…9/30-09: let music cleanse your soul

61º in ABQ; 42% humidity at 6A…GAQ; some NM agencies are late in submitting their 2009–10 budgets: $1 billion unaccounted for several years; was teacher’s death a hate crime [she was Jewish]?; missing toddler has been returned to its Farmington home; CNM will host an Hispanic celebration; LANL largest active disposal area will be demolished; high wind warnings & fire dangers across NM; how will NM spend $3.2 billion in stimulus funds, the FED GOVT wants to know by 10/10/09; today, there is truly ‘dust in the wind’; marijuana farm found near Tucumcari; another response from my YouTube comment; the $36,500 extortion fund being paid to release the special shape balloons; NM Finance Authority will buy all foreclosed homes in the state;

time to listen to music again; and time to change the date on the Specialist billing sheet; and find the name of the PICN head nurse [got names this AM]; Code Purple at 6:30A; finished Rounds about 7:45A; saw Lisa on the bus yesterday, she is under a new MGR; being on guard, and on your toes; still cannot access Susan Miller’s corridor; verbal & written warnings against UNM coach may also cost him his job, this has made NATL headlines; will a ‘bad deed’ go unpunished?; ASST Coach on leave; PEDS is full; was there a man with a gun on the UNM campus yesterday?; people just need to take time off from work;

ABQ Temp mentioned on ABC AM News; freeze & frost warnings along the Great lakes; wet in Pittsburgh, rain & snow along parts of I-15, as well as ID, CO & the Dakotas; storms for Miami, WY, UT & W NY; twister reported in ON; AZ, CA wildfires; deadly typhoon struck Vietnam; sea levels have risen on islands in the quake zone, and even in CA; temps from the 50s to 90s;

lizard swallowed holiday light, easily remove from inside the animal; teachers experienced zero gravity inside a high-flying plane; small tsunami waves reported along our W Coast; Amber Alert issued for missing TN newborn; camera caught OR school bus drag a student thirty feet when her backpack got stuck in the door; [D] accuse the [R] of wanting sick people to ‘die quickly’; many truckers test positive for hepatitis; after twenty-four years, GM will no longer produce the Saturn model; more of ‘The Apple’ appears on YouTube; the DOW ended down; jet missing for 54 years is found off the CA coast; hypoxia was the cause of a small plane crashing, killing its pilot; the ‘scope of issues’; note found on American Airlines plane at Logan Airport indicating that a bomb was on board; the Office of the Attending Physician, offering ‘primary’ care to those in Congress; new Trojan virus can steal the money from your bank account, in small amounts;the ‘Super Scooby’: a UK burger with 2,645 calories; 200 dead from Pacific earthquakes; tsunami warnings from Japan to New Zealand to OR have been dropped; the American Samoa quake took place twenty miles below the ocean, and lasted three minutes, water from the waves, which can travel at 475 mph, reached one mile inland; the island has been declared a disaster area; and today, a 7.9 tremor has shaken Indonesia; what do we do in & about AFG?; gold increased to $1009.80 per ounce; in Copenhagen, Michelle & Oprah make their pitches for Chicago in 2016; oil rose to $69.71 per barrel; PRES held a war council on AFG; most of al Qaeda is located in PAK; assassin hid weapons in his underwear;

…9/29-09: we are with you

54º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…Trader Joe’s ‘mini-muffins’ are huge!; yesterday, Brad walked from there to the Uptown Marriot…a very long walk; GAQ; 911 service getting an $888K stimulus boost; an increase in homeless Duke City students; 17.1% of NM residents live below the poverty line; St. Pius volleyball coach resigns after inappropriate text message to his player; man murdered in his own home in ‘our’ Las Vegas; Native American heirlooms recovered; NM has the highest percentage of Hispanic residents; Brad created Gazpacho; our comforter needed a cleaning; post office is opening later in the AM; time to be thrifty again; gas is $2.29 per gallon; Brad found a brand new grille in the dumpster, plus another pillow; Brad made Nancy’s Linguine with Tuna & Lemon Juice; two year old boy abducted by his father; the thirteen special shape balloons will be at the Balloon Fiesta, but not during its first weekend; two pipe bombs found in CO driver’s truck; GE Aviation will still close its S Valley plant;

account for irregularities; another batch held for three weeks by Charge Entry before returning it to my MGR because they can’t understand it anymore…they did before!; did UNM Football Coach Mike Locksley strike his ASST; MGR started to talk to me in Spanish…I know my limit of that language!; Code Purple at 6:30A; finished Rounds by 7:45A; more courtesy is needed by our leaders; no toilet paper in men’s room stall; still can’t access Susan Miller’s corridor to pick up her charges; only new forms from providers;

winds & high surf along the Great Lakes; 3.66” of rain fell on Buffalo yesterday; storms hit Halifax, CNTY, VA, causing trees to fall, and power outages; wet in Albany, Cleveland, Detroit, parts of S TX, ME, Portland, OR & Miami; fire danger from the N Rockies to the W Coast; snow might help extinguish the Yellowstone NATL Park fire; temps from 50s to 100s;

VIA: Starbuck’s new instant coffee; FaceBook poll: should Obama be killed?; Hugh Jackman asks that no cell phone ringing during Broadway play; what’s a ‘splike’?; NATL Parks: America’s Best idea & invention; alligator found in backyard of San Antonio home; think about it…when ‘Mon’ becomes ‘NOW’; recession affecting the middle class and poor the most; Bank of America credit card holder went ballistic when her interest rate jumped to 30%: she made a video protest on YouTube, and the fee was reduced to 12.99%; she was never late, nor did the woman go over her credit limit; Toyota recalling another 3.8 million US vehicles: floor mat problems; the first batch of H1N1 vaccines have been shipped; SEN does not approve current two health care options; the DOW ended down; public option vs. GOVT regulations; sign of the times: more tent cities appearing across the US; the Wizard of Oz is seventy years old; 30% of an INS premium pays for a company’s ADMIN fees; two guys, one month of unlimited flying, and 43K miles in the air; the value is up to $80 million in CA art heist; Sarah Palin, ‘going rogue’, and for PRES in 2012; never use a plane’s bathroom before it is in flight;

will the Salesman in Chief be able to persuade the INTL Olympic Committee to chose Chicago for the 2016 Olympics; the First Lady will also do some lobbying on her own; weird: to end the years of physical abuse, Taiwan teen chopped off his father’s hands; immediate access to Iran’s ‘secret’ nuclear sites; is N Korea also boosting its nuclear arsenal?; what type of additional sanctions should be imposed on these nations?; as of today, 240 people have died from typhoons that have struck SE Asia; 8.3 quake shook region near American Samoa, causing four fifteen foot tidal waves that crashed into & inward, and a tsunami warning for the W Coast of the US: so far, more than thirty people have reported killed by this tremor; floods across Spain; 507 karat diamond found in S African mine; gold is $994.40 an ounce; oil fell to $66.50 a barrel; twenty people taken to the HOSP in Turkey when bee hives damaged in collision; former Chairman Mao is famous in his hometown; Nero’s revolving banquet hall at his Golden Palace to be unveiled;

…9/28-09: one necessary word…respect

64º in ABQ; 31% humidity at 6A…GAQ; blowing dust across the Duke City; Balloon Fiesta could see a rise in theft, and H1N1 cases; man dies from Saturday Night shooting in Hobbs; man fatally shot in ‘our’ Las Vegas; hiker safely rescued after getting lost in the Sandias; more security needed at Duke City lodgings for the next two weeks; several road closures around the City Different; the AVG price of gas in NM is $2.54 per gallon; the best microbrewery in NM is located in Farmington; airmen who served in Iraq & AFG receive a warm welcome at the SunPort; gas is $2.35 per gallon; new Gertrude Zachary pictures on her Lomas jewelry store; renovated health care CTR for SE ABQ; NM money problems may be larger than initially predicted; Shiprock Navajo Fair starts tomorrow until Sunday; more H1N1 rap videos created by children; this past weekend, saw rabbit near Coronado Mall; child found dead at Peralta home;

moving to 6:30 – 3P work shift; give me strength to be a good Coder; Code Purple by 6:30A; PEDS is full; put ‘entered in error by Charge Entry’ when a patient/provider link cannot be determined; finished Rounds by 7:30A; minor dryer fire at UNM dorm; NM student loan ASSOC may be in jeopardy; three year old bitten by German Shepherd; another Coder leaves UNMMG; one of the crossing guard gates was stuck in the down position at the Bradbury; meeting with Nephrology DEPT at 2:30P; took the Blue Line, then walked from Olde Towne to The Beach; traffic signals blowing in the wind;

Midwest T’storms, from the Dakotas to IL; Yellowstone fire has burned 9,300 acres, but the park remains open; SE Asia recovering from typhoon; 110s in Phoenix & ‘the’ Las Vegas; wind & rain in OH & PA; strong gusts from the N Plains to NYC; wet in Boston, Miami, Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago, Cleveland & Philly; temps from the 50s to 100s;10K oil spill shuts down the Houston channel; I-80 shut down between Laramie & Cheyenne after a big rig crashes over a bridge; Obama wants to make the school day & year ‘much longer’; PRES took his relatives on a weekend tour of DC; sinkhole swallows car in Duluth, GA, in Gwinnett CNTY; ORECK Air Purifier; the NATL AVG price of gas is $2.50 per gallon; some INS policies have a $10K deductible; some companies require advance notice before allowing paid sick leave; female bank robber has struck in MA, CT & RI: claims she is carrying a bomb; 92 year old NH woman went skydiving on her B’day; the price of heating oil is going down; another weird: OK boy claims he has been locked in a closet for four years; fatal beating of Chicago teen caught on camera; want something different for dessert, or a bigger meal: ask for items not on the fast-food menus; PA teen accused of wrapping cat in duct tape; DE is the only state without a NATL Park: the most visited is the Blue Ridge Parkway; oxygen tents & masks on the field when Denver plays home games; 500K children suffer from bad reactions to medicine; dead humpback whale seen floating near Gloucester, VA; bacon cheeseburger inside a slit doughnut being served at a Springfield, MA eatery…all 1,500 calories of it; did Michael Vick help the Eagles’ victory?; credit card limit reduced while man is on vacation; woman bitten on the leg by an alligator; Obama will fly to Copenhagen to make a last pitch for the 2016 Olympics location, he is the first PRES to do so; should Madoff family members pay for his Ponzi scheme; public co-op plans will lead to GOVT intervention?; murder at a NH Wal-Mart; success is going from one failure to another, without being caught; Barbra sings a new song; Chicago: the land of poverty, gangs & violence; GAP co-founder has died at the age of 81; the DOW ended up; $27 million in paintings by famous artists stolen from CA home; bull drags police down NJ street before being captured & sedated;Madrid competing for the upcoming Olympics; the former Persian nation could become a nuclear power within three years; Iranian missiles could reach Israel & Europe, diplomatic talks being held this week with the Republic; what will be Israel’s response on Iran’s rocket tests; wind & solar power should only be considered as ‘part-time’ energy’; man in the Orient has his air shaped like a hat; 140 killed from Philippine floods; Greece, Russia & Italy in range of Iran missile launches; oil is $67 per barrel; Dubai city to be solely powered by the sun, cars will be banned, people arrive late this year; Chinese premier will visit N Korea; gold is $994.10 per ounce;

…9/27-09: one word…pride

57º in ABQ; 43% humidity at 6A…NM has created a list of the most wanted deadbeat parents, or those who have failed to pay child support; pipe bomb found near Elephant Butte Lake; the NM GOV will hold a Forum of Migration & Health next month in Santa Fe; two of ‘our’ Las Vegas schools may be torn down, too expensive to repair; so far, balloons will not be able to launch on the Sandia Pueblo; Mayor Chavez has favored the creation of Charter & Community schools; home buyer tax scam in the Duke City, 200 fraudulent claims totaling almost $1 million, including homes in Rio Rancho; a second BNSF train has derail in the last week: one in MT, the other in NM; the AVG age of a doctor in NM is 54 years old; NM has more than a dozen NATL Parks; 9% humidity at 5P; some vendors did well at the NM State Fair, which had slightly more attendees than last year;early retirement is taxing our Social Security system; for S CA fires, the heat is still on; Bill Clinton no longer opposes same-sex marriages, says there is a ‘rightwing conspiracy’; as of today, the Red Sox are in second place, 7½ games behind the Yankees, who have clinched the playoffs; Detroit finally won a football game!; Patriots won, 26–10; female friendly baseball merchandise; security cameras go blank before the OKC bombing; algae in Midwest water is killing dogs; a lock break on the OH River halts water traffic;Iran fired short range missiles, and keeps defying the INTL community; Bose vs. SONY, and the Japanese win; even the Jews settled in Portugal, but were forced to leave the Iberian Peninsula during the Spanish Inquisition; for a second term, Germany re-elects a conservative leader; Socialists maintain power in Portugal; tension mounts between Honduras & Brazil; Japanese has the longest lifespan in the world: 74 year old bodybuilder won competition title; the West meets with Iran this week in Geneva, the first gathering in thirty years: is this the birth of another nuclear nation?; GEOEYE spy satellite saw secret sites; AFG ‘hates’ foreign soldiers;

…9/26-09: Goth in the wind

53º in ABQ; 46% humidity at 6A…train/car collision in Belen; as the conflict continues, Brad made Pecan Pancakes for breakfast; special shapes shipping problems continue in China; renovating a Duke City roller skating rink; 150 seized vehicles will be auctioned today by the ABQ Police DEPT; DUI crash kills Gallup teen; drive without a license crashed into store near Carlisle & Comanche; I-40E was shut down in Tijeras Canyon after a semi spills its contents of oil onto the interstate; mayoral candidate failed to register his ABQ business until recently; UNMH Annual Picnic being held today in Rio Rancho; Brad made Guacamole; downtown Duke City Art Festival being held this weekend; I now have a seven day pill case; three people were either stabbed or shot near the same Tattoo Parlor in Hobbs; property crime in the Duke City has increased, is ABQ becoming a ‘sanctuary city’ for criminals?; there are six parts of this metropolitan area; 15% of Americans do not have health INS; the blame game over the public health option; teens who have their own car are more likely to be in accidents; I don’t think “Heroes” is starting off any better this season, by adding more characters; another weird: MD man killed his family, then himself; the Brady Bunch series is forty years old;

an ultimatum for Iraq?; maintaining a ‘status quo’ attitude will mean failure for the US in AFG: we need to clear, hold & secure all areas in that country; a drone crashed into the offices of an Iraqi political party in Mosul, no injuries have been reported; a second wave of H1N1 has appeared in MX; floods in Philippines kill fifty people; for now, Iran will allow nuclear inspectors; GITMO prisoners moved to Ireland & Yemen; Portugal is W Europe’s poorest nations, with a 9.1% unemployment rate: the country, with more than 10.6 million people, is still dealing with a recession; it helped create the Euro;

…9/25-09: electricity of fans

50º in ABQ; 68% humidity at 6A… GAQ; N Valley cat shootings & poisonings; both of the KOAT AM newscasters go to Trader Joe’s, and have positive comments; Bloomfield school shut down, 34% of its students called in sick, possibly from the H1N1 virus; science grant for SE NM school districts; the ABQ Green Line has proved to be successful; policeman on a motorcycle was injured when responding to a call; a computer upgrade will shut down the DEPT of Workforce Solutions this weekend; NM jobless rate has risen to 7.5%; the state’s job growth has not been this low since 1944; some school teachers providing lunch for their students; man killed in Roswell during gunfire exchange with police; number of swine flu cases increasing in NM schools; fifth NM death from the H1N1 virus;

leaving at 11:30A, comic climb & being part of the opening day crowd at Trader Joe’s; scandal at UNMMG?; finished Rounds by 7:30A; Code Purple at 6:30A; it was a day of hospital charges & sleep studies, walking up & down lots of stares, of ‘hunger wars’, unhappiness, internal tears and missed buses, of eating too late at the Owl Café, of arriving home after 5P;

W Coast heat; wet for DC, AL, MN, IA & MS; along parts of I-35 & I-95, in the Tidewater area, KY, TN & AL; wet in Baltimore, parts of NJ, WV & VA; five GA counties have been officially declared disaster area; half of those living in Austell are now homeless; the 17K acre Ventura CNTY fire is 65% contained; T’storms for ATL & Orlando; temps from 60s to 100s;

Steel City security for the ‘Group of 20’; Pittsburgh protests persist; Christmas comes early to CA stores; toxins found in school drinking water; more people in the NE & Midwest regions of the US have health INS, as compared with those living in the SW; bed bugs destroying library books?; the DOW was down; another US terror attack may have occurred on 9/11/09; car bombs & cell phones; men become radicalized while in prison; both attempts took place at the same time so neither man would learn about the other person’s simultaneous attack, and go underground; it starts with hydrogen peroxide: terrorists across our country consist of separate, individual cells with their own plans & plots to destroy structures, including a Marine base somewhere in the US; driver survives after plunging over a 150 foot cliff along the CA coast; MI mother abandoned her three year old child on a highway; $10 flight surcharge during the holidays?; another GA bank fails, bringing the total to 95 this year; more women, single or married, drink alcohol before sex; first swine flu inoculations may be available by early October?; strip club offering H1N1 vaccines with lunch;

gold closed at $998.90 an ounce; is Iran ‘secretly’ building an underground nuclear facility?: the UK, France & the US say there is a covert site under a mountain in an Iranian military base, and Obama has known about this location, which is manufacturing uranium to be used in bombs, since late last year, but would not disclose any info until his INTEL was 100% accurate, a military option is not off the table; there may be a second production plant; that Arabian country is in an economic turmoil; bin Laden audio tape warned European troops to pull out of AFG; ice has been found on Mars; bridge made of recycled plastic bottles can hold a 70 ton tank; oil is $66.02 per barrel;

…9/24-09: absolutely adorable

50º in ABQ; 74% humidity at 6A… GAQ; no grilling on the Balloon Fiesta field?: no, just keep the flame away from the propane; per Nancy, Trader Joe’s is opening at the ‘Q Mall’; overnight snow in the Santa Fe area; I have to learn to act my age…older!; new Rail Runner will break ground at the Sandia Pueblo; yesterday’s Duke City bank robber is today in custody; NM Public Schools considering criminal background checks on volunteers, and groups who want to hold meetings in these locations; $2.7 million to build a new fire station in Sandoval CNTY; more textbooks arrive for Rio Rancho schools; Warehouse 508 open in the Duke City; $150 million in the Powerball lottery; judge rules that Wayne Bent should be force fed, to prevent him from getting ill, or dying; overnight rain at The Beach; ABQ is growing greener; after taking some of my medications for the evening, my pillbox vanished!; special shape balloons stuck in China because of a shipping company debate; the Uptown Trader Joe’s opening is featured on KOAT News;

how can a spreadsheet entry be duplicated?; the answer is the charges were not for this patient, based on the DX; Code Purple at 6:30A; finished Rounds by 7:45A; patient has had a migraine for three weeks; new dorms by 2011?;

after the floods; rain in Knoxville, Miami, Houston, Mobile, Denver, DC& New Orleans; the stalled storm; raised houses were still submerged; showers in St. Louis & INDY, also, NE, OH, IN, IL, IA & TX; water treatment plant that serves the SE US has been flooded & shut down; 16K acres have burned in Ventura CNTY, CA, with Red Flag Warnings in the Los Angeles area; temps from 60s to 100s;

banking companies should limit bonuses; because of these ‘emergency conditions’, the MA GOV chose Paul Kirk as an interim SEN; the $8K tax credit on buying a home has many stipulations; Gadhafi calls our PRES a ‘son of Africa’; E-mail service on GOOGLE crashed again; are same-sex ceremonies socialist?: most people in IA say the ruling has not affected their lives; Obama is the first US PRES to preside over a UN Security Council meeting; children’s & infants’ Tylenol being recalled; a Long Beach restaurant is turning seventy-five years old: it is giving diners jewelry as presents; using hair products to build bombs; man placed a one ton bomb outside a Springfield, IL courthouse: another man put on in font of a Dallas skyscraper: they were both fake; the Empire State BLDG [which was built in 45 days] is being renovated; a casino has been built in Pittsburgh, a city where the jobless rate is lower than the NATL AVG, and house prices have declined less than 1% over the past year; Judge Ruth Ginsberg has been hospitalized; Nintendo Wii cutting its price; Obama indirectly points blame at Iran; can a Smart car withstand an elephant standing on top of it?;has an AIDS vaccine been found?; more floods in Turkey; an Indonesian woman has given birth to a 19 pound baby; the worst Australian dust storm in years; will there be a second wave of swine flu?: H1N1 cases increasing in France, Tasmania & Hong Kong & deaths increasing in Brazil; gold falls to $998.80 an ounce; oil drops to $65.99 per barrel; a nuclear war cannot be fought, or won; a halt to the nuclear arms races around the world; men’s underwear for the left handed?; AIDS infects 7,500 people every day;

…9/23-09: the future is based in the past

47º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…GAQ; overnight, slightly sick in my stomach; the right weather conditions means more skunks in N NM; so far, lower attendance this year at the NM State Fair; Wayne Bent will only accept food from his followers, which is not acceptable, so will the state force him to end his fast?; the sound of an owl outside our APT; bank robbery at Central & Tramway; Brad found new shoes, but not at the store he originally planned to get them, because it did not open until 10A on weekdays; Chewy keeps getting bigger; hand sanitizers will be placed on all ABQ Ride buses; “which is like as good as cash”; Badland’s Restaurant in Grants makes the best Green Chile Cheeseburger?; no electricity or toilet paper at Room 2222; a higher than expected number of freshmen at UNM; production based on charges entered, not coded; Julia got the job at OSIS; finished Rounds at 7:45A; sign on Central: Speed Limit 22 mph; increased attendance at UNM Queer–Straight Alliance meetings; Code Purple at 6:30A; no matter how many checks & balances are put in place, something always falls through the cracks; the shifting shift;Haboob over Scottsdale, AZ?; wet in New Orleans, Miami, Orlando, DC, Charlotte; floods in GA & OK; new Ventura CNTY fire has burned 8,500 acres; winter storm warnings for parts of CO, some areas could see an ADD’L foot of snow; wet in NYC, Houston, Denver, Nashville, Memphis, Pittsburgh, along parts of I-65, from TN to TX, OH and the Carolinas; 24 ninety degree days for Portland, OR; ABQ temp mentioned again on ABC AM News; man killed by rip currents at Ocean City, MD; manure igniting in CA blazes; temps from 50s to 90s;

‘lost’ brothers found working at the same ME business; a $40K NJ dog custody battle; many ATL schools are a total loss: GA has no state money to help flood victims; two missing CA hikers are found alive; dog fighting ting busted at IL daycare CTR; TX ‘exploding’ with new H1N1 cases; the world comes to NYC to hear Obama talk at the UN, major roads in that city under high security, or closed; our PRES wants us to work together to iron out differences, the US cannot solve the world’s problems on its own, the global community needs an efficient INTL ORG to find answers; and another weird: TX student stabbed & killed a teacher; Libyan leader Gadhafi staying in a tent on Donald Trump property?, no, city residents oppose that idea; he calls the UN Security Council a bunch of terrorists, and the swine flu was created in a lab; Obama also spoke separately with the leaders of Japan & Russia; 300K people may be eligible for 13 more weeks of unemployment checks; the DOW went down; VA men, aged 69–90, pose for ‘nearly nude’ calendar; tax on condoms & contact lenses; with laptop & cell phone in hand; woman impregnated with wrong embryo; key interest rate remains at record low;orange dust in Sydney triggers smoke alarms; gunfire at the CA/MX border as people try to illegally cross into America; the ‘bumpy’ rings of Saturn; Palin talks in Hong Kong; oil drops at $69.06 per barrel; gold is $1,010.80 an ounce; while in AFG, the CNN doctor came down with the H1N1 virus; Britain scaling back its Trident missile program; Libya supports the Taliban; water on the moon, ice on its soil; face-to-face: the future of seats on a plane; Iran leader will do what he can & ask the jury to be lenient in their decision against three hikers who strayed into that country;

…9/22-09: Praise Everyone, and Cherish Everything

47º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…GAQ; NCAA tournament will return to the Pit in 2012; vacant restaurant at Osuna & San Mateo caught on fire; SWAT scene at Central & San Pedro after gunfire was heard near auto body shop; sensitive Duke City Housing Authority documents were found in a dumpster; $3.4 million for NM to improve crime prevention programs; our APT smells like oregano; as of now, there will be no furloughs for Santa Fe city employees; more nuclear waste being shipped to WIPP; Roswell has one of the shortest commuting time: DC, one of the longest; I am old enough to not recall any pregnant students who went to high school with me; rainbow lights on the Central underpass at the train/bus station; Brad prepared Spaghetti with Clam Sauce; sale pending on Silver Moon Motel?;

remember the PICN billing sheets; will I see Dr. Bruce Williams at the UNMMG Quarterly meeting at 3:30P; time changes; finished Rounds by 7:30A; some are upset that UNM paid $25K for former MX PRES Fox to speak at the UNIV; campus smoking areas vandalized; patient climbed out of bed, fell to the floor, no injuries reported, sitter needed; Code Purple at 6:30A; no CTI Admits; we generated over $100 million in revenue last year, much more than expected; it’s amazing how many people I now know that have worked for the company less time than I have; meeting ended by 4:40P, arrived at home by 4:55P; JoAnn drove me; UNMMG has already outgrown the Bradbury BLDG; building a HOSP & Clinics in Sandoval CNTY;

the first day of autumn; METRO ATL schools closed due to heavy rains; 17 GA counties declared disaster areas; homes have been lifted from their foundations; ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; levees topped in GA & AL, flash floods as up to two feet of rain has fallen on the SE US; power outages across ATL; wet in Richmond, Memphis, Chicago, INDY & Philly; Red Flag Warnings & heat advisories along the W Coast; Carolina coast feels the remnants of Fred; TX, MS, Louisiana T’storms, also in NY, PA & N New England; OR wildfires, and in GA, where fire trucks cannot reach burning structures; I-575 in N GA closed; rain in DC, Raleigh, Wilmington, Houston & Orlando; nearly a foot of snow has fallen in parts of CO; parts of I-20 & I-285 were also impassable; ATL under water; sewage flowing into GA river; nine deaths from the downpours; temps from 60s to 90s;Congress may approve 13 more weeks of unemployment benefits; 150K same-sex couples were married last year; MA GOV may choose Mike Dukakis as interim SEN; Obama speaks to the UN, talks about climate change, and meets with Chinese leader; mass transit threats across the US; OH woman who cheated on her partner asks cars to honk if she deserves a second chance; sexual assault by male nurse on several male Marines at VA HOSP; several the GOTH forensic examiner; Chicago researcher dies after being exposed to a form of plague; Springfield, MA postal worker stole 30K DVDs that were being mailed to Netflix customers; another weird: a couple & their three children were found murdered in their rural IL home; more people are using carpools & mass transit, fewer people are buying new homes; Tom Brady being sued by news agency, claiming his bodyguards fired at the reporters; why are some political sex scandals so easily forgiven by the public?; flavored cigarettes have been banned; stadiums & hotels put under security alert; who filmed FL cops playing video games during a drug bust?; MA will have a new SEN by the end of the week?; Humana says health care reform could cut Medicare benefits, HHS told to stop mailing lies to elderly citizens; 160K people compete for 12K jobs in ‘the’ Las Vegas: the City Center opens this December, and is the largest commercial project to be built;

UK lizard looks like Spider Man; Chinese ‘suicide bridge’ coated with butter; gold is $1,015.50 an ounce; oil is $71.30 per barrel; al Qaeda predicts the downfall of Obama; red dust covers Sydney; Israel says its settlements need schools & utilities: can this nation live under the shadow of Iran?; in 30 years, the Maldives could be completely underwater;

…9/21-09: the powerhouse round table to peace

58º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s 11:30P alarm slightly woke me; there will be no spiders in this APT; eating adventures across NM; Flying Tacos will have a Special Ops assignment?; Emmy nominee show filmed in NM, Neil Patrick Harris is also from this state; two men killed in SW NM multiple rollover crash; car smashed into BLDG at Central & Carlisle; how did drive override the ignition interlock, and yet get arrested for driving drunk; one ABQ mayoral candidate would get rid of the Duke City police chief; Mine That Bird nibbled on KOAT weatherman; strong winds last night; man who struck & killed a man said the pedestrian should not have been jaywalking; all NM dealerships should receive their cash for clunkers by the end of this month; the warmth before the chill; strippers for students; drive by shooting at Dona Ana Community College; Pres. HOSP will still build a HOSP in Rio Rancho; cooking oil spill shut own Central at Rio Grande;

where are the copiers & printers at the Bradbury?; what did I do wrong while I wasn’t at work?; it pays to worry; Brad does not think I suffer from burnout; the end of overtime; patient may have ingested carpet cleaner; teenager struck by SUV, thrown 10–15 feet in the air; Code Purple at 2:45P; my bright orange Band-Aid; patient’s last name is ‘Rave’; a doctor whose last name is ‘Worcester’;

the soaked SE US; twenty inches of rain has fallen during the past three days, and much more is expected; SC floods, ATL families evacuated from their homes, six people killed from rushing waters, one missing in TN floods; wet in INDY, Nashville, Memphis, Omaha, Orlando, Cincinnati & Detroit; warm in New England; heat advisories in the NW US; fire near Sacramento; Santa Ana winds could cause Station fire to grow; upper Midwest moisture; temps from the 60s to 100s;overall, more people watched the Emmys, but fewer watch TV shows; discounts stores are doing better than those shops selling luxury items; Obama in NYC; Hillary Clinton attends the opening session of the UN GEN Assembly; is there a CO terrorist cell?; police captured schizophrenic WA inmate, 250 miles from where he made his escape; the carrot that is shaped like a hand; Burrito Eater Champ at NM State Fair made ABC AM News: each item weighed ¼ lb;. when it comes to football, better to lose games during the early part of the season; online news could cost you; MIT student takes photos at the edge of space: the total cost to do so was $148; FL school on lockdown after bear sighted; small plane crashed into FL Everglades; the DOW ended down; OR man leads police to female student he murdered five years ago; the Red Sox have won since the time span between HI & AK joining the US was very short, few 49 star American flags were made; this recession has left a lasting impression on Americans; gas is down by 3¢, the NATL AVG is now $2.55 per gallon; are newspaper bailouts next?; pianist Art Ferrante has died at the age of 88 from natural causes; the driving rehab specialist; girl hides, called 911 during home invasion;

man trained in overseas al Qaeda camps; oil drops to $69.52 per barrel; 35 million people around the world suffer from some form of dementia; 6.5 quake shook Bhutan; there is a link between the flu & heart attacks in elderly senior citizens; Latin American drug cartels expanding into Africa; two Australian boys found $87K while fishing, no one else has claimed the missing money; hotel closes over religious clashes; sobering assessment of a serious situation: is AFG war doomed to fail?; gold fell to $998.00 an ounce;

…9/20-09: musical therapy

55º in ABQ; 83% humidity at 6A…narcotics lab NW ABQ APT complex near Irving & Golf Course; human remains found in Dona Ana CNTY drainage canal; because of the bad economy, there are more US citizens picking the NM chile harvest; there are 225 gangs across the Navajo Nation; someone used construction equipment to vandalize several homes being built in Clovis; two young children drowned in pools of rainwater; some BLM land near Farmington may be used for ATV, bike & hiking trails; Santa Fe Housing Authority will receive a $5 million HUD ‘green’ grant; the Patriots lost to the NY Jets, 16 – 9: if we have to lose, it might as well be at the start of the season; NM ranks number ten as the states with toxic tap water; I do not understand why hard working people have to compromise, over & over again, while fat cats live on bonuses, treated as if they are the only person who could qualify as a CEO; Brad made delicious French Toast for breakfast; another ambulance at The Beach; parking lot rage at a Duke City restaurant, driver also guilty of child abuse, leaving his youngsters home alone; save the S Valley GE plant, and 400 jobs;husband & wife stopped a man from robbing $8K from a WI credit union; strange lights reported in the night sky, from VA to MA, after NASA launched an experimental rocket from the Old Dominion; the G-20 summit to take place this week in Pittsburgh; PRES Obama omitted Fox from his list of talk shows he made an appearance on today; CO Springs school shut down due to the H1N1 virus; naked woman’s body found in NYC luxury hotel, with a knife sticking in her neck, ‘person of interest’ has been arrested; another weird: man killed his wife and five children; in Naples, FL: a naked 91 year old man in FL prevents man from burglarizing the senior citizen’s home; as of today, the Red Sox remains in second place, six games behind the Yankees; a mentally ill prisoner, who had killed a woman, escaped while at an outing in Spokane, WA; why do tourists lack taste in clothing?; NYC police informant part of a terrorist group?; some students can’t name the first US PRES; will the Obama media blitz work?: or will people turn off & tune out; MA pregnant teen killed at her own birthday party; the signs of a serious side effects; 7K toys being sold by Pittsfield, MA collector; Blogger is ten years old!;black bear attacked nine people in Japan, some seriously, near a highway rest stop; CERN was established in 1954; 1.2 million people attended Cuban peace pop festival; yesterday’s CA/MX quake now reported to have a 5.1 magnitude;

…9/19-09: dreams should never die

53º in ABQ; 89% humidity at 6A…movie about NM artists Georgia O’Keeffe airs tonight; criminal caught on tape stealing a truck, the entire theft took four minutes to complete; PA man won $1,500 for eating 33½ burritos at the NM State Fair…I found that news article on COMCAST, people from CA, MO & WI competed in the event, as well as local residents; Expo NM says it’s time to for people to pay back loans made to them by that company; Foreigner Bonnie Raitt & 38 Special are performing around NM; the first Spaceport runway is being built, will be 10K feet long; money allocated to help the disabled has been shifted to other projects, due to state budget cuts; our F-16 jets may get another mission; livestock auction at NM State Fair yesterday; it actually felt cool while sleeping last night; spoiled food littered the median of I-40 after the collision yesterday PM; when ironing men’s shirts, use Lysol linen scent: it kills germs, adds a slight fragrance and prevents starch buildup on either the iron or the fabric; the end of our electric razor: one of the blades popped off, fell into the sink and quickly down the drain before you could blink an eye; Duke City veterans have been moved to newer lodgings on Central near Tramway; due to budget talks, the NMSO has postponed its season; Brad prepared Grilled Zucchini Ribbon Salad; drug bust a Cibola High;


creating & burying time capsules seemed to be popular during the 1950s; I-5 in OR was closed after a dozen motorcycles collided on that interstate; the era of handwriting is fading away; all soft drinks contain lots of sugar, found in the cough syrup; police have a suspect for the murder of four people killed in Farmville, VA home; four year old NJ boy told by dad that cocaine is ‘candy’; does John Edwards have a ‘love child’?;
suicide blasts in Somalia; China has 11,722 reported cases of H1N1; man fatally shot two people in MX City subway station; an increase in terrorist attacks raises the threat level in Germany, al Qaeda tells followers to avoid public places; Russia states it will not deploy missiles near its border with Poland; a mosquito borne virus may soon reach Europe & the Americas; meat substitute instant meal contains a deadly variety of mushroom; tortoise safely makes it across British motorway, animal gets named ‘Freeway’; N MX & S CA shaken by 4.9 magnitude quake;

…9/18-09: only when I’m dancing can I feel so free

58º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…GAQ; KAFB honors POW/MIA Recognition Day; there were two ambulances in The Beach parking lot this PM; Trader Joe’s will open 9/25/09; 61 year old N NM woman is the fourth person to be diagnoses with hanta virus; collision with semi along I-40 heading E, W of the ‘Big I’, food [contents of the big rug] spills over the interstate; forgot my Blog diskette at home, the one I brought to work would now download onto my home PC; the Flying Tacos remain in NM; man drowned in Gallup arroyo; fire chief arrested for DUI, had three times the legal limit; does NM owe Sandoval CNTY money?; the ten year Duke City transportation tax?; Navajo Code Talker exhibit at the NM State Fair; shooting at convenience store near WY & Constitution;

UNMMG Attitude Survey results at 10A; MGR & I discussed vacation time, and then told me to leave after the meeting; she thinks I need to take a week off, or face burnout…I told her I would rather take several, smaller vacations; better not to rock the boat, and remain employed; it’s called ‘pure perception’; finished Rounds by 7:30A; Code Purple at 6:30A; we went climbing for my comics, ate at Saggio’s [which was not crowded], and got home by 3:10P; why does my MGR talk to ‘me’ about things that bother her at work?; we got a UNMMG water bottle at this meeting; there are not many chances for upward mobility at UNMMG, but that fact should not surprise anyone;

AL & TN floods, both people & animals being rescued; S Rockies rain; wet from Memphis to New Orleans, Philly to FL, Tulsa & ABQ, per the Weather Channel; storms for KY & the Carolinas; wet in ATL & Orlando; temps from the 70s to 100s;

man who murdered Yale student was a ‘control freak’, sent E-mails to the victim; the First Lady also speaks for health care reform; the new $1.1 billion Dallas Cowboys stadium, the ‘eighth wonder of the world’, its walls lined with contemporary art; both political parties have the lowest approval ratings in about a decade; six foot lizard ‘rescued’ from a tree; MA GOV may soon be able to choose an interim senator, to replace the position left vacant by the death of Ted Kennedy; should all homes have sprinkler systems?; Paula Abdul humorously mimics ‘Ellen’; the Dakotas have the lowest jobless rate, less than 5% each; many people have given up looking for work; over 15% of MI workers are idle, the first time any state has reached that number since 1984; 42 states lost jobs during August: 14 states & DC have unemployment rates greater than 10%; the first H1N1 vaccine may be a spray; the First Lady shopped at a new, local Farmers’ Market; adult ads during baseball & football games?; more weird: MD mother told teens to beat up several boys in retaliation; new scam targeting veterans; banks close in KY & IN, bringing the total to 94 this year; why don’t doctors post their fees?; cable snapped on CA rollercoaster, injuring two people; is America suffering from an Obama overload?; water main broke, flooding Dundalk, MD; now, H1N1 can spread through a plane; after 15,762 episodes, it’s lights out for ‘The Guiding Light’; five prescription ads during thirty minutes of ABC World News;

when has our overseas INTEL been accurate?; the coldest place in the solar system may be the polar caves of our Moon; Iran is capable of building an atomic bomb; more Iranian protests; French man eats metal; oil is $72.04 per barrel; gold closed at $1,010.30 an ounce; Susan Boyle in America, singing Rolling Stones’ songs;