Author: omaha

Reading Time: 3 minutes (Update 08-30-2014) We went to St. Louis Outlet Mall (the mills) again today. The playground is busier today as this is labor day long weekend. But still fun. We also explored the mall a bit more this time. (Update 07-20-2014) We went to St. Louis Mills today, as I felt it’s might be a better

omaha
May 4, 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minute She will ask a lot questions on the way to school, as the iPhone/iPad/work takes over my spare time these days, I did not get a lot quality time with Yoyo alone. Driving her to school and take her back to home provide good opportunities for communications. She will usually have a lot of questions

omaha
April 26, 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s finally spring time here, which also means summer is around the corner. And we need to get kids into summer camp, instead of let them glue to Netflix or iPads all day 🙂 There are quite a few summer camps in the area, some are almost full time (like regular semester), some are more

omaha
April 14, 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minute I was listening/reading two stories on the college debt (source: NPR) and the financial well beings of millennials (source: fortune/cnn), which lead to to add some new features to the collegeFund app. The app was essentially a college savings (529 plan) and I did not thought too much of this college debt problem at the

omaha
April 13, 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minute From my limited experience BA Avios points are difficult to redeem for international flights, esp. from where I live STL to PVG Shanghai. But I also heard BA miles is very efficient for the US domestic flights, the trick is also to find them. So here is how I did recently, for one way STL

omaha
April 8, 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minute I have a need to exchange some euro into US dollars. I did some research online as I recall previously I did not have very good experience on this. Saw a few articles (such as this MSN one, and this independentTraveller one). They are relevant but not totally applicable, I think they are more geared

omaha
April 6, 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minute This time it tried to make an home again, luckily because it was overnight, they did not bite cable or things bad enough to cause damage. I am annoyed by them to be honest. So as my neighbor. So who is the culprit? I heard from my neighbor, the new Toyota Sienna minivan is using

omaha
March 31, 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minute Saw quite a few articles on this topic lately. Basically parents focus their attention on their phone/tablet at dinner table, at fast food restaurant, etc., when they are supposed to talk to their kids. In some cases (fast food restaurant), it will increase the likely-hood of children misbehavior. We have all done that (I’ve done

omaha
March 22, 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s the ticket stub of Philly train, when I visited more than 3 years ago (Oct. 15, 2010) for Voice That Matters iPhone developer conference.

omaha
March 16, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 3-29-14) They came back again last night, as I saw some hay above the battery again in Sienna van. I talked to my neighbor yesterday evening, and his Lexus SUV got squirrel after I got it last time. It seems we still need to figure out something. Maybe they are used to moth balls

omaha
March 13, 2014
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