Today I donated blood, for the 58'th time. (If one donation can save three lives, then the way I see it, 174 people owe me a big one, not that I ever expect to be paid back, but it sure would be nice,... maybe a tax deduction?)
Anyway on my way to the clinic I walked past Nathan Phillips Square where people were ice skating on the reflecting pool. Ice skating is a funny thing, if a person does not know what they are doing, watching them try to remain upright on ice is a pathetic sight to behold. But a reasonably good skater on ice is so graceful, far more so than an inline skater. Its hardly any wonder that figure skating is such a popular spectator sport whereas 'roller dancing' goes almost unpracticed. One of these days I will break down and buy a pair of ice skates, but the problem I have found is the sporting goods stores only seem to have hockey skates and I am not sure I want to spend hundreds of dollars more on speed skates.
On a totally unrelated aside, I have decided to phase out my Facebook account. Besides being a good way to find out that my taste in movies is eccentric (to put things mildly) frankly Facebook seems like a mammoth waste of time. At least ten years from now I can read my old blog postings and find out what thought processes were zipping through my mind in late November of 2007. With Facebook things are ephemeral.
So in honour of the end of my Facebook profile I am including a picture that I have yanked from the site:
(Facebook caption) My brand new Bont Vaypors with 3point frames, and Gyro F2110 wheels. Outside on the track for the first time ever! (Picture posted on September 28, 2007.)
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