Here I try skating for the first time in my life. Heading out on the rink was one of my favorite activities right through until middle school. By then computer games had evolved from boring text based or two-dimensional side-scrolling applications to applications with crude three-dimensional color graphics. Spending time indoors on the computer then became my friends' favored activities and so I no longer had anyone to go skating with. It also didn't help that my middle school and high school didn't have a rink that students could use like my elementary school had. My grandfather, who has now been gone for 15 years, and my father's younger brother, who was then 23, are holding me up.