With the daylight savings shift having passed recently, there’s a lot less time after work with daylight. I’d left work reasonably early to try to get home quickly and get out for a short skate. Of course, my short skate got longer and longer, and by the time I was heading back to the house, it was long past sunset. I had my shoes with my, but I wasn’t averse to skating home.

What I didn’t know was that some of the street lights around the waterfront wouldn’t be on. It was nearly pitch black, and the only chance that I had to see the footpath over that stretch was when cars would drive by, briefly illuminating their way, and coincidentally mine. The blind stretch was only a few hundred meters, but long enough to be unnerving. The same region of footpath is also rough and narrow. While the odds of survival weren’t bad, the odds of not stumbling into injury were much greater.

This might, in fact, warrant a letter to the city council. I’m sure they’d welcome any comments I might have.