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Well, another 4th of July has come and gone. There's just something about a holiday of which the main activities include eating meat, drinking beer, and blowing things up that puts a smile on my face.

After the meat eating, and during the beer drinking/blowing things up, it occurred to me just how cool fireworks are. I haven't really gotten to use fireworks the past few years because of them being illegal within city-limits where I've lived (and not having a place to go outside of city limits), so this year, being in a more flame retardant environment, I went a little nuts and bought quite a bit of them (nothing, I think, compared to buster's standard however). With all the special effects and technology we've gotten used to in movies, theme parks, and what have you, it's amazing that fireworks haven't lost a bit of their charm. I'm a little bummed out that they don't they only allow fireworks on the 4th up here, not on New Year's, so I'll have to wait a whole year before I get to do it again.

Anyway, hope you all had a great 4th of July and ate plenty of BBQ, drank plenty of beer, and blew plenty of stuff up. It's the American Way!