Meaning no offense to the noble hare, I want to talk about crazy, wild, improbable schemes, and how much fun they can be. Who knows what these two ducks are about to make with their five thousand pounds of wool felt, inflatable palm tree, disco ball, grandfather clock, steel girder, twine, ping-pong balls, croquet mallet, and old bicycle parts? But you just know it's going to be something impressive. My harebrained scheme of the day was concocted with my coworker and involved planning to cook large quantities of chili in crock pots. The part that made it feel like a scheme was our carefully written-up "Chili Worksheet" and the official chili project folder we created to file the worksheet in. Pretty much anything can turn into a harebrained scheme if you have the necessary expansive mindset and willingness to be silly. In such cases, I am more than happy to put in extra work for no discernible outcome other than the sublime conflation of the serious and the absurd. The resulting confusion often leads to childlike laughter, and that on its own is more than worth the effort.
