My humble little collection of websites is 18 years old! If they were a person, they would be old enough to buy alcohol in several Canadian provinces lol. My websites still exist and as with the last few years, there aren’t many updates. I did fix up some CSS issue with the crabbing guide, and running into various issues with my WordPress sites while moving to a newer PHP version at my webhost. So a bit more than the usual nothing to report. No significant plans other than to maintain the sites and make the odd blog post here. Traffic and Adsense aren’t even worth mentioning anymore at this point, although I did realize that ads weren’t showing up on crabbing guide and Smash Bros. guide because the ad code was too old, so will be fixing that. Onwards to year 19 and a brighter future!
Author: TJ
Simply the Spring
It’s now July. Half of 2024 is gone and a heat wave is on the way for the PNW. It’s time once again to post some highlights of my activities over the past season. My spring activities this year were mostly local activities, except for one trip for work. Work was busy this season, but I try to do something fun during the weekends and holidays. Here are the photo and video highlights:
Winding Down Winter
Once again it is time to post on this little blog about what I’ve been up to for the past season. This was an activity-filled winter for me. I went on a big ski trip to Colorado, drove all the way around the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, and did a bunch of other stuff. Here are the highlights with photos and videos.
At the top of Burnt Mountain within Snowmass Ski Resort. Hike to the top was short, but wasn’t easy given the slippery slope and doing it in ski boots while carrying my skis and poles (click to enlarge)
Read MoreTrip to Japan
After many, many years, I finally visited a new country. In my longest trip since forever, I traveled to Japan with some friends where we spent two and half weeks exploring Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo. Here are my thoughts on the trip along with some photo & video highlights.
Accelerated Autumn
It’s almost end of the November and definitely feels like the typical winter out here in the Pacific Northwest. It’s time again to post about what I’ve up to during the last season. My major outing was a 2.5-week trip to Japan. Other than the trip, I didn’t do too much else, just two fall foliage hikes. Here are the video/photo highlights.
Summer Shimmers
Meteorological fall has arrived on queue in the PNW with rain and cooler weather. This is means it’s time to look back at all the (mis-)adventures I’ve been up to in the summer. Actually I didn’t do too much compared to previous years in terms of recreation, since I was dealing with a few other things. Here are the photo and video highlights.
TonyJiang.com Year 17!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another year at TJ Online has passed. I’m supposed to make this anniversary celebration post in August, but forgot until now, like in several of the previous years. My websites are still alive. I make the odd post on this blog here and there, but no plans to do anything more. Maybe instead of drawing the background images myself, I’ll get GenAI to do it. I’ll write my own posts instead of using ChatGPT. I don’t really even check the traffic to my websites anymore, and Google Adsense revenues are non-existent for the most part. Onwards to Year 18!
Spring-Time Sessions
It’s mid June, so it’s time again for my spring time activity update on this blog. During this time, I transitioned from winter activities to summer activities. I skied in April, and started hiking in June, and collected and ate more shellfish in between. Here are the photo and video highlights.
New GPS Watch: Garmin Fenix 6X Sapphire
I recently upgraded my fitness tracker. I’ve used my Garmin Vivosmart HR for 5+ years. It works fine for tracking heartrate, steps, sleeps etc., but it doesn’t have a GPS and do activity tracking that well. So I ended up ponying up the cash for a Garmin Fenix 6X Sapphire GPS watch, and here’s what I think about it so far.
Winter Wanders
Spring is finally here although sometimes the weather still doesn’t quite feel like it. It’s been a while since my last update post, so here is a summary of what I’ve been up to during the winter. Like the last couple of winters, I mostly just skied during my time off. Also went razor clamming for the first time. Here are the photo (and video) highlights.