I am currently in Knoxville, Tennessee, at a regional for the FIRST Robotics Competition. Fayette County's team, 2856, arrived at the motel last night, and all day today was spent at the convention center. Today was the warm-up day, meaning there weren't any official matches. There were practice matches, but those were optional, and the main important items that needed to be done today was to pass "inspection", which is a process in which judges look over every inch of a robot looking for rules violations or safety hazards. While the actual inspection process did not take very long, we spent about 5 hours working on the robot to get it to the point where it could be inspected. There were plenty of problems with the robot, not the least of which were it's occasional inability to move and frequent inability to shoot a Frisbee which is the objective of the competition.
Today was one of the most tiring days I have ever had. There was plenty of physical labor, and I have no doubt that this contributed to my current state. However, there is an added level of poopyness that comes with mental stress, which there was certainly a lot of today. I find it interesting that being nervous and having to work through very difficult problems speedily can tire me out so quickly. And not just mentally tired, either- I think this contributed to my physical state as well.
Anyway, just thought that was interesting. Hope ya'll are having a good spring break!
p.s. Dustin stole his blog post idea from me.
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