July 4th!! Whatcha doin'?

[Matt]

Happy 4th of July!!

Anybody doing anything fun? Our little town decided it was more prudent to shoot fireworks in late October for October fest. :unsure:

so we don't get a show until then.

There are others going on but I believe I am going to spend the day with my sweet Dora and put the finishing touches on the floor finally.

Intricate cutting. :pullhair:

[Ruthful]

I'm heading over to New Hope, Pennsylvania in a few minutes.

[funky dredd]

Nothing...it's raining!

[Daghain]

Sitting around playing video games with DBF. :)

[David]

We're more or less celebrating the diversity of the people who have travelled to this country to create a better life by attending a Matisyahu show. And nothing shouts diversity like a Hassidic Jew rapping some mad reggae. :D

[Matt]

Sweet!! That sounds fun

All the molding I bought is not right (I told her I shouldn't go alone for stuff like that :lol:) so we get to make a trip over to Grand Junction.

[ZoNeSeeK]

Happy 5th of July to me!

[Mordred Deschain]

Well, I had to drive the truck which was hauling a float for a parade, then I had to spend time with the family (sister was born July 4th,1969), then I just watched an unimpressive firework display...now I'm typing to you all!! :)

[ZoNeSeeK]

So noones getting shitfaced? What kind of national holiday is this?

[Matt]

We did tequilla squeelers till we forgot who we were :lol:

Thank Bob we were at home

[Darkthoughts]

Tequila squeelers? What are they? :lol:

[Matt]

Its an ice cold shot of tequilla with a squeeze lime shot into it. :rock:

You gotta pour, squeeze and shoot very quick though.

[Hannah]

I went to a bbq on the 4th. Apparently I didn't get the "bring you pet with you" memo. There were three cats and five dogs running around. I had cat hair in my potato salad. Yucky.

[Brice]

We did tequilla squeelers till we forgot who we were :lol:

Thank Bob we were at home

Well, they weren't squeelers but we were drinking tequila, vodka, and beer on the fourth. Zone is right; it is not a holiday without alcohol. :D

[ZoNeSeeK]

I went to a bbq on the 4th. Apparently I didn't get the "bring you pet with you" memo. There were three cats and five dogs running around. I had cat hair in my potato salad. Yucky.

Can you relay a message to whoever thought up this stellar idea? "This guy Josh thinks your pet bbq sounds shit"

ta ;)

[Daghain]

BWAHAHAAAH!!!!!! :lol:

[ZoNeSeeK]

Weve got about 20 people coming over tonight for some birthday drinks for me and diem (mines on the 10th). I kinda like birthdays the more i get older as you tend to forget about presents and all that stuff until right beforehand - ive asked someone "whats this for?" when ive been given a birthday present before :P ergo, people with mild dementia are constantly happy.

[Daghain]

Right there with you, Zone. :)

I just like it when people find really obnoxious cards. Best gift ever. :)

[ZoNeSeeK]

argh, its 1:30pm and work is sloooowww, we have an end of financial year function this afternoon at 4:30 which will be a good warmup to the party at 7 :P I wonder what diem got me? She ordered it from the states. Anchorage, to be exact. Inuit whore?

[sarah]

we were out of town for the week but now we're back! Dean has art camp all next week so i'm down a kid. :rock:

[ZoNeSeeK]

diem got me the two dark tower companion books that arent available over here! woohoo :) now i can not feel stupid around all this concordance talk.

[Mordred Deschain]

Dang, it's past the 4th, WHATYA ALL DOIN'?

[ZoNeSeeK]

staring at the window in our offices contemplating jumping

[Ruthful]

I'm heading over to New Hope, Pennsylvania in a few minutes.

Update:

traveled down to New Hope, Pennsylvania-along with hundreds of other tourists who make the annual pilgrimage there-to celebrate our nation's independence.

I love Pennsylvania!

The entire state, save Philadelphia.

I should correct that.

I love Philadelphia too.

It would be perfect without the people.

But the rest of the Keystone state is all-around awesome.

In any case, I decided to have a meal at one of the local tourist trap-type restaurants, which-in retrospect-was probably a mistake on my part.

I should have gone to Starbucks, but if I had you wouldn't be able to enjoy this story.

So I chose a restaurant.

A place called "Villa Vito."

Lots of potted plants-overlooking waste baskets-a water fountain, which was covered up with a garbage bag, and a wait staff that seemed like it was imported from an episode of The Outer Limits.

I ordered some mozzarella sticks, a steak on a club sandwich-which they helpfully served to me on a hero-and some fries, which I didn't request.

They moved every new customer to a table seated directly across from the garbage bins and each customer immediately moved to another table, after which the process repeated ad infinitum.

The best part though was overhearing a conversation between the manager-a somewhat cellulite-ridden woman who was wearing bike shorts for some inexplicable reason-and two disgruntled customers.

Displeased Patron: That sauce was horrible!

Manager: C'mon, it wasn't that bad. (Parenthetical notation: Really? Was she eating it?)

Patron: IT WAS HORRIBLE!!!

Manager: We've been making that sauce for years.

Patron: I don't care how long you've made it. It was horrible. I am Italian and I've never eaten sauce that bad. Do you know how much we paid for this meal? Look at how much was eaten. (Dramatic gesture towards uneaten, unedible meal.)

Manager: You must have liked it. You ate some of it.

Patron's husband: Look! (More flamboyant gesticulations.) We did not pay for this.
*Two patrons stomp off into the sunset*

They gave me THREE NAPKINS!

I kid you not.

Three napkins.

When I asked for more they obstinately refused to oblige.

You would have thought I had asked the waiter for a bundle of smuggled tanzanite that I could use to start up an Al Qaeda sleeper cell along the Metroliner Corridor.

The best part though was the fact that he had absolutely no idea why I was laughing as I left the restaurant.

I don't know.

Perhaps because you guard napkins-a seemingly plentiful resource in a place like a restaurant-more zealously than Cuba protects its sugar cane.

Weird day...

[Matt]

:lol:

sounds like a weird/kind of fun day

[Jean]

dear friends, if anyone wants to share their July 4th experience/enjoyment/frustration, please hurry to do it, because this thread will go to the clearing on the 4th of August.

[Ruthful]

Just under the wire!

Ha-cha-cha!

:cool:

[Mordred Deschain]

sliding in with some time to spare....

[Jon]

I am sorry for all of my foreign friends who missed it.



JUST know this is NOT a redneck thing as you can tell by the first few pics,





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[Jon]

still more
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[Jon]

And more

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[acdckingfan]

Thanks for the pics loved em! my dad is a profesional pyro he shoots every 4th and iam standing right there with him when he lights them by hand! theres nothing else like it in the world

[LineofEld]

Did you say NOT a redneck thing? Cause some of those there boys look like my kin in Eastern KEN-tucky.

[Heather19]

Jon those are great! I didn't even think to bring my camera with me when I went to see ours.

[ladysai]

You did an awesome job of capturing the fireworks displays, Jon!
Thanks for sharing the great photos!
:D

[candy]

:rock:thanks for the photos - cheered me up no end!:huglove:

[SynysterSaint]

Those are great photos; thanks for sharing them! And I'm sorry, but when there are multiple pictures of a Confederate flag that claims our nation would be better if the South had won the Civil War . . . I'm hard-pressed to believe it isn't a Redneck thing ><

[Brice]

I believe he meant it's not ONLY a redneck thing. :lol:

Awesome pics Jon!

[alinda]

You and your camara ( which is great by the way) captured the holiday event with total brillance Jon. Well done! :thumbsup:

[Letti]

You should work as a firework photographer. These pics are excellent.

[Woofer]

Well done! I've said it before and I'll say it again: Jon, you're a great photographer.

[Jon]

Thank you all!

[Jean]

thank you, Jon!

this thread is going to be merged in a couple of days

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[Jon]

Yeah.

I thought about putting this in Fotergraphs but I didn't want to take up all that space for fireworks.

[Jean]

I think I'll merge it with our other July 4th thread (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?t=566)

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

Awesome Jone, especially the first pic in the last set. Phenomenal.