Tag: 2025

• One’s Self, Avoiding Pecans, and Painting Mishaps – Thoughts from March 27, 2025

  

  March 27, 2025 Here we are again. I’m at the Honda dealer, waiting to get my car serviced. It sounds like I’m waiting for my car outside a brothel, but you need to get your mind out of the gutter. Why you, the future reader of these words, would plant that in my mind, I…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 6, 2026

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  2025, allergy list, allergy to pecans, angled beams on a carport, artist’s steady hand, avoiding using tape on the trim, English, English Composition degree, future problem, grammatical rules, Honda dealer, if ignorance is bliss I’d rather me miserable, ladder height, mixed nuts, not normal on the inside, nut mix, oil-based paint, older house, one’s self, painter’s tape, painting the house, painting trim, painting with a file folder on trim, Patti, peanuts, primer, rain, singular and plural pronouns, singular pronoun one, snacks, soreness in my throat, tape removed paint, they his or her, they is plural, thoughts, two-person job, uncomfortable on ladders

• First Surgery, Allergy Apps, and Drinking the Costco Lemonade – Thoughts from March 23, 2025

  

  There’s so much I haven’t talked about in these Thoughts papers; I don’t know where to begin. The biggest thing going on in my life is being scheduled for my first surgery. On May 22, I will have that first surgery. I am augmenting my nose to be even larger. Actually, I’m getting the polyp…

  Brian Kirwan

  December 30, 2025

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  2025, additives, allergy app, allergy list, allergy restrictions, Costco, Costco membership, eggs, first surgery, granola bars, grocery list, grocery store, interaction with employees, milk, monthly cost, Patti, pecans, polyp on my vocal cord, problem foods, produce, reactivity, Sam's Club, scan and go app, self-check machines, snack foods, study the ingredients, thoughts, Thoughts papers, throat doctor, wheat

• Mini-Vacations, V Day, and New Obsessions – Thoughts from February 16, 2025

  

  Patti and I are back from our mini-vacation and we’re still working on the house. We’re down to painting and fixing some of the trim. It’s going to feel weird when we finish everything. The first day I don’t have to set the alarm to get up on my days off is going to be…

  Brian Kirwan

  December 16, 2025

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  2025, anime action figure, baseball cap, Benihana, cabinets, carpet, cats, concierge level, giant bowl of a drink, giant trash bag filled with stuffed animals, Grand Californian, jam-packed with people, kitchen, leaking water heater, lounge, mini vacation, My Hero Academia, my obsession with the show, Patti, Pixar Place Hotel, rain, rain kept people away, rainy day, renovated, seats by the bar, set the alarm to get up, shopping for Disney stuff, stuff we got on vacation, thoughts, tiling, Valentine's Day, waiting in line, working on the house, yard work

• 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