Quite a weekend in the rear view mirror. The weather was great, cooler and in the low nineties. It was Jennifer's birthday today and Samantha's last day before school starts. We had a nice visit with McKenny and Jennifer tonight on the phone. Jennifer was in the LA area since Thursday night as Diane's father in law passed away and they had a funeral and celebration of life. She got back on Saturday night and spent today with McKenny and Sam. The picture above is of Sam, Jennifer and McKenny at PF Chang's today.
Thursday night was the final night of our Twilight league golf. Ron and I played for third place and our match went down to the 9th hole before I birdied the hole and closed them out. We won an extra $10 for taking 3rd place rather than 4th, but better than that we won two skins in both the gross and net sides and took home an extra $64 to go with our $145 for third. Ron had a fantastic eagle on the number 2 par five hole when he hit the green in two and made a 25 foot uphill putt for eagle. We also won for my birdie on the 9th hole that saw the hole on the side of the hill sloping away from the green. My putt was a ten foot putt that likely would have rolled off the green if it hadn't found the bottom of the cup. The picture above is of Charlie and I. Charlie has run the league for the last 16 years.
Our numbers at work look really good this month, but we are down for the year and I am under fire to improve the metrics in the office. Our revenue per employee is about $895,000 and the metric goal is $1,000,000. The consensus is that I am over staffed and I will be in meetings this week to hash out what we will do. The good news is that our numbers this month are already over our numbers from August of 2015. I expect a $152,000 account to bind on Monday and we should finish the month up around 12%. Whatever the decision is on staffing, I have to keep the morale upbeat. Pray for me this week.
Saturday was our Invitational golf event and what I term "silly" golf. It was a two man scramble with several "contest holes". We had a par three where we rolled dice to see if we added a stroke or took a stroke away. We had an opposite tee shot on a par four. They had a left and right handed driver on the tee box and you had to tee off opposite of how you normally play. They had one par three hole with three holes on it and red, white and blue flags. You teed off and then when you got to the green found out which hole was yours. Finally, they had a par three where you rolled dice to see which club you had to tee off with and play until the ball was holed. It was all goofy. I played with one of my agents, Mark from an agency in Roseville and part of our twilight league. We worked our way around the course for a 75 and ended up with a net 59 with our 16 shared strokes. We finished in the money, but not by much. 55 was the winner.
Saturday night, Ron invited me to go with him to the professional soccer game with the local team, Sacramento Republic FC who were playing Vancouver at the stadium in Sacramento. I agreed to go, but invited he and his wife out to dinner with Darla and I before the game (so we could spend some time with the girls). We went to Claim Jumper and the photo of our dinner is above. I'm not much of a soccer fan and although the game was pretty exciting with several shots on goal, the game finished after 90 minutes of action 0-0. Ron and I had a good time together and I got home just before 11.
The NFL is gearing up to start the season in two weeks. I've got two fantasy football drafts this week. Tony Romo is already out for the first half of the season and may be done in the NFL. His body has been his own worst enemy with brittle bones being his kryptonite. You can see the picture of Colin Krapernick above, who is the local doofus quarterback for the Niners. They rewarded him two years ago with a $114 million contract and he has been a complete waste of money. His talent level was never up to his contract. He can't read defenses and is either sacked or throws an interception most of the time. Now he has decided that as a black man that grew up in a rich white adoptive home, he will not honor America by standing up for the National Anthem because black men are being oppressed in this country. He's a moron and has finally rallied the Niner fans together in concert to throw him under the bus. He is a disaster and my guess is he will be cut either this week or next. Looking forward to seeing what Dak Prescott and Zeke Elliott can do for the Dallas offense. It is the rookies to the rescue in Dallas.
I got the motion detector lights installed. The inside and outside lights were both wired to the same switch and I changed the outside light to a plug and ran the wires to the indoor electrical outlet by the side door in the garage. Now the outside light comes on when we walk past it to the trash or pull the car into the garage. Similarly, the inside light comes on when we walk into the garage or pull the car in. The two ballasts on the garage door opener have blown and I needed light in the garage. It was a chore, but I got it done.
Darla has a corporate trainer coming in from Touchstone tomorrow and we will have two of her "glam bassadors" staying with us tomorrow night. They are coming in from Eureka and will head back on Tuesday. I'll go into the office Tuesday morning, but leave by ten with Mark and his business partner, Phil, for Pete's house. From there we will drive on to Discover Bay and play the golf course off Highway 4.
My back is still somewhat sore and it is normally back to normal by now, but I've been playing a lot of golf and not giving it a chance to fully heal. It hurts when I sit for long periods, which pretty well describes my work day. Hopefully it will get better this week. We'll see. I did see Jane again on Tuesday.
Well, that is the news for now, so until the long Labor Day weekend, be well and treat each other kindly. Ciao.
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