive in NH; no one injured when a truck plunged into a community swimming pool in HI;Madonna, a reporter for an Israeli newspaper?; oil rose to $66.60 per barrel; no one onboard was injured when an Air France plane struck a BLDG when landing in the Congo; in Berlin, woman finds her stolen auto in a neighbor’s garage…it was covered with two year’s worth of dust & dirt; gold dropped to $937.10 per barrel; China will enforce sanctions against N Korea; more violence in Iran…is the current regime dead?; the wild costume, or outfit, worn by Miss Universe Japan; US ships ‘electronic waste’ to African, children sell parts for cash, on the list of companies who export these items: the EPA!;

…7/29-09: do people look like they know what they’re doing?

65º in ABQ; 58% humidity at 6A…GAQ; shooting outside Grandview Motel in SW ABQ, at 98th & Central; who was the Cookie Bandit; mobile meth lab busted near I-25 & Comanche; Rio Grande river levees need to be improved; man accused of stealing mail in all parts of NM; thanks to stimulus funds, NM will be able to hire more police officers; my batch of medicines arrived; small Bernalillo CNTY brush fire; NM school counselor accused of accosting a fifteen year old girl; A/C repairs moved to Monday, the company had an emergency job that had to be done; more quiet Rail Runner crossings;

Code Purple at 7A; finished Rounds by 7:30A; no PICU Admits; as of this AM, we have over 460 patients in UNMH; mailed my E-mail to Denise; MGMT watching amount of OT used; took PM Central: weathered dust storm, lightning, thunder & rain;

temps from 70s to 100s; downpours in AL, OK, KY, AR, NY; heavy rains for the Gulf Coast; DC storms, as well as in Philly, Miami ATL, New Orleans & Richmond; floods in Topeka; extreme heat in Seattle: 100s in Portland, OR; wet in Detroit, also along parts of I-20; MI, PA, OH, Carolinas; power outages in Charlotte;

MICROSOFT & Yahoo! vs. GOOGLE; note: Boston cab driver cleared of any wrongdoing; Key West: the Conch Republic; health workers should be the first to receive the H1N1 vaccine; five Capitol Hill pages have signs & symptoms of the illness; ask the voters what should be in the NATL health INS policy; a new, stronger taser; teen strip club raided in suburban ATL home; pregnant Worcester, MA woman killed, her fetus stolen; MRSA spreads because there are no standard procedures in HOSP for keeping people & equipment clean; 43,771 H1N1 cases in the US, with 302 deaths; NYC mayor wants the homeless to leave his city, and he will pay for a one-way plane ticket so these people can return to their families…or, the city of their choice: so what if other metropolitan areas do the same thing, and ship people to NYC, paying to get rid of human beings that nobody wants; Medicare scam busted in Houston, Boston & Miami; UT boy leads police on a wild church…he did not want to attend church service; more smaller businesses would be exempt from having to insure their employees, there may be a bill by December of this year; 160 million on the ‘priority list’, but there is only sixty million H1N1 vaccines available; the DOW went slightly down;

pipe bomb explodes in front of police station in Spain; 300 people applied for one position: to be a ‘magical’ tour guide in UK caves; $200K ticket to take a ride in space; the $1 million Mercedes; QE II is now England’s oldest monarch; oil has dropped to $63.35 per barrel; gold dropped to $929.70 an ounce; 134,503 H1N1 cases worldwide, with 816 deaths reported from this illness; lemurs live in Madagascar;

…7/28-09: degrees vs. certificates

72º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A… an APT of two seasons; ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ who served during the Civil War will have a proper burial at Ft. Craig; another magazine says ABQ has great food; our A/C worked this AM, then slowly started failing as the day progressed, Nancy is aware of the problem; 500 Spaceport jobs arriving in the coming months; Rail Runner riders will be able to access the World Wide Web; NM ranks number 43 in the ‘well being’ of children, up from only 48; gas is $2.45 per gallon; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; weekend storms damaged Los Ranchos home; Brad prepared a tasty Emeril meal: Hot & Sweet Italian Sausages in Tomato Sauce; Hobbs man accused of indecent exposure; 400 Duke City jobs at GE Aviations will be gone by the fall of 2010; A/C needs some repairs, does not need to be replaced, should be here tomorrow AM; College of Santa Fe open house; APT fire at Dakota & Menaul;

Brent is the buffer; is a billing number required on a doctor’s note?; worked on more Sleep Study charges; finished Rounds by 7:15A; took AM R/R; no CTI Admits; many meetings with many Depts. in the near future; Dr. Johnson prefers church ‘sanctuaries’; took AM R/R;

Memphis showers; storms in TX, AR Louisiana, MS, TN; wet in N NE; man struck by lightning in the Outer Banks, in Duck, NC; waterspout neat Tampa, 100s in Seattle; rain in Chicago, St. Louis and Miami; parts of I-20 & I-35 will be soaked; storms from MI to CO; temps from 70s to 110s;

[R] do not support Sotomayor; Key West is closer to Cuba, than it is to Miami; man races against time & tides to create works of art in the sand; ‘ready to die for their cause’: seven NC men, some who have studied warfare in AFG & PAK, accused of training for overseas jihad…they are considered Islamic radicals; some are related [father & sons]; after 85 years, plus separated by distance & marriages, two people in their 90s will marry, they have known each other since third grade; race was not a factor in the 911 call about the break-in at the Cambridge professor’s home; a FED soda tax to curb obesity?; texting can cause more accidents than alcohol; another explosion in another factory, this time in OH; solve state budget crunches: tax illegal drugs & strip club entrance fees; updated gas mileage posing a problem for cashing in clunkers; senior citizens drowning credit card debt; props for sale at Hollywood auction; blue M & M candies can help spinal injury treatment; 1% of the US population is pregnant; several companies are rehiring their unemployed workers; perhaps, older people, or anyone with ‘Cadillac’ coverage would pay the most for health INS: per Obama, no Medicare or Medicaid reductions; parent leave their child in Boston cab, driver blamed for the incident, did not completely check his vehicle after his passengers left; Michael Phelps suffered his first loss since 2005; more musical marriages on YouTube; Farrah leaves her fortune to her son; what happens if Obama or his projects fail during his first year in office; terrorist groups are looking for Americans who are lacking direction; after three years of decline, housing prices went up this past May; TX is the number one producer of cotton in the US; special swimming suits vs. steroids; Bank of America closing 10% of its branches; Brad & Angelina like McDonald’s Happy Meals; Vio: Coca-Cola with fizz; NJ mayor, facing corruption charges, resigns instead;

Endeavour undocks from INTL Space Station; oil is now $67.16 per barrel; he was embarrassed: German’s swimmer suit splits; gold fell to $941.70 per ounce; Iraqi bank robbers steal $7 million; climate change could take place in less than a decade; tanning beds could cause cancer;

…7/27-09: aura of invincibility

66º in ABQ; 88% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; 90% humidity at 4A; more electricity to Farmington when $900K in new power lines are fully installed by the end of 2009; the price of gas: NATL, $2.50; NM, $2.52; ABQ, $2.49; overnight rain at The Beach; fog in parts of NM; two UT men arrested for killing a NM resident; pipe bomb found in the back of a Duke City man’s truck; ID theft scam busted in Socorro; man tried to lure two children into his ABQ motel room; the upper level A/C is not working in our APT;

UNM is going smoke free; UNM bike thief arrested; took early bus; other sleep studies services are not being captured; another rattlesnake bite patient; finished Rounds by 7:15; PICN printer broken again; PEDS does not approve the use of ‘psycho codes’; would the ‘list’ include sedations & PICC line procedures?; Internal Medicine handles Sleep Studies with no problem…then why are there no entries on TES?; instead of entering ‘ZZZ’, MGR wanted to send back the entire batch of Sleep Study charges, also said I was using the wrong form, and location; I just felt like being quiet at work;

tornadoes reported in NY & FL; storms in OK & TX; MD, DE & ME; four people struck by lightning in NJ this past weekend; Weather Channel in Key West; rain from Boston to DC, Dallas to ATL; showers in Miami & the Twin Cities; temps from 80s to 110s;

OH resident shares same name as famous astronaut; MI cops help keep donut shop in business; the future is vague for Palin, but she is raising plenty of PAC $$; two OK police officers are killed, trying to resolve a domestic dispute; what is happening?…twelve people were injured by gunfire at a Baltimore picnic; Ten Kennedy still pursuing the ‘cause of his life’…health care reform: the MA SEN will try to be at Capitol Hill for the vote, because the [D] need ‘help from across the aisle’; read the fine print in the ‘Cash for Clunkers’ program; new home sales rise 11% in June; how ‘healthy’ is the health reform bill; canary fighting ring busted in CT; turn FL ocean currents into energy, that state has 19 million people; consumer confidence on the decline again; two SEN received VIP treatment from mortgage CO; 'Armageddon’ had a second, or alternate ending, in which the comet struck Earth; 250K cars bought by turning in clunkers, buying existing inventory, that will not result in more jobs once everyone has a new vehicle; weird: two OH children found in a dumpster; TX mother sliced her child’s brain, ate parts of his body, then slashed herself, she is recovering in a HOSP: the wacky wedding…it’s amazing that people say the Powers That Be would both love & hate the musical entrance into the church; did Michael Jackson’s doctor administer the fatal dose?; Verizon is cutting 8K jobs; the largest monthly new housing sales in eleven years: it may be a spike in sales, but still 21% lower than this same time, last year; Americans tolerate taxes; Fall River, MA man wins $1 million lottery, after being the winner of $1K, and buying the ticket that won;

fifth & final spacewalk; Lance Armstrong came in third in the Tour de France; now N Korea says it is willing to talk about its nuclear arsenal; after sixty years, China & Taiwan exchange ‘direct messages’; 20K take to the streets to protest the closing of a Johnny Walker factory in Scotland, in operation since 1820; Biden vs. Obama on ‘successfully economic’ Russia; tensions rise between Haiti & the Dominican Republic; 5.2 quake rocks PAK; no rooms at the HOSP, so Australian woman gave birth at home;

…7/26-09: all in good thyme

75º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; is Summerfest bringing more business to downtown ABQ; Duke City trying to stop demanding panhandling; Farmington man accused of loan fraud; man arrested in Silver City strip mall fire; another man guilty of vehicular homicide in Gallup after hitting two people in wheelchairs; hard times force art galleries in Santa Fe to close; some people who participated in the Community Custody Program have not been seen in years; this appears to be a bountiful year for NM green chili; burglaries are on the rise in all parts of Santa Fe, the number has double during the past year; my mail order prescriptions have been shipped; no Trident INTL downloads on YouTube; man beaten at APT complex near Tramway & Academy;

there are 52 ‘Common Sense [D]’ in Congress; TX needs rain; ‘Harry Potter’ dropped to second place in box office earnings, taking in $30 million this weekend; more specifically, Oakland, CA wants to tax medical marijuana; $1 billion is spent on treating animal bites or wounds; Wi-Fi insecurity, files being hacked; as of today, the Red Sox are in second place; when will they ever learn…eight people are dead when a vehicle travels the wrong way on the N lanes of the Taconic State Pkwy in NY; Cambridge, MA mayor is a [D] woman of color; SEN Ted Kennedy’s health has deteriorated, he has not been to Capitol Hill for three months, but he keeps push for a NATL health plan; who controls our robots, or AI, could they take control of the electrical grid, or machines, or rockets?; new AK GOV considered ‘boring’; Palin’s population plummets;

send private guards to protect US soldiers in AFG?; more geyser eruptions in E Russia; US troops share tea with AFG citizens; India launches a nuclear submarine; INTL protests, demanding Iran release political prisoners;

…7/25-09: in other worlds…

72º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…documents with names & SSN in dumpster outside Duke City APT complex; Rail Runner, the NM commuter train, will make stops at ‘our’ Las Vegas & Raton; NATL High School Rodeo being held in NM, with teenagers trying to win scholarships; two tired, female hikers are rescued in the Sandias; Frontier Restaurant considered an NM ‘favorite’; The WATCHMEN arrived!; poor reception may have caused a deputy’s death; four men injured during party, slashed by knives, fighting over a woman; opening day for some Duke City schools will be delayed, due to completion of construction projects; local attorney tested positive for cocaine; Brad made Potato Salad & Fruit Salad & a Green Bean Salad with Olive Oil; Brad’s doctor visit yesterday also went well;two children in NV have been ‘accidentally’ shot this week: one survived, one didn’t; White Sands, NM has one of the country’s top ten scenic landscapes, so does Zion NATL Park; political problems persistently plague Palin; 150 dogs found in freezers at MI home; in spite of low prices, fewer people are spending their money on hotel rooms; the policeman & the professor agree to meet at the White House; the ‘Blue Dog [D]’, conservative politicians; Michael Jackson’s book ‘Moon Walk’ will be available again later this year; DC has no representation in Congress; the reflecting pool near the Lincoln Memorial was built in 1924; small businesses pay more for health INS; if one adds the number of people who have given up looking for work, plus those only working part-time, the jobless rate climbs to 16.5%; first nationwide terror simulation is being conducted by DEPT of Homeland Security; the sneaky surcharges means the ‘worthless price tag’; Wall ST loaded with little fees that add up; five injured from OK City plane crash; high-tech stalking on the rise;

in Russia, at least a dozen people were killed when a bus & train collided; N Korea wants direct talks with the US; Hubble snaps photo of Jupiter’s ‘scar’; 100K new H1N1 cases in Britain, the virus may pose a serious health risk to the elderly, obese & pregnant; a day off for the astronauts;

…7/24-09: why play anything else?

70º in ABQ; 56% humidity at 6A…Brad’s dental visit at 10:30A; NM job is at its lowest in 55 years: jobless rate at its highest in twelve years; Deming girl escaped home invasion by biting bandit; thirteen year old Duke City teen says his mother got him drunk Cookie Bandit injured another officer in late 2008; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; rural NM residents want broadband; and another diskette bites the dust; school employees guilty of stealing funds, by adjusting bills; the glow in Brad’s face & the joy in his conversation when I spend a full afternoon with him: at lunch, we talked about Babylon 5; car slammed into complex at Sixty–Third & Avalon: multiple vehicle collisions shut down I-25; police bust Belen pot plantation, valued at $200K; Native American from Zuni, NM adds to the global rendition of ‘Stand by Me’; Brad’s medicines arrived, and I have plenty of cold packs; Buckhorn Tavern in ‘our’ San Antonio voted as the better of the two Green Chile Cheeseburgers, and now the NM GOV wants to hold a contest to see whose is the best in NM; Silver City strip mall goes up in flames;

took early bus, work on Sleep Study Project, left at noon; going comic climbing; will this project change anyone’s opinion about me…probably not; PICN nurse going to Boston, told her what places to see; where did sixty boxes of chemicals found on UNM campus come from; more Native Americans will be enrolling in UNM School of Medicine; finished project, with Brent’s help, by 9:15A; finished Rounds by 10:15A; took R/R; met Brad at Uptown [unplanned, by enjoyable], went to bookstore, had lunch at the Owl Café [their green chile cheeseburgers are still good!], and arrived home slightly after 3P;

N New England storms, a summer Nor’easter; rain for MN, WI, E VA & E NC; snow in Chile; ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; hot in Seattle, across NV; Gulf Coast showers, parts of I-95; temps from 70s to 100s;

Lance Armstrong starting his own cycling team?; police vs. the Commander in Chief; copter crash near I-70 in W MD killed four people; wine to be served in Starbucks?; four AZ boys accused of raping eight year old girl; health care reform vs. racism; toxic trailers, dating back to Hurricane Katrina, are still being used; $5 billion in stimulus money for education; the minimum wage increases to $7.25 an hour; Palin: gone, but not forgotten; who should be the ‘top dog’ in the Treasury DEPT; seven states [not NM] considered for storing toxic Mercury [not cars]; was ‘stupidly’ a bad choice of words, or was Obama just saying what he personally felt; will our PRES need to choose his words more carefully?; statue of nude family, located outside a FL shopping CTR, is considered too risqué; 40% of Americans could become infected with the swine flu; was there a gunman on a FL school campus?; mysterious substance found in truck quarantines 18 Louisiana cops; AVG men shed their clothes for calendar, money from sales will go to charity; Obama telephones white MA policeman; too much salt in Denny’s food; land mine donated to Goodwill?; this weekend: Comic CONV in San Diego; unruly person in courtroom zapped by taser; six banks in GA, and one in NY close their doors, bringing the total to 64 across the US…with GA having the most; a brief filed against CA nude beaches; Obama should have ‘calculated his words differently’, has asked both parties to share a beer at the White House…Blue Moon brand will be served; 70% of the oil in the US is imported; use robots to search in deep water, pump the fuel 32K feet; ‘musical marriage’ starts on the right note; fire teachers in spite of tenure in order to acquire FED money;‘check your smile’ in Tokyo before going to work; seeking the next ‘Bond girl’; Iranian Aria Airlines skids off runway, killing sixteen; WHO says as many as two billion people could become infected with the H1N1 virus; ancient Roman ships found off Italian coast; ‘Playing for Change’ helping to build music schools around the world;

…7/23-09: smile for the camera

68º in ABQ; 73% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; will the USPS close one of the Clovis post offices?; Road Runner Food Bank held an open house today; shooting at Alamosa park kills a man; E NM fog; baby born to inmate at the METRO Detention CTR; the Duke City received $11 million in FED stimulus money: some of it will be used to provide shelters for bus riders, only 200 out of 2,800 stops have any type of protection; the LANL super computer is ranked as one of the world’s most energy efficient; Bobby Flay vs. NM cook; NM jobless rate is 6.8%; US jobless rate is 9.5%; our mail order prescriptions have been sent; Duke City workers fail to follow proper procedure in soaking up hydraulic fluid spill; another accident at Rio Bravo & Isleta, this one involving a police car;

they sound & act like they’re the same person; what one person knows after working one year; finished Rounds by 7:45A; will be handling the Sleep Study charges via graph from Lea Davies, but the entire idea may have been scrapped by those above; another meeting to discuss new procedures will be held tomorrow; new doctor as GPU attending; Jim Noel called me a ‘superstar’; late PM, received list of sleep studies; security on PM Central;

cool in Boston; in MI, four men were injured when lightning struck a tree they were huddled under for protection; dogs are dying in AZ heat; tropical entity forming in the Atlantic, during this slower than normal hurricane season; ‘near historic lows’; cloudy in DC; T’storms in the Carolinas, PA, MD, VA, DC, OH, DE & central TX; temps from 70s to 100s;

health care reform ‘will happen’ in 2009; Obama held another town hall meeting, this time at the Cleveland Clinic; for the past month, small quakes, no bigger than 2.8, keep shaking town near Dallas: is oil drilling the reason?; ‘electrical cigarettes’ can also cause cancer; a gang related drive by shooting injured six at TX State UNIV; engine light forced Air France flight to make emergency landing in Boston; Obama criticized the arrest of an Afro-American scholar; does ‘having enough votes to make a bill pass’ make it the right thing to do; the NATL Mall suffers from too many years of neglect; the DOW reached 9K today; four children walk away from PA daycare CTR; $1 billion pot bust in CA; man kept over ninety dogs in a home near Detroit, the inside of the dwelling was loaded with feces; Navy denies gay guard’s death was a hate crime; Microsoft’s sales on the decline; Buster Brown recalls 1.4 million shoes that have cars on the them: the wheels can come off, and choke a child; the Grand Canyon is so huge all the river water in the world would fill 1/3 of it; taxes don’t make people healthy; INTL crime cartel busted in ‘corrupt’ NJ: arrested were mayors, rabbis & assemblymen; jobless claims on the rise; romaine lettuce being recalled; home sales increase for the third month in a row; the ‘cutting’ of the CA budget; number eighteen for no hit games, this time, the Chicago White Sox enjoys the victory; a slight delay in passing the health bill is ‘OK’;Hillary in Thailand; spacewalk shortened because of spacesuit malfunction; global opinion of the US is improving under Obama; gold is $954.80 an ounce; oil is $67.02 per barrel; does anyone recall that N Korea threatened to attack HI on 7/4/09;

…7/22-09: clichés & platitudes

64º in ABQ; 87% humidity at 6A…overnight rain; GAQ; lightning strike caused a smokestack to catch fire, no one was injured inside the structure; OK tribe illegally running a bingo parlor in NM; sixteen year old Lea CNTY boy drowned in his swimming pool; $2 million payoff at another gambling club said to be caused by a malfunction, woman challenges her winning; I am tired of conflict; strong AM storms across SE NM; a $1 million ABQ–Santa Fe bank fraud scheme busted; Brad made Hibiscus Tea; wore second B’day tie today; there have been several transgender murders across ABQ; gas is $2.39 per gallon; Mine That Bird received the $75K KY Derby Trophy made of pure gold; police officer stabbed while jogging in Peralta, three people are in custody for the attack; day of disappointment: the diskette I brought to work, decided not to work; over two inches of rain fell on the Duke City yesterday, flooding arroyos;

survive until I die or retire, whichever comes first; finished Rounds about 7:45A; tomorrow’s 9:30 AM training meeting at Conference Room ‘C’ was rescheduled to today at 2:30P; Jenny told me more about her vacation, went to Union Station, toured by trolley; Dr. Bradshaw on health care reform forum; there may be numerous Sleep Study charges to code;

NM storms stated on Weather Channel, ABQ temp noted on ABC AM News; temps from 70s to 100s; storms along the OH & MS River Valleys, and Gulf Coast storms; IN, TX T’storms; two tropical storms in the Atlantic, but neither are not showing signs of strengthening; INDY & New England rain; MN teen struck & killed by lightning bolt; excessive heat warnings in Los Angeles; Santa Fe appears on Weather Channel maps;

Susan Boyle on appears American TV; a recovering SEN Byrd [in a wheelchair] returns to Capitol Hill after a brief illness; health care reform on the rocks?; IPod sales boosted APPLE profits; Detroit: the city without a single grocery chain store; in TX, supremacists vs. justice; man gave NYC transit plans to terrorist group; police raided the office of Michael Jackson’s doctor; dead shark took train ride to Miami; Oakland, CA wants to tax marijuana; the Taco Bell Chihuahua has died at the age of fifteen; GA mother & daughter killed during gunfight; NJ transgender retires after the number of her assignments decreased over time; FL town MGR marries porn star, gets fired; health care & economic recovery are linked; US asking for volunteers to test H1N1 vaccine; it is usually rare for flu to survive in summer months;another spacewalk; MX immigration on the decline; six minute solar eclipse over parts of Asia; in India, will frog marriages bring needed monsoon rains?; US pay AFG farmers not to grow poppy, which can become opium or heroin; global warming producing smaller fish?; man skated German down roller coaster, at speeds reaching 56 mph; after last week’s quake, S New Zealand has moved twelve inches to the E; fake cops scam real tourists in Asia & the Middle East; oil is $65.40 per barrel; gold is $953.30 an ounce;

…7/21-09: the essence of a state

67º in ABQ; 58% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; today is Nancy’s B’day: we gave her a book of our favorite recipes; air smells like rain; various ‘detour’ paths to take when leaving our APT; ‘Cookie Bandit’ may have killed two people in Canada; Rail Runner helps fight hunger; overnight rain at The Beach; Silver City Museum a ‘must see’, per Rand McNally; leaking water tower in Belen; B’day cake from Nancy; it has been confirmed that ABQ reached 100º this past Sunday; evening rain at The Beach; downtown Duke City bars may be able to remain open until 3:30A, but stop serving alcohol at 2A…what about other parts of ABQ?; explosives found in Carlsbad home; flash flood warning for the Duke City; the latest scam, letters telling people they own money from 1978, credit card past due payments; considering the current heat wave, a lower than expected utility bill; increasing drug traffic on NM interstates;finished Rounds by 7:30A; I have been selected to participate in a HOSP survey; could someone send somebody somewhere else in the world, except here?; I no longer receive E-mails indicating when a doctor will be trained;

temps from the 70s to 110s; wet & Cool in New England, NYC; I-95…the E Coast Main ST; Philly showers, Midwest twisters; ‘Haboob’: Arabic for ‘sandstorm’; T’storms in OK, TX, MO, KS, AR and the Twin Cities; wet along parts of I-44;Sotomayor vote may get delayed until next week; 55 year old FL man bikes wearing only a thong; solar eclipse this week; in Milwaukee, family rescued from burning SUV; for many, the ER is their primary care CTR; Defense SECY Gates asks for 22K more soldiers, bringing the total number to 569K; Obama speaks at the DC Children’s HOSP: now is the time for less talk, and more action; ‘the’ Watergate goes on the auction block; a revival of the ‘boom box’; Chicago bound plane made an emergency landing in Iceland when smoke filled the cabin; man & woman who are about to be married have the same first & last name; free AM coffee at Starbucks; has CA reached a budget compromise; the economy is getting better, but…; 40,617 US H1N1 cases, with 263 deaths; SEN Barbara Boxer accused of racism; TX woman finds part of a frog in a bag of frozen vegetables; Palin, and an ethics probe?; hill being destroyed in AL that once was a Native American religious site; will ATL run out of water in three years?; man burst into flames after being zapped by a taser; white supremacists & blacks clash over TX murder; KY dog drags baby out of home, and into an area of tall grass; Continental Airlines cuts 1,700 jobs; 240K accidents, 955 deaths by people who were driving and talking on a cell phone, handheld, or not; no takers for the DC landmark lodging; why is the SC GOV not wearing a wedding ring?; heated health care debate in the [D]; US dairy farmers are losing $1 million per day, living on borrowed time & money; the DOW reaches a six month high; the end of the F-22;more trouble stemming from Israelis possibly building in Palestinian territory; gold is $948.00 an ounce; oil is $63.75 a barrel; Australia is testing the swine flu vaccine on people; ‘scar’ on Jupiter caused by comet?; the longest solar eclipse this century; globally, there have been 700 H1N1 deaths; Romanian mayor wore Nazi uniform at recent fashion show; the INTL Space Shuttle’s toilet has been repaired; water fight in Madrid, Spain;

…7/20-09: don’t wash away history

72º in ABQ; 36% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; ‘Cookie Bandit’ had no ID on him: by PM, he had been identified…he had also killed people in CA, AZ & OR; summer session for Navajo Nation council, seeking to be less traditional, giving more authority to their PRES?; NM women has the most agile dog in America; Bernalillo CNTY worker accepted bribes while on the job; Clovis man arrested on child porn charges; YDI gang fight injures prison guard; parts of the Duke City reached 100 degrees yesterday; the Watchmen is on its way; Native Americans are 2½ times more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes than other cultures; one year ago today, floods destroyed parts of Ruidoso; the day the diskette died, plus the quick download; eleven days of excessive heat; windy evening; the stairs near our APT are being repaired; Mine That Bird return to NM;took the earlier bus today; another black widow spider bite; Jenny returned?; yes, she enjoyed DC, wants to go there again, brought me a White House magnet; the temps were mainly in the 80s, and she saw Dupont Circle, and Lambda Rising; Gazpacho used to top steak, Sam also tried it, and enjoyed the soup; finished Rounds by 7:30A; Brent & I got free UNMH bus passes; Evelyn lives in Los Ranchos de ABQ;

storms from PA to FL, in the N Plains, from KS to TX, and parts of I-35; Four Corners heat, per Weather Channel, that now links to CNBC broadcasts; wet in Baltimore & DC; temps from the 70s to 110s;

deal for a Michael Jackson documentary in the works; OH boy sells his toys to help his parent who are unemployed; Obama ratings falling in key areas; sixth ‘Harry Potter’ movie made $79 million this past weekend; many banks have misused stimulus funds; the US needs strong leaders with vision; there are five possible NATL health plans being designed; halt uranium mining near the Grand Canyon; one of the Resolute Desks is actually in the Whaling Museum, located in New Bedford, MA: when do-it-yourself plastic surgery goes wrong; GA plane crash killed one person; the NATL AVG price of gas is $2.46 per gallon; the political law of gravity: Obama is more popular than his policies; the AVG American has over $10K in credit card debt, with 6.5% of these people more than thirty days past due on their payments; what do cities in the Gulf Coast states really look like, four years after Katrina; PA plumber saved four ducklings trapped in a drain; did the San Fran train driver pass out, just before the collision?; the DOW ended up; the financial bailout now costs $4.7 trillion;

buzzards attack British joggers, leaving the men bloody & bruised; it was forty years ago today: 600 million viewers watched the moon landing on their B/W TV sets; ‘magnificent desolation’; the big achievement for the human race…the next step, Mars; Apollo 11 was the apex of NASA projects; using Endeavour’s toilet, as plumbing problems persist on the INTL space station; second spacewalk today; two jets, one copter crashed in AFG this past weekend; civil war in Honduras?; oil is $63.91 per barrel; gold is $950.00 an ounce; Australian exchange student returned home to find that her family had been murdered; Britain has the highest number of swine flu victims in Europe, will not allow anyone with the H1N1 virus to board its planes; WHO has stopped counting the number of H1N1 cases; the microscopic menace; July will be the deadliest month in AFG;

…7/19-09: keep looking up

77º in ABQ; 33% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; man was struck & killed by a car, near EXPO NM; local AM News pre-empted by golf tournament; it was a good time to do some housework, before the heat set in; took a nap, enjoyed a scrumptious desert; then watched NATL Treasure 2: Book of Secrets; the seventh annual MATCHBOX Convention was held in the Duke City this weekend [tiny cars I collected when I was young]; Brad made delicious French Toast for breakfast; after two years, the Duke City’s gang registry remains empty;enjoy a meal or a snack, energy bars are not really ‘good, healthy or nutritious food’; one person killed following domestic dispute in Baltimore; two people killed after an experimental plane crashed into the MTN, N of Los Angeles; would you not say one word for one year, knowing that a check for $500K was waiting for you after your 365 days of silence?; cell phones being smuggled into jails, so convicts can arrange ‘hits’; so far, more people killed in Chicago during 2009 than either in Iraq or AFG; unreal: CA high school sweethearts who had the chance to be together again, she was murdered by him while on a luxury cruise; eighteen foot snakes slither across FL: should we create the Python Parkway & the Constrictor Causeway; the 151 pound cupcake, it’s the biggest one; SC GOV asking a ‘higher power’ to make him a better person; drive by shooting at Chicago church; as of today, the Red Sox are in first place;

female spectator struck & killed by a motorcyclist while watching the Tour de France; astronaut used ground up moon dust in his paintings; a commode conundrum at the Space Station: one toilet is not working; people are fleeing W Canadian fires; are Americans tired of the AFG conflict?; the first US soldier captured by the Taliban since the war started: why did he leave his US base?; should America focus its attention on finding the POW, or hunting terrorists; our troops cannot enter PAK; ‘Harry Potter’ movie earned over $159 million in the US during the past five days, and $396 million worldwide; now, the oceans are getting too crowded, with numerous ships of every size, and from every country;