This is what the flowers look like a day later, once they've woken up.

Flowers from Kari in Mexico

Lots of tulips from sweety Kari in Chacala. There were so many I needed to get an extra vase! The Space Needle should be visible in the doors behind the flowers.

Estimating life expectancy

The IRS has published some useful data based on calculations from the dismal science's cousin, actuarial statistics. This data was compiled into a spreadsheet by the website retireearlyhomepage.com. I placed their spreadsheet into a Googledoc spreadsheet here. It's interesting that life expectancy seems to increase when the person in question has a spouse. For Kari and I, our table is as follows:

So each of us has a 50-50 chance of living for another 45.11 years. As a couple, the last survivor of the two of us has a 50-50 chance of living another 51 years.