This task appealed to me because it reminded me that I often make things more difficult than necessary, and that usually there is no good reason to be doing that. Last week, I started making a sign. I think I could have made a fine sign in an hour or two, but I felt the need for some pointless difficulty. Instead of painting or using a marker, I decided to cut out letters. Instead of using letter patterns, I decided to draw the letters freehand. Instead of cutting them out of construction paper, I selected mylar foil (which is very thin, gets static cling, and rumples easily). Instead of using a sharp pair of scissors, I used a pair that has gotten gunked up with tape residue. Instead of using the glue dispenser, I poured glue into a bowl and dipped into it with my finger, leaving gluey fingerprints on the front of the mylar which I had to clean off. As the final difficulty, I selected a message that has more R's than any other letter, when R's are the letter that I have the most trouble drawing well. I finished the sign after a couple evenings worth of fussing, so I declared success. (You can see a picture of the entire sign when I finish the Bigger, Better, or more Bizarre documentation.)

Upon suggestion that perhaps this task completion lacked a certain something, I am appending a difference completion below.

It seemd like trying to juggle in a dark, full closet without using my hands should be stacking the deck against myself. I did not tie both hands behind my back because I had to use one hand to hold the camera, but I did keep the other hand behind my back. I held two eggs under my neck and tried to juggle. I got my hair tangled into some hangers and knocked over some stuff in the close. I dropped the eggs. I was not hard-core enough to use actual raw eggs, these were plastic. Several attempts yielded qualitatively similar results.