…10/22-09: finding faithful friends

44º in ABQ; 89% humidity at 6A…GAQ; NM investment officer has resigned; NM needs to ‘juggle’ money to balance the state’s budget; wind turbines for Edgewood; Brad made Pumpkin Pies; more NM suspects charged in the multi-state prostitution sting; price tag was still dangling on my jacket as I wore it; former LANL scientists being investigated by the FBI on espionage charges; gas has risen to $2.55 per gallon; AM E NM freeze warnings; police & fire trucks S of Gold in downtown ABQ; only $90 million earned by NM on oil & gas revenues during July – September; stopping speedsters in Tijeras Canyon; Santa Fe CNTY has run out of flu vaccines; NM jobless rate rises to 7.7%; Toys for Tots drive begins;

keep ½ step ahead of your allies; no consult changes for 2010; finished Rounds by 7:30A; no CTI Admits; received 2010 CPT code changes; Code Purple remains in effect; Myrna’s granddaughter has grown, she’s walking!; Channel 7 on UNM hill;

snow in ME & N Rockies, wet in Chicago, Houston, Little Rock & New Orleans; more E Coast rip current warnings; showers for the MS Valley; per Weather Channel, nine inches of snow fell in the Santa Fe area; N Plains rain/snow mix; snow along I-80 in NE & NY Thruway; wet in Chicago, Cleveland & the Twin Cities; Dallas floods, very wet across AR, MS & Louisiana; temps from 40s to 80s;

Microsoft 7 operating system is available starting today; too much rain producing mold on SE US crops; how to end INS ‘price fixing’ policies; opposition, fear & inventory are keeping people from getting the H1N1 inoculation: using antiquated means to produce the vaccine?, but 200 million doses should be available by this December; how healthy are cereals & snacks?; the US military is mostly white & male; plane overshoots runway by 150 miles because pilots were distracted, or were they asleep?; there are some days when the news does not seem interesting; widespread H1N1 outbreaks in N America; more housework can lead to more sex?; SEN still debating on extending unemployment; the two books with similar titles, one good, one bad about Sarah Palin are being released; for the first time in nearly forty years of living in the same home, a CA man sighted bears in his backyard tree; the Great Smokies and along the Blue Ridge Parkway are at peak foliage; many think the economy is ‘poor’, but that the worst is over; this will be a ‘jobless recovery’; tanker explodes on IN interstate, shuts down I-69 & I-465; the DEA has arrested 300 people in nineteen states; people don’t trust science; seasonal stores take over shopping malls; restaurant charging to toast your bagel; the flu has struck 20% of the children in the US;

snowball fights along the Seine; move nuclear stockpiles from Iran, to Russia & France; per Gates, N Korea is still a threat to world peace; 6.2 quake shook PAK & AFG; gold is $1,057.90 an ounce; oil is $80.38 an ounce; another hurricane forms in the Pacific; most of N Kenya has not seen rain in over a year;