Why Are You On Google+? Seriously.

Last year I found myself wondering why my posts were not gaining any attention from the 13,000+ followers I have. A quick search on my circlecount.com profile revealed that in 2013 I had gone from 2,870 followers in   January to 13,066 by December. I was blow away by how many people felt I was worthy of being followed, but I also realized that perhaps I was celebrating such an accomplishment a bit too soon. Granted the stats also show...

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Happy New Year 2014 From The Cortes Family

2013 has come and gone and I am happy to say good riddance. While 2013 brought some great tech and happens to be the best year I had on Google+ based on the +CircleCount 2013 statistics they were so great to provide us, it was also one of the worst ones I had in my personal life. Still, I won’t let one lousy year ruin the rest of my life and so 2014 will not only be the beginning of a new year, it will also be the year where Chuck Cortes pushes...

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Google+ Is Awesome Because Of The People On It

I figured my last post would be about the challenge itself. The challenge mentioned at the bottom of this post that Dustin W. Strout started today which was fun. I had never written that many posts to my blog in one day before. It definitely was a challenge and although the rules said they didn’t have to be perfect I still had to make them look good which is probably why I only made 4. I wanted to thank Dustin and the other who started this challenge....

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I Love Making Or Eating My Hometown Food

I love it when either my wife or I make food from our beautiful island of Puerto Rico. Its great to eat the food my mom use to make for me when I was young. I miss her cooking which is why I try to make it as often as possible. One of out best meals was what we made for Christmas last year which was empanadas, a typical Puerto Rican cuisine that is sold just about everywhere around the island. We made all kinds of empanadas. Pizza empanadas which...

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My Mother-In-Law Is The Greatest

Times have been tough for my family ever since I lost my job 2 months ago. We have been scraping by on the few bucks I was given as a severance for losing my job to outsourcing but that ran out already. Now I am working to get unemployment benefits and food stamps while I look for another job. So far I have not had much luck but then again I have not been looking for long because I had other issues I had to take care of before I could look for work...

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