27 march 01

I love my accountant! I love Steve Schneiderman! (Even if he did tell me I would make a great telemarketer. What?) I have been saved from certain doom! I can't seem to find a job for the next week and a half, but at least now I have a small amount of money I can fall back on since it doesn't all have to go for taxes. I've spent two days now without leaving my apartment for fear of spending money, and I'm working on a list of low-cost, high-fun things to do. First on the list: make waffles. While in Belgium I experienced the waffle that left me speechless. This waffle is a thing of grace, of divine origin, of sugar, butter, and vanilla extract. You see, there are two kinds of Belgian waffles. There's the Brussels waffle, which is the waffle I had come to know as the Belgian Waffle. I admit, this waffle is a fine waffle. There's a great place in the East Village I discovered last summer that makes a mean waffle. Light and fluffy, the perfect vehicle for all sorts of delectible toppings. There is also, however, the Liege waffle (insert singing angels and the golden light of heaven shining down from on high). The Liege waffle is smaller than the Brussels waffle, denser, sweeter, with clumps of sugar that caramelize in the waffle iron. It doesn't need any toppings, though some nutella would probably be downright orgasmic. I own a waffle iron, and I've located a recipe that purports to be for these same Liege waffles. Sometime in the next few days I will see if I can recreate the magic. I may never need to eat anything else. I can have the waffles with some of the beer I brought back. There's Kasteel which tastes like chocolate and Delerium Tremens which has elephants on the label. I even picked up the glass for that one (each beer has it's own glass; very strict about that) at a flea market, since the glass is covered with little elephants (I was thinking of you, Rod).

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Today I tried to debug the graphomanic index page. On occasion I hear that there are javascript errors but since I've never gotten these errors myself I haven't really done anything about it. I ran it through the w3.org validator and found some things to clean up (and found I have perfect CSS!), but I don't think I've solved whatever the real problem is. I may just have to leave it. I don't know what else to do.

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You smell good.