overtime got approved at work the same week the season started, which is either a coincidence or my employer running a very slow, very cruel A/B test on my priorities. sample size of one game missed so far, but I'm already modeling the marginal value of the hours I'm losing to spreadsheets that aren't about football against the win probability charts I'm losing sleep for anyway. management thinks this is a scheduling issue. it's an expected-points problem — every hour I bill is an hour not spent yelling at a 4th-and-1 decision from 1985, and the model does not care that rent exists. the timing isn't cruel by accident, either — nothing with a calendar attached ever is. I'll be watching kickoff on a phone under a desk like a rookie DC hiding a headset from his own OC. the ledger's open. it's just open at work now too.