The kitchen light stays off. The 43-year-old regional facilities coordinator has learned over four months of practice that overhead lighting is unkind to a semi-soft cheese, so he works by phone glow and the open refrigerator, texting cheese photos to a group chat at 3 a.m. with the grim focus of a man transmitting ransom instructions.

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You are not going to be the guy with the bunker. You are going to be the guy with a phone at four percent and a bag of shredded cheese. Eight things that fix that, ranked by how you die without them.

Until next week. Stay weird.