…9/9-09: treat now, enjoy later

64º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…going to bed early last night was the right thing to do, and will do it again tonight; audits & spying; GAQ; Dr. Ramo uses ‘kid talk’ to tell youngsters how to avoid getting the H1N1 flu; Duke City job fair today, with businesses from all over NM, and an emphasis on hospitality & forestry services; booting more cars of Santa Fe DUI drivers; 26K people rode the Rail Runner during the Labor Day weekend; another computer glitch delays NM unemployment checks; I’m an analyst, not a psychic; this is Hispanic Heritage Month; father & son awarded in Santa Fe for their heroism; Isotopes playoffs begin; credit cards have higher interest rates, starting at 11.9%;

the deadline is approaching for the coding software package; three year old boy suffered second & third degree burns on his arm after falling into a barbecue pit; finished Rounds before 7:30A; Central is completely closed between First & Broadway; 1960s fashion styles for men & women are sweeping the campus; PICN & Newborn are nearly full; purple notes are appearing in PICU charts to include time on critical care codes for children younger than six years old: this is not necessary; PM rain at UNM; patient is allergic to bananas;

wet from DC to NYC; KS floods, storms in MO, OK & OH Valley; flooding & downpours from the Tidewater region in NC to NY; the S CA Station fire may be fully controlled by mid-September; Hurricane Fred: 105 mph winds, moving WNW at 13 mph, poses no threat to the US; New England beach erosion from coastal low; per Weather Channel, moisture for Miami, Santa Fe, Memphis, Dallas & New Orleans; temps from 60s to 100s; floods kill 23 in Turkey, heavy rain in Argentina, Brazil & Uruguay;

Chicago is the most ‘stressed out’ city; the NATL AVG price of gas has dropped to $2.59 a gallon; green onions being recalled for being contaminated; finally, a ‘moment of silence’ in the Senate to honor Ted Kennedy; more great white sharks spotted along MA coast, near Chatham; AZ man wears monkey mask to avoid speed camera photos; many couples being married on 9/9/09; more gay Hispanics are in the public spotlight; in CA, May 22, Harvey Milk’s B’day, would become a ‘day of significance’; students are aiming too low, saying studying & success are too hard to maintain & accomplish; walruses gather on the disappearing AK ice; too many street security cameras for one PA city; the wide world of weird: FL teen attempts to kill his mother, uses friend to do the dirty work; Palin insists the new health bill will create a ‘death panel’; will the PRES be able to persuade the public & politicians on health care reform?; will the uninsured people & ‘Cadillac’ plans be taxed?; the AMA supports the Obama health plan…what about Blue Cross?; WA state one step closer to allowing same-sex marriages; the S CA fire is twice the size of Sacramento; Oprah’s ‘big party’ on Michigan AVE; PA burglars steal $96K in cash, plus the ATM machine; rare event for a PRES to address Congress other than the yearly State of the Union speech; Madoff said he fooled the SEC for years; is now the time to deliver health care to all Americans?;deadly day in Iraq; NY Times reporter rescued from AFG; around the world, healthy people are dying from the H1N1 virus; Portugal has the second highest flu cases in Europe; trance & Tiesto have made it to FOX TV stations; oil is now $71.74 per barrel; gold topped $1K again, but closed at $999.70 an ounce; Boeing 737 hijacking in MX ends with suspects caught; the Beatles, remastered; first photos from the nineteen year old renovated Hubble telescope, seeing ten billion year old stars;