Storm dodging

Spent yesterday morning studying the Weather Channel and Weather.com

http://www.weather.com/

to decide whether the severe thunderstorms and resulting "tornadic" activity were heading north east or south east... Decided that they were likely to go south-ish so headed north towards Nashville, stayed last night in Birmingham, Alabama; scene of crucial victories for the civil rights movement in the early 1960's... All I have seen is my room at the Howard Johnson's and the queue at the TacoBell drive-in. Off to Nashville today and practising my pickin' and grinnin'.

A note... The Americans are are incapable of passing a day without making up a new word, see "tornadic" above, and many of these are names... It seems that to have the same name as someone else is considered hackneyed and unoriginal; spellings can be changed, see CSI's Jorja Fox (surprised her surname isn't spelled P-H-O-C-H-S); but more popular these days is the creation of hitherto unknown names , which usually means 1. Take a name, let's say Jacob. 2. Then either add "alie" on the end, "Jacobalie", or 3. (and this is very popular) simply add "La" to the front, "Lajacob"... This results in some really strangled results, the girl on reception in New Orleans yesterday was, and I kid you not, wearing a badge which announced that she was "Lashawnalie".