Whoa! This here's a blog!
Damn, well over a month since I've last updated. Need to get better at this (and have more free time) since I've had way too much happening lately to remember it all.
I've been keeping up with my referee duties. A match at the end of June with Maine Roller Girls that was incredibly intense, suspenseful, and close in score the entire match. Hudson Valley won by a mere 3 points at the end. Yay! I was also asked to referee a match between Utica and Syracuse. This was Utica's debut match and they needed some extra help and it turned out to be a great night. No pressure at all that night since neither of the teams really knew me personally, just a night to go out, have fun and enjoy the match. In about 2 weeks time, the 24th, is the next home match against Pocono. That'll be a hell of a lot of fun with a bunch of our newer skaters getting their first shots in this match.
The only other thing to really note as of late is the promotion I just got from work! They announced the position well over a month ago, but were unable to post it awaiting approval. The approval had finally gone through I suppose and they wasted no time in asking for resumes a week ago today. Got mine out that night and then suddenly there was a surprise interview on Monday in house. Out of the 3 positions available, 2 of them were pretty much decided before it started considering the experience level of the others I knew were applying. It's was pretty much a fight for position #3. I didn't know of any others who were applying, but I guess it turns out a bunch of people did. By Thursday afternoon, they offered me and the 2 others I thought would get it the positions. Today was my last day in my current position and I'll be starting training on Monday. It was pretty cool to know that a bunch of people had put some good words in for me too there which didn't hurt matters. It's pretty amazing the change that's happened in the last year and half since leaving that old, poor excuse of a job I had prior to this.
Life is good.
I've been keeping up with my referee duties. A match at the end of June with Maine Roller Girls that was incredibly intense, suspenseful, and close in score the entire match. Hudson Valley won by a mere 3 points at the end. Yay! I was also asked to referee a match between Utica and Syracuse. This was Utica's debut match and they needed some extra help and it turned out to be a great night. No pressure at all that night since neither of the teams really knew me personally, just a night to go out, have fun and enjoy the match. In about 2 weeks time, the 24th, is the next home match against Pocono. That'll be a hell of a lot of fun with a bunch of our newer skaters getting their first shots in this match.
The only other thing to really note as of late is the promotion I just got from work! They announced the position well over a month ago, but were unable to post it awaiting approval. The approval had finally gone through I suppose and they wasted no time in asking for resumes a week ago today. Got mine out that night and then suddenly there was a surprise interview on Monday in house. Out of the 3 positions available, 2 of them were pretty much decided before it started considering the experience level of the others I knew were applying. It's was pretty much a fight for position #3. I didn't know of any others who were applying, but I guess it turns out a bunch of people did. By Thursday afternoon, they offered me and the 2 others I thought would get it the positions. Today was my last day in my current position and I'll be starting training on Monday. It was pretty cool to know that a bunch of people had put some good words in for me too there which didn't hurt matters. It's pretty amazing the change that's happened in the last year and half since leaving that old, poor excuse of a job I had prior to this.
Life is good.