Sometimes cell phone pictures leave alot to be desired and the pictures from the jazz Festival this year are testament to that fact. Darla and I were working Sunday night when the pix were taken and we didn't want to have a camera with us. Besides, our little Canon Cool Pix took a swim with Samantha while we were in Vegas and is no longer working. You can see a picture of the house with the chocolate base and white trim. Our painter is S L O W and has been working on the job since Thursday last week, he hopes to have it finished tomorrow. He actually misjudged the amount of base paint and has to go back to Kelly Moore tomorrow and buy five more gallons to finish the house. He has three sides completed and only has the front and the tall part of the North side of the house left to paint. He is very good and only uses one worker, but certainly wouldn't win any speed contests. The picture of Benihana's is Joni and her fiancee. We met them on the day that I was in San Francisco with some of the staff and one of our Executive VP's was in from Detroit.
The Jazz festival was a great time and Darla worked it with me this year. The picture of her and I is after our shift and I am finally having my first beer, ergo the big smile. There is a picture of Peter and I. Pete was feeling no pain last night. The picture of Darla and the two women is Pete's wife, Vicki and their daughter, Jenna. Darla and I worked both Saturday and Sunday night and the night shift is generally pretty easy. We do the bar stocking and drive around to the six venues in Old Sacramento (in a golf cart) and fill any orders they have for more mix or booze. Saturday, we were done by 7 PM and spent an hour watching one of Darla's Silpada gals' group, the Black Catz sing and perform. Melody is a wonderful singer with a good personality and a great voice. We enjoyed the show and headed home early as I had another round of golf Sunday and then we were heading right back down to the Jazz festival.
Sunday night was more of the same, but we stayed on and partied with Pete and his family until about 11:30. They totally get into the event and wear beads and have a grab bag full of light up glasses and masks and hats, kazoos, and some unmentionable party favors that resemble parts of the female anatomy. Pete spends $100's of dollars on hotel rooms, booze, beer and snacks for his family. I couldn't half finish a beer before he was topping me off last night. I was feeling no pain by the end of the night and Darla drove home. They also have beach balls that they blow up and bat around the venue. Some of the revellers don't enjoy the experience as much as us as they get hit in the head with the ball or it spills their booze. One gal yelled at us to take it outside. We were in an area outside under the freeway called Freeway gardens and she was smoking a cigarette. We yelled at her to take her cigarette "outside". She responded by popping the ball with her cigarette. Nice. Matt from work joined us last night and one guy grabbed the ball and was trying to pop it and Matt batted it out of his hand. The guy looked at Matt and said, "oh, I'll get you later." Matt said, "what's wrong with now?" and the guy crawled off to the rock he was sitting behind. We had a ball.
I did get in two days of golf and shot 40+44 on Saturday in the practice round and then 44+40 in the tournament on Sunday. Bob shot a glorious 37+34=71 on Sunday in the tournament to take low gross. He was hot and eagled number 16. I came on finally at the end of the round and had back to back birdies on 16 & 17 (and won $36 in skin money). We have our Net Amateur championship on this Sunday and I am up to an 11.4 index which gives me 12 strokes. I'm playing to it as evidenced by my scores this weekend.
The office continues on our hot streak and we bettered our 2009 May by over $30,000 in net income. The office is smoking so far this year and I will take the gang out to lunch again this month. We have exceeded our budgeted income every month this year. It is fun stuff going to work every day.
Darla and I went to the Home Depot today and bought the Weber Genesis gas barbecue (you can see it in the picture above). It is $799, but completely stainless steel, including the grill itself. They put it together and one of the manager's delivered it a little after one this afternoon. We also bought a new throw rug for the family room, inspired by Jennifer's nice area rug in her home. Darla and I eat most of our meals on the table in the family room while watching television, it being just the two of us and I tend to be a bit of a pig and slop about, so Darla wanted to get a rug to put down in the area in front of and around the sofa sectional. I also bought some new screen material for the sliders and some wood for the enclosure around the air conditioner. That has seen better days and with the freshly painted house and pool deck, I decided to tear out the old one and rebuild it. Darla is out painting it right now with the quart of paint we bought to test the color on our house.
Well, I need to try out that new barbecue and have to say so long for now. I give thanks for the men and women that wear the uniform of the United States of America (unlike Barack Hussein Obama who blew off the service at Arlington National Cemetery today so he could return to Chicago..I'm PRAYING for one term and OUT). I am proud of Jennifer's service. I know she has changed her mind on the Iraq and Afghanistan offensives, but she served admirably her four years and it helped to make her the person she is today. God bless the USA. Ciao.
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