Spent all the morning puzzling out how to synchronize my MS Windows-based Outlook calendar with my Google calendar, with iCal on the Mac, with iPhone. Plaxo was the answer, as it turned out.
MobileMe (the Apple synch tool) was flawed, at least so far as calendar synchs go. Google had a problem getting at meetings hosted on other people’s computers (which most mine are). Plaxo is catholic to all of them, while hoping to also be yet another social networking tool – a cross between Facebook and Twitter. I don’t particularly need any more pokes, tickles or prods, so I skipped those functionalities. But having one synchronized calendar that goes everywhere with you is kinda cool.
In between things I’ve been reading up on Pryce-Jones “The Closed Circle,” which explains a number of cultural things that mystified me while working with the Kuwaiti Air Force several years ago.
Now it’s time to go PT:
“Elizabeth”
21-15-9 reps of:
Clean 135 pounds
Ring dips
Yeah. I’m a couple days behind.
Bonus question: Any former LSOs in the audience ever get measured for their pickle?
I wonder how they’re doing that nowadays.
Ahh, crossfit. Jumped in with both feet back in 2002. I permanently #$%-ed up my back doing the crossfit WODs and the heavy DLs. Ultimately my fault, but the Oly and power lifts can be like running with scissors if you’re not spot-on with the form. Get someone to double check it.
I do xfit-ish stuff mixed in with my more traditional mountain biking, hiking, climbing and skiing now. I still do Fran and Helen and variants thereof on a regular basis, and the one that is 20 x 5 pullups/10 pushups/15 squats on the minute, but I sub lunges for all squats. Chippers are great.
Rock on!
While never measured for a pickle, I DO remember waving on “Courage” (USS America). The LSO platform was further from the Landing Area than on most CVs (10.5 degree angle). The handset cords weren’t long enough to get out there close to the port foul line! They finally measured and made a mod – the “Kid and Coco Show” in action.
Danzel – Put Your Hands Up In The Air
http://www.onlylyrics.com/song.php?id=29468
When I sync Google Calendar with Outlook I get the exact opposite effect, every meeting shows up EXCEPT the ones that -I- set up.
Skates Wilcox measured me Lex. Not long afterward I flew my first ever “Blue Water Ops” hop.
It was a SAR effort after he flew into the water on a night WASEX about 2 days into the 89-90 cruise.
Dang.
I love your blog. You’re a stylish writer with wonderful things to say. And then there are posts like this one, which, between computer terminology and military talk, are almost incomprehensible to me.
The same goes for the comments to this post. The “in the know” quality of “It was a SAR effort after he flew into the water on a night WASEX about 2 days into the 89-90 cruise” (that would be Oyster’s comment) fascinates me. I have no idea what that sentence means.
For those of us ignorant civilians who follow you with lots of pleasure and some small degree of confusion, you need to start throwing in some translations!
Bookworm: the Naval Safety Center has a MS Word file with acronym translations here: Naval Aviation Terms.
BTW Lex, being called a stylish writer by Bookworm is quite a compliment, IMHO. I’d frame it if I were you.
Remember the workups for that cruise, Oyster. Rocky on the ramp (or nearly). I still laugh when I look to port in my memory and see you clutching another LSO, ready to jump in the net.
I’d never have gotten there in time, the LSO platform was so close to the foul lines on the Indy.
I remember the Prowler bubbas telling us that it wasn’t real for Skate’s family until the fly-off six months later. Everyone was gone. It wasn’t until everyone was home – except for Skates and his crew – that it became real.
He was a good guy, and a good LSO.
I was measured by Merk Mercer, CNAL paddles at the time. I was a RAG student, taken to the boat because I knew how to write the shorthand. I thought I was the sheee-ite.
Got to pass it on – measured several of my guys when I was a CVW LSO.
Thank you. Truth be told, even now that I know what the words mean, I’m still somewhat impressed and bewildered by the practical reality behind them. Clearly, I’m going to have to throw some legal jargon around here to offset my sinking sense of mental inferiority: res ipsa loquitur, due diligence, ipso facto, etc.
You guys are the best!
Hmmm, never got measured, and I had a squadron qual and a training qual. Sad.