At some point across the 14+ years I have been blogging, I must have told you guys about my blind spot for gridded schedules. It doesn't seem that hard to make sense of a gridded schedule, and yet they make my brain freeze up and then do loop-de-loops. When we lived in places where we relied on public transportation more than we currently do, I would check and recheck and umpteenuple-check (because quadruple-checking was sometimes not enough), and still sometimes I would make a silly mistake. I would aver that the #73 bus was stopping in my neighborhood at 10:31, only actually it had rumbled by at 10:13 and I (we) now had to wait for the next one.
Just this morning I discovered a calendar mistake (calendars being the quintessential gridded schedules). I sent myself a Follow Up Then reminder to pick up the turkey on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving-- except I scheduled it to arrive today at 6am. (Luckily, I did not forget to retrieve the turkey last week.)
Our liturgical schedules come out in six-month blocks, and I laboriously transfer the days/times to the paper calendar and to my Google Calendar as well. Picture me licking my lips anxiously, looking from screen to calendar page and back again, writing a little tentatively because I know how often my brain glitches on tasks like these. Picture me in a state of chronic low-level worry that I miscopied something and will fail to show up as scheduled. And then! Picture me observing today, for the very first time, that there is an "Import to Google Calendar" button on the ministry scheduling site. One click and LO-- all of my remaining commitments are automagically swooshed over to my very own calendar. No anxious lip-licking required!
I have a niggling little concern about the permissions involved in giving a third party access to my Google account, but I almost don't care about potentially hostile third parties if I don't have to deal with gridded schedules.
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