Lots of not-freaking-out~ma.

the color I saw was BLUE and GREEN, not dirty grey and charcoal and black.

I'll admit it's looking a bit dreary out there right now. The cars going by all have their headlights on.

28 days 19 hours 39 minutes until spring.

Yes, I wrote a program to calculate that for me.

Tom, that has got to be the sexiest thing I've heard all day.

The grey days are the worst. Then we get breaks in the clouds, and the sun comes down and it's brightbrightbright off the snow.

I heard birds singing yesterday. I hope they're not in for a rude surprise.

Yes, I wrote a program to calculate that for me.

Heh. What did you write it in?

I could write a Mac dashboard widget to do that. Maybe I'll do that when I get home.

Oh! Also, now with this Cancun news I don't have to punch my sister in the face for all the text messages I keep getting from Aruba and shit this week. Win all around.

(Also win, if it's not yet apparent, was restaurant week at Blackbird where they messed up our order so things took a long time and they kept refilling my very expensive sancerre. And then I might have had to go pick up a few bottles on the way home too.)

Happy birthday to Bev and Benno!

You're not a fruit cake, Aims. Those sound like completely normal concerns. And if he is Dr. McJudgeyPants, you need to go to a different doc.

Also, I agree that Tom's spring program is SEX-AY.

(My crank is exacerbated by the fact that I have been sick for the last two days with the urp. FWIW)

I hear birds, too. And my cat snoring from five feet away. Oh, cat snores.

Ok, I am going to say something positive!!

Um. Er.

I no longer feel naseuous? I like...

Um.

Blankets?

What did you write it in?

I wrote it in perl, but here's the JavaScript version:

var today = new Date()
var span = 1269106320000 - today.getTime();
var days = span / 1000 / 60 / 60 / 24;
var hours = (days - Math.floor(days)) * 24;
var minutes = (hours - Math.floor(hours)) * 60;
document.write(Math.floor(days), " days ",Math.floor(hours), " hours ",
               Math.floor(minutes), " minutes until spring.");

It's good to hear from you, Jessica. I've been thinking about you. I hope someone here can answer your questions, because googling is confusing. In aggregate, searching seems to say no tub baths for 1) three days 2) until after your next period 3) six weeks. At various times I've not been able to take a bath and have found that having a spray attachment on the shower to be a big help. At least I could sit on the side of the tub and get sort of clean.

I'm still fighting a headache that's either a tension headache, eyestrain or sinus something. It's not a bad headache; it just will not go away. Trepanning is beginning to look more and more like a reasonable option. The headache was not helped by the fact that it took me three hours of waiting spread over three days to get one fucking prescription.

eta: I don't need a program to tell me when spring starts. Pitchers and catchers reported today.