How busy are you?

[Skahtboi]

Originally Posted by SRW

The post by NCASAUmp got me thinking... how busy are you?


No meds to take! It probably has to do with the lack of sleep I've had over the past week/weekend. Case in point:

Thursday, Varsity game, home at 11:30pm. 5.5 hrs sleep.
Friday, College DH, then to hotel hospitality room to meet the out-of-towners in for our big spring JO FP tourney (128 teams, 88 umpires, 30 fields) that I'm co-UIC'ing. Up till 12:30am BS'ing and drinking. 4 hrs sleep.
Saturday, travel between 18 of the 22 fields being used, then to hotel hospitality. Reschedule some rainouts for Sunday with Wild Bill, then up till 3am trying to outdrink the Canadians. (They won... oh my God did they win). 3 hrs sleep.
Sunday, finish the tourney, travel to 3 complexes, pay out about $6k to out-of-town umpires, wait for the last game to finish at 9pm. To the Keg to eat a nice dinner provided to the tournament staff by the TD. Home at 11:30pm. 5 hours sleep.
Monday, Work, then 4 SP games. Field lights cause a delay, so I'm not off the fields until 11:30pm. Home at 12:15am. 5 hours sleep.
Tuesday, Work, then 4 SP games. Off the field at 11. 5.5 hours sleep.

Today, drinking coffee and recovering. Got a Varsity HS game this afternoon... which I am completely excited about because I'll be home by 6:30pm, and I'll actually get to sleep for more than 5 hours tonight!

Then looking forward:
Thursday, 3A HS Varsity league playoff game.
Friday, College DH.
Saturday, 2 JO games in the AM, 4A HS Varsity league playoff game, then 2 JO games in the PM.
Sunday, 4 SP games in the AM, then 2 or 3 JO FP games in the PM.
Monday, 4 SP games.
Tuesday, 3A HS District playoff game.
Wednesday, 4 SP games.

Next Thursday I finally have a break... and Friday I have tickets to the Mariners.

Is this obsessive, normal, or under-normal? What do you have going on?

Funny. I thought of this as right around the normal phase for this time of year. But I guess that from the responses, I am wrong. The problem with this time of year is that it is playoff time in Texas, and that can mean drives of up to 200 miles one way to work a neutral site.

[SC Ump]

This year I'm only doing NFHS softball (and football in the fall.)

I had a playoff game on Monday night, but there are only a few teams per division left in the playoffs. The state champions will be crown by end of next week. Hopefully I'll get one more game, but there are only a few games in our area.

Football meetings start next Monday.

Tonight, I'm washing the dog. (That's not code for anything involving tequila... it's soap, water and one overly active, year old springer spaniel.)

[NDblue]

Originally Posted by SC Ump

...overly active, year old springer spaniel.

Wait until your ESS is 6 yo and still overly active. Mine turns 6 this weekend and yet he still acts like he's still a puppy. Nature of the English Springer Spaniel breed. I'm on my 4th and will never own a different breed of dog. IMO, the most gifted athletic dog of the K9 family. I don't know about you and yours but I hunt with mine and you won't find a better dog for upland game (pheasant, grouse, chuckar).

[SRW]

So... um...

Scratch that Thursday break I mentioned. Just got assigned a HS 4A League Playoff game that evening. It's probably the last HS varsity game I'll have this year. I should savor it.

[SRW]

I'm surprised no one commented about trying to outdrink the Canadians. If anyone knows Gil "the Thrill", they'll know why I lost.

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by SRW

I'm surprised no one commented about trying to outdrink the Canadians....

I think I covered that pretty well...

[Texas Aggie]

Friday I have tickets to the Mariners

At least you'll be able to get some sleep then.