…8/14-09: and the quest continues

63º in ABQ; 90% humidity at 6A…doctor’s visit at 1P, will meet Brad at the HOSP; overnight rain at The Beach; GAQ; inmate released in error; there has been an increase in ‘white collar crime’; stay at a B&B cave near Farmington, complete with TV, running water & electricity; baseball coach told to turn in his keys; ‘Climate Action Plan’ meetings will be held in the Duke City; sewer collapse caused part of Third ST to be closed in SW ABQ; Santa Fe home robbed of $750K in art work & other items; $3 million embezzled through a ‘sophisticated scheme’ in the Jemez school district, this went on from 2002– 2009; beware the gas station cigarette robber; Alamogordo pre-school robbed; driving school owner charged with DUI; college prep school tests will be free;

leaving work at 12:30P; finished Rounds by 7:30A; Code Purple at 6:30A; turned in audit charges to MGR; no one was discharged yesterday in PEDS; doctor’s visit…then the bus went from San Mateo to Central to Menaul to Eubank [where we ate at the Owl Café…they still make wonderful onion rings] then running for the Lomas bus to R/R to home before 5:30P; will Hospitalist Coders be moved?;

storms from the Dakotas, WI & MN, to the Carolinas & GA; NM showers mentioned on ABC AM News; W FL rain; showers from New Orleans to ATL to Orlando to Miami; mandatory evacuations from CA fires, that have burned about 3K acres; one to two inches of snow forecast for Glacier NATL Park; Code Orange Air Quality for parts of the SE US & the Midwest; wet in Phoenix; temps from 60s to 100s;

does former SEN Edwards father a ‘love child’?; air traffic controller was talking on the phone to his girlfriend during the NYC plane & copter crash…he & his supervisor are now on paid leave; Michael Phelps unhurt after he was involved in a Baltimore car crash; consumers can trade in their clunkers and purchase vehicles that have not reached the car lots yet; Americans want to be covered under the same health INS policy as those in Congress; will BART go on strike next week?; Michael Vick will play for the Philadelphia Eagles; is the US running out of sugar; Peace…the ‘Woodstock Polka’!; teen died from dehydration while hiking in the Grand Canyon; eleven year old interviews Obama; Native Americans on their reservations may face unemployment rates as high as 80%; Aerosmith cancels summer tour after lead singer’s injury; the DOW ended down; 30% of Americans can handle sleeping six hours or less; the Beatles are still considered a popular band in American poll; there were ‘potential traffic conflicts’ over the NYC skies when the plane & copter collided; America is a land of second chances; because Michael Vick is still under suspension, he would not be able to play until Game 6 of the season; two more banks closed, bringing the total to 74 so far, this year;

4.6 quake shook Puerto Rico; Thai elephant plays the harmonica; missing cargo ship found off the coast of W Africa, near Cape Verde; what an error!…a Rome hotel room for 1¢ a day; new AFG law allows men to treat women like property;