…11/23-09: one knight only

35º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Duke City battle of the budget; drunk mother slammed into fence while driving home from a party, inside the truck was her sixteen month old baby, who was seriously injured; wind advisories for central NM; good holiday travel conditions for NM , and the W US; local chef will cook a holiday meal for Joy Junction; soon, no passport, no flying from SunPort, a driver’s license will not do as ID; the Duke City will drive you back & forth to a bar during the holiday; now, there is also ‘Tim’ at the comic book store; vacuum cleaner clogged with dust & deodorizing powder; a touch of irony: no running water this PM at The Beach, then on, then off: they worked into the evening;
the ‘vacation’ ends, the blame begins; short week, long days; I resume my I/P GI duties, which I never should have stopped; finished Rounds by 7:30A; there have been eight suspicious early AM fires in the UNM campus & dorm areas since September; another no confidence vote for UNM official?; about 500 people attended the ‘gay prom’ this past weekend at UNM SUB; cut my finger at work this AM; this AM, KOAT on UNM Hill; female patient slashed her arm while I/P;

fog in the Central Plains, from NE to TX; more rain, snow & power outages for the Pacific coast & the Cascades; wet from DC to Boston, in Orlando, the Twin Cities, Richmond & ATL; tidal flooding, light rain & high surf in the Carolinas & Tidewater area; snow in Jackson Hole & Fargo; flooding continue in England [where six bridges have collapsed] & Turkey; temps from 40s to 80s;
no party unity for health care reform: many [D] oppose the current proposal, now begins the battle of the bill; admission tests for kindergarten?; those who are unemployed are under constant stress; train derails in TX, spilling coal onto highway; Adam Lambert’s man to man kiss during the AMA ceremonies, a happening in the moment: ABC received complaints about his actions; existing home sales has seen its biggest increase in 2½ years; glass door breaks at BART subway stop, injuring a police officer, and another person; first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade took place in 1924; baby products are not tested; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.64 per gallon; state tax revenues on the decline; no one has been exposed to dangerous amounts of radiation at Three Mile Island, but the cause of the leak remains UNK; credit card delinquencies have fallen; more than five million cribs being recalled; the DOW ended up; 'the kiss that shocked the world’; KS nurse billed US GOVT for nude therapy sessions; some PA students will not graduate because they are too obese; for sale: palm Beach estate, with a going price of $14.95 million, with over 10K sq. ft, five bedrooms & eight bathrooms; say it in pictures;
Iran military, protection or potential attacks; copy of Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’ discovered in UK bathroom; gold is $1,172 an ounce; oil is $79.34 per barrel; more troops will break the US budget; from US to the UK, the latest trend is ‘divorce cakes’, doubles the business for bakeries; the latest Barbie wears a burka; ice keeps rising faster than predicted; problems with astronaut’s suit delayed, but did not prevent a third spacewalk;

…11/22-09: same news, through different channels

33º in ABQ; 45% humidity at 6A…deadly house fire in Chaparral; stimulus money paying for two NM Head Start programs; thermal inversion over ABQ; NM GOV attends first Obama state dinner; Brad prepared Bacon Wrapped Chicken with Blue Cheese & Bacon; Bruce King ‘put the people first’; Lobos ended their fourteen game losing streak; NM temps tags expire in thirty days; LANL demolishing ADMIN structures that date back to the 1950s; we started the day with tea; I have a YouTube friend in Germany named Heidi; the Duke City may face a $20+ million budget shortfall; Belen airport hanger condemned; ceiling tiles have fallen, and electrical wires have been approved since 1989; Garduno’s blames chef for their monetary problems; ‘Thor’ movie will be filmed in NM; another Navajo Nation leader accused of fraud?; NM wants $500K+ from company investigating a cavern under the city of Carlsbad; DUI arrests increase on the day before Thanksgiving?;Michael Jackson’s golden glove sells for $350K at auction; ‘New Moon’ has earned $72.7 million on its first day, breaking a box office record; RI bishop will not allow Kennedy family member to receive Communion, because of the politician’s views on abortion; will there be a tax on cosmetic surgery?; WV has the most number of smokers; will more people travel this holiday?; no one was injured when firemen contained blaze on Atlantic City, NJ boardwalk; more male students accused of groping female students’ breasts & buttocks; ‘2012’ was in third place, earning $26.5 million; ‘Twilight: New Moon’: the movie made over $140 million during its debut weekend; what to name a WA restaurant that was used in the vampire movie; déjà vu: radiation leak shuts down Three Mile Island; weird: man stabbed to death over seat on NYC subway train, in front of many witnesses; Patriots & Celtics won; why tax “Cadillac’ INS plans?; the vote than passed the SEN gave the right to debate the law;Iran starts new ‘war games’; Australian firemen battle both blazes & 100 degree heat; Canadian woman loses disability benefits based on depression when she is discovered on a video in FaceBook, having a good time; Indonesian ferry sinks near Sumatra; while dad was in outer space, he became a father; there is five times more dark matter than physical matter in the universe; H1N1 has killed four Hajj pilgrims;

…11/21-09: our lives should not be computerized

30º in ABQ; 18% humidity at 6A…my trio of new ‘Green Lantern’ rings; many paid their respects to former NM GOV Bruce King yesterday; Bill Clinton attended the funeral this AM; $1.4 billion in NM stimulus money has not been spent; ‘Praise Darwin’ billboard ads appearing across ABQ; revenue was down at 2009 NM State Fair; NM could lose 4K acres of alpine forest land in the NE section of the state; four dead cats found in freezer, about one hundred animals were discovered in a Mesilla home; ‘Lobo Loco’; a drunk person, who is sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle, could face DUI charges; Olde Towne merchant selling Pan Am items; Bruce King, one of the greatest public servants of NM; another teacher accused of slamming a student to the ground; my dream: to be an MC for an INTL DJ; schools using stimulus money to buy IPods, give bonuses, or salary increases;TV ratings were falling for Oprah, the ‘Queen of Media’; child separated from his father when an OR light rail door failed to reopen, the audio controls also did not work, but within minutes, the parent & child [who stayed on the platform with an UNK woman] were reunited; ‘V’ & ‘Heroes’ are losing their TV audience & appeal; hiker rescued after being lost in FL Everglades: dehydrated, but not bug bitten; big Detroit bash for Motown Records turning fifty years old; two men save pregnant woman after she fell onto the tracks of a NYC subway; jobless rate is still on the rise in many states; health reform bill overcomes another hurdle in the Senate; man gets life in prison for scaring a NC woman to death; suspicious package found at Ft. Benning, GA; is the H1N1 virus mutating?; Rockefeller CTR holiday star is more environmentally friendly; N NV could see a foot of snow, couple with 80 mph winds; some flight attendants’ uniforms were miniskirts during the 1970s;42 dead in Chinese mining disaster; plane overshoots the runway in the Congo, ‘lands’ in a lava bed; CERN is up & running: the next step of the Large Hadron Collider is to collide proton beams inside the detectors, and explore dark matter;

…11/20-09: ‘the thin political résumé’

35º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…GAQ; drunk driver slammed into a van on I-25, injuring a family of five; disruption in a N NM courtroom; sexual harassment suit filed against ABQ Transit Director; fire at a Farmington APT complex; man ignited his car on fire along I-40, drugs were inside the vehicle; higher taxes in the state’s future?; new dig requested at W Mesa site; $10K grant for Rio Rancho students to build a better wind machine; state budget cuts force the NM GOV to cut two Navajo Nation projects; my priority is getting enough sleep during cold weather;

one more day to catch up; teenager died three days after being struck by a car; finished Rounds before 7:30A; gay prom & drag show to be held at UNM; ‘trouble in paradise’, as some doctors have not submitted their billing sheets; no Group 4 TES edits; took the #5 to the #8 [back & forth], and missed the W R/R by seconds, arriving home by 5:15P; a full Friday at work; several CART cases;
wet along parts of I-10 & I-95; stormy day in Houston & Dallas; wet in Seattle, San Antonio, Reno, Hartford, Detroit, Tulsa, NYC, Boston, across areas of S TX & New England; fog along the mid-Atlantic coast; floods in the UK; blowing dust in the SW US; another NW US storm, bringing rain to WA & OR, and feet of snow to the Cascades; temps from 40s to 80s;now, woman can delay pap smears?; 9% of all loans are delinquent; sneaky ‘Black Friday’ tricks: very limited quantity of very low priced item [usually in Electronics]; more people blaming the [D] for the ongoing recession; three people accused of hacking COMCAST homepage; viruses also appearing in ‘Twilight’ sequel website; tour bus of Miley Cyrus’ crew crashed along I-85 S of Richmond, killing the bus driver; Oprah made headline news…launched several people’s careers; 42 million Americans watch the ‘Queen of Talk Shows’; what will afternoons be without ‘O’, what are her future plans?; is the FED GOVT rationing health care?; oldest CO ski resort is 70 years old; the DOW ended down; Furr’s abandons its cafeteria style, for the buffet look; ‘human chicken’ disrupts Durango City Council meeting; military ‘eye in the sky’ was blurred during computer glitch; new H1N1 cases on the decline; TX man buys a town in that same state; ‘New Moon’ movie sets midnight madness box office record, earning over $26 million;
second spacewalk tomorrow; false alarm at the INTL Space Station; gold is $1,139.60 per ounce; oil is $76.84 a barrel; after several failed attempts, the ‘Big Bang’ machine has been turned on;

…11/19-09: ‘documents critical to NATL security’

34º in ABQ; 54% humidity at 6A…GAQ; adults with chronic illnesses should be the first to get the H1N1 vaccine; last W Mesa victim was not from the Duke City; NMSU announces its new PRES; flights from Santa Fe to Los Angeles start again; the Colorado Rockies & Seattle Mariners will play in ABQ next April for at least two games; KB Homes will resume building in some parts of the Duke City; three people killed in S NM house fire; the AVG price of gas in NM is $2.66 per gallon; Santa Fe CNTY has one of the lowest rates for obesity & diabetes; knowledge without power; Brad prepared Pasta with ‘Streetwalker Sauce’; since nothing went wrong, people don’t need to apologize to a person for having chewed them out; a response on my YouTube site from Germany; what to get done today?; the ‘ponytail puller’ getting Psych care; finished Rounds by 7:30A; prior to 8A, PowerChart is already slow; ‘dead end notes’, not containing the necessary info; a UNM Lobos balloon ends its voyage in McKinley, VA, an 1,800+ mile journey; contract talks still pending on what Psych services will be covered;

wet in Richmond, Cleveland, Chicago, NYC, Pittsburgh, INDY & Buffalo; more floods & winds for OR & WA; per the Weather Channel, ABQ will be ‘beautiful; rain in Puerto Rico; fog in DC; temps from 40s to 80s;

the 2,047 page health care reform bill, 94% of Americans may be covered; news: the first draft of history; two tugs finally free barge on VA beach; court ruled Katrina damage was more manmade, than Mother Nature: Army Corps of Engineers did shoddy work in building New Orleans levees; CIA wants to hire more Arab Americans, to work as spies; Newseum has huge touch screens, multiple theaters, plus a piece of the Berlin Wall; last sunrise in AK until 2010; Herpes never completely goes away; Cheney’s gay daughter gave birth to a girl; construction on World Trade CTR Tower One begins; two people were killed in tour bus accident along I-90 in MN; the DOW ends down; MO teenage girl wrote on the Internet that one of her hobbies was ‘killing’; ‘we know what you want for the holidays’; UCLA students protest over 32% fee hikes; Congress tells the Treasury SECY to resign; another computer glitch, this time from a computer board, shut down air travel from ATL to Phoenix to NYC: the problem was corrected in four hours, but not before delaying 2K flights; health care reform bill would improve Medicare?; how secure are our US military bases; the NATL AVG price of gas is $2.66 per gallon; the ‘Twilight’ moms; Oprah’s final daytime program will be in 2011, at the end of her twenty fifth season; TX teen tries to sell marijuana by going door to door; the 4 – 5 year ‘gender reassignment’ of Chaz Bono;
Obama toured the Great Wall of China; how to fight fraud in AFG; watch your holiday turkey roam free before served at your home; the ugly UK criminal, who should choose another profession; Karzai in office for another five years; first of three spacewalks took place today; gold is $1,135.50 am ounce; oil is $77.40 per barrel; life in S Korea is worse than how N Koreans expected it to be; US sniper sent money to terrorist groups in Yemen; the Belgian PM is now the current ‘PRES of Europe’; ‘catastrophic’ fire conditions in Australia;

…11/18-09: ‘never forget’

31º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…GAQ; fire at empty home near Second & Marble; deadly mobile home fire in Farmington killed two people; Sipapu is the first NM ski resort to open this season; NM GOV will be at Los Lunas Substance Abuse CTR groundbreaking; a tax on supermarket food for NM? the San Mateo interchange at I-40 will officially open; as of today, there are 36 swine flu deaths reported in NM; ABQ police officer struck by a car, the female driver wanted to avoid Biden’s motorcade; NM corrections officer accused of raping woman; more W Mesa bodies identified; Rio Rancho is the best place in NM to raise children; linked into Tiesto;

UNM female soccer player says that she ‘went too far’, and is ‘truly apologetic’ about the physical attacks on the field, people want her jailed or tortured: thinks she is being singled out, and that would not be harassed if a man had done the same thing, this appeared on the ABC AM News; if notes were in the charts, Coders could avoid the PowerChart slowdown; suddenly I had several Surgery TES edits in my file; the fire alarms rang & blinked most of the day, pity anyone who was susceptible to seizures; called, and told that certain O/P Neuropsychology services cannot be paid, why: this problem has been going on for a year [final thought: let the Coders fix the mess]; then called, and asked why CTI Psych charges aren’t being paid by Optimum, why?: Brent to the rescue, twice [answer: still in contract talks]; finished Rounds by 7:30A; Code Purple at 6:30A;

from snow to rain in KC; all snow in Boise; very cold in TX, OK & mainland China; wet in Chicago, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Cleveland, INDY, Myrtle Beach, Seattle & Portland, OR, plus parts of I-44 & I-70; frigid in AK; thirty foot waves along the S OR coast; third NW US storm in four days; temps from 40s to 80s;

the phantom jobs indicated on the stimulus website; SEN Byrd, [D], WV has served the longest in Congress: 56 years, 319 days, and counting; barge still remains aground on VA beach; an EGGO waffle shortage through 2010; Johnny Depp, the sexiest man for 2009; many toys still contain lead; Watergate case resurrected?; CA trying to ban big TV sets, in order to save energy?; Tyler, TX cop caught kicking cat; AR police use a Taser on a combative 10 year old girl; now, the $849 billion health care reform bill; TX sniper, a ‘self made radical’; US GOVT cannot print gold; the beginning of Palin book tour, but she will not travel to major cities; is the real unemployment rate closer to 17.5%; UNM ‘ponytail puller’ makes CNN News, but only spoke to NY newspaper; home construction on the decline; a splinter group of the Lutheran church will be created, that which opposes gay & lesbian pastors; CA nude beach may come to a close [or, clothes]; the DOW went down; stay at Auberge du Soleil for $280 per couple, per night;Atlantis docked with the INTL Space Station; Obama in S Korea; invited Chinese leader to the US in 2010; oil is $79.06 per barrel; gold is $1,148.20 an ounce; mixed foreign stock markets; Germany will not send more troops to AFG; Santa Claus needs the H1N1 vaccine; Riviera mansion lowers its selling price by $650 million, asking price: ‘only’ $102 million; secret CIA prisons in E Europe?; Iran rejects part of nuclear deal;

…11/17-09: transformational ecopsychology?

31º in ABQ; 63% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s Chiro visit; four people were injured in a collision involving a police cruiser on I-40 & Eubank; an unlawful search in a child porn case; car fire in SW ABQ, after vehicle lost a tire during a police chase; the last women buried in the W Mesa might be identified by DNA samples; NM budget cuts cancels police academy training classes; Siler ST Bridge open in Santa Fe; Raton votes to build & renovate schools; Carlsbad CO can produce oil from algae?; a comic strip said that entering daily news items on a blog is comparable to being a ‘parasite’…I call it ‘memories of times past’…who knows what we will be reading or doing on 12/22/12!; Duke City Social Security BLDG was evacuated after white powder was found on the premises; NM ranks thirty-first as the ‘healthiest’ state; welcome to my interests & opinions; NM teacher gets award for being ‘the best’; Thanksgiving Lantern Tours through Carlsbad Caverns; only 50% of NM males graduate from high school;

turn timesheet into MGR; finished Rounds by 7:30A; the very slow PowerChart; Code Purple by 8:30A; Channel 13 on UNM Hill;

snow in KC; rain in Chicago, Cincinnati, ATL & INDY; fires in Orange CNTY, CA; NW OR in the dark, as 27 foot waves pound its coast; time to rebuild NJ sand dunes; wet in Portland, OR, Spokane, Seattle, in IL, IN & KY; NW US winds & floods; temps from 40s to 80s;

UT hikers rescued after becoming lost, but not before spending a night in the cold terrain; remove penalties from gift cards; more people without health INS die in the ER; single military mother does not want to be shipped overseas, and leave her child in foster care; four people died when an Amtrak struck a vehicle in SC; women, age, and the need for mammograms or cancer screening tests; ATL teach put a ‘hit’ on a student; the word for 2009 is ‘unfriend’, relates to FaceBook; should Ft. Hood victims receive the Purple Heart Award?; the DOW ended up; the auto INS wars; army suicides on the rise; when bailed banks loan less; yes, you can see Russia from AK!; Santa Fe mentioned in USPS ad; Dolly Parton says ‘yes’ to same-sex marriage;Leonids meteor shower; Obama & Chinese leader Hu have ‘fundamental disagreements’, talked about N Korea; Obama is the first PRES who has visited China during his first year in office; the ‘human hamster hotel’ in France; China is bonded to us [US] by buying our bonds; oil is $79.49 per barrel; gold is $1,139.80 an ounce; earthquake recorded off Canada’s Pacific Coast; ‘end of the world’ movies have been made since the 1930s; pirates being paid millions to release hostages; top secret, high-tech subs, complete with Kamikaze planes, were located underwater near HI: theses vessels were built to strike American cities during WWII; pedophile arrested after INTL chase; is America the richest country in the world?; Israel keeps building settlements on the W Bank, time to check the Space Shuttle for any dents from liftoff; the number of people in Venice, Italy is shrinking; the beautiful Mercedes Benz!; another cruise ship gets stuck in Antarctic ice;