So, two and a half weeks since our water damage claim and we finally have some movement on getting our flooring completed. Darla and I have worked on getting painting done and as you can see by the colors, I may have to learn to sleep with a mask in order to fall asleep. It is pretty bright in the bedroom. When I say "we" have been working on the painting, I mean that Darla did all of the painting except the baseboards, which were delivered with a single coat of white paint on them and I added a second coat.
I had a guy over on Thursday working on the hot tub. We have a compressor/blower that is bad and it is being replaced. Darla asked the spa contractor to move his truck when our contractor showed up with the 20 foot baseboards. The guy looked at her like she was speaking Chinese and never did move his truck. Darla was peeved. This guy is a referral from Neil and Neil said that he is hard of hearing. Apparently. They had to carry the baseboards around the corner of the house and in the front door. I set up a couple of sawhorses in the living room and was able to get all of the baseboards painted on Thursday night. The contractor was over of Friday and supposed to put the baseboards in all of the rooms that are getting carpeting. He only got the Master bedroom, the walk -in closet and the hallway completed and still needs to do both bedrooms. Apparently, they add the baseboards after the hardwood is installed, but before the carpeting. The contractor will be there first thing tomorrow morning to take delivery of the hardwood laminate and will begin installing it in the family room and living room tomorrow. He expects to be done Tuesday and will take delivery of the carpeting Tuesday afternoon and expects to have the carpeting installed on Wednesday. That is the good news. The bad news is that our property is stored in the PODS at the front of the house and the pool table is in the garage along with much of our property. We can and will move back into the house, but we will have to wait to get our closet installed on December 9th before moving the rest of the clothes out of the PODS and back into the house. We have enough clothes to get by, but I'm getting a little tired of the same eight shirts.
I had poker on Friday night and when I showed up at Carl's both John and John were already there and parked in the driveway next door. They both said that I was at the wrong house, just as the neighbor came out of his garage and asked the guys if he could help them. Pretty funny. There were only four of us as two of the guys bailed at the last minute, but we had a great time.
Saturday was Rick's celebration of life and you can see a couple of pictures from the event. His kids did a great job of speaking and his daughter is a meteorologist in Bakersfield and has a nice presence in speaking. She talked about the fact that they didn't lose their dad, because he was just on loan to them from God. His wife also spoke and then they opened it up to the crowd to share. there were 200 people there and only two got up to speak, so I jumped up and told the story of Rick's final golf game at Pacific Grove and also the story of our trip to Mexico when Bob had Montezuma's revenge and told us he'd meet up with us after nine holes if he was feeling up to it. When we finished nine holes, Bob was waiting for us on the steps by the clubhouse with his elbows on his knees and Rick turned to me and said, "I bet he's been in that position all night." The service was done very well and it wasn't a funeral, but a Celebration of his life. He had people there from his work, from his fraternity, from his birthplace in Chicago, from his High School and there were about thirty five of us there from the golf club.
Darla and I left early and had breakfast at Wings, a restaurant up at the Auburn Airport. I've eaten up there before and they have a couple of old guys who sit out on the patio and judge the landings. They have numbers and hold them up when the pilot taxis in. Pretty funny.
I had a meeting this week and went over the results from our Employee Survey with the staff. I had them work on three Action Items on areas where we were a little lower than the company as a whole: Stress, Customer Service and Office Leadership. It kind of hurt that Leadership was a little lower, but it turns out that the staff has some issues with our weekly staff meetings. It turns out that they want more substance in terms of training and information. I have always tried hard to keep the meeting to about fifteen minutes. I have led the meetings and try to give out information on carriers, go over the calendar for the next week and look at numbers month to date and send everyone back to work. It also turns out that when I was in production, I wanted to get in and get out on meetings. My staff is younger and still learning the business and want more hands on instruction. Two things, I will take that feedback and run with it and there will be a lot more people involved in running the meetings going forward. We are working our way through the responses from the Action Plans as I had teams of five working on the issues and we will vote on which of the answers to share with the whole company tomorrow.
Darla and I had a chance to talk to Dad and Shirley yesterday and get caught up on their recent vacation. It is their anniversary today and I wish you both continued happiness and love. It sounds like they really enjoyed Venice, although from what they said, what an incredibly expensive city. They had breakfast one morning and it was $100 and then shared a lasagna for dinner and it was also $100. I'd enjoy the sights and look for a McDonalds.
Well, hopefully I am writing this from our house next week. I went to church this morning(Darla had an event in Auburn) and then over to the house to clean up leaves and clean out the pool. I then had the car washed (it was filthy and there is a "touchless" car wash across the street). Darla continues to enjoy our "staycation" and I look forward to us getting back in to the house. I hope you are all well. Ciao.
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