4:40:00 AM MDT
…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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