Posted by Joe Johnson at 02/22/2001 11:02 PM EST
Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
I more or less left the house on last Friday Night and
didn’t really get home again until after the ship time
on Tues.
I have had to get my job and home life back out of
whack (or less out of whack at least).
Now I am back online, but I cannot catch up with the
forums.
How many other folks are in the same boat?
I am going to try to get back in the groove, but
basically, I am going to have to let by gones be by gones.
The tough part is over…
…let the games begin!
Joe J.
Posted by Tom S. at 02/22/2001 11:10 PM EST
Student on team #177, The Bobcats, from South Windsor High School and International Fuel Cells.
In Reply to: Hopelessly behind…
Posted by Joe Johnson on 02/22/2001 11:02 PM EST:
Hmm… i just started thinking about last week also:
55+ hours spent at FIRST
30+ hours spent on one hellish class 
10+ hours spent on other schoolwork
30+ hours spent at school
15+ hours spent at work
leaving me with… 28 hours to sleep… the entire week… exactly four hours of sleep per night.
Kind of a crazy week… but what would FIRST be like if it was easy? Come on people, you know we live for that last week of crazyness where you are working on the bot at 2 AM
Alrighty, enough rambling.
can’t wait to see you all in hartford!!! 6 days
Tom Schindler
Team 177
Posted by EddieMcD at 02/22/2001 11:13 PM EST
Student on team #121, Islanders, from Middletown High School and NUWC.
In Reply to: Re: Hopelessly behind…
Posted by Tom S. on 02/22/2001 11:10 PM EST:
What’s sleep? And where can I download it?
We call it “Hell Week”, because it truly is hell. But hey, it’s all worth it.
Posted by Tom S. at 02/22/2001 11:18 PM EST
Student on team #177, The Bobcats, from South Windsor High School and International Fuel Cells.
In Reply to: Re: Hopelessly behind…
Posted by EddieMcD on 02/22/2001 11:13 PM EST:
Definitely worth it… sleep can be downloaded from… if i told you, i’d have to kill you… its my secret
try www.sleep.com and buy a nice big mattress for the machine shop
Tom Schindler
Team 177
Posted by EddieMcD at 02/22/2001 11:19 PM EST
Student on team #121, Islanders, from Middletown High School and NUWC.
In Reply to: Downloadable sleep… that would be nice
Posted by Tom S. on 02/22/2001 11:18 PM EST:
Beanbag chairs are better.
Posted by Tom S. at 02/22/2001 11:20 PM EST
Student on team #177, The Bobcats, from South Windsor High School and International Fuel Cells.
In Reply to: Re: Downloadable sleep… that would be nice
Posted by EddieMcD on 02/22/2001 11:19 PM EST:
I can settle for the big balls from this years competition
Posted by EddieMcD at 02/22/2001 11:35 PM EST
Student on team #121, Islanders, from Middletown High School and NUWC.
In Reply to: Re: Downloadable sleep… that would be nice
Posted by Tom S. on 02/22/2001 11:20 PM EST:
They won’t let us near the balls whatsoever.
Posted by Anton Abaya at 02/23/2001 12:33 AM EST
Coach on team #419, Rambots, from UMass Boston / BC High and NONE AT THE MOMENT! :(.
In Reply to: Re: Downloadable sleep… that would be nice
Posted by EddieMcD on 02/22/2001 11:35 PM EST:
EOM = end of meows.
Posted by Jessica Boucher at 02/23/2001 6:35 AM EST
Student on team #237, Sie-H2O-Bots, from Watertown High School and Eastern Awning Systems & The Siemon Company.
In Reply to: i thought you were accidentally shipped with the bot (EOM)
Posted by Anton Abaya on 02/23/2001 12:33 AM EST:
Thats our team motto 
-Jessica B, #237
Posted by Matt Leese at 02/24/2001 10:42 PM EST
Other on team #73, Tigerbolt, from Edison Technical HS and Alstom & Fiber Technologies & RIT.
In Reply to: Re: Downloadable sleep… that would be nice
Posted by Tom S. on 02/22/2001 11:20 PM EST:
That’s what the floppies from '99 are for…
Matt who loved those floppies…
Posted by Ken Leung at 02/23/2001 12:32 AM EST
Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School.
In Reply to: Hopelessly behind…
Posted by Joe Johnson on 02/22/2001 11:02 PM EST:
Pretty much everyone was in a rush for shipping… so there were no real serious discussion happening the past few days.
There were a lot of picture posting on the forum, people showing off their robot, and lots of complain about not enough sleep.
But a few important issue came up when a few teams actually had practice matches among each other. It turns out it is hard to balance two goals in a fast match, really hard for 4 teams to talk the game out in a short time, and the scores of each match have been really low.
One more interesting thing is that a few teams are showing they are capable of balancing two goals with 4 big balls on them, and a decent amount of small balls in the goals. There is no telling if that will happen in the real game.
But other then that, you didn’t miss much.
Posted by Matt Leese at 02/23/2001 8:49 AM EST
Other on team #73, Tigerbolt, from Edison Technical HS and Alstom & Fiber Technologies & RIT.
In Reply to: Hopelessly behind…
Posted by Joe Johnson on 02/22/2001 11:02 PM EST:
I figure I’m worse off than that. Not only did I have to work on the robot (ok, I was doing mostly administration stuff but still), I also managed to get sick right AFTER ship (as in Wednesday). At least classes have ended but that means that I’ve got to go to finals while sick. This is gonna be a long weekend (stupid finals). And there’s still a bunch of administrative tasks to be done before I go home on break (Monday). We still don’t have t-shirts or an agenda for travel to NJ among other stuff. I guess I’ll get it done somehow…
Matt who’s feeling really icky and has a final in two and a half hours…
Posted by Ellery at 02/23/2001 11:13 AM EST
Engineer on team #191, X-CATS, from Joseph C. Wilson High School, Rochester NY and Xerox Corporation.
In Reply to: Hopelessly behind…
Posted by Joe Johnson on 02/22/2001 11:02 PM EST:
: I more or less left the house on last Friday Night and
: didn’t really get home again until after the ship time
: on Tues.
: I have had to get my job and home life back out of
: whack (or less out of whack at least).
: Now I am back online, but I cannot catch up with the
: forums.
: How many other folks are in the same boat?
: I am going to try to get back in the groove, but
: basically, I am going to have to let by gones be by gones.
: The tough part is over…
: …let the games begin!
: Joe J.
I can Relate Joe! at least this year our all nighters ended Sunday night and not Monday night. I’m still recovering but as you said let the games begin!
See you at Epcot!
Your Fellow First-aholic from the X-CATS
Ellery