…8/13-09: stand behind those we serve

72º in ABQ; 44% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; Valencia CNTY couple charged with molesting & torturing their 2½ old infant, these attacks started when the child was two weeks old; the NATL AVG of children to school nurses is 750: in NM, it’s 780…and it’s much higher in other states; ABQ police may be making house calls where children have been charged with a crime; Brad making Pasta & Pesto Sauce; teens stealing guns from homes; thirteen month old baby boy died in bathtub, uncle tries to kill himself because he had left the child unattended for ten minutes; fourteen year old stabbed a sixteen year old at the Curry CNTY Fair; ABQ under a Flash Flood advisory this evening; ‘identify trance energy source, scanning language diversity’; a 70 year old Eddy CNTY man has a serious form of W Nile Virus; where does the Green Line stop, or go; filming a movie scene at Lomas where the train tracks are located;

discussed T-Cell count with Dr. Miller; Code Purple at 6:30A; finished Rounds by 7:30A; no CTI Admits; another ABQ snakebite; received 2010 ICD revisions; MGR wants me to buy her a wolf?;

1K acre wildfire burning in N CA; NC floods & power outages after up to eight inches of rain; NYC to DC T’storms, along most of I-95; wet in Amarillo; storms in IA, IL, SD, & N TX; Austin had record heat, followed by record rainfall; soggy S New England; temps from 60s to 100s;

another recall: this time, 1.6 million toys that can pose safety problems for children; electric guitar pioneer Les Paul has died at the age of 94 from pneumonia; the American consumers do not believe the hard times are over; bear walks into clothing store, and stands at the window; man paints pictures on windshields by using dirt, these works of art can last as long as one month; the $599 deal, ‘all you can fly’ during one month, on Jet Blue; one in 355 homes facing foreclosures, numbers are up by 30% from last year, 360K properties; key interest rates remain stable; who knew?: the current recession started in 2007?; people have lost faith & trust in politicians, mostly caused by the health care reform bill, which most Americans say they can’t afford to change; Secret Service detain a protester in Hagerstown, MD for carrying a ‘Death to Obama, his wife & children’ sign; more newspapers are seeing more job losses; St. George, UT newspaper will not print a photo of two men who are getting married; weird: baby locked inside RI daycare CTR for an hour after closing; retail sales dropped in July; former dean of an exclusive boys’ school has been accused of molesting students; suicide hotline funds are shrinking; FORD recalls workers, overtime is in demand, more customers want hybrid vehicles; man is paid to wear a T-shirt with a company’s logo for a day; 49% of those polled do not approve of how Obama is handling health care reform; the ‘birth’ of the ‘new’ penny; town hall rage;Lockerbie bomber may be released, suffering from terminal cancer; the UK ice cream called ‘sex pistol’; recession nearing its end in Germany & France?; oil is $71.08 per gallon; gold is $959 an ounce; NASA asteroid detection device budget running low; Julia Child cookbook sales increase after release of recent movie;

…8/12-09: patterns to progress

69º in ABQ; 40% humidity at 6A…another overnight feeling to vomit, that subdued; Brad & I are quite quiet after a mix-up in schedules; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; meth & firearms found in Belen home; La Cueva baseball coach accused of improper behavior; several small brush fires around Rio Rancho; more Duke City schools will stay open later, some until 5P, so students can retake a class; two ABQ police officers attacked last night near Third & Central; did Duke City cop kill his wife at their home in 2007…some signs point to ‘yes’; NM is vulnerable to oil prices; La Posada de Albuquerque has special deals for its grand opening…whenever that is!, and I say this ad on AOL; five teens injured in rollover crash on Sandia Peak; documentary of TV ‘Simpsons’ filmed at Isotopes Park; Brad used bug spray to kill a wasp & its nest that had called our B-B-Q its home;

CTI nurse has been to Quartzite, AZ; meeting at 2P with endocrinology; and how much trouble will I get into for this ‘incident’, or will I be told I take things too seriously; or another three years of hard labor; UNM is ranked 239 out of 600 colleges around the US; Code Purple by 6:30A; finished Rounds by 7:30A; delivered forms to PICU, and their ‘secret’ storage place; MGR says to leave the bad times in the past; no PICU Admits; turned in July audit charges; another snake bite, this time in ABQ; patient with gunshot wound bought the weapon so he could join a gang; some employees are under so much pressure;

flooding along parts of I-64, heavy rains in KY, WV, VA the Carolinas & parts of I-95; wet in NYC, ATL, DC, W FL & New England; brush fire burns in La Brea, CA; in the Atlantic, the TD becomes a TS, with 35 mph winds; storms for Amarillo, and parts of I-40; very hot in the N Plains; showers from New Orleans to Miami; temps from 70s to 100s;

duck wearing a sandal to repair an injury; Nora, the piano playing cat; Americans pay the highest cell phone bills in the world; [D] add security at heath care debates, citizens don’t trust politicians, yelling is a ‘demonstration of democracy’; link between antidepressants & suicide?; N CA shot and killed a toll booth operator and another man in a parking lot; home prices have fallen 15.6% during the last quarter as compared to that of 2008; more militia groups forming across the US; American Express & Discover will no longer charge customers who exceed their credit limit; man rescued after falling during a hike in the Shenandoah NATL Park; US soldier may have been a hit man for the MX drug cartel; pay raises are the worst in 33 years; people want to talk to real travel agents, not use the Internet?; the era of health care co-ops; error!…a 52 inch Samsung flat TV for $9.99 at Best Buy…not exactly; CA gay rights group may delay the fight for same-sex ceremonies until 2012; GA man found guilty of aiding terrorist groups to wage a ‘violent jihad’; "GI Joe" hunk was once a male stripper at a FL ladies’ club; Harvey Milk honored by Obama, posthumously receives the PRES Medal of Freedom; OH bank will not allow hats, hooded sweatshirts worn up or sunglasses; US record deficit of $1.27 trillion; the DOW ended up; running a race through Death Valley?;hikers entered Iran by mistake; thirteen killed in New Guinea plane crash; the biggest gem heist in British history: two minutes to take 43 pieces of jewelry, one of the thieves has been captured?; 6.5 tremor rocks E coast of Japan; oil rose to $70.42 per barrel; gold rose to $952.40 an ounce; the world will house seven billion people by 2011; Russian cargo ship ‘disappears’ off the coast of England…pirates?; to raise ratings, kill people, that’s what a Brazilian TV host supposedly did;

…8/11-09: that’s my vision

71º in ABQ; 20% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; woman who struck a motorcycle this past weekend was drunk; carjacking started in NM, ended in Flagstaff AZ, with the thieves killing themselves; the Duke City school system has grown, and gone green: new structures for the growing city, renovating the aging schools; woman stole controlled pain medicine [morphine] from VA HOSP; Olde Towne Salsa Fiesta this weekend; NM GOV wants mandatory jail time & drug tests for DUI drivers; Santa Rosa mayor will run for NM Lieu. GOV; 250 acres burning in Manzano MTN; the NM Gruet wine will be served in Seattle; there was a shooting near Zuni & San Mateo; new NM centennial license plate will be available starting 1/1/10, the current one was adopted in the 1980s; man driving drunk with three children in his car; NM GOV calls for special session to discuss budget issues; vandals climbed over the fence of the burnt Castle APTS, and spray painted the walls, the complex had A/C units in windows, and a laundry room in the basement; girlfriend helped Curry CNTY inmate escape, but he was quickly captured;I guess I should expect to be told how I dress for work: why do I wear a business shirt & tie; UNM ‘master plan’ revealed today; finished Rounds by 7:15A; Evelyn became a grandmother during this past weekend; Meangel readmitted; no A/C on AM R/R; the case of ‘stealing’ red envelopes, as stated in jest by my coworker; so I wrote to my MGR at the end of the day, and explained the incident…will this make life better, or worse; Code Purple at 6:30A; former MX PRES will speak at UNM next month;

TD Felicia still weakening, but still heading towards HI; ABQ weather conditions mentioned on the Weather Channel; excessive heat for NYC; the slowest hurricane season since 1992, which started with Andrew; wet along parts of I-75 & I-30; storms for OK, TX, AR; showers in Philly, Boston, and Miami to Dallas; N New England rain; wet in OH; TD #2 in the Atlantic, with 30 mph winds, traveling W at 13 mph; temps from 60s to 100s;

a similar mechanical malfunction at the same roller coaster occurred nine years ago; Obama hits the road, and will feel the heat at NH town hall meetings, where the topic will be health care reform, and the 1K page bill; Eunice Shriver has died at the age of 88; toxic assets still exist in American banks; the $19 hotel room in San Diego has no electricity or A/C; fourteen month old crawls out of his home, and wanders into busy OH intersection; Madoff’s right-hand man knew what was happening, and will name names; the American home is shrinking in size; thirteen year old WI girl may spend sixty years in jail for killing her step-grandfather over milk; 200 million Americans have private INS; six year old boy rescues two year old girl from Long Island house fire; more shouting matches at more health care debates; homeless woman gave $150K to college; don’t believe the ‘scare tactics’, disagree about things that are real, or true…so says Obama; AARP does not or endorse health care reform; ‘some’ may have to change their INS coverage; WI couple collects outhouses; Chevy Volt gets 230 mpg?; should SC GOV be impeached?; Madoff’s ‘pal’ paid $3 million a year; Congress cancels luxury jets for themselves; the DOW ended down; is Cash for Clunkers program running out of energy?; four year old boy dials 911, saves grandfather’s life; swastika painted on Congressman’s office; oil dropped to $68.87 per barrel; gold slid to $945.90 an ounce; so many quakes, in so little time; one death from Japanese tremor; two nuclear reactors were shut down during the tremor; baby elephant was rescued after falling into a manhole on a Thai street; news flash!: the people who control AFG are corrupt!; three pigeons in Australia teamed up to get water from a fountain, so each could have a drink, and take a bath; well dressed men stole $65 million in jewelry from London store;

…8/10-09: good is a four letter word…that isn’t bad

70º in ABQ; 36% humidity at 6A…Brad’s Chiro visit; 100 students will be attending the College of Santa Fe during the fall semester; Manzano MTN fire has been burning for several weeks; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; another mobile meth lab busted in NE ABQ; free immunizations for NM children will take place today; NM in the middle of a Medicaid claim fraud investigation; plumber had to go through our APT to work on the A/C of the tenant below us; three car collision last night in the Duke City; another NM military man has received the Bronze Star; COMCAST closing NM call centers, 178 will lose their jobs; NM has recorded its first H1N1 death, a 45 year old Sierra CNTY woman who also had liver problems; Lovelace paid for Brad’s visit to Dr. Hubbard; Eclipse Aviation should reopen by the end of this month?; a vehicle crushed a motorcycle in an accident at the corner of Coors & Quail;UNM students will be required to take one ‘green’ class; finished Rounds by 7:30A, all alone in our Coding room; by 9:30A, we were in Code Purple; sign of the times; all beds at the Children’s Psych HOSP are full; Belen patient admitted for rattlesnake bite;

T’storms across KC, St. Louis, NE, & CO, parts of I-70; rain in Chicago & INDY; excessive heat warnings from NC to Boston, followed by severe weather from Philly to DC; showers along parts of I-80, Detroit & Syracuse; Tropical Storm Felicia nearing HI; temps from 60s to 100s;

battle continues over Michael Jackson’s estate, and movie deal to include his final rehearsal; sky diving simulator at Universal Studios in Los Angeles; FL inmates cooking up their own barbecue sauce; some CA inmates had to be taken to the HOSP after weekend riots; ‘exclusion’ fly zone below 1100 feet above the Hudson, outside the supervision of air traffic controllers; NATL AVG price of gas is now $2.64 per gallon; $1.2 trillion wasted on unnecessary health care; Clinton vs. Obama vs. popularity vs. health care reform; the yearly AVG is eleven midair crashes; someone is killing horses in S FL for their meat; a night at the Rochester, MN airport for 47 passengers who could not leave the plane, and were rerouted there because of bad weather in the Twin Cities; remember the right to free speech; GM dealerships are selling their vehicles on EBay; an increase in cattle rustling in OK & TX; DOW ended down; 32 people stuck for 4½ hours on CA Roller Coaster;

mudslides in India killed at least 43 people; world’s longest wedding dress nearly 1½ miles; Mosul & Baghdad bombed by al Qaeda forces; a different typhoon struck the W coast of Japan; 80K attended the Iceland Gay Pride Festival, in a country that has 300K inhabitants, complete with ‘Pride’ umbrellas; oil is $71.47 per barrel; gold is $946.50 an ounce; Obama met with our ‘neighbors’, discussed the H1N1 virus; 7.6 quake in the Indian Ocean, followed by a 6.4 tremor on the S coast of Honshu, Japan: tsunami warnings posted; another in the series of ‘Dune’ books, but written by the son, who does not capture the same spirit his father Frank Herbert did; continental conversations & co-operation of the ‘three amigos’; AFG poppy fields have become battlefields;

…8/9-09: stop, pause, savor

64º in ABQ; 16% humidity at 6A…retired Air Force colonel who resides in NM tells his story how he escaped from Iran; a fifty acre fire is causing smoke to spread into the Duke City; someone working for the Public Regulators Commission is a convicted felon; Azzarb was born under the sign of Cancer, which makes me a very sensitive person…I can detect people’s emotions, in what they write, and when they are face to face with me; Four Corners fire burning near oil wells; typical ABQ traffic reports take one week before they are go online; woman caught stealing $700 worth of clothes from the Cottonwood Mall, when she had $200 in her purse; Central & San Mateo: an area of drugs, prostitutes, fights & traffic; after much effort battling with Ma Belle, Benjamin Franklin & Thomas Edison, we got the upstairs phone connected; time to recycle manure from the NM State Fair; PNM wants to triple it solar energy output;CA police chase turned deadly, as seven people, three of them children, were killed; Hurricane Felicia heading towards Hilo with 75 mph winds; ‘Hair’ revival a Broadway success; shouting matches over health care reform; G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra earned $56.2 million this weekend: the film ‘Julia & Julia’ had $20.1 million in ticket sales; the latest Harry Potter movie took fourth place; by midday Felicia became a tropical storm; fly the busy skies of NYC; helicopter remains lifted from the Hudson; Boston is in second place, but 5½ games behind the Yankees, the Red Sox have lost five games in a row; parts of the prison set on fire, when a riot erupted in a jail near Chino, CA; one–third of Americans take a daily nap: the rest are walking zombies; some students in the US attend school all year;

more of the Arctic melting in the summer heat; 7.1 quake shook Tokyo, its epicenter was off the coast of Japan, bullet trains & baseball games came to a halt, but no serious injuries or damage have been reported, neither have there been any tsunami warnings; Obama traveling to MX for a three nation summit; tropical storm targeted China, eighty inches of rain eroded soil, toppled hotel into river; plane hand to turn around to AFG after Chinese were informed of a possible bomb onboard the airliner; no one reported injured after three explosions rocked Majorca, a Spanish island where the King & Queen were vacationing; deaths caused by members of MX drug cartels are on the rise; 51 US soldiers in Iraq have come down with the swine flu;

…8/8-09: virtually visible

69º in ABQ; 22% humidity at 6A…former Duke City mayor Louis Saavedra has died from cancer at the age of 76: he helped create TVI, which later became Central NM Community College; Farmington APT complex will no longer be part of the HUD program, meaning some tenants will be forced to move; $1.67 million has been earmarked for NM to help battle the H1N1 virus; PNM wants to broaden its solar energy ability; Los Alamos CNTY Fair this weekend, and the ABQ Film Festival being held; diapers & prom outfits are also tax free this weekend; nine people attempted to swindle $1 million from fourteen NM banks by taking out loans & credit cards, then claimed they were victims of ID theft…then applied for new loans, and formed a credit counseling service in the Uptown area of ABQ to fix their own credit reports; Brad prepared Eggs for breakfast, and a very tasty Shrimp Pot Pie for lunch; I had a ‘Sustiva dream’ last night; 5% humidity at 5P; Brad rewired the upstairs to find a better location for our phone; not ‘criticism’, just ‘analysis & observation’; Smokey the Bear is 65 years old; three children, from 1 – 7 years old, were rescued when a Gallup home caught fire;politicians threatened at meetings, and at home, by angry voters who oppose the health care reform, or don’t get answers to their concerns or questions…trust me, Congress has a ‘super Cadillac’ health INS policy; the $19 hotel room in San Diego…minus a bed, and toilet paper; Sotomayor will be sworn in today, pledges ‘fidelity to the letter of the law’, she is the Junior Justice; two more banks close in FL, and one shuts its doors in OR; pitchman Billy Mays’ body tested positive for cocaine; nine people are dead after a small plane & copter crash near NYC, over the Hudson River, there were no survivors, no mandatory monitoring equipment is required; Hurricane Felicia shutting down HI beaches; I have to include this, since I have seen it several times during the past few days…Oprah is being sued for $1 trillion for stealing from an author; weird: TX man used his five month old niece as a shield, threatening to break its neck if arrested: in the end police used a Taser on him;glaciers are melting faster than predicted; famous Abbey Road photo is forty years old; the three US hikers have been relocated to Tehran;

…8/7-09: sounds like summer

66º in ABQ; 70% humidity at 6A…to the Mall; the back to school tax free weekend in NM, other states also use this policy to attract more back to school business; GAQ; shooting at NE ABQ APT, one man wounded in the leg; SW Duke City mobile home blaze put one man in the HOSP, there were no fire hydrants close to the property, and won’t be expected until 2010; what is this with people attacking their spouses with samurai swords: this time, a NM corrections officer attacked his wife with that object; meth lab busted in Durango, CO area; another one, complete with crack cocaine was raided in the S Valley of ABQ…inside that dwelling were six children, ages 10 to 15; the Cherry Chipotle wins the NATL Award on the Regis & Kelly show, sandwich created by Durango native; Brad created simply sinful Meringue Cookies; AVG price of gas: in the US, $2.61 per gallon: in NM, $2.62 per gallon: in ABQ, $2.61 per gallon; Connie Mack World Series being held in Farmington; more jobs at Cannon AFB, more homes needed in Clovis & Portales; La Plata CNTY man claimed he had survived a plane crash, but it was all a hoax; Cannon AFB airman faces child porn charges; Coronado Shopping CTR had plenty of people walking…but buying?: there appeared to be sales: and, to us, we saved a lot of money per the ‘original price tags’; NM GOV declares today ‘Purple Heart Day’; solar energy grants awarded to LANL & Sandia Labs; Zangara Dodge may reopen soon, but under new ownership; left at 12:30P, to pursue pizza [Saggio’s, and it is still great!], and seek comics; the spy in the sky; single line pseudo code, but more multi-line entries for cardiac surgical procedures, than in other areas; finished Rounds by 7:15A; told MGR I would work a few hours on Labor Day Sunday; Code Purple at 6:30A; arrived home by 5P;

strong storms in NE, IA, WI, IL & the Dakotas; wet in Chicago & Miami; Santa Fe temp mentioned on the Weather Channel, ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; Hurricane Felicia still heading towards HI, now as a CAT 2 storm; bad weather in Omaha & S FL; damp in New England; temps from the 60s to 100s; waterspout sighted off AK coast;

this is the worst recession the WWII era; more cash for clunkers approved; Sotomayor is the third female US Supreme Court judge; clinical trials for the H1N1 vaccine will begin; AK Airlines jet blew a tire on takeoff, but landed safely at LAX; 1K lb. marlin caught off the MD coast; SC First Lady & her children moved out of the governor’s mansion; after a series of strokes, 88 year old Eunice Kennedy Shriver is in a Barnstable, MA HOSP; fewer job losses or layoff, but high unemployment rate…no, it actually dropped to 9.4%; child days after he & his mother become lost in Death Valley, CA; the era of the ‘comfortable’ four inch high heel, Kenneth Cole; Nicholas Cage owes $6 million in back taxes; CA meat packer recalls 825K pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with salmonella; window washers dangle over Long Beach streets; DC residents tried to rescue people after a serious collision in the at PA & AL SE; the longest yard sale has over 4K vendors, runs 685 miles from OH to AL; when voters meet politicians, these Americans are called stupid or mobs; fewer full time nurses in schools; 247K jobs lost in July, the nineteenth straight month of decline; 15 million people are looking for work, five million have been searching for over six months, many jobs are not returning;

top Taliban leader in PAK ‘may’ have been killed; the CERN supercollider may be ready to restart this November; oil rose to $71.98 per barrel; gold fell to $960 an ounce; the US will remain in AFG for at least another two years; Taiwan prepares for typhoon;