The little boy steps up to the plate, his eyes glazed over.. This is his first time to do this, he knows what he is looking for, he studied for this for the past two days.. He sees what he studied in the pamphlet and sees them. There it is, all the bounty and it's all there for the taking.. He sees the rockets, they look so pristine in their display.. Eyes the tank, a tank or two or three what a variety.. this is the candy store with a kid in it.. A kid in a candy store but it's not that.. It's a kid at a FIREWORKS sales place.. Thursday we took the little guy down and... Well earlier that morning he was looking at the little pamphlet sent via the newspaper called Ka_BOOMERS... So exciting.. Where does this excitement come from?? I out grew fireworks many years ago.. A friend of mine back in the day, this was his time of year.. He started in about what he was gonna do with his fire crackers and it was his 24/7 addiction.. I felt it a bit but never went bonkers.. I liked the fireworks time of year mostly because this guy went off his nut.. Now here we were Thursday with the nephew at his very first ever (I think anyway) fireworks purchase and he was glassy eyed.. He stutters fairly bad but on this day it was a little more pronounced.. He was as I said the kid in the candy store.. What to buy... what to buy.. The rocket was his first must have.. This rocket is fairly small but more sturdy than anything I ever remember having back in the day.. Then he got a tank, oooh that should be fun.. The third thing was a rocket hanging on the wall up there.. I told him he has five dollars to spend, that's all and the guy working the stand heard me so that rocket... not gonna happen.. He settled on a box of fire crackers.. All told it was four dollars even.. I'm sure he had something else in mind but this was enough. Got them and headed to his house.. He was wanting to play with the tank and mom was telling him no you better shoot these off tonight or they might not work.. That tank might not work.. Thinking back to when I was little my dad would get the little yellow box of fireworks every forth of July.. Then we talked him into the next box up.. He was rarely around for the forth, he worked summers for a guy doing farming work and the forth was always harvest time.. so he rarely got to see the fire works.. Either my older brother would set them off when we were little or after a time we both would set them off.. I always wanted more fireworks and wondered what that big box would have been like.. After a while and more to the point as I got older I didn't want to buy them because they used to have a lot of oooh and awe quality but they seem to lose that as they seemed to have less gunpowder in them.. For my nephew explaining that he will never be satisfied with more.. Just that will never sink in...
Badge Henry
(P.S. (You had to know there would be a post script) Um... the computer worked well yesterday.. Enough so that I got an extra week entries set for the PNOP blog.. Here's the situation for what drives me over the edge.. The computer locks up, and most peoples computers go through this and this one is no exception.. But for me, I get to where I'm wanting to do something creative either with the blog or editing video or working music or any of the things a computer can be used for.. When it locks up it frustrates me, frustrates everyone I'm sure but for me it is just.. Too much to bare... So here's what happens on a typical lock up.. I'm working along on whatever I'm doing and the program stops.. I see the little circle thing there on the screen as it turns around and I know it has locked up.. I will most times get the task manager to shut the program down.. No problem.. But when task manager isn't quick to start, then I get agitated and reach for the power button on the computer tower.. This shuts the computer down.. Turns it off.. And then I turn it back on and get back to where I was a few minutes before.. Well I had to do this more and more all the time and then Tuesday happened, the day I turned it off up to 70 times if not more... I was going to restart the computer, i.e. go from scratch, so I started getting all the files off the computer that I wanted and sent them to a "life boat" computer in my moms laptop.. This got everything off the computer and set it so that I could restart it with the discs you are supposed to make after you first get your computer.. I did that with the old XP computer but with this one I put it on a flashdrive and labled it and when I went to use it.. It wasn't recognized as the startup... The restart program.. Well then what is on this drive then?? I'm stuck with a computer that works a bit but not much really.. I've got a few more ideas but a techie might have to be called in to kick it a bit.. Trying to avoid it but it might be the next thing.. )
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