Yeah, that’s honestly a really tough one. Especially if you’re in a rural area. Just hang in there and keep an eye out for a better opportunity. Only other thing I can offer is some quick and easy comfort recipes.

I think you need better weirdos. None of the steange folk I’ve ever met are exclusionary.

Have fun! My mil is writing the recipe for adobo and posole so my spouse can translate them, I’ll get that to you soon-ish.

Ah man. My dude, you gotta get a career change or something.

Yeah, a ton of nonsense was produced about how the porous nature of 3d printing made it unreliable and conveniently missed the part where that can be solved by the application of superglue and plastic wrap.

Ok so I’ve looked into this and you have a few options depending on texture and game.

My number one pick is rubberized pad with polyester top. These are the standard for magic the gathering playmats for a good reason, they’re vibrant, they’re non slip, they have a nice weight, and they don’t crease easily so you always have a smooth play area.

Option two, light stretch upholstery style faux leather. This has all of the same properties as option one, but you don’t have to adhere two materials to make it yourself. One possible con is that it has it’s own color, this looks great if you want that bespoke game board with wooden pieces and bone dice look, but I wouldn’t use it for anything that looks good vibrant.

Option three, duck cloth. It’s a study, tight weave canvas used for outdoor bags and hunting gear. It’s light weight, holds up to abuse, doesn’t hold creases for long, and comes in any color. This would be my go to if I needed large cloth I can drop anywhere and don’t need to worry about the condition. It’s nearly waterproof on its own and machine washable.

Lastly, sail canvas or real leather. These are alternatives to the faux leather and duck cloth, they offer similar options to their respective option but leather requires occasional maintenance that faux doesn’t and isn’t cheap. Sail canvas can be thicker or thinner than duck cloth but it doesn’t have the some tight weave and isn’t as abusable. It’s a good option if duck cloth isn’t to your liking and if you want that clearly fabric aesthetic.

Lastly, I advise an edge stitch for fabrics to prevent fraying and if you’re feeling fancy, stitching the lines and boarders of the applied boardgame design adds a really nice textural element.

If you haven’t hit him up for recipes, you totally should. Then send them my way.

Also, while corn husk is the popular version, there’s a lot of regional variation to it. Look into asian, Indian, or other specialty groceries in your area and see if you can find banana leaf. They’re the go to for the more tropical areas and are a bit easier to use than corn because you can cut them into exact shapes.

Prior to meeting my spouse, I’d done a ton of work trying to make good refried beans, there’s a taste they have at the family run Mexican restaurants that I’ve never been able to mirror. Here’s the trick.

Seperated your beans and juice, keep both. In a shallow pan, heat more oil than you think you need. Here’s the key part, crush two good sized, dry chili peppers and 3 cloves of fresh garlic and put them in the hot oil. Let them fry until they’re dark, like maybe a minute more than burnt. Add the beans to the oil, cook them until most of them split. Mash them with a potato masher as you mix the juice into the pan. Stir until smooth, add a touch more garlic and salt, and cook until it gets to your desired thickness. Most places around here serve it thin like a sauce, I actually prefer it thick like a paste, about as thick as humus.

As for prepping from dry, after you soak them, add them to a pot with 1 dry pepper, 1 onion halved, a fist full of beef or pork bones, oil, and enough water to cover everything by like 3cm. As a vegetarian, instead of the bones, take 3 or 4 shitaki mushrooms, rough choped, dry pan them until they’re about to burn, then put that in the beans. Simmer for 2 hours - 6 hours. Adjust salt before serving.

The two biggest take always are the nearly burnt part and seasoning the oil. That nearly burnt part imparts a far more complex flavor and brings smokey notes that I’ve never been able to pull off without woodsmoke. Seasoning the oil and cooking it like that is basically making a light chili oil, if you’ve ever had it at a pho or ramen shop you already know how much a good chili oil can add to a dish, so imagine replacing plain vegetable oil with a lighter version of that.

Give it a try for a week, then come back and tell me how you feel. I’m willing to bet, between the general improvements and the clarity I’d bet you’ll probably prefer it.

One thing that rarely comes up is the sheer amount of money and time the government put into sleep studies to create a method for troops to sleep well. If sleep was meant to be avoided, the powers at be wouldn’t encourage their forces to sleep.

First, the elite are absolutely using this against us. Where do you thing the cultural one upsmanship of working overtime comes from. A good shorthand to figure out if it’s an ideal pushed by the elite is looking at the tech bros and LinkedIn nuts to see what they preach. If their goal is to mirror the elite, then whatever they choose to do is the curated ideal the elites want of us.

Secondly, in America a cpap machine is very expensive but mechanically its very easy to make one and it makes a huge difference. If you’re not mechanically inclined, hit me up and I’ll help.

Damn, yeah that’s gonna be a tough one to deal with. Is there a chance you could move some of that prep time to the night before?

Yeah, that’s how it is here too. I lucked out, the spouse and fam make them tight and fat, so you wanna eat like 6 of them, but damn are they perfect! My mil has been making dessert tamales, she fills them with a mix of quesa fresca and shredded pineapple, then puts pineapple juice, cinnamon and vanilla in the masa

Oh damn do I have the obscure culture infodump for you!

Something that doesn’t come up when you look into Mexican cuisine is the vast amount of what could be considered poverty foods used throughout Mexico. The one I’m most obsessed with is carne de soya, or soy meat. It’s literally dryed, crumbled tofu, but the process turns it into an absolute sponge for flavor with identical texture to ground beef and none of that extra tofu water to deal with. Just mix your spices into a slurry with some water or light beer, and either oil or bacon fat, then pan fry it with onion and add a diced tomato right before it’s done, it’s heavenly.

I’ll hit up my mother in law for her spice mix and enchilada recipe for you, til then how do you do your beans and have you done tamales?

Are you getting up because work is that early or are you getting up because it takes time to prepare for work?

Counter offer. Poor sleep hygene is hugely detrimental to every part of your health. It leaves your body weak, it hinders your cognitive abilities, it slows your reaction time, it deregulates your mood, and it leaves you with a low threshold for change and action. That’s not even touching the increased dependency on creature comforts and addictions that only feed the corpo wallet.

There is an obvious reason the corps push for more hours and worse balance, Walmart got caught back in the oughts recommending managers routinely change up employee hours because the disruption makes them more complacent to the company.

Get a good night sleep. Every night, every chance. Make it the foundation of your schedule. Use your well rested body, mind, and spirit to come up with new and creative ways to fuck over work. Good sleep is 6-10 hours of rebelling against the systems designed to oppress you and they give you the clarity of mind you need to make it a 24/7 rebellion.

If you like, hit me up for recipes. My spouse is a first gen Mexican American and her parents are from two culturally distant states in Mexico so not only can I hook you up with the classics, I can even give you a small national tour.

If you like, hit me up for recipes. My spouse is a first gen Mexican American and her parents are from two culturally distant states in Mexico so not only can I hook you up with the classics, I can even give you a small national tour.

Razors want you to see what you could look like, floor cleaner wants you to fear what your floor could look like.

There’s an app on f-droid called hammer that’s basically an open source version of world anvil