…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;