Author: stlplace

Reading Time: < 1 minute I watched a bit of “Growing Pains” on Apple TV last night: the 2nd show that has the Bruce Springsteen show tickets. I purchase the series from Apple, probably in year 2016, when Alan Thicke, who acted as the dad in the screen, Dr. Jason Seave, died. I recall I watched most of the series

stlplace
November 30, 2024

Reading Time: < 1 minute Below moment is likely not isolated to summer. Sometime between March and July this year (year 2024). One day I took MacBook on sofa, and sit about 6 ft from my 14 year old. We were at the two ends of the sofa (couch). Her response: dad, you are not going to sitting here for

stlplace
November 29, 2024

Reading Time: < 1 minute One of the life lessons I learned over the years is – avoid toxic people at all cost. Charlie Munger mentioned it a few times. This is the latest example as to why: Man arrested, charged in woman’s St. Louis death after Clayton abduction: “Investigators believe that Mosby and the victim, identified as 37-year-old Michelle

stlplace
November 24, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes I have not bought used car for a while, my last two used cars are both Toyota Pre own certified: basically I found the car online, went for a test drive at the dealership and bought them. But this morning I had opportunity to visit a used car dealer in my old neighborhood: I lived

stlplace
November 23, 2024

Reading Time: < 1 minute This is the replacement light bulb at Amazon: last purchased Sep 14, 2022 (replace one about 2 years ago; replace another one this evening). One driver flashed me yesterday evening. And this evening a neighbor told me one of the light for my minivan is out 🙂 Took me a while to find the other

stlplace
November 19, 2024

Reading Time: 4 minutes 中文简体读者:这里有一个谷歌翻译的版本,可能不是最新的版本,但大意差不多。 Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon I drove for Uber the first time, after I thought and talked about it for a bit. Note I still have the day job – this is mostly to supplement my income, and also gain some experience/have some fun. I also wrote a Twitter/X thread here. A few things to do

stlplace
October 14, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes (01-23-2025) Last Saturday I learned wustl has an area that its school shuttle covers (don’t know where to find it online). And I came across this one about why people (mainly students I assume) usually live. (11-03-2024 更新) 我上载了一个油管视频,是关于这个主题的,欢迎各种意见反馈。 (有人在小红书上问 #圣路易斯 哪里比较 #安全,我猜可能是华大学生,以下是我的回答):综合考虑,建议住 #Clayton, #Brentwood, #Olivette 等。如果有上K-12的小孩,学区来讲,Olivette (Ladue), 和 Clayton 是密苏里公立学校/学区里面第一和第二名。Brentwood ranked 12th in the

stlplace
October 11, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes My 14 year old (when she was almost 14) decided to switch to this electric toothbrush given by the Orthodontist office and after a while she wanted to order the replacement toothbrush heads. This is not the most common electric toothbrush and I had to order the replacement heads at the their official website. But

stlplace
October 2, 2024

Reading Time: < 1 minute 今天一大早,我家大娃第一次出城比赛,不是钢琴🎹或其它乐器,不是数学,sci-only, 是 XC( cross country #越野跑)😂. 兵分两路,老爸(yours truly) 将跑第八个’Due Run. 大概算了下,God’s Willing, 等小娃高中毕业🎓,还有八个’Due Run. 结果:两个人大概都跑了34分钟多一点😂 PS: 拉肚学区啥都卷,小朋友们卷小朋友的东西,家长们卷’Due Run. 我记得有一回黄大神带了胜跑群的一路神仙们席卷了不少奖牌🏅😂 Btw, I signed up this year’s Olivette Turkey Trot. I probably ran my 1st Olivette Turkey Trot 5K in year 2018. I signed up in year 2017 but I chickened out at the last minute. I

stlplace
September 21, 2024

Reading Time: 7 minutes 中文翻译(主要是谷歌翻译的,我做了一点修改)在这里。 This is probably the 3rd time we stayed in a hospital in America – if we count the time we spent in the Mercy for our 2 babies delivery (baby number 1 and number 2). Last week in my blog I talked about our little baby got sick. As she didn’t get better, we

stlplace
September 17, 2024
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