[Joe Johnson]

Well, FIRST Engineering seems to have more or less turned the corner with their flurry of answered messages on the Yahoo site.

The answers have been concise and (mostly) consistant. With 3 or 4 voices each answering questions, it must be hard to keep everyone on the same page.

At this point I don't see any major items hanging out there yet to be answered or clarified. I think they should probably get an automatic script for answering silly questions (for example, Question: "Can I used egg whites and ground up declassified CIA documents to fuel a steam boiler my robot?" Answer: "RTR!" = Read The Rules!).

All joking aside, it has been a very difficult time for them I am sure but as the title of this message says, I think they have finally hit their stride.

Let's get on with building our robots!

By the way, CD7 is about 5-10 lbs over weight already and we haven't even screwed two bits of metal together yet!

So much to do, so little weight to do it all with...

I suppose we will work something out...

Joe J.