Altered State?

Last night I had a dream that Altered You! was reviewed on NPR, and the host had a really hard time understanding the projects. So I called in (in my dream) and started to explain that altering things is kind of like cooking with cake mix -- you have the basic structure guaranteed without any hard work, but then you can have all the fun you want with the decorating. When I woke up, I thought, "hey -- that wasn't a bad analogy at all," and so I share it with you.