Halloween night

Fun and games and all things strange lurking about the neighborhood. We turned the lights off about 8:30 and immediately, some dope was at the door beating on it. We had a fairly normal low turnout of trick-or-treaters. Darla says it is because we live across from a park and the kids can't run from one side of the street to the other. Whatever the reason, it's nice not to be bothered every five minutes with the doorbell ringing. Darla had one little girl about Sam's age come and her mother was dressed up as well and had her own bag for candy. It was pretty early, she probably went back home, poured it in a bowl and gave it out to the kids coming to her house.
We talked to Jennifer and Samantha as Tinkerbell had a great night. Jennifer took her over to John's neighborhood and Samantha was able to walk with the other kids and get her candy. Samantha considers all of the other kids out trick-or-treating with her to be her friends. Very cute.
We had a mixed weekend weather wise with the wind down of a storm Friday and Saturday and 70 degrees and snshine today. I played golf both days and started on one in a drizzle on Saturday and finished in 3 hours and 20 minutes with no one on the course. Woodcreek had their Monster Day with a reverse shotgun at 8:00 o'clock. I set up to play with Bob and Matt before the tournament. Bob met us out there, but said he wasn't playing. I said, "why not?" He said, "because it's raining!". We put our umbrellas away after the first hole and it was dry until we finished. In fact, it rained again about 3:00 PM when I was mowing the lawn, just a drizzle. I called Bob after golf and left him a message that we was a "Wuss". He had a good laugh over that today. I shot 83 and Matt had 82 yesterday. Today was our Invitational and Matt couldn't play as he was in a fun today and Boyd took his spot. We started on the 441 yard par four number 18 in a scramble and promptly birdied the next ten holes before suffering a bogey, we parred the next five holes and then birdied number 17 for a 72. Not a great day for us, but we had fun and enjoyed the tri tip barbecue afterward.
I enjoyed watching the SF Giants win the their third game of the World Series and now own a commanding 3-1 lead over the Texas Rangers. Game 5 is tomorrow night and if they lose, will return home Wednesday and Thursday with the need to win only one game to win the title. Of course they can wrap it up tomorrow night and have their ace on the mound. it has been fun watching the games and texting back and forth with Randy. We put a dozen Pro V1s on the outcome. There have been some pretty hilarious texts zipping back and forth. He was in Rochester sitting in a hotel room and ruing losses for his Tech team, the Cowboys and now the Rangers.
I leave Tuesday for the Managers meeting in Detroit and was pushing my guys all month for a good solid month as Alan will be looking at the figures YTD and for October when we meet. We were up about 15% on the top line and up about 8% on the bottom line this month, with another $1,300,000 month. I have my budget completed and sent in and we estimate about $16,000,000 in revenue next year with $900,000 in profits. We are on pace for $14,000,000 this year with about $800,000 in profit. The branch was losing $480,000 a year when I took over as Manager. I hope to get rewarded this year and hold out hope of once again getting the Gold branch award, but also the Branch Manager of the Year award. It will be an intense week as it always is, so pray for me. I fly home Saturday night.
Jennifer promised to send us some pictures of Samantha as well as a video and I will get those uploaded to the blog. This is short, but baseball put me behind tonight and I have to spend some couch time with my wife. I hope you are all well and living "La Vida en Cristo." Ciao.