Yay! Presents!

In thinking about WHAT an egg is, I came up with this:

And then I thought to myself, "Way too artsy fartsy."

(Note: the last couple paragraphs weren't actually in my initial thought - you'll see why they were added in a bit)

Still, I decided to stick with this message. The original idea was to bind an egg to a mass of helium-filled balloons. The above message would be attached to said egg in the hopes that somebody would happen upon it. Sounded like a good idea. And then I thought about it. An egg, though it is light, DOES have some substantial mass - a lot of balloons would be required (the thought of hollowing out the egg entered my mind here). Also I live in Shelbyville. You go 20 miles in any direction, and you have farmland. The odds of somebody finding it would be slim. Besides, I'm not too keen on letting a dozen or so latex balloons litter the landscape and having a hapless goat potentially choke to death on it. SO...back to the drawing board.

Luckily, my stay was short. Perhaps influenced by my ever-present Super Mario Brothers item box leering at me from atop my bookshelf, a thought crept into my mind. "Hey! Everybody likes presents!" I decided then to hollow out the egg, insert a little message, and leave it in a public place. And so I began. First off, I hollowed out the egg (tip: don't stand near a solid wood kitchen table when blowing an egg, lest you lose consciousness).


Next, I whipped up the "message" to hide inside. I decided to adjust my original egg thoughts a bit, and use that. Of course, that's a beast of a message to fit in a tiny hole, so I did the next best thing - linked it.

(Bonus potential traffic!)

Once the strip of link was rolled up and placed in the egg

(The tiny dark spot is the rolled up note)

I decorated the egg a bit, both as an homage to the inspiration (a Yoshi egg/Mario Brothers thing) and as a way for the egg to stand out.


Once my little guy was good to go, with message in shell, I placed him outside in the elements.


Then I brought it back in, where it became very moody after being out in the cold.


Or maybe not. I had fun thinking of ways to use the egg, and found a lot of frustration when ideas didn't work (especially after devoting some time to preparing them). Ultimately, I think this is a fun idea that would bring a smile to somebody's face. It could be a neat little experience to create a large amount of these message-bearing eggs, scatter them about, and wait to see if anybody actually responds. We shall see...we shall see.