Darla's Birthday is tomorrow with David's coming the next day and Alicia (Darla's sister) the same day as Darla although they are 5 years apart. Darla's parents were in town for Luke's T ball game and we met at Cabo's in Granite Bay for dinner. Well, actually I met the whole gang after golf at 5 PM and we celebrated a late Mother's Day and the birthdays. Earl and Frances just returned from two weeks camping, a week in Yosemite with family followed by a week in Columbia up near Sonora with their church group. Both boys were there and Becky. Dan and Becky had planned to come into town next weekend, but changed their plans when they found out that everyone was getting together for birthdays. Maya was busy, so she was saved the whole "family meet and greet" (for now). We had a great time and visited and ate great Mexican food and it was made even more delicious by the fact that Earl bought dinner.
It was a busy week and we had our media day for the Trusted Choice tournament in August that I am doing the scoring for. We had television, print and radio at the event and we followed the meeting with a nice buffet lunch and then a shotgun golf outing. I invited Paul from the golf club as he had mentioned to me that he had never played Del Paso Country Club. I've played it a few times and actually played a Northern California PGA event there, the Pro-President event with our club professional when I was President of the golf club. The course is in great shape and still feeling the afterglow of the Senior PGA Open that was played there last August. It is the club's 100th anniversary this year and having the National Trusted Choice Championship is a feather in their cap. We both struggled and I shot 89. I guess that is a continuation of my recent play.
I say that and then Thursday night shot 40 in league and we beat our competition 13-7. We are in first place with 41 points after three weeks.
Friday night was poker and we had a small cold front move through that night bringing high winds and some cold overnight temperatures. Steve hosted and had cigars out for everyone (I passed) and had his back patio decked out for the game. Cards were blowing off the table and we were trying to hang onto our drinks and quarters. We finally carried the table inside and ate dinner watching the Giant's game and then played cards inside after that. I won early, taking five of the first six pots. That is never a good thing and although I was doing great before dinner (up about $50), I lost often and prodigiously after dinner and walked away before midnight down about $35. I had a good time with the guys and always enjoy getting together.
There is a Senior 4 ball qualifier next week and I called Paul and he agreed to team up and see if we could qualify this year. Steve and I have qualified twice and failed to move on both times. Charlie stopped me after league last week and told me that Paul, Ron (my twilight partner) and Steve had all signed up and named me as their partner. Ron and Paul both play twilight, so I was able to explain to Ron the dilemma and he agreed to team up with Steve and asked me to call him. Steve seemed a little peeved when I told him, but he and Ron know each other from poker and the golf league and we smoothed it over.
We had the last two days of the 54 hole individual tournament this weekend and I didn't feel too encouraged after my 91 last weekend. I don't know where it came from, but Saturday I shot a 38+42=80, net 66 to vault back into contention in the event. I went from 16th place to 6th in the second round.
This event has been tough on me as we have a member who went through a huge medical crisis in his life over the past four years. He had a bad knee problem and ended up with a blood clot that traveled to his brain and he almost died. He has had trouble sleeping, had serious pain including fibro myalgia and endured three surgeries on his knee. He has been slowly getting better. He was a 9 handicap back in the day, but was shooting over 100 when he came back. He approached the handicap committee and asked for a Medical Handicap. Basically, what he wanted was to suspend his prior scores from 2012 and only use his current scores to figure hi handicap. I agreed that once he had at least ten scores, we would issue him a temporary medical exempted handicap. He got 13 scores in and I issued him a 26.4 handicap. He signed up for this tournament and added four more scores which brought his index down to 21.3. Unfortunately the handicap on the date of the due date is the one that was used for this event. He shot a 91, net 63 on Day one and the membership was screaming! He had signed up for skins and won over $85. I talked to him during the week and told him to tone down his bragging as people were talking. I also told him that he would not be eligible for the overall trophy as he wasn't using a 20 card handicap and the rules require that the overall winner had to have a 20 score card.
Well, Saturday he shot an 80, net 52, and was just as loud and bragging about his scoring, saying "You poke the bull, you get the horns!" I was out with Neil posting scores on the scoreboard and heard him loudly tell everyone that he didn't feel bad about shooting such a low score and if people were upset it was no skin off his nose. I told him in a loud voice that he should tone it down or someone just might kill him in his sleep. That got a loud laugh and seemed to diffuse the situation. He came up to me this morning and apologized for his actions. I told him that he shouldn't sign up for skins and just let this situation lie. He disagreed and said it was his chance to really make some money. Thanks, guy!
I don't know what he shot today as I left right after my round completed. It was really slow out there. Neil had the high handicappers playing first and they set a slow pace that caused huge waits on several holes. I shot 48 on the front nine (ten shots higher than Saturday). I almost left after 9 holes, but hung in and shot a 40 on the back with a birdie on number 16. My 88 was a net 74, so I finished the tournament at 2 over par. I'll likely get a little bit of money, but I did have the low net at 66 in my flight on Saturday.
Darla is supposed to take her truck in tomorrow on her birthday for repairs. She checked her calendar today and has a meeting at 9 AM tomorrow, so I have to take the truck in at ten tomorrow. I have an SUV set up for rental with Enterprise tomorrow. They have upgraded us to a full sized SUV even though Nationwide only pays for a compact car rental. I've know the Sacramento marketing rep for over 15 years. I invited Darla to dinner tomorrow night, but she wants to wait and go to Benihana later in the month. She is still on her diet and has lost 23 pounds now. She has done great on the diet and looks fantastic.
Nothing much has been done on the bathroom remodel as some part on the glass surround didn't come in (hinges for the door or something). They did come out and install the towel bars, toilet roll dispenser and some towel hooks, but that is all that has been done. The glass surround is now due to go in this week and we will have the opaque glass in two weeks.
We got our reservations set up for our week in Lake Tahoe in August. We will be there from Saturday the 6th until Sunday the 13th and found a four bedroom, two bath condo in Stateline, Nevada. The condo will handle all of the kids, Samantha, their dog and be a main spot for dinners and relaxing. The condo unit has a pool and hot tub across the street from our unit. It is located at Tahoe Summit near the Heavenly Ski Resort Stagecoach Lodge and chairlift. Darla's folks will bring up their motor home and Alicia and Don will come up for a weekend. The boys will only be there for the second weekend, but Jennifer, McKenny and Sam are supposed to be there for most of the week. We will check with Dad and Shirley to see if they will be able to join us at all. It would be a great chance to see all of the kids as well as spend some time in God's country Lake Tahoe.
Well, that is the news that is fit to print this week. Work continues at a frenetic pace. I have about five meeting outside the office this week. I hope all are well. We will talk soon Ciao.
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