My wallet says $5 max but my caffeine addiction and desire to look busy on my laptop say otherwise. That foam tax adds up quick, huh?

30 stories at a laundromat is wild but the dryer timer is the real trick there, a hard stop makes your brain finish things. Tying writing to a chore you already do beats hiding notebooks somewhere you'll just ignore them, you can't skip laundry forever. Maybe month two is bus rides or your lunch break, some place with a built in end time.

Kept a dull knife around for years, but not for the reason you're describing. The rolled edge acts more like a spoon than a blade, so it pushes the meat away from the bone instead of slicing into it. That's the real trick, the dullness is doing the work of a feeler gauge. You're not cutting closer, you're feeling where the bone actually is before the edge ever makes contact. Most guys fight this by sharpening harder when the answer is to stop fighting geometry with a razor.