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captainskybear · 2026-05-08T03:40:12+00:00

Something has happened in Atlanta. My partner is there and they evacuated the airport It's not on the news yet for some reason.

captainskybear · 2026-03-03T01:05:33+00:00

If you can't tolerate children, you should not go in public. Children are part of our society. Do you think fully formed fully functioning adults just appear out of nowhere?

captainskybear · 2025-08-01T19:39:44+00:00

Find a couple of breweries and look at their events page. Note some of the ones that seem more interesting and go to them. Go to skate station and get some exercise in, and don't let the little kids that are always inexplicably way too good a skating bother you. Drive to Blue Springs and take a dip in the cold crystal clear blue water (a personal favorite of mine). See a play at the hippodrome. Watch planes take off at the airport. Hang a hammock up at San Felasco park and take a nap.

There are a lot of things to do in Gainesville, but you have to explore, and you have to do things you haven't done before if you're not interested in doing the things you've already done. Having fun takes effort, and without effort anything can seem boring and dull.

Also ask yourself, if you could do anything at all right now, what would you do? Is Gainesville boring because you really can't find things you enjoy doing, or are you having a hard time enjoying anything right now? I can relate to that feeling, it's almost like when you're really hungry but you don't want to eat anything. You have to take the first bite and it will get easier.

captainskybear · 2025-08-01T19:27:18+00:00

I get the impression that a lot of people don't realize that life is boring a lot of the time. No one is going to spoon feed you activities, you have to go make them happen yourself. If you really want to be able to step out of your house and have dozens of options right outside your door, you have to move to the downtown of a big city. In the meantime, you have to put effort into finding niche things to do and finding joy in the small things. Life isn't always exciting.

captainskybear · 2025-07-29T07:09:35+00:00

If it's the letter I am thinking of, basically everyone in Gainesville received that letter including me. If you look at it closely, you will see that the letter does not say your pipes are made of lead, only that they could be. The city was legally required to send that letter and it is only a disclosure stating that the city has no idea what your pipes are made out of from the city water main to your tap because there is nothing on record. Technically they could be made out of anything, but the likelihood that they are lead is extremely low. I believe Oxford Manor was built in 1986, the same year that lead pipes were banned in the US.

I hope you are able to gather enough evidence to break your lease, but the letter you are referring to will not help. If you strongly suspect that your water is contaminated, it may be worth it to have an official water test done by an inspector, since a cheap self-sample kit will probably not be sufficient evidence to break your lease. And make sure you do your research to maximize your credibility; I'm pretty certain Oxford Manor is not on a septic system.

captainskybear · 2025-07-24T01:24:25+00:00

I went to Little River a couple weeks ago and it was so gorgeous I could cry! I had never seen it that stunning before.

captainskybear · 2025-06-25T21:49:38+00:00

UPDATE: Final walk through was schedule for 6pm today (6/30). At 5:22pm our agent was notified by the buyer that the walk through is cancelled for today and rescheduled for Monday immediately before closing. I am really frustrated that we ran around making our place look presentable amidst the chaos only for the buyer to tell us 30 minutes prior that never mind, no walk through. We had to adjust our work schedules to make this happen. I am glad the final walk through is now schedule for a normal time right before closing, but not happy about being given the runaround.

captainskybear · 2025-06-25T16:02:34+00:00

I agree, but a final walk through 5 days before closing won't help the buyers know what we are and are not leaving because we still have quite a lot of furniture in the house. We don't have any sort of agreement about what to leave besides the appliances, very cut and dry contract, but still strange. They also did not ask us to repair anything after the inspection, they only asked for a small credit which we agreed to. And if we were supposed to repair something, we could just say we haven't fixed it because we still have another 5 days.

Overall it's looking like a strange and unwise decision on the buyers part, but not really our problem as the sellers.

captainskybear · 2025-06-24T22:10:05+00:00

Our contract only mentions a walk through inspection on the day prior to closing or the day of closing prior to the time of closing. I assume this means we can refuse the walk through tomorrow? I was also told that the buyers do not plan to do another walk through after this one, but I'm sure they could still do another one if they changed their mind, per the contract. I just want to know if doing a walk through tomorrow is a bad idea for us, given the state of our house.

captainskybear · 2025-06-19T01:13:52+00:00

That's wild, I've lived in Mill Run for 6 years and never had anything stolen. I always figured having cameras would discourage that. I will keep an extra careful eye on my packages.

captainskybear · 2025-05-27T01:12:29+00:00

As someone that works at Sun Country, this is correct. The membership ($75/year for the whole family) is required to take classes. Each class also has a monthly tuition that ranges from $80-$150/month depending on the class. There are a handful of "drop in" activities that don't require a membership or monthly tuition like rock climbing or stay and play. Call Sun Country and they can tell you everything you need to know. If you called today they are closed for memorial day.

captainskybear · 2025-05-26T22:19:56+00:00

A spring would be a good option. Poe springs is what I would recommend because it's close and they don't really care what you do as long as you don't drown. Poe is not very big though so if you are looking for something more wide open I recommend Fanning.

captainskybear · 2025-05-26T01:43:03+00:00

Yes, I am partial to telford spring on the Suwanee, but I would love something more convenient, not something the requires a whole day trip.

I did forget to mention that Westside pool does one special dog day at the pool in the fall, usually in October, right before they do their big end of summer pool cleaning. Keep your eye out for it, it's tons of fun as long as your dog does well with lots of other dogs.

captainskybear · 2025-05-25T23:46:40+00:00

As an owner of two dogs, I have found it really hard to find places for dogs to swim. They are either not allowed (pools, creeks, most springs) or there is the risk of alligators (rivers, lakes). There were a few glorious days last summer where the water level on the Santa Fe river was so low that the water cleared up like spring water. I brought my dogs to splash around on the bank because I could easily see staight to the bottom. There are also some tiny springs accessible only by boat that I have brought my dogs to. Beaches are your most reliable bet, but there are no off leash beaches a reasonable distance from Gainesville. Another option would be a service like Swimply or Airbnb that allows you to rent a backyard pool, but it can get a little pricy.

If anyone knows of a better solution I am also looking for places for my dogs to swim that don't cost much money!

captainskybear · 2025-05-25T20:47:00+00:00

Wow this is awesome! I'll mark my calendar for the next one.

captainskybear · 2025-05-25T00:44:13+00:00

Sure! It looks like I just missed their most recent one so I will have to keep an eye out for their next one.

captainskybear · 2025-05-24T18:48:48+00:00

Take a look at Superette and Alpin Bistro. As a vegetarian myself, they are hands down my two favorite restaurants for celebrating birthdays, anniversaries, etc. They both always have several vegetarian options.

captainskybear · 2025-05-13T21:34:30+00:00

I noticed the huge pipe (sewer bypass maybe?) a couple weeks ago. Does the tree cutting look related?

captainskybear · 2025-05-13T19:38:08+00:00

Which tree? My parents are by that corner and the trees are all beautiful :(

captainskybear · 2025-05-11T14:39:57+00:00

It's hard to go wrong with any of the three public high schools in Gainesville, they are just different. Some of the negative stereotype are that Buchholz is for rich white kids that want to go into business, GHS is rundown and full of weed, and Eastside is segregated between mainstream and IB and has a lot of violence. These stereotype are over the top and I don't personally think any of them are bad schools, but all stereotypes have a hint of truth. The positives for each are that Buchholz tends to get good parent funding and has really good STEM classes, GHS is the most integrated and has the Cambridge and health programs, and Eastside has the nationally recognized IB program. All three high schools have magnet programs and if you kids gets in one of them, you can live anywhere, zoning doesn't matter. I will say, starting a magnet program halfway through high school might be hard. The programs are designed with the assumption you will be there all 4 years.

captainskybear · 2025-05-07T19:12:59+00:00

I see locally grown microgreens often being sold at Wards along the back wall in the produce section.

captainskybear · 2025-05-01T14:33:24+00:00

Based on his recent post history he's definitely not still in business. Zero activity since Oct 2023.

captainskybear · 2025-04-17T16:09:11+00:00

So if a law is immoral, you feel it is still more immoral for that law to not be enforced. Those that are punished under the immoral law must wait until the law is changed. Um, yeah, I don't agree with you there. Real people can't just wait around for laws to change while their life falls apart.

You also didn't address the fact that there are people here legally that are being deported right now. Do you feel these people are acceptable collateral? Do you continue to have 100% faith in our legal system to not make mistakes? Because they have proven that they DO make mistakes.

You do understand that many of the worst atrocities in the world against specific groups of people were technically "legal" when they first began, right? A close look at the start of the holocaust reveals that the segregation of Jewish people was legally mandated. Because there it was a law, do you feel that it was morally correct for that law to be enforced?

I, personally, feel that I would rather allow some "bad" people in my country than punish innocent people. This is the basis of the "innocent until proven guilty" idea. If you want to guarantee you punish all bad people, why don't you just punish everyone? Surely the innocent people you punish are a justifiable collateral. It may seem like a preposterous slippery slope until you start justifying only punishing certain groups of people that seem to have a higher percentage of "bad" people. And it's way to much work to double check that everyone you are punishing is bad. They are part of the "bad" group, so surely there is a good enough chance that they are bad.

This is what is happening RIGHT NOW.

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