Life: Made Paella last night with a couple friends. Really tasty but we couldn't get the rice to cook evenly and ended up with mixture of well cooked and undercooked rice. This was our first shot at it im sure next time it will be better. Been doing a bit of woodworking with hand tools. Not very fast or productive but quite fulfilling. Spent the last couple days learning how to sharpen a hand. Harder than it looks but seems to work ok now. My Hydroponic lettuce is growing well, maybe ill post some pictures as soon as I figure out how to strip the XIF data off the iphone photos without using GIMP so I don’t DOX myself. Skiing once a week, snow has been great bit cold but otherwise excellent. Shopping for a BIFL pair of boots. Looking at Danners, Whites, Wesco, Dayton and some other high end brands. Hard to tell if spending 300-400 on boots is actually worthwhile or if they will fall apart like the rest of my shoes after 6-12 months. I keep telling myself that the reason the last pair fell apart was because it was cheap Chinese shit and I need to pay more to get the good stuff. That’s lead me to go from $30 dollar to $70 to $130 to $230 shoes with relatively little to show for it. The $230 redwings degraded just as quickly as the $130 timberland, even faster actually. Perhaps I'm not buying the "Right" shoe in the brands but damn its really frustrating. T-10 weeks until baby and my life gets turned upside down, gonna enjoy the ride till then. Work: Working with a group of people who are pretty crappy engineers and trying to solve problems using a structured problem solving model. Our group was in charge of the initial troubleshooting and containment operation but where not budgeted to run the long term root cause investigations so were handing off all our data and knowledge to a bunch of bumbling idiots. Its pretty aggravating watching them stumble though some of the most basic troubleshooting and problem solving steps and attempting to document everything irrelevant while ignoring all the relevant details. The sad part is that we have already basically found the root cause and we just need a bit of money to prove it, but instead these guys are going to throw everything away and start anew, and there is no guarantee they will come up with the correct conclusion.