Where can we find Azzarb & the Elusive Mr. b?

…7/24-08: what I did, was within my rights  

            71º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow – Ozone – Moderate Air Quality; buy furniture, get a ‘free’ vacation; murder–suicide near Cibolo HS; Cody East returns to court; remembering the ‘misfits’ of Trident INTL DC; Dolly may move into the boot heel of NM; new racing casino in Tucumcari; attack in Santa Fe Penitentiary, at its recreation CTR; safe house sold meth to renter; cleaner air needed for NM military bases; NM GOV speaks about the state’s banking industry; NE bans exports of NM cattle; three year old on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation died after being beaten whipped; pressure in Rio Rancho water pipes damaged seventeen homes, and the city has done nothing about it;  the NM banking system is solid & strong; NM wants its residents’ opinion on medical marijuana; Delta stopping flights to the Four Corners area; maybe more money for NM border security; largest bust on people creating bootlegging music; Los Lunas, a place to retire, has to keep expanding its Rail Runner parking lot; admission prices for the NM State Fair will increase; layoffs at a Santa Fe newspaper; very humid: ‘welcome to my world’; sinkhole in Artesia continues to grow; tighter gas budget for state police; Brad has some trouble hearing out his L ear;

Code Purple at 7A; we are bitter people; the Case of the Confidential Conversation; ‘told it like it is’, and sent an addendum, telling Candace courses I have taken throughout my life; explained ECMO& showed Candace Sleep Study form; feel a little better about going to work, but some people have broad network of people that can provide true or false information about a worker; I would have lost a personal bet, that my MGR would have called me after my talk with Candace; asked if I was comfortable Coding, entering data, modifiers & working TES edits; explained similarities between PICU & PICN to Candace, told her about the ‘Jaws’ theme; I forgot to take my lunch pills until I was leaving work; completed seven PDI requests today; saw a road runner dash across the campus; Amberly, our fifteen month old ‘office visitor’; Jenny spends more time in our office;

guaranteed fog in the Eisenhower Tunnel; temps from 70s to 100s; hot in Denver; per Weather Channel, 13K homeless in MX; Dolly moving towards San Antonio, will be felt in ABQ & Flagstaff next week; the wall of water & 100 mph winds, decreased to 60 mph today, but wet along I-10 & I-45; flood watches & warnings in NJ, NY, New England [not a Starbucks morning], E NC, NE & IA; Rio Grande levees still holding; fourteen TX counties are ‘disaster areas’; very few oil rigs would be damaged by the slow moving storm; Dolly is now a tropical storm, moving at 6 mph; S Padre Island without power, has not seen weather like this, or a storm surge, since the 1950s; S TX can expect at least one foot of rain, and twisters; heat advisories last until the weekend in Central OK, along I-35; did a twister strike NH? Town;

SLC, UT ‘Grey Poupon’ stunt ended with second driver pulling out his handgun; for one year, no fast-food restaurants can be built in parts of the Los Angeles area; without cheap fuel, airlines will keep raising prices, lost ten years of growth; minimum wage increases to $6.55 per hour; cell phone radiation linked to ear damage, or cancer?; crane accident shuts down CO highway; mortgage bill heads to the Senate, could get stalled in a ‘prolonged veto fight’, people still called irresponsible homeowners; in San Diego, Day One of the largest comic book convention; ‘economy class syndrome’ can cause blood clots to the lungs, wear elastic banded hosiery, and keep hydrated; carefully crafted confections; Wiki-Pedia goes global; coating toprotect cell phones when it falls into water; ‘Gotham City Pizza’: buy pepperoni, and create a smile; Chrysler cuts 1,500 jobs; in OK, one person killed when crane topples onto vehicle; the DOW fell 283 points; ‘big box’ stores can no longer shelter consumers from high prices; both existing & new home sales on the decline again, median price is $213,800; Snickers TV ad pulled, appears to approve people hurting or killing gays; the ‘questionable TX distribution CTR’ for jalapeños; on 7/12/08, in Minot, ND, three military personnel fell asleep at a missile site that contained outdated launch codes, this is the first incident in the last year: there was no risk to NATL Security, but…; playgrounds can reach temps as hot as a cup of coffee; Hispanics favor Obama; gas is $4.026 per gallon: diesel is $4.788; AK & OK are the highest & lowest; damage from Dolly has already reached $750 million; 2008 job loss rate has reached 400K; is marriage a ‘white people’ thing?; woman attacked by bear near AK lodge; three students shot at Phoenix Community College; FORD posted its largest quarterly loss of $8.7 billion; the oily MS River could be closed for a month;

Obama, after visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem, arrived in Berlin, at the ‘center of the world’, toured the Brandenburg Gate, told a crowd of 200K people to tear down the walls between continents;, he is a man at ease with presidents & premiers; Pentagon top priority is shifting to AFG; McCain said it is clear that the ‘surge’ is working; Iran will not obtain nuclear weapons; mixed foreign markets; shall the geeks inherit the Earth;?; Iraq banned from Beijing Olympics because of ‘political interference’, restore the original crew; oil at $125.94 per barrel; NASA astronaut believes in UFOs & aliens; Obama buys an Olympic ad; Northern Lights caused by magnetic explosions, 1/3 of the distance from the Earth to the Moon; 

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…7/22-08: spark family fun  

            70º in ABQ; 68% humidity at 6A…Brad’s doctor visit; Nancy’s B’day, we gave her a dual CD set of ‘favorite music’; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, because of Ozone; S Valley had an inch of rain, more is possible today; another bear sighting, two within two days, rummaging through garbage in the NE Heights, bears walking down the streets; Planned Parenthood attacked again in Farmington; another robbery in NE Duke City, using a rifle & police uniform; which road projects will be built by the $5 million in the FED grants allocated to NM; Belen is Spanish for ‘Bethlehem’; long gas lines vs. low gas prices; now, August 15 is the NM Legislative Special Session date; $16 million of Native American Equipment cannot be accounted for, including a computer with names, Social Security Numbers & medical info of 800 workers; drunk driver swerved to the other side of the road, crashed into car carrying two teens, resulting in severe injuries; then fled the scene, but later turned himself in; Brad’s doctor visit was OK, could be low in B-12; more blood work tomorrow, too low cholesterol level, perhaps a new medication; NATL accolades for Sandia Casino Resort; Internet been temporarily restored to Navajo Nation; need portable glass cleaner; men posing as police guilty of home invasions; a reasonable utility bill; Roswell teen is killed by bullets fired into his bedroom; burglaries are down in Santa Fe; 

Coders’ training class at 10A; Kay did a good job; got a smile from Dr. Waldman; yesterday, two bottles of my milk were sour; our original MGR not on the list to talk with Candace; cannot find Sleep Study forms, ordered 100 more; at the end of the day, I found a Sleep Study form; scheduled meeting with Candace for tomorrow at 1P; downtown detour of AM R/R; saw remains of campus rain; did JoAnn look at our salary increases; people keep asking how long I’ve worked for UNMMG; Myrna is the bargain hunter; Jenny is trying to quit smoking;

temps from 60s to 100s; heavy monsoon rain fell on Phoenix, caused power outages in that city;  rain: I-35, I-70, I-79, from Omaha to Cincinnati; T’storms along I-77 & I-81; TS Dolly heading towards to S TX [a state which needs rain] or N MX; hurricane warnings, could make landfall as a tornado, with 75 mph winds, and twenty inches of rain, could reach CAT 2 storms, oil rigs being evacuated; in N CA, only 33 fires remain burning; by evening there was a Hurricane Dolly, with 75 mph winds, heading NW at 11 mph: expect plenty of rain, and lots of high surf;

Boston postman wants to wear a kilt in warm weather; one pepper, raised in MX, packaged in TX, should be avoided, but the cases keep increasing; oil, or alternatives?; McCain says Obama won’t admit defeat; are more ‘seniors using Viagra, sex…but no marriage; food prices will continue rising into 2009, blame it on corn; major overhaul by FORD, build smaller cars & trucks; APPLE stocks plunged, as well as American Express; ‘new FED rules in the pipeline’, but ‘totally disabled’ drivers suffering from vision, hearing or seizure problems; several accidents substantiate that conclusion; 2009 Corvette costs $103K; another baby black bear  cub suffering from CA fire injuries; garlic ‘could’ help your health; Olympic team are ambassadors of liberty’; oil tycoon addresses Congress with his wind energy plan; ‘rescue our family budget’; Super Bowl ‘wardrobe malfunction’ case dropped by court, these things happen on live TV; fire hydrant in Inglewood became a highwater fountain; shop with your TV remote; IPhones being auctioned on EBay; new multifunctional camera by Panasonic; more vacant homes becoming targets for burglars, who are stripping them down to the walls, especially the copper; Estelle Getty has died at the age of 84 from dementia; oil speculators’ bill making its way through Congress; Christian Bale arrested on assault charges; the Social Security benefit calculator; gas prices tumble to $4.055 per gallon: diesel is $4.808; AK & OK are the most & least to fill up a car’s tank; the DOW is rising; could cost $25B to revive Freddie & Fannie; WaMu lost $3.3B; Wachovia loses $9 billion, and over 6K people will lose their jobs; get ready for the new Camaro; three TN criminals caught by police, trio’s vehicle ran out of gas; Bush continues to be clueless; people protest Starbucks’ closing; the NLP Board keeps shrinking; 1/3 of the world’s natural gas is in the US; man survived after falling into a well in TX; Hula-hoops are making a comeback; more unemployed workers will not return to work with a smaller salary; in 2008, FORD sales have dropped by 14%; many companies scan ‘Twitter.com’ for customer complaints, and try to find solutions; TV monitors on top of gas pumps; Continental flight carrying congressmen to DC had to make an emergency stop in New Orleans, due to a loss of cabin pressure; an AK village paying $8.55 for a gallon of gas; LA man dies after being zapped by a Taser nine times;

PA upset, Chinese company that sells faux caskets; Obama saw Baghdad, Iraq by helicopter, he is now in Jordan; ‘butcher of Bosnia’ arrested for war crimes; computerized tracking system being used in China: from the ground, to the plate; gold fell to $946.90; and as the pope apologizes, another priest is found guilty of raping three NY teenage boys during the 1970s & 1980s on ‘field trips; oil has dropped to $128.45, ended the day at $127.95; this spring, Dame Shirley Bassey was hospitalized for stomach problems; mixed foreign markets; Jordan’s leader flew from Denver back to his home country, to host a banquet in Obama’s honor;

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…7/21-08: ‘free’ travel time  

            70º in ABQ; 56% humidity at 6A…Brad at NMAS; GAQ, but ozone in the air; more I-40 roadwork in the Duke City at a cost of $20 million, will mean slower speeds, patrolled by police; man trying to cool his feet was caught in a flash flood, swept down a swift arroyo; an ‘open count of murder’; we are both tired this AM; Thornburg Mortgage opens satellite office in ABQ; Proper Foods shutting down in Deming: and Windsor Food shuts down in ABQ, 200 jobs will be lost; AM sparkles in front of eyes; the ‘Q’ card for Duke City attractions; gas has dropped to $3.79; family attacking homes of MX Nationalist; female beat her son, bit ABQ police; more search & rescue teams needed for poorly equipped hikers in the Foothills, suffer from dehydration, a 20% increase from last year; trail fees not enough to clean graffiti; the largest HOSP in NM will be built by Pres. in Rio Rancho; during the late PM, heavy rain, lightning & thunder at The Beach; a Los Lunas murder–suicide; child that was clawed by a mountain lion in the Sandias was on, Good Morning America, with his parents; $3.65 per gallon is now considered ‘bargain’ gas; number required on the front & back of Carlsbad homes; Ranch Market has become a boon to SW ABQ; early to bed tonight!; got bleach & flour from the Food Bank;

            how to tellLinda I’m OK; earlier to work today; got a ‘thumbs up’ from Owen, who is walking, with help; food package in my waste basket, soda bottle in Myrna’s; needed to sign up for PowerChart class that will take place online; finished Rounds by 10A, did not see Jenny; last Friday will be A/L; perhaps it is better to take off Thursday PM; Evelyn finally has approval to work O/T; gave Julia some fudge; need to arrange meeting with Candace regarding job duties; Big Mama is watching you; Evelyn can now work O/T, lost all data when transferred to her new office; ‘dark’ waiting for AM R/R; ran, and caught the Red PM R/R; got salary increase letter; return to Thursday PM off, instead of Fridays; PM Campus sprinkles;  UNMH is one of the most ‘wired’ HOSP; moved vacation to October;

rain along I-80 in the Great Plains, NE to IA to OH; heat wave: TX, TN, OK, MO; hazy DC; temps from 60s to 100s; hot along I-81 & I-95; fires shut down campgrounds S of Denver; Raleigh in the 100s; near Boston, four people struck by lightning; disorganized Dolly, could get stronger by midweek, has 50 mph winds, and could strike S TX or N MX; Hurricane Fausto churning in the Pacific;

FaceBook can be used against you in jobs, or legal matters; bubble tops used by women are also being banned; life without corn oil?; the US banking system is ‘sound’; avoid flexible mortgages, or ARM deals; have a good down payment, and pay a fixed, monthly amount; still trying to reach a plateau in the housing market; will we see the prices turn around during the end of 2008: probably not; need prices to stop declining, more house sold and fewer foreclosures; Obama, and the ‘change’ plane; has Cape Cod resident come down with mad cow disease; Joker made darker by death: he is the anti-hero, who wants everyone, but himself, to lose; FaceBook gets a new facelift; people without growth hormone deficiency treatment may live longer; only 35% over 65 years old are ‘computer literate’; gas has dropped to $4.069 per gallon; St. Louis workers battle bullets trying to extinguish house fire; unfit drivers behind the wheels of over 500K big rigs & buses; Bank of America profits tumble; missing TX military woman found safe, but shaken; $256 million earned at the box office this past weekend, the biggest amount to date; limit the number of fruit drink served to children; the DOW slightly down; Gramm worked for UBS, the company involved in the Lichtenstein bank scandal, some say it is just a ‘mental resignation’; SC woman accused of setting four fires, causing homes to burn; Obama making, McCain spending campaign money; corn prices have risen 119% per bushel; building refineries is not the solution to discover alternative sources of energy; stop trying to create ‘disease’ coverage, but how does one stop people from becoming sick; Mervyns on the chopping block?; Midwest Airlines cutting flights;

foreign markets mixed; Obama in Iraq for two days; Osama bin Laden’s driver on trial at GITMO, the first since WWII to be tried for war crimes; Rice confronts Iran on nuclear questions; B-52 crashed near Guam; Cubans have the most vintage cars that can still be seen driving on roads; Pope apologizes for the sex scandals in the clergy; oil at $131.04 per barrel; Italian sunbathers unaware of two drowned children on the beach, covered by towels; cars stuck in security checkpoints to drive into China, which has 16 of the top 20 polluted cities in the world, can the Communist country turn their grey skies to blue in three weeks?; an Olympic challenge; largest emitter of greenhouse gases, return to bicycles; Obama did not support the surge; Baghdad rocked by another car bomb; Portugal halts Madeline McCann case; gold has risen to $963.70 per ounce; the dragon: a symbol of peace, and stability; the salmonella cause: MX jalapeno?; US Olympic Team dine at the White House: athletes fear that steroids and/or drugs might be added to their food, eliminating them from competition; plane slid off Argentine runway; attacks on US soldiers in Iraq are downby 80%; Myanmar cyclone costs reach $4 billion;

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…7/19-08: while I can, I will

            67º in ABQ; 63% humidity at 6A…radar speed enforcement = ‘’speed trap’, police appears to be pointing a gun; yesterday’s I-40 PM wreck killed one man; fourth horse tested positive for W Nile Virus; schools will turn down the heat this winter; Duke City on the ‘cancelled’ list; by autumn, Express Jet will no longer land in ABQ, the SunPort will lose 25% of its non-stop flights by end of 2008; last night, man stole guns during home invasion, more police patrol in high crime areas; similar, stormy weather could occur today; Union CNTY available for disaster aid because of this year’s drought; yesterday, two inches of rain fell in Clines Corner; power lines down across various parts of NM; a hazy, moist morning; now, it’s ‘Christmas in July’ sales; British Open crunches KOAT AM newscast; more cameras at Socorro jail; Pierce & Udall will debate at the Inn of the Mountain Gods, but won’t appear on the stage together; new homes vs. new archeological findings at White Sands; Aztec sex offender could spend 378 years in jail; Milton Baca, the teen struck by a drunk driver near Menaul, is still in a coma; AVG price of gas: in NM, $4.06, in ABQ, $3.95; PM & late day Flash Flood warning in the Duke City, stay away from arroyos, rain falling at the rate of up to two inches per hour; a ‘smoking ban’ proposed on the Navajo Nation, that includes chewing tobacco, only allowed if necessary at a religious ceremony; 3½ inches has now fallen in the Duke City; all tickets sold out at ABQ midnight premier of ‘The Dark Night’; Santa Fe rodeo is always sold out, City Different houses a Native American University; Brad making Mocha Cake; 33% of NM homes speak Spanish, designated as a ‘bilingual state’; another Sustiva dream that I can only vaguely recall, except that it had to do with a strange battle that took place near New Bedford; bought a red, compact lunch bag; TARGET was a little less empty; $150 per person NM tax surplus check?; Grants has a branch of NMSU; ABQ law stating the a person cannot reside on a commercial piece of property, except if said business will never expand;

            dogs can smell cancer cells; Tropical Depression Three forming along the E Coast; Billy Joel held a retirement performance in NYC; the end of the answering machine era, the milkman, and hand written letters, plus the family farm; bomb threat hoax on Qantas flight from LAX; PA killer said “I had fun”; one passenger injured when MX Airlines plane overshoots O’Hare runway; ‘islands of safety’ in Los Angeles gang territory; comics have not convinced the world to treat minorities better; missing female TX worker has not reported to her job for several days, and has not contacted to explain her absence; bankruptcies on the rise; movie critics like ‘The Dark Knight’; the Beverly Hills Pawn Shop; GM is 100 years old; “I’m at one with my meter”; people are victims of their own success; ‘fully adjustable rapids’; calorie count for everything that appears on a NYC menu; pay from $5K – $30K to sing ‘Happy Birthday to You’ in public: it is a  copyright song, who will be come part of the public domain in 2030; 75% of those polled think that gays should serve in the military: is it because people hope the enemy will kill them?; AVG price of gas in the US is $4.09; ‘Heroes’ will return for a third season, starting in September;

            Angelina & her twins leave the HOSP; house prices in both the US & the UK could keep falling for the next two years; agents capture drug smuggling submarine of the MX coast; British PM wants to meet with Iraqi leaders; many nuns have been ‘functioning’ as priests; Iran will not stop uranium enrichment, prepares for positive talks with the US; another storm forming near the Yucatan peninsula; 6.6 quake off the E Japanese coast, felt in Tokyo, no injuries reported; save the air, save the games?: no cars allowed in Beijing until after the Olympics; has the ‘oil crisis’ reached its peak, profit margins described as ‘tight’; will gas prices stay steady at $4 per gallon? no, price of oil rising in Europe markets today; Obama’s first trip to AFG; Sunni group rejoins the Iraqi Cabinet; dead penguins found off coast of Brazil; five star hotel planned for Baghdad’s Green Zone; all options on the table for US & Iran; Obama played basketball with US troops stationed in Kuwait, IL SEN ‘appears presidential’; in one day, the ‘Dark Knight’ has earned $66 million dollars in global ticket sales; TS Cristobal has formed off the Carolina coast, moving NE at six mph, has 45 mph winds; Bertha became a hurricane again; golfer Greg Norman, the ‘Shark’ is 53 years old;

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…7/17-08: play together, stay together

            70º in ABQ; 61% humidity at 6A…fell up the stairs this AM; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality for Ozone; Sustiva dream I can vaguely recall; car fire near Paseo; home for the sick ignited; home invasion at San Mateo near Osuna, robbers had guns & other weapons, stole cash & electronics; another attempt to build an area in downtown Duke City; up to four inches or rain fell in parts of NM; KAFB jet fuel leak moving toward ABQ water wells; enjoyed Chicken Fricassee; rugs will be cleaned on 7/29/08;  hit & run in The Beach parking lot?; Rail Runner illegally using Santa Fe Southern R/R track?; terrorist drill at Rio Rancho school; Cottonwood Mall opened in 1996; reasonably priced homes in NW ABQ; long lines to get NM unemployment benefits, best days to contact are from Thursday–Saturday; Santa Fe police get a pay raise; the new ‘access road’ around part of the Duke City?; gas has dropped to $3.89; prairie dogs on the increase near Juan Tabo in SE ABQ; yesterday, enjoyed Pickled Eggs; Brad completed his ‘problem painting’, and now, he likes the final results; man who killed his wife with a sword in CA, may be in S NM; NM GOV wants a ten-day gross receipts tax holiday, plus surplus checks; starting the day after Thanksgiving, plus a tax rebate, topics to be addressed at special legislative session in September; never had a chance to relax, or ‘wind down’ after work, just write, go to bed, and sleep; get ready for the ‘Turquoise Train’, or ‘Fanta Shay’?; the logo stays, the Rail Runner is two years old, but it also shares its name with a MA company that has been in existence for a decade;

confirm Brent got my voicemail message; got a belated B’day hug; ‘Misfits’ say people don’t know how to manage, or perform the duties of their workers; people with good memories will recall what one person said about the new head MGR, prior to leaving; showed Myrna some TES tips, told her for two month I have not considered myself ‘stupid’; should we stop people from being admitted near the end of the month, should we not allow ‘Code Purple’ at the end of the month; met the PICN head nurse; I do what I do for UNMMG, and myself; Myrna has a half-hour frame of time to arrive at work; what will Jenny & I do today; all alone at 6:30A; Jenny has seen her first death; did our MGR know about this decision involving Candace…what is her reaction, and that of others; Aaron at CTI; what will Jenny be told to do today?; rain at UNM; people wearing jeans to work; we have 2 + ½ + ½ managers; did I remember to lock the door when I left last night; Jenny will also be working with both Myrna & Evelyn; a good money year for UNMMG, more PEDS money generated; Meangel readmitted; there are two many outstanding TES edits: told Candace that I spent time today teaching Myrna how to work them, there are a lot in her work file: JoAnn only gave her established to new corrections; finished solo Rounds by 9:10A; will they pick someone inside as the new MGR, is there someone that has their eyes on that title…if so, it would reduce the number of snooping eyes down to two; taught Myrna & Evelyn how to use YouTube; JoAnn has leg injury, from playing football with her son; IBEW worked stopped by; CA tour guide for Camela;

Cape Cod fog; rain in: S FL, S GA, E SD, S MN; Code Orange in ATL, Code Red in Philly; sitting & sliding downhill on a big block of ice, which keeps getting smaller; twisters in the Great Plains; temps from the 60s to 100s;

May we have your attention, please?; why use ‘penny talk’, when you can E-mail; now, six legged frog found; Barbie looks like Black Canary, religious groups say she looks too dominatrix; while oil prices fell, and stocks rose, Well Fargo loss less than expected; whispered flight fuel reductions; Bush travels to CA, and view the burn damage; goal: keep airplanes in the air, lower airport fees; the new ticket: use barcodes that will appear on blackberries; cut plane costs, without hurting customers, no more seat back pockets; cleaning the plane more often, including the engine; Jesse Jackson used the ‘N’ word; Donald Trump sold his FL mansion for $100 million; ‘thirsty’ python found in ME washer; DC resident can start registering for gun permits; the ‘best’ diet is determined on an individual basis; using special earphones, blind people will gain access to the Internet anywhere; took two months to create latest Jib–Jab creation; “can’t wish away diabetes”; attacks on the homeless increasing; the DOW is gaining; Senate approves more AIDS funding; being ‘average’ at work is ‘good’: do think correctly, not quickly; diesel has risen to $4.845 per gallon; praise for the ‘Batman’ movie; METRO has been stopped by snow; twins: but one is white, the other is black; there are one million names on the ‘terror watch list’, including that of a CNN reporter who was investigating the TSA…is this retribution?: after three years of completing Homeland Security paperwork, some people are still on that file; there are 400K people, including an eight year old boy; over 4.3 million babies were born in the US during 2007, more than any other year in our history; the DOW soared 207 points; after a two month ban, 1,220 cases in 42 states, tomatoes are ‘safe’ to eat: blame the problem on a Farmington, NM resident; eliminate electricity in the next ten years; will the price of gas also go down?; Houston is a ‘boom town’, but for how long, and is there a seamy side to that city; depositing or cashing an INDYMAC check is harder than expected; home building at its slowest pace in 17 years; Coca-Cola is raising soda prices; hunger makes you happy?;

Dutch cafés add the scent of smoke to bars; foreign markets higher; the tiny, secretive country in Europe, that helps US millionaires; UBS may lose its license in the US; number of troops may go down in Iraq, but up in AFG; another tropical storm forming in the Pacific; oil plunges to $130.08, anddipped to $129.29 per barrel, but there has been a strike in Brazil, and a pipeline explosion in Nigeria; biggest three-day decline of oil prices in 27 years, nearly $16;

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…7/16-08: kick start creativity

            67º in ABQ; 67% humidity at 6A…GAQ; heavy rain across the Duke City last night?; spoon slid, or flew, across the kitchen floor; the new ‘leash on life’; N Valley porch fire; two woman gave man a gun, shot a city employee; Roswell businessman found dead in his home; man drowned in Santa Fe arroyo; mountain lion seen in Four Corners backyard; should Rio Rancho take over the Santa Ana Star CTR?; people drown in their own vehicle; 2 – 3 inches fell near Santa Fe; the road that changed the American SW; Rio Rancho charged with beating up two girls as they were getting off a school bus; two men, one woman crushed by Gallup rockslide; mysterious crop circles in the E MTN?; Taos robber forced to dump the money with dye balloons started to explode; don’t complain about the rain; Obama will return to NM; Navajo Nation bootleggers arrested by FED agents; building a ‘loop’ around the Duke City, from US 550 in Bernalillo, to I-25, S of ABQ; why don’t we have time for vendettas?; the ‘virtual job fair’; Santa Fe is one step closer to having Red Light Cameras; Brad continued on his painting; heard thunder last night; spied a spider in our bathtub; ABQ Zoo getting NATL praise, has a million visitors per year, and keeps growing; E MTN glider crash injured the pilot, downed plane sniffed by buffalo; Cody East arrested & in jail again for violating his patrol; spied a spider in our bathroom, traveled down the drain;

six week old baby in PICU passed away; finished Rounds about 9:30A; rode a very rapid ‘Rapid’ Ride this AM; Candace is now a UNMMG Medical Coding MGR; a second day training with Jenny, will she be working with me or Medicine?; was Edie looking for me?; hasEvelyn received a response from our MGR, Evelyn returned to work last night, and is caught up; Jenny is from Amarillo; need a smaller lunch bag; start creating timesheet; people hear what they want to hear; by noon, Jenny has not been told what she will be doing tomorrow; congratulated Candace on her new position; found CPT code for special psych service; ‘wave your wand’; at the end of the day, Jenny & I were still ‘in the dark; Barbara said the tacky comment from the GOC staff had to come from a woman; some people don’t know what to do when they retire, feel they won’t have anything to do; Julia got plenty of rain, some areas of ABQ were very windy; Jenny still considered a ‘fill-in’ when I’m on vacation; completing the cycle; got Green Cards;

NC needs rain; IA floods a ‘memory’; wet: I-29, I-94, parts of I-70 & I-80, Twin Cities, DFW, WI, SD, FL [parts of state recorded three inches in one hour]; downpours cause states of emergency across MX;

People say McCain can handle a major crisis better than Obama; MA may be able to marry gays & lesbians, without these couples having to reside in the state; trailer hooks, collapses canopy of gas station; worry, worry, worry!; are there any more monetary options; ‘everyday people are hurting’, credit cards have reached their limits; the ninety US banks in trouble are kept secret by the FED GOVT; a grim & grimmer economy with numerous difficulties; conservative times; could there be more rebate checks in our future?: a sobering assessment, there are no ‘quick fixes’; the All-Star Game went  ‘all night long’, after nearly four hours and fifty minutes, in the fifteen inning, the AL won, 4 – 3; did WI woman find a dead rat in her food at upscale restaurant?: no, it had actually been cooked in a science lab microwave, could spend several years in jail; bear ‘broke into’ store, scared away by alarms; as always, going to a doctor can make your blood pressure rise; the renovated Walkman?; cow going through ‘rehab’, being persuaded not to live in filth; the psychic link between pets; the DOW is up by triple digits, 276+ points; gas is $4.114, diesel is $4.839 per gallon; AK & SC: the highs & lows; gas crisis putts bigger strain on public transportation; consumer prices increased by 1.1%, the highest jump since 1982; confidence in building new home hit a record low; billion dollar quarterly losses reported by airlines; the blue crab is dying in Chesapeake Bay; Wells Fargo Bank is struggling?; the median income in SE MA is $68K!; OH man shot & killed while biking to work; Natalie Cole has HEP C; suspicions of fraud surround INDYMAC; CA same-sex marriage ban stays on ballot; cruise ship fails to pass inspection, remains in NYC harbor; and now, more from Jib–Jab.com; TN mother tries to kill her baby by using salt; the first new oil refinery in thirty years will be built in SD; ’what passes as good news’; US Airways pilots took out a full-page ad, stating that MGMT wants to reduce the amount of fuel that is loaded onto a jet, in order to cut costs; low carbohydrate diets lower insulin & weight: consists mainly of meat, keeps people full; man shot & killed his ex-wife and himself in a St. Louis mall; even casinos receive items earmarked for Katrina victims; it made NATL news: NM ‘suicide’ death, similar to one on a “CSI” episode;

prisoners traded for corpses between Israel & Hezbollah; foreign markets rising; gold is now $964 an ounce; immigrants who have HIV cannot live in the US; China trying to ensure fair weather when the Olympics games begin; oil ended at $134.60 per barrel, down almost $4; EU & Russian and the US, to start nuclear talks with Iran?; in Lichtenstein, there are [or, were] ‘secret’ accounts for the American rich, the tax cheaters: UBS helped hide their assets, storing $20 billion in money & jewelry in the country’s bank, now they face tax fraud charges; 

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…7/15-08: start the day with no surprises

            65º in ABQ; 78% humidity at 6A… Brad bought a tasty melon; go to bed early tonight!; McCain Town Hall Meeting today in ABQ, give people a chance to ask question a small gathering; GAQ; the two main factors, handshakes & votes; postman accused of sexually ‘playing’ with little girls; counterfeit cash found in cancer child fundraiser, saved by a lemonade stand, that raised $87; dead body found in Santa Fe arroyo; salmonella outbreak in Portales restaurant; NM does not have a helmet law, neither do most states; start of KOAT ‘school supply drive’; Whites City has been sold; man killed after repairing an ATV, and presented the bill; three homeless people killed by rockslide near Gallup; ‘voluntary’ four day work week; Duke City summer truck sales slumping; all seats filled at McCain’s meeting; because of the oil boom, finding a job in Atresia isn’t hard: finding a home in that town, is: has a law enforcement training CTR, and an industrial park, the town is facing traffic problems; attendance a key factor in deciding who is eligible for a four day work week; Brad prepared a delicious; Vichyssoise; NM city, at the entrance to Carlsbad Caverns, bought for $1.5 million; Santa Fe, the INTL City; El Camino Real, older than the NM territory; AM panic attack; Rio Rancho mother offering her teenage girl for sex, in order to pay the rent; silent McCain protesters, outside the town hall meeting;  

Alexis left for TX, she gave me a hug [which took me by surprise]; start training Jenny, but slowly; reverse the route; she is scared, while Myrna & Evelyn were given their ‘duties’; Evelyn E-mailed MGR about having to train someone, I told her to prepare for an unexpected answer, and that she may have made an enemy; am I a ‘whiner’; is it worth the extra time at work?; PICU & CTI TES edits are linked to me; IT didn’t know Evelyn & I had phones; former UNM PRES linked to INDYMAC; Myrna has returned; finished Rounds by 9:30A; still organizing my office; GOC staff told Edie they do not want my lunch bag in their refrigerator, so it is sitting in the PEDS area; start creating timesheet; Myrna thinks I’m a good trainer; the ‘Misfits’; changes to doctor’s notes, must list all ROS items; ran & caught the PM R/R; Jenny will be taking over PICU & CTI duties, it is hard for her to see sick children; listened to meditation music; Jenny is scared, JoAnn is giving orders; and Edie didn’t say I could keep my bag in the fridge, the topic should have never been brought up to me; people will see how I work; GOC fridge is basically empty: the PEDS one is basically full;  

this is the hottest time of the ‘weather year’: N US heat waves;  rain in W FL, TX & SW US; ABQ & NM mentioned on the Weather Channel as monsoon moisture continues; with over one million acres charred, CA has the largest single fire event in any period of history; per ABC AM News, SW US could see showers; it’s “lights out” across Bermuda as Bertha leaves; temps from 70s to 100s;

some people don’t like to look bald; NYC thief left wallet inside APT that he robbed, asked renter to retrieve it, traded it for the stolen money; FL surfer unaware that shark near him, ‘captured’ on photo; All–Star Game played at Yankee Stadium; but first, the Home Run Derby; GM will cut truck production, focus on small cars; to repeat, 600 feet separated two planes at JFK, there is a severe shortage of air traffic controllers, many are at retirement age, years of experience are leaving; how to handle a financial breakdown, just like the ‘very old days’; one hundred ‘regional banks’ that made ‘risky loans’ may close this year; hard to calm a panicky public; 90 banks, or 1%, are in trouble: Wells Fargo is a much bigger bank; starting today, coupons on boarding passes; up to $8 billion will be used by the FDIC to rescue INDYMAC; we repeat: how stable is the economy?; GOVT ‘slow to react’ to the money crisis; ‘Gotham’ premier of ‘Batman’ movie; Heath Ledger’s Australian family honored him at the opening; more people riding motorcycles; Obama addressed the NAACP, he wants the nuclear family to survive; but McCain found it ‘tasteless’, Barack had no comment about the New Yorker cover: but the picture has appeared on several websites; “early to bed, early to rise: makes a man tired, wealthy [or, envied], despised”; diabetes blood test by using the eye; the US is very vulnerable to an EMP attack; economy described as ‘gloomy’, with inflation rising at its fastest pace in 27 years, mostly from fuel & food, the largest year-over-year surge since the days of Jimmy Carter; wholesale prices are up 9.2%; gas is still at $4.109 per gallon; police called in, as people get unruly waiting in INDYMAC bank line; in ATL, two officers shot, suspect killed; the DOW keeps falling, again at 2006 level; CNN reports ABQ son shot by his mother in self-defense; truer words…Obama calls the Iraq war a ‘diversion’; all children, no matter where they live, what is the color of their skin, and what their family income is, suffer from obesity; beware ‘junk jargon’; not many ‘good’ options available; buy at the point of ‘maximum pessimism’; what happens when diversity fails?; remember, markets are ‘changing’; Obama is the man who can help the economy: McCain is the best choice to handle foreign affairs; CDs are ‘safe’ up to $250K; the oldest African American sorority in the US, adds Michelle Obama to their roster; an [R] ad on an Orlando billboard depicts the WTC burning, and says ‘this is what happens is you vote for a [D]’; McCain still wants a ‘tax holiday’; Bush says the economy is improving; if people packs & compress items too snuggly into a carryon, then the scanner won’t be able to see contents, become suspicious, and ask the passenger to open the suitcase; E Coli outbreak in meat expands to three more states; five years later, a dog thathad a microchip inserted in him was found in GA, 850 miles away from its Queens home; Fannie & Freddie stocks fell by 25%; the DOW is below 11K, and pessimism at an all-time high, at 78%; Congress overrides a Bush veto to cut Medicare reimbursement costs; some say the economy is deteriorating; the fall of major airlines could occur this fall; hard times has a strong effect on GEN X, people between 26 – 43 years of age, those with a new home, and young children; people are traveling, but their trips are shorter;  

people around the world take time to eat, family gathers, talk to each other; two suicide bombers kill 28 people in Iraq, murdering potential military recruits; foreign markets falling; World Youth Day held in Australia, Pope Benedict XVI spoke via a text message; the ‘mystery insect’ in a London museum; oil stumbled to $137.60, ended at $138.74, saw its second biggest decline in history, but beware OPEC & Brazil; Russian Ravers get blinded by light show; 6.4 quake rocked the Greek islands; McCain ‘will get bin Laden’; London ad says S Carolina is a ‘gay friendly’ place to visit;

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