Lonesome meow

So yesterday there happened to come from somewhere this kitten that we didn't know we had.  Well it got meowing up a storm and trying to climb up the back door.  When my wife and daughter were outside it would follow them around and continue meowing.  They made sure it had plenty of food but it still continued on.  This scared my little girl.  Well by the time I had gotten home from work they had put the kitten in the shed.  Well my son then let the kitten out and it continues on with it's psychotic behavior.  Well the meowing dyed down and it just followed them and me everywhere.  This would happen until  we would go in side and the meowing would start up again.  So is this cat sick, or, is it really lonely?  

Doesn't life bring those type of people to us?  Those that truly need us, and yes some of them may go overboard sometimes.  Maybe we're the meowing kitten?  But let's remember that through life we all need others.  It might be someone to have, someone to talk to or listen to, maybe it might only be the need to be acknowledged.  

Let's not let that lonely meowing kitten rip our door down before we realize what they need.

Be a friend.  A good ne.

Wes

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Wes Grimm
4th Grade Teacher
Iron Springs Elementary
"Love Learning"

One long day

So school starts tomorrow, and it has been one long day.  You never have one of those days.  HA HA.  Didn't quite get done what I was thinking, but what did get done was helpful to not only me but 10 others as well.  I guess that is what life is all about.  If I would have done what I thought I would have gotten done it would have been beneficial to me and my class, now it is beneficial to 10 times more, teachers and classrooms.

Go out and share yourself.  The results will be amazing and the reward...
well who needs rewards.



wes

Fwd: Over and over

It has happened twice now!

2 posts and both times I lost it when I went to post.  That never happens in life does it?
Well we just have to learn and keep going.



--
Wes Grimm
4th Grade Teacher
Iron Springs Elementary
"Love Learning"

Full Moon, New Moon

The moon has quite a great impact on the earth when it is a full moon.  Then when it is a new moon there is no light from the sun reflected to the earth.  So which moon do you you like better.  The New Moon or the Full Moon?  I hope that through life we are like the Full Moon and have a lot of influence for good on others.  Yes there will be times where we will be like the New Moon and hardly be noticed, or have an impact. 

But let us remember to show our light and be an example to others

--
Wes

Car doors, and other honest incidents

How many of us have lost hold of our car door in the wind and it hits the car next to us.  Yah, probably most of us, well I hope not.  Is our response "Come on kids get in the car lets go!"  or do you wait for the other car owner to come out and talk to them.  I guess little happenings like this really make the person that we are.  Hope it's a good one.
                                 

The curse of the TV

So our TV is dead.  That is probably a great thing.  I am not trying to focus on that but what has come of it because it is broken.  I am reading more at night than I have before.  I love to read and now I am actually doing it because I am not watching all that filth that is on that dumb tube.  But something better has come of it.  At night I am spending more time talking with my wife.  We have been discussing things more in depth than we have before.  And yes I enjoy it.  Maybe the curse of the TV is a good thing.


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Wes Grimm

Notes are stronger than memory

Do you ever think of something and mean to write it down and never do, something really important,  so you say to yourself "I'll remember that" and then when it come to it you don't?

Ya, I had one of those today.  I always mean to write it done, just get to busy to do so.  Well getting to busy is a big crock of an excuse.  We would probably save time in the long run if we would just write in down int the first place.  I have learned that writers have these notebooks that they call, of all things, writers notebook.  They just jot down what ever they think when it comes to them, or details that they see or here when they are out and about.  The way a certain thing looks at dusk.  Or the sounds that people make getting on or off a bus, or the smell of food cooking in a restaurant.  Well you get the point.  Saves a lot of time while they are writing. 

So my point-well I guess I better get better  at jotting down my thoughts when they come to me.  Yes this will mean start carrying around some type of note pad.  But wait most of us already carry those around.  They are called Cell Phones (most now a days have a note pad function on them.)  Like we didn't already know.

--
Wes Grimm

Dropbox with link this time

So here is some info again and with the link this time.

http://db.tt/5kwzyFc

DROPBOX

Dropbox is software that syncs your files online and across your computers. 2 GB of free space.

Dropbox replaces:

• Emailing file attachments to yourself and other people
• Using USB drives to move files between computers
• Renaming files to keep a history of previous versions
• Complicated backup software and hardware
• And more!

Dropbox lets you go back in time to undelete or undo changes to files.
Every time you save a file in Dropbox, Dropbox syncs it to its secure servers. Dropbox keeps a history of every change you make so that you can undo any mistakes and even undelete files. By default, Dropbox keeps 30 days of history for all your files.
With Dropbox, online backup is automatic.
Any file you put into your Dropbox folder is automatically backed up to the servers. Even if your computer has a melt-down, your files are safe on Dropbox and can be restored at any time. While the free 2GB account is perfect for backing up smaller files and documents, Dropbox offers larger accounts (up to 100GB) for backing up more and bigger files, like your music and video collections.
Dropbox lets you share files easily.
You can easily share entire folders or photo albums with Dropbox. Simply put the folders you want to share in your Dropbox, and invite people to them. You can also send people links to specific files within your Dropbox. This makes Dropbox perfect for team projects.

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Wes Grimm

Organizing life-Drop box

So we do sometimes run around like I said last time, like chickens with our heads chopped off.  How much of that is because we have no focus on what we are doing?  It is interesting to note in our day to day lives that when we are organized things run so much better.  Try it, I dare you.  I have noticed that the Saturdays that I don't schedule out with things to do, they fly by and it feels like I get nothing accomplished.

So what am I saying?  Life is better when it is organized a bit.  Yes we most definitely need off the cuff moments though. 

Here is a way to make your technology life a little easier.


DROPBOX

Dropbox is software that syncs your files online and across your computers. 2 GB of free space.

Dropbox replaces:

• Emailing file attachments to yourself and other people
• Using USB drives to move files between computers
• Renaming files to keep a history of previous versions
• Complicated backup software and hardware
• And more!

Dropbox lets you go back in time to undelete or undo changes to files.
Every time you save a file in Dropbox, Dropbox syncs it to its secure servers. Dropbox keeps a history of every change you make so that you can undo any mistakes and even undelete files. By default, Dropbox keeps 30 days of history for all your files.
With Dropbox, online backup is automatic.
Any file you put into your Dropbox folder is automatically backed up to the servers. Even if your computer has a melt-down, your files are safe on Dropbox and can be restored at any time. While the free 2GB account is perfect for backing up smaller files and documents, Dropbox offers larger accounts (up to 100GB) for backing up more and bigger files, like your music and video collections.
Dropbox lets you share files easily.
You can easily share entire folders or photo albums with Dropbox. Simply put the folders you want to share in your Dropbox, and invite people to them. You can also send people links to specific files within your Dropbox. This makes Dropbox perfect for team projects.

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Wes Grimm

Blank moments

I am sitting here at lunch doing nothing thinking that I need to do something, but there is nothing there.  So I just sit here aimlessly staring at my computer screen looking  at nothing in particular.   I want to be doing something productive, but still here I am.  Is life like that?  At times yes I think so.  We just go through the days following our routines just because they are easy and that is what we always do.  Its easy. And then on top of that we don't have to chance anything, or think about it.  Walking down the sidewalk or riding on a bus or in the subway; how many are there that are drone machines programed on our daily routine.   Then there is a bump on the road we walk around it and get right back on our one way railway track.

My kids are growing up and I am not going to get them little again.  It is warming up outside and they want to be out there.  But "I have things to do"  needs to get thrown off my track and spend some time with them.  If I don't I sure am going to miss out. 

Memory's are everything, lets not waste them.

--
Wes Grimm
4th Grade Teacher
Iron Springs Elementary
"Love Learning"