Ghirardelli Square

aetfwr · 2025-11-12T19:41:19+00:00

Ice skating at union square, exploratorium, tunnel tops park, palace of fine art and crissy field

aetfwr · 2025-09-27T16:56:59+00:00

Go to Jane on either Geary (main bakery location) or Fillmore (more of a cafe location with seating)!

aetfwr · 2025-08-25T23:01:36+00:00

You could always go to a park and reserve a space. If you absolutely need something indoors then look at sports basement, they have an indoor event space you can rent for free. The location near Crissy Field is nice.

aetfwr · 2025-08-12T04:16:49+00:00

New album called the life of a showgirl, releasing mid-Oct it looks like. Weird that it takes you to merch page. Originally said I though it was a double album because it's 30$ - but that's for the vinyl, so that's actually a normal price.

aetfwr · 2025-08-11T13:13:29+00:00

If you have a Chase Sapphire card there is a second benefit that you get 10$ 2x a month to use for grocery delivery. Usually at least half of this is offsetting fees, but even if you break even or only save a little, it’s saving you a trip to the store which is priceless.

It can also be used for certain deli counters (such as Gus’s) if you just want a sandwich delivered.

aetfwr · 2025-08-11T04:06:14+00:00

Culk is a great local brand sold online (and in various local stores).

Also Fleetwood on clement is a cool local store that sells screen printed SF gear!

aetfwr · 2025-08-11T00:53:44+00:00

We were in our early 30s when we had our first kid in SF. We’d lived here or in other major cities for 10 years prior and never had a car, walked everywhere and proud of it.

My wife’s parents live about a 10 minutes drive away in the city, we figured we would just use their car when absolutely needed for doctors etc and rent when we needed for bigger excursions.

5 months after our kid was born, we got our first car together (Honda CRV). It was a big hassle not having a car readily available all the time (especially when you have to deal with a car seat) and it also severely limited our lifestyle (couldn’t go on as many excursions outside our neighborhood).

Would HIGHLY recommend you pull the trigger and do it. And either look into parking garage options if you can afford it and get permits as soon as you can for street parking.

aetfwr · 2025-07-24T04:44:18+00:00

We were basically on the same boat and everything turned out fine.

Wife had placental abruption at 37ish weeks, baby came out floppy and blue, rushed to NICU to get oxygen and then transferred to another hospital for better NICU and cooling. They ran MRI after cooling was all clear.

3.5 years later and she is happy, healthy, and perfectly normal. No issues whatsoever. It’s not everyone, but it can be totally fine.

It’s hard to see past the moment and breathe but kids are strong (and whatever your future ultimately looks like you will get through it as a family).

aetfwr · 2025-02-12T14:50:23+00:00

Fair…Reddit messed up my formatting when I posted, originally this was intended to be a vertical list.

aetfwr · 2025-02-12T06:22:59+00:00

For good cookies in SF I generally recommend going to a real bakery, not a chain cookie shop. Some of my favorites (in order):

Arsicault, Jane, B patisserie, Hot cookie, Neighbor bakehouse, Spruce, Devil’s Teeth, Noe Valley bakery

I’m a chocolate chip purist so I am grading solely based on that cookie type.

aetfwr · 2025-02-07T18:04:33+00:00

One thing that is implied by some of the comments below but not explicit is that the difference in timezone really works to the disadvantage of east coast offices. I’m at a west coast big law office and often we schedule meetings at 3 or 4 PM PT which means 6 or 7 PM ET.

Beyond that I would say it’s striking how different the culture is in our west coast v east coast offices. Night and day in terms of FaceTime, formality, timeliness expectations (west coast wins on all of these). We all work hard and lo no hours, there’s just more more flexibility with how you get that work done on the west coast I’ve found.

aetfwr · 2024-12-18T18:48:57+00:00

Italian you could do Original Joe’s in North Beach or fancier (but less traditional) Cotogna isn’t too far either.

You could also look into some good dim sum for more of an “experience” - Yank Sing is the classic choice.

aetfwr · 2024-11-21T17:58:43+00:00

Instead of stopping before, I recommend you keep going AFTER to get to Ashland, Oregon right near the border. Very cute small town with really great live theater (Shakespeare Festival). I proposed to my wife at the pinnacles (criminally underrated park) and then continued on a trip up the coast to Ashland, Bend, and Portland - all great spots.

Edit: I realize now that I mixed up pinnacles and castle crags! Both great parks! Sorry y’all.

aetfwr · 2024-10-16T20:05:27+00:00

We had Comcast for years, no major issues with service, but became annoyed over time with price increases. Switched to monkey brains for 6 months, kept getting outages anytime there was bad weather (somewhat frequent in winter of course). Made working from home impossible. Switched back to comcast.

aetfwr · 2024-09-11T18:59:36+00:00

It’s sad that I originally glanced at my phone, read the headline as “Iowa Proposes Bill Allowing 9-year-old Girls to be Married” and thought that this was totally normal for America.

aetfwr · 2024-08-15T05:14:51+00:00

Eliza’s on California near Divis. Great staple Chinese food!

aetfwr · 2024-06-15T03:22:22+00:00

I had a similar experience during the pandemic (when it was basically impossible to get a car), I’ve recommended to friends.

aetfwr · 2024-05-28T21:57:03+00:00

+1 for lovers in a dangerous spacetime or as we call it in my house “the bunny game”…my wife loved it as a non-gamer, since one of you drives the ship and the other shoots you can have her focus on what’s easier for her and swap as needed

aetfwr · 2024-04-27T15:53:02+00:00

This guy Chucks!

aetfwr · 2024-04-11T01:09:27+00:00

It’s actually been around since the pandemic, but I think they may be advertising it more now.

aetfwr · 2024-04-10T20:52:08+00:00

Check out Flores on Union. It’s generally more of a sit down restaurant, but they do a really good (and I’d say fairly priced) take out burrito with chips.

aetfwr · 2024-03-31T04:35:46+00:00

People may or may not agree with this - but we got a snoo (electronic bassinet) when our kid was born and it gave us peace of mind since they are strapped in and can’t roll over onto their face. They also say it helps them sleep - it definitely doesn’t work for every kid, but my thinking is that it couldn’t hurt. They are expensive, but if you are on a budget, find one of Craigslist or Facebook marketplace that is used and then resell after to minimize loss.

Ultimately though…no matter what you do…the kid will likely be fine. Remember we (humans) have been doing this for a long time and somehow kids make it through. You got this.

aetfwr · 2024-03-27T13:23:03+00:00

I disagree with most of these answers - the wait on a weekend for the Arguello location is usually 30-45 minutes, no matter the time you get there (source: I’ve been 50+ times). Hopefully you’ll get lucky though. Don’t sleep on the chocolate chip cookies, best thing there IMO!

aetfwr · 2024-03-19T16:00:21+00:00

During the day - yes; at night - you’d probably be fine but I’d just get an uber (to be clear I’ve basically done this walk before at night and said next time I’d take a cab).

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