MemeMachineGo!

This morning I was showing off my extensive first aid supplies to Pocahontas. This afternoon, she was applying them to me.

Some weeks ago, a suggestion by Pocahontas prompted me to do something I’d meant to do for ages: I replaced the wheels and bearings on my Rollerblades (not abusing a trademark; mine happen actually to be Rollerblade™ brand inline skates.) I can more or less skate, if gracelessly — I more or less go into it expecting to fall down. So I wear knee pads, elbow pads, wrist pads, my bike helmet, and just accept looking like a dork.

Today we went to Point Isabel, where there’s a nice smooth paved path. And I got to be humbled by the plain truth that I can’t keep up with Pocahontas inline skating. I probably have the fitness level to do so, but not the technique — when I tried to go that fast, I fell down. The first time, I landed nice and neatly and gently on my wrist and elbow guards and was right back up and going. The second time, I fell on my hip.

Maybe I should find some nice transvestite shop in San Francisco and get foam rubber hip pads.