Um, Oops
I knew there was a reason we were supposed to circle veset-days in our calendars just as soon as we calculated them. It's so those of us with ridiculously long cycles wouldn't go and compltely forget about them until two weeks after they'd passed.
Oh well - if memory serves, we didn't actually have sex on any of the "wrong" days.
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There is a computer software called vestos. It works pretty well, if you remember to put all the information into it :)
And why it's important to sit down and calculate them early, like even before you get to mikvah, since at least once I think I forgot until I went, umm, shouldn't there be one this week? And calculated them only to discover I'd already "missed" one!
And right now there aren't any for me, which just makes it more confusing once there are again... whenever that will be, it'll take me completely by surprise.
And having btdt with long cycles and two sets of vestos (the "normal" 30ish day ones and the 45 or whatever interval one) I know it just makes it harder!
Safranit, I found that program (at http://www.torahsoftware.org/ but it says nothing about system requirements. It appears to be freeware, but is it only for Windows computers? I may try it out on the laptop... would hate for the kids to watch me use it.
I had one for palm, called taharah, but I don't really recommend it. Not just because it's shareware, that is, they want you to pay for it (about $12, not so bad) and so they limit you to 4 cycles in the trial version... but it really didn't do such a hot job of calculating vestos. You could switch between by interval or by date, and that was about it. It doesn't run right on my current (hi-res) palm so I gave up on it a long time ago.
I've managed to forget even with my only-varies-by-a-week cycle! Must be even more challenging when you don't have in your head "okay, it's been about 4-5 weeks, it's got to be coming up sometime soon..."