Usually, it’s not just the 4th of July that stimulates fireworks users. The days leading up to the Fourth feature an increasing number of bangs, until the “nonstop fusillade of illicit fireworks” in the Mission District on the evening of the Fourth itself. (Here’s a Chronicle recap of fireworks-related injuries and arrests from this week.)

But last night — the 5th of July — is often almost as bad. While it’s hard to imagine that the full battle effect of the 4th could have left anything unexploded, the local denizens manage to locate whatever’s left and blow it up the next night.

But last night? Almost nothing. I was heading toward bed around 10:30 when I realized I hadn’t heard a single boom. This is unprecedented. It almost makes me accept the noise of the 4th, as long as I know it’s all over for the rest of the year — until local towns again start selling fireworks in anticipation of New Year’s Eve.