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A humble bio from a 35 year old teenage mutant computer chick: 

I used to roller skate when I was young, and although I really favored 
it, never seemed to progress beyond the back patio...oh yeah, that was 
because I wasn't allowed out of my backyard until I was 17!  I 
never learned to ice skate, probably for a similar reason...  

In 1984 at 27 I hooked up with a frenchman who took me out west and 
deposited me halfway up a blue trail at Snowmass.  That was how I 
learned to ski, never had a lesson until this very month, when I took 
a boondoggle course at UMBC (HI MARY!!) PHED 140 Skiing, four January 
Mondays at Ski Liberty in Pennsylvania for 1.5 credits.  I have to admit 
however, to having been spoiled skiing A-Basin and Vail and such.  The 
east coast was, lacking I'll say.

So what this has to do with my skating bio is this:  I really learned 
to ice skate at the huge lake at Keystone CO.  I'd skated at ice 
rinks a few times since I turned 17 (bye bye), but when I went skiing 
I always went ice skating and many times it was at this lake.

Now, that's not much, an aggressive intermediate skier and aoccasional 
ice skater.  However, may I direct your attention to the left of my 
190cm K2 UVS Ladies' Performance skis... 

I bought my Rollerblade O-riginal Lightning 608 Saturns in Okracoke 
Island, NC on the fourth of July in 1988 (I think) for $149 and 
they're still in _great_ shape (I do try).  I bought my son a pair of 
BladeRunners child's size 6 (anyone want 'em for cheap?). He's a natural, 
within a month he was jumping over cardboard boxes at the end of the 
driveway and still stopping in time to stay out of the street (a nice 
little quiet unbusy residential street of course).  I love spinning 
around myself, one day (if I keep reading this newsgroup) I'll figure out 
how to do jumps. I loved skating on the bike paths by the beach in Cape 
Hatteras.  We'd skate with the 8 year old in the middle and he'd just
let us tow him for miles (being flat it was really very effortless).

I feel just like you all do regarding mood, music, and moving...that's 
what I go out there and do, the Spiral Dance...blading is both 
physical _and_ metaphysical.  

**BB**
Teri Mackey  pteri@stsci.edu
Advance Planning Systems Branch
Space Telescope Science Institute  <-- Home of the Hubble Space Telescope
Baltimore, Maryland 

                    Bladers from Baltimore Unite! 
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