[Plugin: Countdown Timer] how to clean up my timer look?

hey ho: my site is howtosup. ideally, what i want is a countdown timer that’d show the time remaining until my next post, using my next-scheduled-post entry for the data. haven’t found a plug in to do that, so i’m hoping to use yours as the next best thing. obviously, i’m inputting the date-of-next-post stuff manually, no biggie; but what i’d like to do is clean up how the timer looks on my page. I’ve messed with the code to the best of my meager abilities but I can’t seem to get that arrow mark to go away, nor to get the text size down to a level where the total amount of time remaining shows up on the screen. if you could lend a helping hand, that’s be great. thanks!