Was about to leave a similar comment. A lot of this was pretty neutral, some of it heart-warming, and there isn't a lot of evidence of negativity here.
And I loved the little illustrations, all in all it felt like someone who took effort to make their environment prettier.
I was going to say, too! This seems absolutely joyful in comparison to my dreary (online) work calendar which just contains the same weekly recurring status meetings with the same people week after week, color coded by project.
It would be cool to have interoperability between calendar software and illustrative art software so modern office workers could create something like this during downtime/boredom!
> On January 20, 1983 we read “THE HUMP: TWO YEARS OF REAGAN DONE AND TWO MORE TO YEARS GO.” He was of course to be disappointed in this, and Election Day 1984 is colored a somber black. In April 1986, however, the calendars begin a month-by-month countdown: “Thirty-four months of Reagan left!!!”
There should be a word for these back-formations that specifically come from cutting this prefix looking thing off the front of a word to invert their meaning.
Looks like the page is currently being hugged to death so I’m not sure if this is actually related to OP, but…
My father was very much in the category of “disgruntled federal employee” during his employment with the USGS. I’ll spare most of the details, but the most ridiculous thing I remember was his screensaver showing the countdown, in days, until retirement. He had this going for at least 15 years prior to his retirement.
Can you imagine going into work every day and seeing a countdown with nearly 5000 days on it? Absolutely nuts to me.
Software calendars are so poor compared to this. There’s no concept of importance, of impact, of life. Just times and titles, every one equivalent. Digital calendars have hardly evolved since the palm pilot.
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A truly miserable government worker has a daily countdown to retirement. At extreme levels, down to the hour.
It would be cool to have interoperability between calendar software and illustrative art software so modern office workers could create something like this during downtime/boredom!
Unless you count cheering your measly 5 day vacation as 'disgruntled' I would say he is not disgruntled at all.
Rather a refreshing bit of hopefull and cares?
> On January 20, 1983 we read “THE HUMP: TWO YEARS OF REAGAN DONE AND TWO MORE TO YEARS GO.” He was of course to be disappointed in this, and Election Day 1984 is colored a somber black. In April 1986, however, the calendars begin a month-by-month countdown: “Thirty-four months of Reagan left!!!”
Disgruntled -> gruntled
Unhinged -> hinged
Overwhelmed/underwhelmed -> whelmed Discombobulated -> combobulate Disghust -> ghust
My father was very much in the category of “disgruntled federal employee” during his employment with the USGS. I’ll spare most of the details, but the most ridiculous thing I remember was his screensaver showing the countdown, in days, until retirement. He had this going for at least 15 years prior to his retirement.
Can you imagine going into work every day and seeing a countdown with nearly 5000 days on it? Absolutely nuts to me.