To be sure, it is a thrill to spend a week living on Slate.com. Part Four of Joshua Wolf Shenk’s series on our collaboration just posted, and we’re having fun watching our site bandwidth spike.

But there is a dark side to all this exposure.

You people. And your orders. Your endless orders!

…which we’ve had to process while trying to tend to our other business, like finishing up the binding of our next subscriber volume, Babies Ruin Everything.

We are a mom and pop outfit, not equipped for the collective commercial demands of the Slate reading public!

We appreciate the cold hard cash and the hordes of new subscribers, but you should know that our small town has but a modest postal fleet. To accommodate our mountains of orders, the Chestertown USPS was forced to bring in reinforcements from a local hamlet, the citizens of which will, as a result, go without mail delivery today.

I hope you people are happy.

We certainly are.

We’ve really enjoyed spending the week with you people. Please come again. We’ll still be here, recording the ongoing adventures as they reveal themselves.