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

…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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