JULY 4th WEEKEND

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

I am also thinking of moving to Pacifica. How do you like it?

Before I moved here I thought I wouldn't like it. I thought it was full of rednecks with big trucks (nothing wrong with that though) without much of the cultural diversity you find in other parts of the Bay Area like SF, Berkeley, and Oakland. A lot of people call it Pathetica. Then I did move here and I love it. It's paradise. The beaches and ocean right there, surfing, hiking all great. The houses aren't connected and have yards and driveways. There's plenty of parking. You can drive to the Sunset District of SF in 15 minutes. 20-30 to downtown SF. NO BRIDGES between you and SF! It is a smallish town about 40,000 people, but there's 2 Safeways. You don't get the full assortment of fast food, but who cares? It is a bit tricky to find good places to eat, because you'll get spoiled eating in SF, but there's a couple gems. Surfing, fishing pier, being surrounded by the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, It's all good.

Here's the trick to Pacifica though: Don't move to the northern part of Pacifica (Manor area) because it's always foggy. Find a place in the southern part (Linda Mar) AKA "Sun Valley". That's where you want to be. It's always sunny! Drive a quarter mile north or south and it's always foggy!

Anyways, I would highly recommend moving here. I have lived a lot of places and now when I go on vacation I pretty much wish I was home.

[ChaoticGemini]

As far as understanding the thrill, I think you have to have a little pyromania in ya and just thoroughly enjoy blowin' sh*t up!

I'm a pyro, but just shooting stuff in the air and watching it explode is boring. Now throwing stuff in the fire fire pit--whole different story

[Premium Parrots]

I'm going to celebrate America by driving up to my friend's cabin in the North Cascades to shoot skeet (and assorted targets with the Mini-14 and the 9), rally the quad, swim in a pool with chocolate labs, and play ping pong, all while drinking beer. Screw the crowds and the fireworks.

ya know...ya have to eat what you shoot.

[Darwin]

Topeka, Kansas, for some unknown reason is absolutely insane for fireworks. Millions of dollars worth are sold before the fourth, many millions. On the night of the fourth the city sounds like one continuous firefight from one end to the other. Vast numbers of private aerial shells are fired, and fired, until about midnight or so. If the wind is low when you drive around the city from about 9-12 p.m. the whole place is covered in a dense smoky fug of gunpowder residue, so bad that it can actually cause breathing and visibility problems. Nuts, just bat crazy nuts. Miracle the whole shebang doesn't burn to the ground every single year.

[danielan]

Yeah, the same thing happens in Omaha too.

It's great!

[Jwalker]

Ha Ha God bless Indian Reservations. My cousins and I will be shooting cakes and mortars from an undisclosed location on a lake where all the neighbors shoot them and there's noticeable pollution the next morning. We've got some with chinese writing that are loud enough that you can't hear other cakes going off. You have to be careful because my second cousin screwed up a small cake named like flower power and nearly killed someone.

I saw a show on vacation with my family in New York and it was nice because they had three floats shooting them off, when one float would have been enough and they just kept going and going. It was incredible and then you just kind of zoned out. Macys spent like 3 million dollars on it.

If you can't get fireworks make a dry ice bomb. Just get dry ice a bottle and put in some water screw the top on and put it away from you. Those things are so loud it's beyond belief.

[Roo]

Funny how the delicate little fingers of Chinese child laborers provide the medium through which we celebrate democracy and freedom from oppression. They are all Chinese fireworks, not just the ones lacking Chinglish labels.

[danielan]

If you can't get fireworks make a dry ice bomb. Just get dry ice a bottle and put in some water screw the top on and put it away from you. Those things are so loud it's beyond belief.

http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/9...ySection=story

http://www.omaha.com/article/20100629/NEWS97/100629602

Don't do that in Nebraska. We don't condone that "sciency" stuff in these parts.

[f. bandersnatch]

Blowing up stuff in your front lawn is always better than watching a bunch of city dollars go to waste on a nonsense sky show. If you have children I can understand why you would think that placing mortar shells upside down in toilets might not be the ideal way to celebrate the fourth, but it is best to introduce your kids to the nuances of adulthood early. I say this in complete ignorance of the process of parenthood, but that's not really whats important here. What is important is whether or not those kids have a good time.

Lighting flights of concrete stairs on fire is also highly enjoyable.

[Roo]

Lighting flights of concrete stairs on fire is also highly enjoyable.

Damnit, I have to try that now.

[f. bandersnatch]

use gasoline, and make sure you got your running shoes on.

[texasmade]

damnit, i have to try that now.

video it!

[foxb86]

Before I moved here I thought I wouldn't like it. I thought it was full of rednecks with big trucks (nothing wrong with that though) without much of the cultural diversity you find in other parts of the Bay Area like SF, Berkeley, and Oakland. A lot of people call it Pathetica. Then I did move here and I love it. It's paradise. The beaches and ocean right there, surfing, hiking all great. The houses aren't connected and have yards and driveways. There's plenty of parking. You can drive to the Sunset District of SF in 15 minutes. 20-30 to downtown SF. NO BRIDGES between you and SF! It is a smallish town about 40,000 people, but there's 2 Safeways. You don't get the full assortment of fast food, but who cares? It is a bit tricky to find good places to eat, because you'll get spoiled eating in SF, but there's a couple gems. Surfing, fishing pier, being surrounded by the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, It's all good.

Here's the trick to Pacifica though: Don't move to the northern part of Pacifica (Manor area) because it's always foggy. Find a place in the southern part (Linda Mar) AKA "Sun Valley". That's where you want to be. It's always sunny! Drive a quarter mile north or south and it's always foggy!

Anyways, I would highly recommend moving here. I have lived a lot of places and now when I go on vacation I pretty much wish I was home.

sounds awesome!. i'm glad to hear it's as nice as it looks from the pictures and websites i've gone too. and i'll keep your southern side tip in mind.

[WickedKitchen]

I have a big frame backpack chock full or fireworks. We had a water problem in the cellar and I thought they were a total loss. Rockets, tanks, mortars, Roman candles, etc. Well, evidently in the last three years they've dried out and still work. I lit off a couple of the medium rockets as a test the other day. Might get into some shenanigans with these...uh oh.

[tom502]

I have band practice Sunday. My wife might cookout, I think some of her relatives are coming over, my bandmate may come over too, and drink beer, and work on a new album.