Chez Chesler

I particularly like chrysanthemums, and different colors.

I've just watched the Boston Pops fireworks on television for the first time in years. (Having come back from the display two towns over in Wakefield -- a break in tradition, instead of watching the Merrimack, NH display from behind my parents' complex -- I was going to take whatever I had leftover illicitly brought back from New Hampshire and destroy it by fire, but it was raining and getting cold, so I watched the show. It's been so long I didn't realize that it wasn't on public television.)

I don't like shells that make shapes. A few ovals are OK, even a rectangle, but the smiley faces and stars were too much. I also don't like the shells they had at Wakefield that have a chrysanthemum and the a 4-direction white blast in the center. It's good to know the technology keeps improving. I once saw the Macy's display -- I hear that this year they were using shells that land on the water and keep burning.

Maybe next year is the year I see the Charles Basin live. The kids aren't old enough, and I'm too old, to grab a space on the Esplanade. Last year my employer was moving to an office in Kendall Square that had a view of the barge, and I figured that's where I'd be today, but I am no longer with that emp-loyer. All I would have needed were some battery-operated lights to put my recently-acquired canoe in at around Soldier's Field and paddle down to the Basin, but my crew wasn't willing. Apparently that's easy enough.

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