Wednesday, July 30, 2008  Three cheers for Dumb Leg!  So, if you
read my blog, you know a couple of things:    1. I haven't had a
real "victory" on the ice in a while. You know... a good skate
where I left the rink doing a happy dance. It's all been sort of
nervous survival for the last month or more.   2. I've had a
bitch of a time learning to stop. Well, today the hockey gods
rewarded me with:   1. A randomly scheduled early evening public
skate session at Willowbrook. They almost never have a mid-week
public skate other than at lunchtime, so this was a rare
occurrence.   2. Nearly empty ice. Maybe 15-20 people in the
whole rink.   3. The rink attendant who looks like Brandon
Rogers. (Hey, I skate better with eye candy.)   5. Victory...
happy dance... texting Coach Stalin... woohoos from Coach
Stalin... good mood for at least a few days! I went to this
skate with the intention of learning to stop on my dumb (left)
leg if it took me the whole two hours to do it. Until today, I
couldn't even put my left skate