Day 10 - {Title to be inserted later}

Got a small blog window at this point - gotta put the kids to bed soon and then off to see Quantum of Solace.  I enjoyed Casino Royale (on DVD) so I'm happy with Daniel Craig as Bond.  I'm disappointed that Pierce Brosnan couldn't become Bond when he was in the correct part of his career.  Not that his Bond films were bad, but I think they would have been better if he had a few more years in the role.  Anyway, we'll see what the movie is like and I can blather on about it later.

Got my new skates sharpened today by my "skate sharpening guy" and, more importantly, got new laces.  The skates had impossibly short 84" laces, so I got some 96" ones to replace them.  Hopefully that will mean I can stop bruising the top of my foot just to tie a knot in them...  The skates were sharpened last week, but this guy takes a lot more care than most.  I've had him do my skates since I started playing hockey again a few years back.  The first time he did them, he deepened the 'radius of groove'.  If you look along the blade and measure the depth between the edges and the middle, that's the radius of groove.  Not to be confused with the 'radius of grove' that I originally wrote down.  That's the distance from the middle of a clearing to the where the forrest starts up again.  Anyway, the deeper radius means the blade holds a nicer edge, as long as the blade is good.  My old skates have good steel and so do the new ones, so this only benefits turning speed and the angle where the blade will still bite.  That's why I wanted him to re-do the sharpening that the store did.  The store did an okay job, but not that good.  Herm's in London sharepens blades well, and I suppose Pete's would do better if I had bothered to tell them exactly what I wanted.  But I like this guy and that's who's getting my business.

The other interesting thing he mentioned is that after I put in another 6 or 7 hours of time into the skates I should get them re-heated and fit at the place where I bought them.  That will help break in the skates - they just need to get used a bit before they will really change their shape.  He aslo warned me that it will take about half a season for the skates to get properly broken in, but once they do they will fit great forever.  That's what I'm counting on!