Posted in Uncategorized, tagged FTC on April 20, 2008 | No Comments »
The championship is now over. I’ve no clue who won. As it turned out, the robot performed fairly well compared to some of the teams that got there by winning regionals. However, it was difficult to drive, aim, etc. We also discovered the solution to all our gearing system problems in a Mexican team’s beautiful [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged FTC, machinery on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Time has slowed down, a good thing too–we had lots to work on. Our robotics competition is on Thursday. Today will be the final leg.
We must practice, practice, and somehow get our average up to 50 points in one minute, forty seconds. That’s a point every two seconds, so we probably won’t get it that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged FTC, machinery, prayer requests on April 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Robotics in two days! Our bot works! Good thing too; we’re competing against teams that beat us at regionals. Pray for us.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged camping, crafts, equipment on March 8, 2008 | No Comments »
As I adore camping and making stuff, It was only a matter of time before I made a camping stove. (Well, perhaps not, I’m a procrastinator.) After checking around, I put together a hodgepodge of instructions from these sites. (included for reference) wikihow, most useful site, and Zen stoves. Further, I decided to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cleaning, FTC on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So, I survived this competition. Unfortunately, Jeremiah wants to go shoot for the Inspire Award in North Carolina. I don’t think he’ll get very far. (Our team, FTC 420, got the Think Award; I’m rather satisfied.) There were some rather cool teams at the competition. I thought it was rather [...]
Posted in life, travel on July 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
So, I am legal. Meaning that I now have a cute little card crammed with information and a picture which I wasn’t ready for after waiting an hour and a half.
It turns out that now, for those of us who want licenses, you need a state or national (I forget) birth certificate. But if you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Now that I have discovered facebook, I spend vast amounts of time on it doing nothing (”Hey, look! I didn’t know our family had a crest”; “Wow, this group is awesome”–[Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya; you killed my father: prepare to die]; “And you can throw food at people…“ 
However, I do spend enough time [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged FTC on April 19, 2007 | 5 Comments »
And then there was the pollen season, or the flu season–I really can’t tell if it was just short-lived or I just had a cold. I have a worse reaction than my sisters, which really isn’t fair considering I’ve already got celiac disease. But as I mentioned, it fortunately only lasted a very short [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Venturing on March 31, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Hello, I just feel like rambling today.
I took the first half of a two-part wilderness first aid course today. There were several photos of wounds as examples to the text. Shall we say that I, even if I could survive such trauma, would not want others to have to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 5, 2007 | 6 Comments »
You wonder where mad scientists come from, aye? That is now a question of the past because I know. They are people who have spent much too much time staring into the light on a microscope. (That’s where they get that weird twitchy eye thing, like staring into the sun.)
I did two hours [...]
