Good Idea/Bad Idea

When Reagan started working I came up with this idea to take the bitter edge off of retail work.

"While you're working you're actually going about 60 miles per hour!"
I came up with that approximate number by taking approximate wage, dividing it by gas price, then multiplying the result by our car's mpg.

I wonder if there's a market for a fantasy travel kind of website where you put in your stats (wage, mpg, hours in shift) and then you can vicariously go places while you work. Suppose Reagan wants to spend the day taking a trip down Route 66. Each hour he's at work he gets an update with a description of some landmark roughly 60 miles from the last one. There would be options for picking your destination (as your range per shift would calculate how far you could go), or simply entering your location and let the site take you somewhere within your mileage parameters. There would be options to print out an hour-by-hour tale of your alternate identity's trip (to read at work when you don't have internet access), or you could get hourly text messages about your progress, or you can go to the website and see a more detailed description.

Then when it's popular, we'll introduce fictional worlds, make it more of a "role playing game" that's hardly a game at all. More like a text-based game where stats from "real life" are converted into stats in the game. But there's no heroic advantages to be had. So you tell the site you make $400 an hour (which gives you 40 gold an hour). The quality of the 'noble' sphere in the 'game' is not better than the 'lower class', just different. Because it's all fiction. (As I read over this I realize it's quite convoluted.)

That wonderfully, grandly awful idea gives me the (more manageable) idea of a choose your own adventure site. It would post 100-ish word installments of a story and a "what should happen next" poll several times during the day, and the audience (by vote) can pick what direction the story goes in. Tales would go at least a day, at most a week.

Smallest manifestation of this idea: Serialized fiction via twitter (not an original idea, though).

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For a myriad of small reasons (the largest among them being that no pages were scanned today), no art to post. I'll make up for it tomorrow, I promise.