diff --git a/dot_zsh_functions b/dot_zsh_functions
index 465e331..53e877d 100644
--- a/dot_zsh_functions
+++ b/dot_zsh_functions
@@ -113,11 +113,17 @@ function top_commands_full() {
     history | \cat | awk '{$1=$1};1' | sed 's/^[0-9 TAB]*//g' | awk '{CMD[$0]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "%\t" a; }' | grep "$filter" | sort -nr | nl | head -n50
 }
 function suggest_aliases() {
+    header "alias recommendations"
     while read -r line
     do
         local matching_aliases=$(ag "$line")
         if [ ! -z "$matching_aliases" ]; then
-            echo "there is an alias for $line :\n$matching_aliases\n"
+            success "there is an alias for $line :"
+            while read -r alias_line
+            do
+                arrow "$alias_line"
+            done < <(echo "$matching_aliases")
+            echo
         fi
     done < <(top_commands_full | awk '{ $1=""; $2=""; $3="";  print}' | awk 'NF' | awk '{$1=$1};1' | awk -v COUNT=1 'NF>COUNT' |  head -20)
 }
@@ -478,3 +484,14 @@ function file_dups {
 function foreach_run {
     find . -name "$1" -exec "$2" {} \;
 }
+# input should be something like : 1-10 to generate one number between 1 and 10
+function chance {
+    [[ $(shuf -i "$1" -n 1) == 1 ]]
+}
+function runiflucky {
+    if chance "1-10"; then
+        if alias "$1" 2> /dev/null || (compgen -A function | grep "$1" && compgen -A function "$1" 1>/dev/null); then
+            eval "$1"
+        fi
+    fi
+}
diff --git a/dot_zshrc b/dot_zshrc
index 869ee9c..5581e9c 100644
--- a/dot_zshrc
+++ b/dot_zshrc
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS=(status background_jobs command_execution_tim
 POWERLEVEL9K_SHOW_CHANGESET=true
 POWERLEVEL9K_CHANGESET_HASH_LENGTH=8
 
-
 POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_SEGMENT_SEPARATOR=''
 POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_SUBSEGMENT_SEPARATOR=''
 
@@ -38,13 +37,11 @@ POWERLEVEL9K_TIME_FOREGROUND='245'
 POWERLEVEL9K_COMMAND_EXECUTION_TIME_FOREGROUND='245'
 POWERLEVEL9K_STATUS_OK_FOREGROUND='green'
 POWERLEVEL9k_STATUS_ERROR_FOREGROUND='red'
-POWERLEVEL9k_STATUS_ERROR_FOREGROUND='red'
 
 POWERLEVEL9K_TIME_BACKGROUND='clear'
 POWERLEVEL9K_COMMAND_EXECUTION_TIME_BACKGROUND='clear'
 POWERLEVEL9K_STATUS_OK_BACKGROUND='clear'
 POWERLEVEL9K_STATUS_ERROR_BACKGROUND='clear'
-POWERLEVEL9K_STATUS_ERROR_BACKGROUND='clear'
 POWERLEVEL9K_CONTEXT_DEFAULT_BACKGROUND='clear'
 
 # Set list of themes to pick from when loading at random
@@ -151,8 +148,8 @@ eval "$(fasd --init auto)"
 
 #cm apply
 
-# check if we have new jira issues
-istherenewissues
+# randomly check if we have new jira issues
+runiflucky "istherenewissues"
 
 case "$(uname -s)" in
   Darwin)
@@ -165,8 +162,6 @@ esac
 export SDKMAN_DIR="$HOME/.sdkman"
 [[ -s "$SDKMAN_DIR/bin/sdkman-init.sh" ]] && source "$SDKMAN_DIR/bin/sdkman-init.sh"
 
-#sdk use java 8.0.202-zulu
-
 case "$(uname -s)" in
    Darwin)
     ln -snf /usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin/pip /usr/local/bin/pip3