The government has done it to you again...

Although Obama covered some level of fiscal responsibility in the SOTU address last night, the Senate has just passed an amendment to a previous House Joint Resolution that will raise the statutory debt limit from $12.4 trillion to $14.3 trillion. When does it end?

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A preliminary recap of 1/21/10 tornado from NWS Huntsville

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hun/?n=january2010_severewx

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Crazy Mother Nature....

Tornadoes in January are somewhat unusual, but Huntsville was hit by one yesterday. Fortunately, there were no fatalities. WAFF's community gallery site has some decent pix and videos...

And to think, when all this stuff started going down, we were gorging ourselves (I was, with three plates from the buffet) on Chinese food...

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I'm sure that anyone who would read this has probably used Wikipedia...

I end up there occasionally. Have you ever given consideration to creating an account? If so, here are some of the reasons to do so...

One of my favorite features (with an account) is the ability to convert any Wikipedia page to a PDF file....

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Mainly links here...

Some interesting weather stuff for the new year:

1. 2010 Storm Spotter Class Schedule 


2. 2009 Annual Climate Summary 


3. 2009 Tornado Storm Data 


4. 2009 Tornado Summary 


5. 2009 Annual Climate Statistics 


6. December 2009 Climate Summary 


7. El Niño Impacts in the Tennessee Valley 

I'm actually giving serious consideration to checking out the spotter class in Athens on March 9th. That might be pretty interesting and I think I'm off of work that night...

That whole escapade in Massachusetts turned out to be quite a surprise. It's kind of amazing that the tide would turn just one year into the current administration. I'm sure that it was just disillusionment with the state of "things" in general. I was disillusioned by both parties quite some time ago...

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DI.fm Windows Media Player Stream....

for your listening pleasure.

WARNING - kinda trippy stuff here.

in reference to: goapsy.asx (video/x-ms-asf Object) (view on Google Sidewiki)

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Mmmmmmmm......... Chili and beer and football!

I wouldn't consider myself much of a fan of any football (college, pro or otherwise), but if I had to pick a college team to be a fan of, it would be The Tide...

I am a fan of chili and beer.

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At least we got some snow out of what one local TV station is touting as "Winter Storm 2010"....

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I was reading one of the several cooking magazines my wife gets....

and I saw a recipe for a meat loaf. That got me thinking. I figured that Ro-Tel would make an interesting addition.

Here's how it ended up:
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Ingredients:

1 10 oz can Ro-Tel (undrained)
2 lightly beaten eggs
2/3 cup panko (any crumbs would do)
1 lb ground beef (I actually had 1-1/4)
Seasoning (I used Mrs. Dash in the loaf) to taste
1 packet onion soup mix (I omitted this accidentally)
Heinz Hot & Spicy Ketchup (enough to top loaf)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 F. Combine first six ingredients and mix well. Pour into a loaf pan. Bake at 350 F for 50 minutes. Remove and cover (to taste) with ketchup. Bake 10 minutes more. Enjoy.
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For an experiment, this turned out pretty well. I wish I had remembered to get onion soup mix at the store. That was a my bad. Suzanne said the spicy ketchup made it a little too kicked up. I liked it just fine....

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Happy New Year!

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