Posts from — March 2003

Holy shit.

I mean, HOLY SHIT. I don’t know what you’ll see on that link by the time you click on it, but at the moment it’s showing my site stats spiking up to about 30,000 page views. Yesterday afternoon the recipe cards were a topic on Metafilter and it’s been linked dozens of different places.

I had to set up a new mailbox for the liver pate suggestions. Man.

I’m thrilled, but also I had no idea there were so many people out there on bulletin boards who either don’t know or don’t care what bandwidth theft is. I sprang for some extra hosting stuff and set up a donation button on the WW cards index page, so if you really dig the cards you can toss a coin at me.

Anyway. Hi! Hi, many thousands of new people! I hope maybe a couple of you will check out the rest of the site, including some Frequently Asked Questions that are badly in need of updating but might help explain what this site is all about. Look around. Have fun. I’ll be outside if you need me.

It’s my birthday, too

Yay! I am 32 today. I thought I’d celebrate by sharing some very special Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974. I’ve wanted to put these up on the site for years.

It’s like I’m throwing a big party with a really, really scary buffet.

Dear reader, a hole

There’s a hole in my wall. Actually, there’s a hole in TWO walls: my kitchen and the adjacent bed/living room. But it’s the same hole. I came home just now and saw it. The walls are a little water damaged, too. The janitor came up a few minutes later and explained, although he’s only able to do so with a lot of gesturing and bizarre pronouns. The hot water pipe, she was leaking! She was pouring water down the walls! Apparently he had to rip down some of my kitchen shelves and hack through the walls to get to the damn bitch.

I guess it could have been worse. It’s weird because I just cleaned my whole place yesterday, so everything is very orderly and completely fucked up at the same time. Now I have to figure out a place to stash my dozens of cutesy kitchen jars and figure out what got broken. Supposedly everything will be fixed and painted in the next few days. I wonder how much, if anything, I should deduct from my rent. Anyone have experience with this kind of thing?

Know what I did this weekend? I updated my journal.