I have no idea what I'll be doing. The last couple years, I spent the 4th at the beach, though.

Well, I just talked to my friend. She is having a small BBQ at her parent's place on the lake. So me and kido will probably go out there! I absolutely adore her and her father!

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.






pretty radical stuff for those days. they (and we) are lucky they weren't all hanged for saying such stuff

The one thing I WON'T be doing is working on any of those fireworks display shows on the Fourth.

It's well-known in the special effects/fireworks community that the 4th of July and New Year's Eve are what are known as "amateurs night", where every rag-tag outfit with at least one pyromaniac will go about lighting stuff off. I've worked on a handful of them in the past, and they're THAT scary- I'm talking weirdos who actually get sexually-aroused while handling fireworks... totally inadequate safety measures on the site... fireworks doing what's called a "low-burst" (where they explode WELL below where they're supposed to)... it's not something I would ever wanna go through again, that's for sure.