LOL, me too. Im going to UTC just to have fun and then off to New York for us next week!!! :D

i was going to go to UTC this weekend as well....

but it think it makes me more addicted when...I'm out of high school....in college and my team isn't even there at all...hahahaha :)

I thought of a rather somber one...

When your worries about the possibility of an upcomming war leans more on if the championship will be cancelled than whether it's morally right or wrong or the reprecussions that it will have to the state of peace in the world(which will be severe IMO).

When you can remember the names of the robots you've help build, but not the names of your children.

when whenever anyone says "stack" within earshot you immediately perk up and start listening.

When you drive the robot so hard at a competition that you mangle a piece of angle aluminium to the point it must be replaced and you put said angle piece on your shelf.

Or you have the frame of your teams first robot in your bedroom (CNCboy461 has the old robots frame in his room)

You randomly shout your teams cheers in class
LETS ALL GO NUTS ROBOTS ROBOTS!

You memorize your team number in binary: 111001101
And Hex: 1CD

You print off the consolidated rule book, and then you try to drill through the paper because you don't have a three-hole punch.

NOTE: This is coming from an adult volunteer

You know when you are addicted to first when...

You avoid answering your cell phone for the entire three days because you are busy making pit announcements....even when it is your wife.

You avoid callng back customers at night because you need to get to sleep early so you can be sharp the next day.

You look for ways to annoy that "Follow the rules woman" at the event who does not like the fact that you are not sticking to the stricted interpretation of the "Guidelines for announcers".

You lose your voice from 3 days of Pit Bossing and don't care one damm bit.

Best,

Danimal
Pit Boss NE Regionals
'01, '03

Those Stix RULE
 

Today was Annapolis regional. We had a blast, but in our semifinal matches, we messed up some of our stabilizer rods, and that being my function to fix, ran off to make more, beings we ran out of spares. Well I took Joe3 with me, and we had no view of a tv or the field, but knew exactly what was going on. You might ask how, well its easy, the faster and harder and louder the moe stix were, the better we normally do.

So Joe is looking for a hacksaw blade and im grabbin a file, and all we hear is a roar from the crowd accompanied by loud banging of moe stix. This signified that our autonomous program worked, and then from there on out we knew we were doing good, 'cause our team never stopped the banging from then on out.

Bottom line, You know you're addicted to first when you can successfully judge a match with MOE in it by the sound of the Stix.

When you wish you could be more of a geek and speak binary and take classes like AP Physics and Pre-Calculus...

Am I the only one that's not like that? o.0

While on a scouting mission to the Annapolis Regional... you take the scary shuttle ride in, walk into the arena... and just through the doors:

DEAN KAMEN!!!! ... you are so 'star struck' that you are standing next to him, your jaw drops... and you have no idea what is going on. Finally your parents 'push' you enough to walk up to him and shake his hand and have him autograph your shirt. (I think I am going to get that shirt framed!)

*... thanks evuilsh, wouldn't of had the guts to walk up to Dean by myself!

You think that's sad? I have sort of the same thing...except there I can never make a digital clock say 360 so I just get excited at four instead.

When one of your friends says she is fairly sure she could take the robot apart and put it back together who isn't on the team...and hasn't seen the thing

When even you realize more stories than not start with "one time at robotics"

When you say "the team" any everybody tries to change the subject

When as you drive by you put house numbers and teams together

When you are reading Shakespeare and every time you pause you note the line number...and match that with a team

When you are done reading and check the page number so you know where to begin again you remember that team too

When you have trouble sleeping because you don't hear any saws or other loud machines running

When you pick up broken things in school and tell nobody in particular why they broke and how to fix it

When you go home with the team's safety glasses on top of your head and don't notice

When you have more washers in your pockets than coins

When you file Al see the shavings all over the floor and think "glitter!"

When you see fireworks and think of the sparks from welding grinding or cutting steel.

When you absentmindedly put washers in a vending machine or attempt to pay for something with them

You have 1000 posts on Chief Delphi. :D

...when you have a team of 7 people taking the robot apart in 10 minutes just to paint the chassis red. :yikes:

...when you go out and play laser tag with two other robotics teams. (You know who you are) ;)

...when you're going to play bowling with those same teams in a few days even though you're not that good at bowling. :rolleyes:

...when you have more posts than any of your team members put together on Chief Delphi :D

Soccer3Ace: dude i just wrote an essay and the word count is 238
Soccer3Ace: wahooooooooooooooooooooooo


thats when you know your addicted to FIRST....