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Captain America by Mitch McGee
Got my shots – minor reaction, but nothing tragic.
Met up with the in-laws, and headed to selby sub shoppe – pizza for all, I got a black bean burger and fries. Tasty as all get out!
We planned on heading to Annapolis after to go see Wall-E, but instead we stopped at Toys-R-Us, and picked up Marvel Heroscape and Good Ol’ Scrabble.
Heroscape is cute.. sort of like heroclix or D&D miniatures. The fun thing is that it’s cross-genre, so you can have cowboys shooting at zombies, fighting robots, ninjas, superheroes and cavemen all on the same board. (and if you like, you can make custom cards for units very easily – so you can have spongebob fighting a paperclip, if you want.) Basic rules are quick and easy… advanced rules look more fun, and maybe another moment or two to learn.
BHK and I opted to head back home after getting our loot – there was a storm brewing… even tornado warning, and we wanted to be curled up at home anyhow.
We swung by the ATW man – done up as a prospector – I’ll try to get better photos of him later.
Watched some tube, lounged, and the in-laws came over – we half watched Micheal Clayton while we played scrabble – Chris dominated.. and she was half asleep. I’d hate to think of what sort of opponant she’s make at full mental charge. Chris scored 258 to my 247 and BHK’s 162 – and Chris laid all of her letters down first turn… accounting for 63 of those points! I was feeling a little sour-grapey, but not too much… our dictionary is a bit on the lightweight side… time to get something unabridged. The plus size was that it caused me to rethink words I’d use in a pinch… like “QI“, but instead, items that are in more everyday language.
The folks went home, but BHK was still up for a wordgame, so we went with another – BHK dominated me at upwords – beat me by more than 40 points.
My brain is melted a bit.. until later, dear journal!
SWAT team kills 2 dogs in raid on Md. mayor’s home
BERWYN HEIGHTS, Md. — A SWAT team raided the home of a Washington, D.C.-area mayor, killing his two black Labrador retrievers and seizing an unopened package of marijuana delivered there.
Prince George’s County Police said Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo brought a 32-pound package of marijuana into his home that had been delivered by officers posing as delivery men. The Tuesday evening raid was conducted by county police narcotics officers and a sheriff’s office SWAT Team.
The package was addressed to Calvo’s wife, Trinity Tomsic. His mother-in-law had asked the supposed delivery men to leave the package outside. Calvo has not been charged, though police said he, his wife and his mother-in-law are “persons of interest” in an ongoing investigation.
“We never opened the box. We have nothing to do with this box,” Calvo said.
Sheriff’s office spokesman Sgt. Mario Ellis says deputies “apparently felt threatened” when they shot the dogs.
Calvo said officers entered about 7:30 p.m., first shooting 7-year-old Payton. They then pursued 4-year-old Chase, who ran away and was shot by police from behind, he said.
Calvo said he doesn’t have any idea how the package ended up at his house. He called the raid “the most traumatic experience” of his life.
Calvo, who called his town “Mayberry inside the Capital Beltway,” gets a small stipend as mayor and works at the SEED Foundation, a nonprofit that runs public boarding schools for at-risk students. His wife works as a state finance officer.
“These were two beautiful black Labradors who were well-known in the community. We walked them twice a day; little kids knew their names and would come up to them and pet them,” he said.
So… the police brought drugs to the house, and then raided him… but then didn’t arrest or press any charges? They *did* however kill his two dogs.