The Ricky Game: A Day In The Life
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jeshyrYou will need: A 6-sided dice.
10am you wake up. Start the day with 10 points.
Roll your dice:
1-3 - you slept fine, no penalties
4 - last night you had a 1 hour migraine, start the day with minus 1 point
5 - Last night you had a 3 hour migraine, minus 2 points
6 - Last night you had a 5+ hour migraine, minus 4 points
Roll your dice again:
1 - it's an unusually good day for no clear reason, 1 extra point
2-4 - regular day
5-6 - bad day, minus 2 points
(You now have between 4-11 points)
Activities you can do during now and 3pm:
Lie in bed, moving only for short bathroom breaks. Boring easily digested meal cut up small for you. No other activities at all. 1 point. You must choose this.
Listen to radio, audiobooks, pat the cat, check Facebook occasionally, eat regular cut-up meals. Normally this is almost always chosen. 1 points.
You might also want to do some of these:
Wipe down with baby wipes and get changed. 1 point.
Watch TV for 1 hour. 1 point.
General web surfing and reading easy stuff all morning. 1 point.
Thirty minutes of studying or hard mental effort like programming or drawing. 1 point.
Sit in recliner for an hour and chat to a friend. 2 points.
Have a lying down bath with lukewarm water, get dry afterwards with help and get dressed. 4 points.
Go out in reclining wheelchair to a doctor’s appointment or down the street to the shops (remember if you are still out seeing the doctor then you can’t nap later). 6 points.
If you need extra points (for example for a doctor’s appointment that can’t be shifted), this is the procedure: Roll your dice -
1-3 - You successfully borrow points from tomorrow. Points come with interest - tomorrow you start with a penalty equal to twice the number you borrowed (e.g. if you borrow 2 points, tomorrow you start with -4).
4 - You successfully borrow points from tomorrow, but there’s no interest. Tomorrow you start with a penalty equal to the number you borrowed (eg if you borrow 2 points, tomorrow you start with -2).
5 - Your point borrowing has failed. You have no additional points today (cancel your appointment), and still start tomorrow with a penalty equal to the number you tried to borrow.
6 - Your point borrowing failed catastrophically (cancel your appointment). No additional points today, and tomorrow your penalty is equal to twice the number you tried to borrow.
Now it's 3pm. Go lie down for your nap. Roll dice to see if your nap is successful:
1 - excellent nap. 1 more point.
2-4 - good nap. No penalty.
5-6 - you can't sleep. -1 points.
If you don't nap at all, -2 points.
Activities you can do during now and 10pm:
Lie in bed, moving only for short bathroom breaks. Boring easily digested meal cut up small for you. No other activities at all. 1 point. You must choose this.
Listen to radio, audiobooks, pat the cat, check Facebook occasionally, eat regular cut-up meals. Normally this is almost always chosen. 1 points.
If you have spare points, you can choose any of the morning’s activities too.
10pm - bedtime.
PS
I spent a fair while doing this, it's a fairly good representation of my actual life just now.
10am you wake up. Start the day with 10 points.
Roll your dice:
1-3 - you slept fine, no penalties
4 - last night you had a 1 hour migraine, start the day with minus 1 point
5 - Last night you had a 3 hour migraine, minus 2 points
6 - Last night you had a 5+ hour migraine, minus 4 points
Roll your dice again:
1 - it's an unusually good day for no clear reason, 1 extra point
2-4 - regular day
5-6 - bad day, minus 2 points
(You now have between 4-11 points)
Activities you can do during now and 3pm:
Lie in bed, moving only for short bathroom breaks. Boring easily digested meal cut up small for you. No other activities at all. 1 point. You must choose this.
Listen to radio, audiobooks, pat the cat, check Facebook occasionally, eat regular cut-up meals. Normally this is almost always chosen. 1 points.
You might also want to do some of these:
Wipe down with baby wipes and get changed. 1 point.
Watch TV for 1 hour. 1 point.
General web surfing and reading easy stuff all morning. 1 point.
Thirty minutes of studying or hard mental effort like programming or drawing. 1 point.
Sit in recliner for an hour and chat to a friend. 2 points.
Have a lying down bath with lukewarm water, get dry afterwards with help and get dressed. 4 points.
Go out in reclining wheelchair to a doctor’s appointment or down the street to the shops (remember if you are still out seeing the doctor then you can’t nap later). 6 points.
If you need extra points (for example for a doctor’s appointment that can’t be shifted), this is the procedure: Roll your dice -
1-3 - You successfully borrow points from tomorrow. Points come with interest - tomorrow you start with a penalty equal to twice the number you borrowed (e.g. if you borrow 2 points, tomorrow you start with -4).
4 - You successfully borrow points from tomorrow, but there’s no interest. Tomorrow you start with a penalty equal to the number you borrowed (eg if you borrow 2 points, tomorrow you start with -2).
5 - Your point borrowing has failed. You have no additional points today (cancel your appointment), and still start tomorrow with a penalty equal to the number you tried to borrow.
6 - Your point borrowing failed catastrophically (cancel your appointment). No additional points today, and tomorrow your penalty is equal to twice the number you tried to borrow.
Now it's 3pm. Go lie down for your nap. Roll dice to see if your nap is successful:
1 - excellent nap. 1 more point.
2-4 - good nap. No penalty.
5-6 - you can't sleep. -1 points.
If you don't nap at all, -2 points.
Activities you can do during now and 10pm:
Lie in bed, moving only for short bathroom breaks. Boring easily digested meal cut up small for you. No other activities at all. 1 point. You must choose this.
Listen to radio, audiobooks, pat the cat, check Facebook occasionally, eat regular cut-up meals. Normally this is almost always chosen. 1 points.
If you have spare points, you can choose any of the morning’s activities too.
10pm - bedtime.
PS
I spent a fair while doing this, it's a fairly good representation of my actual life just now.
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