Fireworks!

Despite what Piers Morgan seems to think (and seriously, who even cares what he thinks), I like taking pictures of fireworks.  It gives me a chance to fuck with the settings on the manual mode that I don't understand, and see what comes out.

Since Oahu is just "Abnormally Dry" and not "Shit's a Fucking Tinderbox" like a lot of the mainland, we had a pretty nice fireworks show at Ala Moana, conveniently located so I can watch from my lanai.

Also, there's an ocean they shoot out over, so that helps cut down on the fire hazard somewhat.  You'd have to have an epic fireworks display to set the ocean on fire.

Anyway, fireworks pictures of varying quality.

I really like these smiley face ones.

This isn't the right one, but I noticed that they only had one set of "buzzy bees" style ones.  I really like those too, and not just because they look like globular clusters.

Now to go to sleep so I can get up and do two more days of work this week.  We should move the 4th of July so we can have a four-day weekend.  Then, we can celebrate the Four of July. See, it'd be similar, but with more days off so you don't get that Sunday-vibe on a fricking Wednesday.