Happy 4th

I reached out to the company via email that a mistake was made. They say they had already figured out a mistake was made and corrected it. So, no more guilt and I get free cookies/milk. This is like the one good thing that's happened to me all year after three deaths (two parents, one pet) and a funeral. FREE MILK AND COOKIES ON 4TH OF JULY!!! WOOHOO!!!!

 

I generally find most fireworks to be boring, so ... in remembrance of how fireworks should be done :

 

Fireworks need to be banned globally. The amount of pollution that results is not worth it. We have colorful, coordinated drones that can entertain now. People talk about climate change and, apparently, these huge firework displays are fine as long as everyone is entertained. Think about how selfish that is. It’s a slap in the face to the planet. But, whatever. As long as new generations are entertained. You’re not going to get to a clean planet doing this. Oh but it will be missed too much. The founding fathers…blah blah blah.

I know…Debbie Downer.

 

Happy 4th to everyone as I sit in my bedroom saying soothing things to both my dogs who are cowering under the bed.

 

Happy 4th.

 

Was just thinking about your fire updates when someone sent this to me :

 

Minuteman fireworks?

 

Someone in my neighborhood kept setting off loud banging fireworks at around 1 am. I was up but I was getting kind of pissed because it sounded like gunshots going off right outside my window. It wasn't like light a string of firecrackers where it's 30 pops in succession. It was always one loud bang out of nowhere, silence, another loud bang, etc. I'm guessing some of my other neighbors weren't very happy about hearing that so late in the evening. Do cops really even patrol trying to bust firework shooters in city limits anymore? When I was a kid growing up, it was inevitable that a cop would pull up with his lights off to then speed in and try to bust everyone in the neighborhood shooting fireworks off. I had at least one bag confiscated that I had shoved into the bushes. I remember the cop took me home and my parents really could have cared less. But, my friend got a huge beating from his Dad with one of those rubber race tracks you used for hot wheel cars racing. He had a HUGE purple welp on his thigh the next day. I never understood how someone could get such a beating like that for something as stupid as shooting off fireworks on 4th of July. Nobody got a ticket or anything.

 

Legal in Harris county so it was WWIII in my hood, as usual.

 

I tend to agree with this ,actually. And I'm much younger .

 

In Minneapolis there was no official fireworks show but there was a lot of unofficial fireworks especially in downtown that has prompted a lot of complaints. There also was a mass shooting with 8 wounded at a park on the Mississippi near Downtown.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/n...ptu-fireworks-begins-massive-cleanup-efforts/

 

Its been ages but I feel like this actually happened in Houston at one point. Didn't they switch to doing a light show in Downtown Houston in the early 2000s? I believe everyone got really mad and they switched back to fireworks. But they did try this at one point.

 

Well, we now have drones to placate the "piss-and-moaners" who complain about celebrating Independence Day with no fireworks. Call them green fireworks. If that doesn't work, then they can always shoot off their AR-15s in the air.