Reading Time: 2 minutes About 14 or 15 years ago when my old daughter was new born, I saved some money and put it into her 529 plan. About a year later, I wrote this blog post Some questions about 529 plan. I haven’t put in much new money into her 529 plan since the early days, and for
Reading Time: 3 minutes Travel Mishaps One of the most memorable moments in 2024, for me at least, we already checked out the hotel in HK and got on the taxi to the airport, then our 14-year-old said, “I left my hoodie in the closet”. We already checked out thus cannot go back to the room directly. Had to
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m talking about the unlocked iPhones. Because I don’t think the carrier promotions are “cheap” in the sense they usually make the money back from the monthly fees, and then more. I can think of a few places, some are probably cheaper, but I am not 100% sure about the quality (especially the battery life
Reading Time: 2 minutes And personally, I am not happy with Mercy Go Health First some background. There are 3 urgent care places near where we live. In the order of opening: St. Luke’s urgent care (next to a CVS). Total Access Urgent Care (TAUC): an independent chain that has no affiliation with a hospital; they have X-ray and
Reading Time: 2 minutes First a few tips (not the tip as in the money) I learned since I drove Uber. One is you can setup a secured code like 2 factor authentication: I have one passenger used this feature. This may be faster than looking at license plate/exchange names etc. The driver can only “start the trip” after
Reading Time: 2 minutes 还有再加上保险里面的一些坑。 Must buy 必须买的保险 Healthcare insurance, better include dental and vision too. Without healthcare insurance, it’s much harder to get needed medical care, should you or your family need it. This actually happened to one of my friends. And I believe the friend probably died from the disease because of that: lack of insurance, and
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
Reading Time: 2 minutes This probably should be the series 2 of Ladue high school, we are coming, series I is here and I wrote it about 9 months ago. Now it’s real – which means, every morning, I have to be patient about the traffic on Warson road. And I am very proud to announce: so far I
Reading Time: < 1 minute 来美国将近27年，很多方面已比较适应，包括她们这里(比较坑叔）的英制。英里，英寸，英镑等，不过我在心里换算一般还可以，因为换算相对简单。就是这个华氏的温度换算比较麻烦: (F-32)x5/9, 后来碰到一个当过海军飞行员的老兵说他们的一个简化的八九不离十的算法：(F-30)/2 好像也还可以啊。我告诉我小女儿：我的脑子里还是摄氏度。她们也知道，她们的理想室温是70华氏度，我们是75度。哪天等我做了美国总统（不过我做不了，因为我不是在这里出生的），要等我的女儿做了美国总统，我让她把这英制改了，我估计英国
现在也是用国际的米制了吧：没去过英国 it’s on my list: no pressure girls 
芝加哥到香港的直达航班 在小红书上听到这个，跑到她家网站一看，果然有 ORD to HKG 航班，价格也还公道。看来美国的航空公司短期内是不会开通 ORD to PVG 的航线了。 It looks like this flight started on October 3, 2023. Quote the article: The three-times-weekly flight, operated by the airline’s state-of-the-art Airbus A350-1000 aircraft, will depart Chicago at 4:05pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and
Reading Time: 3 minutes Note: I also published this to Medium, and the friend link is here. Our younger daughter turned to 10 the day before yesterday. And our older daughter is about 4 years older, so basically I have been a dad for a bit over 14 years. Being dad is not an easy job. Last few years
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