You can see our new furniture that we bought this week. Our old sectional was 16 years old and starting to get stained and shiny from use. We've needed a new sofa for years and we added a new coffee table, end table and recliner to two full sized leather sofas. I had visited a local Roseville furniture store this week and picked out a leather sofa and love seat that I thought Darla would love. She didn't. She didn't like the style or the color. Everything else was good though :-). I invited her out to see the sofa set that I liked and we spent about two hours at the store and ended up with the pieces that you see above. The coffee table has a section that lifts up for eating and I am working on it right now as I write. I am not a shopper and did not want to spend a month looking for furniture. Darla is more of a compare and contrast shopper. She was a little concerned that the sofas wouldn't fit in our house, but now that they are here and set up, she is thrilled. Could we have found a better deal? Maybe. Maybe not. I saved myself the strain and discomfort of driving all over town looking at furniture to the point that everything starts to run together. Usually you end up buying from a really good salesman and don't necessarily end up with the best deal anyhow. I was prepared to buy something from a local retailer here in town, not a big chain. They were willing to deal and gave me about $1200 off the stated price when all was said and done and included both delivery and haul away of our old set. We ended up with two leather sofas that include two electric recliners on both sofas. We also got a top of the line leather recliner, a big club chair style that lays completely flat. Good for napping. I do like the table lift on the coffee table as Darla and I usually eat dinner in the living room.
You can see pictures from today where we enjoyed watching the NFL playoffs . Dallas lost, but played the kind of game that gives you a tremendous feeling of hope about the future. This team is good, but needs more defensive firepower. The officiating was terrible. Dallas was holding a lot on their receivers (especially Claiborne) and the Packers offensive line was holding constantly and it was called once. The refs didn't cost us the game, but a slow start, especially by the defense, cost them the W. Even with all of that, they were one play away from overtime. I did not care for the pass interference call on Brown as he held him before Aaron threw the ball. It should have been a five yard penalty, but it is what it is. Dallas needs to be busy in the off season looking at both drafting defensive players and also being active in free agency, dealing Romo and adding a lot of defensive help. They played above their ability this year and it cost them in the playoffs.I was texting back and forth with Jennifer and Randy during the game and Jennifer was cracking me up. She was totally into the game and stressed. She said she was like me at her age, yelling at the TV and the refs. Randy and I both feel that Dallas is right where they need to be offensively, but their defense needs help.
Darla had an event on Tuesday night and it was pouring rain. She had a corporate person in from her jewelry company and they had an event downtown in Sacramento. They would normally have had 40 or 50 people show, but the flooding kept some away and they ended up with about 12. The corporate person is from Michigan and didn't understand why Californians stayed away. Yeah. I took the opportunity to head over to the casino and play some quarter video poker. I got there at 6 PM with $100 and by 7 PM I was having dinner at the Fatburger on site with $477 in my pocket. My winnings were what prompted me to look at furniture. The $377 profit didn't go far in buying anything, but brought the total down. It was one of those weird nights where I hit 4 3s with a kicker for $190 and then hit four aces for $250 which was DEALT to me on the very next hand. Strange, but true.
The picture of the snow shows the Mt Rose highway up outside Lake Tahoe. The other one is from up in Cisco Grove The water running under the bridge is up in Chico, CA near Darla's folks. They received about 14 feet of snow just last week. The storm really hit us hard with over 6 inches of rain last week, causing me to have to drain the pool down three times. It finally cleared up on Thursday and we've had sunshine the last three days. Another round of storms is due I Tuesday night with another 3-5 inches of rain due in. We are officially out of the drought in Northern California. Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown has asked us to continue to preserve water as Southern California is not out of the woods yet. Yes, this is a socialist state.
The other pictures are from my team building event on Friday at the Quandary Rooms in Roseville. We had teams of 6 and 7 and there were four teams. My group that you can see above was in the Zombie room, which was a mock up of a scientists office. There were six locks on the door and we had to work through clues in the file cabinet, bookshelf, desk, foot locker and other places to figure out where the keys were hidden and what the combinations were. We were given an hour and we worked in groups and it took us 55 minutes to get through the locks and out of the room. Unfortunately, we ended up in a second room and lost the battle and the zombies got us. It was fun and it was interesting to see how people react under pressure. One of the gals was so frustrated with not being able to figure out one of the clues that she threw up her hands and announced we were on our own. That didn't last, but it was telling to see how she reacted. We were finished about 4:30 and met at one of the bars in town. Half the group left as they were in the bar for the last hour while we were in the rooms. I stayed with the group and Darla joined us for appetizers and drinks. It was fun and we may do it again. We do team building events once a quarter and the staff really enjoys it. We work hard and play hard as a group.
We do work tomorrow on MLK Day and I will be off to Grass Valley and Nevada City to see some agents along with two of my Producers. It will be a quiet day as many of the companies and agencies take the day off. The three agents that we will see are all working obviously. We will leave about 9:30 to head to Grass Valley and an 11 AM appointment.
The first tournament of the year was played yesterday and I passed on it. It was a scramble event and with my sore rotator cuff, I am taking some time off from golf. As a matter of fact, I will miss the second event as well as Darla and I will be in Jamaica February 4-10th for her work. She won the trip and paid my way in, so we will both go and enjoy the sun and sea. The Super Bowl will be played on the Sunday that we are there. The tournament is on the Saturday. I hop to play in one of the qualifiers in late February and then I will miss the fourth event as we will be on the cruise with the family.
I have poker next Friday and it is supposed to rain all weekend next week, so I'm not setting up any golf. I will look at the NFL Conference championship games and may sneak out to play golf if the weather improves, I just won't set up a tee time.
Darla had lunch with a friend today and I fixed a crock pot meal for dinner that has been cooking since noon. It consists of ground beef, onions, potatoes, cream of mushroom soup, celery and pepper, garlic and thyme. We'll see how it tastes. She will enjoy it because she doesn't have to fix it. I'll have some leftovers for the week starting Tuesday.
Well, that is it for this week. I hope everyone is well. We tried to reach Dad and Shirley after the Dallas game, but they were not home. We hope to speak with them sometime this week as we haven't checked in with them since they got back from their year end cruise. I will check in again next weekend. Ciao.
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