…1/14-10: when the earth moves…

37º in ABQ; 89% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; mother battles to get her seventeen year old son’s ID back, after being stolen by thieves when her boy was a child; overnight rain at The Beach; Heidi created a new video; my NYC friends are looking to start a new music online site; NM Census Job Fair today; man accused of stealing race horse, then transport them out of NM; this AM, a vehicle was driving on Central with sparks coming from the underbody of the vehicle; a car fire in SW ABQ; Duke City landlord faces twenty years in jail for not making repairs to his property: he must appear in court on a specific date, or a warrant will be issued for his arrest;

Kay’s AM Coding Class; are O/P Nephrology surgeries being paid?; MGR is walking with a cane; UNM students could see another tuition increase; Code Purple at 1:30P; today TJC is in the Pavilion;

ABQ forecast on the Weather Channel; wet in AR, TX, OK & Louisiana; NM showers mentioned on ABC AM News; S TX floods; rain/snow in the Rockies; Denver snow showers; Houston rain; temps from the 20s to 70s;

number of foreclosures are still on the rise; AZ woman traded her two year old daughter for a gun; any type of donation would help the Haitian quake victims; Teddy Pendergrass has died at the age of 59 from colon cancer; morphine can be used to fight PTSD symptoms; the PRES wants to levy a ‘financial crisis responsibility fee’ on banks for a ten year period; self mutilation by teenagers is on the rise; nearly one year after the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ incident, passengers still have fears; for sale: MD bridge; Rue McClanahan has suffered a minor stroke after heart bypass surgery; bag of cocaine found at Kennedy Space CTR in FL, inside NASA hangar which houses the space shuttle; is police lingo necessary?; there were 2.8 million foreclosure notices issued in 2009; E Coli found in Nestlé’s cookie dough; VT wants to secede from the US?; MA doctor accused of fraudulent research; eight year old NJ boy’s name is on the ‘terrorist list’; eleven year old boy will be attending a PA college this year, majoring in science & music; former UN weapons inspector arrested on child porn charges; unemployment claims on the rise;unable to calculate the number of dead from the quake; the injured are being flown to FL medical centers; at least forty aftershocks have been felt; the Port-Au-Prince airport has reopened, and medical aid is arriving; many still do not have water, food or electricity; tremors are triggering rockslides; China & the EU offering aid; most structures were considered unsafe prior to the quake; by midday, the FAA had to halt flights to Haiti, no fuel at the capital’s airport; buildings collapsed in a ‘pancake’ fashion; this may be one of the deadliest quakes in history; the US military is operating the control tower; ‘unimaginable’ death & destruction; fifty tons of aid, in planes waiting to land; oil has leaked into the surrounding waters; Hollywood stars are donating time & money; social networks raising millions of dollars; gold is $1,143 an ounce; oil is $79.39 per barrel;

…1/13-10: natural forces

29º in ABQ; 41% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; someone commented on my Blog entry; NM, the ‘alpine state’?; no money to pay its staff, no refunds or photos from Coronado Mall store that filed for bankruptcy; Ruidoso race track & casino is in financial difficulty, asking for tax breaks, or it may be forced to move to Las Cruces; another Duke City teacher, now in jail, accused of having sex with a student; no sulfuric acid spilled on I-40 yesterday, just snow & water; five year old girl killed in a house fire; prematurely awoken this AM; safety blitz at Santa Fe Rail Runner crossings; first Native American bishop will be laid to rest; former NM GOV Gary Johnson says pot should be legalized & taxed;

asthma alerts, but still no major flu problems; even plants have to follow the ‘eighteen inch rule’; coffee pot cannot be plugged into surge protector; electrical inspection today; clean hands is the major concern; Code Purple at 1:10P; I remain the person you love to hate, and the person who can find ‘lost’ documents; patient has to meet with his probation officer; another cold AM R/R; Dr. Katz has had his license revoked, he cannot reapply for it until 2013, the earliest;

showers in San Antonio, SLC & Yellowstone; W Coast rain; light lake effect snow; slowly getting warmer in FL; wet in TX; snow in the Sierras; temps from the 20s to 70s;

Obama asks for $33 billion more to fund the wars in AFG & Iraq; 60% of chemicals in cosmetics are absorbed into the skin; work at home scams are increasing; GM takes back the free cars from Tiger Woods; the Montana glaciers may be gone in 28 years; no cameras at the ‘gay marriage’ trial; PA state trooper was shot, as well as two other persons; NV man accused of animal cruelty, neglecting 100 farm animals; the Batman umbrella; prize winnings can bring unexpected surprises to the winners; big budget movies do not always mean big money making movies: the reverse is also true; ‘Heroes’ actor searching for his missing parents, who live on Haiti;two million people live in Haiti’s capital, Port-Au-Prince, a city in rubble; thousands are dead or missing; there have been 32 aftershocks from this ‘horizontal tremor, the worst in 200 years; where the N American & Caribbean plates meet; social media providing details of the aftermath; it was a shallow quake, just 1.5 miles below the surface; Haiti has a very poor communication system, and most airports remain closed, the NATL Palace is destroyed; UN HQ has been destroyed; tens of thousands may be killed; Haiti was aware of its position near a fault line; flight took off as tremors began; phone lines are down; the quake was felt in GITMO & Jamaica; cell phones are out of service, but FaceBook is working; the Red Cross has run out of medical supplies; teacher & eight students from the US are trapped on that island, as well as thousands of Americans who reside there; Haiti is a land of low-rise, poorly constructed structures; scam artists have already started before the rumbling has ended; prisoners are on the loose; person with TB still allowed to fly; leader of al Qaeda cell killed in Yemen; oil is $79.52 per barrel; gold is now $1,128.40 an ounce; the TESLA $50K luxury electric car; Haiti is also on the path of hurricanes;

…1/12-10: in luxury, we trust

30º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; Brad’s dermatology visit; theater shooter said he dropped his pistol; body found inside a burnt car in Dona Ana CNTY; weekend school vandalism loss has now reached the $100K amount; Farming man shot during a party; ABQ now suffers from a $54.6 million shortfall; accident involving school bus in Belen; hatchet robberies at N NM hotels; parked vehicle slid into store at Menaul & Juan Tabo; the Duke City housing market is doing well; turn prisoners into seamstresses; HAZMAT situation on I-40W on Sedillo Hill; man used the snatch & grab technique to steal a ring for a Santa Fe jeweler; affordable homes are being built on the W Side, providing plenty of jobs; dump struck ignored a stop sign and nearly crushed a car;

plenty of admissions this past weekend, but none for flu; remember, don’t carry medicine in your pocket, sign H & P forms; lab orders are in; I am the sole PEDS Coder today; still warm in the office, but the open door may resolve that problem; we remain in Code Purple; another cold AM R/R; the squeaky PM R/R;

ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; frost & freeze warnings from Louisiana to FL; NW US snow; San Fran rain; N Rockies snow; flurries in NYC, Philly, DC, Richmond, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Columbus, OH & Buffalo; cold in Cuba; temps from 20s to 70s;

now, FL has a $9 billion orange industry; fourth ‘Spider Man’ movie will be delayed; Wal-Mart is cutting 1,500 jobs; is their a double standard on who can utter racial remarks?; dog survived after saving a boy from a mountain lion attack; baggage fees on the rise; HAZMAT situation at Morehead City, NC; vessel carrying PETN, the same as the holiday bomber carried; [D] candidate misspells her home state of MA; disastrous driving caused by texting: now considered an epidemic, killed 40K people last year; baseball player admits to using steroids; ‘2012’ will be available in early March, 2010; ‘Cagney & Lacey’ reunite on ‘Burn Notice’; job required health INS may be gone from health care reform; ex-worker kills 2 people, injures three others at GA rental company; TX man played billiards on his frozen swimming pool; 10K bird strikes took place last year; over the years, the concept & rules of marriage have changed; the DOW ended down; vegetables from the White House garden were not actually used in the ‘Iron Chef’ program, just items that were found in it; Sam’s Club shutting down ten stores; many disease causing germs found on new clothing; do gays disrupt the ‘natural order of creation’?; levies on bailed out banks?; Denmark has totally banned trans-fat; AFG leader is still very popular; the ‘waving goat’ in Britain; UK man’s hiccups caused by brain tumor, surgery & therapy resolved the life threatening problem; gold is $1,129.40 an ounce; two young lifeguards rescue drowning man off the Australian coast; oil is $80.56 per barrel; 7.0 quake shook Haiti, tsunami warnings for Cuba & the Bahamas; country asking for US aid: several aftershocks, some reaching 5.5 in magnitude, have been reported, one HOSP has collapsed in the poorest & most densely populated nation of the W hemisphere; JAL facing bankruptcy?; the ‘No Pants’ party was held in 44 cities across 16 countries;

…1/11-10: the academic athlete

29º in ABQ; 43% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s Chiro visit; NM: the land of lawyers, plea deals, time already spent in jail and thrown out convictions; early AM panic attack; the church of Beethoven in ABQ; officer involved crash with vehicle that ran a red light; S Valley junkyard contains stolen vehicles; another emergency landing in SunPort, plane had computer problems, landing gear would not work; wolf roaming in the Edgewood area; al Qaeda member was born on Las Cruces; film crew in downtown ABQ this AM; Las Cruces is also a ‘college town’; theater shooter caught; car drove into a BLDG at Central & Mesa; man going to prison had drugs ties to his genitals; pipes burst at NM Highlands UNIV; actress from NM on the red carpet tonight at the preview for ‘Book of Eli’, wearing clothes & jewelry designed & made in NM;

another UNMH at I-25 & Lomas?; Optum Health will pay a $1 million fine; again, no toiler paper in the men’s room; TJC is at UNMH today, so our door must remain closed; cold on AM R/R; Code Purple at 1:50P; finally, our office door will remain open, in spite of inspectors; one patient is has Mail Handlers coverage; I left both copies of the ‘Daily Lobo’ at work;

lake effect snow in Erie & Pittsburgh; flurries in INDY, and from Boston to DC; rain & T’storms in NW US; ice & snow along parts of I-90; Panama City, FL frost; Spokane sleet; cold in ATL, record lows in Key West, FL; N New England snow; temps from the 10s to 70s;

‘The Simpsons’ celebrate twenty years on TV; the neon glowing USB cables?; the Loma Prieta quake of 1989 registered 6.9; the Detroit Auto Show starts today; Super Bowl ads will go for $3 million; is the CA same-sex marriage ban constitutional: this court case will be viewed on YouTube; the book called ‘Game Change’, contains insults by everyone about everyone else, a double standard depending on the political party?; is the stimulus package the generating jobs?; Ninth Annual ‘No Pants Sunday’ from NYC to DC; criminals now using MySpace & FaceBook to find their next victims; a select few of football teams have gone to the Super Bowl; Sarah Palin will be a mediator for FOX News; NJ approves the use of medical marijuana; what is ‘negro dialect’?; passengers brought bullets onboard a flight from Milwaukee; WA woman ‘charged’ with electrocuting her husband after he left her; is Obama aide running for mayor of Chicago?; the ‘electric Snuggie’; the DOW ended up; will everyone please take their seats and remain calm during flights!; a new group of Wi–Fi people who work in limbo;Europe in a deep freeze; satellite dish with four tons of hummus; for now, N Korea wants to talk about ‘peace’; oil is $82.64 per barrel; gold is $1,157.40 an ounce; Pope Benedict XVI is going green; the surge starts in the eight year AFG war, a place where people do not like either the US or the Taliban; a ‘no nuts’ section on planes?; rising sea levels are sinking islands; the era of ‘evolutionary medicine’; is it time for a treaty with N Korea?;

…1/10-10: living united

23º in ABQ; 25% humidity at 6A…$33 million to be spent by power plants to reduce NM pollution; car crash in Rio Rancho killed two teens; Inn at the Anasazi accused of serving alcohol to minors, and/or intoxicated persons; Deming nurse stole a credit card from one of her patients; last night, gunfire inside a movie theater on the Pan Am Freeway near I-25, one woman was injured, after being shot in the leg; Duke City Middle School vandalized, seventeen computers taken; purse snatching in NW ABQ turns into a chase that ends at the Zia Pueblo; stabbing at Sidewinders; the theater staff was not trained for this type of emergency, and the police are looking for four suspects; man threatened to shoot patrons at the OKAY Casino; man beat girlfriend’s four year old son; frozen pipes bursting in Aztec homes; Days Inn in Gallup destroyed by fire; woman thrown out of a car by her boyfriend; Edgewood fire hydrants forced open, flooding roads & property;

algae can be used to produce fuel to power vehicle; freeze warnings remain for FL; the Cowboys & the Jets won; E Boston cat called to jury duty; SEN Reid, and the racist rhetoric; CA wanted to reduce health care service to disabled people, the court said ‘No’; contact the FED GOVT if a census form has not been received by March, 2010; ‘Iron Chef’ secret ingredient was anything grown in the White House garden; yesterday, there was a 6.5 quake in N CA, near the OR border, causing power outages: no one was seriously injured, and damage was ‘minimal’; Molotov Cocktail thrown at WI cashier, she was saved by protective glass; the price of stock for US tobacco maker is going up; male prostitutes cannot service gays in NV brothels; Ar-nold calls health reform a ‘rip-off’; CA marijuana UNIV keeps growing in size; it may sound funny, but keep airplane passengers sober, so flights will not have to be escorted by military planes, and/or return to their departure point; the CA quake was centered in the Pacific, about ten miles down, and had several aftershocks, some registering as high as 4.5 on the Richter scale; ‘Smallville’ still going strong; Patriots, lost…bad, because it was their first home game less during playoffs in decades, but good, because they would have had to play INDY next week; emergency landing at Newark ARPT by United Airlines flight; [R] wants Reid to resign; all day power outage at Cleveland, OH airport; DC is ‘powered by gossip’; big bonuses by bailed out banks, some in the eight figure category, but much of it in stock options; today was ‘No Pants on Subway’ Day for NYC commuters; AZ Cardinals won; ‘Avatar’ & ‘Sherlock Holmes’ remain in first & second place for weekend box office revenue; pandas trying to mate at the NATL Zoo;thirty people injured when a two bottles of acid were thrown into a crowd at a Hong Kong tourist spot; Yemen’s leader will open dialogue with al Qaeda; no US troops will be sent to Yemen?; workers’ tombs found in Egyptian pyramids; plenty of snow across Europe; Chinese are replacing lead in toys with the carcinogen cadmium; bomb explodes near the Greek Parliament BLDG in Athens; the ‘red bed’ in Milan hotel;

…1/9-10: sunshine dream

21º in ABQ; 68% humidity at 6A…could there be a comic book convention in the Duke City in 2010?; thieves steal a handicapped woman’s 2003 Town & Country van from the Ranch Market in NW ABQ, the vehicle was found, but stripped of its wheels, and its windows were shattered; car explosion in NE ABQ, thought to be arson, occurred in the same area as last week’s stabbing; there is an airplane storage & repair site near Roswell; Brad prepared Szechwan Noodles with B-B-Q beef; ‘our’ Las Vegas supervisor was arrested for DUI; paramedics were threatened by gunmen near Zuni & San Mateo; Las Cruces bank was robbed yesterday; LANL developed security devices could be used at airports; officer involved shooting at Academy & WY leaves one person dead; ‘tax lightning’ suits are increasing in number; Brad’s painting progresses; Santa Teresa is getting a wind tower manufacturing plant which will employ 150 people;

the first bank failure for 2010 is in WA state; the death penalty can only be used when someone is killed; snow in central FL; the creator of Gumby has died at the age of 88; US man tells CA police that he is an illegal immigrant so in order to avoid attempted murder charge; the end of the GOVT INS option for health care?; the cold weather will mean more fuel used to warm houses which will mean banks with oil investments will make money; the Obama billboard in NYC is coming down…soon; fans flocked the Fenway to watch hockey games; trains were not made to make money; US Airways workers in Philly are filing a racial discrimination suit, saying colored workers are being assigned to less desirable terminals; because of the high cost to film in that state, a movie that was set in MA, was filmed in MI; there could be snow in S. Beach, FL; $300 million in FL crops are threatened;Acer laptops recalled, could overheat; authorities arrest people who robbed $3 million worth of jewelry from a Japanese store; Hugo Chavez said US F-15 jet intercepted a Venezuelan military plane; Tel Aviv airport has not had a security breach since 2002;

…1/8-10: a tissue issue

18º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…GAQ; fourth grade class wants action by the ABQ GOVT after one of their friends was struck by a car while walking home from school; is a new school sports stadium needed on the W Side of ABQ?; the Farmington region of San Juan CNTY has seen a sharp increase in the jobless rate, now at 8.9%; Rail Runner pins & patches will be available soon; new smog regulations may affect several NM counties; will Pete Domenici, JR run for GOV?; saw a guy wearing sandals, and no socks in this cold weather; FED grant could create ‘green jobs’ in NM; man sat beside me on the PM R/R, and said he had ‘weathered’ hurricanes Katrina & Rita, in New Orleans, then moved to Houston, then leased a home in N Socorro CNTY so he & his wife could be closer to their son; there was a film crew near downtown Duke City, and another near Olde Towne, so was KOAT reporter Dominic Garcia; CYFD worker faces charges of child abuse; ABQ firemen awarded for rescuing tenants suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning; why are Duke City dogs getting Parvo?; Nancy was wearing a long, thick coat today; NM private schools are maintaining enrollment, some costing $11K per year to attend; all of the ABQ red light camera revenue goes to the state; a cold night tonight;

will MGR return to work?: who knew?; no heat on AM R/R, back doors kept getting stuck; Code Purple by noon; left at 3P, got home by 5:15P, after seeing my friends at the comic book store; Tim is from the Pittsburgh area, and knows Kittanning;

28 vehicle pileup on I-20 in ATL near Hartsfield INTL ; snow in Milwaukee & Chicago; flurries in Detroit, Cleveland, NYC, Boston; below zero wind chills from Dakotas to TX; very cold in the N Rockies, down to Dallas, ATL & Orlando; ice in GA shuts down roads & schools; snow in Cincinnati, Baltimore, INDY, Pittsburgh & DC; Key West reached a record low yesterday, and more cold weather is expected; traveling on parts of I-90 will be ‘tricky’;

is the $9 billion FL orange crop threatened by the arctic blast?; INTEL agencies failed to connect facts, but no one will be fired; Congress undecided about taxing ‘Cadillac’ health plans, but reform may create some new jobs; ABC AM News is 18 years old; jobless rate nears 10%; UPS eliminates 1,800 jobs; more people have not worked for longer periods of time; one person has died at an IN steel plant explosion; Elvis would have been 75 years old; many people now doing several ‘gigs’ at one time; more low income senior citizens may be able to join a discount prescription drug program; people are moving money to ‘hometown’ banks, or credit unions; tragedy: NY man killed his daughter & her babysitter; two more flights get disrupted by unruly passengers; many people still do not believe the economy is getting better; home improvement book being recalled for providing instructions on wiring a home; bad weather forced a Chicago bound Amtrak train to arrive one day later than scheduled; unsold clothes are going into the trash; ‘obedience rules!’; the DOW ended up; the person who caused the Newark security breech scare has been arrested;

new Salmonella strain linked to African frogs?; misspelled name kept ‘underwear bomber’ off the ‘no fly’ list?, today, he made his first court appearance in Detroit, he is now referred to as the ‘Christmas Day terrorist’; now, the renamed Burj Kahlifa; gold is $1,132.70 an ounce; oil is $82.74 per barrel; China is now the number one exporter of goods, surpassing Germany; verbal threats result in three people being arrested on a plane at Heathrow Airport;