For some time now I have wanted an email signature that included the number
of days since my birth. Today I made that possible.

First off let me say that I dislike Applescript as a language, and have resisted
learning anything about it for years and years and years. You wind up coding
sentences (literally) like this:

make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties
and
(the reverse of every character of this_number) as string

ugg!!! Anyway, it allows you to script your mac applications and Apple provides plenty of documentation. That being said, you don’t want to know how long I spent writing this simple script to add that “since X days ago…” to the bottom of the email message.

I’m providing the script here for your use.
Open and Edit to your birthday. Requires OS X and Mail.app. enjoy.
Download DaysAliveSignature.scpt

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