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July 5, 2020 9:39 AM

Vacation

I'm on vacation! I've been super super busy at work lately, so I'm taking a much needed break before work gets even busier than before. It's fourth of July weekend, which means seafood is on sale. I had lobster two days ago and crab legs yesterday, so I am all shellfished out.

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    I made an ascii art flag! The dimensions might be off,
    but I have the right number of stars and stripes! Also,
    this was a pain in the butt to color.

During this vacation, I'm just trying to relax and work on some fun little projects. I'm very close to finishing a cross stitch I started over 15 years ago (!!) and I've even gone back to editing some code for my Teochew website. So hey, you might be seeing an update sometime soon.

June 22, 2020 9:10 PM

Responsive design

Because it's 2020, I need to make my site look a little better on mobile devices. When I first started working on my Teochew site, I used Bootstrap to make it responsive, since that's what I've used at work. That works well enough, but for this personal site, I didn't want to have to rely on a framework. So, I read up on media queries, and I made the width of the content be dependent on the size of the screen. Amazing.

June 21, 2020 9:33 PM

I wanted to start a blog...again

It's June 2020, and the world has been pretty weird since March. My whole way of life seemed to get thrown off by the coronavirus. I'm home a lot more than I used to be. I acted like a bum for the first couple of months, but I'm getting myself back on track. And as a part of that, I'm going to try blogging again.

I don't know, I just really like blogs. I know I have my food blog, but what I needed was a blog where I could write about anything. I also want to make this site a lot nicer, and maybe get back to the Teochew stuff as well. That's going to take some time, but in the meantime I'll just post my thoughts here.

January 5, 2019 7:01 PM

Happy New Year!

It's been a while since my last post because I get lazy around the holidays. But it's a new year now! New Years is one of my favorite holidays because of resolutions. I looked back at my old resolutions that I've made and I realized that I make way too many of them and they're all the same. So I'm trying to focus a little more this year and tackle the one important goal that always eludes me:

Go to sleep early

Of course, there are other things I want to do this year but I think instead of trying to do so many things, I'm going to make my other goal really generic:

Do something productive every day

I'm going to try and actually keep track of my productivity by keeping a journal. I kind of want to try bullet journaling but it seems like way too much work. And hopefully, I'll get back to my food challenge! I have lots of food related ideas so stay tuned.

October 14, 2018 11:36 AM

Mid Year Resolutions: Part 4

What? I'm still making more resolutions? Well, I'm still writing blog posts about new resolutions. I've really had these in my head for a while. Anyway, this should be the last "Mid Year Resolution" post I make.

Learn Mandarin

Hey! I'm supposed to be learning Teochew, not Mandarin! Well it turns out that knowing Mandarin makes it a lot easier to learn Teochew. The nice thing about trying to learn Mandarin is that there are SO many resources available so I don't have to put nearly as much effort into this. Right now I'm trying to do just a little bit of duolingo every day. Once I get past that, I'll move onto another Chinese learning app. It's kind of nice because it allows me to see what characters are the same between Mandarin and Teochew, and what characters are different.

Keep learning Teochew and improving my Teochew app

Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about this. I feel like I have so many things I want to accomplish, but this is really at the heart of it all. I still have so many big ideas for how to improve the app while learning things about programming along the way. Right now I'm trying to add ten new words each week. If I have time to make other enhancements to the app, I'll do that too.