…8/20-09: as the quest continues

67º in ABQ; 19% humidity at 6A…the NW Duke City Education Corridor opens on the first day of school; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; former NM SECY of State is accused of misusing $3 million in public money; so far, more in NM are uninsured than in all of 2008; volunteer reserve officer is acting like a detective, overstepping his duties; Brad’s check arrived yesterday, that was also a minor stress factor to me…see, I’m a Cancer, I was put on this world to worry; it has been a rough year being the only person bringing in a paycheck; Eclipse Aviation will resume business on 9/1/09, solely in the Duke City, but unsure how many former employees will be hired; 500K people in NM are not insured;

is dedication a fading trait in business?; something we leaned; all residents are residents; there are sub-interns & medical students, and there are fellows & attending; and that it’s just a job, where you make mistakes, stumble, correct our errors, and go on doing the best that I can; Dr. Hinkle is a resident; it’s amazing what a little cut & paste can do: MGR wanted the updated billing sheets by tomorrow, so I worked on those assigned to me until the task was done, about three hours; yesterday ended with a hug from Myrna; revised ICD sheets are now due tomorrow, not 9/1/09; I feel betrayed by the doctors in one ward, saying the same thing at the same time; finished Rounds by 7:15A; Code Purple at 6:30A; MGR said I could have completed the ICD project on Tuesday; then the heat rose in the phone conversation when I could not reach Brad, who was taking a shower, so the day ended on the down side;

high waves/surf, beach erosion, dangerous rip currents along the E Coast as Bill move NW at 18 mph, with winds of 125 mph; storms, and more storms…from OK to MO; wet from ATL to Miami; chance of tornadoes in AR, IL, IN; showers for Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati & Detroit; wet in MN & WI, across OH and from NY to TX; 105 mph winds severely damaged IN town; NYC moisture; temps from 60s to 100s;

when will car dealers receive ‘clunker’ money?; art by using discarded phone books; Prop 8 trial will be heard in 2010; who will soon sit in Ted Kennedy’s SEN seat; every time a husband cheated, he bought his wife jewelry…a total of 43 times, with a total value exceeding $400K; CA boy set friend on fire twice; robbers left man in abandoned U-Haul truck; the 103 lb. catfish; two men stole $1 million in jewelry from JC Penney; mortgage delinquencies are still rising; the ‘Candy Land’ game turned 60!, and Lombard ST in San Fran went colorful; if the health bill fails, so will the [D];credit card companies have to wait 45 days before raising interest rates; 750K cars sold through the ‘clunker’ problems, but where’s the cash that is promised to dealerships?;
low turnout feared in AFG NATL elections, the road to democracy is rough; ballots being brought by burros; two more arrested in London massive jewel heist; oil is $72.44 per barrel; gold is $941.30 an ounce; the compassionate release of the Lockerbie terrorist from jail, dying from cancer, and has three months to live, greeted & treated as a hero in Libya; Adidas shoes turn 60 years old; people voted based on what their AFG tribal leaders told them to do;

…8/19-09: ergonomic handle

68º in ABQ; 34% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; NM GOV will make with two N Korean delegates [their request] for two days in Santa Fe to discuss renewable energy resources in his state; ‘transferable warranty’?; man committed suicide by slamming into a Rail Runner train at the Menaul crossing; parts of I-10 will be widened from four to six lanes; another Duke City job fair; Brad has finished, and started another painting; AM say ‘Unser/UNM/Uptown’; N NM hotel owner wants his staff to change their last names, and only one syllable long; the first W Nile Virus death in NM, a 45 year old Dona Ana CNTY man; La Cueva coach fired; Durango man surrendered Native American artifacts; man stole mail across NM, used the names too commit ID theft; 6% humidity at 5P; Zozobra goes high-tech, appears on Twitter;today, we met with Pulmonary & PICU; on the days the ‘lists’ aren’t ready, then what?; finished Rounds about 7:15A; Code Purple by 6:30A; no CTI Admits; all PICU doctors said they did not look for residents’ note when they completed their own entry…so I will be audited; another child was attacked by a pit-bull; Dr. Davies does not trust spreadsheets;

chance of twisters in Chicago; rain in the Twin Cities, and parts of I-29 & I-35; wet weather along stretches of I-70, KC & Tulsa, and KS; Bill is now a CAT 4 hurricane with 135 mph winds that could pose problems for Cape Cod; there had been no warning when an EF-1 twister struck the Houston/Beaumont area; tornadoes also toppled trees in Baltimore CNTY, MD; hot & Humid in NE US, followed by storms that will stretch from Boston all the way down the E Coast to Orlando, while remnants of Ana will bring rain to S FL; showers in Memphis, TN & Louisville, KY; temps from 70s to 100s;TX man killed when heavy rains floods an underground construction tunnel; Obama meets with Bill Clinton to discuss the release of US journalists from N Korea; $600K violin left in NYC cab, located by using a GPS device; the trendy ‘visual videos’: the lyrics match the motions; Michael Jackson will be buries in a Los Angeles cemetery; the man who invented ’60 Minutes’ has died at the age of 86; women arrested after having a fight with a boy in a wheelchair; H1N1 cases rapidly increasing in AK, HI, ME, SC & Puerto Rico; MA lawyers said they knew their son was growing marijuana at their home; easy to buy illegal weapons; ‘advisory panel of experts’ will determine quality of health care; HIV/AIDS deaths are down; American men & women are living longer; as of today, Congress would veto the current health bill proposal; need to reassured the current insured; fiery Dartmouth, MA town hall meeting: but Barney Frank struck back; 5.0 quake shook AK, but no injuries reported; India cab driver whose vehicle can only go in reverse; because of warm conditions across Britain, sign indicating not to lift arms on roller coasters, thus preventing the smell of body odor from spreading; H1N1 cases rapidly increasing in UK, SE Asia & S Africa; AFG leaders asking for a media blackout, are expecting violence during elections, which is almost guaranteed by Taliban forces; more violence in the Green Zone of Baghdad, about 100 deaths, after attacks on Parliament & the Finance Ministry: US troops can only help when asked; closed circuit TV camera captures man smashing head first through glass door; Discovery will attempt to launch next week; oil is $72.42 per barrel; gold is $944.80 per ounce;

…8/18-09: energy centers

67º in ABQ; 23% humidity at 6A…the bug has been debugged; GAQ; computer glitch prevents both ABQ school workers & unemployed people from receiving their checks; Valencia CNTY woman struck four different properties with a vehicle, then escaped on foot; five miles of I-25 will be shut down for widening from Tramway, heading N, in both directions; town hall meeting last night ended about 1½ later than planned; Four Corners & the Navajo Nation are two of the world’s best drives; Hobbs man has not paid any taxes since 1986, on land that has generated $225K; PM tornado warnings issued in parts of E NM; gas is $2.49 a gallon; a pimp will spend the maximum allowed time in jail; the UNK, unused space at The Beach;

Code Purple by 6:30A; very little contact from the other side of PEDS; coding software package not working yesterday; boy shot in Roswell, victim of gang wars; no PICU Admits; finished Rounds by 7:15A; told Jenny to contact me if she needed help; we aired our laundry today; the small ‘No Smoking’ signs around UNM; today is NATL Buddy Day…there were E-mails being sent by various Coders: I sent a message with a Smiley, and received lots of replies; very early AM R/R;

more storms for OK, KS, MO & AR; wet in New Orleans; Hurricane Bill has 125 mph winds, and is heading towards Bermuda; picture of the Blue Ridge Parkway featured on Weather Channel; flood watches for TX, KS & OK; NM T’storms mentioned on ABC AM News; ‘excessive heat’ for NYC & New England; Ana soaked Puerto Rico; 100K acres are on fire in CA; showers for the E Coast of FL, Detroit, Dayton, DC & ATL; temps from 60s to 100s;judge says Michael Jackson merchandise can be sold; Americans are holding on to their money; no IT jobs in Richmond, VA; we are ‘technically’ out of the recession; buy purchases of school supplies have dropped 5% from last year; will Obama concede to conservatives; even young children can suffer from depression; WI woman gets her car stuck at a 45º on open bridge span; NATL Parks may receive needed money from stimulus package; an ‘Iron Chef’ host, and a SEN will appear on Dancing with the Stars; man arrested for having rifle at Obama health care meeting; no money for dealerships from the Cash for Clunkers program; Elko, NV has never seen a day of recession; bear breaking into CO MTN homes; Sunday School teacher accused of raping & murdering an eight year old girl; pack of wild dogs kill a GA couple; bottom line: the voting public is angry with the FED GOVT; parents are spending less on children for school; Michael Jackson may be buried on his B’day; more people prefer American cars, customers crave Chevy Cobalt; the series ‘Mad Men’, set in the 60s, is a success; GM is rehiring workers; FL population has dropped, the first time in 63 years;the James Bond Cocktail: martinis, guns & girls; there is a plant that can eat rats; the AFG PRES Palace was attacked, as well as a police station, but no injuries reported; many UFO sightings seen over Stonehenge; oil is $67.33 per barrel; gold is $940 an ounce; former S Korean leader has died; S Korea to launch its own rocket;

…8/17-09: …and watch what develops

64º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…new bus schedule begins today; children of the W Mesa victims who needed back to school clothes were treated to a free wardrobe at JC Penney; GAQ; ABQ school employees will get plastic instead of paper paychecks; new Rio Rancho high school opens; more police patrols at town hall meetings across NM, especially at UNM, both the Duke City & UNIV will be on alert to prevent any violence, the presence is not meant to scare people away; Luna Mansion in Los Lunas has reopened; Catholic Church in NM needs priests; on the other hands, rave parties can have more than 30K people per event, have been held in Israel & Ibiza; NM prohibits guns in restaurants that serve alcohol…check weapons at the door?; bank robbery at the Smith’s on Coors & Montano; ground broken for Duke City High tech school; Brad made Beef with Black Bean Chili & Red Bell Pepper plus Jalapeño Pepper; overturned truck blocked entrance ramp from Cerillos RD to I-25S;

Nora wants Sleep Study to produce spreadsheets, which will bypass Coders; why does MGMT strive to make workers miserable?; finished Rounds by 7:30A; mother drove patient from Minot, ND to UNMH; Evelyn brought in her granddaughter; Code Purple by 11A; red, green & blue balloons along Central R/R bus stops: waited several minutes at Yale & Central until a R/R arrived [this stop is on all three routes] nine year old boy with gunshot wound to the leg;

wet along I-70, and in MO, IL, IN & OH; Claudette made landfall, with 50 mph winds, moving NW at 12 mph, high waves, some downpours in AL, an inch of rain an hour, wet along parts of I-10, but not a major storm; Bill is a hurricane, with 75 mph winds, moving WNW at 22 mph; N Dakota showers; flooding in Charlotte; rain from St. Louis to Cleveland, Chicago, the Quad Cities & KC; temps from 70s to 100s;

liberals alone will not be able to pass a health care reform bill; BART strike on hold, workers have tentative contract; wildfires in both N & S CA are more than 50% contained, 84K acre blaze blamed on marijuana plant farm; man arrested for attacking Milwaukee mayor; man placed on paid ADMIN leave after he was found drunk at his post: controlling a drawbridge in Boston, and failing to raise the structure when a ship approached the span; voluntary co-op enrollment, not GOVT controlled health plan: is this a ‘major compromise’ for Obama?; ‘District 9’ playing to SRO audiences, with applause at the end of the film; SC GOV ‘addicted’ to his mistress; doctors say forget INS, charge them a yearly fee, and they will see a patient at any time, at any place; small amounts of cocaine found on US currency; from 2006 to 2008, 130 million credit & debit card numbers were stolen by three men; the end of the line for Saturday mail delivery draws nearer; man threw money onto I-210 at Glendora, CA; banks still don’t want to lend money; the DOW went down; will Obama legalize gay marriage?; public INS plan option fading out of the picture?; consumers are still not spending; bottom line: businesses are still selling less; cost savings being removed from a watered down health bill; the NATL AVG price of gas is $2.64 per gallon; 2/3 of the economy is based on people buying items; only 1/3, or 45 million doses, of the H1N1 vaccine will be ready by October;

1,400 people taking advantage of the one Euro room rate at hotel near Venice; the ‘color bubble’ developed by a British scientist that won’t wash off, permanently staining clothes; accident shuts down Russian’s largest hydroelectric plant; has Japan emerged from its recession?; Iraq is torturing or killing gay males; the first Asian to win a PGA title; oil is $65.83 per barrel; gold is $932 an ounce; another 6.7 quake off the coast of Japan; Tiesto will be appearing in DC…tickets are $35; across the world, stocks fell; British girl jumps to safety after she disengaged the brake, and the vehicle fell 250 feet off a cliff;

…8/16-09: the way to be positive

66º in ABQ; 32% humidity at 6A…Byron Morton, and his Salsa Sombrero; NMSU at Carlsbad has seen a 10% enrollment increase; there are about 500K children in NM; seven year old girl drowned near Las Cruces after playing on a sandbar in the middle of the Rio Grande; Brad has a carpet remnant in his studio, the plastic floor protections are too cracked; he is nearly finished another painting; a bus route is needed along Tramway & Paseo; woman stole a credit card from a nursing home patient; billboard in Espanola must be torn down; it has meant money for NM politician, but has not been permitted since 1993; Brad goes ‘gangsta’?; motorcycle crashed into SUV in NE ABQ; NM has the fourth highest suicide rate in the US; ‘starving artists’ being hurt, and are hurting the NM economy; police ID the body found in Belen, but have yet to disclose his name; warped, cracked homes in Los Lunas homes, being repaired by Pulte Homes, who bought out Centex…blame the soil compaction problem; Petroglyphs have won their first game in the Junior League World Series; teens accused of breaking into, and stealing item from school on Indian School & Eubank; inmate stabbed with a pen by another prisoner; so far, very little TV coverage of the city’s new Green Line route; yesterday’s gas leak was caused by a damaged gas meter; Roswell is a place to retire;

do outlet centers really save you money?; there was a nationwide ‘kiss in’, to make people aware of same-sex relationships; the good news: as of today, the Red Sox are in second place…the bad news: they are 7½ games behind the first place Yankees; taser vs. bullet; Milwaukee mayor struck by a metal pipe while trying to calm down a domestic dispute; HI turns fifty years old; District 9 was the number one film the weekend, earning $37 million; the 1,224 cupcake cooked in NH, honored in MI; CA blazes are 50% contained; people of color represent only 1% of the tourists who visit US NATL Parks; TARGET will end its association with Amazon.com; Obamas toured the Grand Canyon; ‘unpaid holiday’ for Chicago city workers, except for essential personnel; phone is the filthiest place in an office; choice & competition needed in health care reform, use health care co-ops?;

fire at Kuwait wedding party killed forty women & children; seven people were injured, and one structure has collapsed when multiple quakes shook Indonesia today, ranging from 4.7 to 6.7; terrorists targeted NATO HG in AFG; ‘District 9’ getting good reviews; MO accidental tourist freed from Myanmar by VA SEN; be careful what you say… Ana is now moving W at 20 mph, TD Bill may become a CAT 3 hurricane, and TD #4 may become a TS Claudette, striking the AL/FL border by tonight: this AM, the storm had 35 mph winds, heading NNW at 16 mph; actor from India detained at NJ airport for 66 minutes, name on terrorist list?;

…8/15-09: statistical curiosity

64º in ABQ; 69% humidity at 6A…children find a dead body in an irrigation ditch; unemployment call CTR closed today; 535 illegal checks written against the Jemez MTN school district; PNM may scale back its solar energy program, meaning the loss of many ‘green’ jobs; 51 year old Alamogordo man had an affair with a fifteen year old girl; NM Petroglyphs head to WI and will play in their own version of the World Series; teen murder suicide in Roswell; gangs invade NM fairs; woman bit another female’s nose during a party; let the Green Line Rapid Ride begin!; in spite of a PM nap, I started falling asleep while watching TV in the evening; gas line break at Central at Tramway, caused by garbage truck; Garduno’s owes $177K in back taxes, may be forced to close its restaurant ‘on the Green’ at Balloon Fiesta Park; fatal motorcycle crash on Lomas between San Mateo & San Pedro;Woodstock made money after the fact, through albums & videos, a time of love & music; tasers should be banned, shock the body with 50K bolts; some car dealers have yet to be reimbursed for their participation in the ‘Cash for Clunkers’ program; a woman set herself on fire at a Miami mall; Madoff had a twenty year affair with a female investor; wildfires continue to plague CA; Obamas toured Yellowstone, then the PRES went to a Grand Junction, CO town hall meeting; Woodstock singer had contract with Capitol Records, this prevented him from appearing in the event’s movie, or appear on any records; is American becoming a third world nation?; a ‘space review‘ panel says the US will never land another person on the moon or reach Mars unless more money is added to the space program;

Tropical Storm Ana has formed with 40 mph winds, moving W at 16 mph; Egyptians capture more pirates; only 1% of the ocean floor has been explored; terrorists strike AFG diplomatic district, passed through security checkpoints, five days before NATL elections; TS Bill has also formed; here we go again…N Korea threatening to obliterate S Korea or the US with nuclear weapons if these two countries attack the Communist nation; in search of the perfect space elevator; an undisclosed ransom amount for the Arctic Sea, the missing merchant ship; Austrian boy got trapped in a mailbox;

…8/14-09: and the quest continues

63º in ABQ; 90% humidity at 6A…doctor’s visit at 1P, will meet Brad at the HOSP; overnight rain at The Beach; GAQ; inmate released in error; there has been an increase in ‘white collar crime’; stay at a B&B cave near Farmington, complete with TV, running water & electricity; baseball coach told to turn in his keys; ‘Climate Action Plan’ meetings will be held in the Duke City; sewer collapse caused part of Third ST to be closed in SW ABQ; Santa Fe home robbed of $750K in art work & other items; $3 million embezzled through a ‘sophisticated scheme’ in the Jemez school district, this went on from 2002– 2009; beware the gas station cigarette robber; Alamogordo pre-school robbed; driving school owner charged with DUI; college prep school tests will be free;

leaving work at 12:30P; finished Rounds by 7:30A; Code Purple at 6:30A; turned in audit charges to MGR; no one was discharged yesterday in PEDS; doctor’s visit…then the bus went from San Mateo to Central to Menaul to Eubank [where we ate at the Owl Café…they still make wonderful onion rings] then running for the Lomas bus to R/R to home before 5:30P; will Hospitalist Coders be moved?;

storms from the Dakotas, WI & MN, to the Carolinas & GA; NM showers mentioned on ABC AM News; W FL rain; showers from New Orleans to ATL to Orlando to Miami; mandatory evacuations from CA fires, that have burned about 3K acres; one to two inches of snow forecast for Glacier NATL Park; Code Orange Air Quality for parts of the SE US & the Midwest; wet in Phoenix; temps from 60s to 100s;

does former SEN Edwards father a ‘love child’?; air traffic controller was talking on the phone to his girlfriend during the NYC plane & copter crash…he & his supervisor are now on paid leave; Michael Phelps unhurt after he was involved in a Baltimore car crash; consumers can trade in their clunkers and purchase vehicles that have not reached the car lots yet; Americans want to be covered under the same health INS policy as those in Congress; will BART go on strike next week?; Michael Vick will play for the Philadelphia Eagles; is the US running out of sugar; Peace…the ‘Woodstock Polka’!; teen died from dehydration while hiking in the Grand Canyon; eleven year old interviews Obama; Native Americans on their reservations may face unemployment rates as high as 80%; Aerosmith cancels summer tour after lead singer’s injury; the DOW ended down; 30% of Americans can handle sleeping six hours or less; the Beatles are still considered a popular band in American poll; there were ‘potential traffic conflicts’ over the NYC skies when the plane & copter collided; America is a land of second chances; because Michael Vick is still under suspension, he would not be able to play until Game 6 of the season; two more banks closed, bringing the total to 74 so far, this year;

4.6 quake shook Puerto Rico; Thai elephant plays the harmonica; missing cargo ship found off the coast of W Africa, near Cape Verde; what an error!…a Rome hotel room for 1¢ a day; new AFG law allows men to treat women like property;