4:45:00 AM MDT
…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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