Happy impending birthday. And "Safe and Sane" fireworks are about as exciting as watching a candle burn. The bastards changed Piccolo Petes so that crimping them no longer does anything. For fuck's sake, they've even outlawed the real sparklers we all grew up with. Sparklers! Outlawed!
Welcome to California, where you can pay $55 for the right to legally grow sticky icky in your backyard, but you can and will go to jail for lighting firecrackers.