Tag: audiobooks

• Fires, Professor Sprout, and the NME Charts – Thoughts from September 7 and 8, 2024

  

  September 7, 2024 There are flames in the hills near our house. Only a freeway separates our house from the evacuation area. Patti is home and freaking out. She can still see the flames from our house. My sixth-grade teacher showed a picture from his front yard of the smoke billowing up as if from…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 12, 2025

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  2020, 2023, 2024, 83 years old, A-holes on the freeway, artsy songs, audiobooks, being a lesbian, being Jewish, British artists, distraction, documentary, Duran Duran, evacuation area, expectations of the world, expecting each day to be the same, fear of thunder, few filters, fires, Harry Potter, liberally opinionated, living alone, magazine from the UK, Miriam Gargolyes, negative or positive opinions, new music, New Musical Express, NME charts, no belief in God, Patti, Pixies, problems to solve, Professor Spout, radio listening, rare events, refusing to leave, seeing flames from our house, Simon Le Bon, sing along with songs, smoke billowing up, songs in stereo, swearing, thoughts, throat problems, thunderstorms, top 100 albums of all time, Velvet Underground

• Traveling the World, Autobiographies, and Revisionist History – Thoughts from June 26 and 30, 2024

  

  June 26, 2024 Do I regret not living in a dorm, traveling the world, or living more adventurously when I was young? The rest of this Thoughts paper will explain my answer. Why am I asking this philosophical question about my possible regrets? It began when I was listening to Rebel Wilson’s autobiography. She talked…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 20, 2025

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  2024, audiobooks, autobiography, being a good person, being an interesting person, being rich and famous, believing in supernatural things, California, caring about other people, coincidence, college, destiny, foreign laguages, foreigner in my own land, getting philosophical and spiritual, growing up in a small city, justifying your beliefs, living in a dorm, living outside the US, love at first sight, mono hearing, multicultural, Patti, Paul Stanley, private school, public school, Rebel Wilson, regrets, religious beliefs, religious words, revisionist history, spiritual equals religious, temporary relationships, thinking independently, thoughts, Thoughts paper, traveling the world, weird shy kid, world traveling, you can’t change the past

• Doctors, Dining, and Anniversaring – Thoughts from June 16, 2024

  

  Today, I will start by going back in time. It’s June 14 and we’re out of the house before noon. The main reason that Patti and I are walking around outside in the morning was because Patti wanted to go out to breakfast for our anniversary. Before we did that, I needed to go to…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 6, 2025

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  2024, Amazon lady, Anniversaring, audiobooks, BBC shows, breakfast at noon, Brian and Patti’s Anniversary, coffee, day of debauchery, doctor’s office, drinking water, drug testing, exchanging gifts, fasting, getting blood taken, going to breakfast, June 14, lab testing, leaving urine sample, my bad ear side, my regular breakfast, non-workday, not understanding basic things, parking away from the sun, Patti, Redlands, Richard Ayoade, Super Sushi, sushi, taking blood, The IT Crowd, thoughts, waiting room, wedding anniversary, wireless over ear headphones, YouTube

• Mormons, Caffeine, and BFFs – Thoughts from May 22 and 25, 2024

  

  May 22, 2024 Yesterday, a fellow employee retired. He retired from his primary job a while ago and this was his retirement job. Now he’s fully retired from all jobs. Patti is still retired and still not smoking. I never really had a plan for retirement. I will never see myself as a retired person…

  Brian Kirwan

  March 18, 2025

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  2024, addiction, alcoholics, audiobooks, BFF, BFFs, blind spot, books, caffeinated soda, Caffeine, cancer, Church of Lies, create and edit, creating things, develop ideas, diet soda, FLDS Mormon church, Flora Jessop, get away from religion, getting enough sleep, getting healthy, horrible behavior, husband should not be your best friend, leaving religious thinking, modern fantasy, Mormons, Mormonsixm, never be retired, non-smoker, not a fan of religion, opposite work schedules, patriarchy, Patti, polygamist community, quitting smoking, retired, retirement job, routine, Santa, science fiction, taking health seriously, thoughts, Thoughts paper

• Anger at Idiots and Fix-it Jobs – Thoughts from February 27, 2024

  

  I need cheering up. The past few days have been a series of events that have pushed me into angry guy territory. I have either yelled at people directly or secretly to myself. The world is pissing me off more than it has in years. It’s nothing new that’s getting me angry. The things that…

  Brian Kirwan

  December 17, 2024

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  2024, A-holes, aesthetically pleasant, angry guy, angst, annoying people, audiobooks, being a good person, caring about other people, creating things, dad, dad’s fix-it jobs, disturbing cough, feeling like a freak, fix-it jobs, getting older, having a clean house, idiots, illness, illogical and unethical behavior, mowing the lawn, not creating things at home, Other People Exist, Patti, people ignoring others, siding fix-it job, silence is my enemy, snot, sore throat, they annoy me, thoughts, vacuuming, wanting more, wasting time, working around the house, yelling at people