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As an entrepreneur, balancing work and life can feel like walking a tightrope. It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day of running businesses, like building Dance Studio Manager or making sure Dance Forums keeps going strong. But I’ve found that taking a step back, especially when things slow down, can be the most…
I just made an interesting discovery about how Google’s Core Web Vitals can impact AdSense earnings—and it’s not what I expected! Here’s what I’ve noticed: After I fix page experience issues (like improving load speed or visual stability), my earnings don’t increase immediately. But when I ask Google to recheck my Core Web Vitals through…
Of course Los Angeles can get pretty hot in August, so I was looking for a shady hike not too far from where I live in Azusa, and I was pleasantly surprised to find a beautiful trail that follows a creek, and has plenty of shade. There are multiple trails, but we chose the one…
I actually didn’t know about about Luna Cats (ルナ, Runa), but when I had covid in 2021, I drew a lot of drawing including these of Luna Cats. Apparently they are her companions are the Sailor Guardians, but I don’t know much about that. As I understand Luna can talk and serves as a sort…
This was one of the slides at an event I attended last night. Everyone spoke Chinese, and the speaker gave a lecture for more than an hour about motivating yourself, and then he went on to talk about making money selling Life Insurance which I was not interested in, but great speaker! Here is the…
I had the honor (finally) of coming to see many of the survivors of the Monterey Park shooting that occured on January 11, 2023 in which 11 people were killed and at least 9 wounded. There was a many who had attended Star Dance Studio years previously, and he had developed some kind of mental…
It’s been about 3 years since I became the organizer of the Irvine Chinese and English Meetup group. Not only do we have a Meetup.com group with about 1400 members but we also have a WeChat group with 250 members. You can see our picture from this week. It looks like we had about 22…
Well, I finished my trip around the world, and I was in Los Angeles for a month without a car. I rented a car and I decided it’s better. I go ahead and buy something! I’ve always heard that buying a car can be one of the most expensive things a person can do because…
In early 2021 I got Tinnitus, which is a constant ringing in the ears. The tinnitus was probably triggered by one of three things: When I got covid right on New Year’s Day of 2021, something really wierd happened that I still can’t adequately describe, where I had severe anxiety and severe insomnia. The next…
I had a great time hiking with Volodymyr and Julia to a waterfall near Yaremche Ukraine. The night before we spent the night at a resort in Bukovel. It took us maybe 20 minutes to drive Volodymyr’s Jeep Cherokee down the mountain road to get to the trail, and then another 20-30 minutes to get…