New year, new calendar!

Somewhere along the line I started using calendars with 6 week printed to the page.  This started by playing with the early generation of desktop publishing apps in the late 80s, but really gelled up when I was in college a decade later.

At 6 weeks to a page I could fit a whole 16 week semester, plus a week of vacation on either side, on three pages of regular printer paper with no gaps.  Months didn’t really matter, really, it was way easier to have the whole semester just flow from week to week and then indicate the month next to the day in the corner of each box.

At 6 weeks to a page, that fits a whole year in nine pages, which I hang up as a 3 by 3 grid.   The whole year laid out all visible at once.

This week between christmas and the new years is always a strange liminal space; the old year is effectively over, but the new hasn’t started yet.  Perfect time to print out 9 pages and think about whats next.

There’s a trip in august we already planned.  Scout meetings.  School end, school start.

New year.  Blank space.

Potential.