After spending the most of the weekend at work or in bed with a 100F temperature, I feel well enough to play a Sunday afternoon ice hockey game. We win the game and, except for being a bit weak, I play well. I even get an assist on the winning goal late in the third period. I take two penalties during the game, which is the same number that I took in our last game on Thursday. Three of the four penalties were "good" penalties in that I stopped good scoring chances. And it felt good to drill somebody standing in front of the net, just about to get the puck, thinking that he was going to get a goal. When in reality, he ended up face up (or maybe face down) on the ice without touching the puck.
Now why don't we have competitions for the typical tasks that engineers and
technicians do? Here is the play-by-play for a few: