Happy 4th!

For the first time in years, the mosquitoes actually allowed us to have a cook out *outside*: most years, they chase us back into the house and the most we can accomplish is that my dad manages to roast our turkey dogs over his cleverly devised fire pit, made from scrap metal he got at a friend's scrapyard.

And, unfortunately for us, the rumors that our town had decided not to have any fireworks this year have proven true. Ah well. At least we had the fireworks in Boston on television, but that's sure not the same as seeing them live.

In other news: I've started to keep a kind of journal of book, movie and CD reviews by way of Amazon.com's user reviews. I've added a link to my Amazon user page to the links on the main page of this LJ