i’m incredibly excited to be live blogging for the first time in my life. Live blogging is where you blog an event as it happens. It’s awesome for exciting live events, like press events where companies announce their exciting new products – LIVE!

i don’t have any live press events to cover, so i thought that i could live blog an exciting action-packed event from my life instead. i’ve decided to live blog a trip down the snowhill on my toboggan. So here we go – my first foray into live blogging!

[December 5 2008]
[2:04:19 PM] Alright – here I am at the top of the hill. It’s a fairly cold day, and we’ve had our first snowfall here in Toronto where the powder has actually stayed on the ground. The hill is covered with a fresh frosting of nature’s dandruff, and i’m ready for sledddin’.

Tobogganing is a winter activity in cold countries where you go to the top of a steep snow-covered hill, sit on something slippery – a sled, a piece of cardboard, a stiffened corpse from an Inuit mob hit – and slide down.

My choice of toboggan is something called a Krazy Karpet, which is a brand-name sheet of plastic with two hand-holds cut into one end. You sort of sit on it and curl up the front like a magic carpet from the Arabian Nights stories. While i’m preparing to go down the hill, i’ve dug up this Krazy Karpet teevee ad from the 70′s:

[2:04:20 PM] It’s pretty cold out here. -12 degrees celcius. i don’t know what that is in Fahrenheit … but think of a cold number, and that’s probably it. My cheeks are red and i can see my breath. My nose is running a bit. i’m looking down the hill. It’s very steep. There’s a bit of added excitement because the snowhill ends at a busy road, but no one ever gets enough speed to get that far. Still, the sound of rushing traffic at the bottom of the hill is enough to get my heart racing.

[2:04:21 PM] i’m pushing off with my feet now

[2:04:22 PM] Okay – the Krazy Karpet is moving

[2:04:24 PM] i’m slooowwwly cresting the hill

[2:04:28 PM] Ok – here we go

[2:04:28 PM] I’m over the hump now and picking up speed

[2:04:30 PM] Wow! i’m FLYING down the hill! The snow is really stinging my cheeks. It feels like thousands of tiny frozen porcupines repeatedly sitting on my face.

[2:04:32 PM] i hit a bump

[2:04:33 PM] i hit another bump

[2:04:34 PM] It’s an extremely bumpy ride. The sheet of plastic is so thin, my butt feels like it’s clamped into a paint mixer.

[2:04:36 PM] I just hit this giant sheet of ice, and i’m going way faster than the other sledders on the hill. i’m getting way closer to the road than i want to be.

[2:04:38 PM] Okay – i’m almost at the road. i hope i slow down soon.

[2:04:40 PM] i’m digging my boots into the snow to slow down my Krazy Karpet, but i’m not slowing down.

[2:04:41 PM] Oh MAN. i’ve skidded right off the snow and onto the road

[2:04:42 PM] All i can hear is the sound of screeching tires all around me

[2:04:43 PM] i’ve been hit by a car. A car just hit me.

[2:04:43:12 PM] i’ve blacked out. i’m lying unconscious on the road. My Krazy Karpet flew out from under me and is skidding across the street. My body is not flying anywhere. It is under a car.

[December 6 2008]
[2:18:22 AM] i am in a coma.

[December 7 2008]
[3:41:02 PM] i am still in a coma.

[December 8 2008]
[1:19:37 PM] i have awoken from a three-day coma. My family is surrounding my hospital bed. They look very happy to see me open my eyes. They say they love me and they want to hug me. They seem upset that i am live blogging. My wife is trying to pry my laptop out of my hands. Her joy has given way to anger. Now she is yelling at me. She’s asking why i won’t stop typing.

She’s crying now. She’s leaving the room. The rest of the family looks disappointed. They look like they’re too embarrassed to say anything. There is an awkward silence. Somewhere, outside the hospital room window, i hear a dog barking.

[1:19:38 PM] Man, i friggin’ love live blogging!!

Ryan Henson Creighton is a Toronto-based game developer, and founder of Untold Entertainment Inc., specializing in online games for kids, teens, tweens and preschoolers.

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