[MattLi]

Living in Michigan we experience a lot of cold weather. Going to Florida or Sacremento is always a nice change of temperature. (from 35 Fahrenheit to about 69).

Hmm my most wild story....Well

Our team was up in two matches and our drivers still hadn't shown up. I went down to the pits to see what was up. I find the entire pit abandoned. I look around and finally find the entire pit crew in the bathroom. One of our drivers had gotten a bloody nose from the climate change (cold and wet to warm and dry). Everyone was freaking out because our match was in like a minute. What we ended up doing was taking a piece of toilet paper and shoving it up his nose to stop the bleeding for that two minute match. He drove and the instant the match ended he went off to the bathroom.

Another intresting time was acually at nationals last year.

It was our fourth match. We were waiting to see our robot come onto the field. To make a long story short, it never did. We went down to see what was up and apparently the drive team (the ENTIRE drive team) had not returned from the CNN tower (lunch).

And finally the funniest story of all...

Our team has been sustained our great programmer for some time. One our way to the florida regional this year we went through the luggage check/metal detector. Our programmer suddenly looks at the metal detector and says "uhhh guys I don't think this will work out very well." We ask him why and we got our answer in a few short moments. Our programmer puts his backpack onto the conveyer belt. They guy running the metal detector takes a look at the backback with the machine and gets a wide eyed look. He tells our programmer to step off to the side. They searched him and found nothing. After about 15 minutes of searching he was let go. We asked him what was in that backpack that made them freak out. He opens it and we look in. Inside the backpack was a FIRST battery, two laptops, a bunch of copper wire, and his cell phone. I think the cops were surprised it wasn't a bomb.


ahh the memories....

Ahh the memories