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Offline jtyangel

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Monday...yes one of 'those' threads
« on: August 04, 2008, 06:07:35 AM »
I would be told I'm doing whatever I can to avoid a certain paper I need to write by starting this, but I'm hedging my bets that my other half's niece can watch the kids sometime today. I so don't want to do this paper...sigh!

What's going on today? Weather? All that?


TOTD for the hell of it:

What is the best fireworks display you've ever seen. Where, when, etc?


Ok, I'm going to open word up now :banghead:
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Re: Monday...yes one of 'those' threads
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2008, 06:19:06 AM »
What TZ are you in?  It is 4:00 am here!

TOTD:  The roof of the Oakwood Apartments, Seattle, Elliot Bay (under the Space Needle) July 4, 2000 -- started with a MIG flyby spraying fireworks as he went, then some vintage WWII planes doing similar, then it went uphill from there.

#2 - July 3 on the lake in Milwaukee -- warm night, open skies, beautiful fireworks.
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Re: Monday...yes one of 'those' threads
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2008, 06:32:06 AM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on August 04, 2008, 06:19:06 AM
What TZ are you in?  It is 4:00 am here!

TOTD:  The roof of the Oakwood Apartments, Seattle, Elliot Bay (under the Space Needle) July 4, 2000 -- started with a MIG flyby spraying fireworks as he went, then some vintage WWII planes doing similar, then it went uphill from there.

#2 - July 3 on the lake in Milwaukee -- warm night, open skies, beautiful fireworks.


Eastern..it is now 732 am
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Re: Monday...yes one of 'those' threads
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2008, 08:56:09 AM »
Today....dropped my daughter off at her Irish Dance camp , now I'm sitting here contemplating going back to  bed.  I'm sleepy!   Football and baseball tonight, and my daughter's got a babysitting gig as well,

TOTD:  Best fireworks display...1976, at Memorial Park in Colorado Springs.  Fireworks there are always great, but that year, they were extra awesome.  Symphony, with cannons, etc.  And my grandparents were visiting, to they were there, too.  Once of the best memories of my childhood.
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Re: Monday...yes one of 'those' threads
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2008, 10:12:07 AM »
Well, I'm here at work.  But trying to avoid this actual "work" business. 

I think I might go home early today.   :-)

TOTD:  I dunno, there's not a best fireworks in my memory.  I did enjoy the year that on the 4th of July I was driving home to Arlington from Flower Mound and got to see three big firework displays going off.  The best was probably after a baseball game, they always do good shows then.  Now I'm spoiled, I can see those fireworks multiple times a year just by walking to the end of my street.
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Re: Monday...yes one of 'those' threads
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2008, 10:13:18 AM »
Quote from: jtyangel on August 04, 2008, 06:07:35 AM
I would be told I'm doing whatever I can to avoid a certain paper I need to write by starting this, but I'm hedging my bets that my other half's niece can watch the kids sometime today. I so don't want to do this paper...sigh!

What's going on today? Weather? All that?


TOTD for the hell of it:

What is the best fireworks display you've ever seen. Where, when, etc?


Ok, I'm going to open word up now :banghead:
Eh boy! :-) TOTD: Detroit river waterfront 15 or 20 years ago.It was a 2 hour long display and the beer was flowing like the filthy,disgusting river that the Detroit river is! :-)
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Re: Monday...yes one of 'those' threads
« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2008, 10:23:51 AM »
Hmmmm....it's hot, hazy, ridiculously humid....supposed to have heat index in the low 100's today.

Still haven't been able to recover my pics off of my disk, so I will have to go do retakes on 2 properties and do 2 drivebys. And have 5 reports due by 8....and I'm on here... :banghead:

Been working since 7....it's a Monday....

We have a fireworks display done to music that lasts about 25 minutes, every Labor Day. The fireworks are done from a bridge downtown over the Tn River, and they are fabulous. Each year exceeds the past. It's a big event with a couple hundred thousand people attending. Now that my kids are grown, I don't go anymore. Too hot, too many people, have to walk forever to find parking, and it takes about 2 hours to drive what normally takes 15-20 minutes to get home.

(geesh...I sounded like an old person! :thatsright:)
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Re: Monday...yes one of 'those' threads
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2008, 10:24:11 AM »
Quote from: Miss Mia on August 04, 2008, 10:12:07 AM
Well, I'm here at work.  But trying to avoid this actual "work" business. 

I think I might go home early today.   :-)

TOTD:  I dunno, there's not a best fireworks in my memory.  I did enjoy the year that on the 4th of July I was driving home to Arlington from Flower Mound and got to see three big firework displays going off.  The best was probably after a baseball game, they always do good shows then.  Now I'm spoiled, I can see those fireworks multiple times a year just by walking to the end of my street.

I'm avoiding 'work' too. Although I have done housework...I hate this paper, hate it! Although it is humorous doing research on the 'natural foods markets'. Can we say...moonbat!
Did I ever tell you all that I have an 'uncle' who is a manager in a food co-op? Oh boy...I still wonder 'his' DU name. I love 'him' to pieces though. At least he's not the stomping, divorce your family kind of liberal. Just a major, major hippy.

As for fireworks, waterfront in Miami, 1990 or so. Good stuff...symphony and everything right on a waterfront stage...awesome! :cheersmate:

Always had good ones on Homestead AFB too :cheersmate:

The ones on the Inner Harbor in Baltimore were pretty darn good too!
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Re: Monday...yes one of 'those' threads
« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2008, 11:42:12 AM »
TOTD:

Every year in Lake Geneva they have a summer thing called Venetian Festival.  It's topped off with a fireworks display on the last night.  They shoot the fireworks off the beach.  There are two swimming piers out about 30-40 feet from the shoreline on the beach.

When I was 12 or 13 I went down to the lake before the fireworks and dove in from the public boat mooring pier about a quarter mile away and swam over to the end of one of the swimming piers.  I hooked my feet under the end and laid there floating on my back looking straight up as the fireworks went off right overhead.

Coolest firework display I ever saw. :)
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Re: Monday...yes one of 'those' threads
« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2008, 12:21:27 PM »
When my kids were younger and we would go to Disney World....they would have fireworks over Cinderella's Castle at midnight.....always thought that was so magical....but then, I'm a sucker for Disney World. :-)
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Just hand over the chocolate...back away slowly...far away....and you won't get hurt....

Save the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.

"My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I've finished two bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already." – Dave Barry

A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands.

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Re: Monday...yes one of 'those' threads
« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2008, 12:46:42 PM »
Quote from: jtyangel on August 04, 2008, 10:24:11 AM
Quote from: Miss Mia on August 04, 2008, 10:12:07 AM
Well, I'm here at work.  But trying to avoid this actual "work" business. 

I think I might go home early today.   :-)

TOTD:  I dunno, there's not a best fireworks in my memory.  I did enjoy the year that on the 4th of July I was driving home to Arlington from Flower Mound and got to see three big firework displays going off.  The best was probably after a baseball game, they always do good shows then.  Now I'm spoiled, I can see those fireworks multiple times a year just by walking to the end of my street.

I'm avoiding 'work' too. Although I have done housework...I hate this paper, hate it! Although it is humorous doing research on the 'natural foods markets'. Can we say...moonbat!
Did I ever tell you all that I have an 'uncle' who is a manager in a food co-op? Oh boy...I still wonder 'his' DU name. I love 'him' to pieces though. At least he's not the stomping, divorce your family kind of liberal. Just a major, major hippy.

As for fireworks, waterfront in Miami, 1990 or so. Good stuff...symphony and everything right on a waterfront stage...awesome! :cheersmate:

Always had good ones on Homestead AFB too :cheersmate:

The ones on the Inner Harbor in Baltimore were pretty darn good too!

Well, I was thinking of going home early, but I don't know if that'll be possible now.  Stupid cashiers.  :banghead:  I'm going to have to reconcile the cash sales account (again!!!) and try and figure out how they "lost" $100 over the weekend.   :banghead:
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Re: Monday...yes one of 'those' threads
« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2008, 02:41:30 PM »
TOTD: I was at this one and it was Badass.

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Rendez-vous Houston

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Rendez-vous Houston was a concert performed by musician Jean Michel Jarre on the skyscrapers of downtown Houston on the evening of April 5, 1986. For a period of time, it held a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest outdoor "rock concert" in history, with figures varying from 1 to 1.5 million in attendance. Rendez-vous Houston is remembered for being the concert which celebrated the astronauts of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, which had happened only three and a half months beforehand. One of Jarre's friends, astronaut Ron McNair, had been killed in the disaster. He was supposed to play the saxophone from space during the track "Last Rendez-Vous"; his substitute for the concert was Houston native Kirk Whalum.



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There was still one more slight problem before the concert started. The chief of the Houston Fire Department, Robert Clayton, had told Francis Dreyfus, Jarre's manager, that the show must be cancelled. This was due to a change of the wind direction; the Chief was concerned that the crowd would be showered with firework debris. After some back-and-forth argument with Dreyfus, Clayton agreed that the concert could proceed on a 'see how it goes' term.

During the concert (specifically, during the performance of Equinoxe Part 5), the amount of fireworks being used and the direction of the wind did indeed cause debris to rain down on the audience, covering them in ash. Clayton frantically began to try to stop the proceedings, fearing that people would be injured. Although his fears were duly noted, the crowd took no notice of the ash falling onto them and carried on enjoying the concert proceedings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendez-vous_Houston


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