Reading Time: 4 minutes I was able to figure out how to put my work Dell laptop into sleep recently. The problem was that if I just unplug it from the docking station without put it into sleep, it will be on and usually runs out of battery in the morning, in other words it will needs reboot in
Reading Time: 2 minutes The first pedometer was a freebie from McDonald, something like this one. I got two actually from the meals, and I lost both of them. Pretty sure I lost one during a flight. It’s easy to fall off because the clip to the belt is not very tight. Also keep in mind this does not
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 01-14-2016) Asics@eBay Offers $75 Off $100 (at checkout). You can Mix and Match to reach $100 in total for your orders. Shipping is free. You can use ebates to get some cash back; you don’t have to use dealsea (Original 01-01-2016) I used to work at a place near Laumeier Sculpture park. It has
Reading Time: 3 minutes for the kids. This is my second trip, and the first for my wife and two kids (5 and 1 year old). And we went there during its busiest time (Dec 23/24). Some random thoughts: 1) I started to appreciate the quality, brand and customer service of Disneyland (and California Adventure) show, ride and parade.
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s that time of the year again: a lot of shopping or sales, more online than offline, givings in kids school and at work place, bells outside local Schnucks, gift cards, Christmas trees and decrorations, happy holidays or merry Christmas, red cups or white cups. I know I know I won’t go there. Gift giving
Reading Time: 3 minutes I used the UA miles for my own ticket, it’s not UA saver economy all the way, but I felt it’s ok. The full ticket price was about $1100, and I spent 115000 miles (80k + 35k). Since I was short for about 1200 miles, initially I was worried shell out $75 for those miles,
Reading Time: < 1 minute Serenity has 2 birthday party invitation today. Because we already agreed going to the first one, we cannot back out although serenity told us she wanted going to the second. She even says she likes gymnastics now. When did that happen? Last I recall I had to drag her to the gymnastics class, not literally,
Reading Time: 4 minutes (Original 11-12-2015)I decided to give cloud server another try, after my failed attempt to move WordPress from shared hosting to Amazon AWS last year. This time I go with DigitalOcean as I heard good things from my friend Don (who made this cool makeyourcase site and api). Decision choosing Apache or NginxI chose Nginx over
Reading Time: < 1 minute I continue to be Serenity’s weekend activity driver these days. I like spending time with her, esp. when she asked me questions when we go to COCA for her ballet class: it’s about 15 minutes one way, and it’s Sunday afternoon, so it’s not as busy. These days she like to say something, usually some
Reading Time: 3 minutes (Update 11-05-2015) Citibank Gold Checking account offer: 50,000 AA miles or 50,000 ThankYou Points (doctorofcredit has a detailed explanation and step-to-step guide). This seems like good deal even consider $90 monthly fees (3 months). Also, a top on checks. Sometimes it cost money to get beginning checks for a checking acct. One way to workaround
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