…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;