April Fools Day without a joke

The Palouse Thunder had their opening day today. I got up and went to the office where I started to do some stuff about the stats. I was building some infrastructure to store the stats into the database as well as updated them. I have had the table for a while, but I never had anything that would touch it because I did not know if I had everything the way I wanted it. I found there was a field here and there I wanted to be different, but over all I am not going to worry about them. One was about blocked punts. It is so rare I am not going to have a special field for it. I have almost seventy-five different fields as it is.

I built a way to enter the data. I just need to build the engine that will take the data and throw it into the database. Plus I need to link that data to the players’ profiles and some other place for the game stats. There is a fair amount of work to get the stats stuff done. There are also some other issues with logging in. People are having a hard time with the username and password stuff. I need to figure out how to allow for easier passwords.

It was getting close to the time I wanted to be down at the field. I showed up around three hours before kick-off. I got my equipment set up and talked to the other coach about name pronouncations. I got those updated on my PA Announcer textfile. I spent the next two hours helping get the little things taken care of.

Finally as the game time was getting closer I talked to the coach and we figured out what we were going to do for the pre-game announcement of the player. We went back to what we did last year. I would announce the team as they ran on the field.

We got going on our game. I had one guy next to me who was a player from the ought-four season. He is going to do write ups about the games for the website. I gave him my E-mail address so he could get the files to me.

Once the game got underway it was clear the Thunder would have a very hard time if they were going to win this game. The Rams from Wenatchee Valley were getting the field position. The Thunder always started deep and the Ram started near mid-field. It was ugly how quickly the Rams were scoring.

By the end of the game the Rams still had their first string team in and they were working on scoring against the Thunder with only two minutes to go. They were driving hard and going for a long bomb scoring yet again.

I was upset that they kept pouring it on with their first string guys, but then I realized our coach probably would have done the same thing. I left and went to the office. I started to work on the stats stuff some more. Then I remembered that I had to work the one-hundred-K run tomorrow. I left around midnight thinking I would get a nice six hours of sleep. That is when I realized that it was daylight savings time tonight, so I am only going to get five hours of sleep at best.