Back into hockey!

Well, it's September, and what better way to celebrate than to get back into hockey? I've started playing with a group of people from work, and as hard as it is for a programmer (okay, for me) to exert any effort towards exercise of any kind, I'm going to try to stick with it. It's fun, it's good exercise, it gets easier the more you do it, it's fun, I don't fall down every time I turn around, and did I mention it's fun?

The only tricky part is transportation. Not having a car is fine for almost everything else in my life, but this is a bit of a pain. I'm working around it partly by hitching rides with work people, and partly by booking CAN cars. This will get easier soon, I hope, when the stupid Vancouver strike is over, and we can get back to the (closer) regular rink. This will also be good timewise, as the ice slot we were able to get outside of Vancouver is 7:15-8:15, rather than the usual 8:30-9:30 or so. Since I had to hitch a ride to hockey today, and I had to be at work to get that ride, and I had to bike in to work, I had to get up at 5:20am. Yuck. My only consolation was that Sophie was totally awake, and smiling quietly at me as I got ready. Hol said she hadn't fussed for food by 9am or something, so Holly fed her anyway. Funny girl.

Conclusion: Hockey. Two thumbs up from this wheezing, out of shape, smiling programmer hunched over on the bench.