…8/31-09: no weather in space

63º in ABQ; 60% humidity at 6A…I come from an era when dedication & doing a good job meant something: now, decisions are made, that don’t make sense, but should not be questioned; GAQ; nine murders during the past three months in Roswell; ABQ Isotopes won their division, head for the playoffs; hired handyman killed elderly woman; water outage on Laguna Pueblo; Eclipse Aerospace will reopen; an increasing number of rattlesnakes in the Los Alamos area; big, black dog in APT below wanted to be petted by me, not go for a walk; I-25 shut down near Rio Bravo exit; the second H1N1 death in NM: a 52 year old Bernalillo woman; NM fire crews battling CA blazes;

if you know how many people work for UNMMG, how do you run out of office space, or parking spaces?; Phase One of the new, $90 million, state of the art UNMH Cancer CTR opened;

CA fire spreading to the MTN & desert areas: two firemen have died battling that blaze; the burn area covers 71 sq. miles, has increased in size to over 85K acres, there are 11 separate fires, by PM, 150 sq. miles had been blackened, igniting sixty year old brush; four years after Katrina; mid-Atlantic rain, wet in Orlando, along parts of I-95; twister struck a W NY town this weekend; Rocky MTN rain; FL moisture, into the Carolinas; very cool morning from MN to MI; ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; temps from 70s to 100s;

An eighth victim has died in the Brunswick, GA mobile home park murders; this next season, the ‘Heroes’ will no longer be saving the world, but themselves; communication towers & antennas atop Mt. Wilson are in the path of the flames; missing TX boaters lived for eight days on crackers & bubble gum, threatened by sharks; Obama returns to DC from his ‘vacation’; Disney is buying Marvel Entertainment [including the comics] for $4 billion?; hoax video that Michael Jackson is alive?; auto dealers still waiting for their money; cannot resell the clunkers; the DOW is down; theme of college thesis that VA candidate wrote comes back to haunt him…that discrimination against gays is acceptable; should Obama have visited New Orleans, prior to the fourth anniversary of Katrina?; as time passes, the amount of empty office space increases; Rachel Ray beat Ellen as Emmy Award winner for Daytime Host; Detroit postal worker stole 20K pieces of mail; five people are trapped by flames in canyon near Los Angeles; famous NYC restaurant Café des Artistes closes its doors, after 92 years of service; a virus can stay on money for as long as two weeks; like the original, ‘Melrose Place’ will have a gay character; fires destroyed all but one home in Auburn, CA; Cheney has said again that Obama has made America less safe; $4 billion earned on interest & dividends from twenty-two US banks that have repaid loans, a 15% increase on the taxpayer’s money;

[D] in power in Japan; cafés in Japan where people can pet animals; Discovery has docked at the INTL Space Station, bringing food for the astronauts; TS Kevin is also near the W MX coast; Jimena has 145 mph winds, may fan CA flames, before dropping any moisture, by the PM, it had reached 155 mph, and moving NW at 10 mph; the largest mariachi band performed in Guadalajara, MX; oil has dropped to $69.68 per barrel; Columbian leader has H1N1 virus; Godzilla goes Goa!; what does the future hold for the ties between the US & the new Japan GOVT; chest of drawers delivered to INTL Space Station;

…8/30-09: how to handle money

67º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…The Beach is fully occupied until the end of October; the Belen shooting of a father by his son has made NATL news; a shooting near Chelwood & Lomas; Alamogordo man threw bleach at two police officer’s faces; more crosswalks & traffic lights needed in Nob Hill; Ted Kennedy had strong ties to the Udall family; NM GOV may have opened trade links between Cuba & the US; dozens of Navajo Nation homes in Shiprock are crumbling, due to poor construction; man accused of animal cruelty has been arrested, charged with violation of parole; child attacked by dog is in severe condition; stabbing at Second & Paseo; ordered linguica, sweet bread & chourico from Gaspar’s; man wearing dark clothes was struck by a police motorcyclist: the area is also poorly lit [near Five Points]; suspicious death of a 60 year old woman in NW ABQ; the Case of the Cleaned Coin;Warehouse 13 is well written; the funeral mass for 2½ hours; for the present, Arlington Cemetery has enough burial space until 2050; using a cell phone for banking purposes is somewhat safe; H1N1 virus is infecting healthy people; S CA fires has tripled in size overnight: over 20K acres have burned, several homes destroyed, people have sustained burn injuries; a ‘Soul Train’ movie?; should Brad Pitt run for mayor of New Orleans?; ban the phrase ‘right-hand man’?; as it stands, ‘Supernatural’, ‘Heroes’ & ‘Smallville’ will have their season openers during September; as of today, the Red Sox are in second place, six games behind the Yankees; the Internet is nearly 40 years old; Brad Pitt’s movie dropped to second place, but still made $20 million: District 9 took fourth place, earning $10.7 million; Julia & Julia was in sixth place, made $7.4 million; the CA blazes are only 5% contained, and ash from the fire has fallen on downtown Los Angeles, plus hazardous air quality in the Pasadena area; GITMO detainee has threatened to sue the US for keeping him a prisoner for five years: during that time, the guards insulted his religion; Ted Kennedy’s gravesite is now open to the public; missing TX boaters rescued;Hurricane Jimena has 115 mph winds, could affect W NM & NM itself later this week: by the afternoon, it had become a CAT 4 storm with 140 mph winds, moving WNW at 8 mph; British PM made ‘unplanned’ journey to AFG; India lost contact with its moon orbiter; Japan’s ruling conservative party is out of power, having suffered a political defeat;

…8/29-09: with hope, there may be peace

65º in ABQ; 31% humidity at 6A…stayed up later than planned last night; a item in a microwave will always overflow when you walk away; the fallacy of ‘never needs ironing’; Brad made Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce; finally, a clean backpack; the case of the ‘double comic book purchase’; Belen boy who murdered his father may be tried as an adult; Sandia Labs creating a device to detect if a piece of cargo has been moved; did Sunland Park official serve alcohol to minors?; Artesia man assaulted six year old girl; driving instructor could not face being arrested for DUI, so he killed himself; Carlsbad man killed in rollover crash; more Arts & Cultural Districts have been added in NM; ABQ stepmother accused of killing a child in her custody; there was no PM local or NATL news, the funeral procession for SEN Kennedy took longer than planned; TX man is killed in a big rig rollover crash near Roswell;the ailing health bill?; déjà vu: CA foster parents accused of murdering their disabled five year old son; famous DJ who had filmed a reality show about his addiction & recovery from drug abuse, was found dead in his NYC APT: he was 36 years old; yesterday’s memorial service to Ted Kennedy turned into an ‘old, Irish’ wake’; he was married in Mclean, VA to his current wife, Victoria; ‘scratch & dent’ supermarkets can be found in 33 states: they contain damage, dented & discontinued items; Good Morning America went to Avery Island, LA, home of the McIlhenny Tabasco Sauce; two VA Tech students were found murdered in the Jefferson NATL Forest, their deaths are considered a ‘random act o violence’; GOVT mandated circumcisions?; ‘hay beds’, the latest rage?; seven people killed in SE GA mobile home park; banks in MD, MN & CA close, raising the total to 84 financial institutions; Abercrombie & Fitch facing hard times; the H1N1 virus is mutating, directly attacking the lungs; Ted Kennedy had pushed for more gay rights;another hurricane forms in the Pacific, the storm is called Jimena; it’s time for elections in Japan; 6.4 quake shook NW China; seven astronauts, and 17K lbs. of equipment heading into space; N Korea freed a sailing boat, and its four crewmembers; Danny is now a TD, with 35 mph winds, moving NNE at 31 mph; expect high surf along the E Coast, and plenty of rain; oil is $72.74 per barrel; gold is $958.80 an ounce; the enemy in AFG is getting smaller, but smarter;

…8/28-09: enhance your confidence

63º in ABQ; 60% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Duke City School System reports its first H1N1 case; NM jobless rate reached 7% in July, the state had a – 3.1% job growth, the worst decline since 1954; former Farmington fire chief accused of stealing cash & other items from that Four Corners City; 8K homeless students received boxes of food & school supplies; four Native American tribes in NM will receive $1.25 million to purchase police equipment; ten year old Belen boy shot & killed his father, the child owned the weapon, and said he was tired of years of abuse & neglect: CYFD had been to that home several times; Brad replaced some jeans & a pair of shorts: I replaced a jacket, and add’l dress shirts; boil water order for Mora CNTY; six year old girl saw brother shooting his father; SWAT situation shut down two NE Heights schools, woman was shut in the leg: the man killed himself; another Duke City student got on the wrong bus; 39K children use these vehicles to reach schools;

left at noon; finished Rounds by 7:30A; is my MGR testing my knowledge, or just testing me?; the pleasure of pain; if I’m wrong, then I admit my mistake; ran & caught the AM R/R; arrived home shortly after 3P; five is out, four is in;

Los Angeles is surrounded by smoke & fire; frost advisories for N New England; rain for NYC, the Midwest, NC to N FL, DC, Twin Cities, JAX, Houston; wet in Philly, VA, WV, IN, MI, ATL, Chicago to Cleveland; NM GOV ruling on ‘pay to play’ charges makes Weather Channel News; temps from 60s to 110s;

to help balance its budget, CA will have a huge ‘garage sale’; an 18 year missing person search has a happy ending for a CA girl; final farewell in Boston for ‘Ted’; a temporary replacement, followed by a special election?; SEN Kennedy wrote letters of sympathy to al the MA residents who lost a loved one on 9–11; the many faces & phases of Whitney Houston; is the FL lottery fixed, or rigged?; bear stuck in skateboard park keeps making headlines, ladder used to free the animal, he climbed it!; as of next week, there will be a ban on automated telemarketing calls; naked man in GA hijacks school bus; marijuana found in Michael Jackson’s room?; Whirlpool cutting 1,100 jobs; 50K people paid their final respects to Ted Kennedy, a celebration of life; fifteen minutes of silence when CA air traffic control systems went offline; 556 people in the US have died from the H1N1 virus; Detroit has a 28.9% unemployment rate; Toyota closing one of its US production plants;

Discovery launch delayed until tonight; Danny is weakening, New England may see high surf, and 40 – 45 mph winds, a typical Nor’easter; pictures of fruit ‘making out’ on European candy bar?; another al Qaeda video; night liftoff for Discovery; N Korea was caught shipping weapons to Iran through the United Arab Emirates;

…8/27-09: be wise, be advised, be prepared

69º in ABQ; 48% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad made Sticky Buns; NM GOV no longer under FED investigation, will face no criminal charges; the story made NATL news…but is he innocent?; proposal for studio in Santa Fe CNTY is put on hold; ACT vs. SAT as the better college prep test; 300 furloughs at the NM District Court; water restrictions for ‘our’ Las Vegas; ENMU has record enrollment; getting old is when you don’t worry about a windy day messing your hair; Brad played with his buns; six year old ABQ student was found wandering the Duke City streets after an early release school day yesterday; semi fire shut down I-40W in Tijeras Canyon; a combo cockfighting & pot growing bust;

now, PICU doctors are saying ‘Good Morning’ to me; finished Rounds by 7:15A; forgot current Census sheet; a question as to how a 45 minute I/P visit should be coded, faxed copies of Compliance documents, and met Dr. Veitenheimer while doing so; PICU cannot state ‘stable’ or ‘no changes’ when explaining a patient’s condition; could not fax anything to my MGR; UNMMG running out of office & parking space; for several days, I have received phone calls from my MGR during my lunch break; from now on, easy charges for my audit;

more CA wildfires; T’storms along parts of I-20 & I-35, and from Dallas to Chicago; wet for the Gulf Coast, from Charlotte to ATL; excessive heat warnings for Phoenix; TS Danny has 60 mph winds, moving NW at 13 mph; could become a CAT 1 hurricane, striking NYC & New England this weekend; rain in Nashville, INDY, Detroit & Orlando; temps from 70s to 110s;SEN Kennedy will be moved from Hyannis Port to Boston for a two-day public viewing; there was a moment of silence in Fenway Park; PRES Obama will deliver the eulogy; a wake scheduled for the SEN on Friday, followed by several memorial service for man named ‘Kennedy’; the SEN had planned his funeral; he was a ‘Titan’, who enjoyed fudge cookies, and James Bond movies; while in the Senate, he cast over 15K votes, one of which was to create Medicare; an adversary, and partner; how to handle the SEN ‘power vacuum’; rockslides force the evacuation of Ahwahnee Lodge in Yosemite; FDIC asking the FED GOVT for money; an early detection device to prevent heart attacks?; should the voters decide on how to handle the health care problem?; will there be more traveling this Labor Day weekend?; the rebirth of Burlesque?; ‘The Hidden Side of Everything’ is a bestselling book; correction: the FL cameraman was struck by a hoe, not a hose; he did file a police report against the woman who hit him; the seventy mile journey from Hyannis Port to Boston, MA; 85 Kennedy clan members in attendance; will Michael Dukakis be Ted’s replacement?; the miracle of modern medicine, or are we being over exposed; man cheated on his wife, now he has to spend a week wearing a sandwich board, displaying his ‘crime’, at an intersection in Tyson’s Corner, VA; ME & AK have the most H1N1 cases;the man that will be mourned around the world; Dalai Lama will visit Taiwan; H1N1 cases are increasing in the UK, Portugal & Australia; oil is $72.49 per barrel; gold is $951.80 an ounce; Canadian man grows pot, adds it to butter, then adds the butter into items he bakes; Dutch ‘Moon rock’ is a piece of petrified wood from Earth;

…8/26-09: love the air

58º in ABQ; 80% humidity at 6A…Garduno’s on the Green: going, going, gone; oh, the problems of aging!; we flew on the same plane as SEN Ted Kennedy from Boston to DC, back in the 1990s; GAQ; job fair being held by Bank of America, looking for bilingual workers, who are fluent in Spanish; two men have robbed ten Duke City businesses; another pair of men are posing as cops in Rio Rancho; students in NM score higher in all parts of the NATL SAT test; Clovis store clerk disappeared, and so did the bank deposit money; two week old child found in a car, his parents were smoking pot, another person took the baby into an APT, and attacked police; ABQ woman accused of stabbing a man, she had knives covered with blood in her possession; Chewy has grown!; Azzarb was born & raised in MA, and lived there for the first part of his life; ABQonthecheap.com wins award;I’m the ‘DC’: the ‘dumb Coder’; bottom line: pseudo codes do not work, neither do they decrease paperwork; finished Rounds by 7:15A; our first swine flu case is in PICU?; worked on updating the O/P Dysmorphology billing sheet; why do people look at me when doctors start talking about their revenue?; no PICU admits; the coding software will not provide observation CPT services;

rain for IA, KS & NE; more S CA wildfires, residents of Azusa & Glendora being told to evacuate; hail & showers from Tampa to Miami; more T’storms for Chicago, the Quad Cities & KC; wet in NY, New England; more moisture for Boston; TS Danny has formed in the Atlantic; excessive heat for TX, record high temps across the state;SEN Ted Kennedy has died at the age of 77 from brain cancer at his home in Hyannis Port, MA last night; even though it was expected, it is still a shock that will rock the halls of Capitol Hill; he was the youngest of nine children, the last Lion of the Senate; a liberal to the end; supported stem cell research; rock of the Kennedy clan; a true public servant, who never gave up; he reached across the aisle; elected in 1962, his ‘dream will live on’, and he had a ‘grand vision’; a man of the people; a special election will have to be held during the next five months to fill his position; a ‘window phone’, but where will one put the batteries; the USPS will offer early retirement to ease its cash crisis; truck snapped inside AL tunnel, driver blamed his GPS system; marijuana may prevent binge drinking; a concrete & aluminum awning collapsed in TX, killing one person, injuring another; new home sales are increasing; several companies are recalling blinds & shades after children are killed by getting tangled in their cords; there is a Squirrel Tunnel on I-376 in Pittsburgh; SEN Kennedy will be buried at Arlington NATL Cemetery; he helped pass the OCHA, HIPPA & ADA bills into legislation, aiding workers; is this the end of Camelot?; is the price of beer going up?; stimulus checks sent to inmates; Ted Kennedy, a force for civil rights, a man who tried to run for PRES, and lost to Jimmy Carter, the third longest serving SEN [47 years on Capitol Hill]…and now, the lion sleeps tonight; FL cameraman attacked by a woman with a garden hose; durable goods order rose by 4.9%; QWEST abandons its cell phone service; there is a hole in the Senate;Discovery launch delayed until the end of this week; Argentina may allow ‘personal pot use’; oil fell to $71.23 per barrel; gold is $946.50 per ounce; the world mourns the loss of a US SEN from MA; Robin Williams to play Susan Boyle on the big screen?;

…8/25-09: the future will be back in a few moments

64º in ABQ; 80% humidity at 6A…Brad made Moroccan Chicken; the amazing maze; the era of driver interlock cameras?; a bag of bags to be recycled; Tom Udall hosts a town hall health care reform meeting in Ruidoso; 100 Los Alamos students have come down with flu-like symptoms; H1N1 vaccines may not be shipped to NM until November; Four Corners man suffered burns, and his horse was killed after being struck by lightning; man charged with faking slot machine payouts in excess of $1.2 million; GAQ; become a Doctor of oriental Medicine; Farmington Salvation Army burglarized; saw new penny, with Lincoln sitting on a bench; Garduno’s on the Green will close next month; if you knew what I knew, then you’d know why I wonder how the first refrigerator was moved into this APT; because 20% of the students have called in sick, the plan is to disinfect the entire Los Alamos School District;

3P meeting with Dysmorphology; ‘flu meals’ will be delivered to sick UNM students; beware full files; the UNM ‘Veggie Bus’; finished Rounds by 7:15A; our office now has a ‘Medical Coding Analysts’ sign on the wall next to our door; no PICU Admits; had to reproduce audit charges; someday, at the spur of the moment, I should ask my MGR: “if you could, would you trade me for another Coder?”; define the ‘busy season’ at UNMH; I need more envelopes of various colors;

severe weather in NM mentioned on ABC AM News; wet weather for SC, S & Central FL, IA, KS, & the N Rockies; Santa Fe T’storms mentioned on the Weather Channel; rain in the Twin Cities, Eau Claire & Omaha; showers in Madison; Hurricane Bill eroded New England beaches; temps from 60s to 100s;

50% of Americans ‘could’ become infected with the H1N1 virus; Giuliani may run for NY GOV; RI wants to shut down for twelve days as a means of handling its budget crunch; Obama says consistency is crucial, will reappoint Bernanke for a second term, says economy is getting better; bandit appears on billboards; multitasking may be bad for your health; WA wildfires under control; consumer confidence is up?; health claim costs may increase by 10.5%; on AVG, MRSA kills more people than AIDS; again, is health care a right, or a privilege; one man, four states, ten bank robberies; Michael Jackson’s doctor may get charged with manslaughter, not murder; distribute H1N1 vaccines before the are fully tested?; meth dealers use comic books to move money; student pilot flies into restricted DC airspace; $1.6 trillion deficit by next year: $9 trillion, by 2019; build a Wal-Mart near an historic VA battlefield?; is the term ‘master bedroom’ politically incorrect?;
oil is $73.95 per barrel; former UK pickpockets now put money in people’s pockets; storms scrub Discovery launch, valve problems cancel it for a second launch; which is carrying a $5 million treadmill to the INTL Space Station; gold is $949 an ounce; drunk British skipper runs his ship aground; Japanese prefer going to IKEA than theme parks for ‘fun’; S Korea launched its first rocket, but failed to reach its planned orbit;

…8/24-09: psychological love signs

63º in ABQ; 83% humidity at 6A…today’s town hall meeting for health care reform will be held at the ABQ CONV CTR; more rain last night at The Beach; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; TX man killed in Roswell rollover crash; Brad has at least fifteen paintings in the works; more monsoon moisture; Duke City mother left three her children at home alone, while she was arrested for DUI, her fourth offense of this type; a burglary turned into a police chase that ended near the SunPort; the AVG price of gas in ABQ is $2.56 per gallon; the ‘Heinrich maneuver’; bobcat sighted near Roswell; NM GOV heading to Cuba for ‘trade mission’; more EOB statements from Lovelace; ground breaking ceremonies will be held for Paseo del Volcan extension, which should be completed by the end of this year; Eddy CNTY warden quits his post; Brad’s Chiro visit; Brad made a delicious Green Goddess Dressing; wet weather caused car crash at I-25N & Broadway; volunteers needed at ABQ BioPark & Aquarium; and then we have ‘techno trance’; a much calmer, civil meeting on health care was held, attended by 200 people;back to school for UNM; why do I associate failure with firing; finished Rounds by 7:30A; patient from Belen bitten by snake; I need a ‘Coder buddy’; ice cream social at the Duck Pond today?; worked on Surgery billing sheets for ICD updates;

NM monsoon moisture mentioned on ABC AM News; 8K acre fire burning ing in WA; showers in N New England, including Boston & NYC; rain in the N Rockies & N Dakota; Bill weakening, only has 70 mph winds, but here comes Danny in the Central Atlantic!; wet in the Chesapeake Bay, DC, S FL & SC; showers for Providence; child killed by giant wave that hit the coast of ME, a state that also saw an EF-1 tornado this weekend; temps from 70s to 100s;woman spent $330K for surgeries so she could look like Queen Nefertiti; 3-D scans of internal organs turned into art; the first time the Obama have taken an entire week to go on vacation; the PRES will try to discuss health care reform with SEN Kennedy, and watch a White Sox vs. Red Sox baseball game; man gives ‘bad advice for a buck’; too much ‘Cash for Clunkers’ paperwork; the NATL AVG price of gas is about $2.62 per gallon; 300 people have been evacuated from a Detroit chemical factory after an explosion took place, followed by a fire; no one was injured when a pipe bomb exploded at a San Mateo, CA school; the new meth avoids drug detection; AL families’ fuel turned into a full-scale riot; WTC beam returned to Ground Zero; mammoth tooth found at MI golf course; 30% of US schools do not have recess; CIA torture techniques confirmed; 800K cars sold in exchange of clunkers; Michael Jackson’s death now considered a homicide; is the King of Pop’s doctor guilty of murder?; the panic attack caused by probable H1N1 numbers; one person was killed when a big rig smashed into several vehicles, after its breaks failed along the stretch of I-5 known as the ‘grapevine’: truck sped past escape ramp;man who killed his model/girlfriend found dead in a British Columbian hotel; CIA conducted mock executions on GITMO detainees; 4,334 US troops have been killed in Iraq; the holy festival of Ramadan has begun; oil is $74.13 per barrel; gold is $953.80 an ounce; oil spill off Australian coast; 30K acres are burning across Athens; voter fraud across AFG?;

…8/23-09: partners in peace

67º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…heated debate at yesterday’s ‘town hall meeting’ on health care reform; overnight rain at The Beach, accompanied by thunder & lightning; NATL High School Rodeo in Farmington faces animal cruelty charges; Duke City rapist arrested; the strange document received last week from the NLP; whooping cough outbreak in La Plata CNTY, CO; NM Medicaid facing budget cuts; police vehicle accident at Unser & Northern; no red or blue blinking lights allowed on vehicles; stabbing at Central & Second in downtown Duke City; SWAT situation at San Jose & Broadway; drugs found in a room housing a seven year old child; testing Wi-Fi on the Rail Runner; $7K in building supplies stolen from a local storage area; NM Vietnam Vet is now a beekeeper; Brad prepared a delicious Coquilles St. Jacques; prescriptions filled via a vending machine: only the co-pay & service fee are charged; storms at The Beach, about an inch of rain across parts of the Duke City;

Social Security checks will not include a COLA increase; the unpopular public health INS option; yesterday it was uranium, today a FedEx box in OH contained boa constrictors, ‘hidden’ in pillowcases; baby scorpion found in takeout bag at Chandler, AZ McDonald’s restaurant; 110 housing sex offenders found in FL area; ‘nearsighted bison on a flavor stampede’; Lynda Carter resides in a plus Potomac, MD home; CA parolee kills a mother & son, then himself; as of today, Boston is in second place, still 6½ games behind the Yankees; Hurricane Bill caused beaches closed on Martha’s Vineyard; Brad Pitt’s movie was the top weekend moneymaker, earning $37.6 million: ‘District 9’ made second place, taking in $18.9 million; the end of the road for car sales, as the Cash for Clunkers programs comes to a close; a dozen people were swept out to see while watching the waves at Acadia NATL Park in ME, some have been rescued; 23% of expectant mothers suffer from depression; universal health care is lost in space; plane struck by three cars after landing on a CA freeway; the media treats Martha’s Vineyard like it was a town; What!: two teens were killed while driving through Death Valley when the driver fell asleep; only 5% of US churches are multiracial; Oakwood, TX, pop. 471, has the smallest bank in America, has only senior citizens employed, and still use ‘antique, manual’ machines; CT Wal-Mart worker hit an ASST MGR about a dozen times with an aluminum baseball bat;fires are closing in on Athens suburbs; Fidel Castro looks in better health; Hurricane Bill is now a CAT storm, with 85 mph winds, moving NE at 31 mph; hopefully, the first MX astronaut will be launched into space this week; has the global recession hit rock bottom; ocean temperature keeps getting higher;

…8/22-09: cherish, peace

70º in ABQ; 49% humidity at 6A…Garduno’s on the Green is gone; Santa Fe humane society has to cut staff; man arrested for impersonating a border patrol agent; two police cadets test positive for the H1N1 virus, causing training structure to shut down; the Santa Fe Indian Market is being held today; you know you’re getting older when you get a haircut, and nobody notices the difference; SWAT situation at Alameda & Ventura; FedEx truck stopped at the Anthony Port of Entry for carrying a package containing uranium; added ‘Reactions’ section to blog; a very touching ‘Eureka’ episode; two gay guys were talking to one straight comic book guru about ‘Bond women’; Brad made Guacamole;

TS warning posted for MA coast, especially Cape Cod & the Islands; OH man’s shirt ignites after being struck by a taser, while he was inhaling a aerosol can; Honda will only sell electric cars in America; model mutilated, found inside a piece of luggage in a dumpster, her teeth & fingers had been removed; by the end of the day, Bill had 85 mph winds, heading N at 24 mph; the remake of sequels; who are the ‘Husbands of Hollywood’?; KY inmates torch a medium security prison; the recent ‘Star Trek’ movie has made the most money in the series of ‘enterprising’ films; NH man caught a rare [one in five million], blue lobster, and donated the creature to the Seacoast Science CTR;

Hurricane Bill is now a CAT 2 storm, with 105 mph winds; wildfires burning near Athens; meeting between S Korean leader & six N Korean delegates has been scheduled for tomorrow; fair vs. free AFG elections; about 100 German professors accused of taking bribes so their students could earn doctoral degrees;

…8/21-09: the space place

68º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; Navajo Nation man killed in AFG; N NM men’s shelter goes up in flames; Alamogordo mother faces child tests positive for meth; the Duke City Volunteer Police Officer Program has been put on hold; ABQ mother suffocated her eight month old baby because the child was crying, she put a pillow over its face for five minutes; film company that produced the ‘Terminator’ movie in NM is filing for bankruptcy, although it has paid all debts owed to NM; “she’s not cute, she’s just blond”; man charged with kiddie porn, sent to jail for 900 years; kids playing ‘chicken’ on Rail Runner tracks; reselling stolen car scheme busted in ABQ; multiple robberies in SW Duke City area; fire in air conditioning vent at APT complex near Carlisle & Comanche; man with B-B gun caused school lockdown; the Balloon Fiesta is a great place for Americana; two men die when they are struck by a train in Gallup;

meeting with GI, at CTI, got to the point; left at 12:30P; lunch at Saggio’s; finished Rounds by 7:15A; AM problems with Rupert, problem fixed before 10A; what this place needs is an HOSP Coding MGR; updated Coding software; arrived home slightly after 4P; Channel 13 on UNMH Hill;

Gulf Coast storms; Hurricane Bill is the size of TX: with 120 mph winds, moving NW at 17 mph, the CAT 3 storm is heading towards Bermuda, by tomorrow AM, it will be at its closest point to the tiny island; people are being told to stay indoors; Red Flag Warnings have been posted for the E Coast of the US; twisters spotted in Canada; T’storms from Dallas to Memphis, with accompanying hail; very wet in KY, OH, WV & VA; per Weather Channel, the Rio Grande area will be in the 90s & 100s; downpours in Richmond, Des Moines, ATL, New Orleans & Louisville; Cleveland floods; temps from 60s to 100s;

Starbucks is lowering some of its prices, while raising others; 50% disapprove the way the PRES is handling the health care reform issue, the number of supporters are dwindling; solar cell phones, the next trend; White House ‘terror alert’ raised by Tom Ridge just before 2004 election; fight on SW Airlines flight with naked man; 13% of homeowners are behind in their mortgage payments, or in foreclosure; an ‘explosion’ of H1N1 cases expected this fall; now, Michael Jackson will not be buried on his birthday, but sometime in September; home sales increase; unplugging electronic items does not save people much money; two men walked away from a plane crash in NJ; theaters may no longer publish show times in newspapers…this is the Internet Age; Lutherans will allow sexually active gays into the clergy; banks close in TX, AL & GA…bringing the total to 81; DVD player sold at Wal-Mart may ignite; Obama popularity has dropped by ten points since June; Seeing Eye School is eighty years old;

current AFG leader may have won elections, although many doubt the legitimacy of the outcome, there was only a 50% turnout; colorful ‘fat seats’ for overweight people who use the London METRO, or ‘underground’; oil is $73.98 per barrel; gold is $955.80 an ounce; ‘justice served, mercy shown’ for the Lockerbie bomber who has terminal cancer, and about three months to live;

…8/20-09: as the quest continues

67º in ABQ; 19% humidity at 6A…the NW Duke City Education Corridor opens on the first day of school; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; former NM SECY of State is accused of misusing $3 million in public money; so far, more in NM are uninsured than in all of 2008; volunteer reserve officer is acting like a detective, overstepping his duties; Brad’s check arrived yesterday, that was also a minor stress factor to me…see, I’m a Cancer, I was put on this world to worry; it has been a rough year being the only person bringing in a paycheck; Eclipse Aviation will resume business on 9/1/09, solely in the Duke City, but unsure how many former employees will be hired; 500K people in NM are not insured;

is dedication a fading trait in business?; something we leaned; all residents are residents; there are sub-interns & medical students, and there are fellows & attending; and that it’s just a job, where you make mistakes, stumble, correct our errors, and go on doing the best that I can; Dr. Hinkle is a resident; it’s amazing what a little cut & paste can do: MGR wanted the updated billing sheets by tomorrow, so I worked on those assigned to me until the task was done, about three hours; yesterday ended with a hug from Myrna; revised ICD sheets are now due tomorrow, not 9/1/09; I feel betrayed by the doctors in one ward, saying the same thing at the same time; finished Rounds by 7:15A; Code Purple at 6:30A; MGR said I could have completed the ICD project on Tuesday; then the heat rose in the phone conversation when I could not reach Brad, who was taking a shower, so the day ended on the down side;

high waves/surf, beach erosion, dangerous rip currents along the E Coast as Bill move NW at 18 mph, with winds of 125 mph; storms, and more storms…from OK to MO; wet from ATL to Miami; chance of tornadoes in AR, IL, IN; showers for Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati & Detroit; wet in MN & WI, across OH and from NY to TX; 105 mph winds severely damaged IN town; NYC moisture; temps from 60s to 100s;

when will car dealers receive ‘clunker’ money?; art by using discarded phone books; Prop 8 trial will be heard in 2010; who will soon sit in Ted Kennedy’s SEN seat; every time a husband cheated, he bought his wife jewelry…a total of 43 times, with a total value exceeding $400K; CA boy set friend on fire twice; robbers left man in abandoned U-Haul truck; the 103 lb. catfish; two men stole $1 million in jewelry from JC Penney; mortgage delinquencies are still rising; the ‘Candy Land’ game turned 60!, and Lombard ST in San Fran went colorful; if the health bill fails, so will the [D];credit card companies have to wait 45 days before raising interest rates; 750K cars sold through the ‘clunker’ problems, but where’s the cash that is promised to dealerships?;
low turnout feared in AFG NATL elections, the road to democracy is rough; ballots being brought by burros; two more arrested in London massive jewel heist; oil is $72.44 per barrel; gold is $941.30 an ounce; the compassionate release of the Lockerbie terrorist from jail, dying from cancer, and has three months to live, greeted & treated as a hero in Libya; Adidas shoes turn 60 years old; people voted based on what their AFG tribal leaders told them to do;

…8/19-09: ergonomic handle

68º in ABQ; 34% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; NM GOV will make with two N Korean delegates [their request] for two days in Santa Fe to discuss renewable energy resources in his state; ‘transferable warranty’?; man committed suicide by slamming into a Rail Runner train at the Menaul crossing; parts of I-10 will be widened from four to six lanes; another Duke City job fair; Brad has finished, and started another painting; AM say ‘Unser/UNM/Uptown’; N NM hotel owner wants his staff to change their last names, and only one syllable long; the first W Nile Virus death in NM, a 45 year old Dona Ana CNTY man; La Cueva coach fired; Durango man surrendered Native American artifacts; man stole mail across NM, used the names too commit ID theft; 6% humidity at 5P; Zozobra goes high-tech, appears on Twitter;today, we met with Pulmonary & PICU; on the days the ‘lists’ aren’t ready, then what?; finished Rounds about 7:15A; Code Purple by 6:30A; no CTI Admits; all PICU doctors said they did not look for residents’ note when they completed their own entry…so I will be audited; another child was attacked by a pit-bull; Dr. Davies does not trust spreadsheets;

chance of twisters in Chicago; rain in the Twin Cities, and parts of I-29 & I-35; wet weather along stretches of I-70, KC & Tulsa, and KS; Bill is now a CAT 4 hurricane with 135 mph winds that could pose problems for Cape Cod; there had been no warning when an EF-1 twister struck the Houston/Beaumont area; tornadoes also toppled trees in Baltimore CNTY, MD; hot & Humid in NE US, followed by storms that will stretch from Boston all the way down the E Coast to Orlando, while remnants of Ana will bring rain to S FL; showers in Memphis, TN & Louisville, KY; temps from 70s to 100s;TX man killed when heavy rains floods an underground construction tunnel; Obama meets with Bill Clinton to discuss the release of US journalists from N Korea; $600K violin left in NYC cab, located by using a GPS device; the trendy ‘visual videos’: the lyrics match the motions; Michael Jackson will be buries in a Los Angeles cemetery; the man who invented ’60 Minutes’ has died at the age of 86; women arrested after having a fight with a boy in a wheelchair; H1N1 cases rapidly increasing in AK, HI, ME, SC & Puerto Rico; MA lawyers said they knew their son was growing marijuana at their home; easy to buy illegal weapons; ‘advisory panel of experts’ will determine quality of health care; HIV/AIDS deaths are down; American men & women are living longer; as of today, Congress would veto the current health bill proposal; need to reassured the current insured; fiery Dartmouth, MA town hall meeting: but Barney Frank struck back; 5.0 quake shook AK, but no injuries reported; India cab driver whose vehicle can only go in reverse; because of warm conditions across Britain, sign indicating not to lift arms on roller coasters, thus preventing the smell of body odor from spreading; H1N1 cases rapidly increasing in UK, SE Asia & S Africa; AFG leaders asking for a media blackout, are expecting violence during elections, which is almost guaranteed by Taliban forces; more violence in the Green Zone of Baghdad, about 100 deaths, after attacks on Parliament & the Finance Ministry: US troops can only help when asked; closed circuit TV camera captures man smashing head first through glass door; Discovery will attempt to launch next week; oil is $72.42 per barrel; gold is $944.80 per ounce;

…8/18-09: energy centers

67º in ABQ; 23% humidity at 6A…the bug has been debugged; GAQ; computer glitch prevents both ABQ school workers & unemployed people from receiving their checks; Valencia CNTY woman struck four different properties with a vehicle, then escaped on foot; five miles of I-25 will be shut down for widening from Tramway, heading N, in both directions; town hall meeting last night ended about 1½ later than planned; Four Corners & the Navajo Nation are two of the world’s best drives; Hobbs man has not paid any taxes since 1986, on land that has generated $225K; PM tornado warnings issued in parts of E NM; gas is $2.49 a gallon; a pimp will spend the maximum allowed time in jail; the UNK, unused space at The Beach;

Code Purple by 6:30A; very little contact from the other side of PEDS; coding software package not working yesterday; boy shot in Roswell, victim of gang wars; no PICU Admits; finished Rounds by 7:15A; told Jenny to contact me if she needed help; we aired our laundry today; the small ‘No Smoking’ signs around UNM; today is NATL Buddy Day…there were E-mails being sent by various Coders: I sent a message with a Smiley, and received lots of replies; very early AM R/R;

more storms for OK, KS, MO & AR; wet in New Orleans; Hurricane Bill has 125 mph winds, and is heading towards Bermuda; picture of the Blue Ridge Parkway featured on Weather Channel; flood watches for TX, KS & OK; NM T’storms mentioned on ABC AM News; ‘excessive heat’ for NYC & New England; Ana soaked Puerto Rico; 100K acres are on fire in CA; showers for the E Coast of FL, Detroit, Dayton, DC & ATL; temps from 60s to 100s;judge says Michael Jackson merchandise can be sold; Americans are holding on to their money; no IT jobs in Richmond, VA; we are ‘technically’ out of the recession; buy purchases of school supplies have dropped 5% from last year; will Obama concede to conservatives; even young children can suffer from depression; WI woman gets her car stuck at a 45º on open bridge span; NATL Parks may receive needed money from stimulus package; an ‘Iron Chef’ host, and a SEN will appear on Dancing with the Stars; man arrested for having rifle at Obama health care meeting; no money for dealerships from the Cash for Clunkers program; Elko, NV has never seen a day of recession; bear breaking into CO MTN homes; Sunday School teacher accused of raping & murdering an eight year old girl; pack of wild dogs kill a GA couple; bottom line: the voting public is angry with the FED GOVT; parents are spending less on children for school; Michael Jackson may be buried on his B’day; more people prefer American cars, customers crave Chevy Cobalt; the series ‘Mad Men’, set in the 60s, is a success; GM is rehiring workers; FL population has dropped, the first time in 63 years;the James Bond Cocktail: martinis, guns & girls; there is a plant that can eat rats; the AFG PRES Palace was attacked, as well as a police station, but no injuries reported; many UFO sightings seen over Stonehenge; oil is $67.33 per barrel; gold is $940 an ounce; former S Korean leader has died; S Korea to launch its own rocket;