I got up around 9, though I don’t remember it at all anymore. But I know for sure that in the morning I was trying to get Google Calendar synchronized with the calendar in Outlook 2013, and it just wouldn’t work. The Outlook calendar didn’t offer an ics export, and while Google Calendar could be connected to Outlook, I needed it the other way around – to create events in Outlook so they would sync to Google Calendar and from there to my phone. I couldn’t even connect the Web Outlook Calendar to the built-in calendar in Android.
I was losing my nerve over it, especially since I already had to go to the dentist. We were supposed to be there at 10:30, me first and then at 11:30 my brother. We left by car at 11:45 because I was still dealing with it.
I didn’t want to use GCalendar at any cost, but looking back on it now, it doesn’t matter.
But at that moment I was blinded by Outlook. Back to the dentist, this is how it went: the dentist gave me an injection and sent me to the waiting room. Then he took my brother and worked on him with the arsenic, because the nerve supposedly still wasn’t dead. Then my brother came out and told me he was going to the car, because he was coughing and didn’t want the dentist to hear him cough – if the dentist started coughing, he would surely think my brother had infected him. And then it was my turn, and it had probably never hurt like this before.
It hurt so much that I was writhing with my legs and thrashing back and forth. I didn’t understand why he didn’t first chisel/cut around the tooth like always and only then pull it with forceps. In the end he had to do it that way anyway: chisel it out, wiggle it loose and pull it out. Honestly, I felt like he wasn’t going to pull just one tooth, but all of them.
During the extraction he gave me one more extraction (injection), and while he waited about 5-10 minutes for it to take effect, I managed to text my brother that it would be over soon, since he was waiting for me in the car. The next visit is October 30, roughly at 12:30 – I think. But as I walked out of the building, I realized that I no longer had time to go home and would have to head for the train. So I gave my brother the tooth (with a huge root, about 1.5 cm long) wrapped in a napkin and walked to Ropice station. I got there at 11:56 and at 12:09 my train left. A RegioNova pulled in, but I didn’t have any money on me.
I got on, planning to explain it to the conductor and, if she wanted, buy a ticket from her in Tesin once I withdrew cash from an ATM. But that wasn’t necessary: as soon as I started talking, the conductor walked away without a word and never came back. In Tesin I withdrew some money and bought a ticket to Svinov. While still at the station, I apologized by text to the person I was going to see, because I had somehow miscalculated – I was supposed to be there at 12:30, but I didn’t arrive until 13:30.
Half an hour after arriving on the RegioNova, I caught a direct CityElefant to Ostrava-Svinov, and it reached Ostrava-Svinov about 5 minutes late. The time flew by, it felt like 5 minutes. For obvious reasons I won’t go into the details here, just the end – I got back to the station at 15:52 and at 16:18 I had a direct train to Tesin. I already had a return ticket, so I didn’t buy anything there and just went to the platform. There I played Draw Something, and after a while the “citak” arrived.
On the way there I rode the Alenka, on the way back the Petra. I don’t come across those trains here much anymore. In Tesin I bought, for 50 CZK, a hand-woven bracelet (to see how it’s actually woven, because I’d like to weave something like that by hand too) and a hot dog for 18 CZK. On the train I played around with expense managers and decided to use Money Lover, but since nothing worked in its free version, I bought the 102 CZK paid version. Soon I’ll write an article about this app.
Especially about how consistently I use it! I chose it because it’s the only one that can sync with DropBox, and the next version is supposed to include some kind of “Sync Manager”, so I’m curious. In the evening I finally learned my lesson: I have no option other than Google Calendar if I want it on Android. Next I’ll have to learn to use Google Calendar instead of Google/Outlook tasks, and Outlook as a whole no longer needs launching, because it would be of no use to me :).
It should lead to better time management, because I’ll have to set a time for everything and try to stick to it. It’s kind of like GTD, although I know GTD is about something a bit different :). Towards the evening (now) I’d still like to take a look at some programming.