diff --git a/src/home.lisp b/src/home.lisp
index 20155ad..72af77b 100644
--- a/src/home.lisp
+++ b/src/home.lisp
@@ -7,7 +7,10 @@
                              (br)
                              "I am not sure what I am going to use this site for, it only exists because I was <del>procrastinating my calculus homework</del> bored one day"
                              (br)
-                             "website homepage visit-counter: $[echo visit >> files/home_visit_counter; cat files/home_visit_counter | wc -l]"))
+                             "website homepage visit-counter: $[echo visit >> files/home_visit_counter; cat files/home_visit_counter | wc -l]"
+                             (br)
+                             (br)
+                             "if you are here, I am rather curious as to why. I encourage you to use the post arbitrary data section of this page to tell me how you found my site."))
                  (section () 
                           (h2 () "particularly notable pages")
                           (a (:href "/html/site-info.html") "information about this website")
diff --git a/src/html/natalie-info.lisp b/src/html/natalie-info.lisp
index e24e78b..65dbd1c 100644
--- a/src/html/natalie-info.lisp
+++ b/src/html/natalie-info.lisp
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
                                      "despite this, I shall attempt a suitable description of myself.")
                                   (br)
                                   "ideally, I am to be referred to as an \"it\" or a \"she\". the former is preferred to some degree. I suppose I may reasonably be described as asexual. " (br)
-                                  "timezone I am in: " ,(exec-command "date '+%Z (UTC%z)'") (br)
+                                  "timezone I am in: " ,(exec-command "TZ=\"America/Los_Angeles\" date '+%Z (UTC%z)'") (br)
                                   "age: $[echo $(( $(date +%s) - $(date -d \"2007-04-01\" +%s) ))] seconds. that is $[echo \"scale=8; ($(date +%s) - $(date -d '2007-04-01' +%s)) / (365.25*24*3600)\" | bc] [earth] years." (br)
                                   "I am kind of a college student. it is complicated. I will be a college student with less complicated circumstances by fall of 2025, barring unforseen circumstances." (br)
                                   "I like systems. particularly ones that have reasonably consistent behavior based on a set of rules. this is omnipresent in my interests." (br)