I woke up this morning and realized it was December 28th.  December 28th is one of those days I consider to be a day meant for sleeping, watching television or movies, and doing very little.  I have held this belief for years.  Every year, for as long as I can remember, my energy levels seem to crash on this day.  As a result, I have considered this day to be a useless day.  Today, this year, I decided to check out what value December 28th may have had in the past.  Here is what I found:

• Westminster Abbey was consecrated back in 1065.
• Toronto's Yonge Street construction begins in 1795.
• The Lumiere Brothers perform to their first paying audience marking the birth of the cinema in 1895.
• Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States in 1973.

It looks like quite a few important things happened on this day.  I mean, really, how often does something as important as the Endangered Species act get passed?  How that happened on December 28th, I will never know.  Doesn't everyone stop on this day?  I thought this was true since everyone I know seems to also stop on this day.  So, when I was asked to go cross country skiing, I was stuck.  I wanted to rest but, I suppose that due to this knowledge, I decided to take some people up on their offer to go outside and enjoy the sunshine.  This left me with one other problem, I hadn't been cross country skiing for at least 25 years.  Quite an odd memory to come up with on a day like today.

The last time I went cross country skiing, it was around 1984 on the Cedar Hill Golf Course.  I must have been about ten years old then.  I went with my friend David and his family and I don't think I was very good at it.  My parents weren't much for skiing and I never learned.  It wasn't until I was in my mid-twenties when I finally learned (not very well, though).  I learned to fall down, anyway.  I remember that I was run over with a large inner tube at some point. 

There you go.  The weird memory of the day.  I won't go into much detail since there isn't much to describe about skiing.  I put some wood on my feet and moved my feet forward and backward.  I did have fun.