20,000 Visitors

Okay, Whoever was my 15,000th visitor never got in touch with me. So, if you are here, and you are paying attention and you are my 20,000th visitor the same deal holds true. You will get a permanent web site review on my blog, and if you are an entrecard member I will give you 250 credits. Sound fair? It is not much, but hey I am just a little blogger. If I had 10,000 visitors a day and 3000 clicks per day on my adsense ads, maybe I could sit around in my underwear and think up better contests and prizes... Until then, you will have to settle for what I have to offer :P.

Prayers,

Pisio


P.S.: I will repost this when I get closer to the big day of 20000 visitors.

Ramblings on the NBA

Is it just me or have foreign players ruined the once fun game of basketball? I remember watching playoff games in the mid 80's to the early 90's and watching hard fouls and good strong defense being played. Slowly, slowly, in crept a weakness and a bunch of floppers that now flail their arms and flop on the ground like fish out of water. Did this just start with foreign players, or did it always go on?

Now it seems everyone has picked up the art of flopping. I mean don't get me wrong... some of the fouls on Michael Jordan were vicious, but you know what? He survived, and he actually stayed in the game. Now, if someone gets knocked to the ground, they curl up in to the fetal position and pound the floor like they just had their balls cut off or something. It reminds me a lot of soccer where you have to flop to sell the foul. Some of the players do not belong in the NBA, but are constantly compared to greats like Larry Bird, MJ and Magic. Sure Kobe Bryant can throw down 81 in a game, but imagine if Larry Bird played under today's rules where hand checking is illegal. That would have been his career average, not a one time deal. He would have shot more free throws in a year than Kobe will shoot over the course of his career.

Sadly, Kobe is now one of the tougher players in the league. I can not stand to watch games where every time the guard drives to the basket and gets bumped he falls to the ground, slides into the first row of seats and the ref blows the whistle... Essentially that means once two teams I can not stand are eliminated, the Pistons and the Jazz, I will have to turn the NBA playoffs off. I guess this is what a progressive culture does though... we become more and more like what our ancestors left.... meanwhile, what our ancestors left becomes more and more like what our forefathers started (yes, Europe is swinging right again, finally, while the US looks more and more like Europe). I guess our sports will do the same as the rest of the culture. Thank God for football... the one thing in entertainment that will always have its fair share of physicality....

Prayers,

Pisio

Got Credit?

Man was I stupid when I was in my early and mid twenties. I got caught up in consumerism and ended up racking up a year's salary worth of bad credit card debt. I thought about using credit repair services, but I found a lot of them lacking and unable to accommodate my bad credit repair needs. Then came my wedding and my credit card and bad debt just grew. If I ever needed a time for credit repair it was then.

I needed a way to repair my credit, and had nobody I could really trust to talk to about this. Repair credit? Nope... not in my realm of expertise, so I did what anyone who was recently married and in up to their ears would do. I bought a $250,000 condominium on Maui. That really helped things out, but with the equity in the property I was gaining, I could take out a second mortgage and pay off some of the bad debt. Woo hoo!!! that is just what I would recommend anyone do. Well... actually I wouldn't really, at least not if I had it to do over again.

While things worked out okay for my wife and me (yes me, not I... you would not say "for I") I know a lot of people who will not be as lucky as we were. We were able to sell at the peak of a hot market, and pay off all our debt instantly taking care of a lot of bad choices over the previous seven years or so. Unfortunately more and more people are in need of credit help. I would now recommend that you get in touch with professionals who can actually help you and will not only warranty, but guarantee what they do. If you are in need of help you may want to check out the professionals at DSI Solutions.

Their site loads fast, and has a nice professional feel to it. Best of all, they have incentive to repair your credit quickly... they charge a flat fee rather than a monthly fee, and they offer you personalized service... Why would they want to dilly dally and drag things out? If you are having credit problems, you may just want to check them out.

Prayers,

Pisio

15000 Visitors

Sometime today I will hit 15000 visitors. Not bad considering I launched this blog in January, and have not put a whole lot of effort into it. If you should visit my blog, and you notice that you are the 15000th visitor please send me at my primary e-mail a screen capture of the grand event. I will add you to my blog roll, and review your blog with a permanent link on my blog.

This should be fun to see. Good Luck...

Prayers,

Pisio

Mother and Child

Marriage definitely is a vocation... a calling. I am glad that I heard and accepted it. I am married to a wonderful woman and we have a beautiful son. She says in her profile that she is not a good cook, but that is not true... I just think that she works too hard to put time into cooking.

I am not sure if she knows this or not, but I really do appreciate all her hard work. At times I get a little frustrated with her, and I am sure that I frustrate her at times as well, but I can honestly say I am glad that she chose me. I think that proves she is a little nuts, but I guess I can not hold that against her. It has worked out really well for me.

Right now, I am sitting here writing this and watching her love my son. She is watching Waterworld, and he is asleep on her lap. It is such a beautiful site to me. I wish that I had the means to allow for her to do it all the time. Maybe I will soon, but as it is right now, she is the breadwinner. I have to remember that she is the one supporting us while I am in school. I need to remember that she is tired when she comes home from work, and even though my day starts before hers and ends after hers that she is just as tired as I am...

Oh well... Happy mother's day Jo-jo... I love you, and I hope that today I can remember that it is about you, and your rest... not me and mine...

Prayers,

Pisio

Mission to Trade

I have met several people from Australia in person and come to the conclusion that they are a people absolutely in love with life. In the on-line community there are a couple blogs I frequent written by one of those crazy Aussies. In his latest venture, mission to trade, he has taken on something that completely confirms he is nuts.

A wise dead guy once said that the line between genius and insanity is a thin one. As someone who wholeheartedly agrees with that statement, and straddles that line everyday I would venture to say mission to trade was thought up by someone who not only straddles, but crosses that line frequently... A genius most days, he is showing us just how far into insanity he can go.

I will be curious to see just what he gets for his diet coke. I almost wish that I were there in Australia so I could trade for something. Not only do I think that he will be writing a unique piece of history, but I can see how this will go on for years.

Kudos to the author of Secluded Habitat, Geeky Habitat and now Mission to Trade. I hope that this venture goes as well for you as the others, and know you have an interested fan watching here from Rocky Mountain Country USA.

Prayers,

Pisio

End of the Year

And it is only May. I get a little confused when it comes to this time of the year. It is only the middle of the year, but because I work around the school year for the most part it is the end of the year. The end of the year in the middle of the year... confusing? Yes I know.

This is a time when I should be starting to relax and clean up at the end of the year, yet instead I find myself wanting to ramp up and work even harder through the summer. This is the time of the year when the teenagers have the most time, yet for the most part youth ministers around here do the least... At least my Catholic peers... Yet despite wanting to work harder for the youth and the Church, I also find myself wanting to move on.

I have started to get my resume updated and I have already applied for a job working in electronics again. I really miss working with my hands and building things. Sure I am building lives, but this career choice has become dull... That means it is time to leave. As wonderful as the young people I work with are, I know that I can not serve them as well as someone who is in love with their work. I love the kids, and the Church, I just no longer love the work... at least I think.

This is the way that I feel at the end of every year. Burnt out and bedraggled. I need a break desperately, but have so much work to do. It is overwhelming, exhausting and well... it has gotten really old. I am tired of feeling this way after nine months of working my butt off. I guess we shall see what happens.... As always we shall see what happens.

Prayers,

Pisio

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