…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;