You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

Anyone mind a sequel to a popular thread from near ship date last year? (Sorry to be somewhat repetitive to the other "You know you've had too much FIRST" threads.) I'll get it started:

You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...

...you have resorted to cutting entire modules, fully assembled, on the bandsaw.

...you have said, "only two of the holes really need to be aligned, right."

...the janitors/security guards ask you to lock up.

...you start using euphemisms like "minor tweaking" and "slightly misaligned" to make finishing on time sound more feasible.

...(for the Northeast/Midwest) you ride out a winter storm in the shop because it's easier than going home and coming back.

...(for the college students) you start wondering if your professors miss you, then find solace in the fact that they probably don't even know your name.

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

when you start to compare an embroidery machine to a mill.

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

when your CEO's basments becomes a shop because the custodians have sneaked you in, but now want you out.

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When you contemplate just bringing a bed.

When you wonder how many people could correctly guess the weight you've shaved off the robot in swiss cheese holes.

When you start referring to the shop as home.

When tubes become your bed of choice.

When food that's not pizza just doesn't seem like food.

When you feel like you're sitting on a tube even when you aren't, because you've been sitting in one for so long.

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When you contemplate sleeping on the floor (yeah we build in a corncrib)

When you can accurately predict the size of a drillbit down to the /64

When you start making ruler marks on your arm cuz you can never find a tape measure

When you've totally memorized the entire game manual & can refer to specific rules by number

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

when the janitors offer you a cot
when all of your meals have been eaten in school
when you realize you left a really important part in your pants yesterday, only to realize you are saved because you didn't go home yesterday and are still wearing the same cloths

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

When your pants begin to sag, and it's not a fashion statement (assortment of screws, tools, zip-ties, and odd metal cutoffs).

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when you put a pair of safety glasses on a hand saw and yell "I MADE A "SEE-SAW" (i'll post a pic sometime)

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When you carry multiple pairs of safety glasses in your truck

When you forget what time it really gets dark outside

When you forget what its like to be outside in the sunlight

When you have been working in a freezing warehouse all day and then walk outside to 35F temps and think about wearing shorts

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

If your stomach growls and you think it's your cell phone vibrating, and get mad that you can't find it

^ one of our mentors

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

At least your cell phones work in your shop, ours don't. Steel walls.

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

when you *did* bring a bed to the lab
when you add 3 hours to the number you slept for every can of Jolt you've had
when you've slept for 3, no... 18 hours.
when the freshmen on the team start insisting that the seniors (me) eat something other than just chips.
when you consider using a drill press to make swiss cheese to be relaxing.
when you forget that pizza doesn't usually have aluminum in it.
when you've run out of bolts, but have enough lying on the ground to get you through the week.
when cardboard boxes never looked like such a good bed before.
when you've put in enough hours over the past two days alone to meet the minimum to go travel with the team to competition.
when you only dream of sleeping.

Toby

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

when people start getting personal mail there
when the owners know each one of you by name
when you drink 2 monsters at 3am and promptly fall asleep
when you can built a full-size model of the robot using Mt Dew cans
when the owner starts complaining about the ruts in the cement
when your car drives itself to the gas station, buys 2 Red Bulls, 5 Mt Dews, and drives to the shop on it's own.

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When You cut a sigma F (sum of the forces) sign with your band saw and one of your teamates decides to wear it for Blingage

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

when your head mentor/teacher sleeps on a table across the hall in the graphics lab.

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when the new members (freshmen), and some of the veterans, are yelling at you to get out of the shop because there waiting for you to eat... again

when you cant tell if you washed your hands or not, because they have turned black with silver specks

and you now you've spent to much time in the shop when you start a thread like this one

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

When you find special significance in the time "10:32"

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when you know every single person at dunkin donuts
when you know exactly how to get to 6.66 on the cash register at dunkin donuts
when you can name every home depot within 30 minutes including times open and closed
when you know the guys at homedepot on a first name basis
you've seen your robot more than your own mother father brother and sister combined
when you made a song about going to 7-11

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when second cup agrees to sponsor your team through free coffee [no lie]
when going home and coming back makes you late for class
when you put your practice rack in a teachers parking spot as a prank
when you can barely see the floor through the pizza boxes

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When your mother asks you when you're coming home and your response is 'tomorrow'
When you have Home Depot on speed-dial
When you accidentally mix up your English paper and your Chairman's submission but are willing to take the late if he edits it for you

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When you think your hands look strange after you wash them (Whoa, they're not silver! And they don't smell like chain grease! Something is wrong!)

When you eat and then think "I probably shouldn't have eaten right after soldering the OI..."

To whoever made the comment about bandsawing entire mechanisms:
That happens all too frequently to our electrical board... Except we used a scroll saw this year. That was scary.

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That was me. Imagine my surprise when I saw four people holding the corners of our ramp mechanism, all bolted together, guiding it through the bandsaw to cut a half inch off the entire width of it. :eek: The Sawzall + rescue and demolition blade works well too.

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

...you go home, get 12 hours of sleep, and then realize your average for the week is still only 4 hours / night.

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

***Beware! Ramen themed post ahead!***

When you've resorted to stashing about 18 packs of Ramen and a box of pop-tarts in the ceiling tiles in order to have a reserve food supply.

When you've discovered, tried, and lived off of 16 different ways (no less) to prepare a brick of Chicken Ramen.

When (if breakfast isn't Ramen at the shop) all you eat all day are a few bowls of Frosted Flakes.... and several packs, "cooked" and dry, of Chicken Ramen.

When your Ramen consumption reaches the point where you realize that (being Chinese) if at some point in the near future a bear rushed into the shop and ate you, with all the MSG and salt in your body, you would be authentic Chinese take-out.

When you joke about a detox and rehab from caffeine and ramen in week one of build to your friends, and in the middle of week 6, several of your friends confront you and propose to help you off caffiene and ramen.

When you bargain with said friends to wait until the robot ships.

And, for the last 96 hours of build, when you have to resort to a Camelbak and granola bars because you forgot to eat the 2 days before.

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

. . . when you sleep at the shop two days in a row . . .
. . . when you heat up pizza with a heat gun . . .
. . . when you fall asleep in the game carpet . . .

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

when you have to blow your nose to get the steel dust out of it

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

when you have named the drill press

when you start talking to the tools



... when the tools talk back...


when the only reply you have to anything is "Thats what she said" no matter if its in context or not



when you want more and more pizza, even if you just finished a pizza

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

reminds me of team dinner one night when someone sneezed and aluminum shavings came out of his eye... and he had been wearing safety goggles for the entire meeting, from the second he walked in the room till we left for pizza

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

...you cut your dinner with a ban saw

...you bought a pizza with one of the fifty pizza coupons you collected over the build season.

...you dream nightmares of incorrect code flashing before your eyes

...an image of the safty glass' scratchs brunt into your eyes

...you throw holy water on anything that might even hint it looks or is named Banebot Motor

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

darn it, i wish id thought of that! i was eating cold pizza most of the week!

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

...If you've eaten pizza afterwards and kept commenting that there was something funny about the pizza. Your friends have to remind you that this distinct lack of aluminum dust is not a bad thing.

...If you go to the closest machine shop to study because you find the sound of a Bridgeport to be therapeutic.

...If instead of PC v. Linux v. Mac arguments, you have Mill v. Lathe v. Bandsaw arguments.

...If you have ever been kicked out of a building by the janitors because they caught you working when they were opening up the building the next morning.

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I went to a performance of the Broadway musical, the Lion King, that is here in Austin last weekend. I kept trying to match the sounds/pitches of the drumming/percussion instruments and the orchestra to the machines in the shop. Sad, really.

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-when the snow doubles as a refrigerator for your 24 oz mountain dew amp...as well as gallons of other energy drinks
-when you forget what your house looks like...
-when you have had more energy drinks than hours of sleep...
-when you can work 36 hours in one day...
-when you forget the clearance for a 1/4-20
-when you can remember the clearance for an M5
-when what little sleep you do get is consumed by dreams about robotics making it seem like you never slept at all...

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

When you wake up to find that you have been maching parts in your sleep...
(hasn't happened yet;) )

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

When you can't AFFORD any more energy drinks...

Jacob

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

When you realize the pizza that you are eating was leftover from last nights dinner some 12 hours ago and it seems odd because you never went to sleep in between the meals. Then you realizre that the pizza has been sitting out for over 12hours.

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When you find that you can no longer make yourself fall asleep before one AM, no matter how tired you are. (I'm getting back to the right sleeping pattern...)

When you voluntarily put yourself on caffiene restriction until your first regional.

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

we've heated our pizza with a heat gun to, I'm not sure what the reason was for it since there was a microwave 30 feet away....

also
-when you have a dream about center punches (happened to me)
-when you resort to preforming lathe operations on the drill press because you
can't send parts to be machined by your sponsor in time

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

when reporters are eating your cold eggs at 7am that are more than 2 hours old

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

When you park your teachers' cars in the morning just so you can have one more night to do your homework from the first week of build season.

When you don't remember if the day is monday or friday, but you know your staying in school all night anyway.

When your teachers' ask you "Are there problems at home cause I haven't got your homework in 6 weeks."

When your late for first period cause the warning bell didn't wake you up.

When you start call your family by the names of your mentors.

When you see sunlight and ask someone "what's that"

When you come home and your computer is turn on and you are on this site in the middle of this message like this.

When you think girlfriend or boyfriend forgot what you look like, but then you remember that you don't have one.

And finally when you wake up and blow dry your hair with the heat gun cause you stayed in school all night because you know all it is, is a overpower blow drier.

And your team makes up a new lol, ours was LRL ( laugh real loud).

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

--The members of your team can never tell which of several handshakes are the 'official' one at any given point in time due to their ability to change at any time and without any notice.

--You have made up more than one parody of popular songs relating to this year's game.

--You always ask your chemistry teacher who is also your coach to show random videos and pictures from the team in class whenever you have free time.

--You carry your robot code around with you to "keep it close to your heart"

--(This is somewhat of a piggyback; something someone else reminded me) You have heated up a piece of pizza with a space heater.

--You wear safety goggles/glasses to school and don't even notice that you have them on until halfway through second block. ( When your coach finally notices. )

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

-when at the end of build season all of your friends and even your girlfriend think you died because you havent made any contact with them in six weeks.

-when you refer to "sleeping" as what it really is, passing out

-when 80/20 seems like the most awesome friend and you feel bad for cutting it

-when you make a "5" out of masking tape, put it on your hand and yell "high five"

-when the rest of your team is sick of your stupid puns. :D