Mark Balla

Pinning my LabVIEW. What are your the plans for tonight.

Playing farmer today picking potatos.and beans with the girlscouts to give to the food pantry

Robot completion is over for our team this season. Didn't get picked for the finals. Finals are going to be awesome though.

RT @CNNweather Every single state has snow in it except Florida: http://twitpic.com/3p3bqkshoveling snow lift with your legs not your back.

RT @MikeAivaliotis Guess where I was today? http://t.co/CYQ6QWV Airport, Empire TSA is tough. Fail body scan they freeze you in carbinite.

School starts tomorrow. Taking the girls on a fun dinner date. Tia appetizers, Boston market then baker square for pie.

Sitting around

So during a 20 minute technical issue the MC had the field dance to/with the crowd to keep them energized. Sho… (cont) http://deck.ly/~P65Sg

So during a 20 minute technical issue the MC had the field dance to/with the crowd to keep them energized. Shout, Jump, YMCA, I only get to dance like that at NI Week and wedding receptions. Fun Day!

So I've recruited 2 other top Labview users for the FRC team. But our lead student wants to program the robot in Python. #throwmeacurveball

Sorry bad link try this instead http://bit.ly/owPN3H @mballa If you are interested in an architecture derived from the CLA summit

Stayed up till 2am last night working on the robot with the other mentors. The robot just placed it's first tube. Life is good

Sweet home chicago. It we was great seeing everyone at the cla summit.now on to milwaukee frc robotics to see who will kick bot this year.

Taking my oldest daughter to dinner and potter for her 12th birthday

Testing my new phone http://twitpic.com/2a5aj1

Thank to everyone for the birthday wishes. I hope to make my 43rd year better than my 42nd

That could not next year.

The #FIRST Milwaukee regional is done. Great ending to a great week. Excited about the Chicago one in 2 weeks where our team will compete.

Thinks Chicago Union Station is one of the best places in the world to people watch.

Waiting for the other Champions where are you Jeff K is here

Went to our first Northern Illinois User Group meeting in a while. I made sure more users know about LAVA, JKI State Machine, Norms TLD and my icon editor. Life is good.

While my sister takes the kids shopping we are getting a head start on wrapping presents.

WOW! If kids building robots energizes you like it does me then you got to become a part of First Robotics FTC