Pace on Earth

Rock You

A bit of news that will make my grandfather proud; I have taken up curling. At least temporarily. With skip Copper Dave off on Olympic duty I have taken his place (although at the front end of the team - lead) on the as-yet-to-be-named team he is a part of for the Thursday night curling at Coliseum. I have been a fan of the game for years. Particularly on Sunday afternoon while searching for something to nap to if I couldn't find me some Bob Ross. I was never foolish enough to think it was easy but I was still surprised by how hard it is. I'm lucky I haven't killed myself yet and that's probably the best news yet. I have thrown at least a couple of nice rocks though and that is just as good a feeling as making a nice pass, hitting an open jumper, or hitting a bull playing darts. In fact, curling is really just darts on ice. It's not quite the drinking game darts is though; it's tough to carry your beer while sweeping and you'd have to have one at each end of the rink to be drinking at any pace. I think I might be on to something there.

Although we don't always win, Canada is a pretty dominant force in world curling. We should get two medals out of the curling rink at the Olympics. Curling is popular enough in Canada that they don't need to jazz the marketing up to much but if they ever do here is the song to do it:

Pace out.

posted by Vitamin S @ 7:06 p.m.