Yep. Just another excuse for our public servants to sleep in and take another day off. Meanwhile corporate America continues to work and strive toward profitability. The last two holidays that were approved were for MLK and Cesar Chavez and were so blatantly directed at minorities and the policy of inclusion that so many Americans (Democrats) subscribe to. Both men were tremendously influential in directing policies that helped both blacks and hispanics receive equality and certainly justice in these United States. That said, neither one held any public office and a National or State holiday is a bit much in the scheme of things. I enjoyed the lighter traffic this morning. Darla is, of course, off today and she and Alicia will travel north to Paradise and help celebrate their Mom's birthday. Traffic was so light this morning that the traffic controls were off at my on ramp to Highway 50 this morning. Smooth sailing.
The pictures of Samantha are from Jennifer. One is Samantha's first bath with Mom. The other is of Samantha in one of the jogging outfits that we bought her when we were in Vegas. She is adorable, eh? It is her one month birthday today.
I had a great weekend and it started early with a trip to the Thunder Valley casino with an insurance agency who had lunch there and followed that with an afternoon of gambling. We dined at the new Koi Palace, which is a Chinese restaurant in the casino. The food was excellent and the service even better. I played my regular nickle video poker and got hammered until I hit four aces with a two for $305 with 20 coins bet. I left the casino about 5:00 PM and headed to the store where I stocked up on meat, cheeses and bread for my poker party at 7:00PM. Darla drove to Vacaville and met her friend, Joni, for dinner. I was a poor host and took my guests for $170 over the next five hours. I had one of the guys from work join us and he took an $80 beating.
Saturday was golf and a warm up round for the tournament on Sunday at Lincoln Hills. Saturday saw a 45 minute frost delay and we finally teed off at 9:20 AM. I met a friend of Darla's husband, Darren, for the first time. He is new to the area and a golfer and looking to hook into a club. Darla thought that as President of a golf club, I might be able to hook him up. I got him the sign up information and I think he will play with Boyd and Bob and I in the Super Bowl tournament in two weeks. I found more of a rhythm on Saturday and shot 42+41=83. It was actually warm on Saturday after the frost burned off and it was about 60 degrees.
Sunday was another animal entirely as the winds kicked up and our 8:00 AM shotgun was brisk and cold. The wind kept the frost from forming and we got out on time, but the temperature was about 39 degrees with a wind chill of about 30 degrees. My ears were freezing and my nose started running and the wind caused my eyes to water. It was brutal. We had similar conditions at this tournament last year and I struggled to a 92. The wind then was about 40 MPH, whereas it was closer to 20 MPH on Sunday. I struggled early and went bogey, triple-bogey, bogey for five over after three holes. The triple bogey was a shank out of bounds off the tee on the second hole. I couldn't even see the ball as my eyes were watering so badly and I was freezing. Happily I pulled myself together and shot 41+43=84 and took third place in the tournament. Poor Boyd could never warm up and shot an 87 and quickly exited the premises when the game was over. Bob shot some really stellar golf under the conditions and tied for the low gross in the tournament with a 77. Bob has the stuff to be our club champion and may even pull it off this year.
My next tournament is next weekend with the qualifier for Spyglass. It is a two day tournament and I am playing with Steve, one of my poker crew. He played yesterday and shot an 86 as a 13 handicap. Many of the scores were upper stratosphere with mid nineties a common score. I think Steve and I have a chance to be one of the two groups that head to Spyglass in June.
My only dilemma is that Jennifer and Samantha will be here this weekend and I want to spend some time with them. I think she is flying home on Tuesday, so hopefully we can have dinner together one night. Diane is flying them in because she wants to spend a weekend with them while she is not recuperating from surgery. Jennifer will be back for two weeks in February while her Mom goes under the knife.
I was telling Jennifer the story about Steve's granddaughter. his daughter had a baby girl (their third child) the same week that Samantha graced our lives. Steve's son-in-law decided to take the family up to the snow last week as Tahoe is now covered in a fresh blanket of snow and he wanted to take the boys sledding. Steve and Brenda offered to watch their granddaughter, but the mom wanted to bring her along. She said that she would stay in the car with her daughter. When they got up there it was such a nice day that the Dad decided it was great picture opportunity. He went around to the back of the car and unbuckled their daughter. He took two steps with his one month old and slipped on some black ice. He fell straight back and dropped his daughter who flew through the air and landed head first on the road. They spent the next twelve hours at the emergency room getting cat scans and neurological tests. Steve said he could have killed his son-in-law.
I did call and talk to Darryl last night as it was his 52nd birthday. We chit chatted about his birthday and how things are going. he then dropped the bomb that he is leaving his job of one month and going to Denver to take a position with McLane Food Service, the leading food service and restaurant supply company in the United States. McLane is owned by Berkshire Hathaway (I'm a stockholer) and is a huge company. He had wanted to go to work for them before Christmas, but they were slow with the offer. His current company is flying in a Vice President to talk to Darryl today to see if they can keep him. The carrot at McLane is that he will only be in Denver for two years and then will relocate to Tyler, Texas where he will take over for a Vice President who is in his late sixties and plans to retire in two years. Darryl will be a Vice President in charge of distribution. I told him that I'm glad to see him finally settling down at the age of 52.
Well, work awaits. The hum of my office is palpable as the staff arrives for another work week. I have to lead the life group tonight, so will study up on the sermon notes from yesterday at lunch today. I was a heathen, playing golf instead of being at church. Next week will be the same agenda. Oh well. Ciao.
No comments:
Post a Comment