You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:

[FreakyAntelope]

When you look around your shop and think to yourself "you know, maybe having five teams in one room isn't too much afterall.."

When you spent 90% of your last four days (awake or asleep) in the robotics lab (I actually did out the math on this one).

When you realize that this is the only the fourth day in the past six weeks I haven't been to the robotics room..

When the word "magic" is applied to about 6 different tools in the shop, 4 of them being "the magic wrench" and everyone on the team still knows which one you mean.

When the only reason you aren't still programming the robot is because ALL of your batteries are too dead to shoot consistently.

When you have just spent more time in the school in one weekend than you would in a normal week.

When you are so deep sleprived that... zzzzzz

When you have fallen asleep every time you have sat down today.

When autonomous mode really just doesn't seem that important any more. And not because you have more important things to do, just because you're too tired to bother.

When you realize that you've been running your robot for the past 24 hours *without bolting down the shooter* (D'oh)

When you haven't eaten a meal at home in 5 days (and you usually eat at least two every day), and you haven't eaten at all in 18 hours.

When wednesday morining comes around and you decide that you're too tired to bother starting your homework for the weekend.

When you're browsing chiefdelphi instead of sleeping.. even though you desperately need the sleep and are staring blankly at the screen even as I type.

When the robot *actually* *works*

- Toby

Overclocked, 246

[Amanda Morrison]

- You're tired of standing and lean against a drill press, and fall asleep (oops)
- Class? What class?
- You eat pizza out of the fridge when nobody knows how it got there, or how long it's been there
- Showering is for the weak
- The cleaning ladies bring you copies of the paper, with your robot on the front page... while you're still testing at 7 am
- You nickname the overweight robot 'Tubby' and the entire team convulses with laughter
- You paint the crate beautifully... upside down
- You have eaten a whole loaf of bread's worth of PB&J in one week

[Andrew Y.]

When the programmers decide to go on strike, because they wantto test their code.

Parents call at 3 am to see what time you will be coming home tomorrow morning

Have to do off-roading to get the cars past the locked gates.

[Chris_Elston]

Originally Posted by Dzdconfusd

The Police show up to find out why there are cars at the high school at 5AM and the first thing you ask them is to borrow their radar gun. <--Really happened Friday!

lol!!!!!!!!!




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[NeedMoreEngines]

When you hit the "Send' button on your cell phone, and every number you've called within the past 2 weeks is someone on the team.

When someone says "food's here" and nobody responds. Then it's another hour of "hey guys, how about this idea...". and the only way you can eat is to say "hey guys...food."

[mill_master1018]

When you FINALLY do your laundry after wearing the same jeans for about a week.

Then, when you take the laundry out of the washer, you find an alligator clip and random screws in the pockets.

[!DOM!]

- When you know your way around the shop better than your own room.

- Start playing football while wating for the fed ex truck.

[ICE MAN]

-when bawls cant even keep you moving at 5:00 P.M.
-when you begin to call your mentor your father or mother. which is just plain weird!

[Marcel]

When your at your house and you accidentally tell your parents you have to go home.

This as a matter of fact happend to me today, my mom was asking my dad to help her with the computer and I told my dad I couldn't wait any longer and I needed to go home.

[lallamavolador]

Originally Posted by Marcel

When your at your house and you accidentally tell your parents you have to go home.

This as a matter of fact happend to me today, my mom was asking my dad to help her with the computer and I told my dad I couldn't wait any longer and I needed to go home.

That's awesome Marcel. Well Ramtech does get to you after a while!!

[KTorak]

...when you spend more time working over the 4 day weekend on the robot than you would in a normal week
...when you have a member of your team say he'll be home in 2 hours (10pm) and you drop him off at midnight....and he forgot his keys so his parents are mad at him
...when you leave school and realized you'll be back again in several hours
...when your normal dinner time is 12am, breakfast at 6am, and lunch at 11am.
...you hear sirens from some where and become panicked becuase you think neighbors across the street called the cops becuase they saw 5 cars at school at 12am.

[Sharkbyte]

-While sleeping, you have dreams. And in the background you can hear the camera servos searching for the target

-Removing extra spaces from the programming to save weight sounds like a good ideal

-Because the school turns off the heat on the weekends, you have to wear your coat half the time

-When team members amuse themselves by rolling off 12 foot high piles of cushions (I will post a video as soon as possible)

-You literally spend more time at school than at home, and only go home to sleep to go back to school

-You completely solo wire the electronics in 4 hours out of sheer willpower, yet stare blankly at your homework twenty minute later

-The only reason you leave is because the security guard kicks you out

-You think zip ties are the most important invention ever

-Critical setbacks no longer phase you

All of the above are true except the first two

[Stats]

When you do an entire renactment of a fight from starwars episode 3 with knight style armor and box helmets... not kiding me and another guy did it... PM me if you wanna see and ill send it to you

[orelinde]

You know you have been in the work shop WAY too long when

-- you go to the store to buy milk and realize the expiration date is the ship date.

-- When your parents call you at the shop to ask if you are ever planning to see them again and you ask .. who is this?

-- When you suddenly realize the fedex guy is standing here and your still working with the dremel. shaving wieght.

-- When you suddenly realize your mom (me) is at robotics simply to see you (son) because she actually missed you.

--When someone elses kids call you mom....regularly

--When vegetables become just not important as at least getting some kind of food substance into the kids...regardless of healthiness.

--When you post on Chief Delphi as a parent and you realize you spent too much time at the workshop. and it is 5 days after ship date and you just realized it.

[Charger_07]

when you know the exact tool someone wants just by them saying "get me" and making a twisting motion w/ their hand