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July 04, 2006
When in the Course of Human Events...
Today is/was Independence Day in the USA. It marks the anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence; the formal proclamation of independence by the thirteen colonies of North American from the Kingdom of Britain. Of course formal independence would not come until after eight years of open civil war against Britain and the signing of the Treaty of Paris (of 1783), signed September 3, 1783, and ratified by U.S. Congress on January 14, 1784.
To commemorate this day we did nothing. We lounged and loafed and generally lazed. What better way to spend a day celebrating independence than to do nothing at all?
Okay, we actually watched TV for the first time in months, and got sucked into re-runs of the second season of Project Runway. I'm still stunned at how much of the time was consumed by television advertisement! There must have been barely twenty minutes of show presented in each hour! Glad I don't do this sort of thing regularly. Where did the day go?
Happy 4th of July!
Posted by Tacitus at July 4, 2006 10:45 PM