The answer, at least in Sacramento is an emphatic "No!". The temperature this week: 102 tomorrow, 108 Wednesday and Thursday, 109 on Friday an cooling off to 106 over the upcoming weekend. This won't be our last spate of 100 degree days this year. We usually get a couple in late September and even in to October.
The sketches of Darla and Sam and the color sketch of Sam are from an iphone app that I have and I like both of these. The app takes a picture and converts it to a sketch format.
I will escape the heat Wednesday and Thursday with a trip up to Lake Tahoe and Incline Village for the Western Insurance Agent's Association Annual board meeting. I was elected to the board on a three year term this year and will be sworn in on Thursday morning. Wednesday afternoon we will play golf at the Incline Village Golf Course, a course that I have seen many times over the years as I drove through Incline Village on Highway 28. I will serve with Jeff Barnett, my friend and agent who owns the agency in El Dorado Hills with his wife. Jeff and I were both underwriters at my first insurance job, the Sacramento office of Commercial Union. It should be fun.
Darla and I were in Sacramento today for an early lunch with Pete and Vicki Morrison and we ate well at the Spaghetti Factory in the old train depot in downtown Sacramento. We had tickets to the last game for the River Cats, the San Francisco Giants triple A club here in town. We had a great day and left in the 7th inning with the home team leading 10-0. Pete filled me in on the wedding of my old number one underwriter and Associate Manager, Matt. They were married up in Georgetown on Connie's (who also worked for me) parent's property. Her Dad walked her down the aisle with a shotgun tucked under his arm and announced to Matt, "No givebacks!" Pete is still very close with Matt and it concerns me going forward. It was about 97 degrees this afternoon and our seats were blessedly in the shade. You can see the picture of the lawn area at the stadium and the large group of people congregated in the shade under the trees. We called them the "shade people".
I had a jack installed into my car on Friday that attaches my iphone to my car stereo. I have a nice Boston Acoustics stereo system in the car but it is circa 2006 and didn't have Bluetooth set up in it. I didn't want to change out the stereo, because it is a quality system, but wanted to access my music. Harvey has asked that I take on more of a marketing role in the office and with that I will be in the car more and wanted access to my tunes.
Jennifer, McKenny and Sam all got together last night with Darryl and Cheryl. They are in Vegas on a family reunion with Cheryl's family. I haven't talked to Jennifer since that trip, but I'm sure they had fun.
I did play golf this weekend in our Labor Day event. It was our first stroke play event in awhile and I played well, shooting 39 on the front and hanging on for a 42 on the back and a n 81, net 66 to win low net in my flight and $59. I also won the Invitational Event and got some well deserved harassment from the guys. If they aren't ribbing you, you aren't playing well. My year long eclectic score is down to a 63, net 48 and I should win some money when that is all said and done. We have three more events to go before that wraps up, the Past President's event, the Turkey Shoot and the Eclectic Final in November.
Darla and I hosted the gang for a Labor Day barbecue on Sunday. Steve and Brenda, Charlie and Frieda, John and Camille and Neil and Lil all joined us to help wrap up the Summer. We are all going to San Francisco in two weeks. It is an event that Steve sets up every year, but this year he is in a cast and has t miss. He brought all of the info with him (tickets to the Giants game and tickets to the San Francisco city bus tour). Presidio has a golf tournament on September 18th and we have to pick another venue for golf. Steve had in mind a course in Burlingame and unbeknownst to me, John and Camille were planning to skip the golf. I had no interest in a course in Burlingame and set up a round at Napa Golf Club in Napa, CA. Camille thought I was setting up the Burlingame golf and didn't want to complain. When she found out that we were going Friday to Napa, she was thrilled. Shopping in Burlingame and lunch with the girls can't compare to wandering the shops of Napa and having lunch in the wine country. As is my wont, I found us a deal whereby I got us a foursome through Groupon for $99. We will drive into San Francisco that night and have dinner in Chinatown. Saturday is the Giants versus Diamondbacks day game and the bus tour on Sunday. One of the big expenses of our San Francisco trip is parking. It costs $50 a day to park at the hotel. This year we will drive in with John and Camille ad we can park at the PG&E lot about two blocks from our hotel. Camille is a manager in the Sacramento call center for PG&E.
I plan to talk to Steve about picking a new getaway for next year. He enjoys the Giants game, but I will propose a trip to Solvang or Bodega Bay. There are more golf choices in both cities and cheaper accommodations, restaurants AND no pay for parking.
Well, it has been a fun and full holiday weekend and I'm ready for a good week of work as well. I hope you each have a good week and I will be back at the keyboard next Sunday night. Ciao.
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