…11/16-09: why color…why not color?

28º in ABQ; 71% humidity at 6A…GAQ; – 6º in Angel Fire this AM; NM DOT is looking for a new home; SWAT situation at Mountain & PA in NE ABQ; will Eclipse get free rent for the next few years; CA murderer arrested in Deming; Brad baked Bread; Biden’s first NM trip as VP; $5K in checks, belonging to a woman who had dementia, were written by someone else; NM had a good chile crop this year; can a passenger be an accessory to murder, if they did not prevent a drunk person from driving, and the vehicle killed a pedestrian?; the Standard Diner was featured on the Food Channel; up to a foot of snow fell in N NM;

back to the billings; finished Rounds by 7:30A; turned timesheet in; doctor was reading the wrong chart for a PICU patient, corrected by nurse; updated prolonged services wording to my CPT sheets, plus added the H1N1 virus ICD code;

ABQ temp mentioned on AM News; rain on the Plains; time to repair, from the Tidewater area to NJ; up to twenty inches of rain fell in HI; Ida traveled 1,200 miles in six days; NW US avalanche threat; rain in Detroit, Nashville, Cincinnati, Wichita, New Orleans & Seattle; snow in NE, IA & KS; storms in IL, MO, TX & Louisiana; showers for INDY, St. Louis & Little Rock; Houston T’storms; temps from 40s to 80s;

Patriots lost to INDY; over $1 million earned auctioning Madoff memorabilia; NYC bar brawl ends in police shooting & killing one person; typos in CNN commodities article; the dead body of a five year old NC girl that had been missing since last week, has been found; turkey dodges vehicles entering the NJ TRPK; Sesame ST: “where monsters talk to kids”; more good reviews from film critics about ‘2012’; GM lost money during the third quarter, but says it will start repaying its billion dollar loan by the US by the end of the year; electricity can dame male sperm; USPS suffering from $3.4 billion loss in the 2009 fiscal year; rats in the RI statehouse?; leader of Chicago schools committed suicide; Nicholas Cage files for foreclosure; Obama does not ‘twitter’; OK doctor killed his nine year old son; CNN paid Lou Dobbs $9 million to leave; Palin, the ‘sexy’ [R] ‘polarizer; Pfizer left New London, CT ‘homeless’, jobless and broke; nonexistent congressional districts receiving stimulus money, and creating jobs; so many people getting ‘caught up in the moment’; millions will have to repay this year’s ‘stimulus tax credit’; even baby photos get airbrushed; the ‘hotel Tiger Woods mansion?; CT man set his girlfriend on fire;

Ar-nold in Iraq; Obama held a Chinese Q&A session, a Internet town hall meeting; Atlantis liftoff was a ‘go’, will bring spare parts to INTL space station; US PRES says China should not ban Internet usage, no censorship should be allowed in Asian nation; Spain’s “bull jumpers’; is the ‘Big Bang’ machine, or the sought after ‘particle’, destroying itself?; actor Edward Woodward died at the age of 79 from a long illness; one in six people around the world go hungry; will H1N1 affect the Hajj?; oil is $78.92 per barrel; gold is $1,138.20 an ounce; LEGO thrives, even through hard times; did Obama bow too low to Japanese emperor?; six astronauts on an eleven day mission, the last in 2009; the ‘Great Firewall of China’; racist UK movie ad?; tourists stranded without passports, told by Expedia they were not needed, the company later compensated the newlyweds for this costly mistake;

…11/15-09: royalty vs. novelty

36º in ABQ; 73% humidity at 6A…overnight rain at The Beach; UNM received a $41 million grant for the state’s super computer; police dogs wear bulletproof vests; the $18 million Santa Fe studio; war veteran who suffered from PTSD pulled out a gun at a neighborhood ASSN meeting which was being held inside a police substation; bad travel on I-25 in CO; trucker found guilty in the 2001 murder of an Anthony, NM woman; I-40 shut down by several accidents, including one near Grants which killed two people; where did the money go that was raised by the Shiprock State Fair, or the casinos across NM?; VP Biden in the Duke City; viewing of former NM GOV Bruce King will be held this Friday; plenty of snow in the Sandias; whiteout in Denver; during a money dispute, an Alamogordo man was beaten by baseball bat; N Nob Hill motel gets renovated, becomes a shopping plaza;

junk food addiction can be as bad as heroin; this is American Recycle Day; Hillary will not run for the NY GOV position; GITMO detainees may be housed 150 miles W of Chicago; the white beaches of HI are slowly fading away; NC mother guilty of human trafficking?; why shouldn’t the 9–11 face a military tribunal?; Santa Fe, a place to see, so is Cape Cod; ‘2012’ earned $65 million this week in the US: $225 million, worldwide;

China says low interests rates on US loans may be harming the Asian country’s economy; giant jellyfish invading beaches; Obama in Indonesia;

…11/14-09: thanks, for being friendly

42º in ABQ; 76% humidity at 6A…VA inmate has ties to NM murder; Bruce King: man of the NM people, served as GOV three times, over three decades, a man who reached across the aisle; students volunteered at Road Runner Food Bank; Allstate INS accused of bilking NM policyholders; Duke City home has walls covered with feces; we donated more food for the needy today; man died from severe head injuries at his APT complex on Comanche; Santa Pueblo murder, with a machete as the weapon; ABQ has minimal budget problems, does not foresee layoffs or furloughs; two year college enrollment is on the rise; VP Biden will be in the Duke City on Monday for a political fundraiser;

Obama does not want to make a NATL spectacle of the Ft. Hood murders; this is a ‘time stamped statement’, but could there be something about the genetic makeup of some people with certain types of illnesses, which is lacking in a healthy person, that prevents the H1N1 from being deadly; a ‘marijuana café’ opens in Portland, OR; for sale, MGM studios; NATL Airport in DC is one of the scariest places to takeoff & land, so is JFK in NYC; COMCAST may soon control NBC Universal Network; the end of overdraft fees on debit cards; use a bra cup as a filter mask?; Louisiana congressman charged with corruption, will spend thirteen years in jail; several students injured when wall collapsed during SC football game; the ‘energetic frequency shift’ [?]; MO ministers sexually abused their family members; why do military leaders have alcoholic bars in their officers: and, why does alcohol contain caffeine?; Catholic Church opposes having to perform same-sex marriages if DC makes these ceremonies legal; the return of Charlie’s Angels to TV?; Obama, the Pacific PRES?; three more banks have failed; three people killed in copter crash along the CA–NV border; during 2009, Medicare has paid $47 billion on unnecessary services;

Japan’s emperor celebrates twenty years of symbolic power; the Mayans did not doom the world; it is confirmed: there is lots of water on the moon; 206 countries are infected with the H1N1 virus, about 6,250 people have died from the disease; Islam destruction avoided in ‘2012’, coward vs. correctness; the next space shuttle launch may occur in two days; Clint Eastwood becomes a Commander in the ‘French Legion of Honor’, title bestowed on him by that country’s leader;

…11/13-09: the word is…animated

50º in ABQ; 63% humidity at 6A…GAQ; oily substance seeping into the Rio Grande; eighth victim has been identified in the W Mesa murders, a fifteen year old girl from Lawton, OK; NM has improved in technical teaching innovations; Bernalillo CNTY firefighter accused of raping woman, and making her his ‘sex slave’; when road rage turns into murder; better procedures needed when shutting down interstates in order to film movie scenes; more stories reminding us that at one time, The Beach was in a bad part of ABQ; a Sherlock Holmes book…inside there was an invitation from to see PRES Bill Clinton when he visited the Duke City; former NM GOV Bruce King has died at the age of 85; Phoenix to St. Louis flight diverted to SunPort after its windshield cracked; egg freezing at fertility clinic; burglar & auto theft ring busted in ABQ;leaving at noon, eating at Saggio’s; no PICU Admits; Coder with a cold?; did UNM student died from H1N1?; finished Rounds by 7:30A; PM rain & sunshine, a trip to Trader Joe’s, and home by 4P;

NJ floods & power outages from a coastal storm; winds blow sand across boardwalks; downpours from NYC to S New England; showers in Raleigh; snow in the Cascades & Central Rockies; heavy rains causing beach erosion in MD; storm caused sinkholes in NC; about nine inches of rain have fallen in VA Beach, and winds reaching 75 mph, plus waves up to twenty feet high reported; 100K without power in the Tidewater region; up to five feet of water could cover Atlantic City, NJ; coastal VA has been declared a disaster area; the damaging forces are mostly wind & water, not rain; strong winds along the shores of Nantucket; chemical barge runs aground at VA Beach; temps from 40s to 70s;

Thanksgiving will cost less than it did in 2008; Ft. Hood sniper could face the death penalty; the CO parents of the ‘balloon boy’ may face time in jail; 9–11 GITMO detainees will face trial in NYC; NM soccer hair pulling incident makes the wrong type of ABC AM News joke; strippers traveling around Sin City in a truck is stopped; did TX sniper have contact with PAK?; truffles: worth their weight in diamonds; during a typical summer day, there are 100K people in Yellowstone NATL Park: the two nearest towns are Bozeman & Cody; the DOW ended up; ‘2012’ gets mixed good reviews; pieces of steel, rubber & fiber found in company’s pharmaceuticals; mice found in Colts stadium’s kitchen;

Obama in Tokyo, in Asia for a four nation visit, he will also travel to S Korea, China & Singapore: talks, with no conclusions, just renewed alliances; a Japanese bra that can become an indoor golf putting mat; baby in Chinese HOSP died while doctor online playing video game; there is water on the moon; gold is $1,116.70 an ounce; oil is $76.35 per barrel; blast at Russian army depot kills several people; 6.5 quake rocked N Chile;

…11/12-09: what is as good as cash

49º in ABQ; 63% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s PM Chiro visit; Brad prepared as Salmon Quiche; baby shower for a newborn elephant at the Rio Grande Zoo; Winter Storm Warnings for S CO; NM must decide how to solve the state’s budget problems: one idea is to close prisons; MADD meeting in Gallup tonight; Duke City woman found guilty of mortgage fraud; man stole lots of beer, totaling several cases, from the same store over a period of several weeks; Brad made a Butternut Squash Soup; no privacy in public bathrooms; Nancy going on her two-week vacation, needs copies of CD from Brad as holiday presents; NM GOV will not cut school funds, but require state executive to take five furlough days, he will create a task force to find ways in balancing the state’s budget; gas is $2.49 per gallon; there are now 29 NM deaths from the H1N1 virus; ‘Meals on Wheels’ will also cater affairs; killer hanged himself while imprisoned at the MDC; ‘sanding’ the steps at The Beach;

a day to try to help myself, reducing my backlog; is too much money being spent on UNM sports DEPT?; no CTI Admits; finished Rounds about 7:30A; no ‘H’ drive for five minutes in the AM; submitted billing sheet changes; Code Purple at 6:30A; two patients named ‘Adrian’, same spelling, admitted on the same day;

the E Coast deal with the remnants of Ida, and a coastal low; impassable roads; winds & blowing sands along VA Beach, the entire Tidewater area & the Outer Banks of the Carolinas, with gusts up to 65 mph; worst VA flooding in six years; heavy rains from T’storms causing sand dunes to collapse; AM squalls in that area; the Hampton Tunnel has been closed; power outages expected, state of emergency has been declared in VA; rain in Richmond, DC, Philly & NYC and along parts of I-95; temps from 30s to 80s;

man with military outfit also wore medals he did not earn in combat, since he had never enlisted; foreclosures down in October; lack of communication between INTEL agencies; only DC & MS are not in the widespread category for H1N1 cases; abortion is a hot topic in health care reform; ten states on the brink of economic disaster; men don’t buy their own underwear during most of their lives; do Americans enjoy spending less money?; Ft. Hood sniper is charged with murder; five people killed in two AR fires; [R] SEN want term limits; while his state is getting soaked, the VA GOV is at an AR fundraiser; the DOW is down; 22 million Americans have the H1N1 virus; FED prosecutors seized four mosques in NY, TX, CA & MD, some land in VA, and a NYC glass tower: their total worth about $500 million, these may be linked to Iranian GOVT; student suspended for having an ‘extreme’ hairstyle honoring the Cincinnati Bengals; US deficit is worse than expected; engagement ring fell 500 feet from a hot air balloon , and was recovered; AZ E/R does CT scan on the wrong patient: a pregnant woman; in 2009, banks have earned $38.5 billion in overdraft fees; America has the largest mumps outbreak in over three years, which may have started in the UK; Obama has traveled more than any other PRES during his first year in office; the job market is at its worst in seventy years; NY woman accused of torturing animals;to send, or not send more troops to AFG, that is the big dilemma for Obama; the PRES heads for Asia; in search of Amazon headshrinkers; gold is $1,106.60 an ounce; US tourists should be on high alert while visiting Germany; N Korea vows to seek revenge on its southern neighbor for this week’s naval attack; huge iceberg sighted off the coast of Australia;

…11/11-09: honoring American forces

42º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…GAQ; the Saturday bus schedule; when an Internet relationship turns into a rape for CA girl, abducted by a Duke City man; fatal car crash at Montgomery & WY; state official placed on paid ADMIN Leave, but no one knows why; Las Cruces man charged with having child porn on his computer; Navajo Code Talkers will be part of the largest Veterans’ Day parade, which will take place in NYC; NM GLBT marched in the Duke City Veterans’ Day parade; the ‘honor system’ used on dating websites; the Santa Ana Star Casino portable hand sanitizers, which bear their name; another female body found stuffed in a bed; dead man found in Duke City dumpster; Las Cruces police chief resigned;

how to explain how PowerChart works with addendums; finished Rounds by 7:45A; Code Purple at 6:30A; ran across the campus, and arrived at my workspace with three minutes to spare; nobody is here to help me answer a simple question: who codes sleep studies on a O/P basis; provided a step by step explanation of how I handle Sleep Study services, will pass it to Brent tomorrow; took the Blue Line R/R, and arrived home at about the same time as any ‘ordinary’ day; classes were held at UNM; it was very warm in the PM; no H1N1 vaccine at the Truman Clinic;

very wet in ATL, record rainfall recorded; parts of I-95 will also see heavy downpours, in Raleigh & Columbia, SC; up to eight inches of rain expected in some sections of the Carolinas, plus twenty foot waves & coastal flooding from the remnants of Ida; one month’s worth of rain in two days; more moisture for Raleigh, DC, Charlotte, Seattle, Portland, OR; snow in the Cascades & N Rockies; showers for Philly & Richmond & the Tidewater area of VA; temps from 40s to 80s;

job openings at a record low; the sacrifice of veterans & current soldiers for our country; 200 tons of soil slid down on Highway 64 in TN, no injuries, news crew captured the entire event; DC sniper killed by lethal injection; today the PRES honors those who have died for America; stop using ‘adult’ medicine & antiquated treatment: cancer is the second cause of death for children, only accidents kill more young people’s lives; more Americans are more pessimistic; curtains for the Jay Leno show?; two year old girl rescued after being abducted by her father from the child’s ME home; wedding ring found in a NJ dump; UT Mormons support gay rights legislation; Susan Boyle sings on ‘Dancing With the Stars’; CA man was arrested for trying to pass himself as a military officer, by wearing an official uniform; the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy has been in effect since 1993; 91 years as a holiday; don’t look to the past for ‘greatness’; 25 Chicago middle school students were handcuffed & arrested for staging a food fight, and charged as criminals; now, H1N1 deaths will include complications from the virus, so expect a sharp increase in the number: there are fifty tests performed before a vaccine shipment is released; Esquire magazine allows readers to download software and control some of the contents in the publication; Lou Dobbs quits CNN;

British couple told they make too much noise when having sex that lasts for hours; power outage swept across Brazil & Paraguay; volcanic eruption in the Philippines; the $25K ‘cupcake car’; H1N1 still going global; oil is $78.97 per barrel; gold is $1,115.20 an ounce; another pirate attack off the coast of Somalia; the ‘end of time’ in 2012; the UK PM is partially blind;

…11/10-09: benefit from the benefits of peace

45º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…GAQ; rough time to sleep last night; E NM fog; Los Angeles girl rescued from a S Valley home, its owner prevented from possibly harming her; NM scholarships may be cut to balance the state’s budget; water main break shuts down schools in Lordsburg; former NM GOV Gary Johnson says all drugs should be legalized, as four new marijuana producers are approved in NM; no layoffs foreseen for Duke City workers; Bloomfield refinery shut down NM Behavioral Health System is not being paid on a timely basis; Brad prepared Poached Salmon with Hollandaise Sauce; motorcycle accident shut down Paseo, driver was killed after being run over by another vehicle; deadly shooting in ‘our’ Las Vegas; four ‘Batmobiles’ will help the Navajo Nation combat DUI;

work on revising billing sheets; obtained Nephrology info by going to GPU ward; finished Rounds by 7:30A; what happens if nobody has the keys, or remembers the combination, to unlock the cabinets or refrigerator in a ward?; Code Purple at 1P;

snow in the Cascades; TS Ida now has 50 mph winds, moving N at 9 mph; still offshore this AM, the storm will move into AL & FL, but only minimum beach erosion predicted; wet from Miami to Raleigh to Wilmington, NC; downpours in ATL & Charlotte; flooding in parts of MS; record rain in Pensacola, FL; roads to avoid: parts of I-20 & I-75; temps from 50s to 90s;

let your cell phone diagnosis your illness by coughing into the device; 21 year old man won $8.55 million in a poker game; Ida has stopped 30% of oil production in the Gulf of MX; PRES will be a ‘morale booster’ when he arrives at Ft. Hood; early AM Lowe’s & Wal-Mart holiday ads; three teens charged with setting another boy on fire have been charged as adults with attempted murder; how did a TX boy sneak a gun into a detention CTR; NY gay marriage bill on hold; shooting inside & outside an OR drug testing lab left two dead, and put a mall & a school on lockdown; Americans losing faith in the GOVT handling of the H1N1 crisis; woman was told to leave a plane bound to HI because the crew thought she ad the swine flu; forty years ago today, the multiracial program ‘Sesame Street made its debut; get ready for higher annual fees & interest rates, and lower credit limits; Obama at Ft. Hood, TX: our dignified PRES, able to console people in a time of tragedy, also visited those who were wounded, and remained in the HOSP; a holiday toy shortage?; mother tried but failed to protect her baby in a SC drive by shooting; white powder sent to three foreign consulates in Manhattan; Herndon, VA residents speak the list of seven ‘dirty’ words the most; drunk woman falls off subway platform and onto tracks in Boston, the driver pulled the emergency brake, and stopped inches away from the female, who suffered only minor bruises; JP Morgan Chase will hire 1,200 workers; Pam Grier will portray Amanda Waller on ‘Smallville’; are Bert & Ernie gay?; at least 65K gay, lesbian & bisexuals in the US military; Sprint may cut up to 2,500 jobs; millions of American do not have bank accounts;last night, there was a recreation of the fall of the Berlin Wall; new jihad code forbids the killing of women & children; N & S Korea warships exchanged gunfire when the Communist vessel strayed into disputed waters, and was reportedly damaged; oil is $78.61 per barrel; Venice dates back 2K years: its people are laidback, and do not enjoy ‘speedy’ tourists; scorpions & worms provide protein; US will hold talks with N Korea; in some parts of the world, drunk pilot relieved of his duties just before takeoff; gold is $1.102.50 an ounce; the US two-finger ‘peace symbol’ is considered a rude gesture; if you are an artist, you could spend a night at a Stockholm hotel for free;