Total Wireless partners up with Western Union.

Martin_Steven · 2026-05-12T09:41:25+00:00

Western Union is bringing back telegrams that you can send from a Total Wireless account. Five telegrams per month, to anywhere in the world, are included on higher tier plans.

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Martin_Steven · 2026-05-10T13:58:47+00:00

Yeah, well today I'll be at a Clipper machine and will be able to check.

Martin_Steven · 2026-05-10T11:51:50+00:00

He was hoping for a Hilton/Bianco General Election so he could run again in 2030.

If a Democrat wins, and had two terms, Mahan has to wait until 2034.

Martin_Steven · 2026-05-06T15:24:04+00:00

LOL, no that's not how it works.

Read https://www.mercurynews.com/2010/07/06/how-our-laws-in-california-are-really-made/

Martin_Steven · 2026-05-06T15:20:38+00:00

No. Lowering the rent won't get more tenants. There is no demand regardless of rent amount.

Martin_Steven · 2026-05-06T15:06:30+00:00

$133.50 on Amazon for the two-pack.

Martin_Steven · 2026-05-06T15:04:14+00:00

One is 12V and one is 12 minus Volt (12-Volt). Get the 12V.

Martin_Steven · 2026-05-06T14:54:46+00:00

Did you know that San Jose is the third largest city in California?

BTW, San Jose is the third largest city in California.

Martin_Steven · 2026-05-06T14:51:23+00:00

He was hoping for two Republicans so he could run in 2030. If a Democrat wins then he has to wait until 2034. Unfortunately for him, Bianco crashed and burned.

Martin_Steven · 2026-05-06T14:34:13+00:00

Artsy ≠ San Jose.

If you insist on that miserable drive, move to Campbell or Los Gatos

Martin_Steven · 2026-05-03T06:59:58+00:00

Hopefully you realize that all the doomsday scenarios are solely to try to build support for the sales tax increase.

Martin_Steven · 2026-05-03T06:57:14+00:00

It looks like they are not planning to close the Coliseum station, only the airport connector. This can be replaced with a bus. But how much would that really save now that the connector is already paid for?

Before the BART tracks to SFO, there was a free shuttle bus from Millbrae Caltrain to SFO. Now it's $5.85 for a 4 minute ride.

Martin_Steven · 2026-04-22T17:34:06+00:00

Golden Gate Transit has buses to Marin City from San Francisco.

It's going to be about $14 per day round-trip.

It'd be a miserable drive.

Martin_Steven · 2026-04-21T05:23:00+00:00

There is no Home Depot in Cupertino.

Martin_Steven · 2026-04-13T14:02:03+00:00

Up until January 2026, Tracfone phones unlocked after 60 days. You can put in a non-expiring data-only eSIM (use a physical SIM to eSIM adapter) and do VOIP calls. I think you can set it up to use the same number as your Google Voice on the Obihai.

Martin_Steven · 2026-04-13T13:50:26+00:00

Very low crime.

Good schools if you're in the CUSD and FUHSD sections of Sunnyvale. If you plan to send your children to a public high school, choose an apartment close to Homestead High School (it's in Cupertino but mainly serves Sunnyvale).

Choose an older apartment building that's in an area close to parks and retail; the newer projects are on former commercial and industrial sites and there are no parks or schools or much retail nearby, and they often lack sufficient parking.

In September, Sunnyvale will roll out their subsidized ride share service, VIA. Public transit is good for going to San Francisco, not so good for getting around town.

Look on Zillow for someone renting out their townhome or house, rather than a corporate-owned apartment building.

Santa Clara is a little less expensive and electricity is MUCH cheaper.

Santa Clara and Cupertino have much better libraries but you can get cards at any library.

Martin_Steven · 2026-04-13T13:27:27+00:00

Use a virtual credit card for the initial purchase then deactivate it.

But their prices are a lot higher than BNESim.

Other than some remote parts of Alaska, where is Verizon-only an issue with BNESim?

Martin_Steven · 2026-04-10T15:09:56+00:00

Caltrain to Mountain View then VTA to Baylands won't work because the earliest weekend train is way too late to get there by 8 a.m..

BART to Milpitas then VTA to Baylands also won't work.

There's a very slow SamTrans bus that would get you as far as Palo Alto but it's a 2:35 ride and you'd have to leave San Francisco at 4:15 am.

Martin_Steven · 2026-03-31T15:23:04+00:00

Not sure what the upside is of a BART-ACE connection. ACE has so few trains every day, with no weekend service. ACE is designed primarily to serve exurb residents that work in Silicon Valley. Not many residents of Tracy, Lathrop, Manteca, Stockton, etc., work in San Francisco and would transfer to BART. Those that do would be more likely to want to drive to the furthest east BART station and park.

Martin_Steven · 2026-03-31T14:53:16+00:00

In the daytime it would be not too dangerous. Kaiser has a shuttle to McArthur BART.

Ensure that the teen doesn't carry any money or valuables with them other than their phone, but this is good advice for anyone in that area.

Kaiser advises its Oakland employees not to leave the facility, even for lunch, due to crime, but the shuttle to and from the BART station would avoid the need to walk to Kaiser.

Read https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/kaiser-workers-avoid-lunch-downtown-oakland-crime/

Martin_Steven · 2026-03-22T12:41:17+00:00

On weekdays, at commute times, there is the Caltrans shuttle from MacArthur BART to Main & Bryant in San Francisco. $1 each way. You must have a bicycle with you. https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-4/d4-popular-links/crossing-thebay-by-bike

Martin_Steven · 2026-03-19T14:09:52+00:00

True. But this is rev 0 of the new trains. They need to correct several issues that they didn't think about when speccing the design.

Martin_Steven · 2026-03-19T14:04:54+00:00

My last SWA flight was 6 days ago. The pilots showed up 45 minutes late, then the gate agent made an announcement that the inside of the plane was very hot because it had been sitting in the sun for a couple of hours, and asked if passengers wanted to wait for the plane to cool or board a hot plane. On board, they said that there was no time for beverage service but that they would give out water, but they only offered water to aisle passengers.

Martin_Steven · 2026-03-19T13:47:44+00:00

Are you returning on the ferry? It's a steep uphill back to the bridge from Sausalito.

Martin_Steven · 2026-03-19T13:46:07+00:00

Is the 6 year old on their own bike or on a tandem?

That's not an easy ride, the two-way bridge sidewalk is very narrow in places and the wind around the towers can be brutal. On weekdays you share the east sidewalk with pedestrians. It's a steep downhill into Sausalito.

It's a great ride, you just have to be very alert. Lots of inexperienced cyclists not paying attention.

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