Dome Improvement 18

• A dum-dum lollipop achieves 60% of the cool-guy aesthetic of a toothpick, but with 90% less toothpick-guy energy
• Now that a decade has passed, we can all agree that ionic bands were a total scam. Place your bets on which contemporary obsession is a scam as well: blue light filtering glasses?
• If you work in a status-driven office that looks down on homemade lunches (yes, workplaces can be this toxic!), buy a stack of wax-lined kraft paper food boxes. I used to put homemade sandwiches in these things, and people would constantly ask some variation of "wow that looks good where'd you buy it from??" Eat that cheap meal at your desk while you update your portfolio and submit new job applications.
• I don’t know why a common complaint regarding almondmilk is that it’s mostly water. If you want it to be 100% almond, I have an exciting new food crop to show you.
• If you’re not too confident it your bird-butchering abilities, buy a whole chicken and set aside an hour to slowly practice breaking it down. If your first attempts are spent in an effort to get food on the table quickly, things can get frustrating and scare you off trying again. Give it a try this weekend around 10:00 after breakfast or 1:00 after lunch. If you really don’t wanna break down a full 8-piece, you can at least do some spatchcocking to get familiar with a bird’s backbone and general anatomy.
• After spending the weekend playing with a friend’s new DJ controller I can confidently proclaim that DJing is extremely hard.
• If you need an overrated foodtuber’s advice on anything, call 607-323-SHAQ and leave a voicemail. I don’t have enough messages to do my next twitch stream!
• Every year, the teacher who led my high school’s student government handed out this printout called “Good Enough” to club participants. It was basically an argument against calling any job “good enough”, but 15 years later I’m 100% certain that learning when to call something good enough can improve just about everyone’s well-being. If you’re never rich enough, you’ll keep chasing income. If you’re never attractive enough, you can drive yourself crazy learning makeup techniques, doing cardio workouts, or researching plastic surgery procedures. I don’t want to make a case for becoming comfortable with mediocrity, but I do think we can all benefit from asking questions like “at what point am I good enough at cooking (or anything else)”
• Change your air filters every month, especially during months of high use.
• The tides are turning on a lot of my favorite trends. Smash burgers will become less popular than thick burgers, and warm photography is getting more verdant. I won’t blame anyone for following the lead, but I’ll stay here where the beef is brown and the water is brown.