[Remind-Fans] Can Remind Schedule On the Tuesday and Friday of a "Payday Week"?

[Mike Harris]

That is really great, David ... thank you so much.

On a irrelevant note, I'm glad I checked the web archive, because it
was only when I saw your answer there that I realized I had something
weird going on with this list and Gmail filters ... fixed now, though.
:)

Mike

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 14:15, David F. Skoll <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:
> Mike Harris wrote:
>
>> I'm paid on the 15th and the last day of the month, or the first
>> weekday preceding same if that falls on a weekend. [...]
>
>> Each week that contains a payday, that Tuesday, I prepare a grocery
>> order on Peapod.
>
>> Each week that contains a payday, that Friday, I actually put the
>> order in for a Saturday delivery.
>
>> The problem is that these Tuesdays and Fridays can either fall before,
>> after, or on the payday in question.
>
> OK... this was a real challenge.  Here is my solution.  I will not post
> an explanation for a while; see if you all can figure it out. :-)  If anyone
> can come up with something more elegant, I'd love to see it.
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
>
>
> # ==== Grocery Order / Payday Solution ====
>
> FSET _back(x) trigger(today()-x)
> FSET _goodtue(x) (trigdate() - x >= -3 && trigdate() - x <= 1)
> FSET _goodfri(x) (trigdate() - x >= 0 && trigdate() - x <= 4)
>
> REM 1 -1 SCANFROM [_back(7)] OMIT Sat Sun MSG Payday
> set pd1 trigdate()
> REM 16 -1 SCANFROM [_back(7)] OMIT Sat Sun MSG Payday
> set pd2 trigdate()
>
> REM Tue SATISFY [_goodtue(pd1) || _goodtue(pd2)] MSG Prepare Order
>
> REM Fri SATISFY [_goodfri(pd1) || _goodfri(pd2)] MSG Submit Order
>
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