Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
The Asus Zenbook S13 I picked up a year ago is a well-built, extremely light ultraportable that I’ve been using largely as a travel laptop. The OLED screen is beautiful, the laptop is quick even in performing tasks, is just
All things said, finding a replacement for the Lenovo Slim 7 Pro was a much easier endeavor than the wife’s HP Pavilion x360 Convertible 14 laptop. The HP Pavilion still works fine for the most part, except that the USB-C
I’ve had the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Pro for just over three years now, and the machine has really relatively well over this period: it has a gorgeous OLED screen, a very built and sturdy chassis, and also a sleek
The wife is of course particularly interested to visit Taiwan this year end, whereas for myself, I’m undecided still! The Taiwan itinerary I posted in the last entry would had been pretty dense and we’d be covering a lot. But
We’re still stuck between Taiwan or South Korea for our year end this December. For the last week though, I’d been developing, checking and refining a workable 20 day return visit to Taiwan itinerary, and also trying as far as
We’ve stayed at The Minton for almost 11 years now: and it doesn’t feel like it’s been quite that long! The last time I did a post-renovation post was 7 years ago, and blogged here. So, it was about time
We’ve normally only always started putting together our plans for our year end vacation in the second half of the year – i.e. in June-July. This year, we started super early! This has been in part because we’d just be
Our last post of 2024! A check on our blog here shows that I’ve been writing these annual year-end tech summary posts for the last 15 years now since 2008, and it’s interesting to see the kind of gadgets and
In terms of total time spent away on vacation, this 18 day trip to South Korea hasn’t been our longest: the honor for that goes to our Dec 2023 trip to the Chubu and Kanto regions of Japan: that trip
We saw a number of signage that made us chuckle/giggle/ROFL this trip! South Koreans certainly have a good sense of humor, intentional or not. A number of these I posted to Facebook; but here is a selection of some of
This is the first of two last posts on our trip, and jotting down my notes for how each equipment item that came for the trip fared. I’m comparing this trip to the one in Chubu-Kanto Japan last December and
A selection of photos taken by the wife. We quipped that when it comes to all things flora observed on our family holidays, we all wait for the wife! Though as one of my neighbors astutely observed: Pictures!
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