Costco’s Awesome Customer Service
All too often I write about businesses that have customer service failures. Today, I am writing about customer service positives. We shop at Costco for large quantities of household goods like diapers. The boxes of diapers are stacked near the optical department in the Burnaby Costco. More often than not we shop with our twins with us, because [...]
Home Depot Follow Up
The verdict from home was that we “need” the wardrobes that I was sent to look at the other night at Home Depot. Honestly, I have no idea why I had to look at them anyway, if I had said they are ugly and stupid the response would have been, “What time can you pick [...]
Home Depot Customer Service Failure
I just got home from the local Home Depot. What an epic failure that expedition was. Wow. At home I am doing a little renovation; I am changing what was the laundry-room into a bedroom (twins, you know). So I wanted to remove the dryer outlet, a 220 volt receptacle. I had the power shut [...]
The Grand Opening of the Robert Lee YMCA Building in Vancouver
This afternoon I will be attending the grand opening of the shiny new Robert Lee YMCA building on Burrard Street in Vancouver. More about that event later this evening or whenever I can get near a computer. 7:45pm…I am home from the grand opening of the Robert Lee YMCA Building. I should have done my homework [...]
Ali & Ali 7; Hey Brother (or Sister) Can You Spare Some Hope and Change? My Thoughts
Last Tuesday I had the pleasure of going to the recently renovated Vancouver East Cultural Centre (the Cultch) Historic Theatre to see Ali & Ali 7; Hey Brother Can You Spare Some Hope and Change? And what a pleasurable and very thought-provoking experience it was. The premise of the 85 minute show is that the [...]
Birthday Celebrations
We had more than one reason to celebrate today. The first reason to celebrate today is the fact that it is the father-in-law’s birthday. Second reason, it was on this day in 1996 that Jim Dog came to live with me. I do have to say that the father-in-law is probably in better shape than old Jim [...]
Radically Divergent Weekend Excursions
Well chalk today up as an another first experience of parenthood. We took the twins to two radically different locales this weekend. First we went to a community park and playground in Port Moody where we let them play on the swings. Then today we took them to South Granville where we explored the shops and stuff around there. Did [...]
Pizza on the First Day of Spring in Vancouver
Annalie and Story enjoying a slice of Pizza from Four Brothers Pizza on Commercial Drive as we celebrated the first day of spring 2010. And here is Story inspecting her piece of artichoke heart pizza before chowing down.
Social Media at Vancouver Opera’s Nixon in China
This Saturday night just gone I had the pleasure of taking in the Canadian premiere of Vancouver Opera’s performance of Nixon in China. The first thing I will say is, WOW. An incredible performance. Stunning. Compelling and bizarre. Now let me add, this is not Carmen or anything like Carmen. I won’t get into the [...]
Daylight Savings Time Tonight
We are quite excited about switching to daylight savings time tonight. That is an hour that we don’t get to sleep due to someone other than the twins. Nifty. We took the girls out for sushi again today. We visited my favourite little hole-in-the-wall place, Asa Sushi in Burnaby. They make BC rolls with some [...]
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