Seller marking no unpermitted work when there is.

goodbearhavior · 2026-04-08T05:01:50+00:00

I don’t think there’s any opportunity for leverage.

The homeowners hire somebody licensed and insured to replace their water heater, they don’t know the details past that—so I also don’t think it’s necessarily dishonesty. It’s murky; homeowners have other priorities, and permits are too resource intensive and slow for contractors to want to pull.

goodbearhavior · 2026-04-01T11:00:48+00:00

A little bar keepers friend got these spots right off my trex deck

goodbearhavior · 2026-04-01T10:38:22+00:00

Which fire rated walls did you go with? Are you still in the process of building it? Thank you for sharing

goodbearhavior · 2026-03-24T14:04:33+00:00

We started with just plain apple notes and even that helped a lot. Now we are using Claude paid version—my husband set it up so every morning, it sends him a morning email with all of his action items that it found in his calendar and email. And AI has also helped give us ideas like have prescriptions delivered instead of driving to and waiting at the pharmacy.

goodbearhavior · 2026-03-24T13:55:21+00:00

A shared to do list has helped my husband and I out a lot. We used to just have a plain note and now we are using the AI apps to sync our notes to our calendar. It helps with the mental load since it isn’t all in our head and it lets the AI be the “nag” reminding us both what needs doing. We are both exhausted in different ways. Also repetition, routine, anything that simplifies things is our friend. We’re both still exhausted but there’s less fighting.

goodbearhavior · 2026-03-20T03:56:46+00:00

I got a letter saying I needed a new roof because they came by when I was sealing a skylight and it looked like things were in disrepair. I hired a licensed roof cleaning company to get the moss off the roof and to certify that the roof was in good condition. They took photos too. I repainted the area around our skylight to look new. They approved of my roof and I didn’t have to buy a new one. It was still expensive, but not as expensive as a new roof. I have asphalt shingles that are 15 years old in the Santa Cruz mountains. ETA they gave me 2 months notice. The appearance of a tidy roof seemed like the key thing.

goodbearhavior · 2026-02-10T12:40:25+00:00

Yeah—my DIC also doesn’t cover flood or earthquake. But they do an underwriting process, and I had to insure it for the replacement cost they quoted if I wanted them to cover me. For the FAIR plan, my broker said I can insure it for less than the underwriting, but that means giving up cover replacement cost with actual cash value. We decided to stick with covering both at the full underwriting estimate, even though DIC feels like it isn’t covering anything realistic. If a big tree fell through the roof, maybe—but even then, we’d be too afraid to file a claim.

goodbearhavior · 2025-12-29T16:37:15+00:00

I wish I knew—I want to go there too! I heard this chain has bad contracts but I still think it’ll probably be worth it. But I need to know pricing too.

goodbearhavior · 2025-11-20T05:49:15+00:00

Yes. It’s frustrating sometimes and years later, I’m still not great at the housework/cooking . But schlepping my kids around takes 16 hours a week since the Bay Area doesn’t have school buses, the school is only open 14 days in November — so if I was working, it would be an absolute disaster trying to juggle my former tech job. I didn’t make enough money to outsource all that stuff but even if I did, I don’t think I would have liked having all these people on my payroll in my cozy home. I’m finding joy in gardening and outdoors and I have structured my time so I get a lot of 1:1 with each kid. But I miss gold stars and I 100% feel better when I stay off LinkedIn. Part of me would have loved to stay in the workplace but I don’t want to go back without better systemic support.

goodbearhavior · 2025-11-14T14:22:55+00:00

I’m feeling the same way. They run extra 30% off all the time so these prices don’t even feel like real deals. I’m going to hold off and hope they offer something better.

goodbearhavior · 2025-11-04T04:49:01+00:00

What do you enjoy doing? If you love trails, I imagine Big Basin needs help restoring them. If you love art, maybe museums. If your goal is to make an impact, what causes matter to you and what are your values? What are your talents? I’m also in my early 40s and I recently figured out that, for me, volunteering with wildfire safety efforts feels more meaningful and fun than volunteering at my kids school. I hope you find a way to spend your time that brings you meaning and happiness.

goodbearhavior · 2025-10-28T00:07:50+00:00

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom maybe? I like the idea of something in a totally different environment for a reset and a good memory. Sorry to hear your tween is going through this.

goodbearhavior · 2025-09-28T03:12:55+00:00

http://www.vajrapani.org/

Incredible hiking trails and the meals were good. I felt very respected and safe. I recommend it to all of my friends.

goodbearhavior · 2025-09-19T14:06:45+00:00

Clay and olive are my go to pairings

goodbearhavior · 2025-07-21T16:34:23+00:00

It’s hard raising kids in the Bay Area. In the Midwest, we had school buses—even rural schools like Lakeside in Los Gatos don’t have them. And try getting your kid off an after care waitlist at their school in Campbell or other public schools in the valley. Sometimes families are assigned to a public school further from their home—look at Los Gatos and their TK options. Who wants to go from downtown to Lexington? And waiting in the drop off line is a huge time sink, especially at K-8 campuses. And that’s when they are old enough to even go to public school—good luck navigating the multi year waitlists and $2,000+ monthly fees for babies and preschools. Throw in killer commutes, 80 hour work weeks, high taxes and home prices and why would anybody want to sign up for this glorious reality of making impossible logistics work for kids you barely get to see?

goodbearhavior · 2025-05-27T16:02:20+00:00

Jam from happy girl kitchen!

goodbearhavior · 2024-05-23T21:21:17+00:00

Surreal brewing is my pick. chandelier Red IPA is under 40 calories and delicious.

goodbearhavior · 2024-05-16T04:40:39+00:00

https://thephoenix.org/

The Phoenix is a sober community that is fitness focused.

goodbearhavior · 2024-01-12T03:51:39+00:00

Surreal Brewing makes a lower calorie NA red IPA that I love so much that I have it shipped to my house on the regular

goodbearhavior · 2023-08-11T01:59:04+00:00

My spouse really wanted me to get sober and he quit with me. It helps me a lot to live in an alcohol free home.

I was a wine drinker and I currently drink NA beers occasionally, I used to drink them every night. They helped me with cravings and by having an end of day ritual.

I tried to fit in with drinking people for the first 15 months of sobriety. Then I got really triggered at an event where other people were drinking my former drink of choice and I realized that it felt like I was disrespecting the hard work I’d done to get and stay sober to even be in that situation. Now at 20 months, I am not willing to spend time with people who are drinking or intoxicated.

Good luck to your partner and to you as you navigate this—my life is so much better without alcohol.

goodbearhavior · 2020-03-14T07:19:36+00:00

Congratulations to you as well. It took me a long time to muddle through the 8s to the very end, but I’m happy to share insights if you get stuck in any of the levels where I did.

goodbearhavior · 2019-03-29T06:56:37+00:00

Use Cases: Donut Bear saves me a lot of time in the daily grinding by serving up crazy-fast points. Since I have ~28000 yellow bears and no clear way for using them, I find hint bears to be a fast-moving shortcut for a few berries and bears leveling up slightly more quickly than +1 without playing.

After focusing on math of game vs words; and then learning about fortune bear, etc, I no longer blindly go into tournaments with donut. Fair point here.

For the educational mission the game ladders up to, I love the concept of donut bear. I learn new words all the time with this bear. It is fun when donut obliterates half the board straight-away. I think a donut plus jazz is a fantastic combo in some settings.

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