Welcome to My Life

Yesterday the Fillmores picked Lex and I up from our house at about 11 to take us to the lego scrimmage. It was a very eventful car ride with Lex in the backseat with Brenna and Bryce, and Brenten and I seated next to a nice big plastic set of drawers full of legos. And by eventful I mean talkative ;)). There was a lot of discussion over music (I'm so glad, one of my favorite things to talk about). Plus B seems to most closely share my music interests, but I like most kinds of music. This, it seemed he was very skeptical of when he realized I liked Metallica - he gave me the same look my uncle Tyler used to give me over music. If he gave me that look it usually meant one of two things: 1. "Are you kidding me? You seriously like that lameness?" or 2. "It's a good band/song, but how can you like those other things and also like this one? Are you sure you like this?!" The thing is, or at least the reason I don't voice my favor of these certain bands is I've been listening to them forever - like before I was born! So I know the song if I hear it but I don't know the bands or song names... I'm fixing that though thanks to Pandora ;)). Particularly we discussed Simple Plan and their song "Welcome to My Life". I went on my Simple Plan kick a year or so ago, but by that time Rachel, previously my main hangout person, had already had her Simple Plan craze so I was pretty much talking to a wall.. I still like them! But I no longer think they're the greatest, just pretty cool. So we finally made it to (Coruscant) th lego scrimmage and it was pouring rain still. Just as we were carrying in the last of the legos and stuff (my old english teacher would kill me for saying "Stuff") Derek arrived and he brought Andrew V. We got in and began on the high workload we still had. Except me of course, who had no idea what needed done so I fidgeted around... Then we had our first run. Lex and B went up and ran the robot. They got nervous, Lex was frustrated because she wanted to take over I think, judging from her look... And Brenten ended up pulling one attatchment apart. Derek's dual differential drive wasn't working at all so his dad was still working on that one and Derek and I were next up so we had to also use the alternative robot design which B and Lex had used for the same reasons. Derek's and my run didn't go well either, alignment was off and the motor was still doing its strange twitch thing... We completed zero missions. So we went back to the computer and did some program changes. I wouldn't quit bugging the guys and following them, plus I was on Derek's team so I got to work myself into doing things. I did a lot of alignment of the robot... We got the two missions working fairly well and then Derek and I went up for another run. Again nothing!! No missions completed. Right after that the man in charge, the guy who had planned the whole scrimmage pointed out to us the jumping robot and the tension on one motor. We had a bad motor all along! We switched it out for a new one and right away it ran SO MUCH SMOOTHER!! Only problem? We'd modified all our programs to cope with the bum motor... So we changed some programs and had it consistently running very well on two missions! Once again Derek and I went up for a run and guess what? We still failed! Alignment issues!! Then for an hour we had free time and we got everything running consistently and perfect - of course there were no more runs! Augh! Frustrating, but it was wonderful! We were all good natured and laughing, it was as though a weight had been lifted - we hadn't been programming wrong or anything else. It wasn't our fault. The ride back we stopped at two places, Harbor Freights (Alexis and my first time ever going there) and Home Depot. And then home. This was lots of time for joking and laughing and (I LOST THE GAME!) losing the game... Which B's dad has now banned. lol. Today was very uneventful other than the fact that I'm still not sick and everyone else is so music is cancelled but I still get to go to Legos without Lex. And it was Kate's dinner night and she doesn't know how to cook so I assisted her in making pizza. Yummm! Anyways Laterz!!