This week have been a challenging week in terms of training. My plan for the past two weeks was to "overreach" with this week being the most difficult of two. I really struggled at various times throughout the week. I felt tired, sometimes miserable, and often questioned why I was doing this to myself. I had to take it workout-by-workout in order to get through the week. I reached into the vault many times to draw upon some inspiration. So you can imagine how elated I felt when Chris and I finished up our 2hr run today around noon. That workout was the last for me for this week, but more, importantly for this training block. I treated myself to a few beers this evening...and a delicious treat from DQ!
Tomorrow I am taking my first full day off in a long time to recover. Tuesday-Friday will be a mixture of workouts working towards the Canmore Olympic next Saturday...which incidently is also the Alberta Provincials and should have lots of people racing. My main goal for that race is to use it as a speed workout so I am saving all my speed training for the week for that particuliar race. Secondary to that I am hoping to run off the bike a little better than I did back in Chinook. I can't wait to race!
In other news...
The latest with our couch...the furniture company actually called me this past Friday. I have left numerous messages with them asking to confirm our order. [This is the company making the couch...not where we ordered it from] It turns out they did receive our order...on May 4th but it was sitting in a pile of orders awaiting to be scheduled. I balked at the lady when she told me this as we had placed the order on May 2nd and I could not understand why it was not started when we were guaranteed it by the end of June at the latest. I asked her whose fault it was but she would not comment on it. She wouldn't confirm either if they had received our $1000 deposit. The only thing I took away from the conversation was that they did indeed receive our order. Although, it just seems they must have known back in May what was going on otherwise they would have started the couch at that time and not have the order sitting in a pile of "similar" orders. Following that logic the company we bought the couch from must have know at the time we placed our order they were in trouble.
Later that day the company we ordered the couch from left a message telling us not worry and that we are getting our couch. Lucky for them Mel nor I were there to answer b/c we would have put them on the spot with what the manufacturer had told us.
Bunch of liars and I'm still pissed as hell for getting ripped off. Hopefully VISA are able to get us our money back.
The company in question are called The Living Room and here is an article in an online publication Mel dug up about the bankruptcy: Link to Article
Earlier this week our 3yr old HP laptop bit it. After doing some research I figured out the particuliar model of HP laptop we had was part of a bunch that had defective motherboards. The issue started with the wireless dying (back in May) afterwhich 2-3 months later the motherboard we stop working and you were left with an expensive paper weight.
I have this gem of a website: HPLies.com
There a lot of upset people with HP and their lack of ownership with the issue. I called them on Thursday night and they admitted the issue and had extended the warranty from 1 year to 2 years on the unit...without notifying existing customers. It didn't matter anyways as the majority of the issues started after the warranty period and ours expired back in Sept. 08.
I argued with them on the phone about them admitting it and not doing anything about it...for FREE. I paid $1200 in 2007 and I expect it to last more than three years. The best they could offer me was to pay $399 (USD) + shipping to have them repair it.
LOL.
I told the guy on the phone that it was ridiculous and that I won't be sending it in. Futher to that, I will never buy another HP and will discouraged everyone I know from doing so.
DON'T BUY AN HP PRODUCT...THEY ARE CROOKS AND SELL SHITTY PRODUCTS. VIVA LA HPLIES.COM
I am going to have to start a seperate blog regarding my consumer issues as of late.
That is about it folks...
2 comments:
It's these kind of experiences that make me fantasize about how great our world would be without the need for couches, laptops, telephones, all this frigging crap!!!
Good on ya for letting others know about your experiences -- I've HAD it with being ripped off!!
Great training week by the way! Now, what we want to know is how "bad" your ass really is? Hmmmm? Mel can help us out here! LOL!!!
Details, we all want to know details! At least I do, since I have no life of my own. I don't buy any stuff, so I don't have to worry about stuff not working anymore. Most of us are consumer sheep, doing what we are told to do by subliminal voices in television. That's right, I blame tv.
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