Do You Know What We're Fighting For?

When it's not worth dying for? Does it take your breath away, and you feel yourself suffocating? Today we got a lot done at legos. We seemed to have found our good medium between laughing and productivity. Brenten was LATE! Derek, Lex and I were all there before him, and Lex and I were late too!! By the time he got there we had already duplicated the dual differential robot and began to program. We stayed an extra hour late too! Well at least Lex, Derek, Brenten and I did. Andrew and Robynn didn't come because Andrew was sick and Robynn was behind on school. Makeshift tops were officially banned by Derek as well as "Download and Play". Brenten was overly fond of the download and play and it was causing some minor issues when he would shout "Okay ready? Ready? Ready? It's going! It's going!" And we'd have to jump back out of the way to make way for a missaligned robot to speed out in the wrong direction and destruct an obstacle. While funny, it wasn't very productive. And while Derek's ban was helpful sometimes the whole "I'm going to stop it and restart it if you download and play" thing was a biiitt overboard. In fact Brenten got punched playfully over this one. Not hard, but enough to make him forget about balancing on his swivel chair and fall backward onto the floor. Which is odd because no matter how many times he NEARLY falls, he usually manages to catch himself. Towards the end of our meeting Mrs. Fillmore showed up with a girl saying, "There was still someone out there on the picking table!" She sat in for a little while, and followed Mrs. Fillmore out with Lexie when they went to get the USB thingy we needed. When Lex came back with computer attatchments in tow the girl also came with her. She listened to what we were discussing and Brenten introduced himself and explained what we were doing. I didn't talk to her really, she must've thought I was a jerk. I would've thought I was a jerk probably. I think in the end we all needed a rest. We could've stayed there working forever of course, but a rest from legos was kind of needed. I'll be all ready to go again tomorrow ;). We've officially completed two programs consistently making our score so far 90 points. Derek won't be there tomorrow so he says there'd better be at least a score of 150 points when he comes back on Tuesday. We were going to work on the project again tomorrow but I have decided to wait until Tuesday when we'll have Derek back and have enough people so that someone can go over the power point and skit with me and so that maybe we can finnish the touch ups and begin playing the skit maybe. Practice makes perfect. This year it is again a rule that when running the robot on the obstacle course at the competition there can only be two team members up at the table running the robot per round. We have decided to have two permanent robot runners as we did last year, and as many others do too. I am itching to get our testing for who's running at the table done so they can start practicing. When Allen came to give advice and share his experience I realized even more how essential it is that our people practice a LOT and thus need to get down to it ASAP. Tomorrow will be all robot at legos. Tomorrow's also the International Harvest Potluck. Alexis and I made our pies for the Teen Pie Contest this evening. Mine was deep dish Dutch Apple and Lex's was Pumpkin Chocolate Chip. The house is sweltering. I can't wait until this weekend, we get to see Zach and Em Saturday AND Sunday! I got to play chess with Zach (But didn't win anything as usual). I love when I get to play chess. Anyways maybe I'll be more interesting tomorrow. lol. Laterz