You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...

[goodsky]

Originally Posted by Thuvishan.R

Every time you look at a digital clock you associate the time with a FRC team you know.

Every Exploding Bacon general meeting begins promptly at 7:02 pm. Because in Military Time that's perfect.

note: that's not entirely true however... we would be lucky if we were only 2 minutes late.

[Joe G.]

When you empty your pockets, and find, among other things:

-Vex Power expander
-3 wrenches of various sizes
-Dremel cutoff wheels and tool
-Assorted 1/4 - 20 hardware
-11 zipties
-Vex programming dongle

And it's not even build season yet...

[vic burg]

Originally Posted by rocketperson44

When you empty your pockets, and find, among other things:

-Vex Power expander
-3 wrenches of various sizes
-Dremel cutoff wheels and tool
-Assorted 1/4 - 20 hardware
-11 zipties
-Vex programming dongle

And it's not even build season yet...

Don't forget a roll of solder, duct tape, and your leathermans! lol

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by goodsky

Every Exploding Bacon general meeting begins promptly at 7:02 pm. Because in Military Time that's perfect.

note: that's not entirely true however... we would be lucky if we were only 2 minutes late.

I've jokingly petitioned that 1714 team meetings be moved to 5:14 PM rather than 5:30... No one seemed to catch on though.

[Nin_estarSaerah]

When exams are next week, and you still haven't studied because you are on Chief Delphi.
When you were going to start FAFSA, but a game hint got in the way.
When you are actually hoping it won't snow, because of kick-off.

[MGoelz]

When you're super excited at the beginning of a school year to get the locker number that corresponds to your team's.

[demosthenes2k8]

When you spend all day yelling out "Twenty hours and forty-two minutes" etc

[NorviewsVeteran]

you create a desktop shortcut to the encrypted manual PDF file

[Phoenix Spud]

You are planning on waking up at 2 AM to watch kick-off.

You know a couple of other people who are planning to do the same!!!

(9 hours and 10 min to go!!!)

[Thing2_1723]

*You didn't fall asleep the day before kickoff
*After your team canceled their kickoff party for bad weather, you got your parents to invite the team to your house for a party
*Your mom says you're addicted to CD and you respond "It's better then doing drugs"

[dragonrulr288]

.. when your mom yells at you for not sleeping [at about 2 this morning]. I fall asleep for two minutes, then wake up so I can say I slept.
... When you have been ready since 11 last night to go to kickoff
... When you have counted down to kickoff since before Chirstmas..
... When you are more excited than for Christmas... [sorry mum, loved the presents at Christmas, I'm just addicted to FIRST]

[synth3tk]

* Every one of your Facebook or Twitter statuses over the 24 hours since Kick-Off mention FIRST in some way, shape, or form.

* Your entire sleep schedule is thrown off after Kick-Off, every year.

* Your mind immediately goes into full-gear the second after the game animation has finished playing.

And, of course:

Originally Posted by Thing2_1723

*You didn't fall asleep the day before kickoff

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

* Every one of your Facebook or Twitter statuses over the 24 hours since Kick-Off mention FIRST in some way, shape, or form.

I counted 40 Twitter updates (including @replies) from myself, which translates to 40 Facebook statuses. All regarding Kickoff. The people who follow/are friends with me who aren't in FIRST were probably pretty annoyed.

[carolynn4848]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

I've jokingly petitioned that 1714 team meetings be moved to 5:14 PM rather than 5:30... No one seemed to catch on though.

Team 1735 meets at 5:35

[Kimmeh]

When you spend all of your time after Kickoff on CD...only to dream about it that night as well as finding yourself reading threads in your dream. (In other words, CD just wasn't "there", no, I was actively reading it.)

I'm sad that there is no way to start 2604's meetings on our team number...The closest we could get would be to swap numbers around and start at 04:26. (However, with that time, I think we should stick with conventional 12 hour time, and not 24...)