A little “heads up”

I’m going camping for a few days and will be pre-posting (writing now and setting them to go up later).  Comments will be closed, since I’m going to be in the middle of nowhere with no computer.

I thought about “live-blogging” my vacation (going from Starbucks to Starbucks)…but alas, there are very few Starbucks where we are going.

I’m taking a french press and “good” coffee, since I don’t like living without “good” coffee.

I’m also sort of planning the trip around where the Weight Watchers meetings are…and electricity.  And beaches without stairs (for my mom).

I’m really excited about taking a vacation with my parents and my kids.  We don’t get much 3-generation time and I’m very pleased to be able to do this.

lunes linkage 6/30/2008

Man injured after run-in with a bear.

literally.

Tim Egan, 53, was riding on Old Stage Road Tuesday afternoon when suddenly a bear appeared in front of him. Egan hit the bear and ended up skidding across the road.

“This bear looked at me with a look of terror on his face and sort of made a noise,” said Egan. “I looked at him with a look of terror and we went, ‘aaaahhhhh.’”

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Jail visits lead to more time locked up

AUGUSTA — As soon as an inmate from Vassalboro had a visitor at the Kennebec County jail in Augusta, he was violating a court order.

Marshall Crandall IV, of Vassalboro, was sentenced to serve nine months in jail Tuesday at a Kennebec County Superior Court hearing after he pleaded guilty to three counts of violating conditions of release for having contact with the visitor...the same woman who visited him at the jail.

The violations occurred April 5, 10 and 15, when the woman named as the assault victim visited Crandall, according to jail records.

The woman told the judge on Tuesday the domestic assault was mutual, and that she could have been charged with the same offense in the incident.

“I picked him up three or four times and slammed him on the ground,” she said.

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