You can see the weather we've had lately in the last two pictures above. We had a rain storm last night when we were driving home from dinner with Charlie and Frieda. Darla and I were actually racing the storm home as I had washed my car over the weekend. It was thunder and lightning on the drive home, but the rain didn't hit until we actually got home. Sacramento in Summer is characterized by bright blue, cloudless skies and when the weather changes, it is always a delight to see the sunsets that light up the clouds with reds and golds. Darla captured a couple of photos of sunsets this past week and we had rain two days that made a mess of both of our cars. We got both of them washed this weekend and I actually spent about 90 minutes today waxing the 300. I used the old style paste wax and put in some elbow grease to take out the surface scratches. I'll use the spray-on wax in between hard waxing the car. I try to get a good coat of wax on the car before the rainy season. I bought some Invisible Glass cleaner that I use on the inside of the windows and some Rain X cleaner that I use on the exterior. The Rain X product really does sheet the rain and the wipers work so much better with that product applied.
I had a good week as we prepare for the Big I Day this Tuesday. We have a new booth that we received this year and I had one of the younger guys help me put it up in the office so we could make sure we had all of the parts and knew what we were doing before we headed to the Convention Center tomorrow afternoon. I will leave the troops to handle the booth Tuesday morning and be there for lunch and the cocktail hour in the afternoon as well as the prizes. I'm going to buy some sort of electronic prize this year, either a tablet or a notebook to give away. We also have a treasure chest that has keys to open the lock. If one of our booth attendees gets the right key, they will win a gift card. We will have a cowbell at the booth to ring when we have a winner. It hopefully will mix things up. This is the 14th straight year that I've hosted a booth at the Big I day (Big I is Insurance). We have a comedian as the speaker this year. My favorite speaker over the years was Ed Hochuli, the NFL referee. I also really liked Chuck Yeagar. The worst was a PR woman who decided to make her singing debut in front of all of us. She was horrible and people were walking out in the middle of her presentation. And we paid her $1,200.
Last week we finished our month and did beat 2014. We were close to our budget, but ultimately missed it. I took Thursday afternoon and went out and did some "sports marketing" with one of our agents. Gail joined me from our office and we played Cameron Park Country Club. It rained in the morning and they almost cancelled on us, but it was a wonderful afternoon and the course was wet and a lot easier than normal. I shot 42+42=84 and had a great day. We had one funny thing that happened when we had an old guy (he had to be 90) pass us on number 10. We told him he could go through and he didn't even acknowledge us, just drove on to the tee box. He was hitting his third shot up by the green and I was waiting to hit. Gail went ahead and hit a ball right down the middle about 40 yards behind him. He shook his arm at us and then walked back to her ball and hit it into the trees. We were shocked. I was laughing because it was so bizarre. We caught up to him on number 4 and he was playing 7. Our host asked Gail if she wanted him to go talk to him and she said, "Forget it, that was like 50 minutes ago, he won't remember!" Funny stuff.
You also see the picture of Jennifer, McKenny and Sam above. They posed for that right before McKenny left for his new job in Denver. He is working there and will be home about every other weekend. His job will pay him more than what Jennifer and McKenny were making at their last jobs combined. The firm he is working for wants McKenny to open a Las Vegas office next year, so he is excited about that possibility. In the meantime, Sam and Jennifer are by themselves. Jennifer said that she is continuing to look for work and will volunteer in Sam's class in the meantime.
I had mentioned last week that I had the Rose Cup qualifier this weekend. I hadn't qualified for the team since 2008. I started my round on Saturday bogey-quadruple bogey 9 an was 5 over after two holes. I pulled it together and shot 44 on the front and 42 on the back for 86 and ended up with good news/bad news. The good news? I qualified for the Championship. The bad news? They moved the event to November 6th and 7th and I will be in Detroit. I did tie for second and will take the money, but bummed that I have to miss the event. The guy that will replace me has never played in the event and was downbeat after his round. He left the course before the final groups were in. I was able to call him and give him the good news. He was thrilled.
Darla and I leave on Saturday for Aptos and a weekend at the beach. The weather forecast is for 82 degrees over the weekend in Santa Cruz and Aptos. We are staying at a beach house in Aptos with Charlie and Frieda (the reason for our dinner last night). We were able to discuss logistics and plan to leave Saturday morning at 8 AM for the coast. We'll get settled in the house and head to the beach. We play The Seascape Resort on Sunday. The club will play Pajaro Golf Course in Capitola on Saturday, but I played there a year ago and it was not in great shape and I decided to pass on that venue this trip. Charlie and Frieda both play and are saving some money by just playing Sunday. We are staying over Saturday and Sunday nights, so the blog will be late next week. The Seascape resort was right next to the house we rented last Summer before Daniel's wedding. I had to look at it and yearn. My yearning will be rewarded on Sunday.
I hope you are all well. Carrie Underwood is about to sing on NBC which means the Cowboys are on next facing the Saints in New Orleans. Be nice to each other and I'll be back at the keyboard next Monday. Ciao.
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