Mr. Officer, if you've come to take her, then that means one of us goin' end up in a stretcher

229 years ago today our Country became known as the United States of America after we became officially independent of Britain.

Now-a-days we light fireworks and have barbeques to celebrate that joyous occasion.
This morning started out sort of slow, I was half asleep for most of the afternoon while I did even more yard work, this time for my dad, and then took a lazy few hours to play video games and rest. It wasn't until about 5 or 6 that I started getting going. It's sad since that’s only about 6 or 7 hours ago, but what can you do? Hot days make people lazy, and I was no exception. I'll try and recall everything I did before the night began. I don't think I ate breakfast, wait, yes I did, I had a cinnamon roll. Then I began working on the lawn with my dad, and afterwards I showered and went to Lowes and Home Depot in search of a replacement grill wheel. Neither place specifically had them so I had to improvise, that is, after my dad told me to instead look for any single wheel's that could have a rod going through them. I was in his car at the time. I should now tell you that I went alone, and made about 5 phone calls home for more specifications, and take note of me being in his car. I go back into Home Depot, gooh! I just realized I've had a penny in my mouth this whole time. I'll probably get a VD or something, gross, I'm going to wash my mouth out. Anyways, I go into Home Depot and get two wheels and come out only to discover I don't have the keys in either pant pocket. OH CRAP! What am I supposed to do? Where did I put them, they couldn't have fallen out could they? Crap, crap crap crap! I walk around the other side of the car to check what I felt would be an unlikely place; I couldn't have left them in the ignition. Wait, yes, yes I did. Fantastic, I've left the keys in the ignition the entire time I was in the store and now I'm locked out. So I have to call my dad again and have him give me the pass code for the car.

Now I'm home and begin to play video games and watch tv and eat a meat sandwich. Probably upwards of a quarter pound of turkey, ham, and bologna. Then I decided I'd like to learn a few songs on the guitar that I had been listening to by The Arcade Fire, and I began to play them as they played. It wasn't too difficult to figure it out and I felt good about myself for doing that. I figured out bits of 3 songs today. Other than that I felt pretty sluggish and crappy, but then we hit early evening, 5/6, and I get more active, our barbeque is about to begin, family is arriving, and so I start to move around. I get a strawberry daiquiri and end up spilling 85% of it in the garage near the nice digital camera. Then like 30 random neighbors and neighbors friends came and polluted my driveway, so I being the anti-weird-stranger social person I am, went inside and ate my lovely hamburger there. My brothers and I then watched on the History channel a story about a counterfeit who counterfeit casino tokens and made mad bank off that, and didn't get caught for a few years, and now he works with the US Mint to help prevent it. Pretty freaking rad if you ask me.

Then I went out and enjoyed the evening. First Scott Richards and I talked and lit fireworks together. Oh, and assisted every kid in the neighborhood in adding cardboard and bottles to their bike to make it sound cool. My fireworks usually beat his out.
Later on in the night, after Scott left, and the big illegal fireworks were coming into play, I rediscovered the coolness that is Kalena LeAnne Bell. She's definitely a way rad girl, and I enjoyed talking with her. She just got back from Hawaii, that lucky girl, I wouldn't have minded two weeks in the Tropical Sun with the chance to learn to surf. She apparently is big into road biking so we decided we'll end up doing that sometime. And possibly the beach this week. That'd be a lot of fun. I've wanted to go forever.

I still really want to do that coastal campout.