Adventures on wheels

Sometime over the past five to ten years, I have completely forgotten how to skate. I was rather hoping it would be just like the proverbial bicycle, but no, it was not nearly so. (In fact, I'm pretty sure Actual Bicycle Skills are inferior to Proverbial Bicycle Skills.) No, I just spent ten minutes flailing vaguely around a parking lot and sidewalk and learning to really, really love my wrist braces. I mean, I was already committed to both them and my helmet, but being able to catch myself when I fall without worrying about breaking my wrists horribly? Very reassuring! And also considerably less painful than if I weren't catching myself on the way down; thank you, physics.

Even if nothing else has come of my experiments on wheels today, I have learned to really, really appreciate brakes. I mean, I love my vintage skates (even if they do pinch at the toes a teensy bit), but no brakes is, at my current level of skating ability, something of a deal-breaker. I may have been able to skate competently for hours without a fall, or even the need for brakes, when I was younger, but I am far too out of practice nowadays.

On the plus side, even fail-skating for ten minutes was incredibly exhilarating; would do again, even if I did end up a wee bit scraped up.


To-do list for today:

* Type up potential e-mail to convention hotel for hopeful vetting
* Finish and type up potential forum introductory post for hopeful vetting
* Contact pubs dept with large-print info
* Contact execs about getting an accessibility e-mail set up
* Start writing description for my position to put on the website

Edit: Accessibility Best Practices for conventions? Excuse me while I swoon~