I have an embarrassing confession.

[LuckyCharms]

I am a spreadsheet guy. I have a spreadsheet that I have maintained EVERY SINGLE DAY, religiously, for about 25 years. There are about 15 different tabs in the spreadsheet that keep track if virtually everything in my life, both financially and otherwise. I have this obsession with organization, and tracking and counting things. I do not have OCD, but...

When Trump stole the election in 2016, I was so fucking depressed when walking my dog in the woods the day after election day, that I needed something to control, something to keep track of, something to look forward to. So when I got home, I added this thing on my spreadsheet that counted down the number of days left until fuckface was out of office. And every day when I updated the spreadsheet, I would manually subtract a day from the number of days remaining. I assumed he would be in for 8 years. I had cells that calculated the percentage of time completed, remaining, etc.

All that shit goes away as of today.

I think I may be a sick fuck.

[secondwind]

1. Methinks you may be a happy fuck....

[unblock]

2. outside of the foxnews bubble, the whole world has been counting the days....

[LiberalLoner]

4. +1

[lame54]

3. Your greatest miscalculation

[kirkuchiyo]

5. No, no

pretty sure you gots a touch of the ocd. But that's cool, everyone has to have a hobby.

[Turbineguy]

6. Looks like you'll end up with some

negative numbers.

Which is positive!

[Docreed2003]

7. Thanks for always sharing your best insanity with us Lucky !

[malaise]

8. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

You gained four years

[samnsara]

9. or just really, really bored :)

[Hortensis]

10. :) Hey, we all had ways of coping, or not. I woke up in the small

hours most nights for months and then lay there feeling that sick anxiety that took several months to mostly go away. Maybe a spreadsheet would have helped.

[Sneederbunk]

11. Spend more time with your dog.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

12. You wanna see a sick fuck, well, just watch Trump. You wanna see

millions more? Just look at his death cult.

You? You're just fine.

[True Blue American]

13. No, I think you

Are one of the smart ones, like the guy going past a line of voters, rolled down his window, asked,” How long have you guys been waiting!” A guy yelled back,” Four years!”

My depression is slowly lifting. Once we get the final word I am going to dance my Happy Dance!

Erase your spreadsheet, it is going away!

[Under The Radar]

14. You should try a database instead

[Dem2theMax]

15. I'll confess with you.

I wasn't counting by the day, because that large of a number was too depressing to comprehend.

I decided months was the best route to go. And I put it out in my front yard where everyone could see it. It started with a large number 48. Right now it's at number three, because I'm counting down to inauguration day.
I change the number on the 20th of every month.

All of my Democratic neighbors know what the numbers mean. The Republicans keep asking, and I keep telling them I can only give them the answer if they are a Democrat. For some reason, they accept that answer and walk away.

[ret5hd]

16. Maybe...someday...after boredom kicks in...

you could...i dunno...kinda hate to bring it up...maybe you could, you know...organize MY life...kinda pro bono...i dunno, probably too much to ask...but maybe...we'll talk later...think on it...kick it around...see what you think. Yeah, we'll definitely talk later, OK?

[joshcryer]

17. I am a data hoarder. I have every file...

...logs, chats, emails, videos, going back 20 years. And when I say everything, I mean, literally, everything. It all started when I read a book about a scifi concept of a guy who recorded his every moment, he dies, they clone him, and they play back his video memories to his clone. The clone was basically him. Don't worry, you're not sick.

I'm so glad you don't have to keep counting those days another 4 years.

And your data is going to be useful to someone some day. You need to back it up!

[Doodley]

21. How can you be sure you aren't a clone, and these aren't false memory implants?

[KatyMan]

22. Or like Karl Pilkington said

"If you have a doppelganger how do you know which one you are?"

[Doodley]

26. Oh, I love Karl Pilkington!

[joshcryer]

23. Shh... you're reminding me...

...of a very crazy crossfaded trip I had.

(think infinities upon infinities)

[Shermann]

18. Manually subtracting days?

The DATEDIFF function can do that easily.

=DATEDIF(TODAY(), "1/20/2021", "d" )

[LuckyCharms]

19. Yes, thanks Shermann...I have several

If/then statements, but I needed to get the satisfaction of subtracting each day manually.

[Shermann]

27. You are sick!

[Doodley]

20. No need to "confess," to being organized. Wish I did the same.

[Lunabell]

24. If it makes you feel better

and doesn't harm anyone, go for it. I have quirks. We all have quirks.

[yonder]

25. A couple years ago, my sister in law gave me a

Trump term countdown clock. Set for inauguration day, it's up on the mantle dutifully counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds till then.

[bucolic_frolic]

28. That's called catharsis

Flush your embarrassment as America flushes the national embarrassment.

[jaxexpat]

29. Alas, a kindred spirit.

I have a spread sheet which predicates all things on the date of my demise. You should see the numbers crunch when I project my life expectancy to 2085. Smoke from the afterburners and that stuff. A tee shirt that says "133 or bust.

[IronLionZion]

30. Isn't there a formula to calculate that in the spreadsheet based on the current date?

You can redo the spreadsheet now to countdown to when that deadbeat squatter gets evicted from the white house

[barbtries]

31. you could be a little OCD,

like my son, who is absolutely obsessive about poker chips of all things.

I'm a clinical monitor, one of perhaps many professions where being more than slightly anal retentive is an advantage. I am very good at my job.

[iluvtennis]

32. You had to do what you needed to do to maintain your sanity...we all did. BTW, I'm a data wonk

like you

[Bradshaw3]

33. Sounds like a non self-destructive way to cope to me

If something gets you through a difficult time - without hurting your health like excessive drinking - then you are not sick but healthy. Walking my dog helps me too.

[KT2000]

34. No sick but smart

You found a constructive way to deal with it. Our world is full of people who chose self-destructive ways of coping.

[peacebuzzard]

35. not at all! but you can have a 4 yr vacation!!

or, start another project.
don't worry, you have company, there are people just like you everywhere.

[Wounded Bear]

36. Sometimes, being wrong doesn't hurt that bad...

[Cheviteau]

37. Uh..Wait A Minute

Confession is good for the soul. It's said. So go ahead a 'fess up that you're OCD. Even worse than my wife's OCD.

[seltzerwater]

38. 15 Tabs?

Might be time to move that to a database

[Blue_true]

57. If the data in each tab is small enough, no need.

For massive datasets per tab, yes, what you suggested is the sensible method.

[Nevilledog]

39. Most of your posts could start with "I have an embarrassing confession"...........

[Gregory Peccary]

40. That seems to have brought good luck

Can you start a countdown on McConnell?

[bluecollar2]

41. Convert the days in office count for the second 4 years

Over to days until he goes to jail...

[Codifer]

42. I am reminded of

a Robert Heinlein story called "Year of the Jackpot". Seems that there was this poor sod, a statistician. who kept plots and graphs of everything from house prices to marriages to acreage of wheat, school grade averages, heights of hemlines (he wrote it in the early 60's), stock market levels, election results... you get the idea. He was looking for correlations. He began to notice that some of these had highs or lows that coincided on particular dates. On most of these dates something major happened somewhere in the world.

Then he noticed that almost all of the plots were trending to a coincidence of either high or a low points in the very near date certain. Not a good sign.

Has been years since I read it.

[NoMoreRepugs]

43. Yeah, your sick - welcome to the club.

[panfluteman]

44. Four More Years of Trump Was Just Beyond My Ability to Contemplate!

If Trump's first term has taught us anything, it has taught us that all prediction with this chaotic asshole is totally worthless, because even he doesn't know what the F he's doing, and where the heck he's going - it's just one day at a time with him, by impulse alone. Nobody could have predicted how badly he would mismanage the COVID pandemic, and it's still unclear as to exactly WHY he mismanaged it so badly. Frankly, if Trump had won a second term, it would have been futile to even assume that the country would be around to see the next election day. Trump may have even destroyed it long before his second term was up.

[Blue_true]

58. You know, when it looked like he could catch up and win, I had

a moment that I honestly have never had in my life, I pondered my future, not in an optimistic way but instead in a dark and emptying way. I truly was a scary moment for a normally optimistic person who has believed that he can out-survive anything. Like you, I couldn’t see a country after a second Trump term. I wasn’t sure that I wanted to stay here and watch that unfold, but I am part of this country to my core.

[Ponietz]

45. I didn't need to since someone on Twitter reminded every time I logged on

[Joinfortmill]

46. But a soon to be very happy one!

[Pepsidog]

47. Your not sick, it's your coping mechanism. DU keeps me sane.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

48. Like Amy Santiago on "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"?

The only cop-show that I can stomach anymore since it's a comedy.

[Pacifist Patriot]

49. You have got to be sh****ing me!

I thought I was the only one who did this. I'm not kidding. I have maintained my super tab-laden spreadsheet for just about 21 years. I have every weight I've ever recorded on a bathroom scale, every check I've ever written, etc. Well, since I started the spreadsheet. Obviously I had a life before I started doing this.

I too added a countdown tab, albeit a little more optimistically. Today we are 94.867% through the Trump presidency* and have 75 days to get through until Biden is sworn in.

Budge up, because we're going to have to be sick fucks together!

[TexasBushwhacker]

50. You could have a tab "Good things Trump did"

If course, the spreadsheet would be blank.

[Brainfodder]

51. Not a for fun I voted for Trump confession thread?

So perfectly beautifully disappointed with that hype and timing!



Maybe you just like the power and control afforded to spreadsheet users?



I spent an absurd amount of time on one myself.

[treestar]

52. Brian Williams' show did that

every night announcing the xth day of the Dump Administration.

[calimary]

53. No worries - said she who's been counting her way through COVID!

We’re at 244 days in self-quarantine today (Friday 11/6).

[TigressDem]

54. Everyone needs a hobby.

[Blue_true]

55. 15 tabs in a spreadsheet, impressive.

I have never been able to get past 10 tabs, I always fractionate data and start new spreadsheets, foldering similar themed data into the same folder.

[jcgoldie]

56. wow!

I cant even find my keys...