I used to know the exact order at taco bell that equaled 4.61 with tax..but not i am boycotting taco bell so it doesn't matter...

You know your addicted when you notice your PO box at work is the same as your team #

when you're taking notes for an english research paper,
you don't italicize you act put the html form of [ i ] and [ / i ]
instead

when you sit and make up stories (novel like)
about FIRST and robotix in class
with your friends who aren't even
in you robotix team
....
I will get it published!
:D

- When you wear your safety glasses to school
- When you start dancing at regionals when there's no music playing
- When you talk about it so often your parents and smaller siblings actually start to get it...
- When you start an arguement that's simply repeating what the other person says. ( You're stupid. You're stupid!)

One of my friends carries around a set of bent needle nose pliers around in his backpack all day. His excuse: "You never know when ya need em." And, remarkably enough, he isn't even in robotics.

...when in every one of your classes you notice that you do something related to robotics.
...when you post messages on Chief Delphi every day :D

...
 

when your leatherman becomes more of an important accessory than shoes... and you worry about flying to nationals b/c you will have to pack and check the various hardware you are accustomed to carrying around with you. :(

dreams
 

I've been having dreams about robots alot lately. I am the driver for team #171 and the night before the last day of competition in St. Louis, I had a dream the we made it to the finals, but we got beat for the second year in a row by the Baxter Bomb Squad (#16). But my dream was wrong, we made it to the finals and won the St. Louis Regional. We never played Baxter at all.
And my parents informed me this morning that I was sleep walking last night. They say that I walked into their room at 3:00AM and kept crying, "My robot won't go up the ramp." HaHaHaHaHaHa, I think its really funny. Its taken over my life.
Everyday since I've gotten back from St. Louis, my Algebra 2 class has done nothing but talk about the competition and the highest score possible. I'm OBSESSED!:D

-when your whole entire family does FIRST....lol
(mom, dad, siblings, and yourself....thats love right there...family bonding)

...when you're in a computer class with nothing to do except to post messages on Chief Delphi.

Your pencil holder on your desk next to your monitor is your first weld :) above your monitor is your first oil painting ( of nats at epcot), to the side of your monitor hangs your medal, and finally on your montior stands your robot proud, wings spread- posing for it's next painting ;)

Re: dreams
 

wow ... you DO need to join that however many numbered step program that was in a thread here a while ago...

I've had dreams, but never to that extant :eek:

~ when you worry about the psychological damage you might
be inflicting on your robot when you put it in it's box crate for
so long.
~ when you're ready to dedicate a room of your house as a storage place for the old robots

Re: Re: dreams
 

haha, I can one up you

~ when you've placed an old robot in your backyard shed as a storage place, and you check up on it in the middle of the night to make sure its not rusted or anything

Stephen

when you're walking through the halls of school and you come upon a crowd and want to yell "robot comming through, robot!" so you can get through them.

When you miss the competition so much that you're going to a regional you aren't even competing in to watch and scout (UTC this weekend) :D

hehe... me too, except I'm going to Annapolis to 'brain suck' before my first Regional. :D