Ya know guys, I'm pretty disappointed in all of you and your level of respect for me and my chosen proffession (not Practice Manager)... The screen name is Hockeyref, note the "Ref" for the official who tries to keep the peace, order and fairness to the game. I try to keep my games clean and safe. I am a strong supporter and proponent of the "New Standard" which used to be the only standard. I have taken a lot of slack and I am even presently being black-listed for calling my games tight and properly enforcing the rules as they are laid out and written. I hate clutch and grab, hack and wack hockey and that is why I became an official, to try and bring some amount of fairness and speed and beauty back to the game. You must all think I'm some sort of Hill Billy, 4X4 driving Axe Murderer or something!!!
I have never even used or owned a chainsaw in my life! Funny how nobody picks on Bert as some sort of hack and wacker seeing that he much like some surgeon has an assortment of good tools there... One for the big cuts and one for the smaller delicate ones Bert??? Reminds me of the old Mad Magazine spoof I read as a kid about the "Man from Glad" helping to Muggers in distress. He brought little sandwich bags for the small body parts and then the large trash bag for putting them all together for one neat trash run.
But hey I still can't find two buck chuck here in NYS even though we have a really decent wine store here in our area. I believe it is now legal to send wine via mail and shipping services across state lines. NYS and California want to be able to have their respective vinards make internet sales so somebody finally got this all fixed. Might you be a real "friend" of this axe murderer and send Nancy and me a couple of bottles to try??? If you do I promise not to fly out there and go Chop, chop....
Donna,
Most of these solo private practice PCP's are making less than $10 an hour when you really factor in all the hours and work they put in. I know I do my wife's books and have talked to a few others as to how much they actually pull down. Nancy and I should have just both have gotten two master's degrees to teach in public school. We'd be making better money, have a great benefits package, be off by 3-4 o'clock, have all holidays, weekends and summers off with out kids and generally be less stressed and free to come and go as we please, all with little of no debt hanging over our heads.
If I wasn't already 46, with a mass of under employeed graduates of teaching programs in my community already, I would seriously consider going back to SUNY Binghamton (SUNY is the NYS state college system here) and do such. I want to be at Yellowstone, the Tetons and the Grand Canyon, fishing, camping and wheeling with my kids, teaching them great stuff and enriching their lives in ways I simply can't under our present situation. But I am taking a few days off over the next break next month to take them to NYC to see MSG and the NY Rangers, the Empire State building and most importantly the Museum of Natural History. My dad used to take me and my two older brothers there all the time.
Anyway, not all hockey players and fans, and certainly not most officials are crazy Canucks running around wild, aimlessly swinging five foot pieces of lumber in the air. Just call me Jason why don't ya??? Geeezzzz. Give a guy a break why don't ya???
Paul
