March 13th, 2023: Robotics and The Aftermath of Daylight Savings

Today was not bad, but I'm still pretty tired.

Today our Robotics Meeting was held for 3 hours instead of our regular 2, since it's "crunch time" for our robot.
Today we did lots of logistics work regarding competition day. We decided on food and delegated our roles for the day. Since our team is pretty small, we aren't able to swap out roles throughout the competition, but all of us are OK with that.
Afterwards, the bumper team decided to help out the gripper/arm team work on their motors by greasing up the gearboxes and installing the motor on them. One of our mentors managed to track down some of the motors which were out of stock, which was really nice of them.
The others on the team worked on installing the wheels and spacers onto the gripper mechanism and sanding down some of the metal from when we were working at the Spartans. Overall, I wouldn't exactly consider today to be the most productive day for our robot since we had to figure out many of the logistics for the competition day, but those are important to settle before competition day.

Personally, I think one of the greatest positives of Daylight Savings is the extra daylight until the end of the day. Prior, sunset at 6 PM wasn't the greatest thing, because it meant that I couldn't be out as long. This also meant that I couldn't really go for a run if I wanted to. However, as a result of Daylight Savings, I can see the sunrise and the sunset at a pretty good time.
Of course, the lost hour sucks for a lot of other time dependent systems. For example, medicine, the circadian rhythm, computers, etc. Everyone is always a little more tired after Daylight Savings.

I think most of these blogs will be cut short for the rest of this week since competition is coming soon, and I have an upcoming deadline for Yearbook Club and other homework to catch up on.

Thanks for reading,
Issac