27º in ABQ; 61% humidity at 6A…GAQ; body found on Pajarito Mesa; another couple accused of child abuse, while staying at Joy Junction; no chance for retaliation; fog in E NM; NM gets a FED Grant to help the homeless; lease space, or purchase a new BLDG for NM DOT; Atrisco APT complex will be closed at 4P today; district court working reduced hours; will Anthony, NM become an official city?; gas is $2.55 per gallon; Brad made Brunswick Stew; proposal 2% pay cut for state workers?; Apollo College evacuated after a man was sighted caring a sign reading ‘Bomb’; multiple, unanswered and unreturned calls to & from CYFD about the child abuse case; Lance Armstrong speaks kindly about NM in his latest book;
Hell Week, Day One; it was another busy weekend, with someone complaining about not locating PICN billing forms; return to a land where I am not liked; and so, we begin another year; heard over the intercom: “Dr. West, please go to 5–E; several UNMH staff wished me a happy holiday; oh, well…; how do you remain confident when people keep saying you’re not?; during the New Year’s weekend, PICN moved to fourth floor; starting the year with zero TES edits; the system keeps going up & down; flooding on the fifth floor of the Pavilion; received 2010 billing sheets; no use crying over frozen milk; the ‘Please Show ID’ statement when you board a bus; no names, please; how long will it take before my MGR says I did something wrong?;
very cold in Chicago, Twin Cities, Rapid City, Fargo & Cleveland; snow for MS,AR, OH, MI, NY, PA, TN & New England; cold in ATL, Orlando & Miami; heavy snow in Beijing; snow makes places look & feel colder, such as Boston; flurries for the NW US & N Rockies; FL freeze warnings, crops at risk; up to three feet of snow fell in VT; temps from –0s to 70s; 
power failure at NATL Airport; man shot two people, killed one at a FED BLDG in ‘the’ Las Vegas, the downtown area looked like it was under attack; the race to raise the roof on credit card rates; the DOW ended up; children who are spanked when young tend to be more successful?; Morgan Freeman is the new CBS voiceover?; another uninvited guest at the White House?; ‘Sanctuary’ was renewed for another season; the top topic is terrorism; man killed by a SUV while eating a meal in a CA restaurant; NM makes NATL news in an unfashionable way: man locked his grandmother inn her room so he could enjoy New Year’s Eve celebrations; the 2010 color is turquoise; being polite for an entire day?: can you do it?; a choreographed ice skating dance to the song ‘Your Love’ by Lime; transgender woman part of Obama ADMIN?; for $1 million, companies can buy a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; this is the coldest weather in 25 years, that covers so much of the US: pipes are bursting in ATL; 
volcanic eruption in Philippines; the end of the immigration ban for people with HIV/AIDS; Yemen, the global security threat; no changes in security procedures at foreign airports; plane had ‘technical difficulties’ when it ended off the tarmac; mudslides shut down nuclear reactor in Brazil; 6.5 earthquake shook the Solomon Islands, followed by several aftershocks, one reaching 7.2 magnitude; heavy snow caused people to be stuck at a UK pub for three days & nights; oil increased to $81.49 per barrel; gold rose to $1,119.20 an ounce; at 2,717 feet, the Burj Dubai is twice as tall as the Empire State BLDG, and has the highest mosque [on the 158th floor]; more unusual objects observed in space;
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