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.
I am now wearing these I have ankles made of glass and roll them if I do not wear a high top shoe. Even when I was exercising regularly I could not get any strength in the ankles. I was buying Timberlands, but the last two pair were not good shoes. There was a noted drop in quality of materials, and the eyelets broke within a month on the last pair. I also were a size 14 so I am a special case. Redwings hurt my feet. Every pair I've been fitted with has not worked with my feet.
I've become a fan of Thorogood for welted workboots. The suede they use to reinforce where the back of your heel contacts doesn't hold up, but otherwise mine are doing surprisingly well after having a year's worth of boxes and crates dropped on 'em. I have the soles with the foam since I'm standing/hopping on hard surfaces all day, those can get a bit slippy. If you wait it out on Amazon, they sometimes get caught up in their seasonal fashion sales. If you're not a union member, that's probably the way to get 'em. If you are union, it's pretty easy to find them for additional discounts online. 'Course, construction and package handling probably tax boots in different ways.
1) I would give paella advice but I've never even succeeded at risotto. You are made of sterner stuff than I. 2) Imgur strips the shit out of EXIF data. 3) Carolina. American made, leather and rubber. I bought my first pair of Carolina 116s in 1991. I resoled them twice and probably hiked 100 miles in them. I replaced them in 2005 because I hadn't been keeping up on the leather cream and they cracked and when I patched the hole with shoe goo it made an annoying bump that rubbed my foot too much. I've resoled the 2nd pair once so far. It's been through three misadventures on motorcycles. 4) Your friends and family keep telling you that your life will be turned upside down but no, not really. You'll have a dependent. The impact of children on lives is greatly exaggerated. Congrats!
1) Recipe stolen from Modernist Cuisine at home (overly complicated process book you will hate): Fry Some shallots Bacon other filling in oil at the bottom of a pressure cooker pan. add 200 Gram Arborio rice 200 G (ml) stock 200 Tomato Juice (Leftovers from canned Tomatoes) 50G Dry wine Pressure cook for 6-10 minutes at pressure. Depressurize quickly, cook off excess moisture and and mix with lots of grated Smoked Guda. 2) Adding photos I don't trust imgur not to keep that data somewhere so I make sure to strip it: Paella in progress: Hydroponic Lettuce+Basil 3) Looks like noone sells them within 50 miles of Seattle closest store in ID 4) Hope so
I'm very happy to see someone seriously talk about boot buying. First of all it is definitely worthwhile taking time on this and have criteria. Then if you can't meet all the criteria, try for as many as possible. Here are mine: 1. Made in Italy 2. Be able to put them on. Seriously, some woman's boots are way too hard to put on and take off. 3. They MUST be cobbleable. This means that a shoemaker can put on a new heel if needed. 4. Can you walk as far as you need to wearing them. ? You won't know right away, but if they hurt in the store, they will still hurt after you leave.
So far my list is: 1) Must be made of durable materials 2) Must fit comfortably 3) Manufacturer must have a reputation for good support if the boots need a tuneup (this eliminates 70% of all manufacturers sadly) 4) Should be Goodyearwelt construction 5) Specific model should be in production for a while 6) USA/Canada/Japan made gets priority, German 2nd, UK made 3rd, Indonesia/Italy 4th, China only in the under $100 range. I really don't trust the Italians to make durable items. Seen a lot of shit Italian quality at my job. I think quality is a regional thing but I don't know what parts of Italy do a good job and what parts don't. So my default is that if its made in Italy its shit quality unless there is recent evidence to show otherwise. That's why Whites, WESCO, and Dayton is on the top of my list. Unfortunately all are in the $400 range and difficult to find somewhere to try them on in my size. There is a pretty good subreddit for high end mens shoes https://www.reddit.com/r/goodyearwelt/ that I've been reading and trying to get a good idea on what to buy.
The price made me cry. I'm still crying a bit but these are by far the most comfortable thing I've ever worn. https://divisionroadinc.com/products/russell-moccasin-south-40-huntsman-vibram-olympic-black-cxl-bighorn-bison Looks like I'll be picking up so overtime shifts this month.
Depends what you use the boots for. For casual shoes I wear Vans and Converse but usually sandals. Replace them all the time. For dress, I mostly wear c. $3-500 Oxford or Derby style Boss, Cole Haan, Armani and have one pair of D&G. In my experience it is true for shoes that the more expensive ones are far more BIFL. (I have only had 2 pairs of shoes that turned out to be duds and they were both Armani but have no idea where they were made. Thankfully my shoe guy was nice about returning them.) I only have 2 pairs of "real" winter boots. (I do not wear boots with suits.) I have had both pairs for between 5 and 10 years with no issue. And they were both relatively cheap. For daily wear in messy, snowy weather I wear the 8-eye Doc Marten 1460 Greasy Booty. I cover up the stitching with black marker. :) Super durable. Easy to clean. Goodyear welt. Easy to replace the soles even though I have never had to. Good for slush and wet but I doubt they are good in really cold weather so.... For days when I am snowmobiling or the like I wear Columbia. Not that exact model but something close. If I had one complaint about those it would be that they are too hot. I usually just wear a pair of dress socks with them. And both are very reasonably priced IMO. p.s. That looks like a good reddit. Never heard of it before.
Sounds delicious. Am I right in guessing you're cooking the rice in a pot or pan instead of a rice cooker?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.
In a Paella pan, over a propane burner. One of these https://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Cuban-Carbon-Paella-15-Inch/dp/B01D57QC5G/ref=sr_1_1?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1484764773&sr=1-1&keywords=paellapan on one of these. https://www.amazon.com/Bayou-Classic-KAB4-Pressure-Cooker/dp/B0009JXYQY/ref=sr_1_6?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1484764809&sr=8-6&keywords=bayouclassic The propane burner was the only thing wide enough to accommodate a 15" pan
I see. Without a stove-top, I'd like to imagine gentle stirring over time will produce the better, even rice. I gave up, went for a rice cooker, and began adding the cooked rice into the pan after it's done (adding the spices/seasoning in the cooker first).