July 03, 2003

Yikes. 1,882 hits yesterday--mostly from the Netherlands. It's so very odd...I mean, why there? I wish I could read Dutch. Then I could decipher comments like, "Wat een bullshit, geweldig!"

Ahh, the holiday. I've got a five-day stretch of at-homeness ahead, which will involve Margaritas and so forth. Sweeet.

The Fourth is not a tradition for me, not really. I went to see the Macy's Fireworks exactly once while I lived in the city, and swore that I would never again be packed into a sweltering mass of humanity on highway offramps watching explosions. I've kept to that vow. However, the roof of my apartment building in Queens did offer a fair-to-middling view of the show, in that out-of-sync flash..............boom kind of way.

Now, I've got a new-to-me house with a deck and some plastic deck furniture. I don't even know if there are fireworks in my new town. I've got a friend coming in from the city and some other friends stopping by from North Jersey and we'll sort it all out as necessary. There may or may not be a grill; we don't own one yet. It's all new. All good!