Mark Abbott's Blog http://blog.markabbott.com Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:58:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Another Bounce House Site – FiestaJumpRentals.com http://blog.markabbott.com/?p=50 http://blog.markabbott.com/?p=50#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:39:19 +0000 Mark http://blog.markabbott.com/?p=50 Hey all. I’m working on another bounce house site, Fiesta Jump Rentals – www.fiestajumprentals.com, for my local High Desert area. Maybe I can corner the market on designing sites for bounce house companies. Fiesta Jump Rentals is probably the largest of the bounce house companies in the Victor Valley.  They have a ton of bounce houses and so it is taking me forever to get all of their images onto the site…. I’m getting there though.  If anyone has any feedback, please let me know.  Also check out the other bounce house site that I’ve mentioned here before Xtremejumps.com – www.xtremejumps.com.

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]]> http://blog.markabbott.com/?feed=rss2&p=40 0 XtremeJumps.com – Bounce House Rental http://blog.markabbott.com/?p=35 http://blog.markabbott.com/?p=35#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 06:23:42 +0000 Mark http://blog.markabbott.com/?p=35 Hey.  Check out one of my new sites that I’m finishing up for my friend Albert Z and his semi-new bounce house rental business.  The site is Xtreme Jumps at www.xtremejumps.com.  His business servers all of the high desert, including Apple Valley, Victorville, Hesperia, Oak Hills, Phelan, Wrightwood and even Silver Lakes, with clean and high quality jump houses.  Check out the web site and give him a call for your next kid’s party.  The number for Xtreme Jumps is 760-900-1141.

]]> http://blog.markabbott.com/?feed=rss2&p=35 0 Good Enough http://blog.markabbott.com/?p=33 http://blog.markabbott.com/?p=33#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:31:22 +0000 Mark http://blog.markabbott.com/?p=33 Is it good just to be good? Is it good just to be good enough?  Shouldn’t you strive to make it extraordinary?

And what is the “it”?  Your business?  Your faith?  Your family?  Friends?  Charity?

]]> http://blog.markabbott.com/?feed=rss2&p=33 0 Baseball http://blog.markabbott.com/?p=29 http://blog.markabbott.com/?p=29#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:10:07 +0000 Mark http://blog.markabbott.com/?p=29 Do you smell that?  It is the smell of baseball season.  Only a couple more weeks and the boys of summer will be back at work.

I was able to tag along with a couple buddies this past weekend to take in a little pre-season Cactus League baseball in Phoenix, AZ.  It was incredible and something every baseball fan should experience.  The small stadiums, the accessibility to the players and the general vibe in the Phoenix suburbs was enough to make me want to go again next year.  The experience certainly lived up to the hype.

]]> http://blog.markabbott.com/?feed=rss2&p=29 0 Blogging http://blog.markabbott.com/?p=28 http://blog.markabbott.com/?p=28#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:10:02 +0000 Mark http://blog.markabbott.com/?p=28 So I’m trying out Blog Writer on the iPhone… And so far so good. It was easy to select my Wordpress blog and type in my website address. Piece of cake. The software logged in super quick and I’m now typing out a blog piece. I find it totally satisfying when a piece of software is simple to setup and just works. When developers create software like that, I don’t mind upgrading from the free version to the paid version. It isn’t that the ads on this ad supported free version are annoying, but rather a thank you from me to them for creating something that works exactly the way I want it to. Of course, being that this is only my first time using the app on my iPhone, I may find other things with this app that suck… So I’ll keep you posted.

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]]> http://blog.markabbott.com/?feed=rss2&p=26 0 THINK Together Coming to the Victor Valley http://blog.markabbott.com/?p=1 http://blog.markabbott.com/?p=1#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:31:31 +0000 Mark http://blog.markabbott.com/?p=1 Super Bowl Sunday!  Nice!  Anyway, I was told this week that THINK Together folks were meeting with Victor Elementary folks to possibly bring THINK Together to the High Desert.  This is incredible news for the kids of Victor Elementary and the other surrounding school districts who may utilize THINK Together’s after school programs.  I introduced the CEO of THINK Together to the Superintendent of Victor Elementary about a month ago as I knew these two stellar individuals and stellar organizations could compliment each other very well.  We’ll see, but it looks like conversations since their first meeting have continued to progress.  I’ll keep you posted.

If you are unfamiliar with THINK Together, they are the leader in Southern California for after school programs.  Their success in helping school districts improve test scores and the future of children around L.A. and O.C. has been documented in the L.A. Times, the O.C. Register and on various L.A. TV news channels.  And now they are coming to the High Desert!  For more info about THINK Together go to their web site at www.thinktogether.org.

Here are a couple recent/related articles and links and videos:
L.A Times article about De Anza Elementary who uses THINK Together (link)
Shalimar Pilot article about the original THINK Together location (link)
Victor Elementary (link)
THINK Together (link)

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