Sunday, January 8, 1984
We went to the Mall of New Hampshire today. I got a Koho stick and Daoust skates! I also bought a Triumph button today. It's cool.
When we got home I went skating on the pond. I still got it! J.P. kept falling on his butt, though.
Man, weekends are a MASSIVE bore here.
Lotsa tests tomorrow.
Seeya later, hosehead!
- The Barbarian
Postscript: Back in the early '80s, going to a mall was a major expedition from Kingston. The Mall of NH is in Manchester, which is a good 40- to 45-minute drive.
As for the hockey stuff, it had been more than two years since I had last skated; I was still living in Canada then. In Washington state, nobody cared about hockey and there was nowhere to skate at the time (now there's a rink in one of the neighboring cities from where I lived). Our property in NH had a huge pond behind it and this was our first winter there. Back then, it stayed frozen all winter, so it was great to get new skates. Coincidentally, I used those same skates this past weekend when I took the girls pond skating here in Beverly. I don't use them to play hockey anymore but break them out on the rare occasions that it gets cold enough to skate on a pond. They're pretty flimsy compared to big hockey skate boots made nowadays, but they're fine for just zipping around outside.
As a connoisseur of Canadian hard rock,Triumph was one of my go-to bands. And back then I liked to wear pins of my favorite bands on my ski vest. Pretty sure that pin was of the Allied Forces album cover shown above.
Tomorrow: Christmas vacation is over, so it's back to school.
