Donut of Misery
This post is just a quick plug for the Donut of Misery. Created by members of the military, the donut is used as a countdown to when deployment ends. I’ve modified it slightly to countdown the end of my surgery rotation. I’m already at the 50% mark.
military wife said,
April 25, 2008 at 2:24 am
i want one
kristen said,
June 20, 2008 at 12:57 am
i would like one
Oorah Wife said,
July 7, 2008 at 10:09 pm
If you google “donut of misery” you should be able to download an excel file, then just put in the start date and the end date and itll tell you everything. But you have to save it when you exit, or itll stop counting!
serving in the military said,
September 4, 2008 at 3:45 pm
I’m currently in the military and i heard about this from one of the docs that i work with. I modified it to when i leave my current duty station. It’s a great thing!
lori said,
September 10, 2008 at 8:08 pm
how do i get the donut?
halfmd said,
September 11, 2008 at 1:02 am
Click on the link in the article.
kristen said,
September 16, 2008 at 5:34 pm
i hv tryed the google thing but its not workin not to sure how to get a donut
halfmd said,
September 16, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Download the Excel chart from this link: http://thebalderstons.com/DonutOfMisery.xls
Lizzzard said,
December 8, 2008 at 12:38 am
My husband is in Korea and we’ve been using the Donut of Misery since the week he got there. It’s been a life saver. . .especially when it started actually making it look like it w as SOON when he was coming home.
We talk about it all the time. . . it’s a great and fun thing to have and his son and I look at it often to remind ourselves how much time has passed and how long we have to go till Daddy goes home!
alisa said,
January 22, 2009 at 12:26 pm
just got it. my hubby left only a week ago. so i have a long time. till i see him again.
pa girl said,
February 9, 2009 at 9:44 pm
what if u dont have excel?
Half M.D.: Microsoft has a free reader to look through Excel charts.
Joann said,
February 13, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Then you aren’t able to download it, I believe you have to have Excel
marg said,
February 20, 2009 at 7:22 pm
It works with openoffice.org (the freeware office suite made by Sun Microsystems), too.
Arlene said,
March 10, 2009 at 11:53 am
Thanks for sharing this; my husband just told me about it since he’s deployed, and I was having trouble finding a link to the xl file until I found your post.
heidi said,
April 13, 2009 at 6:44 pm
hi my hubby is getting deployed soon and i would like to get one of these started for me and my son, can you send it to my email please!!!!!?
Half M.D.: You can just download it right here.
Sailor's hunny bunny said,
May 11, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I use it even for the short underway periods. I love it.
SSG's Wifey said,
May 17, 2009 at 6:15 pm
i just downloaded this, although he will be home in October, it actually does look like we’ve accomplished this deployment. thanks for it, i found out about it just now from a friend who’s husband came home last week. we will be pcs’ing in january so i’ll use this then too. yay!!!
Ami said,
June 6, 2009 at 1:51 am
Everytime I try to download this I get a read-only file with Open Office. Am I doing something wrong?
Half M.D.: Try right-clicking the file –> “Properties” –> and unclick “Read only” to see if that changes anything. I don’t use Open Office—so I’m not sure if the program has some incompatibilities with the Excel file.