It was a ridiculously busy week for me with a golf tournament on Monday, a sick day on Tuesday (intestinal issues), one day in the office Wednesday with meetings and catch up after vacation, a trip Thursday with Matt in my office 343 miles up to Eureka where we played in another golf tournament, followed by a day of travel and marketing calls Friday as we made our way back to the Roseville area. I played golf Saturday in a tournament, dinner out and a trip to the Sacramento FC Republic soccer game that night with one of my agents and his wife and then we had Neil and Lilly over today for swimming and out to dinner tonight for the final celebration of Darla's 50th birthday.
I'm tired just writing this. Monday was our Sacramento Insurance Agents and Brokers Golf Day and I was out at the course by 9 AM to help set up the signs and help prepare for the tournament. One of Pete's agents couldn't make it to the event as his son was playing in the college World Series of baseball. Pete called me Sunday night and asked for Neil's phone number. Neil isn't an insurance agent, but he is a golfer. Neil ended up joining us on Monday and playing with Pete's group. Unfortunately, my week before where we were on vacation I think caught up with me. I must have caught a bug on the plane, but I started percolating during the day and had a sour stomach all day. I made it through the day, but didn't eat or drink anything other than water and Sierra Mist during the day. I made it through the evening and helped clean up before driving home. I got home about 8:30 and told Darla I wasn't feeling well. I laid down on the bed and woke up at 11:30 and got up, took a shower and went to bed. I had a slight fever.
I woke up the next morning after sleeping fitfully throughout the night with a raging fever and called into work. I had expense accounts to work on, so got on the computer and worked for about two hours. I laid down after that and slept for another two hours. My fever broke in the early afternoon and although my stomach was still pretty iffy for the next two days, I was basically back to 100%. Peter stopped by about 4:30 and tried to drop off a fire pit that he won at the golf tournament the day before. He had one already and, being Pete, he decided I should have it. I was off getting a haircut and he didn't feel good about leaving the box on the front doorstep. He was out on Wednesday doing some marketing calls and I was off to Eureka, so he coordinated with Darla to drop it off on Thursday.
I picked Matt up at 5:30 on Thursday and we were off to Eureka, up Highway 5 to Hwy 20 and over to 101 for the trip up the coast. We made one stop for snacks and drinks and another at a rest stop and were up to Arcata and the country club by 11:00AM. We met our agents for lunch, hit balls and were on the golf course at 1 PM. this tournament last year with a 12 under par and this year we couldn't get in gear as a team and shot a 65 for 4th place. We were frustrated when we finished the tournament and wanted to get in a few more holes. We ended up playing nine and I starts with a chip in eagle on the par five first hole and ended up with a 37. None of us were in the mood to sit and have rubber chicken so we blew off the dinner and drove into Arcata and had dinner at an old school Italian restaurant and sat and visited and had petite filet and gnocci for dinner with some good wine and a few cocktails.
The trip home Friday was long and punctuated with a couple of agency visits, one in Eureka and another in Ukiah, about two and a half hours south of Eureka on Highway 101. We got home about 4:00 PM and it was 100 degrees, so I jumped in the pool and relaxed until about 5:30. I then put the sealer on the stamped concrete that would take 24 hours to seal.
Saturday was the golf tournament and Darla was off to Folsom for Lucas' 4th birthday party which was at a park and thank God it had a water feature for the kids to run through. I played like a guy tired and worn out and shot 43+44=87. It was 102 degrees by the time I got off the course and I rushed home and took the plunge in the pool. Darla joined me and we relaxed until about 4:30 when we were off to dinner with Ron, one of my largest agencies' principal and a friend from the golf club. I took he and his wife out to dinner and he had tickets for the minor league soccer game. The Sacramento Republic FC is a new team and they are averaging over 20,000 fans per game and out drawing seven MLS teams around the country. The hope is to lure MLS soccer to town within two years. For whatever reason this is a soccer rich area and the electricity in the stadium is incredible. I really enjoyed myself and the final score in the game against Arizona was 1-1.
Today was 108 degrees and we called Neil and Lilly after breakfast this morning to invite them over for a swim and then dinner afterward. Neil insisted on buying the dinner as they had invited us over and again for Darla's 50th birthday and we weren't able to get together. Neil brought me a bottle of Canadian Mist as a thank you for the invite to the golf tournament. He told me that I have to buy my own Ginger Ale.
I have another busy week this week with some folks coming in to town from Arizona to host a continuing education course for our agents. We have 80 agents coming on Wednesday for a morning session, lunch, an afternoon session and a wine and beer tasting sponsored by a restoration company in our offices afterward. My assistant, Shawna, helped to set up the continuing education event, lunch and the wine and beer tasting. She is on the right in the picture of our Putting contest tent at the golf day on Monday. Shawna really worked hard to get us sponsors for the event and our only cost is the rental chairs and tables that will be delivered on Tuesday. I'll have dinner on Wednesday night with the underwriters and the marketing people coming in for the event.
Well, it is after ten o'clock on Sunday night. I'm tired and ready to call it a night. I will be back at the keyboard next weekend. I hope you are all well. Ciao.
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