…11/30-09: people, just like us

33º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…GAQ; when it comes to driving: ‘slow down, and think’; family rescued three dogs from burning Belen home; man tried to steal holiday gifts by using a bungee cord; holiday trees can cost hundreds of dollars; deal has been made, and the NM Symphony Orchestra will not have to file for bankruptcy, but musicians will have to take a 23% pay cut; frost on windshields; gas is $2.55 per gallon; the twentieth year for KOAT Coats for Kids program; burglars struck seasonal Duke City homes in the E MTN area; enjoyed watching ‘Atragon’ yesterday, a Japanese sci-fi; ABQ Balloon Fiesta will air tonight on PBS;

prelude to Closing; finished Rounds by 7:15A; CTI has locked its refrigerator again; no weekend Admits in CTI; worked on Sleep Study project; PowerChart is still slow;

rain from DC to Boston to ATL, along parts of I-10, I-20, I-85 & I-95; wet in the mid-Atlantic, New England & Tidewater areas, also in TX & Louisiana; up to two feet of snow for SW US; heavy NM snow & ABQ temps mentioned on ABC AM News; more lake-effect snow; parts of NH are in the dark; major Pacific typhoon does not pose any problem to land masses; temps from 40s to 80s;

Secret Service snafu; this is not the first time people have suck through security; Cyber Monday strikes again; the ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ gifts cost only slightly more this year; people traveling less, but giving move to charity; modern art created by Brooklyn dog; section of Seattle has been sealed off, the cop killer was once pardoned by Mike Huckabee; Adam Lambert’s album is doing well; foreclosures keep increasing; fewer, less expensive holiday office parties this season; most brazen ‘break-in’ since Watergate; four million online shoppers per minute; WA killer not in targeted home; a college that majors in marijuana; Chelsea Clinton is getting married?; TX prison escapes by pointing a gun at police officers, and escaping in a guard’s uniform; Tiger Woods: the cultural icon; the latest dance craze involves pink gloves to promote cancer research & treatment; holiday shoppers spent $16.8 billion this past weekend; today, social sites display discounts; the White House Social SECY was not at her designated post as guests entered the White House state dinner; the hurricane season ends quietly; really, how scary are children’s movies; raise money at CA wine tasting events to provide water for needy people around the world; Goth: sleeping in a coffin, wearing a black bridal outfit;CERN activity continues, device has generated one trillion volts; British girl’s biological father is now a woman; Kandahar region of AFG, containing the country’s second largest city, needs more US troops; oil prices on the rise again; Airbus forced to return to Paris, blaming a ‘technical glitch’; gold is $1,181.10 an ounce; five British nationalists in a racing yacht have been detained by Iran; oil is $77.77 per barrel; German tourist joked to security officers that he had fake bombs while visiting Disney World in FL, and was arrested for the prank; time to fight terrorism, and not attempt to rebuild AFG; distribute funds to provincial levels & districts of that nation; Iran is isolating itself; judge wants to prevent the first same-sex ceremony in Latin America: specifically, Argentina; Somali pirates highjack $20 million in oil bound for the US; the African fog that has killed 2K people;

…11/29-09: honor those with honor

41º in ABQ; 70% humidity at 6A…overnight rain at The Beach; officer shooting at Duke City APT complex near Indian School & San Pedro; man who was falsely accused of committing a crime finds it’s not as easy to remove the incidence from an otherwise clean criminal record; this year, the Luminaria tour will start at the ABQ CONV CTR, not the Pit; the Lobos lost; state fish hatchery being renovated by stimulus money; man cut off the ears of a pit bull, and threw them in the trash; who shot an ABQ police officer in her home?; the RV ‘Freedom One’, which honored veterans, was destroyed in yesterday’s fire; not enough tickets were sold at Duke City house raffle; how appropriate: Sarah Palin will be at a book signing in Roswell; Krispy Kreme returns to NM: gang fight outside funeral home; smuggling drugs over the NM border is getting harder, so drug cartels are kidnapping people, and holding them for ransom; someone from France has subscribed to my YouTube site!; two children left alone while mother went to see a concert?; Duke City police attacked by two men brandishing a sledgehammer & a knife; Shirley Ribando was one of the ‘Best of ABQ’; NM Uranium enrichment facility will layoff workers; ‘Super Nanny’ casting call across NM; worst UNM football season since 1987;deadly Louisiana rollover crash in which most passengers were ejected from the vehicle; another METRO subway crash this AM: it took place at the W Falls Church rail yard at 4:30A, workers reported only minor injuries; and another METRO worker was killed when struck by a train in September; let the Senate battle begin over health care reform; Tom Cruise still performs his own stunts; did people spend enough money during Black Friday…maybe; here we go again: three people have died from a shooting in KS; CA car crash killed four people; this is the news we hear every day; the never-ending foreclosure crisis that sweeps across the entire US; four off duty police officers were gunned down in a WA coffee house, the quartet were wearing bulletproof vests, and were targeted by the gunman, who was wounded by one of the cops; 50% of our children will receive food stamps during their early years; some areas of the country saw a decrease in sales on Black Friday, blaming it on bad weather; 195 million shopped this holiday weekend, but on the AVG spent less than in 2008; the ‘name & shame’ tactic against banks that don’t loan may not work; owner of Dallas strip club who was awarded an Entrepreneur of the Year Award, then told the honor was rescinded, still donated money to starting an animal shelter; temporary workers are on the rise; explosion at Newport News, VA middle school injured eight workers; White House party crashers want money for their story; vampire movie remains in first place, box office revenue sets a new record; 6.2 quake reported off the coast of Indonesia; the UAE will back Dubai banks; many passengers still missing after Russian train crash; Iran building more nuclear refineries; $100 billion to be spent by the US on the AFG war; could bun Laden have been caught in 2001?; Susan Boyle’s album reaches number one in Britain;

…11/28-09: capturing clouds

35º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…no in/out to/from The Beach between 5P–8P because of the Festival of Lights Parade route down Central; Duke City company will build one of the terminals for the Spaceport; walk one mile, burn 100 calories; no deal for NM Symphony, its final day may be tomorrow; another S Valley sewer facility needed: if started now, it could cost $30 million to build; a NM photo by Ansel Adams may earn $450K at NYC auction; Santa Fe Film Festival this weekend; plus a Global Art Dealers Liquidation Sale; now, a slow snowstorm, heading for SW NM; people arrested & jailed for DUI do not learn a lesson; fire completely destroyed a Valencia CNTY RV storage facility; $500K shortfall for UNM sports in terms of ticket sales; no CO snow?; man caught selling drugs near school grounds; Bugg Light Festival has gone green this year; eerie AM skies; even police get busted for DUI; Rio Grande Art Festival this weekend; UNM women more victorious in sports; in spite of wet weather, the Twinkle Light Parade marched down Central; got a chance to see Chewy: bigger, but still very friendly;

dairy farming: an ancient trade; the uninvited White House couple owned Oasis Vineyards in VA, they are getting worldwide publicity; 'Heroes' cannot rescue its former TV audience; several people shot in Madison, WI home: my point is that nearly every day I enter a shooting in someone’s home, that take place all across America, no state is safe; high priced stoves recalled after discovering carbon monoxide leaks; fake holiday products that do not contain the item that appears on the box;

three Americans killed in Chinese plane crash; a mutated version of H1N1 has killed two people; HIV is spreading through China; drug cartel captured MX dentist, holding him for ransom; floods in Saudi Arabia; Japan launched its fifth spy satellite; confirmed terrorist attack on Russian train, another explosion after the crash occurred; ferry capsized in Bangladesh;

…11/27-09: practically invisible

30º in ABQ; 40% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; Portales man charged with child porn; liquid shopping at Albertson’s; most stores in Cottonwood Mall opened at 5A, and its parking lot looks full; early AM traffic is described as ‘very good’; Sunday service on the Rail Runner; the AVG price of gas in NM is $2.66 per gallon; elderly man struck by drunk driver in Aztec; the NM Symphony Orchestra has not reached a contract agreement; will shoppers buy an alternative item, or will they just leave the store; smoke & fire; peace & quiet; skin lotion tube opened, covering the inside pocket of my backpack with cocoa butter cream; my office at work is very warm; police activity at Pacific & Eighth in SW ABQ, two people injured in a gang related shooting; a holiday potluck dinner at work?; arrived home before 11:45A; watched ‘Hellboy 2’; started with dessert first; Rail Runner was filled with riders; annual tree lighting at Santa Fe Plaza today; Salvation Army now carries credit card machines;

rain in Philly, Boston, New Bedford, NYC, Baltimore, DC, Cleveland, Reno, another Nor’easter; snow for the Great Leaks, Albany & Erie, PA & OH, N NY; tornadoes: debris in the air; 60+ mph gusts for parts of MA, CT & NY: coupled with cold temps; strong W Pacific typhoon poses no threat to any land masses; temps from 40s to 70s;

weird: man shot four people in FL home; planes coming too close at Newark INTL Airport; people are looking for holiday items that are ‘nice & cheap’; plasma toys for shivering shoppers; ‘gun on the ground!’ [popular TV phrase]; the tobacco states of NC & VA will start segregating smokers in restaurants; many are looking for bargains on basic items; the case of ‘improper protocol’, the PRES was not in any danger?; the Secret Service snafu: the party crashers are not guilty of any crime, but how did they mange to slip through several security checkpoints and meet the PRES?; the DOW dropped; Labrador Retriever greets customers at FL BP gas station; another weird: Fall River, MA father locked his two sons in the trunk while he ran an errand; Hulk Hogan is 56 years old; reporters are underpaid; buy now, be in debt later; a bathroom scale that puts your weight on Twitter; IL family’s home is burglarized, but the thief took nothing, and decorated the home for the holiday season; 134 million people will shop this weekend;

the shock felt ‘round the world: Dubai is broke, causing global market uncertainty; Atlantis safely landed in FL; oil dropped to $74.58 per barrel; Croatian soccer player received penalty for picking up & placing a cat out of harm’s way when it wandered into the field; gold fell to $1,159 an ounce; luxury train crash near Moscow killed 25 people, terrorism suspected;

…11/26-09: circle life

31º in ABQ; 35% humidity at 6A…yesterday’s crowd at Trader Joe’s was large, but manageable; backed by popular demand, Rail Runner will run on Black Friday; alcohol abuse has cost NM $2.5 billion in one year; the final ‘do or die day’ for NM Symphony contract talks; deadly crash caused by wrong way driver on I-40 near Carnuel closed the interstate for several hours yesterday; arson suspected in a blaze which destroyed a 42 year old Clovis restaurant; NM has been growing grapes, and making wine longer than any other area in the US; the state’s jobless rate has reached a 21 year high; dozens sick in San Juan CNTY after a pot luck dinner; comments from another person on my “what were you doing when the song ‘Young Hearts Run Free’ was popular” question; there is a Goth store in Rio Rancho!; three vehicle PM crash in Bernalillo CNTY; our holiday meal: Pork with Stuffing, Cherry Soup, Scalloped Potatoes, Broccoli Salad, & Apple Pie!;; a ten hour, four day work week for Bernalillo CNTY employees?; new route for Macy’s Parade, it will bypass Broadway, which has become a pedestrian mall; the Philly holiday pageant is the longest running [or, walking!]; thirty year home mortgage rates are at a low 4.78%; fog shrouds the mid-Atlantic coast; this is the season for ‘self giving’, people treating themselves to a present; the UT man who was stuck in the cave has died, after nearly being rescued; 96 year old IL woman retires from her job at McDonald’s; four people found dead in suburban Chicago home; bishops cover up child abuse by priests; EGGO waffle plant in GA had Listeria problem; more Native Americans suffer from H1N1 than other ethnic groups; VA couple who made it through security checkpoints at the first White House state dinner wanted their own reality show; big bookstores worried about their future in today’s electronic society; thousands of 9–11 messages have suddenly appeared; ‘Rocky & Bullwinkle’ are fifty years old; Union Pacific is the largest landowner in the US;Chinese cigarettes found to contain rabbit droppings, instead of tobacco; Dubai is deep in debt, this has a ripple effect on global economic markets; an underwater museum near Cancun;

…11/25-09: full feature phone

26º in ABQ; 42% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; KAFB received an unsatisfactory grade for its ‘ nuclear wing area’; the Duke City has the eighth crime rate in the US; two teens arrested by border patrol in El Paso for trying to smuggle thirty pounds of heroin into the US; Val Kilmer provided some NM poor with holiday food baskets; Buffalo Thunder resort still facing financial problems; two boys found a man shot in N Valley ditch; NM unemployment rate has risen to 7.9%; motorcyclist leads police on cross-town race, attempts to flee them by jumping off the ledge of a parking garage, and severely injures himself: so he will spend time in the HOSP, and in jail; by popular demand, the Rail Runner will run on Black Friday; help the Duke City Holiday Blanket Drive; there are now 40 H1N1 deaths in NM; 300K New Mexicans do not know where their next meal is coming from; first DUI exemption for ABQ firefighters;

lots of work to crunch out, with a limited amount of time; finished Rounds by 7:30A; UNM coach Locksley will receive a $10K bonus if the Lobos beats a ‘Top 25 Team’; left at noon; the ‘Lucille backlog’; two patients named ‘Hunter’ [first name]; arrived home by 4P;

wet in Philly, Erie, Orlando & Seattle; snow in Fargo, rain & snow for the Twin Cities; FL fog; rain for NYC, Green Bay, Chicago, Tampa, JAX, Miami & Key West; fog for Boston; temps from 30s to 80s;

Donny Osmond, rusty Toyotas & CA fires make headlines; a ‘thoroughly modern menu’, whose only exception was seafood; people may be flying, driving & shopping with the flu; the DOW ended up; too many junk food ads on Nickelodeon; prison guard forgot to lock cell door; Janet Napolitano helped security workers scan items at NATL Airport; birds confiscated at MX border; $7.50 for an airline ‘snack pack’?; rollover crash on the Golden Gate Bridge; fewer states reporting widespread H1N1 activity, but 143 fraudulent products to protect people from the illness; GOOGLE apologizes for offensive image of Michelle Obama; man trapped upside down in UT cave; IN man leaves son inside a tractor-trailer at a truck stop, and goes to a strip joint; man broke into a Louisiana home to cook a piece of meat; lost boy found roaming NYC subway system; an unexpected & uninvited couple crashed the White House state dinner, and security wants to know how they did it; more people may be traveling, but not as far, and for shorter periods of time; bankruptcies rise in the 3Q by 33%; suspicious package that arrived at the TN Capitol was a toy Santa Claus, but the contents were blown up before being delivered, and forced those inside the BLDG to evacuate the premises for several hours; Black Friday is also a good day for plumbers;

time to ‘finish the job’ in AFG; Atlantis head home for Friday arrival; using a land mower & a crane to clip high hedges; icebergs approaching New Zealand; baboons are raid cars in S Africa, stealing food; a ‘war tax’ to pay for US troops?; oil is $75.92 per barrel; gold is $1,180.10 an ounce; Afghans say it will take five years before US troops will be able to leave their country, and have an established GOVT; 2½ million Muslims will attend the Hajj ceremony;

…11/24-09: virtual vegetables

28º in ABQ; 35% humidity at 6A…GAQ; water resumed during the night at The Beach; Duke City home sales on the rise; package went through SunPort detection devices, contained explosives, but it was a perfectly legal shipment that was supposed to travel by land to its destination; LANL fined $960K; the new Presbyterian HOSP on the W Side of ABQ begins to grow; no Rail Runner service this Friday; Brad’s dentist visit; Brad made a Cranberry, Pecan & Rolled Oats Square; and then the water stopped again at The Beach this AM, and the parking lot was slippery; AM status report: the water should be on by noon: 3P report, water is running, parking lot being cleaned; daylight shooting at APT complex near Montgomery & Carlisle;

things went well with Dr. Rose; do not enter charges in reverse chronological order; finished Rounds by 7:30A;

Midwest fog; rain in the Central Plains & New England; wet in Tampa, Richmond, KC, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Omaha, Seattle; Toledo, Des Moines, & Chicago; more rain means more bridges could collapse in England; temps from the 40s to 80s;

the doom of Obama’s domestic policies?; ATL has the biggest airport in the US; trays on planes spread more germs than do coughs & colds; cribs killing children; a ‘flexible’ song; people will be going to stores on Black Friday, but will they buy, and what will they buy, and how much will they spend?; buy a 100 proof turkey, infused with vodka, for $29.95; 320 guests will attend the first Obama state dinner at the White House; Susan Boyle will appear on an ABC program; Adam Lambert will not be performing on ‘GMA’; house prices on the rise; the DOW ended down; dog who served in the military needs $3K to pay for medical expenses; one in four homeowners owe more than what their property is worth; it is illegal to own wildlife in VT, so there’s a fight to save ‘Pete’, the moose; Regis Philbin leaving his program to have hip replacement surgery performed; the state dinner will be strictly vegetarian, with items from the First Lady’s garden; three airlines fined for making passengers wait hours on the tarmac; Native Americans want to build casinos that are not located on tribal lands; drywall made in China is corroding pipes, how will homeowners be compensated; Detroit is the most depressed city in the US, even its old football stadium is worth much list than the price when it was built; FED lawsuit filed against police who entered & searched patrons of the ATL Eagle;

HIV cases on the decline?; for every 1K US soldiers sent overseas, vast amounts of money is spent; the end of Saab; final war strategy session between Obama & his advisors, our PRES will make an official announcement next week, and it will have benchmarks; 100 year old British woman is tired of getting the same B’day card from her Majesty, the Queen; oil is $76.45 per barrel; twelve hours of ‘rest’ before the Atlantis heads home; everything is going well at CERN; gold is $1,163.50 per ounce;

…11/23-09: one knight only

35º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Duke City battle of the budget; drunk mother slammed into fence while driving home from a party, inside the truck was her sixteen month old baby, who was seriously injured; wind advisories for central NM; good holiday travel conditions for NM , and the W US; local chef will cook a holiday meal for Joy Junction; soon, no passport, no flying from SunPort, a driver’s license will not do as ID; the Duke City will drive you back & forth to a bar during the holiday; now, there is also ‘Tim’ at the comic book store; vacuum cleaner clogged with dust & deodorizing powder; a touch of irony: no running water this PM at The Beach, then on, then off: they worked into the evening;
the ‘vacation’ ends, the blame begins; short week, long days; I resume my I/P GI duties, which I never should have stopped; finished Rounds by 7:30A; there have been eight suspicious early AM fires in the UNM campus & dorm areas since September; another no confidence vote for UNM official?; about 500 people attended the ‘gay prom’ this past weekend at UNM SUB; cut my finger at work this AM; this AM, KOAT on UNM Hill; female patient slashed her arm while I/P;

fog in the Central Plains, from NE to TX; more rain, snow & power outages for the Pacific coast & the Cascades; wet from DC to Boston, in Orlando, the Twin Cities, Richmond & ATL; tidal flooding, light rain & high surf in the Carolinas & Tidewater area; snow in Jackson Hole & Fargo; flooding continue in England [where six bridges have collapsed] & Turkey; temps from 40s to 80s;
no party unity for health care reform: many [D] oppose the current proposal, now begins the battle of the bill; admission tests for kindergarten?; those who are unemployed are under constant stress; train derails in TX, spilling coal onto highway; Adam Lambert’s man to man kiss during the AMA ceremonies, a happening in the moment: ABC received complaints about his actions; existing home sales has seen its biggest increase in 2½ years; glass door breaks at BART subway stop, injuring a police officer, and another person; first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade took place in 1924; baby products are not tested; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.64 per gallon; state tax revenues on the decline; no one has been exposed to dangerous amounts of radiation at Three Mile Island, but the cause of the leak remains UNK; credit card delinquencies have fallen; more than five million cribs being recalled; the DOW ended up; 'the kiss that shocked the world’; KS nurse billed US GOVT for nude therapy sessions; some PA students will not graduate because they are too obese; for sale: palm Beach estate, with a going price of $14.95 million, with over 10K sq. ft, five bedrooms & eight bathrooms; say it in pictures;
Iran military, protection or potential attacks; copy of Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’ discovered in UK bathroom; gold is $1,172 an ounce; oil is $79.34 per barrel; more troops will break the US budget; from US to the UK, the latest trend is ‘divorce cakes’, doubles the business for bakeries; the latest Barbie wears a burka; ice keeps rising faster than predicted; problems with astronaut’s suit delayed, but did not prevent a third spacewalk;

…11/22-09: same news, through different channels

33º in ABQ; 45% humidity at 6A…deadly house fire in Chaparral; stimulus money paying for two NM Head Start programs; thermal inversion over ABQ; NM GOV attends first Obama state dinner; Brad prepared Bacon Wrapped Chicken with Blue Cheese & Bacon; Bruce King ‘put the people first’; Lobos ended their fourteen game losing streak; NM temps tags expire in thirty days; LANL demolishing ADMIN structures that date back to the 1950s; we started the day with tea; I have a YouTube friend in Germany named Heidi; the Duke City may face a $20+ million budget shortfall; Belen airport hanger condemned; ceiling tiles have fallen, and electrical wires have been approved since 1989; Garduno’s blames chef for their monetary problems; ‘Thor’ movie will be filmed in NM; another Navajo Nation leader accused of fraud?; NM wants $500K+ from company investigating a cavern under the city of Carlsbad; DUI arrests increase on the day before Thanksgiving?;Michael Jackson’s golden glove sells for $350K at auction; ‘New Moon’ has earned $72.7 million on its first day, breaking a box office record; RI bishop will not allow Kennedy family member to receive Communion, because of the politician’s views on abortion; will there be a tax on cosmetic surgery?; WV has the most number of smokers; will more people travel this holiday?; no one was injured when firemen contained blaze on Atlantic City, NJ boardwalk; more male students accused of groping female students’ breasts & buttocks; ‘2012’ was in third place, earning $26.5 million; ‘Twilight: New Moon’: the movie made over $140 million during its debut weekend; what to name a WA restaurant that was used in the vampire movie; déjà vu: radiation leak shuts down Three Mile Island; weird: man stabbed to death over seat on NYC subway train, in front of many witnesses; Patriots & Celtics won; why tax “Cadillac’ INS plans?; the vote than passed the SEN gave the right to debate the law;Iran starts new ‘war games’; Australian firemen battle both blazes & 100 degree heat; Canadian woman loses disability benefits based on depression when she is discovered on a video in FaceBook, having a good time; Indonesian ferry sinks near Sumatra; while dad was in outer space, he became a father; there is five times more dark matter than physical matter in the universe; H1N1 has killed four Hajj pilgrims;

…11/21-09: our lives should not be computerized

30º in ABQ; 18% humidity at 6A…my trio of new ‘Green Lantern’ rings; many paid their respects to former NM GOV Bruce King yesterday; Bill Clinton attended the funeral this AM; $1.4 billion in NM stimulus money has not been spent; ‘Praise Darwin’ billboard ads appearing across ABQ; revenue was down at 2009 NM State Fair; NM could lose 4K acres of alpine forest land in the NE section of the state; four dead cats found in freezer, about one hundred animals were discovered in a Mesilla home; ‘Lobo Loco’; a drunk person, who is sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle, could face DUI charges; Olde Towne merchant selling Pan Am items; Bruce King, one of the greatest public servants of NM; another teacher accused of slamming a student to the ground; my dream: to be an MC for an INTL DJ; schools using stimulus money to buy IPods, give bonuses, or salary increases;TV ratings were falling for Oprah, the ‘Queen of Media’; child separated from his father when an OR light rail door failed to reopen, the audio controls also did not work, but within minutes, the parent & child [who stayed on the platform with an UNK woman] were reunited; ‘V’ & ‘Heroes’ are losing their TV audience & appeal; hiker rescued after being lost in FL Everglades: dehydrated, but not bug bitten; big Detroit bash for Motown Records turning fifty years old; two men save pregnant woman after she fell onto the tracks of a NYC subway; jobless rate is still on the rise in many states; health reform bill overcomes another hurdle in the Senate; man gets life in prison for scaring a NC woman to death; suspicious package found at Ft. Benning, GA; is the H1N1 virus mutating?; Rockefeller CTR holiday star is more environmentally friendly; N NV could see a foot of snow, couple with 80 mph winds; some flight attendants’ uniforms were miniskirts during the 1970s;42 dead in Chinese mining disaster; plane overshoots the runway in the Congo, ‘lands’ in a lava bed; CERN is up & running: the next step of the Large Hadron Collider is to collide proton beams inside the detectors, and explore dark matter;

…11/20-09: ‘the thin political résumé’

35º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…GAQ; drunk driver slammed into a van on I-25, injuring a family of five; disruption in a N NM courtroom; sexual harassment suit filed against ABQ Transit Director; fire at a Farmington APT complex; man ignited his car on fire along I-40, drugs were inside the vehicle; higher taxes in the state’s future?; new dig requested at W Mesa site; $10K grant for Rio Rancho students to build a better wind machine; state budget cuts force the NM GOV to cut two Navajo Nation projects; my priority is getting enough sleep during cold weather;

one more day to catch up; teenager died three days after being struck by a car; finished Rounds before 7:30A; gay prom & drag show to be held at UNM; ‘trouble in paradise’, as some doctors have not submitted their billing sheets; no Group 4 TES edits; took the #5 to the #8 [back & forth], and missed the W R/R by seconds, arriving home by 5:15P; a full Friday at work; several CART cases;
wet along parts of I-10 & I-95; stormy day in Houston & Dallas; wet in Seattle, San Antonio, Reno, Hartford, Detroit, Tulsa, NYC, Boston, across areas of S TX & New England; fog along the mid-Atlantic coast; floods in the UK; blowing dust in the SW US; another NW US storm, bringing rain to WA & OR, and feet of snow to the Cascades; temps from 40s to 80s;now, woman can delay pap smears?; 9% of all loans are delinquent; sneaky ‘Black Friday’ tricks: very limited quantity of very low priced item [usually in Electronics]; more people blaming the [D] for the ongoing recession; three people accused of hacking COMCAST homepage; viruses also appearing in ‘Twilight’ sequel website; tour bus of Miley Cyrus’ crew crashed along I-85 S of Richmond, killing the bus driver; Oprah made headline news…launched several people’s careers; 42 million Americans watch the ‘Queen of Talk Shows’; what will afternoons be without ‘O’, what are her future plans?; is the FED GOVT rationing health care?; oldest CO ski resort is 70 years old; the DOW ended down; Furr’s abandons its cafeteria style, for the buffet look; ‘human chicken’ disrupts Durango City Council meeting; military ‘eye in the sky’ was blurred during computer glitch; new H1N1 cases on the decline; TX man buys a town in that same state; ‘New Moon’ movie sets midnight madness box office record, earning over $26 million;
second spacewalk tomorrow; false alarm at the INTL Space Station; gold is $1,139.60 per ounce; oil is $76.84 a barrel; after several failed attempts, the ‘Big Bang’ machine has been turned on;

…11/19-09: ‘documents critical to NATL security’

34º in ABQ; 54% humidity at 6A…GAQ; adults with chronic illnesses should be the first to get the H1N1 vaccine; last W Mesa victim was not from the Duke City; NMSU announces its new PRES; flights from Santa Fe to Los Angeles start again; the Colorado Rockies & Seattle Mariners will play in ABQ next April for at least two games; KB Homes will resume building in some parts of the Duke City; three people killed in S NM house fire; the AVG price of gas in NM is $2.66 per gallon; Santa Fe CNTY has one of the lowest rates for obesity & diabetes; knowledge without power; Brad prepared Pasta with ‘Streetwalker Sauce’; since nothing went wrong, people don’t need to apologize to a person for having chewed them out; a response on my YouTube site from Germany; what to get done today?; the ‘ponytail puller’ getting Psych care; finished Rounds by 7:30A; prior to 8A, PowerChart is already slow; ‘dead end notes’, not containing the necessary info; a UNM Lobos balloon ends its voyage in McKinley, VA, an 1,800+ mile journey; contract talks still pending on what Psych services will be covered;

wet in Richmond, Cleveland, Chicago, NYC, Pittsburgh, INDY & Buffalo; more floods & winds for OR & WA; per the Weather Channel, ABQ will be ‘beautiful; rain in Puerto Rico; fog in DC; temps from 40s to 80s;

the 2,047 page health care reform bill, 94% of Americans may be covered; news: the first draft of history; two tugs finally free barge on VA beach; court ruled Katrina damage was more manmade, than Mother Nature: Army Corps of Engineers did shoddy work in building New Orleans levees; CIA wants to hire more Arab Americans, to work as spies; Newseum has huge touch screens, multiple theaters, plus a piece of the Berlin Wall; last sunrise in AK until 2010; Herpes never completely goes away; Cheney’s gay daughter gave birth to a girl; construction on World Trade CTR Tower One begins; two people were killed in tour bus accident along I-90 in MN; the DOW ends down; MO teenage girl wrote on the Internet that one of her hobbies was ‘killing’; ‘we know what you want for the holidays’; UCLA students protest over 32% fee hikes; Congress tells the Treasury SECY to resign; another computer glitch, this time from a computer board, shut down air travel from ATL to Phoenix to NYC: the problem was corrected in four hours, but not before delaying 2K flights; health care reform bill would improve Medicare?; how secure are our US military bases; the NATL AVG price of gas is $2.66 per gallon; the ‘Twilight’ moms; Oprah’s final daytime program will be in 2011, at the end of her twenty fifth season; TX teen tries to sell marijuana by going door to door; the 4 – 5 year ‘gender reassignment’ of Chaz Bono;
Obama toured the Great Wall of China; how to fight fraud in AFG; watch your holiday turkey roam free before served at your home; the ugly UK criminal, who should choose another profession; Karzai in office for another five years; first of three spacewalks took place today; gold is $1,135.50 am ounce; oil is $77.40 per barrel; life in S Korea is worse than how N Koreans expected it to be; US sniper sent money to terrorist groups in Yemen; the Belgian PM is now the current ‘PRES of Europe’; ‘catastrophic’ fire conditions in Australia;

…11/18-09: ‘never forget’

31º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…GAQ; fire at empty home near Second & Marble; deadly mobile home fire in Farmington killed two people; Sipapu is the first NM ski resort to open this season; NM GOV will be at Los Lunas Substance Abuse CTR groundbreaking; a tax on supermarket food for NM? the San Mateo interchange at I-40 will officially open; as of today, there are 36 swine flu deaths reported in NM; ABQ police officer struck by a car, the female driver wanted to avoid Biden’s motorcade; NM corrections officer accused of raping woman; more W Mesa bodies identified; Rio Rancho is the best place in NM to raise children; linked into Tiesto;

UNM female soccer player says that she ‘went too far’, and is ‘truly apologetic’ about the physical attacks on the field, people want her jailed or tortured: thinks she is being singled out, and that would not be harassed if a man had done the same thing, this appeared on the ABC AM News; if notes were in the charts, Coders could avoid the PowerChart slowdown; suddenly I had several Surgery TES edits in my file; the fire alarms rang & blinked most of the day, pity anyone who was susceptible to seizures; called, and told that certain O/P Neuropsychology services cannot be paid, why: this problem has been going on for a year [final thought: let the Coders fix the mess]; then called, and asked why CTI Psych charges aren’t being paid by Optimum, why?: Brent to the rescue, twice [answer: still in contract talks]; finished Rounds by 7:30A; Code Purple at 6:30A;

from snow to rain in KC; all snow in Boise; very cold in TX, OK & mainland China; wet in Chicago, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Cleveland, INDY, Myrtle Beach, Seattle & Portland, OR, plus parts of I-44 & I-70; frigid in AK; thirty foot waves along the S OR coast; third NW US storm in four days; temps from 40s to 80s;

the phantom jobs indicated on the stimulus website; SEN Byrd, [D], WV has served the longest in Congress: 56 years, 319 days, and counting; barge still remains aground on VA beach; an EGGO waffle shortage through 2010; Johnny Depp, the sexiest man for 2009; many toys still contain lead; Watergate case resurrected?; CA trying to ban big TV sets, in order to save energy?; Tyler, TX cop caught kicking cat; AR police use a Taser on a combative 10 year old girl; now, the $849 billion health care reform bill; TX sniper, a ‘self made radical’; US GOVT cannot print gold; the beginning of Palin book tour, but she will not travel to major cities; is the real unemployment rate closer to 17.5%; UNM ‘ponytail puller’ makes CNN News, but only spoke to NY newspaper; home construction on the decline; a splinter group of the Lutheran church will be created, that which opposes gay & lesbian pastors; CA nude beach may come to a close [or, clothes]; the DOW went down; stay at Auberge du Soleil for $280 per couple, per night;Atlantis docked with the INTL Space Station; Obama in S Korea; invited Chinese leader to the US in 2010; oil is $79.06 per barrel; gold is $1,148.20 an ounce; mixed foreign stock markets; Germany will not send more troops to AFG; Santa Claus needs the H1N1 vaccine; Riviera mansion lowers its selling price by $650 million, asking price: ‘only’ $102 million; secret CIA prisons in E Europe?; Iran rejects part of nuclear deal;

…11/17-09: transformational ecopsychology?

31º in ABQ; 63% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s Chiro visit; four people were injured in a collision involving a police cruiser on I-40 & Eubank; an unlawful search in a child porn case; car fire in SW ABQ, after vehicle lost a tire during a police chase; the last women buried in the W Mesa might be identified by DNA samples; NM budget cuts cancels police academy training classes; Siler ST Bridge open in Santa Fe; Raton votes to build & renovate schools; Carlsbad CO can produce oil from algae?; a comic strip said that entering daily news items on a blog is comparable to being a ‘parasite’…I call it ‘memories of times past’…who knows what we will be reading or doing on 12/22/12!; Duke City Social Security BLDG was evacuated after white powder was found on the premises; NM ranks thirty-first as the ‘healthiest’ state; welcome to my interests & opinions; NM teacher gets award for being ‘the best’; Thanksgiving Lantern Tours through Carlsbad Caverns; only 50% of NM males graduate from high school;

turn timesheet into MGR; finished Rounds by 7:30A; the very slow PowerChart; Code Purple by 8:30A; Channel 13 on UNM Hill;

snow in KC; rain in Chicago, Cincinnati, ATL & INDY; fires in Orange CNTY, CA; NW OR in the dark, as 27 foot waves pound its coast; time to rebuild NJ sand dunes; wet in Portland, OR, Spokane, Seattle, in IL, IN & KY; NW US winds & floods; temps from 40s to 80s;

UT hikers rescued after becoming lost, but not before spending a night in the cold terrain; remove penalties from gift cards; more people without health INS die in the ER; single military mother does not want to be shipped overseas, and leave her child in foster care; four people died when an Amtrak struck a vehicle in SC; women, age, and the need for mammograms or cancer screening tests; ATL teach put a ‘hit’ on a student; the word for 2009 is ‘unfriend’, relates to FaceBook; should Ft. Hood victims receive the Purple Heart Award?; the DOW ended up; the auto INS wars; army suicides on the rise; when bailed banks loan less; yes, you can see Russia from AK!; Santa Fe mentioned in USPS ad; Dolly Parton says ‘yes’ to same-sex marriage;Leonids meteor shower; Obama & Chinese leader Hu have ‘fundamental disagreements’, talked about N Korea; Obama is the first PRES who has visited China during his first year in office; the ‘human hamster hotel’ in France; China is bonded to us [US] by buying our bonds; oil is $79.49 per barrel; gold is $1,139.80 an ounce; earthquake recorded off Canada’s Pacific Coast; ‘end of the world’ movies have been made since the 1930s; pirates being paid millions to release hostages; top secret, high-tech subs, complete with Kamikaze planes, were located underwater near HI: theses vessels were built to strike American cities during WWII; pedophile arrested after INTL chase; is America the richest country in the world?; Israel keeps building settlements on the W Bank, time to check the Space Shuttle for any dents from liftoff; the number of people in Venice, Italy is shrinking; the beautiful Mercedes Benz!; another cruise ship gets stuck in Antarctic ice;