We had our annual Summer Picnic this weekend for my office and we had a sparse turnout. We only had four people out of 20 attend from the office and I was ready to call this the last annual picnic, but we have so much fun every year and I've decided that I'm going to offer it to the group and those that want to attend will have a great time and the rest can go about their boring weekends. We had tri tip this year with carmelized onions and skewers of garlic shrimp. We had salads and salsa and a nice selection of desserts. Darla and I got their pretty late as she had (shocking!!) a Silpada party Saturday afternoon. Daniel and Becky joined us this year as Becky is in town doing classes at a local church for the next two weeks. I'm sure they offered these same classes in San Jose, but this is a good excuse for her to see Daniel. They played basketball and volleyball and Darla really had a blast playing volleyball. I played early on, but then some younger guys showed up who were doing jump serves and spiking at the net and I chose to sit on the sidelines and enjoy a cold beverage. I enjoy the game when it is just fun volleyball with other folks who play twice a year, but when it gets serious, I move on to other things. As it was, I had already played 18 holes of golf and it was my second day in a row of golf and I just wanted to sit and relax.
I went to an insurance education seminar on Friday morning at Empire Ranch Golf Club and then we had a nice lunch followed by golf. I went with Matt in my office and one of my agents, Gary, and we went rogue choosing to bypass the scramble format and just play our own ball. This was one of the worst tournaments I have yet played in. The owner of the restoration company is a non golfer and it was run horribly. We had a shotgun start at 1:15 PM, but he had groups of non golfers playing together and it took us three hours to play 11 holes. We finally realized that there were three groups backed up and a huge hole in the course in front of them, so cut around them and ended up playing 16 holes in just over four hours. We didn't turn in a scorecard and I interpolated my score for the round to a 41+43=84, a good score under the circumstances.
Saturday, I played as a marker for Matt in the scratch qualifier. He shot 79 to make it into the field of eight for the Club Championship. It turns out that my 82 would have also qualified 8th in the field and I would have been fodder for the current Club Champion, who is a 2 handicap. I played today in the first round of the tournament. This is our match play club championship and the only time all year that we play match play. Their are pools of eight players in each flight and $300 on the line. $140 to the winner, $80 to second place and $40 each to the third and fourth place finishers. I won my first round match against a guy who was once a 6 handicap and has ballooned up to a 13. I figured I was doomed, but shot a 39+41=80 to beat him 5 and 3. I chipped in for birdie on the first hole and took the first three holes to go three up and was never less than two up the rest of the round. It is nice to be playing some good golf after all of my trials with the game this year. To shoot 84, 82 and 80 on back to back to back days was gratifying. Unfortunately both Matt and Boyd were eliminated today in their matches, both at 4 and 3, so it is just me moving on. Neil is still in the hunt and Steve my poker buddy beat Rick who traveled with us to Mexico three years ago. I hadn't seen Steve since my hole in one in April and he wanted to buy me a beer. I was so dehydrated after the round that I just drank a Sports Drink with lunch. I will be on to the second round Saturday and hopefully the finals on Sunday. More, of course, to follow.
Very happy to report that Darryl will join us in Monterey in November. We will rent a house through homeaway.com, a GREAT service to put renters in touch with owners of rental dwellings in resort areas. I've already booked a home in Zephyr Cove for September when Dad and Shirley are in Lake Tahoe. Also, happy to report that Neil and Lilli will join us on that trip. Neil and Lilli met Dad and Shirley on our trip to Mexico two years ago. Neil will see Dad and Shirley and two weeks later see Darryl in Monterey. He is our brother from another mother.
You can see pictures of all of our dry goods piled up on tables in the house. We had a moth infestation in the kitchen and the guy from Clark! came out this week and sprayed. It gave Darla a good excuse to "thin the herd" in the pantry as it was beginning to look like we were a Mormon family storing up for a famine or something.
9:30 PM
Darla called me to dinner and we ended up watching a captivating episode of 48 hours that was 2 hours long and I realized when it ended that I hadn't finished my blog. I'll wrap this up and get back to the couch.
I am taking Thursday off this week and joining Boyd, Neil and Rick on a road trip to Rio Vista Golf Club up on the delta outside of Lodi and Antioch. Groupon had a $49 for a twosome deal a few months ago and we are taking advantage of it this week.
I have completely quit coffee. I've been on decaf for the better part of three years, but just had my teeth whitened and decided that I prefer white teeth to unleaded coffee. I've been drinking a lot more water, which is great for me.
Daniel finished up his work for me at the office this week. They completely boxed up and catalogued 5 years of files. They used 595 cartons and it took just over three weeks to complete the project. I will move the cartons to our file storage company just prior to our move in December.
As to that, it is like pulling teeth to get information out of our real estate division. I know that the Roseville location on Douglas Boulevard is the leading candidate. It is by far the nicest office building, although the location in Folsom is newer. That location is a lifestyle location and is a four story office building located in a shopping mall area with a movie theater and many restaurants. If we ended up there, it would be a big deviation from the standalone office buildings that the company has now.
Well, that is it for another week. Do a small nicety for someone in your life this week, just to tell them they are important to you. Be well. Ciao.
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