Oh yeah .... Skates.

[unixronin]

We picked up a new set of inline skates for Goose's upcoming birthday from Building #19 today (that's "logical today", i.e. Saturday), and upon some thought, I went back and looked at the selection of sizes available .... and they went all the way up to men's size 13.

"Hmmmmmmm," I thought.  So I opened up a box of 13s, pulled all the orthotic inserts out of my left shoe, inserted them and my foot into the left skate (the little toe hurt like the devil going in ... it's going to have to go), and found that I could not only get the skate on, I could get my foot under me and a little bit past.

So then I tried doing the same for the other skate.  And I was hellishly wobbly, but I could, however uncertainly, skate -- even though my knees were aching badly after just once up and down the aisle.  So now I have a new set of inline skates too.  I don't think, unfortunately, they're adjustable for rocker, but I may be able to come up with a way to do that (slightly smaller wheels at front and back would do the trick, for instance).  And I'd better get pads, of course ... I suspect I may be falling down a lot at first, and I'll probably need help to get back to my feet at first, and if I go down on my knees, it's going to hurt.  I'm going to have to buy some more orthotic inserts to put in them, too, because fighting the inserts in and out of them is a royal pain.  But I think they're going to work, which means I should have a way to get some decent exercise and (with luck) build up some strength in my knees.