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

Thoughts from Life

Sitcom Decisions and Nostalgic Nerds – Thoughts from March 18 and 22, 2023

March 18, 2023 I was thinking today about making sitcom decisions. Sitcom decisions mainly use lies to avoid making actual decisions. Lying to your spouse about doing something you forgot to do is a sitcom decision. Characters make decisions in sitcoms purely for comedic purposes. Sitcoms have taught us dangerous and absurd life lessons that…

Brian Kirwan

April 18, 2024

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2023, accepting realities, adding tags to articles, anti-religious, avoid making decisions, behavior, books, calling out, characters, comedic purposes, comedy, Comp USA, covering something up, David Sedaris books, entertaining nerds, fellow nerds, funny, hilarious, humor, learning from failures, lies, life lessons, literary agents, lying to your spouse, making the same mistakes, nostalgia, nostalgic nerds, Patti, query letter, quirky personality, rain, raining heavily, Reality Acceptance, selling books, sitcom decisions, sitcoms, stupid decisions, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, unhappy marriage, weird observations, wet freeways, work, writing
Automatic Paper Towel Dispensers and Speaking Cat – Thoughts from March 5 and 8, 2023

March 5, 2023 I’ve been listening to a book called Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin. She is autistic and has a similar connection to animals that I have. I speak fluent cat and could learn to speak other animal languages. The languages of other animals are mostly non-verbal. Many people have a problem with…

Brian Kirwan

April 16, 2024

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2023, abnormal behavior, animal languages, animal senses, animals, Animals in Translation, autism, automatic paper towel dispenser, communicating, connection to animals, fast medium and slow, human behavior, I speak cat, interests, jobs, judge a restroom, looking to money to make us happy, money, money can’t buy love or happiness, nicer restrooms, non-verbal languages, obsessing over money, Patti, physical language, restroom, sights sounds or smells, slow dispensers, speaking cat, speaking English to cats, super poor, super rich, Temple Grandin, thoughts, tiny switches, tone, unnatural lives, written language
Marching Forth with Thoughts – Thoughts from March 4, 2023

As I’m reminded every year on this day, march forth is the only day that is a phrase. Beyond that, it’s just another day that will live in obscurity. I’m going to treat this day like I treat every day – like the first day of the rest of my life. Speaking of days (they…

Brian Kirwan

April 11, 2024

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2023, 52-year-old, a thoughtful life, acting happy, anti-religious, brain is a powerful tool, divine gold, Facebook, gobs of money, gold car, gold crayon, gold-colored car, grandma’s car, interesting people, jealous of the wrong things, jealousy, jealousy is stupid, living someone else’s life, march forth, money is not happiness, Patti, people just walking alone, poem, pure gold, staring at our phones, stuffed animals and toys, thoughts, Thoughts papers, Trump ruins gold, Valentine's Day, VHS tape, walking with distractions, weird things about me, what it takes to be happy
Laughing at Conservatives – Thoughts from February 26, 2023

This happened at the beginning of February, but I thought I’d talk about it before February runs out. Patti and I were grocery shopping and an older gentleman was walking around with a blazer on making him look like a professor at a college. For all I know, he was. As he walked by us,…

Brian Kirwan

April 9, 2024

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1989, 2004, American flag, American right, blazer, California, caring about other people, Catholic school, Catholicism not for them, challenging people, comedy, cults, drug culture, East coast thing, future note, grocery shopping, grocery store, Have a blessed day, horrible President, humorous realities, idiot or A-hole, Isis, KKK, laughter, mob influence on night clubs, Mormons, Nazis, not a good person, older gentleman, Patti, polygamy, President, private Catholic school, private East coast world, private school, professor at a college, public school, Reagan is dead, Religion and comedy do not mix, religious affiliation, religious lead censorship, religious origins, reusable bag, Robin Williams, Ronald Reagan, thoughts, Thoughts papers, Trump, vaudeville
Waiting at the Airport – Thoughts from February 16 to 25, 2023

February 16, 2023 Well, here we are at the airport. I intended to write during our vacation, but didn’t. We are currently waiting for a flight that got delayed twice and is still four and a half hours from now. At least this flight didn’t get degraded like our flight coming to Florida. The worse…

Brian Kirwan

April 4, 2024

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2023, airport, almost naked, behaving badly, Californians in the rain, digital video files, first-class, flight delayed, Florida, flying, home in our bed, home with the cats, how you treat strangers, I’m a good person, insane in the rain, knowing I’m a good person, lack of sleep, logic, low quality, LP (long play), Patti, rain all night, raining, sleeping on the plane, SLP (super long play), snow, snow in the desert, snowing, SP (standard play), stuck in the airport, thoughts, treating other people well, vacation, VCR recordings, writing