Finally have a minute to sit down and pull up the blog and add a few lines. It was a busy Sunday with church this morning. It was the annual car show at church and they had a classic Charger up on stage and we had Tom Klauer of Tom Klauer Motorsports and the CEO of Pick n Pull Auto parts as our guest speaker. Tom is a NASCAR driver in the NASCAR Pro Series K&N Pro Series races. There is a picture of me with Tom and his Pick n Pull Impala Stock Car above. I had thought that the car show would be 15 or 20 cars of church members, but there were over 100 cars on premises and there were awards and the NASCAR experience car as well as Tom's stock car and another 5 of his stock cars, including a Jimmy Johnson Lowe's car that he had bought from Hendrick Motorsports. I was really impressed. Some of the pictures are above. Neil and Lilly met us over at the church and went through the car show with us. from there we went out to lunch.
Darla and I relaxed on the pool and then left the house about 4:30 to head to Yuba City to meet Earl and Frances, Darla's parents where we bought them dinner at Cool Hand Luke's. We were back to the house by about 7:30 and I put the finishing touches on the backsplash of the pool.
I have been unhappy with the look of the flagstone around the perimeter of the pool. Stone tends to calcify over time and the rock was completely washed out with scale and calcium deposits. I had tried cleaning it with Muriatic Acid, but it is hard to work with and frankly a little dangerous. I did some research and found a product called ETCH that mixes with water and can be applied with a steel brush. It completely etches the exterior of the rock and cleans off the calcium and scale deposits. I did the work on Saturday and sprayed Thompson's Water Seal on the backsplash. I didn't have enough to do the coping around the pool, so stopped today and picked up another three cans of the Water Seal. I applied that when I got home tonight. The reds and browns of the flagstone is back in evidence and the Thompson's gives it a wet look that I really like. I'm thrilled with the results and will make sure to do the etching treatment every Spring.
The other pictures above are of our Continuing Education event on Wednesday at my office. We had a total of 68 agents show up for two classes. The pictures are of our wine and beer event after the classes and pictures from the dinner we had afterward at Fat's Restaurant in Roseville. The pictures are of Peter with three of our Assistant Underwriters, Alison, Cindy and Jennifer and of Shawna at dinner with Leah and Katie, the two management trainees that helped set up and do all of the signups for the event. They did a great job and learned a lot through the process. The event was not only well attended, but was very popular with our agents. We will likely try to do this once or twice a year going forward. We have several companies that do emergency repairs on claims that are lining up to help pay for our next event. They want to get in front of the retail agents and are willing to sponsor the food and booze for these events.
The build out is a slow and frustrating process and the slow down now is due to the permit process. I have a call in to our real estate department to get a time line of when I can expect the actual construction to commence and when it will be completed. I will do more hiring once I get the additional space in place. I had a pool assistant lined up who backed out at the last minute and I have that position to fill now. I have a young man lined up now that I may offer the position to, but he works for an accounting firm now and I heard through the grapevine that they have offered him a partnership. I have lunch on Tuesday with a friend of Leah who just graduated from UC Davis about that job. I'm just hedging my bet here.
I'm also in the process of doing four promotions in the office and have sent the paperwork through on all of those. Our office continues to grow and I have to continue to add to my management team to handle the continued growth and future growth.
I visited with Jennifer today and she posted a picture of me in Halloween costume from when she was a youngster. I am dressed like a nerd and look just like Randy did as a young adult. Jennifer continues to get better and is anxious to have the stent removed from her kidney. She went into the doctor last week to have her kidney function tested. The results will be back this week and if all goes well, she will go back into the hospital to have the stent removed. If there are any complications, she may have to have the kidney removed. We are praying that all is well there.
I found out this week that one of my good friends, Rick, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. he has been sick for about four months and has lost 35 pounds. The genius' at Kaiser initially treated him for acid reflux and then diagnosed him with diabetes and complications from diabetes. Rick got deathly ill two weeks ago and went into the hospital where they finally did a cat scan and found not only the pancreatic cancer, but also that the cancer has spread to his liver as well. It is inoperable and he will start chemo this week. It is incredibly sad. Rick has traveled with us to Mexico, been front and center at all our swimming parties and golf trips. Darryl met Rick and Jan on his trip to Monterey a few years ago. Darla and I are both really torn up by this. Please pray for Rick and his family.
I took Thursday off this last week and took a road trip with Neil, Boyd and Andy to Rio Vista on the Delta and The Trilogy Golf Course at the gated community in Rio Vista. It was windy, but I managed a 39 on the front and a 44 on the back for 83. Boyd shot 80, Andy 89 and Neil not so good. his comment to me on the 18th hole after putting two more balls in the water, "I'll never be back to this f****** course!". Nice.
We are off to a three day golf trip in Reno next weekend and will be staying at the Silver Legacy casino in downtown Reno. Neil and I leave early Friday and will play Sierra Sage Golf Course in Reno. Saturday is Somersett Country Club and Sunday is Wolf Run, the University of Nevada Reno home course. I look forward to getting away.
I hope all is well with each of you. happy father's Day to dad and all of the fathers out there. Be well. Ciao.
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