…1/12-10: in luxury, we trust

30º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; Brad’s dermatology visit; theater shooter said he dropped his pistol; body found inside a burnt car in Dona Ana CNTY; weekend school vandalism loss has now reached the $100K amount; Farming man shot during a party; ABQ now suffers from a $54.6 million shortfall; accident involving school bus in Belen; hatchet robberies at N NM hotels; parked vehicle slid into store at Menaul & Juan Tabo; the Duke City housing market is doing well; turn prisoners into seamstresses; HAZMAT situation on I-40W on Sedillo Hill; man used the snatch & grab technique to steal a ring for a Santa Fe jeweler; affordable homes are being built on the W Side, providing plenty of jobs; dump struck ignored a stop sign and nearly crushed a car;

plenty of admissions this past weekend, but none for flu; remember, don’t carry medicine in your pocket, sign H & P forms; lab orders are in; I am the sole PEDS Coder today; still warm in the office, but the open door may resolve that problem; we remain in Code Purple; another cold AM R/R; the squeaky PM R/R;

ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; frost & freeze warnings from Louisiana to FL; NW US snow; San Fran rain; N Rockies snow; flurries in NYC, Philly, DC, Richmond, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Columbus, OH & Buffalo; cold in Cuba; temps from 20s to 70s;

now, FL has a $9 billion orange industry; fourth ‘Spider Man’ movie will be delayed; Wal-Mart is cutting 1,500 jobs; is their a double standard on who can utter racial remarks?; dog survived after saving a boy from a mountain lion attack; baggage fees on the rise; HAZMAT situation at Morehead City, NC; vessel carrying PETN, the same as the holiday bomber carried; [D] candidate misspells her home state of MA; disastrous driving caused by texting: now considered an epidemic, killed 40K people last year; baseball player admits to using steroids; ‘2012’ will be available in early March, 2010; ‘Cagney & Lacey’ reunite on ‘Burn Notice’; job required health INS may be gone from health care reform; ex-worker kills 2 people, injures three others at GA rental company; TX man played billiards on his frozen swimming pool; 10K bird strikes took place last year; over the years, the concept & rules of marriage have changed; the DOW ended down; vegetables from the White House garden were not actually used in the ‘Iron Chef’ program, just items that were found in it; Sam’s Club shutting down ten stores; many disease causing germs found on new clothing; do gays disrupt the ‘natural order of creation’?; levies on bailed out banks?; Denmark has totally banned trans-fat; AFG leader is still very popular; the ‘waving goat’ in Britain; UK man’s hiccups caused by brain tumor, surgery & therapy resolved the life threatening problem; gold is $1,129.40 an ounce; two young lifeguards rescue drowning man off the Australian coast; oil is $80.56 per barrel; 7.0 quake shook Haiti, tsunami warnings for Cuba & the Bahamas; country asking for US aid: several aftershocks, some reaching 5.5 in magnitude, have been reported, one HOSP has collapsed in the poorest & most densely populated nation of the W hemisphere; JAL facing bankruptcy?; the ‘No Pants’ party was held in 44 cities across 16 countries;