Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

...you describe a robot (or a robot part) as "sexy"
...you won't be "captain" until next year yet you're already planning on how you'll run the team.
...you think you're getting too much help from the engineer and the students should have more say.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

... when family friends come over and you find out that one of their sons is in FLL and so you spend most of the night talking to him about it and talking about which schools in his area have FRC teams for him to go to in high school (in 2 years) ... all instead of studying for a major exam today ... (oh well i studied all night ...)

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

...when your friend tells you (even though he is only joking) that he speaks through a voice box that makes him sound like a robot and you think that that's actually quite sexy

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you still have the tickets from six flags in texas and the plain tickets still in your wallet so when u get bored u can look at them and rember "hey i ate really bad chicken at that park"

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you realize that you have about 6 pairs of safty glasses in your coat pockets.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When between work, robot meetings after work, and browsing CD when getting home you realize it's the end of January and the Christmas tree is still up. (as I sit here typing this staring at the tree across the room......Oh well, might as well keep it there, another 10 1/2 months and I'll just have to put it up again!! :D )

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

do not feel bad

My nativity scene is still up. the weather up here in nyc is brutal to the point where i haven't gotten to take down the exterior decor. like you said 10 1/2 months and it will just have to be put up again might as well leave it there

;) :p :] :cool:

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

~ when you have more pairs of safety glasses than sunglasses....and you collect sunglasses

~when you wear said safetyglasses for every-day tasks around the house so you can pretend you'redoing it for robotics

~when, during a movie, you point out every segway you see

~when your mom suggests that you stop with robotics and get more involved with college stuff instead and you give 20 reasons (off the top of your head) why you should stay with robotics...and then refuse to speak to her for the rest of the night

~when you're at the DMV and you're mesmerised by a ski ticket-stub on someone's coat zipper because it has your team number on it...and when you notice the person looking at you funny, you realize he thinks you're staring at his crotch because that's the height the stub is at.

~when you go shopping for clothes and ask yourself if it'll match your team shirt so in case it's cold out you can have something tp wear underneath without clashing

~when you go looking for fabric that matches your (incredibly loud) team shirt because you want to make more outfits for yourself but the place your team orders from ran out of the fabric. (no luck, unfortunately)

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

- when everytime you see a garage sale, or stuff in or around a dumpster, you wonder, "Can we use that at robotics?"

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

...when you literally have NO other priorities besides robotics, and you make sure it's the only priority you have at all times.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When in your physics class the class finds useful information for building your teams robot

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you carry a whole "robot first aid kit" in the trunk of your car at all times--you never know when something will go wrong. :rolleyes: Two toolboxes, a mini compressor, powerstrip, extension cords, ect. Then you realize why you're lucky to get six months out of your Camry's rear shocks! :D

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

Exactly! This is the point of FIRST, to tie in the two worlds of academia with real-world application. Amazing, isn't it?

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

~ when you stock up on hair colors months before competitions even start just so you know you have it incase of a worldwide shortage of haircoloring in the near future ;)

~when you seriously consider painting your car to look like a robot

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

...you create a web page that has only one purpose, to feed you a new CD Spotlight every 17 seconds. You can even print your favorites!!! In true Tigertron, er, CD, colors of course! (it's zipped b/c i don't have it on an actual page, but it's lots of fun!)

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

.. when you buy a bra to match your team's colours and then when someone talks about changing the team colours at a meeting you say "no .. you cant .. it wont match my bra"

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you hear the word lego in class the first thing that comes to your mind is FLL...then FIRST...then all the good times you've had there...and then your just not paying attention and daydreaming for the rest of the class about robotics... :p

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

....when your buddy list is assorted by team numbers rather then names!

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

during finals week,you carry around a FIRST folder to brainstorm in when you should be studying

when you can't sleep because of the anticipation, get up and go to robotics, and somehow, once you're there, are so comforted you can finally fall asleep in your mentors office, surrounded by metal shavings and running mills! :D

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

--When you accualy finish a Pie throwing robot to lauch a cream pie in your headmasters face
-- the words that haunt your dreams are "No PAUL Dont lick that!, nooooooo " (paul is suddenly hurrled to the wall and falls twitching on the floor)
-- you spend enough time trying to fix your robot that when you finish you realise that school has been in session for 3 days since you started

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

- When you get bored at a meeting so you decide to paint your once red and white converse sneakers orange and blue.

- No matter how ugly the sneakers are now, you think they're cool simply because they're your team colors.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

when you are watching the super bowl and you suddenly shout "I was standing where that football player is!" when the camera shows where the field you played on was.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you watch the superbowl just to determine where you sat and yell at the people sitting in your seat. And when you try the entire game to determine where your playing field was.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

...when you spend hours looking at flames to put on your new hummer!!

...when the mentors decide that they won't airbrush, you create an experiment to spray paint the vinyl

...when it actually works......can't wait to see it on the hummer!

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you line up your stuffed animals and pretend to have a meeting after yours is cancelled again for weather... okay, so I didn't actually do this... I don't have enough stuffed animals... But I did dream that my team was part of a special edition of Survivor (which I've never even seen other than adds): FIRST Survivor! We lived in the school, sleeping in the hallway in sleeping bags. And for our first contest, eveyone had to name every single tool in the toolbox and say what it was used for, the person who guessed the least was out of there... I woke up wondering if they would accept twisty thingy and sharp pointy thingy and hammer thingy... wait, that would be a hammer...

Heidi

<==========>
"Sleep, Sleep, I know that I'm only dreaming" -Roger Waters

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

~when even your checks have a diamond plate design...and your checkbook is decorated with duct tape

~when you go on a date and spend 10 minutes talking to the person about your love/obsession with robotics before you realize that 1)he doesn't understand what you're talking about (which makes you feel sorry for him) and 2)he's not interested (at which point you realize you can not date him again because you just can't see yourself dating a person who doesn't like robotics)

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

when you dream that it is february 23rd and your robot is and has been finished for over a week and a half ... and so there is no meeting .. but then you suddenly realize that autonomous was forgotten completely .. so there are absolutely no plans for autonomous and you run around trying to get everyone together (it was freezing cold and everyone for some reason was outside in the snow and i didnt have a jacket or shoes on .... ) but no one cared ....


-- sometimes i scare me --

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

dood! that is THE coolest dream!

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

when you see lisence plates on cars seeing numbers of FIRST teams you know.

when you only talk about robotics to your friends outside of FIRST.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

Yes, I am sure that all of my non-FIRST friend are absolutaly SICK of me talking about robotics.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

~when you're on your first day of jujitsu and you turn to ther person on the right of you (whom you don't know at all) and tell them that the move the teacher is demonstrating could actually work for you in robotics (we were learning to hula..hee hee)

~when you stay up until 1 am brainstorming possible outfits to make that would match your team shirt so you could look uber cool at competitions

~when because of this brainstorming you're so psyched about matching that you decide to paint your nails that instant to match your shirt just so you're ready in advance.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

when you actually attempt to paint flames on your nails in 4different colors....dont try it...trust me

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

not cool .. scary ... my mom had to reassure me that it wasnt feb 23rd ...



.. when you havent seen your friend in a while and you mention it to him on msn and he goes "thats because you are doing robotics 25/7 .. yes 25"

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

ouch...wake up in a cold sweat?

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

there was a grocery store I once saw that proudly proclaimed "Open 25 hours a day".

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you don't really have friends outside of FIRST...

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

you claim/know that the fisher price moter can be rigged to lift a car.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

..when you get so annoyed at waiting for the pieces to be finished so that you can assemble your robot, you find a broken joystick and decide to tear it apart and put it back together, just so that you dont crazy

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When your team attempts to make a petition making snow days illegal in your school idstrict during build season and was actually able to get others to sign ( it failed though and as we speak we our missing our 5th day :( )

When you woke up your little sister and mom by yelling "NOOOOO!!!! NO ROBTICS!!!!!" when you found out school was canceled

When the only thing that brought you joy this morning was knowing that they can't cancel school during weekends/vacations.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When your watching the Super Bowl while on Chief Delphi.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

when dispite snow days you still work, and you cross country ski uphill to get to the build

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

when you hope there is school and the snowstorm misses your state so you can work on the robot right after school

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When there is a snow day and you think about giong to Visteon to work on the robot a 7:15 in the morinig.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

when you shouw up at 6:30 pm on a snowday and are told your not meeting so a group of 20 students wait in the front of the builduing for a teacher to show up to flood down to the tech wing to work...

Muwahahahaha

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you realize that "FIRST" is already assigned to a licence plate in your state... (sigh)

Also, when you realize that you are the author of 13 of the 25 newest posts....
Yeah.. ummm, I haven't had a chance to visit CD in a while and had some catching up to do!! lol

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

~when you realize that there are only three people (outside your family) that you really talk to that aren't involved with Robotics

~when your room is covered in robotics paraphenilia and your lampshade is so flooded with team buttons that you have to hide some for the moment until you find another place to pin them up

~when you get more excited over the wonderful gift a teammate presents for the pit crew's usage than you do over the fact that your choir has been invited to sing for Nelson Mandela

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

... When you wish for a snow day, not so you won't have school, but so you'll have extra time to work on your robot!!

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

when you come even though you get 2 hours of sleep.

when, after coming and falling asleep again only to get waken up and forced to do electrical work, you actually manage to strip your pinkie...

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

You are evil.... lol
I wish I had a school district that would let us work when we had no school!!

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

I just recently graduated (at the end of first semester) and moved about 2 hours away from Appleton ... When I heard that the AASD had a snowday, my first thought was "great!!! That gives them 8 extra hours of worktime!!" ;) :D

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

our district does let us work, since the custodians are in the building anyway to clear snow. also the general reason we close school is because the busses which are further west have more snow than us, and cant make it on time. you might want to talk to your district, they might let you work, as long as the custodians are in the building.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

I know this thread isn't for this but I just want to answer Maxgebhardt. We have, it's useless, It's called "red tape". If school is cancelled they don't want anyone in the building--period. If we use the school on weekends or odd hours we have to pay the board of ed out of our team funds for use (custodial coverage) of the building. No other teams (swimming, track, volleyball, ect.) have to do this. Needless to say our team knows where it stands on the totem pole in relation to the school board. Like I said, red tape. If anyone wants to discuss this more we'll start another thread.

So, in keeping with the current thread,

When you start figuring out how much vacation time you have so you can take days of just to work on the robot.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

See, we can work on snow days too, I think, because our shop is at the GM proving grounds!

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

when you talk to your friends outside of robotics about FIRST, telling them what it is and all about this year's competition. I did that at a meeting I had today, getting people interested and excited about FIRST. (One or two people had heard about FIRST before, but many of them had not.) :D

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

Snow day? what is this snow day you speak of?...We've had hurricane days... Those are fun to go outside and play in.

Anyways...

...When you agree to spend four hours inhaling 2nd hand smoke just to get a robot frame welded. (for those of you who know this experience, I leave you with one word, Panzer.)

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

Your dad accuses you of being involved with a cult.

True story. ::shudders::

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

.......when you start using the official FIRST logo as a wallpaper for any electronic device.

mobile phone, computers, any program that uses a wallpaper.


.......when you go to an FLL competition to do a volunteer referee job and you wear your team colors thinking your heading to and FRC competition.

to think where they held the FLL event is where they will be housing the FRC event just a month and couple of weeks apart from 1 another! NYC is great

hehe Feb7th. was the best thanks rich again for putting up with me. you might luck out for NYC FIRST! but thats pushing it lol

NYC FIRST FLL Competition and NYC FIRST FRC Competitions Rock!
;) :] :D :)

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you are traveling 400+ miles this weekend to see your fiance but are even more ecstatic that you are going to get to go to his robotics team for a while, since you are currently experiencing withdrawal from FIRST. :D

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

when you buy hot head to match your team colors

when you go to five different stores looking for orange and NO ONE has it :(

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

~you consider getting custom made contact lenses with the FIRST logo in them...and the only reason you don't go through with it is because you don't have the money for it. (that upset me greatly)

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When the first thing you do when you get home from camping is check your team's website then check Chief Delphi.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When your Spanish teacher knows why you want to use the computer before class

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

SWEETNESS..... How much??

I can wear them with my FIRST class ring I want to get!!

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When the last post was number 862, and I say "yay" because thats my teams number!

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

your answering this thread.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When after readin all the posts, you get curious to what 67's said and go looking....
(page 5, post 67,
-- You made it this far in to the list

-- You can recite the whole thing without thining about it)

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

when you plan to take the train home to hang out with your team, and whine when your dad says it's time to go back to school because it's only 7pm and they'll be working for at least another 3 hours.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

your reputation points drastically reflect your self-confidence.

You know your addictied to First when...
 

-You give up playing ddr (dance dance revolution) for 6 weeks to work on a robot.

-You ditch school to work on a robot.

-You answer this thread.

-You have no firends outside the robotics group

-You try to make a robotics class. (soon very soon)

-You actually read what i'm saying

-You read the thread and on 99% of them you say, "you know what, that sounds like me..."

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When neither ice, snow, nor the weather channel can keep you from making a two hour drive home to work 23 hours on a robot on Friday and Saturday.

When you have to finish something before you go home means your not going home.

When your best accomplishment happen at 1:30 am and either there is no camera, not enough people to take a picture or you take a picture and you forgot your safety glasses...retake.

When you go on a six week streak of always noticing your team number before you go to bed (11:08).

Studying for Chem 2 involves putting the book in front of you and reading CD.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you spend your whole electronics class reading Chief Delphi.

When you want to smack people on your team for not knowing what Chief Delphi is.

When people say they don't need to check the team website because you tell them everything thats going on anyway.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

you get mad at anyone who thinks your robots only goal is to beat on other smaller roobots...

when you spend more time at the workshop than you do at home.

when you yell at someone for not checking the post he never made on chief delphi.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

Your GPA drops ten points, and you eat more pizza in a month then you do in a whole year!

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

so far the cheapest custom lense offer I've found is $450-$650 per pair depending on size, detail...etc etc etc.



~when you have a dream that you're running for president, and your whole campaign speach revolves around the theme of robotics and FIRST (somehow it made sense in the dream too....)

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you don't mind eating pizza after working with chain without washing your hands, yet you wash your hands after eating becuase you don't want to get pizza grease on the chain.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

when the generic response to absolutely any question asked to you throughout the day is "Robots".

So, Anthony, what're you doing?
Robots.

Whatcha got for lunch, pal?
Robots.

How're you?
Robots.

It all makes sense, in some strange, sick, twisted way.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

... Moving 2 hours away from where you grew up is suddenly made easier by the realization that you know most of your friends through FIRST, you only talk to them online (for the most part), they live scattered across the country, and you only get to see them once or twice a year anyway! :ahh:

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

- when you give up playing ddr for 6 weeks
-when your only friends are in the robotics group
-When you read through this thread and on 99% of them you say, "Hey thats me!"
-When you get sick of pizza.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

wow .. thats like my exact conversations with most of my friends .. he was soo shocked today when i said i could go to lunch with him (he stopped asking me for a while)

.. when you clean out your locker and one shelf is all robotics and the other is class stuff

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When doing chemistry problems, one of your answers turns out to be 3.65L, that's including correct significant figures!

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

You and your whole team knows which Cell Phone Services work in which aisles of Home Dept and when you tell someone who is out on a hardware run, "Don't go down that aisle or you will loose your signal."

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

~when even sheer luck leads to robots. ie: when you're walking in the parking deck to your car, and you see a button (something you collect) so you pick it up, when you notice it reads "This Robot Kills" (it's so purty! green background with black lettering. I'll cherish it forever!)

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

Lime green jersey, black pants, and a bandana is a fashion statement
It no longer shocks you to sleep 2 hours
You can recite from memory the "Why FIRST is not Battle-bots" spiel
You ask everyone in a blue shirt to see your robot.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

how many pages are there? alot i dont think anyone will acually read this but its a good one

...you wash your hands BEFORE you go to the bathroom not after.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

--when you traval 205 miles every weekend to be on a first team
--when you write an essay for english on pbasic
--when you hand in the program for the bot as an essay and get an A+ on it
--when your english teacher knows how to program the robot because you have written so much about pbasic
--when you only see your parents on weekend because you got to school before they get up and get dun with robotics after they have gawn to bed

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

-You get in and win arguments with people at Home Depot about what keystock is
-You go to Toys-R-Us to look at the Power Wheels cars to try to find the one with FIRST motors in it

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

you drive 14 hours to compete at IRI.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

yeah when people were asking me what i was doing for valentines day i said im going out with my boyfriend FIRST lol yeah get it ha ha!! :yikes:

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you have 3 pieces of bosh extruded alumimum and a pair of safty glasses on top of your computer screen.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

So thats were Ziff 2.0 went.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

Wow 890 posts on here of nothing but truth and fantasy lol. What a great thread.

......when you go to your HS to help build the robot for a couple of hours and then leave to go to your actual job.

.......when you consider taking your circular saw apart to use the motor out of there to see if its better then the 1/2 drill motors FIRST provides

12p - 8p fri / sat off. thats the best schedule my job has to offer. i spend more time with robotics then i thought ever possible and thats with a job.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

... when you are on the bus and you see the nuts being used .. and you automatically know what size wrench they fit into and where exactly on your robot you used the same nuts

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you're the first to post that this thread is over a year old!
(It turned a year old on Valentine's day.)

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

You know you're addicted to FIRST when...

... you use your robot to transport team members from place to place.

-dave

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you come home after working 12 hours on your robot and go straight on Chief Delphi.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

when you actually go and sing 'happy birthday' to a thread....now come to think of it, i'm sounding pretty weird right about now!

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

... when you get addicted to Resin Core Solder's fumes :p

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you come home after working endlessly on the bot.. and yet still find time to read every post in this thread!!!! :rolleyes:

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

You KNOW you're addicted to FIRST when you can't wait for the 900th posting of "You know you're addicted to FIRST when..."
(me #899)

Who will be famous and get the 1000th posting?
:p

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

Oh wow, it's been that long already??? :ahh:

Well, I guess you know you're addicted to FIRST when you can the start of a year-old thread on Chief Delphi seemeed like it started yesterday!! :p