Thoughts from Life – Brian Kirwan has thoughts, and these are them.

Thoughts from Life

New Years, Old Jobs, and The Wedding Song – Thoughts from December 29, 2024 to January 26, 2025

December 29, 2024 The year is ending in two days. There are several things I’m looking forward to in 2025. My last loan payment will be at the end of February. In March, I’ll have been at Disney for 20 years. That will mean my vacation and sick time earned will go up. When I…

Brian Kirwan

December 9, 2025

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2024, 2025, all we need is time, allergies, allergy to wheat, artificial intelligence, artificial singers, backup singers, being busy, building the shed, cats, consequences, creating a harmony, Disney for 20 years, disposing old shed, electric guitar, extended deadline, fixing the house, food allergies, four cats, future note, general scratchy feeling in my throat, giant chocolate chip cookie, June 14 1997, lifetime pass to Disneyland, looking forward, lyrics, married, meatball sandwiches, mobile home, my AI voice could sing, no downtime, no more wheat, Patti, reality, recorded main voice, retirement, retiring, singing, strangers around the house, The Wedding Song, thoughts, Thoughts paper, throat problems, tired, wedding march, working on song
Out with the Old Shed, In with the New – Thoughts from December 27, 2024

This entry was not actually written on the 27th, but let’s pretend that it was. Patti and I had been working on the outside of the house and now it was time to put in the new shed in the backyard. Step one of putting in the new shed was deconstructing the old shed. Some…

Brian Kirwan

December 2, 2025

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2024, backyard, base for the shed, baseboards, blowing down in the wind, brought out the leveler, chainsaw, deconstructing, falling apart, fighting wind, flat in all directions, flimsy material, flimsy plastic panels, floppy wall panels, large and solid, let’s pretend, little wooden house, new shed, not flat, old shed, Patti, pieces of the shed, pile of wood, proper floor, proper shed, roots of a tree, screw the flooring to the base, sweat, thoughts, trash days, various sizes of poop, windiness, wood base, working on house
Christmas, Cats, and a New Cat Tree – Thoughts from December 25, 2024

Just as Christmas Eve was mainly about our niece and nephew’s new baby, Christmas Day was about Scout and her three kittens. Actually, it’s about Scout and her only slightly younger than her adult cats. Until next July, Scout is four and Beatrix, Luna, and Willow are three. Beatrix is about the same size as…

Brian Kirwan

November 25, 2025

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2024, Beatrix, big cats, Blaze, boxes, building cat tree, can’t handle their own weight, cat dad, cats, cats had destroyed it, Christmas Day, covered in sweat, custom Funko Pop!, disassembly, followed instructions step by step, four cats in one house, Funko, Funko characters, House of Cat, Luna, new cat tree, old cat tree, other pets, Patti, piles of stuff, pink cat tree, pink house, presents, Quest, regulate cats food, Scout, Scout’s boys, season for cat trees, Slash, sturdiness, supervising cats, thoughts, time to get used to, toys, Willow, wish list, wrapping paper
Things Not Said, No Shoes, and Happy Holidays – Thoughts from December 24, 2024

For Christmas Eve, Patti and I went to our niece and nephew’s house. Patti’s sister, three of her sister’s sons, and an assortment of other people like me were there. Patti’s grandniece (a term I had to look up) was there, which I only mention because she was the adoptive parent of one of Scout’s…

Brian Kirwan

November 18, 2025

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2024, age ranges, caring about each other, Christianity, Christmas Eve, Christmas time, conservative, Conservatives, fectional story, generations, getting together with family and friends, grandniece, Happy Holidays, issues, Judaism, liberal, liberals, Merry Christmas, modern world, nativity scenes, new baby, no drama, no shoes, no shoes inside, non-believers, non-religious, old nerd, other ways of thinking, out of touch with reality, Patti, political subjects, politics, provoke believers, religion, religious decorations, religious traditions, Santa Claus, Scout, shoes or slippers, six kittens, socks only, socks with no holes, technology, things not said, thoughts, uncomfortable silences
Downness, Home Repairs, and New Computers – Thoughts from December 18, 2024

As usual, I haven’t been writing my Thoughts papers recently and I’ve been feeling down recently. Part of my “downness” stems from a document from our mobile home park detailing what is wrong with the outside of our house. The main and most difficult parts have to do with how run-down the paint is on…

Brian Kirwan

November 11, 2025

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2024, avoiding sunset at 5:00 pm, Christmas holiday, consequences, evaluating the house, I work best alone, It warms my nerdy heart, Microsoft Surface Pro, mobile home park, money for supplies, need a new shed, nerdiness, new computer, official end date, old computer, painting the house, reassessing the house, recommended replacement date, repairs, replacing heavy panels on the house, setting up programs, thoughts, Thoughts papers, transferring files, trimming large tree, Windows 10, Windows 11, working nights