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Re: 2007 FIRST Competition

This Year has been an interesting year, New Store, New Job, New FIRST Team, but as is usually this time of year, it was another Chilly Rainy October Day at the Depot, so taking advantage of my New position, i decided to make some calls, read some training manuals and take a look at what kind of orders Home Depot Store 3482 had for a certain Manchester based Robotic Organization... and what i found was incredibly interesting, a couple of weird quotes (i don't have the kind of power to see if they were paid orders or maybe Mr. Lavery is going to even greater lengths to scare us*) one quote was for 11,000 (eleven thousand individual) 10' pieces of schedule 40 4" PVC Pipe and 4 Tee Connectors.... which either means that the GDC has been eating a little too much Mexican food, or the weirdest clue i have ever seen, I also saw a separate quote for 3500 Red, Green, and Blue Flood Light bulbs... I immediately thought back to right before the finals in the championships this year...
a 3rd quote was made for what we call "pro packs" of #8 1/2" self tapping screws totaling over 54,000 individual screws...

after a conversation with Dave, at IRI this year, he is well aware that i am employed at the Home Depot, so this could just be him playing mind games with the FIRST Community through me, or he could have forgotten this tidbit of information as some older people tend to do....

All i know is that i am scared....


*=Lengths already achieved to frighten me : 1) I now look up every time i go outside waving to Dave, hoping that he doesn't drop a satellite on my head
2) being Declared Legally dead for the day... which was an interesting conversation at blockbuster... let me tell you
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