Secrets

Currently listening to: Dispatch - Two Coins

I don't know how she got my email address, but my friend Victoria has been sending me emails lately with intimate details regarding her secrets.

Thank you, Victoria. Your secrets are safe with me.

The ladies man

Currently listening to: Green Day - Holiday

So today we (the FIRST team) presented the year in review and a demo of the robot on the field to a bunch of suits in Nypro. There was food, soda, cake and cookies. Good times were had. I also missed 45 minutes of work. Double Bonus.

On the way back to my desk, I grabbed two cookies and brought one to my friend Bobbie in HR. I left it on her desk and ran out quickly because I knew she'd give me some crap about her "diet" or some other BS. I called her when I got back to my desk and asked her how the cookie was, and the following conversation occurred:

Bobbie: I didn't eat the cookie, but I wrapped it up and will give it to someone else.
Tim: But I got it for you!
B: I know, but I don't eat cookies.
T: Well, give it to that cute girl across the hall from you.
B: Who, that new girl?
T: Why not?
B: She's married, she was telling me and Beth about her husband the other day.
T: Did she mention the word "divorce"?

Ugh

Currently listening to: Rage Against The Machine - Born of a Broken Man

So yesterday sucked in multiple ways. I woke up late and was therefore late for work. It was freakin gorgeous out and I was stuck inside. Thankfully, I don't have a window anywhere near my desk, so, I can't see what I'm missing while I work. Then, I realized that I had little to no clue what I was doing on my hw, so, I asked one of the guys in my class if he could help me. He wanted to meet at 3, so, I left work early. I USED VACATION HOURS TO WORK ON HOMEWORK. I'm such a tool.

So, I basically proceeded to work on this homework from 2pm (I was doing some on my own beforehand) till about 2am very early this morning. All in all, I have 15 of the 18 problems done. Their due tonight. Blah! Looks like I'm doing more homework at lunchtime instead of eating.

Then, last night while getting into my car, I saw on my favorite pair of sunglasses. I loved these things. Now they're toast. And lo and behold, it was wicked bright driving into work this morning, so, I squinted the whole time.

However, through all of this, I keep recalling my favorite music lyric. It's from the song "bang bang" by Dispatch.

"Don't worry about a thing,
you know your path is true,
just ease your mind and have a banana or two"

As much as trying to do work, FIRST, and school all at the same sucks and makes life beyond stressful sometimes, I know that I'm doing well and will eventually get to where I want to be.

Much like the shark, I can't stop swimming...

Lambo doors!

Currently listening to: The Beastie Boys - Hey Ladies

Now, before anyone laughs (Ben and Ian, I'm looking at you), admit it, vertical doors are awesome. You see a Lamborghini with its doors up in the air and it looks like the shit.

Andy's Auto Sport, where I've bought stuff from before, is having a sale on them now. At this price, I could afford two sets, enough for the front and back doors. Imagine that, having all 5 of my doors pointed skyward when opened up. I'm not even sure you can do the back doors because I think they might hit the tops of the front doors. Regardless, it would be sweet. And I've never seen a 4 door car with all 4 opening vertically. Anyone dare me to do it?!

Volunteering in FIRST

Currently listening to: Orange Island - Diet of Worms

So I've always been interested in volunteering for FIRST beyond working with a team. Don't get me wrong, I will ALWAYS be with a team. I feel that my strongest talent that I can contribute is my mechanical and problem solving skills, so, mentoring a team is the best place for me. But, I love being at competitions and helping out if I'm not competing.

So far, I've helped out at several off season competitions as either field reset or reffing once at Mayhem last year. Well, this year I was stage crew for the BAE regional in Manchester, NH. It was my first real event and it was a lot of fun. I just reffed at Beantown Blitz on Saturday and now they want me to ref Mayhem again this summer in 3 weeks. They said that I might even be the head ref. That's hot.

And there's rumors about me having a much larger role at a regional next year. I'm excited...

Kids

Currently listening to: The clock ticking away to the weekend...

Yesterday I borrowed the movie "kids" from my sister. I had always heard people refer to it but had never seen it in the, oh, 11 years that it's been out.

My question is this: Was your childhood like this?

Now, me personally, I never saw any of this crap growing up. I was wicked shy, a nerd by CHS's standards, never drank nor partied in HS, and didn't even have a gf till I was 17. These kids are like 14 running around having sex, smoking pot and getting drunk. One of them is having sex with a 13 year old and talking about doing it with girls even younger.

Holy crap was I sheltered growing up...

Why didn't I think of this sooner?

Currently listening to: Coheed & Cambria - Time Consumer

Attention tough guys! Are you too manly to show affection to your lady friend out in public for fear of ridicule and laughing by your friends? Don't like saying "I love you" out in a crowd because the other dudes will think you're a pussy?
Well, I have the thing for you:

DATE A DEAF GIRL

If you're not up to speed on your American Sign Language vocabulary, please see the picture below, and note that this is the sign for "I love you":


Just think; you're out in a crowd and your lady is leaving and requires the dangerous three words to be emitted from your cakehole in public. While signing the phrase to her and thus making her happy, most other people will just think that you're tossing her the bull horns. How badass is that?

Deep Thoughts, by Tim Baird

Currently listening to: The Beastie Boys - Brass Monkey

If we ate toilet paper instead of food, what would we wipe with?

MI:3, Dane Cook Edition

Currently listening to: A New Found Glory - Ballad for the Lost Romantics

Warning! Partial Spoiler if you haven't seen MI:3 yet!

So I went to see MI:3 with the gaelforce crew on Friday night. The movie was pretty good. Not as good as the first and tied with the second in my book. I had mixed feelings about it. Nothing in particular, but I felt that some of the stuff in it was pretty cheesy. However, Luther was back in the movie doing his typical computer hacker stuff, so, that made up for it.

However! The main point of this post. In the last fight scene, the bad guy gets hit by a car and thus perishes. However, if you watch carefully, upon impact, HIS SHOE GETS KNOCKED OFF! It's straight out of the Dane Cook sketching about the dude getting hit by a car. Vickers and I were sitting next to eachother and we both starting dying laughing when this happened. It was fantastic.

This Just In

Currently listening to: Dane Cook - One Night Stand

This Just In: Clif Bar "cookies n cream" energy bars do not in fact taste like cookies n cream. The taste was indescribable. Granted, it wasn't bad, but it definitely did not taste like the aforementioned advertised flavor.

My first non-robotics weekend in a long time...

Currently listening to: Death Cab for Cutie - Lightness

This weekend I'm going to have fun. Fun without robots. Fun without competing with robots. I'm looking forward to it.

Tonight will be spent celebrating Cinco de Mayo new hampshire style with some friends in Manchester, and then tomorrow I'm driving down to Meriden, CT to hang out with MikeD and go wall climbing. Should be lots of fun.

Oh, and no homework, too. My class doesn't start till May 14th. I'm loving this whole "no school" thing, even if only for 3 weeks.

Weird

Currently listening to: Coheed & Cambria - The Suffering

So I'm watching tv today during lunch and I see a commercial for potting soil. I think it's for Scott or Miracle Grow. Regardless, it has the very attractive Erica Shaffer as the actress in it.

Now, you might be like, "Tim, I don't know who this is, why should I care?". Well, reader, she's the same actress who was in the KY lubricant commercials for a while (the warming ones).
I can't watch these fertilizer/soil commercials without thinking of her talking about personal lubricant.

It would be like if Alessandra Ambrosio started modeling watches in commercials. I'm not going to even see the watch, because I'm going to still be picturing her mentally in a bikini.

Long over due post

Currently listening to: Coheed & Cambria - The Velourium Camper III: Al the Killer

So I haven't posted in over a week. This is because I was in Hotlanta with my FIRST team Gael Force. I have alot to update, so, I'll do so through short little day-by-day blurbs below. Enjoy:

Wednesday, April 26th:
After still being up since Monday morning, I made my way with Vickers and Gunnar to Nypro for 3:30am. We got the stuff ready, met up with the team, and drove to Logan. Arrived in Hotlanta around 10:30, hotel by 11ish, room by 1pm, lunch by 2ish. I started stumbling around 1:30. I proceeded to drink an inordinate amount of soda during lunch to keep me going. When I got back to my room finally around 3, I was at the 55 hour point of being up continuously. I then crashed and burned. I slept 11 hours and was still tired. What a dumb idea.

Thursday, April 27th:
Woke up still tired from the previous 3 days. Went to the Georgia Dome, got the robot ready and ran practice matches all day. Went out partying with Jess and Andy later on.

Friday, April 28th:
Woke up sick again (several days at this point in a row). Competed in our Qualifying Rounds and did okay. Partied with Jess and Andy (see a trend starting?)

Saturday, April 29th:
Did our last two QR's with great success. Was ranked in the end 21 out of 83 for our division, not too bad. We were picked by the 5th seeded team and proceeded to win the Quarter Finals, and then lost in a hellish match in the Semis (against the team that won the whole thing, they barely beat us. So, who knows what could have happened had we won...). Went to the after party in the park, and then proceeded to the real after party with Jess. I got to meet alot of the FIRST people who are higher up in the chain whom I hadn't met before. Including Dave Lavery (NASA engineer who helped design one of the rovers still driving around on Mars) whom I have spoken with before in groups but never one on one. It's a shame that by the time he showed up to the party, I had already drank a Gin & Tonic, a glass of Jameson, a bottle of Guinness, and a really strong Long Island Iced Tea. I'm pretty sure that I didn't make an ass of myself in front of him, but who knows?

Sunday, April 30th:
Woke up after only a few hours of sleep (jess and I got home around 3am and I had to wake up at 7). Went to the aquarium (the world's largest), toured the Coke Museum, and then went to Hard Rock for dinner.

Monday, May 1st:
Woke up early and played hacky sack and Slaps for about 2 hours with the guys. Good times were had. Flew home with no problems and arrived in Clowntown around 7pm.

Tuesday, May 2nd:
Worked all day, went to Moe's for dinner with the SocComm crew, and then went to Guster at Holy Cross. The show was awesome.