eight thousand things to do in the next fifteen hours

League's home opener is tomorrow; yay!  I am not rostered (even as an ALT!) for the sanctioned game because we have SO MANY visiting referees.  (And these are all, like, playoffs-level visiting referees.)

Meanwhile, my kid will be making his Roc City debut as an NSO in the penalty box.  That's weird, lemme tell ya.  He was seven years old when I started.

no one died!

Yaaaaaaay!

It went pretty well, from my end.  A few small fires (of which I was aware) that got put out quickly and with minimal hard feelings.

One thing I do need to work on - giving feedback.  I've never been good at it.  Part of it is "how can I give feedback to these officials who have so many more years of experience than I" (though that is becoming less of an excuse as I accumulate more years as an official) and part of it is not wanting to step on the toes of the crew heads (as they may have told the officials do to something contradictory to what I would tell them) and part of it is just not wanting to be overly picky, and part of it is "I have spent the last eight hours watching derby games and my brain is fried right now."

So yeah.  I'd definitely like to do it again, but for a shorter tournament.  Four days is lonnnnnnnnng, yo.

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

no big deal, just leaving in about five hours to go my first Tournament Head Referee gig

how can it be February already I mean srsly

went to Buffalo for another game over the weekend - I was rear OPR this time.  THERE WAS ONE JAM WHERE ALL THREE OF US OPRs HAD TO DROP OFF TO KEEP UP WITH THE PACK WTF SKATERS Y'ALL NEED TO SLOW DOWN FOR US OLD-FOLK-TYPE REFEREES.