…10/26-09: achieve peace, by peace

41º in ABQ; 62% humidity at 6A…GAQ; free legal advice in NM this week; slick roads in N NM; Magdalena school district faces budget crunch; Brad prepared Chili w/Beans; famous Native American Rodeo Cowboy killed this weekend; so far, NM is having a good peanut harvest; oil refinery explosion near Crownpoint; gunshots at a party wound one woman in NW ABQ; free spaghetti side dishes at local Duke City restaurant; female Zozobra protects the S Valley of ABQ; numerous H1N1 cases reported in Santa Fe; Navajo Nation First Lady participated in a MADD walk in the Duke City; NM cave hotel makes the AOL list of unusual lodgings; Brad also made a B-B-Q sauce; Navajo Nation leader placed on paid ADMIN Leave, faced with charges of criminal business involvements; freeze warnings in ABQ area for tonight; also, a freeze on capital outlay projects;

the day UNMH goes totally electronic in terms of record keeping & chart notes; one patient gets hives from the flu vaccine; Locksley returns from his suspension; finished Rounds by 7:30A; no weekend CTI Admits; doctor’s notes can still appear in charts, as well as sedations;

TX floods, Louisiana storms; rain for Miami, Chicago, Dallas, Tulsa, Baton Rouge & Seattle; fires in the Santa Cruz area; snow in the Cascades & the Rockies; traffic halted on I-70 in CO; rain & snow in the Pacific NW; fifty feet of rubble caused collisions, shut down major E-W US interstate in TN/NC; wet in St. Louis, New Orleans, and parts of I-35; Philly floods; temps from 40s to 90s;

major real estate lender files for bankruptcy; actor Lou Jacobi has died at the age of 95; children lack VIT D in their diet; surfer rescued fourteen miles out to see, lung to an oil rig; stress & depression at work is increasing; NATL AVG price of gas has jumped to $2.66 per gallon; the DOW went down; it’s the NY Yankees vs. the Philly Phillies in the World Series, transit strike may also occur in that PA city; WV mother stole some flu vaccine; CO coffin races; GA woman acted like a dog to scare away a would-be robber; homophobic slur from Kansas City Chiefs player; car crashes into home, trapping its residents; people just watched as a girl got raped outside a CA homecoming dance; are Americans rude to foreign tourists?; bad weather means poor attendance, so Brockton, MA baseball club may not see another season; strayed pilots were working on their laptops, which is in violation of company policy, failed to maintain contact with air traffic controllers; return of the ‘public option’ in health care reform; N NM hotel making employees change their last names is making NATL News;

AFG copter crashes kill several Americans soldiers & civilians; brunch, complete with faux grass, was held on the Sydney Harbor Bridge; the five year old with the six-pack abs; the smallest railroad set, no bigger than a fingernail; the worst Baghdad bombing in two years; gold is $1,047.30 an ounce; this is World Pasta Day; an era of nuclear peace?; oil is $78.66 per barrel; global warming may mean a cooling trend; Fidel Castro’s sister said she corroborated with the CIA?; too expensive for McDonald’s to survive in Iceland; forty years of Monty Python; people of Islam believe Americans have burned a copy of the Quran; three DEA agents die in AFG;