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 when performing tasks, is just
All things said, finding a replacement for the Lenovo Slim 7 Pro was a much easier endeavor than replacing the wife’s HP Pavilion x360 Convertible 14 laptop. The HP Pavilion still works fine for the most part, except that the
I’ve had the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Pro for just over three years now, and the machine has served me relatively well over this period: it has a gorgeous OLED screen, a very well-built and sturdy chassis, and also a
The wife is of course particularly interested in visiting Taiwan this year-end, whereas for myself, I’m still undecided! The Taiwan itinerary I posted in the last entry would have been pretty dense and we’d be covering a lot. But the
We’re still stuck between Taiwan or South Korea for our year-end trip 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 possible
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 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 doing a
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 was
We saw a number of signs 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 I’m jotting down my notes on how each equipment item that came for the trip fared. I’m comparing this trip to the one in Chubu-Kanto Japan last December
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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