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[fox]

A lot of things are going on right now, but one of them is that I saw the doctor and she recommended seeing what I could accomplish non-medically by, at least for a start, paying diligent attention to the weather forecast and proactively taking measures (okay, maybe not entirely non-medically, because one of the measures was being sure to stay extra-hydrated, but another one was to take a half dose of sudafed) when the barometer is falling, before it hits bottom, I mean, in the hope of my not hitting bottom when that happens. Because holy crap, do I not need more days like last Sunday. One of these times I'll be driving a car when a storm comes in, and my eyes will roll back in my head and none of us will enjoy it at all.

So I am here to recommend the Nav Clock app for your iDevice. (It doesn't appear that they have one for Android, but I bet it's just a matter of time.) This thing displays local time, GMT (Zulu time), date, sunrise, sunset, temperature in F and C, humidity, wind chill/heat index, dew point, wind speed, visibility, pressure, and - crucially! - pressure trending (steady, rising, falling, rapidly rising, rapidly falling).

Now if only I knew a way to get it to (a) play nice with my computer at work, where I can't bring my phone with me, and (b) send me a text or some other sort of alert when the pressure trend line went to "rapidly falling", I'd really be somewhere. I bet some programmer type person can make that happen for me.

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[meara]

I think I shall give this a shot--worth seeing if it's what affects/causes some of my headaches!

[meara]

Oh, also, random question--have you tried acupuncture? If so, what did you think?

I have been a couple times now to a local community acupuncture place (because I'm cheap), and I can't tell if it's helping or if it's just the nice "lay here in a recliner for an hour or so" part. :)

[fox]

I never have tried it, no. I'm ... not sure it's for me. (I know the needles are very thin. They are still needles. Meep.)

[meara]

Hah! I guess I am lucky to not have issues with needles, especially as long as I'm not looking at them (or they're not having to root around for a vein, oy)

I did download it (though so far next to the barometric pressure it just has ... not helpfully saying if rising/falling??), but also put on my phone/bookmarks a site I found in Seattle (run by the UW weather department) that has a little map of the pressure for the last 4 hours, day, and week. Which is pretty cool. I googled something similar for DC if you want:

http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/D1189

[fox]

I had dots too, when I first downloaded it, but the next morning I had arrows. Apparently it needs a little bit of time to establish a trend, is all.