Poker, golf, dinner with friends, breakfast with my bride on Saturday. What could be better? Well, we do have a car in the shop. I drove Darla's car last weekend and noticed a high pitched whine coming from the engine. At first I thought it was laboring to change gears and was a transmission problem. We took her Explorer in on Thursday and had it diagnosed and the whine is coming from the transfer case. It is a $750 part and another $450 for labor That is for a used one or a rebuilt one. It could be a bit less if they are able to rebuild our part. The car only has 79,000 miles on it, but Ford has a crap warranty that covers for 5 years or 50,000 miles. We have a 2013 Ford Explorer that has a transfer case that is shot. Damn.
I did play poker on Friday night and had to have John come over and pick me up. Darla was meeting Frieda at 6:30 for dinner and poker was at 7. John was good enough to drive over and pick me up. I got a call from my boss, Harvey as I was waiting for John and he wanted to know what happened in my office on Friday. I asked him to be a little more specific and he asked me if Shawna resigned. What? I asked him why he asked that and he said that Shawna sent his Operations Manager a note saying that she had resigned. A little weird that it came from her office computer, but I told him I'd get to the bottom of it .John picked me up and I called Shawna on the way to poker. Basically, Harvey's employee who is the regional Operations Manager had sent Shawna a note that said, "Long time no talk, what's been up with you?" Shawna has picked up on my humor and sent her a note saying "I resigned." Then the poop hit the fan. I told her to get on the phone and fix it.
We played at Ron's house. Ron is the marketing manager for our largest agency and a good friend from the golf club. We went to soccer together a couple of weeks ago and played in the 6-6-6 tournament at the club today. He and his wife just bought a house in the old section of Roseville. It is a small house with a huge lot and he has completely redone the back yard, putting in a large cement patio, new stairs, a gazebo and lighting, a new lawn and a fountain. We played cards out in the back yard and he cooked tri tip sandwiches for dinner. I had a low coin count and bought $20 worth of quarters before we started. Luckily they were all still in the wrapper when I finished the night. I won early and often and ended up about $35 at the end of the night, not counting the $20 worth of new coin that I have. I've got about $70 worth of quarters now and I'm set for the next few games.
I noticed my headlights starting to be a bit dim and really noticed some oxidation and discoloration on the lenses. I bought the 3M Headlight restoration kit for $15 from Amazon. It uses an attachment to your electric drill and 3 different sets of sanding discs. You basically sand down to a new layer of plastic and then polish the lens to bring it back to clear. It's a little scary when you are using the heavier sanding disc and the entire lens (which costs about $200 to replace) is completely clouded over. You slowly use a lighter sanding disc and then a lighter one to remove all of the tiny scratches and then a final buffing sponge to apply and polish rubbing compound onto the lens. here are the before and after pictures. I was very impressed with the outcome.
We played at Ron's house. Ron is the marketing manager for our largest agency and a good friend from the golf club. We went to soccer together a couple of weeks ago and played in the 6-6-6 tournament at the club today. He and his wife just bought a house in the old section of Roseville. It is a small house with a huge lot and he has completely redone the back yard, putting in a large cement patio, new stairs, a gazebo and lighting, a new lawn and a fountain. We played cards out in the back yard and he cooked tri tip sandwiches for dinner. I had a low coin count and bought $20 worth of quarters before we started. Luckily they were all still in the wrapper when I finished the night. I won early and often and ended up about $35 at the end of the night, not counting the $20 worth of new coin that I have. I've got about $70 worth of quarters now and I'm set for the next few games.
I noticed my headlights starting to be a bit dim and really noticed some oxidation and discoloration on the lenses. I bought the 3M Headlight restoration kit for $15 from Amazon. It uses an attachment to your electric drill and 3 different sets of sanding discs. You basically sand down to a new layer of plastic and then polish the lens to bring it back to clear. It's a little scary when you are using the heavier sanding disc and the entire lens (which costs about $200 to replace) is completely clouded over. You slowly use a lighter sanding disc and then a lighter one to remove all of the tiny scratches and then a final buffing sponge to apply and polish rubbing compound onto the lens. here are the before and after pictures. I was very impressed with the outcome.
I also took the staff out on Thursday for lunch to celebrate our great month in August. We ended up over at a restaurant in Granite Bay that overlooks a quarry pond and it was a beautiful day and we enjoyed sitting out on the patio and having a great meal and some good team building time. I even kicked in for four mudslide chocolate cakes for dessert. We are having another good month this month and have a shot at another celebration lunch next month. Here are the pictures:
Darla and I took it easy on Saturday and I did some lawn work and cleaned the pool and did the chemicals. We went out to breakfast in the morning because we were out of eggs. We had a nice time visiting and enjoying a nice morning out together. I spent about an hour and a half reading on the pool and then came in and cleaned up and headed with Darla to Folsom for Luke's soccer game. He is at that level where they play four against four and have tiny little goals with no goalies. They split the teams into two and play two games simultaneously and switch players between the two games. It is a trip to watch, but hard to keep track of what is happening and the score. From what I could see, Luke's team won one of the games 8-0 and the other 6-2.
After soccer, we headed over to church and had about 20 minutes to relax and drink some lemonade before the service. It was a great service about tithing and a follow-up on last week's message. One fact that came out of the message (and I always get a nugget to add to the data base) is that the word "priorities" did not exist until 1940. Prior to that it was only "priority". It makes perfect sense as how can you have more than one priority? There should not be a plural for the word.
As Darla and I were leaving church, Vance and Terralee Ginther raced over to our car waving and having us stop. They wanted to go to dinner and ran over to invite us. There is a relatively new restaurant across the street from the Roseville Galleria and it is a build your own pizza joint called Blast. We had a great visit with them and quite a few laughs. They used to be in our Church Life Group with Bob and Vicky Pando. Vance is starting a men's group on Monday nights and I signed up as a casual attender. I want to watch the debates this Monday and I enjoy winding down with football on Monday nights.
Today I had the golf tournament with Ron. We had 14 strokes, but neither of us could chip the ball worth a darn and shot an 81, net 67. The winners shot a 71 and had 19 strokes for a 52. I usually don't play the "goofy golf" tournaments because it's not about skill, just luck of the draw with your partner and not having bad holes on the same hole. 52? Really?
I have Friday off this week and will take a road trip with John, and Neil and meet Bob Pando in Napa for my second shot at the Napa course at Kennedy Park. I did NOT play well the first time we hit the course last year and it kicked my butt. I shot 98 and plan to play much better this time around.
Well, that's it for this time. I was a little late tonight as I watched the Dallas Cowboys' rookies, Dak Prescott and Zeke Elliott lead them to a resounding victory on Sunday night Football. Next week, the Cowboys will be in town to play the 49ers at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. I see Dallas putting up a convincing win, but the Niners tend to play tough at home They just don't have much talent on their team. Gabbert hasn't played great for them and Kaepernick is now a vegan and can't seem to put on any weight. He even grew out an afro, but is still under 200 pounds. Mix in a hamburger, dude. I'm done with the whole National Anthem protest. The NFL really missed the boat on this one. If I had one of my employees show up at work and put up either a Black Lives Matter poster or a Trump sign in their cubicle, they'd either take it down or be sent home. They have every right to their opinions, but no rights when it comes to causing strife in MY office. The NFL should have nipped this one in the bud, but stupid is as stupid does. I hope all is well with each of you. Ciao.
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