…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?;