Don't let anyone know what you're working on (and why)

My mom and dad and Alex are coming to visit us later in October! I'm excited. General Conference is also coming up in October! I'm excited. October bills are also coming up! I'm not excited.

I read a recent study done in which they determined that if you let other people know your personal goals you'll be less likely to achieve them. Most people think that by telling others they'll be more accountable and therefore more motivated to get it done, but nope. By letting someone know your goal, it creates a premature sense of completeness. Hence why if I tell someone a project it doesn't get completed but if I don't tell someone it does end up getting completed. https://www.inc.com/melissa-chu/announcing-your-goals-makes-you-less-likely-to-ach.html

Played Architects of the West Kingdom on Thursday (Thursday nights a game club meets in Mesa). Super fun. I ended up winning. And yes, I still would have thought it was fun even if I lost.

The post with many pictures

First things first--Heather beat me in a game of Alhambra. Again.

Here is a picture of a Temple.

And it rained and there was a rainbow!

And here's some pictures of Joy because Joy is cute.

And here's a picture of some poop because who doesn't love looking at pictures of poop? At any rate, Joy has been so enthralled at Henry using the potty that she feels she has to too, so we got her a little unicorn baby potty. She actually uses it, too, as evidenced by said picture.

And now some more pictures of our wonder children.

Also, I've been reading the book we're doing for our Junior English class out loud and recording them. They are now on my YouTube channel if you want to check them out.

Game ideas I have

One of my favorite game pieces is colored dice. I love colored dice. Just the sheer amount of awesome things you can do with colored dice makes my mouth water. Well, not only do I have a whole ton of colored dice, but also a whole ton of colored meeples. The question is now: what sort of awesome game can I create using 100 colored dice and 100 colored meeples? The kind of question that makes a person like me super excited.

One really fun game I made growing up was Lost: The board game. I still love the idea of three different pieces, triangle, square, and circle, and rolling three dice and moving three pieces. In fact, 90% of that idea I want to reimplement some time. Maybe take out the Clue theme idea, and go to Victory points such as San Juan.

Found my old notes to Thousand Faces, the card game based off of Hero with A Thousand Faces. I’m teaching the hero’s journey to my Seniors the next few weeks, so I might have to dust it off.

No idea if this above video will work, but I'll put it up. Joy is getting so big!