tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231Wed, 24 Sep 2025 02:47:52 +0000GrandchildrenGrandfatherOne man's view of the worldhttp://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Gerald)Blogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-8603816386807305836Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:07:00 +00002012-07-24T13:07:51.661-06:00I am sure we have all heard the phrase "Out of the Months of Babes comes gems". Well at 51 years old I can tell you that is very true. Not long ago we were on vacation with our oldest and her family (Jess and Robert and Sam) in California. We were able to spend a week with them and it was great. We had a wonderful time getting to know Sam again and just being able to hang out with him was great (http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2012/07/out-of-mouths-of-babes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-625727088587340185Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:01:00 +00002011-12-27T12:01:37.946-07:00I am married. I state that up front so you will understand what I am going to say next. As a married man I try and give my wife what she whats (yes that is what all husbands do - right?). So this year when I asked her what she wanted for Christmas she stated that she wanted to not only continue to go to a personal trainer (she has lost a lot of weight and looks wonderful) but that she now wants http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2011/12/whole-new-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-731262181520214639Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:44:00 +00002011-12-13T15:44:35.048-07:00Wow, I heard this the other day and it has been running around inside my head every since. What a wonderful world this would be if everything you looked for you found. No more lost keys, pens, socks (you know that one that seems to disappear in the dryer), true love.... That would be wonderful. However that is not what it means. It means whatever you look for in your life, you will notice it http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2011/12/you-find-what-you-are-looking-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-4551697852187996467Sun, 04 Dec 2011 04:05:00 +00002011-12-03T21:09:23.601-07:00Why is it that we make a decision to do something, we have every intention of doing it, we think about doing it, we plan to do it....but in the end we somehow don't get it done. Well that is what this blog has been for me. I want to do it, I think about what I should write, but I don't get it done. Well, let's see if we can change that. I am going to try and write something at least once a week http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-is-it-hard-to-commit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-8623584343399547872Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:19:00 +00002011-04-27T21:19:09.079-06:00Ok, I have started the first of Re's. Redesign. I now have a membership to a good gym (Gold's Gym) and hope to redesign my body. I need to change my level of activity and diet. I will be changing not only what I eat, but how I eat, and when I eat. Why is it that we know what we should do, but for some reason we don't do it? I have read plenty of books on weight loss, diets and how to feel betterhttp://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2011/04/first-re.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-3550989512491724911Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:19:00 +00002011-04-18T15:21:06.871-06:00Ok, a little confession to start the ball rolling, I gave up watching TV for Lent and failed. Yes that is right I was unable to go 40 days (or so) without watching TV. But as I sit here thinking about it I can tell you that while I was not watching TV I got more things done. I explore more ideas in my head (I should&nbsp;apologize for some of them). I am sure that I am like most people and have http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2011/04/introducing-new-and-improvedme.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-7112490878192418614Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:29:00 +00002011-04-07T12:29:45.570-06:00Ok, they say you never forget your first and I am here to tell you that is true. I remember my first as if it was yesterday. I remember watching her for a long time and wondering how I was going to get closer to her. She seemed so far off like she did not even know who I was. I spent months planning the right thing to say, to be in the right place at the right time and practiced in front of a http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2011/04/brings-me-back.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-5282109202675949230Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:07:00 +00002011-04-05T12:07:25.385-06:00If you know anything about Google's start you will know who Larry Page is. He was a co-founder of the company. Larry teamed up with&nbsp; Sergey Brin to create the basis of what is now Google. One of the best decisions that they made in the early days was to bring someone else on as the CEO. This was due, most likely, to their young age at the time. Well it has been long enough and now he is http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2011/04/way-to-go-page.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-6244227100858723278Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:46:00 +00002011-04-03T17:47:13.914-06:00Well, here I am again looking at my blog and wondering why I have not written anything in a long time. I guess I have been busy. Scratch that, I know I have been busy but maybe I need to find the time to share my thoughts. I know that sometimes I feel like if I don't express my opinions that maybe I will explode into a rambling idiot (well lets hope more rambling and less idiot). So that being http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2011/04/hello-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-774008139936482691Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:33:00 +00002010-11-04T16:33:17.196-06:00GrandchildrenGrandfatherWell here I sit writing this while my grandson is asleep. My wife and I were very happy when we got the call from the kids asking us to come help fill the gap between when the baby was born and when their scheduled day care would kick in. I told everyone that we had been "called up to the majors" to explain why were heading to&nbsp;California. Sam is wonderful and is a blessed addition to the http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2010/11/sam.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-12738529718482162Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:58:00 +00002010-03-30T17:58:37.297-06:00I am traveling for work, as a matter of fact I am writing this from my hotel room.&nbsp; It has been a while since I have traveled this trip has been a great learning experience. The conference I have been attending is great and I have met a lot of great people. I have learned that I am not a real big fan of trying to do real work on my netbook. I like it for small things, but if you have to dohttp://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2010/03/wondering-around.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-7324772160510267286Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:58:00 +00002010-03-27T18:58:24.645-06:00I am sure that I am not unlike a lot of others when I say there are times when I wonder if I am doing the right thing. Now I don't mean am I doing the proper thing or not being "evil" kind of right but am I doing what I should be doing with my life. I have not been watching TV for the last few weeks and as you would guess I have some free time that used to be taken up by the mind numbing box in http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-should-i-be-doing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-5661850235985288900Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:21:00 +00002010-03-22T12:22:29.540-06:00I think we have all wondered what it would be like to have it all. To not have to worry about money, house payment, food, will your children have what they need and life in general would be great. Or would it? Lately you can’t pick up the newspaper without reading something about Jesse James or Tiger Woods and how they have pretty much screwed up their lives. What really bothers me is that most http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-think-we-have-all-wondered-what-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-3117375035350335795Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:58:00 +00002010-03-20T10:00:02.554-06:00Well, here we are once again at the beginning of spring. A time when we look to get out of our cabins and break free of the cabin fever that has infected us for the last couple months. I, for one, am not looking forward to all of the yard work that will need to be done (maybe it would be nice to have a couple more weeks of snow). Spring is also the time of spring break. When young people get http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2010/03/spring-is-in-air.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-1367605938029335876Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:21:00 +00002011-04-03T17:35:35.014-06:00I have recently come to realized that I am a cynic. I have joked about it for years, but I am a cynic. I don't know how I got here. If I look back over my travels I don't see any real signs that indicated if I turned here I would end up where I am today. So to change I guess I first have to determine how I got here in the first place. Is it the TV I watch? There does seem to a lot of shows that http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2010/03/any-fool.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-5430746937936100060Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:26:00 +00002010-03-09T21:27:33.145-07:00I think Aretha Franklin may have had it right, it is all about respect. Why is it we sometimes find it hard to respect others? Is there something in our nature that just does not allow us to notice others around us. Have we grown so unaware of what is going on around us that we just don't have the ability to show simple honest respect? Now I would love to tell you that I always show respect for http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2010/03/aretha-had-it-right.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-8611605853727303288Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:06:00 +00002010-03-07T19:06:45.865-07:00I had an interesting moment today, you know one of those moments that stick with you all the day though. I was doing something for someone and their friends. Now I did not start out thinking that I wanted to be thanked for what I was doing but I came to think that it would be nice to be thanked. Well, after saying something like, look what I did for you, the response I got was "I did not ask you http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2010/03/working-for-thanks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-1134722919990757076Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:45:00 +00002010-03-04T19:54:58.627-07:00What are deadlines and why do we have them? That question comes to mind every now and then since my life seems to be made up of deadlines. If you look up the word deadline you get "DeadLine:&nbsp;The point in time at which something must be completed". That seems right at least that is how we look at deadlines today. Of course I found that is also means the line that if a prisoner crossed they http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-love-good-deadline.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-1715672285188628058Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:29:00 +00002010-02-21T08:29:38.943-07:00Well, life happens and brings us around to what is really important. So that being said, I am back and will be posting more to this blog. I hope you enjoy the new commitment.http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2010/02/back-into-grove.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-1038835037442794062Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:54:00 +00002009-10-01T14:40:39.026-06:00<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-know-youre-not-going-to-understand.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Erin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-3856971786600633809Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:21:00 +00002009-09-04T10:29:43.776-06:00Ok, I have a confession. This is hard to admit, but this is a blog about life and changes so here it goes. I recently told you that I can feel a change coming. Well it has started and that is what my confession is about. I have made a decision that may haunt me for the rest of my days. It has the ability to shake my beliefs down to their very core. This change will affect how I interact with the http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2009/09/confession.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-1013117547156944071Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:38:00 +00002009-08-14T10:40:25.963-06:00Ever come to a point in your life when you know a change is coming? It might be a small change like a new favorite shirt or a new show on TV that you like to watch. But what if it is a big change like a new direction in life? Well, today I feel that there is a change in the air. I am not sure what it is or from what direction the change will come from but I can feel it. Now don’t get me wrong, I http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2009/08/change-in-air.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gerald)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-1924335120521050654Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:50:00 +00002009-08-06T14:55:26.022-06:00You know those gems, those words of wisdom passed down through your family tree all the way to your grandpa. You know, the ones he just loves to share with you as if you were still a young whippersnapper sitting on his knee. “If life hands you lemons; make lemonade” or “the grass is always greener in someone else’s pasture.” to name only a couple out of thousands. All of which are great words tohttp://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2009/08/words-to-live-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-8689396023490755014Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:34:00 +00002009-08-04T15:01:27.970-06:00Ok, let me start off by saying that I am a computer person, geek, nerd or whatever you want to call me. I use a computer every day and can get my way around most applications, games, sites or whatever I come across. That being said there are a couple things I would like to say about facebook. Don’t get me wrong I like facebook, or the idea of facebook but the way some people use it is wrong. Let http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2009/08/to-facebook-or-not-to-facebook.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19735291892001231.post-3630239457102055039Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:06:00 +00002009-08-03T17:08:35.536-06:00No other words caused more dread when I was a child or signaled the end of my summer of fun than "Back To School". How in the world could it be time to go back when we just got out what seems only a week ago (at least it felt that way to me).This time of year, as the sun is still blazing hot, it's hard to think that before the month is out children will be heading back to school. Back to sending http://simplyquotable.blogspot.com/2009/08/back-to-school.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1