Bastard's Notebook

Every week, I end up seeing jedimomma post up the results of someting called the "Independence Day Challenge." Seems to be an organic/self-suffiecency challenge. I honestly keep looking at it and wanting to try to adapt it to Tormented Artifacts stuff, rather than just keeping a simple body count. It'd at least be a bit more realistic relection of what got done during the week. Anyways, here's the steps of the challenge report, which'd obviously have to get modified to be applied to crafting stuff rather than growing/harvesting. (Parentheticals are, of course, the ideas for adapting it to my own nefarious purposes.)


1. Plant something. (Start something. Something new has to get started each week regardless.)

2. Harvest something. (Finish something! Easy! And it's a spot for the old Body count report to go!)

3. Preserve something. (I got nothing.)

4. Prep/Stored something. (Prep work- cutting new mask blanks, salvaging, take your pick?)

5. Cook something new. (Build something new! Duh!)

6. Manage your reserves. (Stays the same. This was one of the lines that got me thinking about converting the concept in the first place.)

7. Work on local food systems. (Work on networking/promotions, maybe? That or work on finding new supply systems.)

8. Reduce Waste. (No changes needed.)

9. Learn a new skill. (My biggest goal for this off season anyways. New media, new styles, new results.)