My two friends and I have been hosting a dinner series for our friends and friends of friends called “Dine For Friends” at various restaurants across the Bay Area for over a year. Two weekends ago, for our ninth dinner, we had a mishap with the communication; our dinners normally start at 7pm, but [...]

Almost a year ago, I bought a Roomba for my home. This past weekend, I gave up on it and returned it for the second time (thanks to Costco and their satisfaction guaranteed return policy).
I returned it the first time last December because its side rotating brushes were getting ripped off. I’m guessing [...]

While in Hong Kong, we had booked a tour to the Guangdong Province with a final destination in Shunde for the weekend.  It was perfect timing because we had planned to visit family there afterwards, except that on the morning of our planned departure, a typhoon bound for Hong Kong shut down all transportation by [...]