It Appears I’ll Have Two Trips for My Birthday
There’s been an issue that I’ve known about since about the JJ Pearce game this season. This issue is as follows: in 4A, Division 1 teams play only five playoff games while Division 2 teams play six (twice as many D2 teams, extra round to compensate). As I mentioned before, Pearce making the playoffs sent us D2 rather than D1 like we’ve been the past few years. This doesn’t seems to be a problem until you start to analyze it. An extra playoff round means an extra week to the season. An extra week to the season means a week closer to Christmas. An extra week to the season (in this case) means the week of our trip to Vegas.
As I said, I’ve been fully aware of this fact for about two months now. I kept it relatively quiet since we had to win our game today in order for it to even become an issue. Well, we won 42-13, so it now becomes an issue. The good news is that the game is next Saturday. The less good news is that it’s in Waco at 1:30. We already had a mid-day flight out of Vegas anyway, so having to come home earlier on Saturday wasn’t really going to make me miss anything. The solution was to have me get on a 12:40 flight back to DFW so that I could be back here in time. Wait… a 12:40 flight for a 1:30 game. Oh, I’m sorry. That would be 12:40 AM.
Under this plan I’ll get to DFW at 5:00 (AM again, of course). Knowing early HP schedules, there’s the distinct probability that I won’t even go home first (I’m going to be taking my car to the airport also) but instead head straight to HP when I arrive. I’ll most likely get less than two hours of sleep on the plane, and hour total if I’m lucky on the way down to Waco, but I’m going to be one tired trainer when we get back to HP after the game, win or lose.