Actually, the sky has sprung a leak as we have an early Spring storm that has rolled in and is supposed to last through Tuesday and then back to our 75 degree heaven. In fact is will be upper 70's by this weekend. I actually have this Friday off, which makes it a true Good Friday.
The pictures are from my game Friday at Sierra View Country Club. The country club almost backs up to our club, Diamond Oaks. I missed golf last weekend and my desire was to get out and play Diamond in preparation for our qualifier this weekend. I set up a 3 PM tee time on Friday and invited one of my agents and Paul to come out and play. I then called Jesse and he has joined Sierra View and invited us out to play with him. Sierra View is about 50 years old, but is an immaculate layout with nice views and tremendous holes. I had trouble getting used to the greens and shot a 45+42=87. The greens were very fast, but true. Once I figured them out, it was much easier around the greens. I had a couple of holes where I used driver and shouldn't have. I'll remember for next time and will get out there a bit more often with Jesse a member there now.
My cold has pretty well run it's course and I'm now just suffering from some sinus congestion and living on Afrin at the moment. The interesting thing is that I'm able to use my CPAP machine just fine at night and the positive air pressure keeps my sinuses open overnight. I was off the CPAP for four nights while I get passed the runny nose, sore throat and cough. I didn't miss any work, which would be my CEO's preference.
Things at work continue to progress. Our numbers are down and we are struggling with budget, which puts me under pressure, but seeing as I have several brand new producers, I'm overall satisfied with how things are going. Our trend is up each month and things are progressing in the right direction. I just need to manage expectations and make sure that we are doing everything to continue to grow our bottom line. I have another one of my long term employees off on a maternity leave and will be back in about three months. I've added a replacement for her from our Southern California branch that will help us out for the period that she is gone. I may shift the new employee to another team when Oksana is back. We'll see.
Darla and I were at church today and we continue to work or way through our ownership quandary. A large church in Granite Bay is willing to take us on and we are doing the dance with them to see if this is a good match. I went to a meeting last week to discuss the machinations of a merger of these two large organizations. Right now, we have the former dean of a Christian college here in Roseville who is acting as the senior pastor until we can find a replacement pastor and make the merger happen. Bryce has been part of our church since 2004 and is in his early 80's. Not a long term solution. Bryce is a lot of fun and Darla and I took a class that he taught several years ago. He handles the senior classes for the church and jokes that he can give the same presentation each week because half of them can't hear him and the other half can't remember. He says the only problem is that he has to prepare that same message every week, because he can't remember it either.
It was a nice service today and it feels like a lot of the shock and awe that came from the Texans pulling stakes and heading home has passed and we realize that it wasn't a good match after all. Our executive pastor said that he heard a quote this week that spoke to him: "The Devil knows your name and calls you by your sins. Jesus Christ knows our sins and calls us by our name." Pretty powerful, eh?
Darla and I had friends over last night and finally cooked our Prime Rib that we had bought for New Years and Darla got sick. We were concerned the meat might not be good, but it was excellent. Rand and Julie came over and we enjoyed a good meal. The only problem was that Darla told Julie that if they wanted wine to bring it. Neither of us drink wine. I'd much rather have a nice rye than a glass of wine. I'll drink it, but Darla's not a drinker and we just don't keep wine in the house. Strangely, Rand decided that he wanted a red wine with dinner. The problem was they didn't bring one with them. We should keep wine in the house for just such occasions, but I don't do the grocery shopping, so..hey.
I did play in the qualifier yesterday and actually showed up at 8:30 for a 10:23 tee time. Paul wanted to meet for breakfast, which I did. I ended up reading the paper and relaxing until about 10:00 and then starting my practice before teeing off. Again, I started slowly, this time leaving putts short because of the speed of the greens at Sierra View. I shot 45+41=86 and Paul shot 83. Together, our best ball score was 68. It was a tough day for most and scores ranged from 75 to 61. We ended up in the money.
I will be in charge of scoring and caddies at the National Trusted Choice Golf tournament in August. I was volunteered by the Tournament Director who is one of my agents. It will be a long week as I have to have spotter and fore caddies in place by 7 AM everyday and scorers ready to go by 7:30. I will need about 50 volunteers and need some millenials as the scoring involves the use of ipads and the scores have to be uploaded to the scoring system. it will be interesting and a busy week actually starting on Saturday and ending on Thursday night. This event will bring some of the best 16-18 year old golfers from around the country. In fact, there will be college coaches on site as well as some college recruiting trailers. Former winners and participants include Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Charles Howell III, Justin Leonard, Hunter Mahan, Webb Simpson, David Gossett, Grace park, Christy Kerr, Natalie Gulbis and Paula Creamer. Burns is a sponsor and I will have a number of my staff members there during the week.
Well, that it is for this week. I will be back at the keyboard next weekend. Be well and continue to follow in the footsteps of The Lord. Ciao.
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