April 16, 2012 – Totally Morbid Thought of the Day
16 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
in Food, Health and Healthy Living, Mental Diarrhea Tags: food, free range, meat, organic, twilight, vampires, vegetarian
So I’m cooking this unfortunately oh so tasty marinated beef shank for dinner.
Poor cow.
I feel slightly sickly every time I cook meat.
So I’ve been cooking meat less and less.
I really don’t feel bad for tofu, but I do feel bad for animals, especially because of the conditions in which they are often raised.
I wonder what they think about while they are alive
I wonder what sort of hopes and dreams they have for their children
So my totally morbid thought of the day is this:
If in the future there exists a species higher on the food chain than humans, I hope that it will grow us in free range, organic circumstances, and in the end, find us very tasty and satisfying, cooking us in a multitude of different ways, before eventually going through this existential crisis on the whole whether or not to eat meat thing because it’s cruel and inhumane.
Vampires excepted.
There will be no talk of twilight silliness on this blog.
Like this:
Qualico Cleaning Services Review – STAY AWAY!!!
28 Mar 2012 8 Comments
in Interwebs, Mental Diarrhea Tags: burnaby, calgary, cleaning, edmonton, email, groupon, living, LivingSocial, mark luciak, Qualico, review, scam, services, social, Vancouver
A friend asked me, “Why are you so mad at this cleaning company?” that was the daily Groupon Vancouver yesterday.
I’m tired of them ripping people off.
I and 50 other commenters on this forum had Qualico NO-SHOW to our appointments without warning, and for those who got an apology and a “credit”, a no-show to their re-booked appointment:
http://getbestdeal.org/2011/12/23/canada/edmonton/qualico-cleaning-service-scam-or-not-scam/
I originally blogged about my experience in passing on January 20, 2012:
http://beverlywu.com/2012/01/20/what-i-have-been-thinking-about-lately/
- I don’t believe that they EVER had any intention of showing up to clean my house.
- I don’t believe that they have turned their business around, doing over 1000 cleans since last summer as Groupon claims (see below).
- Because It sucks that I booked with them in January 2012 and NOBODY SHOWED UP (I waited over an hour), NOBODY EVER answered my email (anxiously waiting at home concerned the cleaners had gotten into some massive car wreck or something), their phone number is an out of town voicemail box that was FULL (no surprise there).
What’s the game, then? You just want all my address and personal information? Money?
Are these deal sites happy to keep their cut of these phony deals their unwitting customers bought but are lazy to redeem or too shy to complain about?
I bought my voucher from LivingSocial Vancouver, but similar deals have now been offered on DealFind, LivingDeal, TeamBuy, and Groupon.
The deal I bought: http://www.livingsocial.com/cities/57/deals/202092-four-hours-of-house-cleaning
I tried to post a message on the Groupon Q&A “about this deal” section yesterday (March 28, 2012). My message DID NOT GET POSTED on the site. Here’s Groupon’s reply via email:
March 2012 | Qualico Cleaning Services Scam Groupon
Mark Luciak’s Email is mluciak1@telus.net, eh? Readers, fire off those emails!
March 2012 | Qualico Cleaning Services Scam Groupon
“over 1000 cleaning since last summer”? None of those 10 crews showed up to my house on January 17, 2012, that’s for sure.
March 2012 | Qualico Cleaning Services Scam Groupon
The rest of the Groupon Q&A for this deal in Vancouver is at
http://www.groupon.com/deals/qualico-cleaning-services-3/discussion?campaign_id=qualico-cleaning-services
Qualico even sent me an appointment reminder email the day before my scheduled appointment.
Though LivingSocial issued a refund, they have lost my business, permanently. Why? for not properly vetting this business before offering a deal on it.
I thought Groupon was better than this. It appears not. They have now lost any of my future business as well, until the reviews of this Groupon come in saying extremely positive things about the service from this thus far SCAM company.
I dare somebody to prove me wrong, that legitimate people actually showed up to your house to clean it, not rob it (hopefully not literally and just invisibly, through the middlemen of the internets known as deal sites!)
Go on, readers, trash the comments section with your stories proving otherwise.
I will add your positive notes to my completely negative retelling of my experience in the body of this post.
I have not had a good experience, and am EXTREMELY ANGRY they have the nerve to go out and and do it again to a brand new set of Vancouverites.
The SHEER NUMBER of people with no-show experiences with this “company” are staggering.
Employees don’t get into emergency situations every other day, and if they do, I expect you to at least contact me, your client, within a reasonable amount of time (so far, 3 months and counting), by phone or email if something happens.
Their “$200 guarantee” is as absolutely and utterly worthless as the paper it’s not printed on.
STAY AWAY.
They’re asshats and they’re trying to turn you into one too.
XOXO
(p.s. anyone think this is possibly related to Javan King, of Qualico Capital (investments)? Vancouver area scam artist…time for another google! Anyway, he/they all know where I live now anyway, so if this website disappears and I turn up dead next week you know why)
Feb 26, 2012 – The Oh No Hour
26 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in Mental Diarrhea, Photos, Simon Fraser University Tags: anxiety, deadlines, facepalm, Forgetting, memory, stupidity, worry
For the second day in a row, I’ve f*cked myself over. Yesterday I forgot to bring an essential piece of equipment to SFU surrey. Today, I somehow didn’t successfully copy my files to my USB stick, so all I had when I got to the edit suite was what I had left off with last night. None of the work I had done today.
So again, for the second day in a row, I’m on my way home. Again. Time fully wasted.
Don’t get me wrong, I love wasting time, just not on things I don’t want to be wasting time doing.
Now comes the hour of worry.
I’m just hoping that in my haste I didn’t accidentally copy what was on my USB stick onto my hard drive instead of the other way around.
That would really, really suck, seeing as this project is due is less than 24 hours and it would mean re-doing everything I did today.
Own fault. Two days in a row.
I am one unhappy camper.
Steve has agreed to exit the premises for the evening whilst I figure out this hot mess of a project.
*Edit: 5:17pm* : And now, a photo, because my life actually doesn’t suck, no matter how negative I may get at times.
Big Sky Over Vancouver. The spiky bits are the downtown core.
I think phone cameras are amazing. It has changed the way we see the world through each others’ eyes.
Like this:
Sensory Teleportation
04 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
Some songs just burn a memory into your mind. Three seconds in, you’re back. Completely transported. Standing still. Eyes closed. The air, the smell, the lighting, the mood, your age, the breeze in the room. The people. The sound. The real world evaporates. Suddenly lucid.
My living room was glowing when I arrived home this afternoon.
These are the strongest, most visceral:
Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up – Frank Zappa, Joe’s Garage
Preparing This is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan. Once for scene study in 2007, once doing tech side for Havana Theatre production in 2008. Couldn’t find it on iTunes (still not on there!), had to buy it off some sketchy Russian music download site. This song in particular out of all the songs I have, is something special.
Painter Song – Norah Jones, Come Away with Me
Lights off, white icicle christmas lights on. My room. Just the coziest, glowiest situation ever. One of my last distinct bedroom memories before moving out of my parents’ house. Painting flowers on the wall. Betta named Opus in a little tank. Freshly plucked lavender on a sill. Green windowshade.
Hit ‘Em Up Style – Blu Cantrell, So Blu
High school. Volleyball trip to the island. A 15 passenger van and a chauffeur who swung the steering wheel to the beat whilst driving on the freeway. Scared the hell out of me but oh what fun.
Soft Light – David Darling, 8 String Religion
VFS days. Warm up. Movement. Freedom. Breath. Blackness. Warmth. Touch.
One of the Brightest Stars – James Blunt, All the Lost Souls
Broughton Street Apartment 2007, downtown vancouver, every detail of my little piece of cheap rent shithole independent paradise. The light of the late summer afternoon. The breeze, the birds. The cats. The sound of my mirrored closet doors. The dark. The drunkenness. The insomnia. The fire (yes, real fire). The taste of lychee. The sensitive plant on the windowsill. All my books.
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