…7/18-09: no matter who you are

70º in ABQ; 45% humidity at 6A…two dead after a rollover crash near Central & Morningside, at least one vehicle struck the ‘Cowboys & Indian’ store, accident took place in the early AM; a Pojoaque teen is currently missing; the body of a man who was reported lost in June was located near Red River; a 59 year old NM resident died while on a bus tour through Denali Forest in AK; training unit at Holloman AFB could add as many as 800 new workers; NM cook will prepare his Rosemary Encrusted Pork on the Regis & Kelly show this week; 3.0 quake rocks NM; the Olde Towne Photo Walk was held today; it’s amazing where one can find decent lamps; male corpse found floating at Elephant Butte Lake; new bus route on the Navajo Nation, from Shiprock to Window Rock; lots of evening lightning, but no rain;

Walter Cronkite was ‘the most trusted man in America’ during the 1970s; four more banks close their doors: two in CA, one in GA & S Dakota, bringing the total to 57 in 2009; the DEPT of Defense may have paid $15 million to invalid employee accounts, plus deceased workers; family doctors, endangered species; sewing is making a comeback; no budget means no paycheck for PA state workers: two other states, NC & CT, have yet to finalize their yearly finances; excessive heat warnings for Phoenix; only the very rich, or the very poor can live in DC; SC GOV [you know, the one with the ‘soul mate’ in Argentina] traveled in style; Starbucks may add alcohol to its menu; many injuries reported when two light rail trains collided in San Fran; the term ‘anchor’ was created for Cronkite; the man who posed as a doctor, agent & astronaut; the ‘increasingly elusive’ passage of a NATL health bill; marijuana sales may help the CA economy; one man, six deaths in TN & AL; Yellowstone NATL Park has had several severe series of quakes, so far, over 1K this year; does music have a DNA signature, or composition?; Gay Pride in San Diego: the city’s largest civic event; should this be considered a ‘lack of faith’?, twenty states allow guns inside churches: and, during the past year, there have been eighteen shootings in these houses of worship;first spacewalk taking place today; Taliban have captured US soldier; reinforced hotel windows kept the blast inside the buildings; astronauts add a ‘porch’ to the INTL space station; ‘Camp Hell’ in AFG, a place where terrorists have repeatedly attacked;

…7/17-09: we will…together

76º in ABQ; 32% humidity at 6A…Brad has completed rewriting his cookbook; another law officer caught smuggling meth into prison for an inmate: this time, in Montezuma CNTY; ‘Patch’ Adams visited the Duke City; Sandoval CNTY deputy shot at Jemez CNTY cabin; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; the Rail Runner is three years old, free coffee & pastries to honor the anniversary; 78º at 4A; in one day, 300 people caught using their cell phones while driving; Brad made Cherry Soup; Duke City grandmother lived in home with meth, cocaine & young children; 5:45A: directed truck driver to BioPark entrance;

left at 1P; think of your worst nightmare…and I work there; finished Rounds by 7:30A; does the ‘chain off command’ include the Senior Coder?; brought Gazpacho, plus its recipe, for Evelyn & Myrna, and they both liked it; comic quest; one looks for output, the other looks for trouble; one patient’s father is a known sex offender; enjoyed lunch at Saggio’s; Evelyn has seen the ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’; there was a two car crash on Central near Nob Hill, and a Menaul bus had broken down in front of us as we were heading to the bookstore; we then went to Albertson’s, and arrived home just before 5P; it was a windy AM;

ABQ high temp mentioned on ABC AM News; MS. AL, TX TN/VA storms, and parts of I-81; cool in the Great Lakes region; rain for New Orleans & Baton Rouge; showers across IN & OH, S MI; storms in DC & Dallas, parts of I-20, I-30, I-80 & I-90; wet weather in Tidewater area; temps from 60s to 110s;

‘no one has written your destiny for you’, so says Obama; gun fired, shot off OH felon’s testicle; too dangerous, too premature, too quick & too soon to push for health care reform; Kaiser Permanente HOSP fined for failure to protect medical records; a dead three month old Louisiana baby found covered with rat bites; housing starts on the rise; Citigroup posts big quarterly profit; Walter Cronkite has died at the age of 92; Miami ‘castle’ goes up in flames; MA teen hiker fined $25K for rescue effort when he got lost climbing Mt. Washington, in NH; blog reports Philly cops said ‘guns don’t kill people, minorities do’; in 15 states & DC, the jobless rate exceeds 10%;Argentinean swine herds are infected with H1N1 virus, country issues NATL alert; the foam that damaged Endeavour; the shuttle will dock at the INTL Space Station today; bombs rock the Indonesian capital of Djakarta: two luxury US hotels were targeted, a splinter group of al Qaeda may have caused the explosions which have left nine people dead, and fifty injured: a third bomb was found & defused, the blasts were two minutes apart, and brought into the hotel, praised for its security measures, by ‘guests’; the attack on INTL icons, these places are called ‘soft targets’, and nothing noted on the global ‘threat matrix’; another man has died from Madonna stage disaster; there are many people who still think the moon landing was really a hoax; the religious leaders say Iran is in a political crisis, as protests continue in that country; modernized ‘moon walk’ photos; thirteen people onboard the INTL Space Station; ‘For Your Eyes Only’ was the only James Bond movie where the singer appeared in the intro, but not in the film itself;

…7/16-09: infinite sky

76º in ABQ; 37% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality for Ozone; UNM student has died from gunshot wounds he sustained last week; Sandia Labs slashes security jobs; Duke City thieves tried to steal a TV from an abandoned on Burger King on Rio Grande; shooting in Roswell; NM man was a ‘tech glitch’ victim, saying he owed from $5 million to $24 quadrillion on his credit card; Brad made Gazpacho; filming results in ABQ Ride detour; fasting again for Brad; new Farmington water line in the works; 1,600 acres have burned in the San Miguel fire; NMSU cuts money from its sports budget; the Denish war chest almost has $2 million; deputy shot & killed in La Cueva CNTY, after locating the ‘Cookie Bandit’; the world’s biggest pistachio can be found in Otero CNTY, just N of Alamogordo; B’day E-mail from Phyllis; Pena Blanca, NM…a place to retire; ABQ has had three 98º days in a row;

ten criteria in our new performance review; finished Rounds by 7:45A; sandwiches from Evelyn; mother accidentally used bottle of breast milk that was also administered to a patient with HSV; no CTI Admits;

wet in TN, AR, OK, N TX; Dallas heat, ATL downpours; storms toppled trucks near Orlando, and along parts of I-55 in MS; rain from Philly to DC; heat advisories for TX & Louisiana; more cool temps, more moisture for PA, NY & New England and along I-95; temps from 50s to 110s;

should gas be $20 a gallon?; Sears Tower is now Willis Tower; ‘recession billboards’ along I-95 in RI; inferno on interstate: tank truck explosion along I-75 near Detroit collapsed overpass; there were no injuries, but residents in the area are in the dark; Obama will address the NAACP on it’s one hundredth B’day; the FED Health Police, the AMA approves one of the House [D] health bills; twelve people were injured in a FL bus crash at Disney World; ; foreclosures remain on the rise, so far in 2009, 1.5 million in that category; rollover crash near Phoenix halts traffic, driver runs away; CA teen the youngest person to sail around the world; ex-Boeing worker accused of spying for China; gays vs. Afro-Americans vs. Obama; the DOW ends up; wildfires near Reno, NV; the GM ‘Motors Liquidation CO’ is having a yard sale…one of the items is a slightly contaminated golf course;

photos created by zapping electricity through flowers & plants; the Endeavour is starting a sixteen day mission: and again, more foam insulation struck the space shuttle; dogs with designer clothes work the runway in Thailand; British man took his girlfriend to the movie…but, the boyfriend had hired a crowd, and when the lights went down, he appeared on the screen in a short film, and in his underwear, and asked her hand in marriage…she said yes; one person has been killed when a stage collapsed during a Madonna concert in France; gold is $936.50 per ounce; the H1N1 virus is the fastest moving pandemic; only 20% of the swine flu vaccine is made in the USA; oil is $60.81 per barrel; 71 million hits on Susan Boyle’s original YouTube site; nicks on the underbelly of the Endeavour; Iceland may soon join the EU; the era of eco-sabotage;

…7/15-09: recession…is it worth it?

74º in ABQ; 31% humidity at 6A…better night’s sleep; a real black tie!; stabbing at a local Jack in the Box; NM resident has links to the graves dug up near Chicago; I get carried away with trying to make everyone around me happy, so maybe I can stop worrying; new Wal-Mart opening on WY; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; fasting for Brad, but no orders at UNMH, so he will try tomorrow; spoke to Tam about getting one of his medicines filled by Walgreen’s, because it costs a lot…which will mean faxing & approving; yesterday we had White Asparagus; audit concerns revolve around Value Options; too many rave parties in Valencia CNTY; bringing out my inner Goth; El Dorado High in NE ABQ linked to a drug ring selling heroin; shooting at Unser & Arenal kills teen; someone calling, perhaps from inside, saying that a loved one has been involved in an accident, and is in the ER at Presbyterian HOSP; the hole remains at Balloon Fiesta Park;

does MGMT hear the praise, and forget to trickle it down?; finished Rounds by 7:30A; taking an earlier bus did not make much of a difference; received yearly goals; responsibility of ordering forms by MGR; signs pointing to PEDS handling HEM-ONC charges; went from the Blue PM R/R, to the Central;

temps from 60s to 110s; Orlando T’storms, also in KC, Chicago, Detroit & St. Louis, across KY and along parts of I-55, and sections of I-70 & I-35;

the AL won the All-Star game again; Boeing cutting more jobs; some still want to tax health INS & pharmaceutical companies; a thirty week old fetus does possess a memory, and ears?; NH man swipes his credit card, and makes a $24 quadrillion purchase?; summer camps close in CO, UT & NV because of the H1N1 virus; the DOW has a triple digit increase; the overuse of ‘absolutely’?; 5K lb. shark washed ashore on Long Island beach; US H1N1: 34,649 cases with 243 deaths; exchange students with horror stories about America: one lived with a convicted felon, and another in homes that would be condemned by the city; shooting on Capitol Hill, DC police fired when man appeared to have a weapon; bacon flavored ice cream?; SC woman died from pneumonia leak; states may receive stimulus funds to weatherize homes; beware fake or negative hotel reviews, sometimes originating from competitors, other times from people who have never stayed there, and telling their friends to also write scathing or praising comments: this trick was also used by a cosmetic firm; Sotomayor is ‘not a judge with an agenda’; video shows Michael Jackson’s hair catching on fire while filming an ad; [D] divided on the health care vote: ‘make life better for the PCP’; three people killed when plane crashed SW of Los Angeles;

Caspian Airlines crashed NW of Tehran, killing all 168 onboard, made deep crater in the ground; a Madonna look-alike is a man, who makes money from the resemblance; successful space launch; 7.8 quake off the SW coast of New Zealand has triggered tsunami warnings, high surf could have reached HI in twelve hours; markers were activated to track waves, later in the AM, warnings were cancelled; drunk man in Germany fell into a manhole, and got stuck: easy to rescue; Harry Potter earns a record $22.2 million midnight preview record; in England, al Qaeda warns PAK about the consequences of US intervention; H1N1: 116,943 cases, with 580 deaths; Belgium parents forget their child at an overnight rest stop; teen survives twelve days in Australian MTN; is the Harry Potter star gay?; 46 soldiers have died in July in AFG; Japanese lab is heading to the INTL Space Station: five spacewalks are planned;

…7/14-09: you & I; eye & aye

76º in ABQ; 26% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; 78º at 4A; new ‘digs’ for archeological relics; reached 98º in the Duke City yesterday; ‘our’ Las Vegas teen will spend one year in detention CTR for violating parole; structure blaze at Second & Osuna; no one is using the free health clinic in the Duke City; inmate dies after being delivered to the METRO Detention CTR; huge pot bust along I-25, drugs found in the gas tank; Holloman AFB will house drones; runway renovation for Las Cruces Airport; stay at home vacations sounds like a relaxing idea; Santa Fe FED BLDG has a foul smell, may cost up to $10 million to upgrade; gas is $2.33 per gallon; health warning for the Los Alamos area: forest fire has now burned 1,400 acres; Dona Ana mother accused of child abuse after her youngster tests positive for cocaine; crash at Rio Bravo & Second; Tucumcari in the dark today; US Track & Field competition will be held in the Duke City next year; local theaters are already sold-out for Harry Potter premier; special thanks to Victoria's website; have four business days to solve the pharmacy problem; Brad going to Truman Clinic & NMAS to help resolve this medicine mess; finished Rounds by 7:30A; lots of EKG & EEG reports; hopped on the PM Red from the PM Blue R/R; after talking with Tam, who will give info to Tim, we should be part of the mail order drug program; a 6A rainbow; how can one take time off when one is always helping other areas?;

wet in the Deep South; thunder replaces alarm clocks this AM; below AVG temps from Pittsburgh to ME; T’storms from KS to AR to the Gulf Coast; 100s across TX; chance of tornadoes from WY to FL; man fell thirty feet while walking on a waterfall near Roswell, GA; Omaha & KC twisters; bad weather for Chicago, Twin Cities, parts of I-35; temps from 60s to 110s; ABQ high temp of 96º mentioned on ABC AM News;the world doesn’t care about anybody anymore; Savannah, GA is one of the most haunted cities; 3.0 quake centered under the runways of LAX; a SW Airlines flight was diverted to when a football size hole appeared in the fuselage; passengers could see the sky at 30K feet, 131 onboard the Boeing 737, the jet landed safely in WV; Madoff moved to ATL jail, then NC medium security jail in NC; Sotomayor: judges have to uphold the law; eight people may be involved in the murder of a FL couple; the end of the color coded terrorist system?; chocolate pâté; at what age does it become too old to drive?; apologies not accepted, Philly minorities do not want to swim in the ‘club pool’; US Airways cutting 600 jobs; man died after his vehicle plunged 500 feet over the S rim of the Grand Canyon, near El Tovar Lodge; ‘mass mooning’ along the CA coast; pet airlines soar; woman said Nike stole her slogan; retail sales are up for the second month in a row; one MS CNTY has gone six years without clean, running water…there are gaps in the state’s service, and not enough money to fill them; the airline was fifteen years old, heading from Nashville to BWI, the oxygen masks went into action, and worked as needed; potential tears found in other planes; 97% will be covered NATL [House] Health Plan; NASA cuts 400 jobs; facility prisoners work 7 – 8 hours per day, earning up to 40¢ per house; DOW ends slightly up;the Mercedes-Benz ad with its malfunction light glowing; more religious riots in China; two-foot biting fish in Swiss lake, possibly caused by hormone imbalance; it was harpooned & eaten, family takes genie to court;

…7/13-09: the ‘new’ affordable

73º in ABQ; 27% humidity at 6A…fell asleep with comic book in my hand, and two pillows behind my head: that’s why I didn’t recall turning the light off; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality for Ozone; the number of people riding Duke City buses has increased by 3.4%; man stole credit cards, cell phones & disabled placards from vehicles in various parts of ABQ; Saturday bank robbery in the Duke City; charity ORG stole money raised for NM disabled Iraq war veteran; elderly man walked away from assisted living facility; The Beach is full until October; Kim works at Dr. Hubbard’s office, where Brad had a Chiro visit today; all our medications will have to go through an independent clearing house…not exactly, we have to bring our new drug cards to Walgreens, which are sitting at home in my filing cabinet…but I got a call at work about the problem; another mother with child get struck by a driver…this time, in Los Lunas: the baby died; 8% humidity at 5P; The Beach is booked until October; the AVG price of gas in NM is $2.52: in ABQ, $2.44;
Jenny in DC; ignored at meetings; finished Rounds by 8A; now, PICN has ‘the ear’, plus printer problems; no weekend Admits for CTI;

T’storms in KC & MO; N Rockies storms; wet weather from Louisiana to the Carolinas, up to four inches of rain is possible; damp from ATL to Raleigh, parts of I-85; N FL storms; on Weather Channel, they have ‘Storm Master G’; excessive heat from KS to Louisiana; temps from 60s to 110;

Goldman Sachs reports quarterly earnings; filming a soap bubble pop; All Star Game tomorrow in St. Louis; new food safety rules; PA has ‘perfect poultry farms’; was VP Cheney too secretive, now he is quiet, has no comments regarding the charges against him; today, Sotomayor is on trial; a possible cure for HIV?; TN town still feeling the effects of 2008 coal ash spill; 56% in CA favor legalizing & taxing pot, but the drug should not be treated as the ‘after work martini’; no one was injured when a boat crashed into a sandbar at the Statue of Liberty’s feet; Obama has chosen a Surgeon General; ND missile sit may become a tourist spot; elderly treated worse during hard economic times; the US has a one trillion dollar [plus] deficit; the case of the broken teleprompter; there are now 37,246 confirmed H1N1 cases in the US, and 211 deaths; US Supreme Court nominees always plagued by scandals; two killers, one rapist escape IN maximum security jail, worked on area the used to tunnel out; Burris will not seek SEN seat again; it is 60’ 6” from pitcher to catcher; Bill gates wants to control a storm control device; P’town Inn will plan marriages, gay & straight;
N Korean leader has pancreatic cancer; New Zealand athlete opened a brothel to his way to the Olympics; UK mother & her four daughters paid $65K on breast implants; so far in 2009, 104 US military deaths in AFG; oil is $59.47 per barrel; gold rose to $922.50 an ounce; there are 95,512 cases of H1N1 worldwide, and 429 deaths, and the virus is building an immunity to the typical treatment; space shuttle launch scrubbed for fifth time;

…7/12-09: carefully chosen words

74º in ABQ; 24% humidity at 6A…smashing guitars for charity outside Menaul music store; more beatings in Grants, with the victims being Native Americans; another car chase, this one ends in Los Lunas, thanks to a spike strip; another SWAT situation, this time in SE ABQ; the sole survivor of a recent wrong way crash has been discharged from UNMH; Thursday is becoming the busiest night for Duke City police: either people get paid that day, or they are working four ten-hour days; Santa Fe Market still drawing crowds & customers; at only $36 a credit hour, NMSU in Carlsbad is reporting a record fall semester attendance; NM drivers do not have ‘real’ licenses, which are needed by 1/1/10; some NM state workers are not paying an increasing amount into their pension, as required by a bill that passed this year; jailer becomes an inmate after arrested on DUI charges; more S Valley streets need speed bumps; the City Different has a variety of food, history & scenery; N NM fire has burned 856 acres; Jason Bateman: the actor in ABQ; now I know why I’ve been tired this weekend…I had worked six days in a row!; Nancy brought us Zucchini Bread; all ABQ female firefighters battled blaze; female hiker fell eighty feet;more Americans are charging expensive medical services to their credit cards; 94K smoke alarms are being recalled, because they just don’t work; as of today, the Red Sox are in first place; Palin is not leaving politics…pity; WA man spent twenty years in prison for child abuse charges that turned out to be false; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.55 per gallon; woman murdered, shoved into air conditioning shaft in NYC skyscraper was discovered bound & gagged; more marijuana shops in Los Angeles than there are Starbuck’s; the revival of greyhound racing in RI?; secret CIA counterterrorism torture operations, and nobody knew; Franklin Park Zoo in Boston may close due to budget cuts;Hurricane Carlos heading into the Pacific, weakens to a tropical storm; the end of climbing Ayer’s Rock in Australia?; 6.0 quake shook S Peru, we are entering an era of silent tremors, which may predict when the ‘Big One’ will occur; another METRO rail crash, this time in New Delhi, killed five people; Australia, Israel & the UK are proud to have gays & lesbians serve in their military forces…but a retired US Army soldier says we should keep out “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy: he says that is why America is a superpower, and those countries are not; Endeavour delayed by bad weather again; five Christian churches in Baghdad were attacked;