On March 15, I had one of the greatest experiences of my life, and it may have been the best day of my life so far. I had been training for skills USA for about a month, like I talked about in my last post. After a long night of laying in the hotel room going over everything I had done leading up to this point. All of the reading about state inspeciton, all of the voltage drop tests, all of the diagram look ups on the computer, tool identification, and parts identification. I can't really say I was nervous when I woke up the next day, I had a sense of confidence. My teacher shows up the the hotel at about 7, an hour before the buss leaves to go to UTC, where the competition is going to be held. He says grab everything you need, we are taking my truck over, he was all nerved up, and it was pretty funny. So myself and the kid I was rooming with, who was doing the small engines competiton grab out stuff and we head to the truck. My teacher was stressing over every little thing, and he said he was nervous that the buss wasn't going to get me there in time, so we left an hour earlier than when I would be there on the buss . He was asking if we want Mcdonalds, or DD, anything that would give us an edge. Of course I could think of a few things, but I replied with a no. We show up and get all of our stuff ready, of course or computer that reads information from the computers in the motor won't hold a charge, and can take up to an hour to boot up if it dies instead of being shut off. Luckily my other tools were in working order, and I was still feeling good about the day To be continued.....