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2007-04-05 4:17 PM

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Subject: Boring Meeting - mental gymnastics

How do you pass the time in a boring meeting? I mean after you've reviewed your training schedule and estimated your best case and worst case splits for your next race. I've developed a game where I determine what each person in the room would likely be in an old west town. The positions available include:

  1. Gunfighter
  2. Blacksmith
  3. General Store clerk
  4. Livery stable hand
  5. Sherriff
  6. Deputy
  7. Cow hand
  8. Dancehall girl
  9. Café cook
  10. Prostitute
  11. School teacher
  12. Bar Tender

     

This is my "judge a book by it's cover" game whereby I assess someone by their looks, body language, manner of speaking etc. By the end of the meeting, I have everyone assigned!

 

~Mike



Edited by Rogillio 2007-04-05 4:20 PM


2007-04-05 4:25 PM
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i find the square roots of numbers out to three or four decimal places.

i need to refresh my memory on Fourier transforms, though. Those are fun.
2007-04-06 1:07 AM
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Subject: RE: Boring Meeting - mental gymnastics
Rogillio - 2007-04-05 3:17 PM

How do you pass the time in a boring meeting? I mean after you've reviewed your training schedule and estimated your best case and worst case splits for your next race. I've developed a game where I determine what each person in the room would likely be in an old west town. The positions available include:

  1. Gunfighter
  2. Blacksmith
  3. General Store clerk
  4. Livery stable hand
  5. Sherriff
  6. Deputy
  7. Cow hand
  8. Dancehall girl
  9. Café cook
  10. Prostitute
  11. School teacher
  12. Bar Tender

This is my "judge a book by it's cover" game whereby I assess someone by their looks, body language, manner of speaking etc. By the end of the meeting, I have everyone assigned!

~Mike



Wow, this is a great game. I'll have to laminate an index card with the available options. Shoudl I add a check box to each option that I can use a dry erase pen with? I could make a game of it at work and assign patients to each role. When I've got each role filled, I win! Kind of like solitare. I could keep a running tally of how many nights I "WIN". SOme nights will be winners and other nigts, all I may get is the Town Drunk., Wait, that wasn't an option, was it? OK, then cook then.
2007-04-06 7:54 AM
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blackberry poker or how to change my workouts for the next 6 wk period.
2007-04-06 8:05 AM
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AdventureBear - 2007-04-06 1:07 AM
Rogillio - 2007-04-05 3:17 PM

How do you pass the time in a boring meeting? I mean after you've reviewed your training schedule and estimated your best case and worst case splits for your next race. I've developed a game where I determine what each person in the room would likely be in an old west town. The positions available include:

  1. Gunfighter
  2. Blacksmith
  3. General Store clerk
  4. Livery stable hand
  5. Sherriff
  6. Deputy
  7. Cow hand
  8. Dancehall girl
  9. Café cook
  10. Prostitute
  11. School teacher
  12. Bar Tender

     

This is my "judge a book by it's cover" game whereby I assess someone by their looks, body language, manner of speaking etc. By the end of the meeting, I have everyone assigned!

 

~Mike

Wow, this is a great game. I'll have to laminate an index card with the available options. Shoudl I add a check box to each option that I can use a dry erase pen with? I could make a game of it at work and assign patients to each role. When I've got each role filled, I win! Kind of like solitare. I could keep a running tally of how many nights I "WIN". SOme nights will be winners and other nigts, all I may get is the Town Drunk., Wait, that wasn't an option, was it? OK, then cook then.

Wow, this is a great game. I'll have to laminate an index card with the available options. Shoudl I add a check box to each option that I can use a dry erase pen with? I could make a game of it at work and assign patients to each role. When I've got each role filled, I win! Kind of like solitare. I could keep a running tally of how many nights I "WIN". SOme nights will be winners and other nigts, all I may get is the Town Drunk., Wait, that wasn't an option, was it? OK, then cook then.

 

Good catch.  A cowboy town needs a town drunk!

New and improved list:

  1. Gunfighter
  2. Blacksmith
  3. General Store clerk
  4. Livery stable hand
  5. Sherriff
  6. Deputy
  7. Cow hand
  8. Dancehall girl
  9. Café cook
  10. Prostitute
  11. School teacher
  12. Bar Tender
  13. Town Drunk

BTW, don't forget to assign yourself a position.  Some times I'm the traveling gun slinger and some times I'm the sherrif.

~Mike

2007-04-06 8:07 AM
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Can I be the school teaching bar tending gun toting prostitute?  I can multitask pretty well.


2007-04-06 9:48 AM
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I am not that creative,  I just sit and suffer in pain as mental toughness training....
2007-04-06 10:52 AM
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New and improved list with descriptions:

  1. Gunfighter - a travelin' man…kinda rough around the edges
  2. Blacksmith - balding feller with a pot belly but big pikes from swinging the hammer
  3. General Store clerk - meek and mild mannered and kinda timid type
  4. Livery stable hand - young buck with not too much sense who thinks more highly of himself than he should
  5. Sherriff - commanding take-charge type
  6. Deputy - 'wanna be' commanding type
  7. Cowhand - redneck with cowboy boots and big belt buckle
  8. Dancehall girl - perky gal who is always smiling
  9. Café cook - sweaty type who is obviously very fond of food i.e. fat
  10. Prostitute - slut or working gal
  11. School teacher - prim and proper type with glasses
  12. Bar Tender - a listener who minds his own bidness
  13. Town Drunk - someone who obviously is fond of whiskey as evidence by their jaundiced skin color

~Mike



Edited by Rogillio 2007-04-06 10:53 AM
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