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Fourth of July '07
« on: July 03, 2007, 06:28:52 pm »
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Re: Fourth of July '07
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2007, 06:42:40 pm »
I am sad, because my good friend, who I haven't seen in... 2 years... called and said she wants to go on a road trip for the 4th, and that Charlotte is only 5 or 6 hours away from Williamsburg... but my parents are out of town and my grandma is here, so, no go. I will probably hang out with my best friend, play video games, drive around randomly...

Golfhaus, do you know of any good things going on tomorrow night? I think there might be fireworks at Freedom Park, which is my favorite place ever...
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Re: Fourth of July '07
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2007, 06:57:34 pm »
I plan to finish planting in my garden and go on a picnic with as many of the females in my house as will come.  This probably includes the wife, kid and dog - we'll see about the niece.  I'll need to get rid of the dry weeds around my patio so the neighborhood doesn't erupt in a fireball come sunset.

My favourite 4th so far has been one I spent at my Mom's when she lived in Nebraska for a while.  They had rockets, mortars, cherry bombs and all kinds of honest-to-god stuff that I only saw in feverish dreams in California.  We dropped at least $100 and my brothers and I had literally hours of fun that night.
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Re: Fourth of July '07
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2007, 07:03:20 pm »
Racquetball in the morning
Work on a website
Bike over to fiancee's parents house to smoke ribs
Eat said ribs, drink beer

That should be about it. 
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Re: Fourth of July '07
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2007, 07:05:20 pm »
Volunteering at the zoo in the morning and then I guess grilling something for dinner - there's a law that you have to grill things on the 4th, isn't there?
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Re: Fourth of July '07
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2007, 08:09:53 pm »
Load up the kids and head to RFK Stadium to see the Nationals take an ass-whoopin' from the Chicago Cubs, and hopefully get a George Washington bobblehead.

Come home and cook some meat on the grill. 

Try to get the kids to bed, then sit out front and watch our crazy-ass neighbors blow shit up.
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Re: Fourth of July '07
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2007, 08:13:07 pm »
I have to go visit my folks for lunch tomorrow because the grandmother who doesn't live with them is in town. Also an aunt and cousin that I don't particularly like. This means that to get home I'll have to drive towards DC in the evening. This is going to suck.
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Re: Fourth of July '07
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2007, 08:46:40 pm »
Hmm, hadn't thought about it. What to do, what to do . . .

I think I'll get up at 5:00 am and get in about 15 hours of planet-raping enjoyment, then crawl into bed and sleep the sleep of the Damned.
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Re: Fourth of July '07
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2007, 08:49:52 pm »
That Nabu, he really knows how to have a good time.
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Re: Fourth of July '07
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2007, 08:50:35 pm »
My current plans:

Volunteer in the morning
Help father finish and assemble display cases for knife collection
Play with the cats
Grill some stuff
Once the sun's set, set off some fireworks
Find the skittish cat and reassure him we're not being bombed
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Re: Fourth of July '07
« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2007, 10:32:40 pm »
Hmm...one of my good friends, Nick, is in Butte Montana so I doubt that i'll get to go over to his house for a raucous BBQ. Sigh. I wanted to spend it with my best friend Jennifer...but she and her husband just got pregnant and so I guess they're going to her parents' to tell everybody.

Wake up early and go for a walk, or else sleep in late.
Play with the kitties.
Call some doggies from small times, see if they want to BBQ.
Maybe smoke a Nat Sherman with my sister. Yeah, we're bad like that. I normally hate smoking, but a Fantasia or Black&Gold once or twice a year along with some scotch on the rocks really hits the spot.
Maybe take the light rail downtown to see what's happening. I bet there's a music festival or something cool like that.
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Re: Fourth of July '07
« Reply #11 on: July 04, 2007, 05:12:34 am »
Quote from: theinevitable on July 03, 2007, 06:42:40 pm
I am sad, because my good friend, who I haven't seen in... 2 years... called and said she wants to go on a road trip for the 4th, and that Charlotte is only 5 or 6 hours away from Williamsburg... but my parents are out of town and my grandma is here, so, no go. I will probably hang out with my best friend, play video games, drive around randomly...

Golfhaus, do you know of any good things going on tomorrow night? I think there might be fireworks at Freedom Park, which is my favorite place ever...

I should be asking you that. My wife went to Pennsylvania to spend the 4th with her extended family (we were just there for Jeff's funeral, but this is the big family event). I couldn't go, but she really wanted to go, so I sent her off without me.

Interestingly, I almost went back to the Newport News/Williamsburg area for lunch tomorrow, but was worried about the dogs.
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Re: Fourth of July '07
« Reply #12 on: July 04, 2007, 07:19:14 am »
ok, I am informed that my friend's girlfriend told him to invite me to come along with them to dinner, and he thought he had already told me. So I guess I'm doing that, then going to some sort of fireworks type thing, probably.

she seemed really sad about not getting to see me, so, that's a plus.
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Re: Fourth of July '07
« Reply #13 on: July 04, 2007, 07:51:19 am »
Having just celebrated Canada Day, I just want to pause and ask... fire works?  I don't "get" fire works.  I mean setting them off is fun, but going to your standard city-driven fireworks displays is so... silly.  Colourful explosions in the sky, while a mass of people ooh and aww.  It's never worked for me.  I know... whimsy and sparkley pretty flashing lights... but, meh.  Even when I was little, the only way seeing them was fun was if we got up so close that it felt like the embers might fall down on us.  Otherwise it seemed so anti-climactic.

Also, a friend who is living in the US visited recently.  He told me he brought back mini American Flag cakes and American Flag napkins.  So odd.  See, it's okay to eat the flag, then wipe your mouth with the flag, but it is absolutely never okay to let a flag touch the ground.  Odd.  I said that things would be at their best if you could defecate out a little flag poo to complete the process.  Then I felt weird for saying this and his American girlfriend got quiet.

Anyway, happy 4th of July.  I believe you are legally required to bbq some meat.

We went to a street festival and had bison burgers on Canada day.  They were tasty.
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Re: Fourth of July '07
« Reply #14 on: July 04, 2007, 08:39:44 am »
originally it wasn't OK to eat the flag or anything, either... but now that is changed.

for instance, hippies used to sew american flag patches to the asses of their jeans as a sign of disrespect to the flag, apparently. people got mad about this, back in the day.

this is what I've been told.
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