…10/7-09: comfort music

54º in ABQ; 64% humidity at 6A…GAQ; a Sustiva dream: interviewing the Prince of Wales; ABQ has a new mayor in Richard Berry, wants a smooth transition, wants to get resources to battle city crime: did well across the Duke City, wants to meet with the City Council; eight special shape balloons arrive in ABQ, but are some damaged; dropped ID led to forgery arrests; wet, Wednesday warriors at the Balloon Fiesta; a healthy 28 year old man in Lea CNTY has died from the H1N1 virus; the new Duke City mayor will be sworn in on 12/1/09; new Paseo del Norte interchange could displace mobile home owners; another day, another gun shot or fist fight at an ABQ school; QWEST donates $50K to ABQ schools; overnight rain at The Beach;

return to working on the ‘blue forms’ & PICN; Code Purple at 6:30A; PEDS waiting room finished Rounds by 7:30A; we now have people with influenza being transferred from other hospitals; any UNMH patient is getting a Tamiflu vaccination;

Loveland, CO ski resort opens; ABQ storms & temps mentioned on ABC AM News; wind & rain in NE US, Pittsburgh, JAX, New Orleans, Boston to DC; deadly floods in India, typhoon strikes Japan; TS Henri in the Atlantic poses no threat, it has 50 mph winds, moving W at 13 mph; wet along the MA Pike, in Albany, parts of I-95 & I-20, AR to AL; showers in Charlotte, Philly & Bangor; MT snow; gusts in Erie reached 51 mph; temps from 50s to 90s;

Paula Dean, the Queen of Southern Cooking; will DC soon allow same–sex ceremonies?; more people supporting Obama, while less like Congress; Liz Taylor in admitted with heart problems; the TX drive thru flu shot; airlines will retain their $10 surcharge during holiday travel season; art using X-rays?; for sale: the $200K V-8 amphibious car; when deadly home invasions strike small, rural towns; naked Louisiana burglar also cooked a meal & took a shower; weird: FL mayoral candidate arrested for waving a firearm at his daughter because she supported another contender; new health proposal would cost less, cover 94% of Americans; 54 million working Americans do not get a paid sick day; Liz Taylor in the HOSP for heart surgery; 33% of Detroit resident are out of work; pipe bombs found in CT car; snow globes might contain nitroglycerine; ‘whatever’: the annoying word; the Silverdome Stadium in Pontiac, MI is for sale; DELL cuts 905 jobs; by the end of the day, pocket laptops could put a strain on your eyes;the war in AFG is eight years old, America has spent $300 billion fighting in that country, and 900 soldiers have been killed in the conflict; ‘strategy before resources’; Obama wants a ‘modest’ buildup of troops; get ready for the new bunker busting bomb; GITMO may not close by January, 2010; an infrared ring around Saturn?; more Americans win Nobel awards; the Himalayan glaciers may be gone by 2035, although the world may end in 2012; oil is $69.32 per barrel; 7.3 & 7.8 quake near the Solomon Islands in the S Pacific trigger tsunami warnings; new formation found near Stonehenge; at what price another war?: what would happen if planes flew from Iran to Israel over Saudi Arabia or Iraq, or even Turkey?; will a rocket fired into the moon cause permanent damage to our satellite?; gold is $1,044.40 an ounce; huge dinosaur prints found in France;