…9/1-09: surrender to a smile

67º in ABQ; 48% humidity at 6A…accidentally deleted the wrong desktop icon; Brad has a little case of the sniffles, time for him to rest; GAQ; NMSU going green; peace signs vs. gang signals get two teens in trouble; CYFD is moving young offenders from Springer to its Duke City facility; NM is receiving $375K for border security with MX; is the ten year old murderer a menace to himself; Eclipse Aerospace is open for business; E-mail confirmation of linguica shipment order; PM lightning over the E MTN; Tom Udall will host a Town Hall Health Care Reform meeting in Raton; by early AM, my Icons had returned to the desktop; Brad made a combo of Onions, Squash, Zucchini & Olive Oil; H1N1 death was a SunPort janitor;

Hell Week, Day One; E-mail from Chris Hammond, requesting ICD Codes, he is still in Eugene, OR; finished Rounds by 7:30A; E-mail address is now UNMMG.org; takes a long time for any bus to appear at Central & Yale [a stop shared by four routes];

E Coast showers; wet in Orlando; ABC PM News says Jimena might dampen NM; the hurricane still had 155 mph winds, is now moving NNW at 12 mph, heading more to the E towards Baja CA, and the SW US?; later in the day, the storm had winds of ‘only’ 125 mph, moving NNW at 12 mph; cool AM temps for PA; no relief for Los Angeles; ‘fire tornadoes’ appear during the night; 3,700 firefighters using 400 fire trucks are trying to contain the fires; S CA smoke plume seen for miles, planes carrying slush & water to battle the blaze are flying blind; low humidity in that area, but only light winds; there has not been a fire in that area of CA for forty years, now, 122K acres, or 190 sq. miles, or the size of San Fran, have been blackened; poor air quality alert for ‘the’ Las Vegas, a city 250 miles away from the blazes; ‘paradise’ is going up in smoke; there is also a fire near Payson, AZ that has burned 1K acres; temps from the 70s to 100s;

the ‘Heroes’ cast knows they have to win back their viewers, and have lost support; Blagojevich tells all in his new book; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.61 per gallon; banks are not helping homeowners refinance mortgage loans, including payments they cannot afford, making people waive their legal rights & declining eligible candidates; 1/19/10 special MA elections?; Obamas will celebrate Ramadan tonight; Chris Brown is from Tappahannock, VA; last Friday, the Patriots beat the Redskins, 27 – 24; VT allows same–sex unions; your zip code is could determine if you have a higher chance for obesity; plane made a safe, but emergency landing on I-495 near Mansfield, MA; the DOW did drop; a man builds his twenty year old dream: but is it a houseboat, or a hovercraft?; Elmo joins the swine flu fight; [IND] losing faith in Obama; $100 million to fight the CA fires; 51% polled say we should not be fighting a war in AFG; 50% of Detroit students just ‘disappear’: of the remaining 50%, only 33% of them graduate; Feds selling the Madoff beach house on the Hamptons, near Montauk Point, NY: 4 BR, 3K sq. ft., going for $8.7 million; Ben & Jerry’s supports same-sex marriages; AFG is ‘winnable’, but the US has to change its strategy; the seventieth anniversary of the start of WWII; UK men battle in piles of gravy; trance fans: make some noise!; the cheap font used by IKEA for its catalogue; oil is $68.66 per barrel; has the mythical MX monster been found?; TS Erika has formed in the ATL; gold is $957 an ounce;