…10/19-09: the beginning of the beginning is not always at the beginning

57º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…GAQ; ID thefts linked to stolen, sensitive MVD documents, that were inside an official’s car, parking in his APT complex; Brad’s AM Chiro visit; SUV driver was trapped for two hours after colliding with a Rapid Ride bus; two missing Sandia hikers have been found; more complaints against Zangara Dodge, owe customers $103K; gas is $2.49 per gallon; very warm today, chance of snow in N NM tomorrow?; early AM crash between a cab & a truck at Second & Gold; man struck roommate with a frying pan; NM legislature may not be able to solve the budget crisis; van stolen with special carseat for child with cerebral palsy; special needs student is a victim of a hit & run at Juan Tabo & Candelaria after he ran away from school; Brad preparing a Carrot, Potato & Pork Stew; NM has the tenth highest number of ID thefts; same fast food store at Central & Louisiana robbed twice in one week;return to the reprimand; make people look good, at what cost; PICU has ‘permanently’ expanded to two units in its ward; finished Rounds by 7:30A; patient shot in the chest with a pellet; two year old fell several feet, not accompanied by parents; more coughing & masks in the PEDS Clinic; rode with Jenny on the PM R/R;

snow fell in Baltimore this past weekend; Long Island floods, Los Angeles fog; Baja CA prepares for a weaker Rick, now with 100 mph winds, moving NW at 10 mph; Typhoon Lupit has 150 mph winds, heading for the Philippines; rain in MT, ID & N CA; frost & freeze warnings from ME to FL: very cold in most of New England, parts of PA, WV, TN, AL, GA & FL; wet in Portland, OR & Seattle; PRES fine tuning medical marijuana laws, giving more regulatory power to individual states; Los Angeles Halloween ‘dummy’ turns out to be a corpse; con artists selling fake online cures for H1N1; CO ‘balloon’ family facing child delinquency charges, not the way to find family fame & fortune; many children in that state are in poverty, or homeless; Simpsons have been on TV for twenty years; Obama wants a public option in his health plan bill; Dell recalling cartons of cantaloupes, fruit could contain salmonella; women are more likely to wash their hands after going to the bathroom than men do; are we ‘wired’ differently in terms of the music we like to hear?; in 1966, the Supremes became the first all female group to achieve a number one album; ABQ Rapid Ride crash makes CNN News; swine with swine flu been confirmed in MN pig; 250K education jobs saved by the stimulus; ATL is in the top ten of America’s emptiest cities, with ‘the’ Las Vegas at number one; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.57, up 9¢; US companies will allow fewer INC CO options during Open Enrollment; medical marijuana stores popping up across Los Angeles; Obama has a 57% approval rate, only 20% of those poll consider themselves [R], the lowest percentage since 1983; energy star on appliance may not be accurate; former US GOVT scientist arrested on spying charges; NJ man survives being run over by train; Oakland airport allows pot to be brought on a plane; Native American women suffer the most from domestic violence; NY Times cuts 100 jobs; prepare for higher health costs, deductibles & co-pays and lower coverage; the patient has no control of their health care; did transient start the August blaze that threatened Los Angeles?;Australian girl starts an eight month sail around the world; US, France & Russia will meet with Iran in Vienna to discuss that country’s nuclear progress; per Obama, no ADDL US troops in AFG until that country has a ‘credible’ GOVT: runoff may be required, or a unity GOVT; wanted: for one flight only, volunteers needed to pilot spaceships, being built by individuals or small groups, some consisting of scientists; real dolphins playing football, using a jellyfish; water levels are rising in NYC & Shanghai; oil is $78.65 a barrel; 32 planets have been found outside our solar system; gold is $1,058 an ounce; Iran threatens the US & Britain with ‘retaliation’ after the bombing that killed six Republican Guards; Iran frees Newsweek reporter;