Woke up early today. Ready for my 8am appointment at the gym I just joined on Tuesday.
I managed to get everything done by 730 without hurrying. Surprised even myself. Anyhow, I am ready to get moving on this. Finally. I left the house by 745 which left me a leisurely drive to the gym. I arrived at 759, one minute early, and went inside. First time i tried the key fob and it worked perfectly. I left 25 minutes later because the moron manager never showed up. I hate her. She has ruined my morning plans and schedule. Id like to kick her heinie into next week but I am sure that would be frowned upon. Cant wait to talk to her and get a ream of excuses. I have to make her squirm. I had an early appointment so u better show up. Annoying is not a strong enough word. I have several choice words and phrases in my arsenal to aim at Denise but I am sure Emily would not like me using them. So I will defer.
I am home and will finish up here and head to work. I have other appointments with people who show up.
So it took awhile to finish up here. After all I took no shower prior to my not a workout. So I was home for awhile. Finally got done with everything.
Got the manager on the phone on my way to work. She says she set her alarm early and forgot why she did when it went off. Dick. We reset for tomorrow at 8. I will forgive her, once.
Off to work. I had appointments at 10 and 11 and at 1 in Lodi. Managed to make the 10 close to on time. Was with Hal so he is easy on me for being late. The 11 was with client Billy. He is a very successful restaurateur. Very. Very high net profit. Hal and I are working on a plan for him. We discussed several ideas and he was somewhat overwhelmed. Normal response. We will follow up with more info later. I think he will pull the trigger on one plan or another. Too good a deal for him and saves him a ton of money on his taxes
The one oclock appointment in Lodi was different. First, i had to drive an hour. It was planned as a you sign the contract I brought and I pay you $50k. Sounds easy and all pre agreed to. So why did it take 3 hours for the meeting? In a word, the lawyer. Other guy was meeting with read the one page contract. Complained about the date in it. So he called his lawyer who called clients lawyer. Then all hell broke loose. The two lawyers argued on the phone for a good hour. We were not privy to that. We sat and drank coffee at Starbucks. And chatted. I suggested a fantastic change to the contract that would solve all problems. Did other guy agree? No, he said I gotta ask the lawyer. Numb nuts moron. Anyhow took a full 3 hours for the attorneys to do what? Reword the contract to what I had suggested in the first place. Almost to the word. Of course, they would not have taken 3 hours of my life away from me if that had been the initial decision.
It did finally end. Paid the 50k got the signed docs and left Lodi. Yay. Back to Sacramento. Got there about 515. Did maybe two things and time to go home. Its my turn to make dinner. So I had to leave.
Got home. First move, make a cocktail, it was a tough day. Then got dinner going. Emily called and she was still a long way out. So I slowed dinner prep a bit and sat down and enjoyed my drink with my friends Alex Trebek and Pat Sajak
When Emily got home she prepared the asparagus very nicely, I made her a drink, and we ate dinner. All just wonderful.
I washed dishes and she watched TV. Then we both eatched TV. Nice finish to a lousy day. Ready for bed.