Another weekend in the books. It started Friday night with a chance to go to the King's game. I had been up with Andy to Tahoe on Thursday to visit some of his agents and Rich up there called Friday and said that he had floor seats for the game against Indiana. Our top two players were hurt this week and both would miss the game Friday night against the best team in the league. My inclination was to stay home and watch on TV, but I had never sat in floor seats and Darla had a party, so soldiered on. We met the agents at a sushi place close to the arena and I parked my car there while we had dinner and then went to the game.
Brett is the younger of the two agents and he and Andy were very vocal with the players. Lance Stevenson made the mistake of engaging them in conversation. Brett told him he was having a bad game and Lance said, "Are you talking to me or the ref?" Brent told him that Marcus Thornton was lighting him up with 28 points on him late in the second quarter and the Kings were up by 12. Every time down the court from then on he had a comment for Brett. The Kings played over their heads, but lost a 17 point lead and the Pacers took us into overtime on a four point play with 15 seconds left. We were up 4 and just needed to not foul and we fouled on a three pointer that went in and Paul made the free throw. It was a lot of fun and we sat to the side of the Kings bench and had Coach Malone's coaching box right in front of us. I got home about 10:30 and Darla had got home from her party at 10 o'clock.
I played golf in the first Diamond Tournament yesterday and enjoyed the day with Rick, Steve and Boyd. Rick had one of those rounds where every putt he tried went in. He was banging in putts from thirty or forty feet and shot a 38+43 for 81 and net 65. I shot 42+42 and struggled on the greens, twice three putting during my round. I had a nice birdie on 16, but that was my only real highlight of the round. Once again, my driver was on fire and it will all come together pretty quickly as I'm hitting the ball about 280 off the tee . Boyd had a 76 and Steve shot an 88, which was better than it sounds as he had an 8-10 start and almost walked off the course. Darla texted me at the course afterward and said she wanted to go to dinner with her parents as it was her Mother's birthday. We drove up and met them in Yuba City at Cool Hand Luke's restaurant. It was a nice visit although no one thought to take pictures.
I washed the car tonight at 4:30 and was amazed to see so many families at the park with blankets and food out relaxing and enjoying the 75 degree weather. One of my buddies drove by and harassed me about "wasting water". I reminded him that I didn't vote for Obama and still believed in individual rights of American citizens, in spite of all of the evidence against that. He laughed and we chatted for a few minutes.
Darla had another party today and will be home after 6 PM. I got home and made a breakfast burrito with the left over rib eye and baked potato from the night before. I added some cheese and fried onions and cleaned up the dishes, laid down to close my eyes for a few minutes at about 12:15 and woke up after 3 PM. I watched the Farmers Open golf tournament on tape and then headed outside to trim back some of the frost damaged plants surrounding the pool and then washed the car.
The drought continues to dominate our lives and we received phone calls this week at both home and work from the city of Roseville to let us know that pipelines attached to the ground aquifers were turned on this week and the clarity of our water will likely be affected. The water from the snow fed Folsom Lake is very pure and water from the aquifers is ground water that is somewhat cloudy. You can see the picture comparing Folsom Lake today from the height of it's capacity back in 2004.
I have to do the handicapping for the Super Bowl tournament on Saturday and we have a record 110 players participating. I wouldn't want to be in one of the last groups as they'll have trouble finishing their round. Our first tee time is 9 AM and the last group will tee off at 12:47 PM and will have to finish in 4.5 hours to make sure their is enough light for them. I will be working on that after I finish the blog.
Tuesday night we will be off with Neil and Lilly to see the Eagles play at Sleep Train Arena. It should be a good night and we haven't seen much of them since our trip to Mexico. Darla and I also have plans to go to a dinner at church on Valentine's Day where they will serve Prime Rib and then we will be entertained by a comedian. It should be fun and definitely clean.
Work is going well. I was a little concerned about reaching our budget this year. We have grown from a budget of $13,000,000 in 2010 to a budget of $26,000,000 this year. I've talked to the staff continuously about focus and the need to sharpen our renewal retention and new business production. Well, we rolled out the new year by exceeding our January budget by January 23rd. I increased our goal by 20% and we have 5 full work days to try and hit $300,00 in income this month.
I hope you each have a great week this week. Pray for Jennifer as she prepares for her move this next weekend. She will fly out on Friday and she and McKenny will pack up a moving truck and be on the road by Saturday night for Vegas. Be well. Ciao.
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