…12/10-09: sleep, your ally

23º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A…GAQ; an unfinished hotel on UNIV is becoming an eyesore; did the H1N1 virus worsen a child’s health, causing ataxia?; phones are still out in Cloudcroft; some schools across NM are still closed, or on a two hour delay; three missing children have been abducted by their father, may be heading to his home in NC; there are now 43 H1N1 deaths in NM; thirty hunters reported stranded due to the recent snowstorm; Brad making Chicken & Pork Tamales; for now, ‘Real ID’ will not be enforced; cell phone use may be limited at Duke City schools; $1.1 million in marijuana confiscated at our P.O.E.; former NM GOV Gary Johnson may run for PRES in 2012; gas leak evacuates local school; catfight at the Santa Fe Round House;

staff meeting cancelled today; no CTI Admits; Dr. Lance Chilton interviewed by KOAT about the possible side effects from the H1N1 vaccine; suggested a gift certificate or casino chips for our MGR’s holiday gift; updated version has no guidelines; the DOH is at UNMH;

cold across most of the country, except FL; New England snowstorm; San Fran showers; snow along sections of I-80, in Buffalo, Detroit, INDY & Pittsburgh; parts of NY are without power; cold in parts of I-10: from Sioux Falls to the Twin Cities, from Chicago to Cleveland; N Plains wind chill is double digit below zero; semis toppled over along I-55, and other interstates; SE US storms; worst IA blizzard since 1897; too cold to travel, people being told ‘do not drive’; temps from below zero to the 80s;

fewer people facing foreclosure?; the ‘semi-brilliant’ health reform compromise, which will allow Canadian drugs into the US; Sanford will stay in power; another CA prison riot; will there really be less sugar in cereals?; at Times Square, police shoot & kill a man who fired at them; rare coins dropped into Salvation Army kettle in Denver; for the fourteenth month in a row, the US is in the red again; pipeline leak in AK; NJ SEN delays vote on same-sex marriages; CDC estimates that fifty million people in the US have had the H1N1 illness, which has killed 10K people; having a deer as an indoor pet; the Denver Broncos is fifty years old; the Secret Santa Club’ that is giving away $100 to individuals; the DOW ends up; the housing market: one man’s pain, another man’s pleasure; unemployment claims on the rise; NE propane blaze forced the evacuation of 8K NE residents; banks are slow in refinancing homes, delaying the status of turning temporary mortgage rates into permanent payments; plasma TV sets are electricity hogs; “what’s intriguing to me…”; people in NY still fear a 100 year old child molester; White House party crasher resigns from his VA Tourism board position;

the Nobel Peace Prize for a war PRES; a global conflict over clean air areas?; gold is $1,126.60 an ounce; oil is $70.30 per barrel; SECY Gates in Iraq; strange spirals seen in the skies; some wars can never be won; the bionic finger built by British scientists; war is ‘sometimes necessary’; in Uganda, HIV+ people could face a death penalty; China: the world’s biggest car market;