User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/Writers Workshop update/@comment-1874924-20100405030626

My MIL got out of the ICU today, and is back in the regular cardiac ward. Her progress is promising.

@ Chimchar: A pyro, eh? It's good to meet a kindred spirit. I did a lot of underground pyrotechny in my day, mostly small bombs that were equivalent to homemade M-80s. For the 4th of July, I also used to whip up ultrabright flares from a recipe that was reported to produce 100K candlepower per square inch. They were so bright you couldn't look directly at them, and they illuminated pretty much the whole block.