dream

I'm not sure whether it was that my father was Dr. Who, or that Dr. Who was my father, but we were in a spaceship that was also a resort planet. We and someone else, maybe Rose Tyler were looking for something, and to do this we got on the Elevator to look for the Apartments. Dr. Who hung his whole body outside the elevator to prove to an old lady inside it that we weren't really in space. Then it was a PVTA bus and we were going up a hiking trail that isn't actually by Alfred University but always is in my dreams. When we got to the hotel at the top (which's also next to the GWB), I tried to point out where the lake along the hiking trail was. Dr. Who had narrowed down the location of our hotel room to one of two rooms, and split us into two search parties: Rose Tyler and two others, and myself and him. Rose forgot her guitar so I ran after her, and then found that three of the latches on my own guitar case had come off.

Gabe stirring woke me.

My Heat

As you may or may not recall, I pay just over $200/month for my gas heat bill, but electric heat is free. I must have the heat on if it drops below 24ºF out - under that temperature, a space heater is insufficient to keep my bedroom warm enough for Gabe and I. The bedroom can survive higher but still cold temperatures, but the rest of the house will be cold - if it's under something like 40ºF out, without the gas heater the rest of the house will be under 65º, the point at which my fingers are numb when typing.

Now that this week is in the 50's and 60's, it's time to decide whether to shut the heat off. What do you think?

[Poll #955499]

Histograms in a spreadsheet?

I want to do a histogram - that is a count of frequency of reply - in some sort of spreadsheet program. I want to be able to input each person's responses (for example, from a survey) and have it tally up the number of responses for me. As I understand it, Excel cannot do this, I'd have to tell it how many people gave each reply. Anyone know of another (free) program that can do this for me, or will I have to relearn C++ and find a compiler, or just do it by hand since there's "only" going to be 68 people?

ETA: I've been told that Access can do this, so I'm goign to play with that. And with Excel according to what kadath says.

ETAA: In MS Excel, go to the Tools menu and Data Analysis... If yours doesn't have that menu, first click "Add-Ins..." to install it (no CD required). Use the Help dialogue to figure out how to install it and use it.