Starting up a rough draft for the micro-economy I'll be starting when this project challenge comes to a close.
Hoping to have several containers of tokens or different colors and then both Emily and I would have our own personal pouches to keep them in while we keep score. Still figuring out what each one will be worth and whether to combine them for certain perks. Trying to keep it as simple as possible, while still providing flexibility and fun (of course!):
Fitness (Yellow):
Mileage: 3 miles = Yellow token
Push-ups: 100 = Yellow token
Try a new work-out regime: 3 Yellow tokens
Plank: 5 minutes = Yellow token
Food (Red):
Home-cooked meal = Red token
No Processed Food Day = 2 Red tokens
No Meat Day = Red token
No Sugar Day = Red token
Well-Being (Blue):
Day without internet: Blue token
Day without television: Blue token
15 minutes devoted to meditation: Blue token
Relationship (Purple):
Wash the dishes = Purple Token
Wash the bathroom = 2 Purple Tokens
Laundry = 3 Purple Tokens
I'm also going to lay out a brief idea I had for determining who goes first during a game. I'm in a rule making mood, can you tell??:
It's a small deck of cards with instructions for determining who goes first during a game. Each card would have a top section for the first game of the evening and then a bottom section for any and every subsequent game. As a note, this can also be a game on it's own that's just a series of mini-games. Game game game.
Example: The top of the card reads: Each player rolls a six sided die. The lowest number goes first. Ties re-roll until there is a clear winner.
The bottom of the card reads: The winner of the previous game assigns everyone a number (1-6). If there are numbers leftover, the winner can choose to give the remaining numbers to herself or other players. Then the winner rolls a d-6 the resulting assigned number goes first.
I was thinking of trying to create a whole 52 card deck of fun possibilities. Here are a few more:
TOP: Play a game of Shoot! where you count to three and everyone can do three things by pointing:
Shoot another
Shoot yourself
Shoot in the air (Pass)
If you shoot another, they are out unless they shoot themselves, in which case everyone who shot them is out. You can't shoot in the air more than twice in a row.
BOTTOM: Start pointing at a person and keep your hand pointing. That person then points to someone not pointing. This goes until there is only one person not pointing and they go first.
TOP: Ladies first. If there's more than one woman, draw another card and the choosing method only applies to them. If there are no women, draw another card.
BOTTOM: Gentleman's game. If there's more than one man, draw another card and the choosing method only applies to them. If there are no men, draw another card.
TOP: If you drew this card, go first.
BOTTOM: If you drew this card, go first.
TOP: Play a game of Elimination Categories. The drawer of this card picks a category and then everyone has to name something that goes in that category. If you repeat something, or take too long to respond you're out. The next person from whomever got out picks another category. Repeat as necessary. Last person remaining goes first.
BOTTOM: Pick a number between 1 -100. The person who guesses the closes goes first. In the case of a tie, you go first.
TOP: Ask the group who is the strongest. If there is an argument about this, arm wrestle for verification. Do this until the strongest is apparent. That person goes first.
BOTTOM: Chose someone to have a staring contest with. First to blink or look away loses and the victor goes first.
Today's Drawing (inspired by the word "Jackanapes" from MW's word of the day. It's a monkey or a mischievous person.)
Today's "365" Project (Make something inspired by a spam e-mail you received lately. I worked off this graphic and wrote a short entry on someone stuck in a warehouse with just the items in the graphic.)
Excerpt from the dairy of Hammond Wayfair
Day 76
It's becoming harder to keep track of the days from inside the warehouse. The two clocks I have access to are set to different times so I'm not sure which is right and neither has a date setting. The bed turned out to be a wooden show model so I've been forced to sleep on the horrible green couch. The appliances all mock my plight, as they all remind me of food. I've put them all in a corner of the warehouse, with the exception of the popcorn maker, which contained 10 pre-packaged bags of popcorn kernels. I am on my final bag.
I don't know how much more solitude I can endure. One man Foosball is an exercise in futility, even if you hook up some of the handles to the hand-held and stand mixers...just no strategy. Rainbow Bunny and I are no longer on speaking terms since the incident with the ping pong paddle and despite recently getting engaged to Derrick the Polar Bear, our conversations have grown listless and dull. I long for the early days of making love beneath the plastic slide. Back when there was still cheese to cut and water to seltzer.
Nights are the worst. The old-timey lantern ran out of batteries in just 4 days and all the other lights didn't come with light bulbs. More mockery to add to my pain. The hat box I've been defecating in is nearly full. If I make it past day 100 I may just hammer myself into oblivion. Or corkscrew. There are not many options.
With love and may everything home be up to 70% off,
Hammond Wayfair
Hoping to have several containers of tokens or different colors and then both Emily and I would have our own personal pouches to keep them in while we keep score. Still figuring out what each one will be worth and whether to combine them for certain perks. Trying to keep it as simple as possible, while still providing flexibility and fun (of course!):
Fitness (Yellow):
Mileage: 3 miles = Yellow token
Push-ups: 100 = Yellow token
Try a new work-out regime: 3 Yellow tokens
Plank: 5 minutes = Yellow token
Food (Red):
Home-cooked meal = Red token
No Processed Food Day = 2 Red tokens
No Meat Day = Red token
No Sugar Day = Red token
Well-Being (Blue):
Day without internet: Blue token
Day without television: Blue token
15 minutes devoted to meditation: Blue token
Relationship (Purple):
Wash the dishes = Purple Token
Wash the bathroom = 2 Purple Tokens
Laundry = 3 Purple Tokens
I'm also going to lay out a brief idea I had for determining who goes first during a game. I'm in a rule making mood, can you tell??:
It's a small deck of cards with instructions for determining who goes first during a game. Each card would have a top section for the first game of the evening and then a bottom section for any and every subsequent game. As a note, this can also be a game on it's own that's just a series of mini-games. Game game game.
Example: The top of the card reads: Each player rolls a six sided die. The lowest number goes first. Ties re-roll until there is a clear winner.
The bottom of the card reads: The winner of the previous game assigns everyone a number (1-6). If there are numbers leftover, the winner can choose to give the remaining numbers to herself or other players. Then the winner rolls a d-6 the resulting assigned number goes first.
I was thinking of trying to create a whole 52 card deck of fun possibilities. Here are a few more:
TOP: Play a game of Shoot! where you count to three and everyone can do three things by pointing:
Shoot another
Shoot yourself
Shoot in the air (Pass)
If you shoot another, they are out unless they shoot themselves, in which case everyone who shot them is out. You can't shoot in the air more than twice in a row.
BOTTOM: Start pointing at a person and keep your hand pointing. That person then points to someone not pointing. This goes until there is only one person not pointing and they go first.
TOP: Ladies first. If there's more than one woman, draw another card and the choosing method only applies to them. If there are no women, draw another card.
BOTTOM: Gentleman's game. If there's more than one man, draw another card and the choosing method only applies to them. If there are no men, draw another card.
TOP: If you drew this card, go first.
BOTTOM: If you drew this card, go first.
TOP: Play a game of Elimination Categories. The drawer of this card picks a category and then everyone has to name something that goes in that category. If you repeat something, or take too long to respond you're out. The next person from whomever got out picks another category. Repeat as necessary. Last person remaining goes first.
BOTTOM: Pick a number between 1 -100. The person who guesses the closes goes first. In the case of a tie, you go first.
TOP: Ask the group who is the strongest. If there is an argument about this, arm wrestle for verification. Do this until the strongest is apparent. That person goes first.
BOTTOM: Chose someone to have a staring contest with. First to blink or look away loses and the victor goes first.
Haiku of the Day:
Red-spine eyeballs pop
and swivel, frenzied under
his crusty pinched lids
and swivel, frenzied under
his crusty pinched lids
Today's Drawing (inspired by the word "Jackanapes" from MW's word of the day. It's a monkey or a mischievous person.)
Today's "365" Project (Make something inspired by a spam e-mail you received lately. I worked off this graphic and wrote a short entry on someone stuck in a warehouse with just the items in the graphic.)
Day 76
It's becoming harder to keep track of the days from inside the warehouse. The two clocks I have access to are set to different times so I'm not sure which is right and neither has a date setting. The bed turned out to be a wooden show model so I've been forced to sleep on the horrible green couch. The appliances all mock my plight, as they all remind me of food. I've put them all in a corner of the warehouse, with the exception of the popcorn maker, which contained 10 pre-packaged bags of popcorn kernels. I am on my final bag.
I don't know how much more solitude I can endure. One man Foosball is an exercise in futility, even if you hook up some of the handles to the hand-held and stand mixers...just no strategy. Rainbow Bunny and I are no longer on speaking terms since the incident with the ping pong paddle and despite recently getting engaged to Derrick the Polar Bear, our conversations have grown listless and dull. I long for the early days of making love beneath the plastic slide. Back when there was still cheese to cut and water to seltzer.
Nights are the worst. The old-timey lantern ran out of batteries in just 4 days and all the other lights didn't come with light bulbs. More mockery to add to my pain. The hat box I've been defecating in is nearly full. If I make it past day 100 I may just hammer myself into oblivion. Or corkscrew. There are not many options.
With love and may everything home be up to 70% off,
Hammond Wayfair
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