…8/6-09: build something special

73º in ABQ; 41% humidity at 6A…GAQ; toxic substance leaked from truck, forcing police to shut down HWY 550, E of I-25; maybe a mini–monsoon?; man found guilty of raping nine year old girl; Duke City man never ordered to register as sex offender; water in the Navajo Nation has been fully cleaned of contaminants; Castle APT complex fire burned until 5:30P yesterday PM…but this AM, firemen were still at that location: the cause was accidental & electrical; funding for NM State Fair Park & Ride has been found; Farmington has a 7.8% jobless rate; time for an ‘economic renaissance’ in NM education; Brad made Leek & Potato Soup, and Key Lime Custard; Chris painted our bedroom ceiling; new downtown Prisoner Transfer CTR planned; one of the outdoor stairways can be accessed again; PM showers at The Beach [very little];

staff meeting at 9:30A cancelled; finished Rounds by 7:15A; Code Purple at 6:30A; Brent was out yesterday; no PICU Admits; worked with cardiac catheterizations pseudo codes, it’s different, and fun!;

tornadoes in the N Rockies; ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; NYC showers; temps from 70s to 110s; storms from Philly to Raleigh, Dallas & OKC; excessive heat for TX & OK; storms toppled TX radio tower; nine people injured in RI after lightning struck a tree; wet along parts of I-10 & I-95; fire danger in the Rockies & the W Coast; Category 4 hurricane heading towards HI;

‘Cash for Clunkers’ program will end on Labor Day; US researchers have decoded the HIV virus; thin ties are in; USPS reports a $7 billion loss; sometimes the pulse is so faint, people are pronounced ‘dead’, then resume normal breathing; Brad Pitt supports same-sex marriages; Burger King does not allow barefoot baby into restaurant; Sotomayor, the next US Supreme Court Judge, the first Hispanic Associate Judge on the bench, and the one hundred eleventh adjudicator; politician who hid cash in his freezer has finally been convicted of accepting bribes; 240’ MI water slide; window washers dangle 37 stories above Boston street; eventually, 50% of homeowners could be ‘under water’; CT woman staged her own ‘Nurse of the Year’ award party…but she wasn’t a nurse!; attack the server: Twitter crashed by hackers, who also caused FaceBook to crawl; $60 for a pizza at the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium; 34.4 million Americans are on food stamps; 1976 flu vaccine killed more people than the disease itself; July sales were ‘sluggish’;emissary vs. envoy; British women like ‘real’ men, not ‘metrosexuals’; gold is $967.20 an ounce; oil is $70.85 per barrel; 64 years today since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Japan; ferry boat sinks off coast of Tonga; Argentina has the second highest death rate from the H1N1;