Saturday, August 1, 2009

…7/31-09: no guns, no bullets, no bombs

63º in ABQ; 67% humidity at 6ACode Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; another mobile meth lab found: this time, brewing in a backpack; man & woman stole surveillance cameras, their thefts were ‘caught’ on film; on the other hand, if the first repairman had not quoted such a high estimate, we would not have Freon in the A/C that was added by the second guy; while NM lottery sales are down, scholarship money from the tickets sold are up; Heinrich: the NM hunk on Capitol Hill; SE NM flood advisories; first female fire chief for Santa Fe; one NM resident has bought a ticket for the flight from Spaceport; the last chance to vote for the new license plate design, honoring the City Different turning 400 years old; another radioactive waste dump site near Carlsbad planned?; will a Santa Fe parking garage ever be completed?; three patrol cars guarded a sinkhole on Louisiana, just S of Menaul; Eclipse Aviation could be back in business, and not bankruptcy; pit bull attacks girl in her own backyard; Rail Runner will run on Sundays; anonymous ‘first buyer’ of space ticket;

meeting with Neurological Psychologist; Code Purple at 6:30A; patient’s ‘drug of choice’ is heroin; finished Rounds by 7:15A; took early bus; worked on another Coder’s TES edits during the PM, left work at 3:45P; got the #5 to the #8 bus, back by R/R, arrived home slightly after 6P;
temps from 70s to 110s; tornadoes struck five states; storms from NY to MS; rain for parts of TX & Louisiana, in DC, Houston, ATL, NYC, Boston; a mild tornado season so far; wet along parts of I-20 & I-95; downpours for the FL panhandle; heavy rains in Providence, Philly & New Orleans; wild weather & flood warnings for W TX, TN, KY, WV;Michael Jackson: drug addict?; being the sole resident in a 32 story, 300 unit FL high-rise; teen arrested after painting Smiley Faces on CT high school; tame tiger found a backyard of a home in ‘the’ Las Vegas, had escaped from circus; ‘Cash for Clunkers’ has run out of gas, will continue through this weekend…hope for another $2 billion from Congress to keep the project going; paperwork jams, taking five hours to complete forms; Honda recalls 440K more vehicles; no apologies at ‘beer brew’, but the professor & the policeman will meet again for private lunch, where they won’t be in the media spotlight; GM may reopen some of its dealerships; as the jobless rate rises in OH, Obama’s popularity gets lower; more than 350 deaths in the US from the H1N1 virus; what is it about MA?…mother locked her three year old son in a hot attic when he misbehaved, and her family supports the woman’s actions; Frigidaire recalling 35K washers which could ignite as lint gets clogged in a drain pipe; the PT Cruiser will be built for one more year; toxic dirt in the White House garden; five more banks fail in OK, FL, OH, IL & NJ;declare victory in Iraq, and leave!; presenting, the super yacht!; good chance for Endeavour to land in FL this AM, and the space shuttle made a successful landing; former Philippine leader Corazon Aquino has died at the age of 76 from cancer; Cuban economy getting worse;

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