[Remind-Fans] A few (probably simple) questions

[Dan Ray]

Hey, y'all. I'm a Remind noob, and I'm sort of reeling at the possibilities
of this thing. I have a few questions.

First, I have a conference call that takes place at 9:00am the second, third
and fourth Saturdays of every month. Right now, I'm doing it the chump way:

REM Sat 8 AT  9:00 MSG  Call %1 %
REM Sat 15 AT 9:00 MSG  Call %1 %
REM Sat 22 AT 9:00 MSG  Call %1 %

I've tried:
REM Sat 1 --21 *7 AT 9:00 MSG Call %1 %

by which I mean, back up 21 days from the first Saturday, then repeat every
7. I KNEW this would fail in months with five Saturdays, but I didn't expect
it to give me a "must have a full date specification to do repeat function"
error. Any thoughts at how to more concisely express that date rule? I wish
I could do "Sat 8, 15, 22" all on one line, but that's a syntax error.

Second, I want a MSG on those events that tells me, on the appropriate
Fridays, that I have that call tomorrow, but doesn't bug me about hours and
minutes until it IS tomorrow. I don't have any clue how to go about setting
that up. And I'd really like it to NOT notify me about it AFTER the event.
Or actually, what would be the very most useful is if it would quit
notifying me about these timed events one hour after they start. I think
we're into the scripting functions now--and I write Perl for a living, so
I'm not afraid of (sometimes noisy-looking) code, just unfamiliar with how
Remind thinks.

Third, I'm using this on a Mac, and I have geektools showing me the output
of 'rem -q' on my desktop, refreshing every few seconds. That's very nice.
I'd also like it emit growl notifications maybe every five minutes for the
fifteen minutes before this event. I'm considering setting up a second
.reminders file with "RUN growl'Call %1' %" in it, and different time rules
for notifiations, but I hate that much duplication. Any thoughts about how
best to accomplish this, preferably all in one line?

Thanks! Remind is awesome--and now I'm just working to harness a little of
its awesomeness!

--Dan
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