Recent Happenings

The past week flew by what with getting ready for a robotics competition, a robotics competition, and my boss being on vacation.  I thought that my boss being on vacation all week would mean less work, but it turns out that's not what happened.  I had to sub for him in a couple meetings.  Plus, one of the lead engineers in my group was also on vacation, so I got tapped to review and sign an engineering notice in my boss's stead that I wouldn't normally sign.  It reminded me a little bit of this Dilbert comic that a guy at work told me about last week.

I forgot to tell you about my visitors that came a little over a week ago.  The woikas in the area stayed for Thursday and Friday night.  It's always special to have a visit from them.  I had to work on Friday so I feel a little bit like I didn't spend much time with them.  I think they were glad for a relaxing day though since they were feeling a bit under the weather.  Their visit also highlighted my lack of coffee making tools.  That situation has been rectified, so if you're a coffee addict, don't be afraid to stay now.  You might have to bring your own grounds, but at least now I have a way to make those grounds into coffee.

Daylight savings has arrived.  In general I'm a fan of getting my daylight in the evening rather than the morning, so I'm cool with this.  At least I am until tomorrow morning comes and I have to wake up in the dark again.

The weekend's robotics competition results:  At the end of the qualification matches we were ranked #2.  Unfortunately a couple small robot malfunctions in the last two matches scared the #1 team, so they didn't pick us to be on their alliance for the elimination mathces.  That meant we got to be the #2 alliance captain, which isn't all bad.  We played some tough matches and managed to squeak through the quarterfinals and semifinals to make it to the finals game.  You play best out of 3 games.  We won the first game and lost the second game.  So it all came down to that third game, and it was a tough one!  We lost narrowly 108-94 in that third game.  Second place finish is still really good!  I'll have to dedicate a whole post to a bunch of robotics pictures, but I have a feeling it may not be for a week or two.

Irony seen in the YMCA parking lot today:  A car in the parking lot with a California license plate had a lady sitting in the passenger seat smoking a cigarette with the door cracked open.  Classy.

All for now.....have a great week!  I know I intend to.