Let's Play a Game!

Who loves games? I do! I do!

You do too? Ok good, we're going to play a game!

This game came to my mind after I wrote the post yesterday about taking pictures of the little Civic's odometer every morning on our cross-country road trip (see yesterday's post). Tonight in the Zulu module, I found the big Nimitz's "odometer" which displays how many miles we've steamed since July 31, 2009.

This is going to be like the Price Is Right (Dan- you'll be good at this then! Everyone remember to ask Dan about the time that he and his 10 friends also coincidentally named "Dan" were on the Price is Right in Vegas during his Bachelor Party. Dan won a dinette!... ok, small fib. Dan actually won the choice between cash and a dinette and he went with the moo-lah, good choice Dan!... but how fun is it to say that "Dan won a dinette on the Price is Right!"? I feel like that is SOOO P.I.R. to win a "dinette"- who even uses that word in their vocabularly OTHER than when watching the Price is Right? Anyways, once again, I digress...) - the person who guesses closest WITHOUT going over is the WINNER!

So, now it's your turn to get to be on Price is Right (feel free to sport an oversized price-tag shaped nametag too while you post your answer). All you have to do is guess how many miles the USS NIMITZ has steamed so far this deployment.

There are two ways to play the game and I think that Dan and I take 2 opposite approachs to this problem, which is very much like "Guess How Many Jellybeans Are In This Jar?"- (I was never good at as a kid. I quickly picked a random number and instead pondered if I could eat them all myself and would they let me try?). Dan is much more strategizing when it comes to these types of things (which is probably why he won the dinette on Price Is Right, and illustrates in another way how smart I think he at Systems Engineering) and is very calculating and methodological at solving problems and challenges.

While not normally liking to admit that I am wrong, when it comes to this problem, I guarantee you that the Dan approach is much more effective and will most likely yield you an answer way closer than that one that I would have initially said ("I dunno, 2 MILLION nautical miles!!!").

I'm not going to give any clues yet, other than that fact that 1) I am on an aircraft carrier and 2) we've been gone since July 31, 2009. I look forward to hearing what you come up with. If everyone guesses the same way I usually do, then I will give a little bit of information to help you try and calculate it.

Winner gets a cool prize*. Submissions will be accepted until Sunday March 21st. I promise to read all comments/guesses and I will give a clue if it gets out of hand. Ready? Set? Go!



*Prize is yet to be determined. Coolness of the prize is in the eye of the giver (which is me), and the giver and winner's definition of "cool" may be different. That's not the point, but I promise that there is a prize involved. Thank you for playing and good luck :)