…9/12–10: let me be myself

62º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…Brad made Ma Po Tofu yesterday: it was wonderful: today, he prepared Scrambled Eggs for breakfast; local man was at the Pentagon on 9–11; more NM men charged with sexually assaulting minors, or sex texting them; a women who may have been drunk was walking on Central in W ABQ when she was struck and killed by a vehicle; $1.64 million grant awarded to NM for improving public safety; Duke City Solar Festival being held this weekend; Valencia CNTY police officer is again ‘under investigation’; Navajo Code Talker has died at the age of 91 years old; to help the state’s economy, NM GOV is traveling to Madrid, Spain;
There is a ‘hospital hierarchy, most people believe surgeons are male; Eminem video has 100 million views; American families are addicted to technology, when forced to live without it for 48 hours, there is a return to family night, plus going out to bowl, and reading a newspaper: but they began feeling withdrawal syndromes, and boredom near the end; fires in San Bruno, and Boulder, where YouTube & GOOGLE are located; let the football games begin; the mini-toothbrush; now, San Bruno knew for three years that there were gas line problems, and people still cannot return to their homes; the Patriots won; more US families are in homeless shelters; oil can still be found on the seabed oin the Gulf of MX;
Hurricane Igor has 140 mph winds making it a CAT 4 storm], moving W at 14 mph; again, Iran says it will set free the female US political prisoner, but the country requires a $500 million bond for her release; Armenia may have produced the largest chocolate bar; accidental US missile strike on PAK; newborn found in garbage bag at Philippine airport; Julia & Karl are also in the Atlantic; electricity, water & cigarettes have been provided to the trapped Chilean miners;

…9/13–10: jumping into infinity
65º in ABQ; 28% humidity at 6A… GAQ; ABQ man charged with raping two woman, he may have been dressed as a police officer; is the new Coors/Atrisco bike bridge too bumpy; Kim had a baby boy;
UNM football player accused of theft; so many GPU patients in PICU; slowly but surely getting the pattern of entering charges; empty AM R/R;
Wet in: Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, NYC, Erie, Syracuse, Boston, Tampa, Dallas, ABQ, OKC and San Antonio; NM burrito eating contest mentioned on the Weather Channel; Igor has 150 mph winds, moving W at 13 mph, with 935 MB of barometric pressure; TS Julia has 40 mph winds; wet along parts of I-35, I-45, I-75 & I-90; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
New CO wildfire, near Loveland; CA pipeline that exploded in San Bruno was over fifty years old, and scheduled to be replaced; gossiping could be good for your health; ‘superbug’ is infecting people in CA, IL & MA: it travels from hand to mouth; the DOW ended up; burnt Quran left outside a MI Islamic CTR; Lady Gaga was the top winner at the MTV Awards: her dress was made of meat; 9–11 ‘survivor’ tree is brought back to life, and stands 35 feet high; Walgreen’s is offering a $30 gift card when you get a flu shot; scanners in supermarkets are making mistakes; across America, there is 2.5 million miles of pipeline under the ground; crime is down in the US; Oprah gave all the members of her audience a trip to Australia;
Major MX drug lord arrested; weather conditions are prevented an American suffering from an illness to be transported from Antarctica; several killed in Venezuelan plane crash; Team USA won the world basketball championship; Cuba to lay off 500K state workers; gold is $1,245.10 an ounce; China is facing major water shortages; oil is $77.30 per barrel; MX students taught how to dodge bullets;

…9/14–10: looking into the past
66º in ABQ; 60% humidity at 6A…GAQ; murder rate is up in NM; director of financial affairs for the NM State Fair is arrested on DUI charges; Brad’s Kindle arrived; mold at Rio Rancho middle school is making students sick; probation officer was selling ‘clean urine’ to criminals; more NM residents will have access to the Internet; downtown Duke City shooting this AM, over a increase in a bus fare, the man confronted police with a large knife; monsoon season can increase allergies, as weeds begin to bloom; NM couple were part of the audience on Oprah’s first show of her last season: they will be flying to Australia; downloading pictures t o a CD during dinner;
Work on GPU charges; no PICU Admits;
Wet in: KC, OKC, Rapid City, Yellowstone, Roswell, St. Louis, Dallas, Des Moines & Miami; wet driving along parts of I-35, I-75 & I-80; CAT 4 Hurricane Igor has 135 mph winds, and now moving WNW at 8 mph; Hurricane Julia has 75 mph winds, moving WNW at 12 mph; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
No leaks reported after a train containing various acids derailed in WI; $100 million set aside by Pacific Gas to pay for damages caused by last week’s pipeline explosion: the San Bruno area had been inspected for leaks twice during the past year; real estate reality vs. religion in the building of a ‘Ground Zero’ mosque in NYC; more teens getting high off cough syrup; the DOW ended down; woman washing their hands more often than men, prior to leaving a bathroom; the ‘enthusiasm gap’ may cause the [D] to lose Control over Congress; can one ever have too many YouTube videos; police failing to follow-up on rape cases; ‘Disco’ is the theme at the NY Fashion week; ‘thought pollution’;
Hillary Clinton in Egypt, where peace talks are being held; gold is $1,269.70 an ounce; after 410 days, the female American hostage has arrived home: the remaining US ‘prisoners’ will have to face trial before the Revolutionary Guard; Eiffel Tower evacuated due to bomb threat; inebriated American pilot relieved of his duties before leaving from Europe on a commercial jet; oil is $76.60 per barrel;

…9/15–10: the art of diplomatic thought
62º in ABQ; 60% humidity at 6A…GAQ; major Santa Fe criminal escaped from a moving police car last night, but was later caught; CYFD worker admits he collected child porn; ABQ now has a ‘graffiti tracking system’; NM Golf Open begins at the Santa Ana Golf Club; nudity ban in Santa Fe challenged; more minorities in NM are taking SAT tests;
Try again to work on CTI charges; many autos vandalized at UNM: thieves strike cars with clearly visible items, such as purses & computers; impromptu meeting in the late PM; no PICU Admits; former MGR’s last day; our director will be watching what we do during the next week;
Karl has 65 mph winds, moving WNW at 13 mph; Igor has 145 mph winds, moving WNW at 10 mph, heading towards Bermuda; rain along parts of I-35, I-70 & I-90; wet in: Twin Cities, KC, Wichita, Des Moines, Duluth, Fargo, Omaha, Miami, Tampa, Seattle, Tulsa & Rapid City; wildfires burning near Reno, NV, and Loveland, CO; temps from the 50s to the 100s;
The Tea Party claims a victory in DE; a 9+ lb. lobster was caught off the FL coast; broken water mains hampered battling the San Bruno fire last week; ninth child in CA has died from whooping cough; a surgical way, or ‘freezing fat’ methods to remove love handles; Americans unsure how to define a ‘gay family’; the DOW ended up; Prince Poppycock…America’s latest talent; naked man went on a shooting spree in PA; naked woman in Louisiana tried to steal a taxi, to take her home in MI; dead man found in an LAX bathroom; OH mother taught her two year old how to smoke pot; the BP leaking oil well in the Gulf of MX may be completely sealed by this weekend; TX man stung by 1,200 bees; camel pulled from OR sinkhole; 44% of those polled strongly support the Tea Party, dislike the [R], and hate the [D]; AVG age of child prostitutes is 13 years old, and there are 100K youngsters forced into this line of work; the basis of a ‘family’, is children;
Palestinians are anxious for peace in that area; France bans burqas; oil is $75.84 per barrel; gold is $1,266.70 an ounce;

…9/16–10: predicted, and prepared
67º in ABQ; 23% humidity at 6A…GAQ; new Four Corners monument will officially opened; vases on Rio Rancho veterans’ graves have been stolen; Rio Rancho student will be reprimanded for bringing a pellet gun into school, even though it was not going to be used for criminal purposes; Santa Fe nudity ban discussion was put on hold; NM leads the nation when it come to handling Amber Alerts; Espanola teen found with hit list, which included teachers; computer equipment stolen at security protected racing car park; local woman has urn stolen, it contained her brother’s ashes; truck fell into sinkhole at Copper & WY; saw Jean yesterday; Brad gave Warren our old printer;
Much clearer on how the pseudo system works, pieces falling into place, have to change the way I handle PICN charges;
Wet in: Green Bay, Cincinnati, Memphis, Pittsburgh, Detroit NYC, Erie, Nashville, Roswell, INDY, Chicago and Detroit; rainy along parts of I-4, I-64, I-70, I-75 & I-90; snow in Tasmania; Igor has 145 mph winds, traveling WNW at 7 mph, threatening the E Coast with rip currents; Karl threatens MX, with 50 mph winds, moving WNW at 13 mph; temps from the 50s to the 100s;
TN leads the nation with the high obesity rate; own a pet turns a couple into a ‘family’; illegal drug use on the rise; man more homes in August taken by banks because of foreclosure reasons; the DOW ended up; doctor shot, patient & her son killed at Johns Hopkins HOSP in Baltimore; poverty on the rise in the US: one in seven people, or 44 million citizens, fall into that category; dashboard camera filmed TX police beating its motorcyclist; woman admits she threw acid on her own face;
Middle East peace talks stalled, but will persist; Susan Boyle sung for Queen Elizabeth II; gold is $1,271.90 an ounce; sixteen mysterious infant deaths at Dominican Republic HOSP; Boeing will fly you into outer space…for a hefty price; oil is $74.61 per barrel; explosion ay Philippine cheerleading event; MX is 200 years old, and is celebrating with a parade that cost $40 million;

…9/17–10: lovely dreams
66º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…GAQ; female Volcano Vista student was sexually assaulted by a jogger while walking home from school; teen set fire to an APT; should condoms be distributed at ABQ schools; former LANL scientist accused of providing nuclear secrets to Venezuela; use methane from landfills to produce energy;
Another piece of the pseudo code problem is falling in place; copy the TES pages, and work from them; left at 12:30, ate at Saggio’s; no PICU Admits; Coder wants to meet with Dr. Cordova; learned, by myself, how to delete incorrect patient entries from the lists;
Wet in: Twin Cities, Seattle, Omaha, Corpus Christi, Billings, Knoxville, Asheville, Des Moines, Salinas, Providence, Boston and Cape Cod; a twister may have touched down in NYC during rush hour last night, with 80 mph winds, causing trees to fall, and power outages; Igor will pass over Bermuda with 125 mph winds, as it moves NW at 9 mph; Karl has 120 mph winds, and is heading for the E MX coast; temps from the 50s to the 100s;
Superbug is fatal in 30–60 percent of reported cases; Broadway play, massive fish killing in the Gulf of MX; ‘Swimming Upstream’ is written & based on the lives of woman who survived the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; US ranks ninth in the number of college graduates; the DOW ended up; DC police shot & wounded a man who pointed a gun at them near the US Capitol; after decades on the air, ‘As the World Turns’ aired its last episode today; the era of gluten free food; helicopter crashed on Pikes Peak; Prince Poppycock did not win;The start of Yom Kippur; parliamentary election in AFG; Prince William graduates as a military search & rescue helicopter pilot; oil is $73.66 per barrel; gold is $1,275.60 an ounce;

…9/8–10: layers of love

70º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…GAQ; I now have 10K YouTube hits; three year old ABQ child has tested positive for meth; some Rio Grande High School students have incorrect schedules; three more W Nile Virus cases in NM; Duke City man set his home on fire; body found in NE ABQ park; PM showers at The Beach; ABQ has 290 city parks;
Since I had work dumped on me these past years, I know how to handle complex entry situations; UNM students oppose the burning of Quran event, scheduled in FL on 9–11; keep people in their seats, and out of my business; we still have the problem of capturing follow-up specialist services;
Wet in: Tampa, Boston, Hartford, Providence, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, St. Louis, Denver, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, SLC, Little Rock, OKC, Abilene, Wichita, Lake Charles [LA], Santa Fe, Seattle & JAX; Hermine is flooding TX, shutting down interstates; rainy along sections of I-10, I-20, I-35, I-40 & I-90; mid-Atlantic fire danger, temps from the 60s to the 90s;
Wildfires are burning near Boulder, CO, with 7,100 acres charred, and are still considered out of control; several blocks in Detroit have been consumed by fires; lion attendant attacked by animal at the MGM Grand in ‘the’ Las Vegas; many American have negative opinions against those who worship the Islamic faith; in order to fell pleasure, teens are embedding themselves with sharp objects; the DOW ended up;
Two asteroids passed by Earth; written bomb threat found in the bathroom of a Thai airline forced the jet to make an emergency landing in Los Angeles; N Ireland student brought a bomb to school that he had found along his walk; oil is $74.95 per barrel; gold is $1,255.60 an ounce; fake translators, who failed translation courses, are working with US soldiers in AFG;

…9/9–10: peaceful soul
64º in ABQ; 69% humidity at 6A…GAQ; NM will receive $5 million to improve neighborhoods; ID Amber Alert ended safely in NM; NM: the land of great cooks; during the past 18 years, there have been nine Rio Grande High principals; dog registered to vote in NM elections; three NM schools received Blue Ribbon Awards; garbage truck accident at I-40W & Coors; Zozobra burns tonight; NAACP will hold its yearly meeting in Las Cruces;
Starting to find patterns in entering pseudo code charges; we are in Code Purple; knowing how to enter services should reduce Group 4 charges…but, for some reason, the date if admission appears on some TES entries, which means the service should be routed into the ‘past due’ category; for every day, there is a TES entry; pseudo codes cannot handle O/P services;
Wet in: Springfield [MO], Twin Cities, Dallas, OKC, Little Rock, St. Louis, Orlando, Billings, Tulsa, Memphis, Bismarck, SLC, Denver & Wichita; Hermine, and the ‘renegade showers’; up to fifteen inches of rain fell in parts of TX; yesterday, tornadoes touched down in downtown Dallas; wet along sections of I-44 & I-70; temps from the 60s to 90s;
Café du Monde opened in 1862; US traffic deaths have dropped by 9.7%, the lowest in 60 years; BP blames themselves, and others, for the oil rig disaster, but did not issue an apology: the company’s stock has risen in price; the burning of the Quran has been cancelled; the DOW ended up; CO blaze is threatening Boulder; divorce INS; increase in cotton prices may mean more expensive jeans & towels; tarantula invaded a NV newsroom; US trade deficit in July shrunk by 14%; will the NYC Cultural CTR be relocated: anti-US protests across the Muslim world; SECY of State called the FL pastor;
Castro says communism is no longer working in Cuba; Jewish New Year begins; MX mayors are being murdered; oil is $74.21 per barrel; gold is $1,248.90 an ounce; spam attack of GOVT agencies & major companies around the world;


…9/10–10: infinity, and beyond
65º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…GAQ; N NM school evacuation due to bomb threat; local Iraq vet has been told his truck may get repossessed for not making payments; child predator has been sending child porn using computers in ABQ libraries; the Gathering of Nations & the Balloon Fiesta are two of the top 100 events in the US; prairie dogs still pose a problem at the SunPort; Rail Runner struck an abandoned car on the tracks in N ABQ;
Trying to understand how multiple TES entries for the same patient are appearing; only three days into the new pseudo code system, and people are finding faults;
Wet in: St. Louis, Nashville, Little Rock, INDY, KC, Wichita, Duluth, Fargo & Billings; bad weather along parts of I-35; temps from the 50s to the 90s;
Natural gas line break in San Bruno, CA caused in a huge blaze in a densely populated area, with hundreds of homes destroyed, and creating a crater in a mountainside: residents had detected the smell of gas for several weeks, and fire hydrants have been disabled by the blast..but by the end of the day, the blaze was fully contained; Red Flag Warnings in CO, which include the Denver area; suspended Philly employee killed two of her former co-workers; parts of Boulder, CO are under an evacuation order as wildfire heads towards that city; the DOW ended up; five year old boy wandered IL highways, without his parents’ permission; drive through supermarket opened in FL;
One of three Americans who were arrested for ‘invading’ Iran may be released: later in the day, it appears no one will leave that country; oil is $76.46 per barrel; gold is $1,244.50 an ounce;

…9/11–10: take the time to remember, and remember
58º in ABQ; 26% humidity at 6A…more money may be taken out of state workers’ paychecks in order to provide better pension benefits at retirement; bad economic times mean more grandparents are taking care of their families; unemployed NM residents cannot access their benefits when they use their new debit cards; Bernalillo CNTY dog is a registered voter; women beaten in her own home by a man with a baseball bat; Sandia Labs has designed a method of using water to disarm roadside bombs; three rare guitars stolen from a SW ABQ man, these musical instruments were especially made for him; the State Fair Parade will travel two miles down Central AVE; can local prostitutes help solve the W Mesa murders;Religious tensions on the increase during this solemn day for American; VP Biden was in NYC to honor those who died on 9–11, Michele Obama was in Shanksville, PA & our PRES paid tribute in DC; audiences may be tired of reality shows; the Flintstones are fifty years old; bus crash in N NY kills four people; KY man shot his family, then himself, because of the way his wife cooked eggs;
Igor may become a hurricane;

…9/4–10: code of freedom

64º in ABQ; 60% humidity at 6A…man shot in the back near UNM; guns, ammo, grenade & pot were found in a Goodwill donation box; the bedbug problem has reached NM, can be found in luxurious homes; NM ranks number in the best roads of America; street lights on Central in downtown ABQ need to be lit at night; NM Wine Festival being held in Bernalillo this weekend; wild hog roaming S NM; local man stole credit cards from his son’s teachers; NM could $100K in an INTL texting contest; a different kind of Saturday: ate at Saggio’s, then went to Albertson’s; marijuana discovered in cantaloupes inside an illegally parked vehicle in E NM; gas is $2.59 per gallon; fatal shooting in Crownpoint; had a fabulous dessert, and now it is time to return to our diet;
People eat more when they are dining out, than when they eat at home; Earl became a nor’easter by the time the storm struck Cape Cod: it now has 70 mph winds, moving NE at 30 mph;
Bar fire in Cancun; still assessing the damage from New Zealand quake, some injuries & damage reported, and a new fault line has been created; Earl finally made landfall in Nova Scotia; more fires are burning across Russia; the sun is in chaos;

…9/5–10: music is life
70º in ABQ; 45% humidity at 6A…a return to being diet conscious; ‘our’ Las Vegas has seen an increase in whooping cough cases; NM Artists for Autism Auction will be held next weekend; Brazilians tried to illegally obtain driver’s licenses in NM; Mac’s Steak House will begin a three month renovation; Alamogordo mother stabbed her son in the arms & shoulders during a drunken fight; teen killed in ABQ rollover crash; my closet has been cleaned;
Two babies killed in a collision on I-10 in Phoenix, AZ which involved a gas tanker; more people are driving drunk during the hours of 7A–noon; OH man allowed maggots to feed on his wife while she was still alive; sharks bite two surfers along the FL coast; Craigslist is shutting down its adult section, fearing prostitution charges; AZ woman had acid thrown in her face & torso: this is the second time an event like this has happened during the past week; dangerous shark found in the Potomac River; private sector controls the recovery of the US economy; Obama will be announcing his next ‘targeted initiative’ plan to help our country; ice crystals are forming around the BP oil cap;
One person is killed during an air show in Germany;

…9/6–10: love blossoms
66º in ABQ; 37% humidity at 6A…last night, fireworks in the Duke City; woman beaten, raped in her ABQ APT, then wrapped inside a rug; rice cake ignited; NM economy will take five years to improve; Labor Day B-B-Q in Tiguex Park; 8.2% jobless rate in NM; local teen accused of stealing 19 computers, worth $20K, from ABQ school; Espanola woman was killed during a police car chase, that ended in the vehicle that she stole was involved in an accident; CNM needs more part-time teachers; fresh, roasted chilies should not be immediately placed in a plastic bag; Lincoln CNTY voters will decide on a sales tax increase to keep a racing casino in business; cocaine bust in Las Cruces; drivers whose vehicles are not ‘in motion’ can use their cell phones; the ‘Duke City Cleanup’, prior to the Balloon Fiesta; 10K views of my YouTube website; Aztec High School students will be required to wear ID badges around their neck;
NC auto theft, two year old was inside the vehicle at the time; Tropical storm Hermine formed in the Gulf of MX, could pose a threat to TX & NM; a US mortgage relief plan being created by Obama; whooping cough vaccine does not contain mercury; patio deck collapsed during picnic, injuring several people; FDA recalled 75K bags of dog treats that could be contaminated with salmonella; workers may be responsible to pay their portion of credit card balances on company credit cards if the business goes bankrupt; mummified babies found in Los Angeles APT; on average, it takes, six months for a jobless person to find work; wildfire near Boulder, CO; the term ‘casual encounters’ is the new sex category on Craigslist;
British minister accused of fraud marriage scheme; landslides in Guatemala; suicide bombing in N PAK killed 17 people; Chilean miners have been trapped for one month; meeting of N Korean GOVT could mean a change in leadership in that country; possible hurricane in the Gulf of MX;

…9/7–10: walking in the rain with nature
65º in ABQ; 34% humidity at 6A…GAQ; man with a machete tried to rob a local pet food store; the third US flag has been stolen from the ‘9–11’ park in Belen; military grave desecrations in Deming; still no schedules for Rio Grande High; gas leak evacuated homes, and shut down roads in the Five Points area; NM border security has not gotten any better;
The official first day of ‘pseudo codes’ in PEDS; created primary steps to create P-Code records; very crowded PM R/R; I was asked for assistance; too much data to create after three-day weekend; Newborn Nursery has the most missing charges; many patients from GPU were in PICU this weekend;
Wet in: Boston, Tin Cities, Miami, Orlando, Seattle, Cleveland, Duluth, Little Rock, New Orleans, KC & Flagstaff; bad weather along sections of I-90 & I-10; TS Hermine made landfall, yet still has a well defined eye: 50 mph winds, moving NNW at 17 mph: will bring up to eight inches of rain to: San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Corpus Christi, OKC & S Padre Island; temps from the 50s to the 100s;
Why did the BP ‘fail safe’ device fail to stop the oil leak; houses burned in Boulder, CO blaze; the PRES wants to improve runways, railways & roads; medical malpractice costs have reached $55 billion; if the [D] lose Congress in 2010, they could regain it in 2012; the DOW ended down; more money being spent on election campaigns; naked bicyclists in Philly to promote clean air; 81% of those polled give the economy a ‘poor’ rating; 81 year old man set off a bomb in an AL senior citizen CTR; this is the ‘summer of discontent’; splints may ne better than casts; Quran burning in FL on 9–11 may endanger US troops in AFG; money ‘can’ buy happiness;Another volcanic eruption in Indonesia; there is another chance an earthquake may strike New Zealand in the next few days; 6.3 quake shook Fiji; it’s Castro vs. Ahmadinejad; oil is $74.16 per barrel; gold is $1,257.30 an ounce;

…8/31–10: is reality a dream?

68º in ABQ; 50% humidity at 6A…GAQ; arrest made of a person who threatened to kill a Santa Fe judge, and forced a school into lockdown; Johnny Tapia has been reunited with his biological father; CNM has a record enrollment of 30K; Ever Ready gas stations are open for business again; more security for structures in the EMCORE area; Duke City cop bit by a pit bull while serving a warrant; Brad prepared City Chicken; Rio Grande High classrooms are overcrowded, so says fire marshals; Rio Rancho student brought a knife on to a school bus; meth lab busted near Coronado Mall; a proposal to raise NM medical marijuana fees; Obama was in Ft. Bliss, speaking to the troops at Ft. Bliss, TX;
By end of day, no Pseudo Code TES edits; more construction workers on AM R/R; PICU is the ‘spill over’ for GPU; we are in Code Purple; Prelude to Pseudo coding; how will one handle the Daily Baby programs;
Wet in: Twin Cities, Des Moines, Duluth, Wichita, Orlando, New Orleans, KC, Amarillo, Yakima, Little Rock, Omaha, Madison & Chicago; bad weather along parts of I-35; Earl is a CAT 4 storm, with warnings posted from NC to Canada, heading to the US, the storm has 135 mph winds, moving WNW at 13 mph with 931 barometric pressure; the storm has a well defined, has shut down Caribbean airports, and could strike the E Coast by Friday; the hurricane is being affected by both a high & low pressure in that area; temps from the 60s to the 90s;
We have a record supply of flu shots for this upcoming season; MX drug lord captured; 34 million people will travel during this Labor Day weekend; more woman having C-sections; Obama spoke to the nation tonight regarding our pullout from Iraq; bedbugs send a man to the E/R; a good credit score is 660 or better; the DOW ended slightly up;
MX 500 peso will bear the faces of that country’s famous artists; Rihanna has a model of herself in famous British wax museum; MX City: the new, gay honeymoon resort city; the Iraqi war has been the third longest conflict in US history: now, Iraq is ‘in transition’; the beginning of ‘Operation: New Dawn’; oil is $72.93 per barrel; gold is $1,248.30 an ounce;

…9/1–10: personal space
68º in ABQ; 48% humidity at 6A…GAQ; LANL worker tried to steal two ounces of gold from that complex; N NM man tried to rob an elderly woman in a supermarket’s parking lot; ABQ fraud & wasteful spending are up by 1K%; Obama approval rating in NM has dropped below 50%; saw Jean after work; mother & three children are on the run, trying to escape drug tests; a fellow teenager shot a Rio Rancho student with a B–B gun;
Hell Week, Day One; the powers that be in the PEDS DEPT do not agree that pseudo codes are the way to go; we remain in Code Purple; pseudo codes started appearing by 10A; NM will receive $65 million for education jobs;
Earl is a CAT 3 hurricane, with 125 mph winds, moving NW at 16 mph: watches & warnings from the Outer Banks to ME, and emergency precautions & preparations are going into effect; it may strike the NC shoreline, and Cape Code is getting ready for windy, wet weather; wet in: Chicago, KC, Toledo, INDY, St. Louis, Detroit, OKC, Omaha, Rapid City, Madison & Dallas; wet weather along sections of I-35, I-40, I-44 & I-90; through the day, Earl became a CAT 4 hurricane with 135 mph winds; temps from the 60s to 100s;
CA will not ban the use of plastic bags at stores; marijuana commercials appear on TV; the Tea Party claims victory in the AK SEN race; acid is eating away at abandoned CA mine; the DOW ended way up; Burger King may be for sale; hostage situation at the Discovery Channel HQ in Silver Spring, MD ended with the perpetrator killed by police; CA magician accused of molesting a teenage girl; NYC man survived a 39 story fall; auto sales are plunging;
Middle East peace talks resume; Greece imposes a nationwide smoking ban; the end of ‘combat operations’ in Iraq, by the US; this is the start of Ramadan; oil is $74.23 per barrel; gold is $1,246.30 per ounce; first day of a ‘new life’ for Iraq;

…9/2–10: self confidence
60º in ABQ; 32% humidity at 6A…GAQ; scammers are targeting job searchers; Duke City baby had a rag in its mouth, and was covered in feces; in Estancia, a man with mental problems is charged with animal abuse: pets were found in the walls & the freezer; CYFD may face budget cuts; Santa Fe city councilor faces ethics violation charges; AM skunk alert at The Beach; IED found near a Wal-Mart, and a middle school, in Los Lunas; woman killed in NE ABQ;
Hell Week, Day Two; Pseudo Code meeting at 9:30A; I will ask Brent to attend it; ‘no confidence’ vote by faculty & staff on UNM ADMIN; no CTI Admits; we remain in Code Purple; water problems at UNM;
Wet in: Omaha, Twin Cities, KC, Chicago, INDY, St. Louis, Dallas, Fargo & Duluth; bad weather along sections of I-70; Earl has 145 mph winds, moving NNW at 18 mph, with 928 barometric pressure: the storm threatens both Long Island & Fire Island, and mandatory evacuations for everyone along the NC coast; Obama has signed a disaster declaration for that state; storms warnings for the Outer Banks, Cape Cod & its Islands: Westport, Plymouth & Sagamore beaches; MA has already declared a state of emergency; although the storm has weakened during the day, it is still is 400 miles wide…there is also Fiona & Gaston; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
More peace talks will be held at the State DEPT in DC; ‘90210’ party on Rodeo Drive; the DOW ended up; another oil/gas platform explosion in the Gulf of MX; should teachers’ performance be posted in a newspaper, or online: a ‘name & shame’ tactic; college students have thousands of dollars in credit card debt; the ‘Discovery Channel’ attacker had explosives attached to his body;
Three dead children found in a garden of a Dutch home; 3K year old temple found in Jordan; oil is $74.47 per barrel; W Nile Virus has killed 16 in Greece; gold is $1,251.50 an ounce; men enjoy a sauna atop Mt. Blanc; male prostitution ring shut down in Spain;

…9/3–10: a calm & peaceful solution
63º in ABQ; 42% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Hobbs athletic coach killed in a motorcycle crash; local movers stole $7K ring from woman; pipe bomb discovered in Rio Rancho APT complex; The Beach is full until November;
Hell Week, Day 2.5; another pseudo code meeting with my MGR; comic book climb; empty AM R/R; now, the ‘geek’ is being asked for help; gave my Director, who has visited Truman Clinic, a copy of PEDS doctors; also gave her a list of PEDS providers; kept entering charges today; UNMH file sharer went down; arrived home slightly after 5P; no more instant messages allowed, nor unnecessary cell phone usage; some do not see the advantage of entering one’s own charges;
Wet in: Boston, NYC, Miami, Norfolk, Detroit, San Antonio, Pittsburgh & Houston; in the AM, Earl is affecting the NC coast as a CAT 2 storm: advisories reach up to Nova Scotia, with rain expected in Richmond, Raleigh & the Tidewater area; the hurricane has 105 mph winds, moving NNE at 18 mph, and heading away from the E Coast; Amtrak service has been cancelled, but the storm, which is being considered as the most well documented, should be a ‘one day event’, so the holiday weekend will not be a ‘wash out’; 25 million people could be affected by this storm; bad weather along parts of I-10, I-35, I-70, I-85 & I-95;
Was the stimulus too small; ; jobless rate at 9.6%; several concourses at Miami INTL Airport were evacuated due to a potential bomb threat, and security scare at a bagger scanning device; bottle of acid thrown at WA woman’s face; the DOW ended up;New economic sanctions will be issued against Iran; oil is $74.60 per barrel; gold is $1,249.20 an ounce; 95 snakes found in luggage at Malaysian Airport; 7.2 quake shook Christchurch, New Zealand; in Iraq, a dark future is better than a darker past; massive glacier is on the move near Greenland; Kia, and the flammable electric wiring systems;

…8/29–10: power to the positive

62º in ABQ; 83% humidity at 6A…Olde Towne received the most rain yesterday; the Duke City still battling an ‘urban bear problem’; local woman shot at motorcyclist in a case of road rage; female employee stole fireworks to be used against her boss; dead woman found under a bridge in Los Lunas; the NM AG is investigations of alleged wrongdoings in the SECY of State’s office; whooping cough on the rise in NM, especially in Santa Fe CNTY; Martinez leading in NM GOV poll; most people polled felt NM is on ‘the wrong track’; truancy is a problem across the state; seventeen year old was killed near the intersection of Eubank & Candelaria; man used a fake $100 bill to pay at a local Burger King; man had medical problem, his van crashed into NM ABQ restaurant; two major drug busts near Gallup; using art to boost Bernalillo CNTY revenue through the display of art at the Museum of NM;
One person dead at MD high school reunion; five years later, New Orleans’ residents bury the memory of Katrina; 69 vehicles involved in multiple collisions on downtown Phoenix interstates; NATL Guards will be posted at the AZ/MX border; fire at planned Islamic site in the Bible Belt of American;
After 400 years dormant, an Indonesian volcano shows signs of eruption; TS Earl could become a Category 1 hurricane within the next 24 hours; American wasted billions of dollars while rebuilding Iraq;

…8/30–10: holding on to karma
70º in ABQ; 59% humidity at 6A…GAQ; as the world changes: there was no ABC AM News, and KOAT Morning News began at 4:30A; wrong socks, different shoes; district courthouse in Santa Fe was evacuated due to a threatening call from a cell phone;
Electric outlet shortage in many of the older UNM classrooms; took Central home, arrived about 3:50P; 1:1 meeting with managers at 1P; fixed PC at work to stop prompting;
Wet in: Fargo, Pierre, Panama City, Savannah, Tallahassee, Houston, St. Louis, Billings, ABQ, Chicago, Little Rock, Pensacola, New Orleans, Tampa, Mobile & Bismarck; Hurricane Danielle pounds the E Coast with rip currents; Hurricane Earl has 135 mph winds, heading WNW at 15 mph, threatening that same area latter this week; wet along parts of I-10, I-40, I-55 & I-75; there are still about 100 people who died during Hurricane Katrina, and have yet to be identified;
NYC subway train stopped before striking a passenger who fell on the tracks; rare, calico lobster caught off the ME coast; US birth rate declining; the DOW ended down; final BP oil leak containment has been delayed for several days; mice, maggots & manure found in ‘tainted’ egg farm; AZ man killed five at a B’day party, took his children, then later murdered himself; fire seen from the engine of a US Airways jet as the plane landed at NATL Airport; emerald found in NC farm; the public is afraid to spend;There are many unused & incomplete structures built in Iraq by the US; in Ecuador, a bus crash killed 42 people; nine killed by Russia nursing home blaze; minor tremor rocked Taiwan; plan ‘B’ may rescues Chilean miners earlier than expected; oil is $74.71 per barrel; potential terrorists, who were from Yemen, but legally in the US, were arrested in Amsterdam, after cell phones, box cutters & knives were found in their luggage; less electrical power in Iraq than before the US freed the nation;

…8/23–10: polite politics

68º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…GAQ; two people found dead in a burnt mobile home in SW ABQ; the Duke City is growing in population along its W side; solar panels will be installed on SunPort parking garages; someone stole a hot air balloon from a trailer; PM T’storm above The Beach; hit & run at Montgomery & Moon; Workforce Solutions will now use Wells Fargo as the bank to issue their debit cards; SCHOTT has developed the largest rooftop solar array panel;
Another day with key people on vacation; first day of school at UNM; very crowded PM R/R;
NM storms mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: Boston, NYC, Tampa, Bismarck, ABQ, Denver, Flagstaff, Buffalo, Providence, Hartford, Miami, Albany, DC, Pittsburgh, Erie, New Orleans & Orlando; rainy weather for parts of I-10, I-90, I-93 & I-95; TS Danielle has 60 mph winds, moving WNW at 14 mph; floods in Philly; temps from the 60s to the 100s
The $578 million dollar school opens in CA; another plane crash in SW AK; FDA ‘scrambling’ for answers to the tainted egg crisis; airport security officers caught smuggling drugs & weapons; NYC dog fashion show, with canine clothing costing $3K; the Grand Canyon is deteriorating, thanks to pollution, caused by man; the DOW ended down; fire in a Long Island R/R switching station delayed commuters; sinkhole in GA swallowed a car wash & restaurant; teens send 3K texts per month; Americans own 610 million credit cards, carrying the highest interest rate in nearly a decade, 14.9%, football players coming down with Compartment Syndrome, some requiring surgery; judge has halted funds for embryonic stem cell research;
After being trapped for two weeks, thirty-three Chilean miners were located, but they may not be rescued until late 2010, or early 2011…they are trapped 2,258 feet below the surface, in a 600 sq. ft. room, with food supplies, 95º temps, and 95% humidity; Iran displayed its ‘ambassador of death’; Kudzu strain may cure alcohol or cocaine addiction; oil is $72.90 per barrel; gold is $1,226.90 an ounce; midriff exposure by Chinese men during hot days is making the country’s leaders upset, bad for ‘public image’;

…8/24–10: desires, and dreams
71º in ABQ; 58% humidity at 6A…GAQ; local family of eight without power for weeks; NM ranks as the number one state per capita in lightning strike deaths; three NM stores are recalling tainted eggs; local child had to hold a rock as punishment: if he dropped it, he was slapped with a belt; no schedule yet from some S Valley students; overnight rain at The Beach;
The last day of my ‘vacation’; downtown detour on AM R/R; we are in Code Purple; very crowded PM R/R; no PSUP Admits; housekeeper was out for five weeks, she gave me a hug;
Wet in: Boston, Tampa, Philly, Raleigh, JAX, OKC, Houston, Tucson, Santa Fe, Des Moines, KC, Wichita, Twin Cities, Phoenix, DC & Richmond; Hurricane Danielle has 100 mph winds, moving W at 20 mph; microburst in TX yesterday; wet along sections of I-4, I-35, I-90 & I-95; temps from the 70s to the 110s;
Alligator seen swimming in the Chicago River; FDA is overwhelmed to inspect all farms; patients exposed to unnecessary radiation during diagnostic testing; today is NATL Waffle Day; Sea World faces a hefty $75K fine; salmonella can last four days on a clean counter; new homes sales have fallen; the median home price in America is $182,600; mouse virus linked to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; the DOW ended down; investigation of exploding fuel tanks in three million 1993-2004 Jeep Cherokees; 380K lbs. of Wal-Mart deli meat recalled;
Large hail, the size of Ping-Pong balls fell in Poland; Jimmy Carter on humanitarian mission in N Korea; 3–D mapping of the Titanic begins; plane crashed in the Katmandu region, near Mt. Everest; only 50K US troops remain in Iraq; artistic manhole covers across Japan; shock a potato to make it healthier; a sixty mile traffic backup in China that could last for weeks; there are survivors after a plane crashed in NE China; oil is $71.66 per gallon; gold is $1,231.80 an ounce;

…8/25–10: dreams, and destinies
63º in ABQ; 48% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad can now roll over on his surgery side; Rio Rancho sewage lines broke during recent rainfall, flooding roads; Lowe’s will not add a new store in SW ABQ; this past weekend, a robbery at the Range Café on Menaul; early AM stabbing at Duke City party; NM GOV in Cuba for ‘trade talks’; Farmington officials explode illegal drugs; I saw a roach in the APT this AM, told Nancy; I saw Jean this PM; 21 minute crime spree across ABQ: three people were robbed, two arrests were made; Farmington woman took a nap, while her children were locked in a hot vehicle; NM has run out of its stimulus money;
Not a typical summer, with Code Purple on a daily basis; no CTI Admits; no one from my ‘team’ has told me about a MGR leaving; we remain in Code People;
NM storms mentioned on ANC AM News, ABQ weather mentioned on the Weather Channel; wet in: Boston, Tampa, Cleveland, Dallas, Flagstaff, NYC, Providence, Erie, Miami & Savannah; chance of rain along areas of I-75, I-90 & I-95; floods in AZ & FL; wildfires in OR, CA, UT & AZ; Danielle now has 85 mph winds, moving WNW at 17 mph; San Fran heat wave; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
Thief caught in the act at the US Capitol, thanks to a photo taken by a tourist; NYC cab driver had his throat slashed after a passenger asked if he was Muslim; 25K pot plants found on CA farm; credit card debt at its lowest in eight years; McCain won in AZ primary; a constitutional conservative won the AK primaries; the DOW ended up, but the economy is on shaky grounds; ‘retro soul’ music?;
Fire tornado sighted in Brazil; it make take three years to undo damage caused by PAK floods; man had a bullet in his head under the skin for five years; fat keyboards for Sumo wrestlers; fifty people survived plane crash in China; Asian markets fell, due to the US housing slump; Somalia is recruiting Americans to plan domestic terrorist attacks; Australian teacher gave an assignment to his student: plan a terrorist attack; oil is $72.20 per barrel; gold is $1,239.50 an ounce;

…8/26–10: is reality possible?
63º in ABQ; 48% humidity at 6A…GAQ; eleven children found in ABQ with little food, they have been attending school; may cost $2 million to repair Cumbres & Toltec trestle; two Red Light Cameras will be installed in Rio Rancho; waterline break in the S Valley has been repaired; today is Jean’s B’day; another AM downtown detour; NM jobless rate at 8.2%; picture of a praying mantis drawn by a NM child will appear on the cover of Highlights magazine;
Continue catching up; suddenly, no music; no CTI Admits; we remain in Code Purple; the HSC lost pre-2005 records in recent downtown blaze;
ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: JAX, Raleigh, ATL, Miami, Orlando & DC; there is Hurricane Danielle with 105 mph winds, followed by TS Earl & Fiona following them; CA wildfires & heat wave; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
Sex & controversy make money…not education; RNC chairman admits he is gay; homeless man started fire which destroyed several homes; hate crime charges against NYC cab driver attack; Buffalo killer turned himself in; the cost of ‘senior citizen medications’ keeps going up; man had to be pulled out of a CA construction hole; are MS oysters safe; tires of a JetBlue plane explode when landing; faith vs. fear: NYC cab driver vs. honor student, incident has been labeled as a ’hate crime’ many INS plans do not provide proper pediatric care; the DOW ended down; more teen nerds needed by the US GOVT to stop foreign computer hackers; parts of the Ninth Precinct in New Orleans are unchanged, home look like it has been only a day after Katrina struck, when it was actually five years ago this weekend; 52% of Americans polled support gay marriages;
Chilean miners have been told they will remain underground for several months; will US aid to PAK help tensions between the two countries; Iraqi insurgents attacking that country’s security forces; red alert issued for Columbian volcano; gold is $1,235.90 per barrel;

…8/27–10: place to place places
63º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; bear caught in Four Hills area; NM SECY of State accused of wrongdoings, questioned by the FBI; car crash on Central and San Pedro resulted in a water main burst; ten month old fell out of an SUV, was then struck & killed by his mother, who was driving the vehicle; EBT: electronic benefit cards which can be used at NM Farmers Markets; Rio Grande High does not need another new principal;
9:30 meeting; left at 12:30P…ate at Owl Café; then climb for comics; is the pseudo code method actually losing money; PEDS has the most duties; people not telling the whole truth to the people above them;
ABQ storms mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: Orlando, New Orleans, SLC, Flagstaff, Mobile, Tampa, Tallahassee & Miami; five years ago, Katrina, the meteorological monster, rearranged the Gulf Coast, flooded 80% of New Orleans: it was the first time a mandatory evacuation had been issued, and the storm killed 18K people; Danielle has winds from 120–135 mph; Earl has 45 mph winds; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
Blockbuster Video may file for bankruptcy; the DOW is at its lowest since early July; students who are bullied, a term which has taken on a more violent meaning, are usually ignored by teachers; the DOW ended up; double dip decline in the US economy, as progress starts to slow down, and prepares for a ‘unique & painful’ recovery; American Airlines has been fined $24 million dollars;
Jimmy Carter secured the release of an American in N Korea; the 3-D photos may reveal why the Titanic sunk; three Canadians arrested in that country on terrorist charges; message was broadcast by mistake onboard a British Airlines plane that it was about to crash in the sea; cameras show the trapped miners; artificial corneas can potentially grow eye cells;

…8/28–10: put a little fun in your life
68º in ABQ; 63% humidity at 6A…Santa Fe car thefts up 28%; an enrollment increase at the NM Military Academy; two people in NM have tested positive for the W Nile Virus; Volcano Vista student had an unloaded gun in his car, said he was going to shoot or stab someone; Rio Grande High students will not have a schedule until 9/7/10; gas explosion in N NM injured several people; Bernalillo CNTY workers will receive a 2% pay increase; CNM opens its Rio Rancho campus; started cleaning my closet: so far, it’s been manageable; severe T’storm, heavy downpours & leaks at The Beach; Duke City Rave party busted for having too many people;
NC killed by a real one, while waiting to see the ‘ghost train’; man stole more than $25K worth of eyeglass frames; E Coast may see rip tides from Hurricane Danielle; riots at Folsom State prison in CA; during the past year, many people polled have said they have admitted driving while drunk; the end of the ‘big home’ era; road rage turned deadly on CA highway;Mexicana Airlines has shut down its operations, one of three that have done so today; baby tiger found in suitcase: its purpose was to be smuggled, and then sold; 5.9 earthquake shook Iran;

…8/18–10: chasing reality

72º in ABQ; 59% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s surgery is improving; man breaks into Santa Fe brewery, steals a TV, and drinks Dr. Pepper; ABQ police shoot & kill a man near Del Norte High; Duke City principals will be relocated to schools that can maximize their abilities; ABQ ‘peeping Tom’ went into ladies’ restroom, looked under women’s dresses; collision at Zuni & San Mateo; local man stole money from the place he used to work, claiming it was for unpaid Annual Leave; one in eight ABQ children do not have the correct closing to attend school; soldier from ABQ was killed in AFG;
I hope to get more notes to complete PICU billing sheets; man in wheelchair on AM R/R; expect more delays on Central near UNM; phone service was ‘scratchy’ today;
Wet in: Philly, DC, Baltimore, Duluth, Charlotte, Nashville, Memphis, San Antonio, Flagstaff, SLC, Chicago, INDY, OKC, Dallas, Roanoke, Richmond, Atlantic City, Orlando & Fargo; ABQ temp mentioned on the ABC AM News; a haboob near Phoenix yesterday; bad weather along parts of I-40, I-44 & I-55; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Could 3.2 million gallons of oil still be in the Gulf of MX water, a residual located deep below the surface, posing a threat to plankton; the first dog ‘water park’, located in CA; the DOW ended slightly up; mother slapped her child, during a flight that was en route from Dallas to ABQ; to save money, and keep stockholders rich, drug companies are selling incorrect medicine to treat ailments; bed bugs force the temporary closure of NYC theaters; small plane violated Air Force One airspace over Seattle; there are now 228 tainted eggs, they have sickened 300 people, and are caused by sick hens: the symptoms may have a three day incubation period; Obama poll numbers keep dropping; ‘tainted’ results from NC crime lab, some people have been convicted and are in jail because of their findings;
More floods occurring around the world: now, in MX & China; UN asks the global community to help PAK; man’s buttock got him stuck in a window while trying to burglarize a home in England; oil is $75.59 per barrel; gold is $1,229.70 per ounce; US military is starting to pull out of Iraq;

…8/19–10: energetic truth
72º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A…GAQ; school crossing guards missing on the first day of school in ABQ; deputy crashed into drainage ditch; the historic First Baptist Church goes up in flames, it was to possibly be renovated to become a school; first gubernatorial debate will be held tonight; truck end up in a ditch near Tingley Beach; three police cars parked opposite the Tingle R/R bus stop; more violence in the workplace, stemming from domestic issues;
UNM PRES has an abdominal tumor; UNMH is the most ‘wired’; got a call from Admitting Office, there were Coders there waiting to be trained; no CTI or PICU Admits; police outside UNMH;
ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: Fargo, Bismarck, the Twin Cities, Raleigh, Santa Fe, Houston, Denver, Charlotte, Asheville, Roanoke, Baton Rouge, Mobile, Nashville, ATL, Houston & Orlando; yesterday, more rain & floods for DC; temps from 60s to 100s;
American Airlines adds another fee, based on seat location in the plane; two passengers were removed from a plane in handcuffs; 20% of those polled think Obama is Muslim; use Tai Chi to relieve migraine headaches; now, there are 380 million tainted eggs; no more timeline for Gulf cleanup: new BP mediator will handle claim reimbursement; more layoffs: 500K people filed jobless claims last week; OH bank robber left his wallet at the scene of the crime; now, 2K have been sickened by tainted eggs; the DOW ended down; economic growth is weakening;
PAK floods may not recede until late August; final US combat troops are leaving Iraq, heading to Kuwait: but 50K brigades will remain as ‘supportive’ forces; wing fell off plane during Argentine air show, the pilot did survive; girdles for men; to increase teen attendance in church, a priest rode a skateboard; is the moon shrinking in size; Portugal allows same-sex marriages; Operation: Iraqi Freedom is over: Operation: New Dawn has begun; oil is $74.15 per barrel; gold is $1,233.80 an ounce;

…8/20–10: over the weather
70º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…GAQ; NM GOV candidates battle over education issues, with neither actually ‘winning’ the debate; racy adds found in Clovis piñata; Peralta mayor accused of stalking a woman;
Left at 11A, ate at Saggio’s; people will learn that I am a nice person;
NM storms, ABQ temps mentioned on the ABC AM News; another CA wildfire; wet in: Orlando, KC, Des Moines, Madison, Twin Cities, Omaha, New Orleans, JAX, ATL, St. Louis, Little Rock, Green Bay, Chicago, Miami, Wichita, Duluth, Pensacola & Houston; rain along areas of I-10, I-35 & I-70; CO mudslides; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
More people withdrawing from their retirement or 401 [k] accounts; power outages across S MI; ‘less oil’ is coming ashore, and numbers ‘refined’ on how much has spilled into the Gulf of MX; the final escaped AZ inmate caught in an AZ campground near the NM border; a 22 mile ‘invisible’ plume of oil still remains in the Gulf of MX; second IA farm has tainted eggs; HIV transmitted by semen is different than when the virus is in blood; police officer dragged by a suspect’s vehicle on a NH interstate; the DOW ended down; malnourished boy found in the attic of a KC home;
In China, two cars of a passenger train plummet into the water as support columns collapse; Iran could build a nuclear weapon within one year; woman claims to have an electromagnetic body shield; huge S American rats invade estate;

…8/21–10: in silence, there is strength
66º in ABQ; 30% humidity at 6A…three year old girl wanders into the street, ends up the victim of a hit & run in SE ABQ; man slightly injured when struck by a Rail Runner; man escapes being caught by the police after he tried to kill roommates with explosives [firebomb] & a blowtorch; a welfare check turns up weapons, ammo & drugs at a local doctor’s home, which also contained rice human feces; Duke City Film Festival this weekend; mother accused of giving narcotics to her sick child; Valencia CNTY woman ticketed for driving too slow, given a $70 fine; disaster declarations declared by NM GOV in N counties, and parts of the Navajo Nation; Santa Fe Indian Market is being held this weekend; trolley ride around the Duke City to view locations where films & TV movies have been made; NM Green Chie Festival is being held in Red River;
So far, 118 US banks have failed during 2010: added to the list are savings institutions in CA, IL, FL & VA; TX child dies after been left in a hot SUV for over two hours; CA is due for another big quake; bedbugs found in the Empire State BLDG; new overdraft fees for debit cards; half a billion eggs have been declared ‘tainted’; there are more people being tested to determine if they have HIV;
Earthworms pull pollutants from the soil; $50 million Van Gogh painting stolen; one person died after gunmen invaded a luxury hotel in Rio;

…8/22–10: someday, my prints will arrive
74º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A…INTEL owes Sandoval CNTY $100K in fines, for failing to meet hiring requiring, employing people from outside NM; ‘pole climbing rodeo’ held yesterday in NM; I-40W was shut down by an accident last night near UNIV; man stole prescription pad so he could write order controlled medications for his friends; last night, Neil Patrick Harris won two Emmys; money has been given for a forest restoration project in the Jemez MTN; Rio Rancho school food preparers may go on strike; man threatened to steal a dirt bike, while a child was on it…he failed; suspicious church fire in Farmington;
Two men charged with selling pot via a drive through window, at a store located near a daycare CTR; when will billet trains arrive in the US; America still has a 1950s work policy: moms make less than money than single women, and females still make less money than men; ‘geo tagging’ on digital photos can give thieves the location of a person’s home; female officer now leads a Norfolk naval station; more controversy about the ‘Ground Zero’ mosque;Will camel milk become the latest rage?; we now have a TS Frank; no injuries were reported after a 5.7 quake shook the islands off the coast of W Greece; shootout at the US/MX border, near El Paso; Iran revealed its deadly unmanned bomber; more flooding in China & N Korea;