The Laptop

As some know, I usually use the laptop at work to get online while working. The laptop is there so we can use the Power Clock software to clock in and out of work. It is not supposed to be used for any other purpose.

Well, last week, we got rid of the Power Clock software, going only by pen/paper sign in. The laptop, however, was still there.

Today I came into work and the laptop was gone. I will no longer be able to get online from work anymore.

There are good things and bad things about this. The bad thing is, of course, I'll no longer be able to be online while at work. However, I think without the laptop there "taunting" me, I'll actually be able to get some homework done (something I was almost never able to do) and maybe start reading more books like I used to before I could get online at work.

I guess we'll see how things work out.

Bored at work

So, like I said earlier, I no longer have a laptop at work. This gives me lots of time to do homework and lots of other useless tasks.

Tonight’s useless task: The Shire Calendar.

In Appendix D of Return of the King, it gives a description of the Shire Calendar, how the dates worked, month names, day names, and the "rules" it follow. For example, every year starts on what would be our equivalent Saturday and every year ends on our equivalent Friday. Each month has 30 days. Etc. Lots of rules like that. So I decided to make a conversion so I could find out which of our dates corresponds to on the Shire Calendar.

After familiarizing myself with the rules, I started writing down some of the dates on paper. Usually doing the first and last days of our months and where they were at on the Shire calendar. I finally got the idea of how to do it and went over to one of the normal computers and opened Excel.

From there, I made a list of every day in the year (this was easy in excel using the fill handle and copy/paste). Then I made a list of all the Shire calendar dates, added in a column for the days of the week they use and voila, I had my conversion.

The End Result

Yes, I know, this is ABSOLUTELY USELESS!

But it was fun to do!


I'll probably use this to make some kind of code where you can enter the date and it will give the Shire Calendar date. Or maybe put it into a JavaScript so it takes the date from your computer and tells you the date on the Shire Calendar somewhere on a webpage. Who knows? Like I said, I was bored.

Anyone have any other suggestions of things for me to do???