Podcast Interview about my writing
I did this interview a while back but had forgotten about it. I just listened to it now — a great conversation!
Rams/49ers – Thurs, Sept. 10, 2026
So, the L.A. Rams are supposed to be untouchable… and maybe they were a bit arrogant at the end of the first half against the 49ers? With 20 seconds left and all three timeouts, the Rams decided to take a knee instead of trying to get into field-goal range down 7-3. The Rams never scored again.
Down 27-7 with three minutes to go, again the Rams just gave up. They sent in their backup QB to run a few plays, and although they got into the red zone with under a minute left, they just gave up. They never tried to score a touchdown — as many other teams have done in the last few years in this situation — and, of course, critics on social media were screaming “rigged!” etc.
Certainly not as exciting as the Patriots-Seahawks opening-night game from the night before.
A busy weekend, part 2
Regarding this post, oh yeah, the 26th was my birthday. Also, there were some things that could have changed the schedule which I didn’t mention originally.
- I received a text on Thursday the 23rd from a school that I did on-call teaching for — to see if I could fill in as a substitute on that Friday. I saw my existing schedule and declined.
- I received a text on early Friday morning after my Thursday overnight shift to see if I could do 3pm-11pm or 6pm-2am instead of the overnight shift (which would have worked out better). I didn’t see the text in time and that request was no longer necessary by the time I saw the message.
Then, the following weekend, Oct. 31 to Nov. 2, it was supposed to be this schedule:
- Friday, 31st: online class from 12-2pm (after my Thursday 11pm-7am in-studio commentator job), then in-person tutoring from 3-5pm, then an on-call in-studio commentator shift from 11pm-7am
- Saturday, 1st: hockey doubleheader (be at the rink by 1:30pm), followed by a regular in-studio commentator shift from 11pm-7am
- Sunday, 2nd: hockey doubleheader (be at the rink by 8am).
A few days before the 1st, I received notification that the hockey doubleheader will be a single game both days of the weekend. One of the teams (the one that lost 12-0 and 19-0 the weekend before) was having its games postponed, lessening my workload. (A few days later, the team announced it was folding for the season. I checked the remaining schedule for the season; with this team folding, there won’t be any more scheduled weekend doubleheaders for the rest of 2025-26.)
Also, I was notified early Friday morning that the on-call Friday night Halloween shift became a regular shift.
So, it became Thursday overnight, sleep a few hours, online class on Friday starting at noon, commute to an in-person class, rest a few hours, commute to the Friday overnight, sleep a few hours at home, commute to the hockey rink on Saturday by 1:30pm, finish hockey by 5pm-ish, return home for some rest for a couple of hours, do the Saturday overnight shift, then Uber home to get ready for hockey at 8am on Sunday morning.
I did all of the shifts without missing a beat. Sure, I was tired, but things went all right.
Oh yeah, the Saturday overnight shift was an hour longer — because the clocks moved backwards that weekend on Sunday morning at 1am/2am. So, it was nine hours for the overnight shift. Fortunately, there was a two-hour break due to scheduled monthly maintenance work on the equipment that we use in the studio.
A busy weekend (Oct. 24-26, 2025)
It was a busy weekend from Oct. 24 to 26, 2025.
These days, I have teaching/tutoring as well as hockey commentary, and I also recently began work as an in-studio/on-camera games commentator in the gaming industry. (There were 11 of us being trained at the same time; on the first day we were asked to say why we wanted to work there, and my answer was succinct: “I would like to be on camera.”)
My in-studio work is all overnight shifts, eight hours daily ending at 7am.
So, the weekend of Oct. 24 to 26 presented an interesting schedule.
I had a 3-5pm in-person tutoring session on Friday the 24th. Then I returned home to sleep for a few hours before commuting to my overnight in-studio/on-camera commentating work. That finished at 7am, and I returned home to sleep for a few more hours before heading to the hockey rink at 1:30pm. It was a doubleheader slate but I stayed only for the first game and left after that contest (around 5pm) due to some family emergency. Then I returned to the in-studio overnight job and again that finished at 7am.
Next, I returned home and then commuted to the hockey rink at 8am for another doubleheader. I stayed for both games this time. The second game ended around 2pm, and then it was returning home again for some much-needed rest. (Note: It wasn’t easy; it was talking non-stop for the in-studio commentator job, and then the Saturday hockey game that I did play-by-play for, the opposition won 12-0. On Sunday, the early game ended 19-0 for the opposition. So, none of that was easy.)
The weekend of Oct. 31-Nov. 2 will present a similar challenge. I’ll be back to post about it!
