…11/10-09: benefit from the benefits of peace

45º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…GAQ; rough time to sleep last night; E NM fog; Los Angeles girl rescued from a S Valley home, its owner prevented from possibly harming her; NM scholarships may be cut to balance the state’s budget; water main break shuts down schools in Lordsburg; former NM GOV Gary Johnson says all drugs should be legalized, as four new marijuana producers are approved in NM; no layoffs foreseen for Duke City workers; Bloomfield refinery shut down NM Behavioral Health System is not being paid on a timely basis; Brad prepared Poached Salmon with Hollandaise Sauce; motorcycle accident shut down Paseo, driver was killed after being run over by another vehicle; deadly shooting in ‘our’ Las Vegas; four ‘Batmobiles’ will help the Navajo Nation combat DUI;

work on revising billing sheets; obtained Nephrology info by going to GPU ward; finished Rounds by 7:30A; what happens if nobody has the keys, or remembers the combination, to unlock the cabinets or refrigerator in a ward?; Code Purple at 1P;

snow in the Cascades; TS Ida now has 50 mph winds, moving N at 9 mph; still offshore this AM, the storm will move into AL & FL, but only minimum beach erosion predicted; wet from Miami to Raleigh to Wilmington, NC; downpours in ATL & Charlotte; flooding in parts of MS; record rain in Pensacola, FL; roads to avoid: parts of I-20 & I-75; temps from 50s to 90s;

let your cell phone diagnosis your illness by coughing into the device; 21 year old man won $8.55 million in a poker game; Ida has stopped 30% of oil production in the Gulf of MX; PRES will be a ‘morale booster’ when he arrives at Ft. Hood; early AM Lowe’s & Wal-Mart holiday ads; three teens charged with setting another boy on fire have been charged as adults with attempted murder; how did a TX boy sneak a gun into a detention CTR; NY gay marriage bill on hold; shooting inside & outside an OR drug testing lab left two dead, and put a mall & a school on lockdown; Americans losing faith in the GOVT handling of the H1N1 crisis; woman was told to leave a plane bound to HI because the crew thought she ad the swine flu; forty years ago today, the multiracial program ‘Sesame Street made its debut; get ready for higher annual fees & interest rates, and lower credit limits; Obama at Ft. Hood, TX: our dignified PRES, able to console people in a time of tragedy, also visited those who were wounded, and remained in the HOSP; a holiday toy shortage?; mother tried but failed to protect her baby in a SC drive by shooting; white powder sent to three foreign consulates in Manhattan; Herndon, VA residents speak the list of seven ‘dirty’ words the most; drunk woman falls off subway platform and onto tracks in Boston, the driver pulled the emergency brake, and stopped inches away from the female, who suffered only minor bruises; JP Morgan Chase will hire 1,200 workers; Pam Grier will portray Amanda Waller on ‘Smallville’; are Bert & Ernie gay?; at least 65K gay, lesbian & bisexuals in the US military; Sprint may cut up to 2,500 jobs; millions of American do not have bank accounts;last night, there was a recreation of the fall of the Berlin Wall; new jihad code forbids the killing of women & children; N & S Korea warships exchanged gunfire when the Communist vessel strayed into disputed waters, and was reportedly damaged; oil is $78.61 per barrel; Venice dates back 2K years: its people are laidback, and do not enjoy ‘speedy’ tourists; scorpions & worms provide protein; US will hold talks with N Korea; in some parts of the world, drunk pilot relieved of his duties just before takeoff; gold is $1.102.50 an ounce; the US two-finger ‘peace symbol’ is considered a rude gesture; if you are an artist, you could spend a night at a Stockholm hotel for free;