July 4, woohoo
It’s July 4, which means holiday! (Well, not in Britain; they’re still kind of resentful over the whole thing.) So I will be celebrating by going to the beach, where there will be no computers. See y’all again on Monday.
If you can’t think of anything to do over this holiday weekend, go to a local lake and just relax by its shore. You’ll enjoy it, and I guarantee it’s a good suggestion, because far too many people go to lakes far too rarely.
July 4th, 2008 at 14:58
I went to a club. Going to a lake tomorrow, though, and it’ll still be the 4th for you in-country people.
July 4th, 2008 at 18:26
Here in the UK the american holiday of the 4th of July is completely ignored.
If you look at the bbc frontpage today, for example, the only story about the US is the conspiracy theory around the collapse of WTC tower 7.
July 4th, 2008 at 20:55
We are spending the weekend on work on the house. So far today we’ve cut a lot of beadboard, enclosed a pipe in a box, mounted hangers for a beam and cut the beam to length, run several runs of electrical cable, and dinstalled two switches and an outlet. And it’s only 5 till 8, we have plenty of time to get more done this evening.
Why is it I work harder on my days off than I do when I’m at work?
July 5th, 2008 at 02:23
@Ed: I really like this quote from that BBC article on tower 7.
“Building Seven is the smoking gun of 9/11… A sixth grader can look at this building falling at virtually freefall speed, symmetrically and smoothly, and see that it is not a natural process.
“Buildings that fall in natural processes fall to the path of least resistance”, says Gage, “they don’t go straight down through themselves.”
You know, the fact that they’re actually going to call the cause of the collapse fire is solid proof that there is something nefarious going on they won’t ever let on about. It’s sad, really. It’s like the most obvious thing that has ever happened in the history of ever, yet they refuse to acknowledge that what happened is ridiculously impossible as far as their explanations go.
But, hey, no use worrying about stuff from seven years ago. We gotta get to bombing Iran! Preemptive nuclear strikes are the wave of the future, dammit!
July 9th, 2008 at 12:54
Sandy Point, perhaps?
I have no tolerance for sun & heat, so I largely avoid beaches…
July 9th, 2008 at 15:39
Bwahahaha, no, not Sandy Point (not ever!). Lewes, DE. The next beach north of Rehobeth round the bend of Cape Henlopen. It’s a very nice place to go, and much less touristy.
July 9th, 2008 at 16:02
Sounds nice. SP gets pretty crowded, and there isn’t much shelter from the sun. Too many ticks carrying lyme there, too, from what I hear.