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At any rate, I'm all decked out in my red white and blue and send big kisses south of the border!!

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I have just run out into my yard and into the path of those kisses. (BE STILL MY HEART!) Old guys, like me, can't take excitement like this.

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Well, look at it this way. That's one week of the year when you can blast your speakers, and no one will care, since they'll be inaudible over the explosions.

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LOL! Now why didn't I think of that!

Happy 3rd anniversary eve to me.

Time to cue up the 1812 overture, right before the cannons go off. Set that on repeat.

Interesting - right after a celebration for a day of independance, you get to celebrate the exact opposite.

Seeing how it’s still light out at midnight here, fireworks displays are pretty anticlimactic. Just smoke trails and noise. We save ours for new years eve.

I’m glad to see this string start out as “Independence Day” and not happy “4th of July”. So many people forget what the day actually stands for, and just think of it as a day of the year that pyrotechnics are legal to set off.

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thinking about an M80 going off

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Please don't do this to your speakers people, it's a violation of your warranty. Axiom's customer service can only go so far.

This, from a dude named TNTguy...

Anyway, what is/did everyone cook(ing) today? I attempted tri tip on the grill, with grilled artichokes and ribs. (smoked, of course!). It seemed to be going pretty well, and I had just put the ribs on, when poof! My grill ran out of gas. Arrgh! So now the tri tip and artichokes are in the oven, and the ribs are back in the fridge. Sigh. We'll see how it all comes out. (of course, I realized just before I put the tri tip in the oven that I'd had it the wrong way around (fat side down) so that could play into any possible badness, too...

This is why you always have a spare tank on hand. My tank's been waiting to fizzle out for quite some time now, but it keeps going and going.

I spend yesterday afternoon/evening/night driving north on the 101 from LA to Oakland. I got to see amateur fireworks shows from the car. Too bad the kid was asleep. We'll do some sparklers in the back yard tonight to make up for it.

Well, the meat came out pretty nicely. The artichokes--well, I think I'll stick to steaming them.

Was a great holiday as it usually is. Its extremely odd to me but I can't remember the last time we had a crappy day on the 4th.

We usually walk up the top of the hill my house faces so we can get a really nice view of the Omaha skyline... The best way I can describe it is like watching Baghdad (either war) being bombarded. Its really impressive (we sure like our explosives out here I guess).

Like the good american I am I do my part in supporting communism and picked up some fireworks myself. Felt like blowing s*%$ up this year.