The rains have come to Northern California and although it is not a Biblical event, we have had about 3 inches out of this storm since Friday. I had to drain out about six inches of water out of the pool to bring it down to the mid tile level. I just finished up doing some handicapping for next weekend's Past President event. It was a lazy day today as we went to church last night and slept in this morning, waking to the rain slowly beating on the roof and on the patio outside our bedroom door. I watched a little bit of the Niner game this morning to see the reception for Kaepernick by the Buffalo fans. They booed lustily and he had one of his average games with less than 50% completions and 66 yards rushing, 187 yards passing and one TD. I don't know what the fans were expecting as this is the same quarterback they booed off the field last year, only about thirty pounds less because he is a vegan professional athlete. He's shocked that he can't gain weight. Mix in a hamburger, you moron. I then watched the maturing and sometimes spectacular Dallas Cowboys dominate the Green Bay Packers in Green Bay. It was a perfect Fall day with blue skies and great field conditions in Green Bay. Dak and Zeke might struggle in bad weather (that remains to be seen), but they can play. It's fun to watch this year. They are on Bye next week, but will return in two weeks in a Sunday night game against the Eagles.
Wednesday afternoon I took the staff out to the new Top Golf facility in Roseville. We do quarterly team building events and have done bowling, Happy Hour and Game night in the past. This one was a hit and I wasn't sure if the non golfers would enjoy it, but everyone had a great time. We had appetizers and some donut holes with syringes full of Bavarian Cream, chocolate and raspberry jelly. It was a gustatory delight. I enjoyed myself, but it wasn't typical practice in that I was using their equipment and the farthest target is 210 yards away. It was interesting to see some of the lack of athleticism that exists in my office and then there were a couple that were very good that surprised me. We were there from 3 PM until bout 5:30 PM. We will go again.
Our month is going well. The comparison on this month is huge as it was our largest single month in 2015. We wrote $411,000 in income in October last year and over $2.7 million in premium. Our goal this month is $3,000,000 premium and $450,000 in income. So far we are on track to hit our goals. The staff surprised me on Friday with a card and restaurant gift card for Bosses Day, which is today. I was surprised at some of the comments. I suppose they aren't going to write "You suck" or something, but there were some great comments. The ones I like the best are from the real young staff. One who is 22 wrote "You are the Best Boss I've ever had!!" Very nice that I beat the shift manager at Carl's Jr. and the manager at the car wash. Something tells me that they likely didn't have Team Building events there. Nice though. They bought me a $125 card to a local fine dining restaurant that Darla and I enjoy.
I played golf yesterday and the course was wet, but the day was dry. The storm rolled in on Friday and we got a good drenching that ended about 6:30 Friday night. It was clear overnight and I had one of my foursome bail, but Bryan, Paul and I showed up and played. I shot 84 on the day and played particularly well on the back nine, shooting 41. Paul was late as always and we had to wait on him. The group behind us jumped the tee and we got stuck behind a foursome of occasional golfers. We enjoyed ourselves and the pace was pretty good. We did hit into them on the 16th hole when they were on the right side looking for balls and we thought they were gone. Bryan hits the ball long anyhow and is one of the 300 yard bombers in the club. We all hit right down the middle on that hole and had shots at getting to the par 5 in two. As we were waiting to hit our second shots one of the guys came up on his cart and lit into us for hitting into them. I apologized and told him we didn't see them. He seemed okay with that, but Bryan couldn't keep his mouth shut and started in on the guy for being so slow and having two holes open in front of them and jumping the tee on the first hole. The two of them were jawing like a baseball manager and an umpire. They were done talking and the guy was riding back and Bryan yelled at him for wasting our time driving all the way back to complain. Bryan is 40 years old and still a hot head. I ribbed him about making such a big deal out of nothing.
I had lunch with the guys afterward and then took my car over to get a car wash. I bought a Wen Orbital car polisher and wanted to apply some McGuire's rubbing compound to the surface to remove any small scratches and then put on a coat of car polish. The car was gleaming when I got done. I pulled the car straight into the garage and came in to shower for church. We took Darla's Explorer to church and left my clean machine in the garage. When we left I noticed that the garage door stayed about 4 inches from completely closing. We were late so took off. The rain came in hard as we sat in service. We got home and the garage door wouldn't open. It seemed to move, but not open. I went through the house and could see that the door was hung up on the back of my car. The 300 must have rolled back after I parked it and the roll up door caught on the bumper. I pulled the car up and the door fell off of the bumper and would open. The back of the car had scratches on the bumper and I pulled out the rubbing compound and the orbital waxer and went to work. I checked it today and used a bit of touch up paint. I rubbed out the extra paint and re-waxed the bumper and it looks okay. Timing is sometimes cruel.
Darla and I have planned a trip to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving. We fly in on Tuesday night and stay until Saturday night to spend Thanksgiving with Jennifer, Sam and McKenny. We will stay at the Aliante Tuesday and Wednesday and then move over to Jennifer's on Thanksgiving night. We will celebrate Sam's birthday while we are there. Her birthday is December 21st, but we will celebrate with her. Looking forward to it.
Jennifer, McKenny and Sam will be in town next weekend as Diane's second husband, Bill, is getting married and Sam will be in the wedding. I'm not sure how much we will see them, but this is Bill's event and we will be there to see them in a couple of weeks.
Well, that is it for this week. The rain is winding down and we are supposed to have nice weather most of the week in the low seventies and upper sixties. Nice; Looking forward to it. I hope you are all doing well and living in the footsteps of our Savior. Ciao.
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