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Where's that Boomtown Rats CD?

Alert reader Bob M. warns that January 24th (Monday) is the worst day of the year.

[…] [Dr. Arnalls's] formula for the day of misery reads 1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA.

Where W is weather, D is debt - minus the money (d) due on January's pay day - and T is the time since Christmas.

Q is the period since the failure to quit a bad habit, M stands for general motivational levels and NA is the need to take action and do something about it.[…]