It was probably 1987 the last time I was roller-skating. Not rollerblading, but roller-skating. I was in grade 7 at the time, and I was bad at it. It was a school trip and I spent most of the time clutching the wall.

Rollerblading is much easier.

Today was the Rapid Fire Theatre AGM, held at a roller-skating rink. The meeting, as usual, was fun as we have a bunch of people with short attention spans all trying to be the center of attention. The chair was competing against a bunch of retro-arcade and pinball games for the remaining attention span.

There was pizza as well. I ate quite a bit of it. The acting I was doing for my friend did not result in the promised lunch so the last time I had eaten was breakfast. I’m not blaming anyone for that. We were running behind and lunch would have taken too much time. As is, we still haven’t finished.

The acting was really tiring as I kept having to sprint through the halls of Grant MacEwan college. I’m not used to anaerobic exercise, so it is draining. But we got good shots and I’m looking forward to the final product. Of course, I did have to make sacrifices. I had to repeatedly collide with an innocent bystander.

Anyway, the AGM was fun. And after it was over we went roller-skating. I could have brought rollerblades apparently, but it hadn’t occurred to me. So I had the standard, ancient, four wheels like-legs-on-a-table roller-skates. They didn’t quite fit, so my feet started hurting. I think I’m getting a blister on the bottom of my foot.

Which all leads to the planned run tomorrow.

• I have blisters on my foot.
• My back is feeling weird from all the crashing into people.
• I gave pretty nice directions for someone who wants to spend three hours stealing a car.

I’m still going to do it. I’ve been thinking of parking some distance a way so that my car isn’t completely obvious. But that should extend the distance. Which might also be a good thing.