…12/15-08: make more green, by [or, buy] gold

29º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…Brad at the Food Bank; great weekend to lose weight; Sophia Loren Sustiva dream; electric razor blade fell down the drain; NM GOV will be on Rail Runner’s official trip today; fireman saved woman from burning car; Rio Rancho school staff sacrificed salaries to help budget problems, go on unpaid leave; snow could fall in the Duke City this PM; three storms heading towards NM; various Winter Weather Watches, Warnings & Advisories until midweek; black ice across state; so far, one death reported; verdict today for cult leader accused for sexually touching underage females: guilty of criminal sexual contact; snowing more in the evening, could close some lanes on I-40; dozens of accidents reported; it felt like my personal relationship was fragmenting; I feel constipated; health before Internet;

snow by 10A; Shannon in wheelchair, fractured her tibia; need to be advised sixty days before an employee can be fired; time to sit back, and keep quiet, and keep smiling, and behave; new version of EXCEL added to my computer; am I ‘under control’; ‘Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas’ played at 10:30A; got a pair of gloves from Julia; building R/R bus stop at UNMH; system crash at 2:15P, no ETA, also affects bed MGMT, up by 2:55P; UNM PRES, who earns $587K, says “his morale isn’t that high”; like to see woman beg; Myrna has drag queen friends; official R/R stop at UNMH; empty AM R/R; Myrna brought me home;

650K people are still in the dark across NH & MA, power may not be restored until later this week; freezing rain in Memphis, parts of I-24, I-26 & I-40; snow, ice & very cold in Chicago; temps from –10 to 70s; three feet of snow in the N Plains; snow damaged states’ utility infrastructures; avalanche has killed UT skier; E Coast rain; warm in Boston & ATL; -9º in Billings; ‘stay inside for safety’; Los Angeles could see snow, mudslides and flash floods; there were flurries in ‘the’ Las Vegas;


no abrupt bankruptcies, Bush deciding what to do; IL GOV has got to go; not since the 1950s will prime interest rate drop below 1%; arrest in OR bank explosion; renters will not be forced to leave their dwelling if the property is under foreclosure; people may not be buying gifts, but holidays trees are still selling; denial not an acceptable response; Shrek became a Broadway musical; Gerald Ford had been shot twice in three weeks; ‘not gesturing with all five fingers’; members of electoral college will officially cast their PRES ballots; this past weekend, Santa Speedo race in Boston; progress in cancer treatment; US homes lose $2 trillion in their total value; ‘Grand Theft Auto’ is best video game; Caroline Kennedy will seek NY SEN seat; MI ‘Extreme Makeover’ home saved from foreclosure; white, Chantilly, VA High produces black musical ‘The Wiz’; retail sale & wholesale prices both on the decline; banks were given money, but won’t lend it to the American public; expensive COBRA unemployment INS; DOW headed down?; four year old breaks in TX toy store; is Caroline Kennedy qualified?; fifty-five years of Kennedy family in Congress on Capitol Hill; she has a ‘declaration of interest’, which is upsetting Hillary; a scam of ‘epic proportions’ complete with ‘secret formula’; another ‘day without a gay’ set for this Wednesday; last week’s event did not compel people to call in sick; Obama had no ‘inappropriate’ contact with the current IL GOV [sounds like a sex crime!]; ‘appalling set of circumstances’; NY trust lost $30 million in the scam, and whistleblowers were ignored; 25% of fathers never see their children;


INTL ‘penny talk’; Japanese snow monkeys enjoy baths in hot springs; British men cannot wrap presents; team score is like sexual feelings; 2009 calendar: nude, UK zookeepers [male & female] with animals; shoe attack did not bother Bush; US PRES also visited AFG, Taliban was removed from power, but not defeated yet; reporter is in custody, called our country’s leader ‘a dog’; Estonia voters are casting ballots electronically, via cell phone; foreign markets rising; is India prepared to attack PAK; where were Bush’ Secret Service agents?; US leader has good reflexes; Madonna divorce settlement costs her $75 million; Cheney was aware of waterboarding tactics against captured al Qaeda members; Iraqi reporter said ‘this is your farewell kiss, you dog!’; reporter considered ‘folk hero’, thought he would die a martyr; other say Iraqis are usually kind to guests;

…12/14-08: green is universal

43º in ABQ; 43% humidity at 6A…storm heading from the NW into the state; AM snow W of ABQ; weekday KOAT announcer on this morning’s news program; Santa Fe’s fourth homicide after domestic dispute ended in woman’s death; so far, fifty ABQ bank robberies in 2008; Duke City Evidence Room the model for other across the country; ’advertising a cold front’?; NM stockholders, which comprise 25% of the total number, may get nothing if Eclipse Aviation collapses; great weather for ski slopes; from 9/06 to 7/08, hackers invaded human resources files, provide access to 11K Grant CNTY residents; more digital TV transitional tests; strong winds & snow creeping along I-40 from Gallup to Grants; snow near Cuba; up to a foot of fresh powder in high peaks of the state; up to 60 mph gusts in S NM; this AM, do not drove through Tijeras Canyon; we remembered the ‘Lost & Found’; saw one truck priced over $43K; a good day for hot chocolate; two NM residents will be on NATL Public Service Announcement for Big Brothers & Big Sisters; when the Sandias disappear, bad weather is on its way; dial 511 for DOT conditions; AM flurries on Farmington; AM rain & snow at the Duke City; bigger storm may arrive by midweek; 77 mph winds clocked in S NM; Luminaria will line race track to honor children who have died; some areas have seen sixteen inches of snow by 8:30A; MA space warfare security testing facility being moved to KAFB; N NM roads being closed; snow W of the Duke City is being described as a ‘rock of ice’; fell asleep while watching the latest ‘Librarian’ movie; the day that went downhill; US 285 closed in SE NM, strong winds caused several accidents; murder in SW ABQ: man hit by truck on Atrisco; ten inches of snow has fallen on Angel Fire; Cops for Kids benefit held today; 86 mph gusts recorded at Organ, NM; five semis rear ended each other along I-40W, just W of Grants: no injuries were reported; alcohol the cause of a fatal two car crash in Farmington; no shower today;

I-94 & I-29 have been closed in N Dakota; I-70 is treacherous W of Denver; new credit card rules this week, that favor the customer?; 694.4 million credit cards are being used by Americans; having the Earth stand still earned $31 million; ‘coal’ vs. ‘non-coal’ states; ‘cold’ vs. ‘non-cold’ states; Blagojevich weighs his options, seeks advice from well-known criminal attorney, IL GOV may resign tomorrow; save by buying on EBay?; Ambien is non-narcotic; gas prices are on the rise; NATL AVG price has slightly increase $1.653 to $1.663 per gallon, with AK & MO having the highest & lowest costs; at least 800K people are still without power in New England, four deaths reported; skiing in UT & OR; zero degree temps around Denver; temps could drop to thirty degrees below zero in parts of MT; Lake Placid, the place to go for snow, 46 Adirondack peaks exceed 4K feet; Obama defined as ‘mutt’: part white, part black; woman bit security guard at NY basketball game; all options to save The Big Three are still on the table?; 15% of woman conceive each month; icy state of emergency declared in MA; price of diesel still on the decline; Ecuadorian man has died in NYC HOSP, his killers shouted anti-gay, anti-Latino slurs; the best interest of the American public being taken into consideration regarding the automakers’ deal; OR bank bomber still at large, two people have died from the blast; FL woman accidentally shot when man’s gun falls to the floor, and discharged; losing weight could prevent gestational diabetes; mother prime suspect of killing Caylee Anthony; New England beat Oakland, 49 – 26; FL pizza delivery man threw food at gunman, three teens arrested in crime; blizzard conditions from the Dakotas to WI; record snowfall in MT; wind chills plunging to -50º; NH electrical grid may need to be rebuilt; is the IL GOV fit to govern?, and are there stronger ties between him & Obama: the PRES Elect has remained silent on this topic for the last six days; Obama will announce his ‘Green Energy Team’, complete with a ‘Climate & Energy Czar’; -11º in Denver; a gay & lesbian band will march in inauguration parade; avalanches in UT injure one person; flash floods in CA;

India desires peace with PAK; Bush in his farewell tour, arrived in Baghdad, fourth visit as PRES; there is also a worldwide auto crisis; the global economic crisis also affecting China, Japan, Russia, the EU & Venezuela: perhaps global unity can solve the problem; more riots in Greece; more NATO troops killed in AFG; pirates captured near Somalia; Britain promising PAK anti-terrorist aid; should GITMO be closed?; the ‘new’ music of Sir Paul McCartney, AKA ‘The Fireman’; shoes thrown at Bush, considered an insult in Middle East countries; during speech in Baghdad, by Iraqi reporter who had been captured by enemy troops; the US PRES comment was about their size, which was ten [did the shoes fit?]; Bush says the nation is in much better shape, did not hold this ‘attack’ against the GOVT;

…12/13-08: good life happens on a good rug

38º in ABQ; 82% humidity at 6A…E Coast gangs head to ABQ; NM has prepared a $1.8 billion ‘wish list’; requested by FED GOVT; AM snow in N NM; students working with extreme temperatures, testing with liquid nitrogen; GPS ankle detectors for ‘our’ Las Vegas athletes who sodomized students, the sports players have already violated an existing restraining order; up to 50 mph winds will arrive at the Duke City; a foot of snow could fall in N NM MTN; TX sex offender, free for the past two years, has been arrested; ‘brighten her world with a diamond’; sexual vs. religious action on the part of cult leader; UNM PRES tells people to ‘work with him’; I am feeling better today, but tired; Winter Weather Warnings & Watches for NM throughout the weekend; could hear thunder during these storms; sixth US attack sub in service, when the USS New Mexico gets christened; Eclipse Aviation finding it hard to sell structure; Domenici closes his DC office; are Rio Rancho teachers’ jobs being threatened; claims of compromising video; three Raton police charged with involuntary manslaughter, after tasing a suspect which may have resulted in the victim’s death; Val Kilmer could be on Lieu. GOV transition team; drunk driver charged with hit & run, striking a man, whose car had problems; and was walking on US 64, in the Four Corners area; blowing dust along I-10; no customers in car dealerships; Santa Fe teacher reached plea deal, but will be charged as being a sex offender, for inappropriately touching four male children; woman charged with rigging a Sandia Casino raffle with most of the raffle tickets containing her name, in an effort to win a new home; this AM, my cough has improved; ‘The Day My Neck Wouldn’t Move’; the auction business is booming; feels good to be thirsty again; today, Bank of the West near Coronado Mall was robbed; Brad made Corn Bread, and a Cucumber Salas with Sour Cream, Lime & Garlic…quite tasty!;

bones found have been identified as those of Caylee Anthony; will SAG decide to strike; bomb at OR bank killed police officer, injured police chief & state bomb technician; one GA & one TX bank being forced to close; Obama has chosen more of his Cabinet; reported attacks to gays on the rise; ice storms caused power outages for 1.25 million people in New England; gang related shooting took place at OR funeral injures one person; Bush may tap TARP money to bailout The Big Three, 21 auto factories may shut down in N America; Suze Orman is gay?; FOX cameras capture NM car collisions; Tattoo Nation stores opening in malls across the country, workers get both medical benefits & vacations; ‘kill an abnormal, save a pit-bull’; Van Johnson, 92, has died from natural causes; ‘invisible victims’; boardroom pressure & public shame reduce CEO bonuses for this year; ‘nowhere else can you get more money for a poor performance’; riots in W TX prison; pensions & savings, charities, cities & baseball team are all victims of the stock market scandal, even those who reaped dividend benefits; Bush may become the ‘last, best hope of The Big Three’, create ‘bridge loans’, but the current White House has little clout; Obama family cannot move into Blair House, yet; sex texting increasing, starting in the fourth grade, uploading via cell phone onto FaceBook; is IL GOV ’physically disabled’?; trying to save the Saturn; ‘suspicious’ fire damages Palin’s church; NM cult leader ‘crime’ makes CNN News;

US troops will remain in Iraqi cities after the 2011 withdrawal; unemployed Canadian man killed one person at holiday office party; riots continue across Greece; the ‘Castro Cuba’ still says it might talk to Obama; $500 million Zimbabwe = $8 US; flooding in Rome;

…12/12-08: pack your patience

30º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; Round House in still closed this AM, 32 people were exposed & quarantined; one of 18 state capitals that received the same type of letters; I can live on PB & J sandwiches; HP job fair today; fiery three vehicle crash shit down I-40 near Coors, causing hours of delays; NM soldier finally returning from Germany, has been separated from his family since 2004: wife & stepchild has had medical problems; three or four storms will move across NM during next few days; Gallup passes new ‘driving while distracted’ ordinance; polar Jet Stream dives into NM; Jackie Chan in the Duke City; get ready for plenty of wind; Brad prepared Chili; more tickets have been printed for Luminaria Tours; rollover crash on I-25 kills driver; raid yielded millions of dollars in heroin;

stress conquers all!; nobody told Kay to stop contacting me; AM meeting with Brent & MGR about forms & I/P visit, followed by PM meeting with MGR, Kay, Coders & Nephrology; UNM PRES meets with students, discusses hiring freeze, and possible economic problems; Myrna, Evelyn & I are ‘a team’; no one is currently reviewing O/P specialist services; brought billing sheets to Newborn; spreadsheets need to be created for specialist consults & follow-up visits; MGR not feeling well today, plus her mother is not doing well, so I hugged her; where was Jenny?; Myrna’s mother has blood in her urine, needs to see her doctor; finished Rounds by 9A; list the number of actual charges on billing sheets; ‘stress cough’ has returned; nobody was eating or buying from Uptown to Olde Towne; stuffy meeting rooms; very empty AM & PM R/R; Lomas bus arrived at 3:56P, so another walk up Eubank; only one bus seen for thirty minutes, a Blue Line R/R; earthquake in my head that would not go away; low morale vs. high anxiety at UNM, and UNMH, putting spending on hold; “don’t feel good, going to bed, goodnight” was the most I could tell Brad; could not talk with my friends at the comic book store; neck hurt so bad, could not stand up; arrived home by 6P, but could not fall asleep; “JoAnn lives in her own, perfect world”; harassment problem resolved, for now, although advised to talk with CARS about the subject;


54º in Taunton at 6A; Houston snow caused accident; power outages across NE US; icy: PA, NY, N New England, along the MA Pike; GA twisters; rain in Seattle, snow in N Rockies; wet from Boston to DC, sleet in Hartford & Worcester; showers in Honolulu, HI; temps from 0s to 70s;


chipmunk kept his winter berries inside engine of IN car; December layoffs have already reached 100K; all kinds of dirty, one types of clean; is there a ‘Plan B’; dead end deal on Capitol Hill; not since 1982 have there been one period of so many job losses, 537K people became unemployed during one week; UAW does not accept cuts to salvage automakers; playing Russian Roulette with bailout; pinup Bettie Page died at the age of 85 from a heart attack & pneumonia; American need a vacation during these trying times; it’s a Dark Knight: ‘Batman’ is not worthy for Golden Globe?; capture dreams, turn them into computer images; workers of Chicago window business awarded lost pay & benefits; did FL mother kill her daughter, Caylee Anthony, bury the body near grandparents’ home?; dark day in Detroit; NM Round House mentioned in ABC AM News; ‘getting pregnant isn’t easy’; people still do not want to drive; less flights mean more flights arrive on time; human error fills hangar with foam bubbles; IPhones that doubles as a leveler; four missing after copter crashed off the TX coast, in the Gulf of MX; tap the remaining bailout funds to help The Big Three; NATL AVG price of gas is $1.656 per gallon; NASDAQ chairman charged with defrauding investors of $50 billions on bad Wall ST deals; use WALL ST money to bail out The Big Three; more people using public transportation; EMT workers in 23 states charged with sexually molesting patients;

UK owl, seen day after day, was actually plastic, discovered after mailman called the fire DEPT, faux animal used to keep other birds from landing on wires, and prevent messy droppings; foreign stock markets are collapsing, especially those of auto manufacturers; dollar losing ground in Asian economy; Spain, France, Denmark & Italy join Greece in riots, based more on economic unrest; Toyota, Honda & BMW make better cars, and have better MGMT systems; nine killed in Russian mine explosion; Obama & the moon;

…12/11-08: when history lives in the present

27º in ABQ; 78% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; flags lowered to half staff in honor of NM legislator; a WWII B&W Sustiva ‘movie dream’; IMAX theater at new Winrock CTR; HP Call CTR will be built in Rio Rancho; LANL contract extension for another year; cult trial concluding?; Brad has hearing problem, has scheduled a 2:30 visit at Truman Clinic, he had ear wax; new MGMT for Santa Ana Star CTR; SW Chapter of CO Red Cross may have to close, due to lack of funds; the Round House was evacuated when a white powder was found in an envelope: male & female employees would have to be tested & take showers in separate areas; 11P teen curfew in Gallup; NM schools serving more free, but less food in their meals; 416 new jobs added before the state freeze on hiring; public funeral service for Alice King in Moriarty; at least two weeks for property tax checks to be cashed;

two meetings today: area & Infectious Disease doctor training; shocked psyche; life may change during next two days; I’m a nobody; staff meeting cancelled; finished Rounds by 9A; UNM staff & faculty morale at all-time low; hard to handle a pregnant daughter; we are not a team, longtime Coders do not know the doctors; Kay did not bring examples to meeting; patient swallowed toilet bowl cleaner; medical rank determined by jacket length; MGR not at meeting; Kay was kind to Coders today; patients in wrong rooms or charts per Census, listed as discharged, when they are not; JoAnn understands ‘the other side’ of the Kay’s coding discussion; no one has spoken to me about my harassment complaint; mother used heroin during day of delivery; I monitor residents for several weeks, and review their notes, and critique them; professionally took punishment;

biggest full moon of the year, appears 14% larger; flood warnings in ATL; rain along parts of I-95, I-75, I-10; GA, VA, Carolinas; Philly, from DC to Boston, coastal New England; winter weather: Houston, MS, AL, inner NY, Louisiana; E & S FL storms; hot in Los Angeles; temps from 10s to 70s; ice & sleet in N New England, Scranton, Worcester; along I-84, I-90; earliest snow fell in some parts of S TX; thunder & snow in New Orleans, Louisiana; NC floods;

SEN [R] reject auto bailout, 50% of people polled also oppose ‘auto deal’; Heath Ledger & the Golden Globe; 9–11 “survivor’s staircase”, consisting of 37 stems, was moved to its permanent location in a museum that is yet to be built; people carry a ‘junk food gene’ in their DNA; text message sent by OH daughter to dad by mistake, stating that she lost her virginity on the beach, was further leaked to everyone; the era of ‘pre-chewed pencils’; men are the bigger spenders in a family; foreclosures ‘down’, but due to holiday moratorium; ‘The Great Taxpayer Train Robbery’ vs. ‘the money has been well spent’ vs. ‘not seen by communities & the public; Obama will announce HHS SECY [Daschle], the SECY of Energy & Energy Czar; sell the seat on EBay; Jesse Jackson JR under the microscope as next IL SEN; no promises that The Big Three will not declare bankruptcy in 2009, or earlier, or later…or need more money to survive; Bush wants the lifeline bill to pass; Bruins lost; stolen ring returned to 102 year old woman; Obama involved in IL corruption scandal; good digital camera for less than $300, by CANON; Palin beat Britney in searches; KB store filing for bankruptcy; Obama’s ‘old’ car being sold on E-Bay for $100K; group therapy can help reduce illnesses; unemployment claims on the rise; America’s debt is shrinking; the submarine; USS New Mexico will be commissioned; the DOW is dropping; more children need a free lunch; Bank of America cutting 35K jobs; food shortages feared; looking for Obama mimic; how safe are our levees; ND is the most corrupt state: AK, in the top five; IL GOV promised he would never do ‘anything illegal or unethical’; being enticed to take an inexpensive vacation; Sara Lee cut 700 jobs; UAW may have to cut wages & benefits, but the original ‘Big Three’ House bill is dead; advisory vs. regulatory FED Health Board to create universal medical coverage for Americans;

more US troops scheduled for AFG; mixed foreign markets; Endeavour returned to FL, at a cost of $2 million flight ticket; riots continue across Greece; 36 karat big, blue diamond sells for $24.3 million; shades of ‘Twelve Angry Men’: actor accidentally slits his throat while onstage; in Iraq, 55 people killed by suicide bomber in Kirkuk restaurant; terrorists plot to attack world leaders at Belgium conference was arrested; drought spreading across the US, and the planet;

…12/10-08: keep it green

27º in ABQ; 78% humidity at 6A…GAQ, Brad’s AM Chiro visit; Steve & Bruce are together again; Allen is doing well, and is dabbling in the occult; Cary is in San Francisco; Trident INTL DC & Baltimore no longer exist, but Orlando Hall survives; Allen is doing well; Alice King will be on display in the Capitol Rotunda; Hewlett-Packard may mean more growth & jobs in Rio Rancho; NM knows how it would spend bailout money; Cibola High cafeteria reopens; most people have their power restored in N NM; Santa Fe bank robbed; two Tijeras schools have the worst air quality in the nation; the ‘golden shovel award?; this AM, below zero temps in parts of NM; Bernalillo CNTY bans selling of dogs & cats in pet stores; forgot to take receipt from ATM; gas is $1.46 per gallon; the Bank of America branch at Lomas & Juan Tabo was robbed this AM; should Rio Rancho school system have purchased exercise weights, when teachers are being asked to take time off without pay; parents have to bury another son; no NM Office Depot stores will close; Alice King was married for 61 years; another plague cat found in NM; two bank robberies in one city [ABQ] during the same day; at The Beach, cars covered in frost; NM mariachi band will march in Obama’s inauguration parade; counterfeit cash in S NM, especially at casinos; deadly crash on US 491;


get money for MGR gift; health question should be added to interview; JoAnn says she doesn’t dislike me; I told my MGR [in a polite & calm E-mail] I am being harassed; MGR asked me if I was OK, and I said ‘NO!’; JoAnn asked me when I would take time off; Kay keeps coming: she E-mailed response saying that Coders get confused, don’t know the difference between ‘observation’ & ‘consult’; told I was too sensitive; Kay said I should not send replies to ‘all my friends’; the ‘cherry’ Lobos?; new UNM coach will earn $750K in the PM, not a word heard from Kay; time to get out of my shell, and prove to people that I have a brain in my head, and she doesn’t; yesterday, referred back the ‘throw me to the wolves’ speech;


EF 1 twisters touched down in TX, OK, Louisiana & MS; flurries in Pittsburgh; New England fog; wet from Boston to Baltimore, parts of I-75, I-85 & I-95; T’storms & tornado warnings for MS, AL, GA & Louisiana supercells; heavy rain in FL panhandle; flash floods for Birmingham, AL; temps from 10s to 70s;


Boston cat got warm in fan belt, but face nearly removed, repaired by surgery, minimal damages or scars remain; selling of a SEN seat, IL GOV will not resign, wants to make money, or appoint himself as the new IL SEN, but it’s back to business for him; ‘open charge’ AMEX card; volcanic soil produces great ID potatoes; car czar could force any of The Big Three into bankruptcy: bill being tweaked, but car loan nearly complete; Capitol Hill still undecided; money could be seen in days; gays should call in sick today; Oprah not proud of ‘her big butt’; Treasury bills will neither make profits or losses, but safer & less risky than stocks; FL students try to solve ‘who killed Frosty the Snowman’; the worst US recession in fifty years; TN woman returns $100K found in purse; two TX twins die in house fire; cancer may become the number one killer by 2010?; increase in people purchasing generic supermarket brands; AIG needs more money; shortage of Santa jobs this season [they do have a union!]; demands for scrap goes down during Depression; small tremors rocked San Bernardino CNTY in CA, no damage or injuries reported; SKF is cutting its workforce; Advantage Rental Car CO files for bankruptcy; ‘no corporate welfare’; GMA will tour NM cult compound; Viagra, the sexual medicine, is ten years old; GOOGLE will provide access to magazines of yesteryear; expensive jewelry can be found in Beverly Hills pawn shops; Office Depot will close 112 stores; NATL AVG price of gas is $1.683 per gallon: high in AK, low in MO, with diesel at $2.617 per gallon; FL skydiver survives 10K fall; Obama thinks IL SEN has resigned; cops used a taser against a drive who was having a diabetic shock; wholesales sales dropped 4.1%, the worst in recorded, economic history; CNN considered ‘better than newspapers’?; how to stop a GOV who ‘wanted to be part of the deal’: the IL Deputy GOV has resigned, there is talk of impeachment, a process that could take months; the man leading the state turned 52 today…has he become mentally incompetent’, or just ‘out of touch’?; car czar could recall loans [from where?]; $335 billion of the bailout money has already be spent, helping 87 banks in 32 states; Palin was the fastest rising search for 2008; are US taxpayers ‘subsidizing failure’?; CA; three CA KFC workers suspending for taking bath in deep sink used to wash dishes; 35 vehicles & four big rigs collided along US 99 near Fresno; $14 billion bailout succeeds in the House; DOW ended up;


INTL Human Rights Day; no cursing, aggravation or heaving in UK village; caterpillar invasion in Australian town; shark breaks into ‘shark proof cage’; Greek unions should strike to protest police killing young man; mixed foreign markets; US error kills seven AFG officers; China’s economy is slowing down; Ricky Martin’s sons follow singer’s footsteps;

…12/09-08: the bonds that bind

35º in ABQ; 88% humidity at 6A…GAQ; AM weather: wet surfaces; Sustiva dream, visiting Olde Towne Alexandria, tearing down NLP, with Steve, Brenda & Philippe; Tijeras Canyon roads are ‘tricky’; E MTN ABQ schools delayed; parts of I-25 & I-40 & the Turquoise Trail are icy with some snow; worst weather in the AM hours; snow squall in Santa Fe, worse in N NM cities; Alice King ‘served’ three terms as the First Lady of NM; seventh of eight escapees from Clovis prison has been captured; almost a foot of snow in Chama; what’s wrong with man laying in a bed with young girls; rehab vs. prison for man who was high, killing several motorists; Brad making Broccoli Soup; prominent lawyer had more than twice the legal limit when he killed a pedestrian; ‘the’ Las Vegas man was struck & killed by Amtrak train near Gallup; 25K without power in Espanola area; Eclipse Aviation BLDG is for sale; Steve Arnold passed away from cancer; holiday lyric caused controversy, ‘nine underpaid EA’, immediately removed;

yesterday, JoAnn & I sat at the same table, some employees wanted ‘more’ from the event; light snow at UNM this AM; were Candace or Geri at the luncheon?; am I, or am I not on the same page with Kay; 12/24/08: buses stop at 3P: R/R, until 6P; MGR told from higher source there were $700K in TES edits: reply was that her unit only totaled $28.4K; still more UNMMG jobs when Sandoval CNTY HOSP opens; I talked to Jenny; now, Kay says her & I are both on the same page; Steve’s wife cut his hair, and completely shaved his beard; three babies admitted to PICN; JoAnn had to testify at a courthouse regarding UNMMG lawsuit; there were five new patients admitted to GPU this AM; Jenny left at 11A, not feeling well; UNM has made a big step in hiring a black football coach; instead of going to the party, Geri continued working; finished Rounds about 9A: at that time, no more available beds in GPU; MGR said I’m not stupid; a little bit of snow all day; new steam turbine to be built at UNM;

New England flurries; snow: W WI, MI, Green Bay, along I-41 & I-43; rain: parts of I-20, Erie, DC, Houston, Cincinnati, St. Louis, INDY, Pittsburgh, Chicago, FL, AL, GA, SC; temps from 10s to 80s; fires & Santa Ana winds return in S CA; tornadoes in MO, TN, AR, Louisiana, damaged Alexandria, LA;

AM sleeping pill ads; DC priest stops service to catch a thief, and succeeds; envelopes with white powder received in six state GOVT offices; pilot survived, engine trouble the cause, three people are dead, one child missing when jet slammed into two homes, toxic fumes put school on lockdown; call in ‘gay’ in CA tomorrow?; mortgages remain delinquent, in spite of lower payments; volcano at the Mirage casino flows again after months of renovation; Internet ‘stealing’ readers; getting away with murder is becoming easier in America; NATL AVG price of gas is $1.70 per gallon; no reason why item was called a ‘mouse’, but the device is 40 years old; Jay Leno moving to NBC primetime; some heart attacks have flu-like symptoms; it ‘pays’ to become a corporate spy; puppies kept VA boy warm when he became lost; bedbugs invading homes; ‘beauty is what shines within’: man whose face was burned in Iraq has been added to a soap opera cast; Wal-Mart may start selling IPhones by end of year; Chicago workers still on sit-down strike, but bank extends credit; FBI arrests IL GOV on corruption charges, out on $4,500 bond: charged with selling the office formerly held by the PRES Elect, three other governors before him have been arrested, phone calls had been tapped, and audio taped; Chicago Tribune was also targeted by him, any current Obama connection?; actress Fran Drescher as the next NY SEN; child’s body found in debris of plane crash; fifteen year old PA student planned to kill classmates he did not like; Al Gore, SECY of Energy?; Palin also received white powder envelope; Congress inching towards auto deal; transparency & credibility, is the Big Three bailout viable?; with many strings attached, such as abandoning corporate jets; SEN Craig stuck with sex-sting scandal; Bush believes in a higher power that helped him beat the bottle, and accepts the Holy Book, accepts evolution; more teens using tanning salons; DOW continues its descent; Clinton & Rice talk turkey; Obama can’t stop smoking; train collides with truck in S IL;

driver from Wales caught speeding, said it was not his vehicle but his daughter’s; and ex-wife was in the car; nagging New Zealand wife helps him win $4.2 million lottery; gold is now $775 an ounce; did the sphinx originally designed to have a lion’s head?; SONY cutting 8K jobs around the world; terrorists don’t trust Americans, appear in court wearing sun glasses, turbans & big beards; more rain for flooded Brazil; people starving in Africa may unknowingly be spreading the HIV virus; another day of riots across Greece; oil at $2.80 per barrel; Wyndham [which includes Ramada, Days INN & Super 8], the NFL & the Principal Financial Group cutting 15K more jobs; Jaguar recalled twice in nine days; gay male Hebrew singer has ‘subtle sexuality’, conjures images of Commercial ST in P’town; Tom Jones has been married 51 years; as riots continue, Greek GOVT may topple; Dame Judi Dench is 74 years old;