Friday, September 3, 2010

…8/31–10: is reality a dream?

68º in ABQ; 50% humidity at 6A…GAQ; arrest made of a person who threatened to kill a Santa Fe judge, and forced a school into lockdown; Johnny Tapia has been reunited with his biological father; CNM has a record enrollment of 30K; Ever Ready gas stations are open for business again; more security for structures in the EMCORE area; Duke City cop bit by a pit bull while serving a warrant; Brad prepared City Chicken; Rio Grande High classrooms are overcrowded, so says fire marshals; Rio Rancho student brought a knife on to a school bus; meth lab busted near Coronado Mall; a proposal to raise NM medical marijuana fees; Obama was in Ft. Bliss, speaking to the troops at Ft. Bliss, TX;
By end of day, no Pseudo Code TES edits; more construction workers on AM R/R; PICU is the ‘spill over’ for GPU; we are in Code Purple; Prelude to Pseudo coding; how will one handle the Daily Baby programs;
Wet in: Twin Cities, Des Moines, Duluth, Wichita, Orlando, New Orleans, KC, Amarillo, Yakima, Little Rock, Omaha, Madison & Chicago; bad weather along parts of I-35; Earl is a CAT 4 storm, with warnings posted from NC to Canada, heading to the US, the storm has 135 mph winds, moving WNW at 13 mph with 931 barometric pressure; the storm has a well defined, has shut down Caribbean airports, and could strike the E Coast by Friday; the hurricane is being affected by both a high & low pressure in that area; temps from the 60s to the 90s;
We have a record supply of flu shots for this upcoming season; MX drug lord captured; 34 million people will travel during this Labor Day weekend; more woman having C-sections; Obama spoke to the nation tonight regarding our pullout from Iraq; bedbugs send a man to the E/R; a good credit score is 660 or better; the DOW ended slightly up;
MX 500 peso will bear the faces of that country’s famous artists; Rihanna has a model of herself in famous British wax museum; MX City: the new, gay honeymoon resort city; the Iraqi war has been the third longest conflict in US history: now, Iraq is ‘in transition’; the beginning of ‘Operation: New Dawn’; oil is $72.93 per barrel; gold is $1,248.30 an ounce;

…9/1–10: perso
nal space
68º in ABQ; 48% humidity at 6A…GAQ; LANL worker tried to steal two ounces of gold from that complex; N NM man tried to rob an elderly woman in a supermarket’s parking lot; ABQ fraud & wasteful spending are up by 1K%; Obama approval rating in NM has dropped below 50%; saw Jean after work; mother & three children are on the run, trying to escape drug tests; a fellow teenager shot a Rio Rancho student with a B–B gun;
Hell Week, Day One; the powers that be in the PEDS DEPT do not agree that pseudo codes are the way to go; we remain in Code Purple; pseudo codes started appearing by 10A; NM will receive $65 million for education jobs;
Earl is a CAT 3 hurricane, with 125 mph winds, moving NW at 16 mph: watches & warnings from the Outer Banks to ME, and emergency precautions & preparations are going into effect; it may strike the NC shoreline, and Cape Code is getting ready for windy, wet weather; wet in: Chicago, KC, Toledo, INDY, St. Louis, Detroit, OKC, Omaha, Rapid City, Madison & Dallas; wet weather along sections of I-35, I-40, I-44 & I-90; through the day, Earl became a CAT 4 hurricane with 135 mph winds; temps from the 60s to 100s;
CA will not ban the use of plastic bags at stores; marijuana commercials appear on TV; the Tea Party claims victory in the AK SEN race; acid is eating away at abandoned CA mine; the DOW ended way up; Burger King may be for sale; hostage situation at the Discovery Channel HQ in Silver Spring, MD ended with the perpetrator killed by police; CA magician accused of molesting a teenage girl; NYC man survived a 39 story fall; auto sales are plunging;
Middle East peace talks resume; Greece imposes a nationwide smoking ban; the end of ‘combat operations’ in Iraq, by the US; this is the start of Ramadan; oil is $74.23 per barrel; gold is $1,246.30 per oun
ce; first day of a ‘new life’ for Iraq;

…9/2–10: self confidence
60º in ABQ; 32% humidity at 6A…GAQ; scammers are targeting job searchers; Duke City baby had a rag in its mouth, and was covered in feces; in Estancia, a man with mental problems is charged with animal abuse: pets were found in the walls & the freezer; CYFD may face budget cuts; Santa Fe city councilor faces ethics violation charges; AM skunk alert at The Beach; IED found near a Wal-Mart, and a middle school, in Los Lunas; woman killed in NE ABQ;
Hell Week, Day Two; Pseudo Code meeting at 9:30A; I will ask Brent to attend it; ‘no confidence’ vote by faculty & staff on UNM ADMIN; no CTI Admits; we remain in Code Purple; water problems at UNM;
Wet in: Omaha, Twin Cities, KC, Chicago, INDY, St. Louis, Dallas, Fargo & Duluth; bad weather along sections of I-70; Earl has 145 mph winds, moving NNW at 18 mph, with 928 barometric pressure: the storm threatens both Long Island & Fire Island, and mandatory evacuations for everyone along the NC coast; Obama has signed a disaster declaration for that state; storms warnings for the Outer Banks, Cape Cod & its Islands: Westport, Plymouth & Sagamore beaches; MA has alre
ady declared a state of emergency; although the storm has weakened during the day, it is still is 400 miles wide…there is also Fiona & Gaston; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
More peace talks will be held at the State DEPT in DC; ‘90210’ party on Rodeo Drive; the DOW ended up; another oil/gas platform explosion in the Gulf of MX; should teachers’ performance be posted in a newspaper, or online: a ‘name & shame’ tactic; college students have thousands of dollars in credit card debt; the ‘Discovery Channel’ attacker had explosives attached to his body;
Three dead children found in a garden of a Dutch home; 3K year old temple found in Jordan; oil is $74.47 per barrel; W Nile Virus has killed 16 in Greece; gold is $1,251.50 an ounce; men enjoy a sauna atop Mt. Blanc; male prostitution ring shut down in Spain;

…9/3–10: a calm & peaceful solution
63º in ABQ; 42% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Hobbs athletic coach killed in a motorcycle crash; local movers stole $7K ring from woman; pipe bomb discovered in Rio Rancho APT complex; The Beach is full until November;
Hell Week, Day 2.5; another pseudo code meeting with my MGR; comic book climb; empty AM R/R; now, the ‘geek’ is being asked for help; gave my Director, who has visited Truman Clinic, a copy of PEDS doctors; also gave her a list of PEDS providers; kept entering charges today; UNMH file sharer went down; arrived home slightly after 5P; no more instant messages allowed, nor unnecessary cell phone usage; some do not see the advantage of entering one’s own charges;
Wet in: Boston, NYC, Miam
i, Norfolk, Detroit, San Antonio, Pittsburgh & Houston; in the AM, Earl is affecting the NC coast as a CAT 2 storm: advisories reach up to Nova Scotia, with rain expected in Richmond, Raleigh & the Tidewater area; the hurricane has 105 mph winds, moving NNE at 18 mph, and heading away from the E Coast; Amtrak service has been cancelled, but the storm, which is being considered as the most well documented, should be a ‘one day event’, so the holiday weekend will not be a ‘wash out’; 25 million people could be affected by this storm; bad weather along parts of I-10, I-35, I-70, I-85 & I-95;
Was the stimulus too small; ; jobless rate at 9.6%; several concourses at Miami INTL Airport were evacuated due to a potential bomb threat, and security scare at a bagger scanning device; bottle of acid thrown at WA wom
an’s face; the DOW ended up;New economic sanctions will be issued against Iran; oil is $74.60 per barrel; gold is $1,249.20 an ounce; 95 snakes found in luggage at Malaysian Airport; 7.2 quake shook Christchurch, New Zealand; in Iraq, a dark future is better than a darker past; massive glacier is on the move near Greenland; Kia, and the flammable electric wiring systems;

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