Date: 2007-07-05
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Weather: moderate rain

Well this week so far has been a combination of good and bad. I haven't heard from Brian since Monday night, so I have no idea where he is, though I guess he is close to Unionville, NY today hopefully for his mail drop. Tuesday after work the kids were outside playing I went out and my neighbor Christy was outside so I wandered down to her end of the street, she asked if I would like a beer, I thought about it for a second, but I was off Wednesday so I said sure I would love one thank you, well Christy has 3 children, like I do and her husband works out of town, he is gone for 2-3 weeks than usually home for 1 week, it appears she and I have alot in common. So there we were, 7 kids outside playing and the 2 of us having a few beers on her porch, it was the most fun I have had at home with another adult in forever. It really is the funniest thing we had kids ranging in age from 3 to 14. Quite a group. We sat watching the kids play and throw those annoying poppers on the ground for hours, I guess I wandered home around 10pm. The older boys had already had enough and had gone back to the house earlier. Then Wednesday the 4th Brian's dad was meeting us at the state park for a cook out, his mother is out of town to visit her sister in Seattle. So on my way I needed to take the trash off, now I looked online for the recycling centers hours and NO WHERE did it say they were closed for any holidays, so off we went and of course they were closed. I tried 2 locations, no luck, so I said well I am not taking it back home, ewwwwwww, so I will run by my office and use the dumpster there, good plan, in theory. On the way I got a $150.00 ticket for disregarding a traffic signal. Well thats not quite true, I regarded the signal, I just regarded it as the yellow that it was when I went under it. But the trooper that stopped me regarded it as red. either way I regarded the damn thing right into a ticket wonderful....Ok on to the state park, there was a line getting into this place that backed up 100yards onto the highway, we sat trying to get in until about 12:15, we left the house at 10:15 2 hours to go the 8 miles to the state park. What a day, we had fun in the end though, then home and Brian's dad came for dinner and we all walked down to the Inlet to watch the fireworks. we saw quite a display from all directions, kinda had to stand and turn in a circle to see them all. Fireworks a pretty popular here in SC. and it seems every one of the residents and tourists all had a bunch. So much so they still had plenty on into the wee hours of the morning, one landing on top of the house right above my bedroom at about 2:30am that scared the hell outta me, took me a minute to realize what the noise was, once I did I went back to sleep, or the closest one can come to sleep in a war zone. Additional note: I just spoke with an attorney here at work, and though he is gonna help me with the ticket, The damn thing carries 4 points and if the points aren't dropped my insurance will go up...ALOT....I swear my life lately is a freakin Greek Tragedy....Brian is gonna kill me......the luck I am having lately isn't so much upsetting anymore as it's so ridiculously funny I just have to laugh.