Tag: 2022

• Kidney Stones and Vehicle Emblems – Thoughts from August 7 and 13, 2023

  

  August 7, 2023 I started feeling a pain in my lower back. When I noticed it was only on one side, I worried. I had kidney stones once in my life and I vowed never to get them again. A pain in only one side of your lower back is how it begins. The pain…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 30, 2024

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  2022, 2023, back pain, being distracted by pain, blog, Buick, Cadillac, Chrysler, constant distractions, dash cam videos, dealing with incidents, dehydration, distractions, drinking water, expensive vehicles, idiots on the freeway, ignoring problems, irregular circumstances, kidney stones, looking for problems, out of the ordinary, pain in my lower back, pain scale, Patti, preparing extra water, random subjects, reading, rude drivers, showering at night, showering in the morning, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, Thoughts papers, valuing other people, vehicle emblems, water shut off, water to drink, white river rafting, writing

• Sexist Old Men and Unpleasant Pets – Thoughts from April 30 and May 06, 2023

  

  April 30, 2023 Last day of the month, here we are. I want to start this Thoughts paper with a thought from yesterday. I was in a van of older gentlemen and they started talking about comedians. One of them said he doesn’t like female comedians that speak vulgarly. As part of that, he mentioned…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 16, 2024

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  1970s, 2022, 2023, Amy Schumer, animals, attitudes about women, Bill Cosby, blogging, cats, childhood, comedians, diary entry dribble, Disneyland, dogs, educate yourself, farms, female comedians, female lead, female led comedies, fish, Fritz, fury raging inside me, good behavior, growing up on a farm, hamsters, humor, listening to women, male comedians, male executives, male-centric forms of entertainment, memoirs, minds in the past, old man lead, older gentlemen, period humor, periods, pets, pure breed, questioning things, roosters, sexist men, sports, stored-up thoughts, thoughts, Thoughts paper, ugly, unwritten, vulgar comedians, vulgarity, women are better than men, writing

• Dad’s Backyard Used Car Lot – Thoughts from February 1 and 3, 2023

  

  February 1, 2023 We’re already one month into 2023 and I haven’t mistakenly written 2022 once. I don’t know if that’s even a thing anymore. People used to write checks and other things that required writing out the date, but we hardly have to write anything down these days, let alone the date. I would…

  Brian Kirwan

  April 2, 2024

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  2022, 2023, action films, action films bore me, action movie actors, backyard car lot, car breaking down, car’s dealer, character interactions, chase scenes, cliche dialog, dad, drinking, lost art, multiple schedules, my dad’s used car lot, new cars, non-action films, Patti, people’s handwriting, problem drinking, thoughts, Thoughts papers, trapped by a vacation, violence, writing checks, writing out the date, writing wrong year

• 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

• Five Cats – Thoughts from December 5 and 6, 2022

  

  December 5, 2022 I was telling a group made up of women and one man about our five cats we have right now. The man wasn’t really interested in hearing about cats, but the rest of the group overruled him. I’ve never been told by a female listener that they don’t want to hear about…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 13, 2024

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  2022, angry tirade, boring stories, box of rocks, cat stories, cats, caution tape, Charlie Manson, daughter, dog stories, dogs, dull stories, five cats, good person, Harley Davison, headache, I feel crappy, illogical behavior, local Charlie Manson, loud motorcycle, mobile home park, natural light, not my usual cheerful self, notice on window, outlet for frustration, Patti, police cars, power outage, religious person, thinking thoughts I never say, thoughts, Thoughts papers, tired, walking through the wrong door, waxing poetic, witty banter, writing