Well yesterday was a proud day for me. My business, Ace Handyman Services, was voted the best handyman in Santa Barbara!
Thank you to all of you who voted for me! It is a good feeling knowing people believe in me enough to vote for Ace Handyman Services.
I have been doing the handyman business in Goleta, Summerland, Carpinteria, Montecito and Santa Barbara since October of 1999. So it is really cool to be voted the best in Santa Barbara on my eleventh anniversary of going out on my own.
I especially want to thank my life partner Kurtis in supporting me through this endeavor.
Today is the Harvest Moon Rally. This is a monte style rally that starts in Valencia, CA and finishes in South Valencia, CA about 10 miles from the start. However it will take about 8 hours to get to the finish.
My friends Kevin and Sean Ayers wrote this rally, and we have left our fearless leader Joe Akerman out of the loop so he could actually run the rally. So I kinda stepped in to help Kevin and Sean write, check out and organize the rally.
This will be a great rally, some really great roads to test your navigators ability to hold the cookies down with spirited driving, and a few places with straight lines and no other cars to help blow the carbon out. Mind you though, none of this is necessary to compete or complete the rally. If you follow the preferred route all times will keep you well within the speed limits.
One unique part of this rally is there are over 5 different railroad crossings. You could find yourself stuck behind a train! A long train going very slow. So for the first time, we have introduced an available time delay some what like TSD rallies.
It should be a good time and I look forward to seeing the faces of happy drivers and navigators at the end of the rally.
Start is today October 23rd at the Marie Calender’s restaurant off of I5 near the entrance to Six Flags Magic mountain. Registration opens at 10, A school for beginners at 11 and 1st car out 1:01. If you have never run one before, there is no cost to enter. Just bring yourself, a buddy for a navigator, an accurate watch and a willingness to have fun driving like you have never experienced before. I enjoy it because I forget the rest of the world for a few hours and just concentrate on the rally.
I got a Wii Fit for Christmas. It was not the most expensive gift, but it is one of the best.
Now to know me, exercise is not my forte, and I feel it every day. I am almost too embarrassed to reveal my BMI. And the Wii Fit calculates your BMI! Okay, Wii considers me obese with a BMI of around 40. Healthy is 22. I have a long way to go.
I did not open the Wii Fit on Christmas, but I did open it on Friday. It was very simple to set up and follow through with the initial body check. I then started at the beginning of the exercises with the yoga, then went to strength training which led to cardio and finally really fun balance exercises.
Yesterday was the second day of use, and my BMI went down a little and my exercise scores actually got a little worse because my body is not used to this exercise.
Now here is the real gem, and the reason for my blog post. When I got up this morning, the aching pain in my back was much better. I can not attest that the Wii Fit is the cause, but it sure is the only other thing I was doing to help my back in the past two days.
Not sure what a Wii Fit is? Here is the official Trailer for the Wii Fit Game Accessory.
If you already have a Wii Console, then you know the simple kind of fun a Wii can be. Adding the Wii Fit actually makes exercise more fun and bearable. I look forward to trying to keep up with the Wii Fit on a daily basis and reaching a BMI out of the Obese range. I will keep you updated as I unlock more exercises.
Have you ever gotten a phone call and either not been able to answer it, or checked the caller id and it says out of area but still has the phone number. I have many times and I always would like to know who has called me to see if I should call them back, or just let it go.
Well, I found a way to do this. It is so cool I even made a quick little site so anyone can do it too. If you visit http://www.dakurmarketing.com , you will fins a very simple page where yo ujust enter the phone number you want to know about and hit submit. The rest is easy. Go ahead give it a try. You would be surprised how fast and accurate it is.
