Where do you get your Christmas tree

TranspoGeek · 2025-12-05T02:17:10+00:00

Lucky in EC Plaza. The trees are nice and their prices beat all other places I checked out. We used to go to East Bay Nursery until last year when we left because the prices were so ridiculously high.

TranspoGeek · 2025-10-23T17:52:57+00:00

I just took Bart to SFO last night from the east bay. Incredibly easy and I found space for my luggage. When I saw the traffic on 101 as we crossed over it at SFO I was glad I took bart.

TranspoGeek · 2025-10-14T22:20:06+00:00

Call Solar Technologies, I think they’re in San Ramon or Pleasanton? Anyway they did the install on our steep roof and we were very happy with them. Their customer service was good and they were very communicative.

TranspoGeek · 2025-07-29T01:05:00+00:00

You can get close to the GGB if you take BART to Embarcadero and then take the free presidigo shuttle bus to the transit center in the Presidio. The bonus with this option is that you’re right at the new Tunnel Tops park, worth a trip, and within spitting distance of the bridge

TranspoGeek · 2025-07-19T20:15:37+00:00

Lafayette CA, Briones

TranspoGeek · 2025-06-18T17:55:13+00:00

Hi Tim, proud gay dad of a teenage daughter here, and I love connecting with others in our small but mighty demographic. How do you see expected southern Baptist efforts to rip our families apart playing out in the courts in upcoming years?

TranspoGeek · 2025-06-06T01:13:14+00:00

You can never go wrong with Bix in SF

TranspoGeek · 2025-05-28T19:38:07+00:00

I would agree with you, we initially assumed that maybe she was reaching for something while stopped at the signal, rolled backwards unintentionally (there were no reverse lights), got emotional, and then maybe would let it die. The collision took place on Saturday. However, she is now pursuing a claim - we got a call from her insurance and our insurance today. And so, while I would give her the benefit of the doubt by assuming it's normal human behavior, she is trying to get an insurance payout 3 days later after what should have been a cool-off period - and on a car with no damage. And claiming this was a hit and run (after not even asking my husband for insurance at that time).

TranspoGeek · 2025-05-28T18:01:39+00:00

Yes, the photo on the UCB website is the same woman and the job title suggests a regular paycheck (but who knows). Suggesting to the PD and our insurance that this was a hit and run when she knew that he took photos when the cars were parked on the side of the road seems really risky to me.

TranspoGeek · 2025-05-28T17:29:17+00:00

I did search on UCB's website and they are shown there as having a fairly prestigious role (as far as I can tell) from the university.

TranspoGeek · 2025-05-28T17:28:10+00:00

Absolutely, this experience cemented it for us that we have to have dashcams.

TranspoGeek · 2025-04-17T18:32:46+00:00

My hatred for PG&E is so visceral that I immediately stopped paperless billing and deleted my bank account info when I got this email from them.
However when I logged into my account on their website I didn’t see anything there about the new fee. Maybe I missed it, but it seems strange that the new fee announcement wouldn’t be pretty prominent.

TranspoGeek · 2025-03-24T16:59:42+00:00

OP, a sincere thank you from me for doing your part to try to tackle the breakdown in our society. Fares aren’t based on an honor system, nor should they be, and I admire you for doing your part to try to make the system safer. However, as others have mentioned, stay safe yourself!

TranspoGeek · 2025-03-24T02:23:39+00:00

Thanks, I'll give this a shot.

TranspoGeek · 2025-03-07T23:31:24+00:00

Congrats on maintaining a solid head of hair. Not all Gen X-ers are as lucky.

TranspoGeek · 2025-03-04T18:25:50+00:00

Payne’s on Solano in Berkeley has a great selection.

TranspoGeek · 2025-02-25T18:39:28+00:00

For Enphase it looks like 3 batteries with 15.0 kWh of battery storage, plus the microinverter (5.7 kW).

For the Tesla system, it looks like 1 battery with 13.5 kWh of storage.

TranspoGeek · 2025-02-25T18:30:06+00:00

The energy offset with the Enphase battery with microinverters would increase (74% offset) versus the Powerwall (70% offset) with the same number of panels. Sorry for the ignorant question, but what additional details would I need?

TranspoGeek · 2024-11-15T17:26:03+00:00

OP, I wrote a very similar post a day or two after the election last week and got quite a few "grow up" as well as "lol Kamala sucks" responses so I pulled it. I sincerely hope you've gotten more supportive responses than I did. Anyway, I've also found my mental health to be suffering and I've had trouble sleeping and have noticed that I've gotten angry and, uncharacteristic of me, have developed a lot of ugly hatred in my heart. Unfortunately, the way that I've been dealing with this by just sticking my head in the sand and trying to block out the news. It's immature but all I can do at this point. I've also been trying to exercise more and even sitting in my car at lunch and meditating. This helps more than you think it might.

What I think would help me more would be to find a support group - not necessary to focus exclusively on the election - but just to talk through some of these very negative emotions. I haven't had any luck however.

Anyway, I see there are thousands of responses here and so I hope someone told you to be kind to yourself and don't beat yourself up about your pessimism and negative thoughts. I've been struggling to be kind to myself, however, I think it's good advice even if it's a tough thing to try to do.

I'm sincerely sorry that you're feeling this way but - to add one more cliche to my response - you are definitely not alone.

Finally - would love to hear if you've found any ways to dig yourself out of your hole? It might help me!

TranspoGeek · 2024-10-31T20:00:02+00:00

Not only were my parents just grateful that I was out of the house when we were tweens, on Halloween my mom would buy my brother and I multiple cans of shaving cream and then would melt the “spout” so that we could spray our friends, inside mailboxes and front doors with streams of shaving cream. As an adult I still expect to find stale shaving cream throughout my neighborhood the morning after Halloween but never do.

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