…1/6-09: green your routine?

29º in ABQ; 63% humidity at 6A…slept well last night; woke to another cold AM; no cable in early AM, then resumed, then went down again; my little TV works; after 26 hours, snowboarder found via his IPod; stayed in a cave during the night, stuck on Pajarito MTN; 800 NM NATL Guard heading to Iraq & AFG; ‘potential delay’ for NM GOV & Lieu. GOV; why has Bill suddenly hired a ‘prominent NM lawyer’?; below zero wind chills this AM; small plane forced emergency landing outside Santa Fe; Clovis woman accused of stealing money from disabled people; cable truck in The Beach parking lot this AM?; I-40 is bad traveling from Thoreau to the AZ border; Bank of America on WY also robbed yesterday; structure fire in Bernalillo; TRD: Taxation & Revenue DEPT;

Hell Week, Day Two; Code Purple at 6:30A, continued into the PM; took midday pills at 3:30P; Medicare officials: “they’re here!”; both Jenny & MGR are out; finished Rounds by 8:45A; try to smile at the enemy; ran & caught PM Red Line R/R; construction at Frontier R/R stop; one & a half years later, there are empty beds in Pavilion wards, and unused computers;

more Spokane snow means another roof collapse; record highs in FL; ice/snow in New England, OH Valley & N Rockies: from St. Louis to DC & MD, parts of S PA; stretches of I-65 along IN are shut down due to numerous wrecks; VA & Gulf Coast fog & T’storms;

did Obama make a poor choice for CIA leader?; Jett Travolta was created; many doctors misdiagnose heart disease, consider symptoms linked to GI concerns; put stimulus on the fast track: unemployment & health care relief in Obama’s stimulus package; proposal can be seen online; Mr. Burris in Washington as the next IL SEN, he wants no confrontation, wants to be sworn in, credentials refused; maybe a deal could be made on Capitol Hill; so far, he does not have ‘the legal right’ to represent people; relying on three ‘ifs’; PRES Elect remains silent; thousands of phone calls for Blagojevich; only can serve the last two years of Obama’s term, and not seek re-election; inventor of Hawaiian shirt has died; someone wants to open a topless coffee shop in ME; child shoot babysitters for stepping on youngster’s foot; Hispanic or gay person should be named for Cabinet position; five homeless people killed in TX shelter fire; worst auto year since 1992; NATL AVG price of gas is $1.68 per gallon; should Madoff be tossed in jail; Continental engine ruptured, starting the fire; Laura Bush will write her memoirs; rode in heavily armored SUV, part of a six vehicle entourage; Cigna cutting 1,100 jobs; $200 3-D glasses; buy ‘Bribe Approved’ or ‘Pay to Play’ stamps; walk 5K steps per day; drivers trimming auto INS coverage; Madoff scheme known since 1999; Latinos upset about Richardson decision; health care costs slowing; people become idle at work; Isuzu will stop selling vehicles in the US; the all-in-one PC, prices starting at $1K; cashing in on credit; hackers attacked Twitter accounts of famous people, including Obama; pending home sales at a seven year low; get ready for the new PRES limo, the custom built Cadillac; Junior IL SEN does not have the necessary papers, certificates & credentials signed by the necessary people; 10% of teenage girls are in abusive relationships; police officer shot someone on a Oakland BART platform; Ted Kennedy, back in Congress; Alcoa cutting 13,500 jobs; Oprah attacks her weight; FED says 2009 will be a ‘rough’ year; titanium golf clubs could harm hearing; forty members of Congress live in their offices; gas prices are 9% lower than when Bush took office; Sanjay Gupta as Surgeon General, a good communicator; Biden disapproved CIA selection; Obama is ‘the new sheriff in town’; unemployment service in several states are being overwhelmed; three Marine Monuments declared by Bush, the ‘ocean protector’; woman finds bullet in baby’s diaper; no more free beer served in Busch Gardens; DOW ended up;

no free fuel from Venezuela; Nigella is 49 years old; two incidents of friendly fire kills Israelis; war gets worse; 1K employees at US Embassy; mixed foreign markets; Wedgwood goes bankrupt; price of oil nearing $50 per barrel; all three major foreign auto companies reported yearly losses; media can no longer enter Palestinian territory, these borders should reopen; Israeli forces struck UN schools in Gaza; open a humanitarian corridor; in Japan, Toyota shutting down factories for several weeks; gas supply to five European countries & Turkey has stopped, because of Russia – Ukraine conflict; German billionaire killed himself;

…1/5-09: more places, more often

22º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…Oh, No, Mr. Bill!, and Diane, too; ongoing FED probe; CA CO paid for marketing bonds; so much for snow; Brad at the Food Bank; most snow in NW & SW NM, along I-25, S of the Duke City; 12K people rode the Rail Runner this past Saturday; first murder in Hobbs for 2009; today, Bank of the West robbery on Carlisle; another shooting at strip joint in NE ABQ; another snowboarder missing in Pajarito, ABQ resident, wind & blowing snow erasing shoe tracks; recycling plants seeing drop in prices, and people bringing items for money; NM GOV: the shock seen around the world; rain & freezing rain in parts of S NM; same phrase, different year: go to bed early tonight; will NM GOV start growing his beard again?; biggest setback in Bill’s career, but not affect his role as GOV; he is not forthcoming in details, but ‘doing it for the good of the country’; Chavez wants to run for a third term as Duke City mayor; NM GOV makes headlines & his picture on the front page; more snow during the night; he will have no name recognition problem: bye, bye DC home: Hello, NW NM: goodbye, NM AVE NW; Chris & I pick AZ vs. Baltimore as the Super Bowl teams; NM GOV hires a good lawyer; gas has risen to $1.59 per gallon; Diane Denish was in DC, the Hobbs native would make a great female GOV, or Commerce SECY; wanted a person from NM in a PRES Cabinet; the many faces of Mr. Bill;

Hell Week, Day One; Step One: go undercover; go in, expecting the worst!; family matter meant MGR out early today; finished Rounds by 9A; quickly E-mailed Carolyn my timesheet, after JoAnn went to the Pavilion, looking for me; mother delivered in UNMH bathroom; is Jenny here?; no envelope pickup by noon, charges picked up before 3P; paycheck year based on issue date, not start date; Julia wanted to shoot the fax machine; took PM Central;

cold in the N Plains; rain & freezing rain in TX; Houston, San Antonio & Dallas; moisture across AR, Louisiana, AL, MS; ATL, I-20, I-75, I-85; more snow for Spokane & Seattle; fog across I-10, SE US; temps from 10s to 80s;

the one millionth word will be created by April, 2009; elephant diet, eat more hay; orangutan on jet ski; Obama daughters start school in DC; the $775 billion to $1.3 trillion stimulus plan, tax cuts to the middle class; Obama staff did not do their homework regarding the Richardson scandal; PRES Elect flown into DC by GOVT plane; IL SEN going to Congress; Madoff took money from 8K victims; former comic winner in MN election?; buy Madoff memorabilia on EBay?; Obama wants tax cuts & credits; rate hikes for FEDEX & UPS; a gift to grow in White House; school where previous PRES children attended; VA GOV as DNC chairman? Another Bush in the Oval Office?; suspicious CA toxic fire; buy a Chia pet for its nutritional value; sleep only 2-3 hours per day, to get a college degree; CT lottery winning ticket bought hours before a man died, widow was going to throw away the ticket; ‘scandal’ missed by Obama team; MN SEN race may be decided today, former comedian winning by 250 votes; how will new IL SEN be treated on Capitol Hill; holiday greetings via FaceBook; NETFLIX gets rid of red envelopes; eight killed in Louisiana copter crash; Pat Hingle has died at the age of 84 from a blood disorder; former AG Griffin Bell has died at the age of 90; new IL SEN rejected by Capitol Hill; the ‘First Cat’ died 1/4/09 at the age of eighteen; Obama proposing $500 tax cut per individual; one day’s calories, eaten at one holiday meal; lose your job within a year of buying a new Hyundai, return your car to the dealer; FORD sales slump; NM GOV ‘appeared’ on ABC Nightly News; Obama daughters, Malia & Sasha, will go to school in Bethesda, MD; Chrysler sales dropped by 53%; NATL AVG price of gas has risen to $1.672 per gallon, with AK & HI averaging over $2 per gallon, with AK & MT the highest & lowest priced states; Waterford Crystal files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy; DOW slightly down; the name of the game in politics: ‘you give something, to get something’; KY pastor, charged with sexual abuse, has HIV; bus from Rosslyn to Dulles Airport; METRO will have eight-car trains in service;

basset hound & owl have bonded in Britain; Madoff swindled the INTL Olympic Committee; price of oil has reached $47 per barrel; parts of Gaza have no electricity or water; targets: synagogues vs. mosques; diplomacy vs. intense fighting in Gaza; Israel gaining more ground, cutting area in thirds; 500 Palestinians have died in the conflict, global protests continue; too early for ceasefire; gold at $857.80 per ounce; foreign markets on the rise; Ferrari auto sales doing OK; Jett Travolta suffered from seizures; $700 million US Embassy opened in Baghdad;

…1/4-09: never forfeit your principles

38º in ABQ; 44% humidity at 6A…interstates & roads are becoming snow packed during the AM; $80K Quay CNTY money should be used for infrastructure problems; three shootings in 2009, one Duke City homicide, which took place in NW home; Brad made Waffles & Gravy for breakfast; Ski Santa Fe is one of the highest winter resorts in the country, over 11,250 feet; get ready for a ‘slow snow’; passionate protest in ABQ over the Middle East conflict; minivan that rolled over on I-25 overcompensated when it hit the shoulder; NM Chile crop is down; heated protests in Nob Hill; Winter Weather Advisory for ABQ, lasting until 5A tomorrow morning; wind will also be a factor in determining how much snow will fall on the Duke City; 13 of the New Year’s DUI arrests took place in Gallup; light AM snow in NW NM; police will pull vehicle over for a broken windshield, or headlights are not working; Valencia CNTY cockfighting ring busted, these games can earn $50K, those arrested can also be charged with liquor & gambling charges, and extreme cruelty to animals; barn housed bleachers, caged rings & animals, some ‘juiced’ on steroids: ‘absolute selective breeding’ that had to be euthanized; Bernalillo CNTY officer in the HOSP after his car was struck by another vehicle, when he was investigate an injury on I-40, near Carnuel; one gate to EXPO NM is closed without warning, no one knows why; many people will continue to use the Rail Runner when after the free rides end this weekend; Second Chance still housing 37 inmates; ABQ could see up to four inches on the ground by tomorrow AM; two AM crashes on I-40 near Gallup, and one along US 550 near Cuba; toasted with champagne on New Year’s Day; in NM, $2 million stolen in NM Tech by Internet theft; Richardson has withdrawn as Commerce SECY; gave construction projects to major political contributor…grand jury investigation could take months ‘to clear his name’: PAC money helped firm get lucrative deals on road & rail improvements…no typical business contracts or paperwork can be located, this probe has been ongoing for several months: so, another great challenge for Obama; enjoyed Narnia movie; he can always haunt & taunt my dreams; ‘new’ VCR set to tape; enjoyed PM nap;

Chargers beat the Colts in O/T, 23 – 17; twelve year old AZ boy found guilty of killing his mother; NJ woman drowns trying to retrieve her grandson’s dog; a down payment on our economic future; police found grocery store thief by following a trail of popcorn; Glacier NATL Park losing its namesake; eleven diners were injured when wood panels collapsed on these customers at a S Boston restaurant; Ravens beat Dolphins; Eagles beat the Vikings; SEC failed to detect Madoff scheme;

violence escalates from Middle East; Palestinian residents being crushed by Israeli tanks; Gaza will become a graveyard; suicide bombers killed many during an important holy day religious ceremony at Shiite shrine; AFG quake rocked capital; Indonesian tremors reached Australia, small tsunamis were also reported near S Japan; six die in PAK suicide blast; strength of AFG quake increased to 6.2; Gaza has been cut in two, bunkers have been bombed; ‘teach Hamas a military lesson’;

…1/3-09: only members & non-members can apply!

37º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…car washer shot on Fourth ST business, no one knows how it happened; Wayne Bent ends hunger strike; NE ABQ house fire, two dogs were rescued, and the Arson Squad has been called in; another took place in the Heights, man tried to extinguish the blaze, he was treated for injuries; home had smoke damage; a third took place in a NW Duke City barn that had been converted into a living space; film companies are making more money than NM gets in return, $1 goes out, 14¢ comes in: does it increase tourism & lodging revenue; rescued snowboarder only suffered minor injuries; New Year’s Eve murder in Roswell near Mesa Verde APT; Winter Storm Warnings in NW NM; QWEST still trying to restore service to emergency responders, may be completed by midweek of next week; the last free ride Rail Runner weekend; diesel fuel spill has been cleaned, had blocked I-40 in Guadalupe CNTY; Denish taking ‘the pulse of the Land of Enchantment’, but some of the current NM GOV appointees earn salaries over $100K; fire set in Dona Ana CNTY jail; a ‘deficit reduction plan’; for now, 50% gas hike is not an option; new Duke City school free meal program; fatal head-on collision on I-40 near Gallup, two EMS workers from CO; the Rio Grande Bridge in N NM, averages three suicides per year; Wind Advisories across parts of the state; man forgot settlement money at Gecko’s, an ABQ restaurant, server received a $200 tip; Brad prepared Scrambled Eggs for breakfast; $800K in marijuana seized at MX border; ‘sustainable prosperity’, have talent in state GOVT; prepare for bands of snow; 51 homicides occurred in Bernalillo CNTY during 2008; Lantern Tours held at Carlsbad Caverns today; $23 million spent on NM campaign races, more than in previous elections; hard times means a spike in bank robberies; Israel & Gaza posters, pamphlets & protests at UNM; higher taxes for Dona Ana CNTY to pay for Spaceport; skiing: cheap & easy fun; Sipapu: Land of Paradise; Brad made Singapore Noodles; we now have the latest in NORTON security systems; historic Luna Mansion is closing; needing food would embarrass school children?; switching old & new VCR: now, how to make the machine work; NM offers free film crew training; military man was lucking at a 2008 truck at Zangara Dodge; the message boxes that appeared when I turned on my PC seem to have disappeared; listened to Euro disco yesterday at work; enjoyed the ‘Mummy’ movie; during an injury investigating, the Killer Bees vs. the Scorpions; police was hit while in his vehicle on I-40; rollover crash on I-25S, as their car struck the shoulder, N of Socorro killed one child;

16 year old son of John Travolta, Jett, died after having a seizure, and falling in bathtub; making ‘adjustments’ on what you spend; player passes football to the opposing team member; recliners found in TX jail cells; digital TV program running out of subsidy money; Mel Gibson is 53 years old; most bank robbers get caught, don’t get much money; 400 quakes have shaken Yellowstone recently; the state of AK is fifty years old; more OR floods; truck hits guardrail, spills eggs on I-94 near Detroit, then freeze to the pavement; plenty of snow in Minot, ND; Obama will launch the American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan; riot in ID prison; Louisiana man kills his son in order to not pay child support; the bodies of two fishermen were found in the waters off Gloucester, MA;

oil is over $45 per barrel, a 3.9% increase; diplomacy & ceasefire vs. increase in rocket attacks from both sides; injured Palestinians are being allowed into Egypt; Israel is allowing people with foreign passports can leave Gaza, and travel into Jordon; Palestinians with duel membership can leave; Israel forces have moved into Gaza; 7.6 quake rocked Papua, New Guinea, one of three that shook the island nation, and causing hotels to collapse, killing four people, and injuring five; 5.9 tremor shook AFG; the Mars rover, which was supposed to have a six month lifespan, is five years old; Rice is not being sent to the Middle East; Australia will not accept GITMO detainees; the oldest person in the world has died: 115 year old lady lived in Lisbon, Portugal: now 114 year old woman in Los Angeles is now the oldest person in the world; Austria assumes control of bank swindled by Madoff; Israel says this conflict will be neither a short, nor easy land/sea invasion; there are 300 tunnels under the Gaza Strip, what is needed is a ‘doable & sustainable peace pact’;

…1/2-09: for warmer, for better

30º in ABQ; 69% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; $454 million budget deficit for NM; missing Roswell hunter has been located; 32 people arrested for DUI during New Year’s Eve/Day; last free ride weekend for Rail Runner to Santa Fe; snowboarder missing in N NM ski slopes, but avalanche danger prevented a thorough search, went into area banned for downhill skiing, was rescued; police car on the median of Central near The Beach, catching speeders; Brad went to Ta Lin Market; holiday trees can be recycled; got E-mail from YouTube comment; Hollywood stars lowering the selling prices on their NM homes; NM gas tax is 18¢; call it a ‘surcharge of climate change’; the price of gasoline in NM is $1.60 [today] vs. $2.92 [a year ago, today]; create a personal stimulus plan; employee at local car wash was shot; Well Fargo on Central robbed today;

called ‘youngster’ by regular AM R/R rider; MGR wants to get me mad, so she can take the spotlight off her; say it in public; MGR bent the rules in allowing Ann [who tried to commit suicide at work] to wear a nurse’s uniform; MGR telling me Brad was only with me for ‘the free ride’; MGR said other Coders left because of me [if so, why can’t it work on JoAnn?]; Hell Week, Day Zero; comics, and TARGET; finished Rounds by 9A; found earphones for the same price as a month ago at TARGET, which was busy, but people buying mostly basics; forgot to buy book bags; no one in my office at that time, or at any time during the day; man stood up, walked to throw his trash away, left his leather jacket just sitting on the bench: I am not that trusting in my fellow man; by 10A, no JoAnn or Jenny; ran out of diskette space;

empty AM R/R; second floor HSC Clinics were closed; left at 3P, arrived home before 5:30P;
temps from 10s to 70s [80s?]; heavy rain across NW US, causing floods & evacuations; Central TX & W NC drought; rain in the Gulf; N Rockies snow; very cold N Plains; SE US T’storms; Los Angeles fog; showers in E TN, ATL & along parts of I-65; Seattle sparsely uses salt on streets;

too many US soldiers considering suicide; four bombs found across Aspen; Congress is ready to spend money; Obama says the economy needs a jolt to the economy; reform health care & education; Wachovia is now part of Wells Fargo now Bank of America has officially bought Merrill Lynch; personal financial security is consumer’s main concern; shoppers only buying when items on sale; the credit card check; one million people were in Pasadena to watch the Rose Bowl Parade; 50% increase in the NATL gas tax in our future?; some campaign promises by Obama may have to be broken; NYC special needs student with cerebral palsy left alone in a bus; two people killed in IL plane crash; OK allows smoking in business establishments; MICROSOFT VISTA will become MICROSOFT 7; arsenic flows in TN sludge; a combo PC–TV; mental patient flying alone on flight, came out of bathroom covered in feces; official end of the VHS tape; hundreds of shoes shower MI highway; someone bought Biden’s cufflinks at thrift store; passengers in Middle East garb were detained from boarding a plane: the family received an apology, a refund, and a free flight; sometimes people keep running after their joints have been injured; manufacturing numbers still on the decline, the worst figures since 1980; Chrysler received $4 billion in bailout bucks; the DOW is up: best start in six years…for the first time in two months, it reached 9K; can markets ignore bad news?; Macy’s charged with overpricing items?;


UK burglar comes face to face with man dressed at Thor; rare Bugatti discovered in UK garage, found after a man had recently passed away; Hamas political & religious leader, plus seventeen members of his family, were killed as the battle moves into Day Seven; Hamas keeps firing, seen by reporters; for sale: Latvia: $10.7 billion price tag; foreign markets higher; mosques are prime targets; reporters watch rockets streak across the sky; World Peace Day; peace still is possible; Communist Cuba is fifty years old; more polar bears plunge for New Year’s Day dip; were fireworks the cause of Thailand discothèque fire?; New Year’s Day will also be Sovereignty Day for Iraq; did bombed mosque contain weapons?; Israel allowing sick Palestine to leave the Gaza Strip; Palestinian rockets can reach Tel Aviv; world’s oldest woman has died at the age of 115 years old;

…1/1-09: the gift of life, is life itself

30º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…Wells Fargo in Smith’s on Constitution was robbed yesterday; 150 deaths in 2008, and 1K injuries from DUI incidents; carjacker came back after theft, attacked female driver & her baby; bulletproof glass installed to protect tellers in Duke City banks; a needed midday nap; Farmington policeman faces battery charges; cult leader fasting in prison; police officer involved with killing a woman in a parking lot; former UCLA coach goes to NMSU; new call center will break ground in Rio Rancho; City of Vision needs new MGR from its Star CTR; Santa Fe restaurants’ business booming with start of Rail Runner rides; car fire in NE ABQ; QUEST must restore Internet service to SkyWi, INC by tomorrow: took less than a day to halt service, but will take about a week to restore it; NM float won the Bob Hope Humor Award; break-in at Hobbs evidence Room; home at Ninety-Eighth & Central that was the site of a recent murder has been declared ‘substandard’; got rid of unnecessary garbage; ski helmet rental should be emphasized at resorts to prevent further deaths; two storms heading to NM; Fenton Lake closed, due to unsafe conditions; a day to be with the ‘elusive Mr. B’, the person I love; ABQ precipitation in 2008 was lower than AVG; ‘open for business in NM’; construction starts this year, now that Virgin Galactic has signed twenty years spaceport lease with NM; exercise: a cheap form of entertainment; high pressure over NM today; warm water restored to retirement home near Eubank; 2009: the year of transition, for the better;

4.5 million Americans receiving unemployment checks; the [R] is old news; energy collapse that started in July; Obama has the catalyst to do what he said, improve the infrastructure; bomb scare shut down two banks in downtown Aspen, police looking for former resident, found him, dead; VIT D & fish oil helps health; Moon Pie dropped in AL on New Year’s Eve; GM got its first ‘loan’ of $4 billion; one million celebrated New Year’s in Times SQ; the very bad year on Wall ST, $7 trillion lost by investors; volatility & bad vibes; ‘knit jeans’ are in; snow in ATL?; people still stuck on the road; the Times SQ ball weighed as much as an elephant; people should still save money: lending, stocks & housing market upswings will mean the worst is over, will they occur in 2009?; some ‘experts’ say not until 2010; people need more fiber; Time Warner & VIACOM reach a deal; more snow in NW US; 46 floats will appear in Rose Bowl Parade, the theme is ‘Hats Off to Entertainment’; Obama must provide calm & confidence, reach out to [R]; more jobs to repair items; Raleigh dropped ‘The Great Oak’; WV is the highest state with accidental death from prescribed drugs overdose; granola is great!; ‘Corvette’ refers to a small warship; last night’s “confetti storm” in NYC; Americans need more Calcium; get rid of the scale, use a tape measure; best time to invest when ’there is blood in the street’, take the risk; people go ‘doctor hopping’ to get multiple prescriptions; Obama cannot raise taxes; Martha believes CT is more open-minded than CA; five people killed in NE DC house fire; below zero wind chills in NYC last night; ‘Milk’ & ‘Benjamin Button’, in CA, no texting by drivers; MA residents can legally possess an ounce of pot; two movies to see; live longer, try running; five people killed on overnight OH crash; cruise worker fell overboard off the FL coast; Russian professor predicts that the US will break apart in 2010, ‘fractured’ by a civil war: the Atlantic states will join the EU, the N Plains will become part of Canada, others states will focus on the large states of CA & TX; AK will merge with Russia; be able to handle crisis situations; health care jobs will increase in 2009; one billion watched the Tiffany ball drop; ‘pepper in some fun’; man stopped & arrested at White House checkpoint after shotgun shells found in his vehicle; remote control for power strip; will budget cuts force CA to cut its school year by one week?; ‘Kitchen Central’; Aspen bomber dislike his town becoming the ‘playground of the rich’; WA man used paintballs to stop drunk driver; Obama family have moved into the Hay-Adams Hotel; venison rack with mole; four men have been arrested for gang raping a lesbian in CA; SEN Claiborne Pell of RI has died at the age of 90 from Parkinson’s disease; Oprah donated gave $365K to ATL inner city schools; 2009: the year of having a PC in your pocket; people still spend money on pets; will AK move its state capital to Anchorage?; Will & Jada Smith: Couple of the Year; 'an attack on one of us, is an attack on all of us’; online sales down, except for Amazon.com; the best college is in MA;

Russia has cut gas supply to the Ukraine; military strikes posted on YouTube; so far, 400 killed in Gaza; more Israeli military forces moved to border with Palestinian land; UN peace talks have collapsed; rockets strike classrooms; 140K soldiers remain in Iraq; Hamas commander killed, leader sent his son on a suicide mission; Jerusalem peace demonstration; no room at the peace table for terrorist groups; Israel wants a ‘brief, strong ground invasion’; baby born on intercontinental flight, from Amsterdam to Boston, will become Canadian citizen; Cuban revolution was fifty years ago; the Caribbean country has 200 political prisoners, country desires change, without US pressure; Canadian avalanche survivors recall leaving their friends behind; Iraq takes control of the Green Zone from US; poison: the suicide method most favored by women;

…12/31-08: a fan of the human race

37º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…of times past: good music, decent crowd, lousy floor; the body says it’s tired; I’m running out of headphones; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; water main broke at San Mateo & Candelaria in NE ABQ: geysers erupting, pavement collapsing; get home for free with Safe Ride; man arrested in Belen beating; Four Corners bank robbery; Brad prepared a delicious Pork Loin Roast, served with Savory Sauce; holdup in ABQ hold-ups?; our state’s Rose Bowl float is: “Hats Off to NM…Beep! Beep!”; the customized forecast; correction: 81 robberies in NM, not ABQ; tomorrow, NM minimum wage rises to $7.50; looking for a lawyer; Wilson for GOV in 2010?; Snob Hill makes money making movies; NM Highlands UNIV merger with College of Santa Fe is stalled; plenty of visitors at the River of Lights last night; NM computer system goes online 1/5/09; state survey on health;

one, small phrase: Day Six; JoAnn get ‘better’, MGR got ‘worse’; first time JoAnn get holiday gift from Brent; the times are changing; Myrna asked about Brad, she enjoyed the Mole; combine business with pleasure at work; Lucille has no heat; finished Rounds by 9A; I’m sorry for you ruining my day; told Brent about the transition of Coders during peak respiratory season; “I saw the way you were looking at that form”; Myrna, Evelyn & myself together this AM; nobody worked in Data Entry during Winter Break, are they all UNMMG employees; no one pulled apart PEDS Clinic charts, either; respiratory season has started; saw Maggie this PM; JoAnn & Jenny were there; Myrna left at noon: Evelyn, at 2P; myself: 3P; took the Red Line [since ‘regular’ buses supposedly stopped at 3P], and arrived at home before 3:45P; vicious people are lonely people;

deep freeze: from N Plains to New England to DC, plus the wind chill factor; snow in Cleveland & Buffalo, parts of OH TRPK & I-90; temps from 0s to 70s; more Spokane snow; Seattle rain; warm in Los Angeles & Phoenix; Midwest without power; semi toppled by winds in CO;

Eve of the Year; Mighty Mender; ten year old ‘reporter’ will attend Obama inauguration; economic turndown in ‘the’ Vegas; lose sleepless nights; the ‘Peach Drop’ in ATL; IL GOV playing ‘chicken’, acting within his power, never has happened before, to reject an appointee; being grumpy is contagious, nice & negative; the same is true for association with overweight people; MN SEN race still undecided; will GM, via GMAC, become a bank; consumers passing up ‘big ticket items’; Brooklyn business printing Obama inauguration invitations, using recycled paper, helped boost their income, with a ripple effect; car in DC ends in construction hole; bad economy canceling celebrations; Denver Broncos coach is fired; two CO ski employees shot & killed at resort; members of Congress getting a pay raise?; Celtics have only lost five games; Bill & Hillary will attend Times Square event; acupuncture is described as a ‘tap’; 2008: the year of $5 gas, economic fears and foreclosures; DOW ended the year on a positive note; TVA being sued $165 million for sludge damage; a seat surrounded by scandal; stop stalling the Senate selection; two MD teens set another boy’s hair on fire by using lighter fluid: then recorded the event on a camera phone; OR woman defeated a naked burglar by grabbing his testicles; the DOW ended 2008 down 34%, the worst decline since 1931; the twenty-first century Radio Flyer wagon, with padded seats & location for computer games; medical care before midnight; recession & robberies;

world’s oldest mother in India want to have another child, a brother for their sister; oil dropped to $36.94 per barrel, rose to $37.53, closed at $44.60 per barrel; one second has been added to 2008; Air New Zealand is going ‘green’ with its fuel; Jupiter is Earth’s protector from space debris; Obama faces Middle East problem started over 100 years ago; Russia says Hamas seeking quick, peaceful end; the truce has been rejected; more military objectives must be met before ceasefire, says Israel; mirage, not solution, will allow humanitarian aid; wounded Palestinian being treated in Israel; foreign markets rising; Columbia crew never had a chance, suffered blunt trauma before explosion; Bangkok discothèque fire kills dozens; bomb blast in Basque city, ‘ETA’ behind the explosion?; in London, the start of ‘swishing’: the art of trading clothes; Zune MP3 players freeze across the planet; New Year wishes from INTL Space Station; all eyes on Hamas;