Friday, March 16, 2018

miscellany

Tomorrow is the St. Patrick's Day parade!  This will be my....tenth parade?!?  2009, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18?  Wow.  It looks like tomorrow will be partly cloudy and just around freezing.  Oh well - break out the long underwear, I guess.

Tuesday afternoon, I'm hopping on a plane and flying to... well, Newark, but then I'm hopping on a plane and going out to Arizona!  Yaaaaaaay!  Zero humidity and non-winter temperatures ahoy!

While some officials pride themselves that they are able to pack for a multi-day tournament and fit everything (including gear) into a carry-on, I am not that official.  (Plus the fact that I'm spending three days doing non-tournament stuff.)  This means that I can bring my hex key thing that I believe would qualify as a weapon according to the TSA (which I need to bring, thanks to weird skate issues).

As to the weird skate issues - my skate plates (Ophira, for those of you scoring at home) are starting to be weird.  The king pins (or whatever you call the parts that hold the trucks and the cushions and whatnot) are not fixed into the plate itself - they are big threaded bolts.  What's started to happen on my left skate is that the whole bolt itself starts to unscrew itself from the plate, so the front truck gets loose.  I spend a lot of time on my toestops, and when that's wobbly, it's annoying.

But anyway.

When I leave, I'll be dressed for Rochester (high 27 degrees) and arriving in Phoenix (high 79 degrees) and then going to the Grand Canyon the next day (high 48) and doing the tournament in Tucson (high in the low 80s).  YAY FOR PACKING FOR THREE SEASONS!

Monday, March 5, 2018

in news that actually is exciting

I will be Head Referee for the regulation game at our home doubleheader on March 31. 

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

And I'm officiating at ECDX again!

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!