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Ice skating is hard, and slippery, and cold… and painful for the stacks.

Saturday evening I went ice skating for the first time in a very long time, and I am proud to say that I only stacked it ONCE! Hurrah!

My stack was rather pathetic too. I was kinda hoping my stack would be something people would see and go, ‘Oh wow, that was a big stack. I hope he’s 0kay.’
But no, I was moving at a snails pace towards a wall so I could lean against it for a moment and as I approached it, my feet slipped out from underneath me and WHAM! On my ass.  I quickly looked around to see if anyone saw me, laughing to myself a bit I got back up to look over and see a group of 15 year old girls giggling at me. Great. Laughed at by young high school barbie bimbos on skates.

I had forgotten how hard it was. I used to rollerblade a bit, but was never fantastic at it. Ice skating is a whole lot harder. It was also cold, as one would imagine. But very much fun in the end.

I was quite surprised by how much the air gets moved around the ring as well. Some random come flat out towards me as I was stopped at the end of the straight bit, and stopped only a couple of metres in front of me, sorta smiled and skated off. Was quite weird yes, but I was more intrigued with the way I had a good 5-6 seconds of wind blasting into me just from that dude!

For all those physics geeks out there, does cold air move faster than warm air? Or is it we just only notice it when it’s cold?

Last Friday night, my house mate kindly asked me to make myself scarce because he was having his girlfriend (who, I might add, I am yet to meet) coming for dinner for the evening. He better bloody well have got laid.

Since I was poor after having paid out nearly $500 in bills this week, I mentioned to Dad that I might come home to the farm for the evening. However, he was going on a Pubbaware party, and said I was welcome to come along, and that he’d even shout me dinner and drinks!

Well, I’d be stupid to knock it back… but what in the hell is a Pubbaware party?

You know how women have their Tupperware parties all the time, pretty much just as an excuse to kick back and drink bubbly with the girls, no boys around. So, the boys (this is in the country remember, so everyone knows everyone, and pubs are limited) decided that they were sick of the girls having all these parties, and the boys sitting home with the kids. They came up with the ‘Pubbaware’ idea, which is really neat. A bus is organised to go around and pick everyone up from set locations, then drives out to some random Pub that few people have been to before, they have a bar meal, and drink large quantities of beer. Then the bus drops them off at the end of the night. Simple. Effective. Brilliant.

I felt rather young hanging out with a bunch of 40 year olds drinking beer and talking about farm stuff (well, they were talking, I just stood there and half listened). But all in all, it wasn’t a bad evening.

So I just got back from Go Karting!! I’m hell pumped, the adrenaline is flowing, and my arms are hurting.

It was AWESOME!

So it was a Grand Prix, 2 drivers per team, 90 laps to complete. l5 laps per change over. And far out, after 15 laps, you are SORE. Great fun though.

Adam was my team mate, and we came in second, only a few seconds behind the aggressive Michael and Karl. I didn’t do too bad considering I started at the back of the grid and had to work my way up. When I was on the track I was competing mainly with Michael and Shannon, those guys were quick as. All our lap times were only differentiating by milliseconds.

Our team managed to score the fastest lap of the race at 30.07 (I think). Not sure if it was Adam or myself. I have a feeling it could have been me, but I really don’t know.

It’s almost too much fun really. Yet at the same time (if you’re competitive) you’re gritting your teeth and muscling the kart around trying to shave off precious seconds. I reckon I was completely tense all over the entire time I was out there. Great workout!

So now after writing this the adrenaline has slowed, and I can actually feel my hands. Keep it cool peoples!

PS. This night was put on thanks to Flexirent, and you should all use their product because it’s good!