Took a summer trip, got sick.

It wasn’t COVID, but it sucked! 2 people directly behind us coughing for 6+ hours. When we got home, my whole family was sick too. We’re all on the mends now. I’m glad no one got seriously ill. I can only imagine how many other people also got sick because of these sick travelers.

Please stay home if you’re sick! Don’t travel on a plane!

That is all.

Thank you. /rant

A little about myself…

I’m a 40 something, married with a family of 2 young kids. I work in the tech industry and have been for my entire career. I am an Asian American, born and raised in the USA. I’d consider myself middle class with a mortgaged home. I’ve lived in various parts of the country — both on the east and west coasts, but I have not lived in the middle. I love my country, but not the direction things are headed in.

I do know I have been blessed with many opportunities, and I believe in trying to give back. I try to surround myself with people who will inspire and motivate me to be better. I believe there is always room to improve things, even the smallest of things. I believe in trying my best.

I’ll share more about myself in the future, but I do intend to keep this blog semi-anonymous, but honestly, don’t actually expect it to stay that way. We live in an age when it’s better to live like anything you do online is publicly available. Maybe I’ll blog about that later.

Stayed tuned for the next entry. I’ll try to post a few times a week.

Why I started this site

The main reason is to brush up on all the new web hosting tools, WordPress, plugins, ads, etc. to see how they work, how they’ve changed. I don’t want to fall so out of the loop, I have no idea what’s going on anymore.

So I guess this website will end up being a journal of whatever happens as I re-learn tools of hosting a website today. It’ll be interesting seeing how ads work, how search engine optimizations work, how these new WordPress plugins work. Eventually I might try to tie some commerce activity and share the process.

Up to today, I’ve setup a domain, added WordPress application, configured some ads using Google Adsense, added a couple plugins to WordPress. Now, I’m just waiting to see how everything starts coming together. I still don’t see any working ads on this site.

I’m currently using the default WordPress editor to write this post, but have options to use others. I almost lost all my text! I guess that’s all the playing around for now.

Enjoy the whatever.