Happy 4th

I never wanted to just write about stuff I was doing, but that's what you're getting. Keep reading, suckas!!

• The parents came in and we saw Next to Normal on Broadway, which was surprisingly good! Nilda and I don't really go to shows and we were very skeptical sitting in the theater. It was like waiting for a BarBri lecture to begin, when you think nothing good can come of this.
• We finally went to ABC Kitchen with Irene and Jeremy on Sunday and it was amazing. It's trying to play off the local and organic fad, but damn, was the food good. I need to find a recipe to make salted caramel ice cream.
• The city is great during a holiday weekend. Everyone leaves and it's kind of like the opening scene from Vanilla Sky.
• The fireworks are much better on tv than in person. In person, you just stand there watching them, wondering at each pause if it's over or not. On tv, there's music and narrators telling you what's happening and no crowds to deal with. Either way, you're bored within five minutes.
• I made sure to get in some Independence Day appropriate activities by watching an episode of The Revolution on The History Channel. Go, Amurica.
• Turns out our Benedict Arnold was a great, vain and ambitious (all the founding fathers were ambitious) military leader whose accomplishments kept getting ignored, so he got pissed off and joined the British.
• George Washington first gained recognition as a military officer when he surrendered and admitted to killing a French officer, which started the Seven Years War. He went on to become a wealthy landowner and state politician, until the revolution.
• John Hancock was the leader of the first revolutionary organization and thought he was a shoe in to lead the army, until his good friend John Adams nominated George Washington instead.
• Is it too hot to run? Yeah, it's too hot to run. Darn it!