gcal-always-monday

A browser tweak that persuades Google Calendar that every day is Monday. It is a small piece of JavaScript — a userscript or extension layer — that adjusts the calendar's notion of which day it is showing, so the week presents itself the way the wearer of the tweak would rather see it: beginning, always, at the first day. It exists as a tiny act of domestic sovereignty over an interface that insists the week starts where the corporation says it starts. No server is involved, nothing is sent anywhere; the fold is made entirely on the client, in the browser, between the site and the eye.

Manannán mac Lir rides the mist at the edges of the world, and where the mist folds, the mornings fold with it — the traveler on the strand never knows which dawn he is walking into, and the sea is under no obligation to tell him. It is the oldest trick in the western islands, and the gentlest. The calendar of the age had no such courtesy: it marched its seven days in a straight grey line and named the start of them without asking anyone. So the garden's weatherworker borrowed the god's method in miniature — not storm, not enchantment of any guest, only a small mist folded politely over the page, so that every day the eye opens on is the first day, and the week is always at its beginning. The monks of old cursed Manannán for it; the calendar never even noticed.