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.