WARNING: Never hold a zip tie by its tail (the long, flat end) and use it like a whip to hit someone with the head (the square end that you can feed the tail through).
This happened to me on Sunday where, upon arriving, I was attacked by a bored freshman sophomore. It kind of stung, but I didn’t think anything of it… until I started trying to work on planning pre-season lessons. That’s when I noticed my hand was bleeding in several places (5, to be precise). I had to go upstairs to have Eric’s mom put some antiseptic on my hand (I don’t trust sophomore boys to keep their hands clean. Heck, I don’t trust me to keep my hands clean).
Needless to say, I was kind of pissed.
On the plus side, I managed to work with Daniel to get most of the training schedule for next year set. We have 12 days this year, up from 9 last year (just how school scheduling works out) (hooray!).
Training this year is going to be a LOT more hands on than last year. Half the sessions are reserved for hands on practice, including wiring and programming a robotic arm and building a set of drive trains. Hopefully everyone will come out of training ready to head straight into Build Season (or at the very least, know the difference between a bolt and a nut).
