New York abstains... courteously!

[posting this "backdated" several days later, so we'll see if that does the right thing on LJ as well as DW.]

Quiet 4th of July, the first one in years I haven't spent in Boston. It being a Wednesday made it a little weirder, as there's just no way to mentally pin it to either "weekend", but that also made it stand out more on its own, in a way.

Slept in, had some good home time, did some good freelance work. Then we went over to watch 1776 (first time I'd ever seen the movie version!) with crewgrrl and mbarr, and paused it near the end to trot down to Riverside Drive and watch the fireworks over the Hudson.

I got a little tipsier than I expected. First it was the "barleywine style" Bigfoot Ale, which I brought and liked (even though justom pronounced it nasty), and fully expected it to hit like a hammer when I chose to have a second one. But only after that did pecunium show up and ply me with rum and homemade mead, so I blame him. ;-) But no ill effects, so whew.

And there were lots of good people there, including shirei_shibolim and terriqat's little one, who has reached new heights of adorable with the stage of "curious look... electrifying grin" and also "sit up... lean forward.... faceplant".