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Patti’s 2025-26 Kitchen Remodel – Spice Rack Edition – Thoughts from February 27, 2026

Welcome back to the ongoing saga known as Patti’s 2025-26 kitchen remodel. I built a base for the spice rack pull-out cabinet a while back. Now it was time I fully installed it. I’ve had to plan for installing cabinets in the past, but this was a new level of planning. This was something I…
Brian Kirwan
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Breaking Down and Starting Over – Thoughts from February 23, 2026

Let’s go back in time and relive a horrible time in my life. If that makes you want to read on, you are a sick person. For all you sick people who are still here, I need to set the scene. The following happened in about November to December 2009. When you read what happened,…
Brian Kirwan
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Mileage Milestones and the Weight of the World on Your Shoulders – Thoughts from February 21, 2026

I wish the following happened on 2/23, but it didn’t. This is another entry into Brian’s mileage milestones. As usual, I saw the number coming before it arrived. Sometimes I get distracted by driving. This is not a bad thing. Paying attention to my driving is job number one, but a close second is seeing…
Brian Kirwan
2026, 232323, anorexia, anorexic, autobiographies, autobiography, avoiding eating, binging and purging, Brian, bulimia, change our habits, controlling your body, cool numbers, crazed weirdo, dangerous eating habits, defenses and denial, denial, emotional eating, emotional problems, gaining weight, health at risk, healthier eating habits, hiding actions, Jane Fonda, keeping busy to deal with emotions, lack of support system, mileage milestone, My Life So Far, nutrition in your diet, only eating certain foods, Patti, problems with eating and weight, secrets, self-conscious, societal pressures, thoughts, vegan diet, wanting control, weight issues -
Cloudy Skies – Thoughts from February 18, 2026

Yesterday, I talked about colors, but I didn’t mention the color white. A study of white reveals that it comprises all the colors. If you don’t know about light, this may not make sense. Before I get too deep into white being made of a rainbow of light, I’ll move on to a specific discussion…
Brian Kirwan
2026, 3-D painting with precipitation, aggressively honest, cats, Cloud City, cloud shapes, clouds, clouds are always changing, clouds bring rain, clouds in the sky, clouds of heaven, clouds shield us from the sun, collecting rain, colors, creatures appearing in clouds, cumulonimbus clouds, depression, feeling sad, flying saucer, gray clouds, images in clouds, imagination, inspired creation, inspiring clreativity, lenticular clouds, light through the clouds, negative feelings, only seeing clouds, perfectly saucer shaped, phenomenon, rain clouds following sad people, random patterns, Roswell New Mexico, seeing different things in clouds, seemingly random, Star Wars, thoughts, UFO cloud, viewing angle, weather, weather in action, white -
Good Colors, Bad Colors, and Brown – Thoughts from February 17, 2026

One day, I was listening to something that sparked many thoughts about many different subjects. As I was driving, I dictated these thoughts as email messages to myself. I automatically put any email I send to myself in a folder of notes. I try to take pictures of things that happen in my life so…
Brian Kirwan
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