My Fourth of July checklist

✔ Watch the Giants play the Nationals
     
Cheer their victory

✔ Agonize over their defeat

✔ Skip the city parade

✔ Send in a job application

Go out to lunch with Groom and Girl

See a Huey Lewis and the News cover band at 8:15

Drink too much

Watch fireworks


Happy Independence Day, America! The British are probably secretly relieved to be shut of us, but try not to dwell on that thought.