*TLDR – Too Long Didn’t Read Summary*
I got a calendar that helps me map out my bad days during the year. I have a methodology as to how these days are calculated and I believe people can employ their own ways of divining their numerical rhythm to get a list like mine.
*The Actual Post*
For as long as I could remember, I always wanted a simple, large wall mounted calendar. It wasn’t for the purposes of micromanaging the year but more like being able to articulate macro trends in my life I want to push along or offset.
Last year, a friend of mine introduced me to a life coach/guru that sold a style of calendar she felt I would like. I looked into it and promptly ordered a copy:
The calendar has worked out very well for me this year. Here it is, photographed sometime in late September with a 28X40 frame & print for scale (I’ve been struggling with a way to hang this beautiful Athena print and Camilla from https://camillawellspaynter.wordpress.com gave me a suggestion on a non-drywall invasive way to do it. Thanks Camilla!). *Also, this is photographed with a rented Nikkor 135 f/2 DC – absolutely stunning detail capture!*
The calendar’s main purpose is to map out the likelihood of negative days occurring for me within the 365 days of the year given my attitudes towards risk and overall schedule. I have my own “proprietary” (I use this term loosely lol) way of forecasting where these bad days will occur so I just needed a calendar to be able to see it.
I have this complicated relationship with probability and overall skill. It’s tough to explain and I’m not really sure I could articulate it without writing a massive word-meatloaf post.
I made a mistake when I first set up the calendar which will make this whole section sound a bit convoluted – but it’ll help you if you decide to purchase this calendar (I’m not affiliated with this company nor do I get any commission). So, as soon as I got the numerical “bad day” list, I started my corresponding calendar day count. However, I made a mistake in counting those blank boxes – now filled in – as actual days when the reason they had no numbers on them was because that’s where the month ended numerically on the horizontal row. I was already up to November when I realized why the count seemed strange and out of whack.
Anyway, those orange post-its (an optional add-on purchase) were miscounted values and as such, I covered them with the stickers. My other friend made the suggestion to take off the permanent marker underneath the sticker with rubbing alcohol but as I was about to do it, I felt like my friend’s advice may have been a sign and that I should keep these stickers on to define those days as instances where I should press my luck – I feel like my friend is very wise and lucky so I follow his observations closely.
You’ll see that aside from the check marks on the days, there’s a written message in the middle of the box:
“DNE Life” isn’t my stage name as a local hip-hop artist 😂, it stands for Do Not Engage Life. On the days where that’s marked, it reminds me to be especially risk averse. It doesn’t mean I’m going to be curled up in a corner at home, although sometimes I may just do that lol, it just means that I need to be profoundly aware of my surroundings and not to expose myself to unnecessary difficulties. I’m somewhere between superstitious and systematized.
I’ve worked out a percentage, with variance, of how many bad days I’ll have out of the 365 days of the year and I have my computer program spit out numbers between and including 1 and 365. The irony of this methodology is that it is more than likely baseless – but I believe that the only force strong enough to countervail life’s natural entropy is an equal pushing force of quasi-entropy divined from a personal numerical rhythm. I believe everyone has their own unique numbers that they themselves can divine from clues around their lives. *cue twilight zone music* 😂
Soooooooo
My calendar for 2025 has arrived. And sometime this weekend before 2025 commences, I’m going to obtain a numerical list between and including the numbers 1 and 365 to give me the days that I should be very careful of.
Here’s the new blank calendar, different color this year, and with half of my fishing pole for scale:
There was just enough snow that fell in New Jersey a few days ago that we could get the ol’ plastic toboggan out for one afternoon 🙂
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