Happy Easter to everyone. Darla and I were up early this morning and off to Easter Services. In the midst of a serious drought here in California we finally got rain today. At least the snow is coming down in the Sierra as the rain was supposed to start up about 9 and last through the afternoon. As it turned out, the rain finally came in at 2 this afternoon and we got a good downpour for about twenty minutes and it was over.
We had the family over on Friday afternoon for ham and mac and cheese, potatoes, salad and asparagus. The dinner was great. Luke came over and was able to have an Easter egg hunt in our backyard. I took Luke over to the park with don while the ladies hid eggs. Earl and Frances joined us shortly after and Rand and Julie came over for dinner. We had a nice visit and everyone was headed home by 8:30 PM.
Darla and I worked on sealing the deck on Saturday morning. I was going to work on it myself, but my back wouldn't hold up two weeks in a row and I could only do about half of the job. The treatment, which is Homax Gloss Wet Look Seal Treatment really leaves a nice glossy finish to the stamped concrete. You can see the difference between the sealed look and the stained look of the concrete when comparing the top pictures to the picture of Luke and Earl taken the night before we applied the sealant. The wet look really brings out the individual stamped stone look of the concrete.
Work continues and there has been some minor fallout from Matt's departure. Several of his agencies had a problem with how they were split up in the reconfiguration. Two of them wanted to keep all of Matt's assistant's together and one actually demanded that he work with all of the assistants and that I put the teams back together. I have lunch with him on Tuesday and have to get him to relax and try out the new configuration. Nothing is set in stone and I just need him to try out the new arrangement and see how it goes. I had to split up his assistants between two teams. This guy keeps talking about "tribal knowledge" and how I need to understand that his agency needs to keep the entire team together. Matt wrote $1,000,000 in income to the office and almost $5 million in premium. I had to split it up between Wendy and Pete and they each needed new assistants. Wendy was Pete's lead assistant, so Pete needed to take Matt's lead to replace her and she took two of Matt's assistants as well.
I have several more disgruntled agents to deal with. The bottom line is that Matt made a personal decision without regard to his agents nor to me and there is a lot of fallout. I'm doing what I can to react to the needs of his agents, but I have to look at the bigger picture as well and see how this affects my office and the staff that I have. It will all work out in the wash, but it takes time.
Darla and I sat last night and watched the Jersey Boys on HBO. She had ended up seeing the show with Freida on one of my poker nights. I ended up waiting until last night to see the movie and it was worth the wait. Clint Eastwood has been a better director than he was an actor and he was no slouch as an actor either. Tonight the Sinatra documentary is on HBO and we look forward to watching that together. We have been eating every manner of ham since Friday with scrambled eggs and ham yesterday morning, ham and cheese sandwiches for lunch. We did take last night off and had some Spanish rice, but we were back to fried eggs and ham slices for breakfast today, ham and cheese sandwiches for lunch and ham and potato soup for dinner tonight.
I didn't play any golf this weekend after playing four out of five days last week. My index is up to a 14.4 and I will have a 16 for Randy's course in Texas. We have our Master's tournament at the club next Sunday and I'll get 15 strokes in that one. My game has been pretty ragged this year, but I haven't been playing as much. There were sign ups for the twilight league on Wednesday night and I've decided to sit out this year. I'll play as a sub and get in a few rounds, but I can't commit to an entire season with what is going on at work.
Charlie was over this week and got the fans put up. He was supposed to take about three hours on the job for $200, but he was here for 14 hours and finally got the wiring done and split the living room light and the family room light. In the past, we had one switch for both lights. Charlie had to drill through a metal separator and ended up dropping three drill bits and an extender down into the wall. He got the job done though. The only problem is that we have a separate switch for the fan and light in the family room, but a single w=switch for the fan and light in the living room. I can't have him back to fix it though, because it would probable take him another 8 hours to finish the job. He also had to get a new metal box for the light in the kitchen as well.
The contractors will be here tomorrow to start on the repairs on the house. I signed the new contract on Thursday and got them a $1000 check for materials. I'm thinking it will likely take them about three days to finish the job.
My CEO is flying in next Monday to visit the office, see the new build out and address the staff. We have lunch set up with one of my agents and then he is taking the Underwriters out for cocktails on Monday night. He will than catch his Net Jets flight in Sacramento to Fresno about 8 PM.
Well, dinner awaits, so I need to wash up and prepare for yet more ham. I hope you all had a wonderful Easter and all is well in your lives. Randy and Dad, I will see you guys in a couple of weeks. Darryl, have a great trip to Texas and we hope to see you guys soon. Ciao.
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