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And I was going to call the cops!
01/01/09
And I was going to call the cops!
About a minute or two ago, I heard a loud bang, then a second, then six more. This scared me for a moment, it sounded exactly like gunfire. Actually, right now I hear more bangs going off.
I was frightened. I was looking for my cell phone to call the police and report what I thought was gunfire. This was extremely unusual for this neighborhood.
Then it hit me; it's exactly midnight on January 1. It's fireworks! Yeah, yeah, technically it's also illegal here in Maryland but there's a difference. Fireworks are fun and unless you're the schmuck continuing to hold an M-80 in your hand after you lit it, usually they don't hurt anybody.
Yeah, I know, the fire department would disagree with me. Hey, I'm just trying to make a snarky comment, not be exactly accurate, okay. I know people sometimes set fires or burn people's houses down - usually by accident or negligence - through careless use (or misuse) of fireworks.
I mean, if my new computer had been working, I'd have had Dick Clark on, I'd have remembered it was New Years Eve, and the banging and popping would not have frightened me. And it's a good thing it wasn't gunfire, I tried to make a phone call and despite having 3 bars, I can't get a connection. I suppose it must be a lot of people making phone calls. I called my sister to wish her a happy new year, I got a ring then the network dropped me, but I didn't see what the message was. Probably a congestion warning.
I have one other option; I signed up for (if you know me, you know it's) a free phone service called CallingAmerica.Com (I put it in here so that when I forget again I can come back here and look) that works like Skype, that you can call people from your computer, to a regular PSTN telephone number (PSTN is telephone company talk for a regular telephone on the Public Switched Telephone Network as compared with, say, another on-the-Internet phone that is only reachable from someone on the Internet) in exchange for watching ads or hearing them or something. Anyway, I can talk for up to 15 minutes. So I'll try that.
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