Between the good and bad, that's where you'll find me, Reaching for Heaven

Just up from finishing up washing the dishes after watching the Fourth of July concert from Boston. Rather quiet Fourth, as my dad had to work today, thus we'll be having our indoor cookout tomorrow evening -- Yes, I know, contradictory name is contradictory: we have so many BUUUUGGGS in our yard that we rarely have a cookout before October and our Hallow-Weiner Roast at Hallowe'en. Dad and I watched our town's fireworks last night (would have gone to the ones in Wilmington, as it's a better show, but it turned out they'd scheduled them for last night, which is weirdly early for them).

Have been watching "Dexter" on DVD (from the library) and enjoying every minute of it. I think if I do end up redeeming a certain pale fellow, he may end up somewhat like a certain blood-spatter expert, in terms of temperament.

Also found a small and sadly defunct Gormenghast fanfiction community: thestonelanes; there's a nice number of fics on there, which I'm working through slowly. I know there's a section on ff.n for Gormenghast fics, but since the incident of the virus attack in April, nothing can possess me to go back there. Especially not with this new laptop. I might sneak on via one of the comps at the library, but not from my own (mean of me, but it's a matter of principle).

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