…10/29-09: the trade of trade

29º in ABQ; 56% humidity at 6A…GAQ; problems at local charter school, should it be shut down; female ABQ teacher had sex with a teenage boy: she was free after paying a $25K bond; the coldest AM so far across NM; I-40 has snow in W NM: slick conditions in Tijeras Canyon; CYFD faces budget cuts; deadly drive by shooting in ABQ; today I was ‘vested’; gay nightclub in downtown Duke City faces opposition: a liquor license has been granted, and the establishment should be open by next spring; W Mesa High is on lockdown this AM; it was four years ago that our Captain died; man kept stolen money under a pile of manure; hotel owner/MGR paid former employee in pennies;

today I hopefully catch up on my I/P charges; two patients with H1N1 & ARDS; finished Rounds about 7:30A, every ward is full; empty AM R/R; Code Purple at 9A; PM snow at UNMH; MGR’s rule: if Mike can get to work during snowy conditions [by using a bus]…then anyone can; dry by the time I got to The Beach;

parts of CO could see four feet of snow; N NM snow & I-40 collisions mentioned on the Weather Channel; violent storms for TX, Louisiana, OK, KS, AL, MS, accompanied with tornadoes; strong winds for CA; bad weather along parts of I-20, I-35, I-44; rain in KC, Dallas & Roswell; flurries in Cheyenne & Casper, into the Dakotas; wet in WI; MS Valley downpours; parts of I-80 & I-25 have been shut down in CO & WY; temps from the 30s to 90s;

the House will unveil its $900 billion, public option health reform bill; Detroit arrests not based on race or religion, but terrorist threats; in CO, people waited in freezing weather to get free food; burglars used black ink to paint masks on their faces; man said he was too fat to kill anyone?; Obama at Dover AFB in DE to receive the bodies of 18 Americans who were killed in the AFG conflict; Los Angeles has the highest number of job losses for one city; another day without a major San Fran span; how do pilots stay alert on long distance flights?; 5.7 million people in America may have the H1N1 virus; the NJ home of Lou Dobbs, CNN commentator was struck by a bullet; a big, but slow stimulus; Wal-Mart is selling coffins; technique vs. technology: a 60% alcohol base hand sanitizer kills the most E Coli; Denver flight delays; GDP on the rise by 3.5%, but still no jobs; TX parents are allowed to show their young children pornographic material; weird: CO teen killed both his parents for UNK reasons; the recession ended last summer? 82% of those polled say ‘No’; NORAD should have know, and sent fighter jets scrambling ten minutes after the ‘lost’ plane diverted from its planned route; Navy jet missing over the Gulf of MX; don’t blame the driver, blame the genes; the DOW ended up; 3.6 quake off the CA coast;

Ares rocket launch was a success; oil is $80.12 per barrel; gold is $1,047.50 an ounce; gamma ray burst detected that occurred when the universe was ‘young’; 6.0 quake rocked AFG; how much of al Qaeda is still in PAK?; Tiesto: the man of musical magic;