It is a late Thanksgiving dinner tonight as our turkey is cooking away right now. I'm supposed to meet a friend for lunch tomorrow and all I can think of right now is turkey sandwiches. You can see some pictures of the new laminate in both the living room and family room. It really turned out nice. It shows the dust and dirt a lot more, but it so easy to clean with the new steam mop that Darla bought. You can see the crown molding in the living room and the high chair rail in our bedroom. Darla had to go out and buy a new rug for under the pool table, but she got away with it by clearing out my side of the garage on Thursday. They were coming to put the pool table back in and she wanted a new rug to go under it. It looks really nice. In fact, the whole house really looks nice. It was just really stressful for me to be out of the house and I got kind of cranky. Until the boxes are all emptied and out of the garage, I'll probably still have some comfortableness issues remain. We will have the closets put in on Tuesday and it will be really nice to get our clothes back in our bedroom. We have about a third of our clothes now in the middle bedroom.
The weather this week has helped us get back to almost normal rainfall for the year. It was a really wet storm that brought us almost four inches of rain. I had some company people in on Wednesday and we went to dinner. That was the night that we had flash flood warnings and drains plugged up and water overflowing roadways all over town. We got over two inches of rain that day alone. It felt like Vancouver weather. One of the guys was flying in from Denver and his plane was delayed. He got into the Sac airport at 6:30, but it took him an hour and forty minutes to make the normal 35 minute drive to Roseville from the airport. We had already eaten and left the restaurant by the time he got there at about 8:20 PM.
Both of those guys were in town to teach the two Continuing Education classes that we hosted for our agents. We had a class on Business Interruption in the morning and a class on Inland Marine insurance in the afternoon. We followed that up with a Customer Appreciation party from 4-6 PM back in my office. I was able to show off the new addition to the office and we had one of the water restoration firms that we work with host the open bar back in the office and Jackie, the marketing rep for the company, surprised me with a bottle of Sailor Jerry rum. Shawna had told her that I liked the rum. I'd actually tried it once when we were out with a carrier at our last event and she remembered it. We poured it at the bar and she left the half empty bottle for me afterward. I went to dinner with one of the Executive VPs of Markel, the company that put on the CE courses and some of the staff stayed behind to help clean up from the party. We had a lot of giveaways and gift cards that we raffled off to the agents. it was a success and I had a couple of the agents say that they love our annual parties. The funny thing is that we had a party when we first moved into the office and then again two years later and they all think it is annual. Works for me, but I think that we will do the party annually, we just won't pair it with a CE event. That was a little much. We have our restoration companies falling all over themselves to host the liquor as they want to get in front of the retail agents as well.
I took Friday off and played golf with the Roseville Golf Club board. It was our annual in and out event where the new board and the outgoing board members meet for breakfast and then golf. We still had rain and it was supposed to rain on and off all day. Many of us had taken the day off so we decided to go ahead and play. Only two of the guys opted out of the golf, so there were 13 of us out playing golf. I shot the best round with an 83, 2hich was surprising because there were about four guys playing with better handicaps than me, but the conditions were wet and windy. The rain stayed away for the most part, but we had three separate cells that passed over and dropped rain, the last of which was a hard, drenching rain that had us all out with our umbrellas. Several of the guys were ready to call it a day, but that was early on the front nine and that was the last of the rain for the day. I just had pars and bogeys all day and ended up 11 over par.
Friday night was poker and I almost didn't go. I just didn't feel up to it and I'm enjoying being back in the house. I sucked it up and showed up and was promptly spanked out of about $82. I got there at 7 and we broke for chili and rolls at 9:10 and I had still NOT WON A HAND. I was probably down close to $80 at that point and went on a little run after dinner and kept it from getting too far out of hand. I left at 10:45, which is about an hour earlier than normal, but I was done and moving toward a foul mood and decided to get out while the getting was good.
Saturday night was our RGC Christmas party at Sierra View Country Club. We took some nice pictures at the party. I couldn't wear my Presidential blazer because it is still in storage. I also can't upload any of those pictures because the cord is packed away in one of the boxes in the garage. Our life will get back to normal at some point, but we have to get more boxes unpacked before that happens.
I also had the part for the spa come in and had the spa technician come out and put in the new blower. Darla and I are now happily hitting the spa each night before bed. They got that repaired on Wednesday. I was able to get the leaves and debris cleaned up around the house on Friday afternoon after golf and the pool and back yard cleaned up on Saturday.
Much like Neil Thomas getting married a few years ago to Lilly, who he dated for 25 years, Darla and I finally became members of our church today after being "attenders" for 18 years. We are committed to the changes that are happening at the church and we now have a new name, Hillside Church of Roseville. We have eight campuses with the seven in Texas. We listened to Tommy this morning at church and then joined him for lunch at the church this afternoon for the Membership class. Darla and I joined the church and had our pictures taken afterward.
I had an issue with my 300 about two weeks ago. One of the lifters was sticking and rattling and it sounded horrible. I talked to John Parola, one of my poker buddies and he suggested that I check the oil. I was about two quarts low and the oil wasn't reaching the upper lifters and it was sticking. luckily I caught it quickly before it did any real damage. Being out of the house for 24 days didn't help, but I should be more aware of my oil level. Again, it's fixed and I was just lucky to not cause any serious damage to the engine.
Well, that is it for this week. I will add some of the party pictures next week and be at the keyboard once again. Be well. Ciao.
The weather this week has helped us get back to almost normal rainfall for the year. It was a really wet storm that brought us almost four inches of rain. I had some company people in on Wednesday and we went to dinner. That was the night that we had flash flood warnings and drains plugged up and water overflowing roadways all over town. We got over two inches of rain that day alone. It felt like Vancouver weather. One of the guys was flying in from Denver and his plane was delayed. He got into the Sac airport at 6:30, but it took him an hour and forty minutes to make the normal 35 minute drive to Roseville from the airport. We had already eaten and left the restaurant by the time he got there at about 8:20 PM.
Both of those guys were in town to teach the two Continuing Education classes that we hosted for our agents. We had a class on Business Interruption in the morning and a class on Inland Marine insurance in the afternoon. We followed that up with a Customer Appreciation party from 4-6 PM back in my office. I was able to show off the new addition to the office and we had one of the water restoration firms that we work with host the open bar back in the office and Jackie, the marketing rep for the company, surprised me with a bottle of Sailor Jerry rum. Shawna had told her that I liked the rum. I'd actually tried it once when we were out with a carrier at our last event and she remembered it. We poured it at the bar and she left the half empty bottle for me afterward. I went to dinner with one of the Executive VPs of Markel, the company that put on the CE courses and some of the staff stayed behind to help clean up from the party. We had a lot of giveaways and gift cards that we raffled off to the agents. it was a success and I had a couple of the agents say that they love our annual parties. The funny thing is that we had a party when we first moved into the office and then again two years later and they all think it is annual. Works for me, but I think that we will do the party annually, we just won't pair it with a CE event. That was a little much. We have our restoration companies falling all over themselves to host the liquor as they want to get in front of the retail agents as well.
I took Friday off and played golf with the Roseville Golf Club board. It was our annual in and out event where the new board and the outgoing board members meet for breakfast and then golf. We still had rain and it was supposed to rain on and off all day. Many of us had taken the day off so we decided to go ahead and play. Only two of the guys opted out of the golf, so there were 13 of us out playing golf. I shot the best round with an 83, 2hich was surprising because there were about four guys playing with better handicaps than me, but the conditions were wet and windy. The rain stayed away for the most part, but we had three separate cells that passed over and dropped rain, the last of which was a hard, drenching rain that had us all out with our umbrellas. Several of the guys were ready to call it a day, but that was early on the front nine and that was the last of the rain for the day. I just had pars and bogeys all day and ended up 11 over par.
Friday night was poker and I almost didn't go. I just didn't feel up to it and I'm enjoying being back in the house. I sucked it up and showed up and was promptly spanked out of about $82. I got there at 7 and we broke for chili and rolls at 9:10 and I had still NOT WON A HAND. I was probably down close to $80 at that point and went on a little run after dinner and kept it from getting too far out of hand. I left at 10:45, which is about an hour earlier than normal, but I was done and moving toward a foul mood and decided to get out while the getting was good.
Saturday night was our RGC Christmas party at Sierra View Country Club. We took some nice pictures at the party. I couldn't wear my Presidential blazer because it is still in storage. I also can't upload any of those pictures because the cord is packed away in one of the boxes in the garage. Our life will get back to normal at some point, but we have to get more boxes unpacked before that happens.
I also had the part for the spa come in and had the spa technician come out and put in the new blower. Darla and I are now happily hitting the spa each night before bed. They got that repaired on Wednesday. I was able to get the leaves and debris cleaned up around the house on Friday afternoon after golf and the pool and back yard cleaned up on Saturday.
Much like Neil Thomas getting married a few years ago to Lilly, who he dated for 25 years, Darla and I finally became members of our church today after being "attenders" for 18 years. We are committed to the changes that are happening at the church and we now have a new name, Hillside Church of Roseville. We have eight campuses with the seven in Texas. We listened to Tommy this morning at church and then joined him for lunch at the church this afternoon for the Membership class. Darla and I joined the church and had our pictures taken afterward.
I had an issue with my 300 about two weeks ago. One of the lifters was sticking and rattling and it sounded horrible. I talked to John Parola, one of my poker buddies and he suggested that I check the oil. I was about two quarts low and the oil wasn't reaching the upper lifters and it was sticking. luckily I caught it quickly before it did any real damage. Being out of the house for 24 days didn't help, but I should be more aware of my oil level. Again, it's fixed and I was just lucky to not cause any serious damage to the engine.
Well, that is it for this week. I will add some of the party pictures next week and be at the keyboard once again. Be well. Ciao.
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