This will be a quick update as I fell asleep on the pool and woke up late. Darla is at a Silpada gig and due home at 8 PM. Thank you, Jennifer, for the pictures of you and Sam having fun at the pool this last week. Jen said that she is starting to swim without her floaties and is a real water bug. Good thing that, as it has been in the low hundreds in Vegas.
We have been lucky in that our weather has been incredible this year with only a few days over 100 degrees. We have been in the mid nineties for the last few weeks and the trend looks set again for this week. We do get the Delta breezes in the evening that cools us down. I open up the house, run the whole house fan for about fifteen minutes and it is pleasant. We have ceiling fans and stationary fans going in every room of the house and it keeps us comfortable. We turn the air conditioning on when the outside temperature gets over 100 degrees, so we've been saving money this Summer.
I did wake up on the pool at about 7 PM and jumped up to wash down the deck and replant a rose bush that was coming up as a volunteer from our neighbor's rose tree. I also put some shock in the pool and it will be good for the week ahead. I tried to get on the computer, but had to run a scan with one of our system mechanic tools. The software checks for malware and defragments the memory and cleans up the system. It runs better after a scan, but it takes time.
Darla and I were off to church early this morning and stopped afterward to pick up some pool acid and a few other odds and ends. We ran into Neil and Lily at Sam's Warehouse. I cleaned the tile today and find that if I use a toothbrush and some muriatic acid it really cleans up the tile and the flagstone backdrop that gets some calcium buildup on it. I was changing out the chlorine and asked Darla to throw me the chlorine float and she clonked me with it. She's got a good arm.
Daniel was working for me this last week, packing up insurance files for storage. He was supposed to meet his girlfriend, Becky, and her family at the office at 2:30 to go to the State Fair. They were then spending the night at a hotel and heading up to Redding and a church camp for the rest of the week. They FINALLY showed up at 5:45 at my office and off they went.
I called Darla to see if she wanted to meet for dinner at Chopsticks, a favorite Chinese food restaurant in Roseville. We met there and when ordering cashew nut chicken the Chinese waitress asked us if we wanted white meat instead of DOG. (I think the restaurant has changed hands.) We quizzed her about the options, certainly preferring white chicken meat to dog, but she was saying DARK. She said it was breast meat or thigh meat. The food has actually gone downhill a bit and we will likely strike that off our list.
We met with Peter and his wife and Anthony and his wife on Wednesday night at Benihana's. We all enjoy Benihana's and they had a special of chicken and shrimp for two for $32. Both Anthony and Peter make me a lot of money and it was great to get together wit them and their wives. We have our annual picnic on August 13 and the only attendees are Gail and her husband, Anthony and his family, Darla and I, Pete and his family and Dana and her new husband. I was fixing hamburgers and chicken sandwiches for the group, but given the small turnout, we have decided to fix barbecued tri tip. I don't know why we have such a small turnout, but c'est la vie. We will enjoy ourselves anyhow. The boys are coming out and we will play basketball and volleyball.
Saturday, Neil, Boyd and I made a road trip to San Jose to meet Bob and see his new house and play golf at the Villages in San Jose. It is a 2 and a half hour car trip and even with an hour to shake off the road rust, I was stiff and sore and shot a 91. Boyd, who could roll out of bed and shoot 75, shot a 77 on a course he had never seen. He is amazing and at 71 is a freak of nature. Neil matched my 91 and Bob shot 84. Bob and Vicki are renting and have an upstairs villa that looks out over a lake and they sit on their covered porch at night and watch the deers come down to get water. They are enjoying being back in San Jose, but I know Bob really misses the golf group. He was very appreciative of us making the trip down to see him and play golf.
Next weekend is the Rose Cup qualifier. I'm not playing well right now, even with the 790 and 80 that I had and quickly followed with a 88 and 91. I'll probably qualify this year because Neil found out that the event will be played the same weekend that our club is in Monterey. A lot of the guys aren't even trying out for the team this year, but I decided to follow through and if I qualify, I will play the Friday two ball event and have an alternate play the Saturday event. Neil asked me again, Darryl, if you plan to come out for the Monterey event. It is October 15 and 16 and we play Pacific Grove on Saturday and Poppy Hills on Sunday. It cost $75 for Pacific Grove and $105 for Poppy Hills and is due on August 12th. let me know. I told him you likely wouldn't fly out for it, but give me a definitive answer, bro.
We finished a great month at work. We were up 15.2% in total premium and 18% in retained income in the office. Pete had his best month ever and we had all 8 underwriters hit five figures this month, the first time ever. I will be hosting a lunch later in the month to celebrate our success, but it is invigorating. It seems that momentum is a powerful ally in business. A lot of the hard work that we do in one month pans out in new business the following month. Everyone has their eye on the ball and are self motivated to get the job done. I am very pleased with how this year has been going. This should be our best year ever in Sacramento.
Well, I haven't seen the whites of Darla's eyes yet, but she should be here momentarily. I hope you are all having a great week. Darla and I will be in Vegas at the end of August and here it is August already. Fantastic. Oh by the way, check out John 5, verse 4 in your Bible. Interesting, eh? Ciao.
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