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• My Weird Memory and VHS Tapes – Thoughts from January 15 and 21, 2023

  

  January 15, 2023 I have a weird memory. When I hear the name Neil, I can think of Neil Patrick Harris, Neil Armstrong, Vince Neil, Neil Peart, and Neil from the Young Ones. My middle name is Patrick like Neil Patrick Harris, but I don’t use mine much. I have friends, relatives, and a wife…

  Brian Kirwan

  March 19, 2024

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  2023, edit videos, eight-track ADAT recorder, four-track cassette player, Living in the past is my future, Neil, Neil Armstrong, Neil from the Young Ones, Neil Patrick Harris, Neil Peart, no new creations, past creations, Pat, Pat from Saturday Night Live, Pat McCormick, Pat Sajak, Patricia Heaton, Patrick, Patrick Dempsey, Patrick Star, Patrick Stuart, Patti, Patti LaBelle, refurbished VCR, remix tracks, spelling, Sponge Bob Square Pants, thoughts, transfer analog to digital, VCR, VHS videos, video tapes, Vince Neil, weird memory

• Followed by Cats – Thoughts from January 8 to 14, 2023

  

  January 8, 2023 Most things are ending at my work today. There are parades, shows, and events that are having their last performances for the season. Tomorrow will differ from today. We’re back to mainly having only the cranky old timers here. I got to know many new people and they will only rarely be…

  Brian Kirwan

  March 14, 2024

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  2023, accidentally posting, audio, book, breaking the rules, Brian Creates, cats, cats follow me, cats ignoring people, cats on my lap, cats on top of me in bed, cats see me as a big furless cat, clumsy, cranky old timers, didn’t break anything, end of holiday season, Facebook, fake enthusiastic hellos, fellow atheist, ignoring other people, Julie Sweeney, justifying their job, lift on the deck, managers, more money but a joy free life, My Ears, new people, outstanding balance, Patti, Patti fell, personal work on work computers, posting on Facebook, problem people at work, Quest, rain sucks, raining, rules for everyone, SoundCloud, special connection with cats, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, tiny feet, upload songs, work, writing

• Raining on Santa – Thoughts from January 3 and 4, 2023

  

  January 3, 2023 It’s raining and I’m doing a job today that involves picking things up from one location and taking them to another location in an adorably compact truck. I’m pushing things to and from my truck so I can’t use an umbrella to protect myself. The other option is to use the hood…

  Brian Kirwan

  March 12, 2024

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  2023, adorably compact truck, black Santa, curly-haired dog, don’t watch the news, drenched in sweat, drowned rat, excessive sweating, heavy jacket, history of sweating, hood on my jacket, horrible Republicans, justifying horrible behavior, non-verbal Santa in a wheelchair, non-white Santa Claus, Patti, podcast, raining, Santa Camp, Santa Claus, Santa with a sty on his eye, self-deprecating humor, sprinkling, sweating is my hobby, the news, thoughts, transgender Santa, umbrella, well hydrated

• Mythical New Year and Crying Babies – Thoughts from January 2, 2023

  

  Here we are in 2023. This is my first entry of the new year so you know it’s going to be good. I can say that because you’ll probably forget I said it by the end of reading this paper. As always, I’m going to live in the past for the first part. I was…

  Brian Kirwan

  March 7, 2024

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  2023, absurd circumstances, Amazon money, animated version, Beatrix, beliefs, birthday party for one year olds, Catholic school, cats, chips, dips, disappointing knowledge, entertainment, fireworks, Good Mythical Morning, guacamole, illogical, illogical rules, live in the past, love of money, Luna, marathon watching, memoirs, movies when I was seven, New Year’s Eve, no special features, normalizing religion and sports, Patti, pop culture references, Quest, raining, religious, religious experiences, scientific truths, Scout, sparkling wine, The Hobbit from 1977, thoughts, unnatural events, weirdness, Willow, wine, YouTube

• Christmas Weight and Other Random Subjects – Thoughts from December 29, 2022

  

  December 29, 2022 During all the Christmas eating, I gained six pounds. I do it every year during Christmas. My regular eating habits are such that I can lose it relatively easily. We still have New Years Eve coming up so it will probably go back up again. I feel crappy when my weight goes…

  Brian Kirwan

  March 5, 2024

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  2022, addiction, boring conversations, Christmas eating, Christmas weight, cigarettes, conversations with strangers, COVID, eating habits, filling the holes of my life, genuine happiness, health problems, my dad, New Years Eve, Patti, pleasure, politics, random subject generator, religion and sex, restroom, sedentary lives, smoking, start conversations, stress, thoughts, touchy subjects, undiscussed problems, unhealthy foods, unhealthy people

• Rum Coffee for Breakfast – Thoughts from December 28, 2022

  

  Continuing my last Thoughts paper, I will talk about the joy that was Christmas Day. I got up about 11:30 am and Patti got up just before me. The coffee machine was still making coffee. I wanted to mention one of Patti’s presents at that point (a new coffee machine), but I’m glad I didn’t…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 29, 2024

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  2022, 52-year-old child, Amazon, Beatrix, breakfast, building Lego, cat tongue, cats, cats instead of kids, Christmas Day, coffee filders, coffee machine, fancy pillow, gift card, gifts, hash browns, It tasted really good, Jamaican rum cream, Lego, Lego penguin, lick my hair, love fest, Luna, mimosa, my inner child, nephew, normal breakfast, opinion about food, Patti, pink hamster, Scout, sliced tomatoes, stretching, therapy light, thoughts, Thoughts paper, vegan eggs and sausage, Willow, wonder product

• Writing My Thoughts Down – Thoughts from December 27, 2022

  

  I’m back at work today and as promised in the brochure at the beginning of this seminar, I’m back to writing my thoughts on my phone. I’m always tempted to say, “write my thoughts down”, but my fancy grammar checker discourages it. We rarely write things on paper anymore so maybe that’s why it’s discouraged…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 27, 2024

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  2022, amplifying moments in life, background of my mind, bad decisions, bitter old person, boredom, brownies, Charlie Manson, Christmas Eve, Christmas party, conversation, cookies, criticizing kids, cynical, do the right thing, families, fun, fun conversation, fun in life, gift exchange game, goofball, grammar checker, habit, ignoring bitter old people, learning, mobile home, nephews, nieces, old people, Patti, persuing interests, raffle, sarcasm, seeking only success, Sister, thoughts, vocabulary, write my thoughts down, writing, young people

• Christmas Games – Thoughts from December 20 and 21, 2022

  

  December 20, 2022 Patti came to work with me today. On the way, we talked the whole time. Sometimes we put on a podcast and listen to that, but we were both Chatty Cathies and never really listened to anything but each other. It’s good to know that after 25 years of marriage we can…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 22, 2024

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  2022, 25 years of marriage, accusing me of yelling, AI used in art, alliteration, artificial intelligence, banned, Charlie Manson, Christmas, Christmas Eave, Christmas games, competitive games, creativity, experimenting with swearing, family, five female felines, fuzzy pictures, games, get to know our neighbors, great listener, high school humor papers, hitting on girls, house boarded up, loud vehicles, memory for visual things, music band, my last day, Napster, new people, no memory, no recall, party, party games, Patti, pleasant trip, predictive messages, predictive text, presents, purse, sampling, sex in a bar, stories, stupid is the new normal, swearing, talking in the car, technology, The Papers, thoughts, weird wordplay, wife, yelling

• Wrist Rest Under the Keyboard – Thoughts from December 11 to 19, 2022

  

  December 11, 2022 I started writing a skit in my head as I was waking up the other day. The basic premise of it was a guy brought a kid to Bring Your Child to Work Day and his coworker questions whether it is his child. As the dialogue continued in my head, it got…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 20, 2024

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  1999, 2022, absurd, animate, animation, audio recording, Bring a child to work, Bring Your Child to Work Day, cassette tape, distraction, doing stupid things, Ears, Facebook, fun confusion, fun people, goofball, happy life, hello new person routine, keyboards, logic chip, lonely, miserable people, movies, multitasking, my songs, my stuff, new person at work, no time, office, on her mind, Patti, physical object, previously on, relationships, serious people, single people, skit, swipe keyboard, take me too seriously, the incident, thoughts, Thoughts papers, thoughts to schedule, too honest, touch typing, typing with thumbs, visuals, watching movies in sections, wrist rest, wrist rest under the keyboard, writing, wrote in high school, young people

• Bleeding Red – Thoughts from December 7, 2022

  

  On this day back in 1941, Pearl Harbor became a place of infamy. I know regular readers of these Thoughts papers thought they suddenly were reading a historical calendar, but it’s me, Brian. Patti and I have actually been to Pearl Harbor, so it is slightly relevant to me. I mainly mention it because I…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 15, 2024

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  1941, 2022, ashamed, Asian-American citizens, bleeding is a good thing, blood is natural, blue party, Brian, cat parents, cats scratch, color wheel, creating new words, Democrats, dislike color red, five cats, heart shapes, I’m a scratching post, loving your cats, make up words, misspelling, panicking, Patti, Pearl Harbor, positive current, proud of my scars, racism, racisming, racist attacks, red blood, red emergency lights, red party, red text in bible, red wire, remembering history, Republicans, scars, spell checker, stupid around sharp objects, thoughts, Thoughts papers, writing