August Schedule
Posted on Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 at 6:47 pmD: We need to come up with a new home access schedule for August. Ellen has band camp next week and the following week – M-F from 1-9 pm (August 3-14; school starts Monday Aug. 24) so here’s my initial recommendation:
Friday, August 7, 1-8 pm
Friday, August 14, 1-8 pm
Friday, August 21, 9-6 pm
Too, let me know if you would like another weekend – I’m checking with your Mom to see when the condo is available in August…once I hear back from her, I’ll have a better idea of what will work.
I don’t really know you’re schedule…when you go to meetings, etc…so if the days/times above don’t work best…let me know, I am open to coming up with what will – for all of us.
Jen
D: I’ve got a post to post to you – To Share or Not to Share…it’s writing itself at this minute and will appear soon…watch for it…then I can talk about what remains “problematic.”
I anticipated the flood of emotions I would feel going to the condo and decided to deal with it anyway…I didn’t think of what Ellen might feel or what you might feel…here, while we were there.
Action: Asked Lynne availability of the beach condo.
Intent: To keep David out of this decision.
Belief: I’m still a member of the family and have a right to go.
Jen
OK. I’ll post the AA calendar later today. It is HUGE. There are more than five hundred meeting every week. Fortunately, iCal allows individual calendars to be activated and deactivated at will.
OK. You ask your parents to admit they made a mistake the end of ’05, and it will be easier for me to avoid resentment when you ask mine for whatever you want.
If you promise to stand by me while I ask your parents to admit making a mistake ’05, then it will be easier for me to accept any arrangement you make with mine.
Of course, me getting what I want, and you getting what you want – all that – remains ‘problematic’.
But, anyway, the beach, according to The Who, is a place where a person can “feel, the only place in the world that’s real.” So, you ought to go.
Hey there…so we’re up at the same time. Sure, post the iCal with the AA meetings…it will be handy. iCal is cool and I will start to use it. Just received the WildCat newsletter in the mail with all sorts of dates for the school year…will add these and others over the weekend and post back to you.
I put the last of the crickets in Flight #3 this morning…still no baby sounds…please get more crickets when you think they will need them.
Well…it’s a pretty morning…hope you have a good day, David.
Jen
When you click on the iCal link I put in the blog it should open iCal. iCal then should prompt you to select a destination calendar for the new events. Unless you already have a calendar for Ellen, you will want to put the events in a new calendar. To do this put your cursor on the calendar named in the prompt window. When you do that a scrolling menu will appear. Scroll to the bottom and you will find the option for ‘new calendar’.
To keep me in the know with iCal, you will have to export the iCal event(s) to a file that you post here on the blog.
Want the iCal for Central Florida AA meetings? Yeah, I did that. But I haven’t made time to proof it.
Anyway, iCal is very cool, I think. All sorts of alerts can be added. And throw in some Applescript and … who knows?
…and when I was wrong…promptly admitted it.
David. I’m sorry for my insensitivity. What you pointed out to me about myself is probably nothing new to you…and I’m sorry for that, too.
Finding another place for Ellen and I to go for a weekend in August is what I’ll do…the Barter has plenty of them and/or we’ll stay at my folks again.
I’ll figure out some more days and a weekend that will work and get a proposed schedule to you by the weekend so I can get an email off to Mike Morris for Monday morning.
RE: my folks ok…I’ll ask them, or stand by you while you do.
Jen
OK…so I clicked on the iCal link and it loaded it…somewhere…how is it that you will be able to see it, too? Do I have to post it back to you…do I just need to read about iCal? Good solution…just give me a little more to work with, if you would be so kind. Jen
RE: the beach
How ’bout you work things out with me, first? My mother probably doesn’t care whether you work things out with me at all; she’ll probably give you time there just because. And I don’t want to keep you from anything my parents would let me enjoy. In fact, I think it would do you good to get up there, just you and Ellen. But, please, consider what’s going on with us first.
You want to ask my parents to give you something – a few days at the beach, a luxury out of reach for most people. I want you to ask your parents – or to stand by me while I ask them – to admit they made a mistake – something most people should do everyday.
It just seems a little strange and lopsided.
RE: Schedule
I am wide open. I’ll take any days you can give me. Any amount of time. I’ll find something to do. So, consider giving me more days during the week.
Jen: I’m posting a comment. But, unlike you, I have not figured out how to add links and rich text in the first comment of a chain. So, you’ll have to go to the blog to read the rest of this comment.
Anyway, now that you’re here, I can tell you about a neat way to keep your absentee husband on track with what’s happening in your world. It’s called iCal. And it’s f-u-u-u-ntastic. Really. In less than one hundred words you will come to a little hyperlink that will instantaneously download a brand spanking new iCal calendar on to your Macintosh. And just as fast iCal itself will ask you what you want to do with that new calendar. Be Decisive! Get ready. Here it comes. Your link to an iCal download – Ellen’s itinerary in iCal.
How’d that work out for you? Don’t rush to respond. Look over that new iCal calendar. Very handy, isn’t it? Imagine the possibilities! You could send your forgetful partner special iCal reminders! “Send flowers” “Going to read the 12 & 12 to my dad” “Hunting snakes in the backyard with flashlight and big stick” Who knows?
Of course, using iCal may involve a little grieving – you’ll never again be able to stand over your husband and say “I told you it was tonight!” You’ll have to say good-bye to using that bludgeon in the battle between the sexes. But don’t despair Ecstasy is just the other side of Grief on the emotion “flower”.
AND the other side of sarcasm is admiration, trust, acceptance. Yes. Please tell me all you’re doing – and say it with iCal!
David