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• Continued Remodeling, No Kings, and Outside Cats – Thoughts from October 19, 2025 – Part 2

  

  This is part two of my article from October 19, but you know that from reading the title. When I was last blathering on about Patti’s kitchen remodel, I talked about nature’s body glue. Actually, it was about a cracked cabinet that we had to return. Because we had to return it, I couldn’t build…

  Brian Kirwan

  March 17, 2026

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• Kitchen Remodel, New Tools, and Outside Cats – Thoughts from August 23, 2025

  

  I had my appointment to check on my throat after my surgery to remove the polyp on my vocal cord. I knew it didn’t feel like it used to years ago. Seeing the image the doctor took with the camera down my throat was disappointing. The polyp was smaller than the last image before the…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 24, 2026

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• Senior Birthdays, Cats, and Alcohol – Thoughts from July 2, 2025

  

  This is the day of my birth. I’m 55 years old today. In many places, I can now get a senior discount. Patti and I are both seniors. I’m not normally off on Wednesdays, but I took off this birthday Wednesday. As with every time I got to choose what to do for my birthday,…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 17, 2026

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• Route 66, Hotels, and Donkeys – Thoughts from September 15 and 16, 2024

  

  September 15, 2024 Today is not only Patti’s birthday, but it is the beginning of our Route 66 trip. We’re driving to various locations in Arizona and New Mexico. After we hit Roswell, we head back to California. We finished packing last night. I’m not sure I have enough clothes for the return trip, but…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 19, 2025

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  2024, American diet, Arizona, birthday, Brooklyn 99, California, complimentary breakfast, donkey food, donkey-related merchandise, donkeys by name, earplugs, eating out of your hand, eye mask, free-roaming donkeys, gas prices, giant guitar, Glenn Frey, hand sanitizer, Holbrook, homemade hummus, Lake Havasu, loud air conditioner, Netflix, New Mexico, normal breakfast, Oatman Arizona, old western town, on the corner, Patti, podcasts, pushy donkeys, regular metal key, Roswell, Route 66, Route 66 memorabilia, Route 66 trip, small hotel room, Take It Easy by the Eagles, taking pictures, tepee-shaped hotel, thoughts, TV volume, vacation breakfast, Winslow Arizona, YouTube

• Politics and Route 66 Trips – Thoughts from August 4, 2024

  

  August 4, 2024 This is going to be a different kind of Thoughts paper. These might look like the regular words I use, but don’t be fooled. I’m writing them under a change tree. What’s a change tree? It’s the tree of change, of course. I’ve never been a fan of change. It always comes…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 8, 2025

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• White Lineage, Personal Planners, and Shoe Racks – Thoughts from July 21, 2024

  

  Yesterday, I was coming into work, and I saw a personalized license plate on a white Ford truck in front of me. I stared at it and figured out the weird combination of letters. It could only be one thing. I couldn’t think of anything else it could be. The license was as close to…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 17, 2025

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• Ignoring Facts, Wearing Glasses, and Movie Cliches – Thoughts from September 9 to 16, 2023

  

  September 9, 2023 I figured out what my greatest skill is. I can listen to someone spewing facts at me and ignore them all. Facts don’t stay in my brain, so I ignore most of them. When I hear the other person express an opinion based on the facts, that’s when I listen. People who…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 27, 2024

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• Explosive Birthday Aftermath – Thoughts from July 2 and 4, 2023

  

  July 2, 2023 As birthdays go, this is one of the most recent ones. That’s right, I’m the big five three today. Because I exhausted all my vacation time in Jamaica, I couldn’t take today off. I’m at work, but it’s not so bad. My place of work is where people come on their vacations.…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 20, 2024

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  2023, awkward place to sleep, battle cry of hate, battles, birthday, cat poo, Christian Americans, explosions, fighting foreigners, fireworks, fireworks around our house, God doesn’t exist, gross things, hading pets, hate, hateful American crowds, hating non-Americans, illegal fireworks, Jamaica, July 4th, learn their lesson, litter box, loud noises, miserable complainer, old cat, paws slipping, poo, poo in the crevices, pyro, pyrotechnic hate rallies, Quest, racist sexist homophobic and hateful people, scaring pets, scaring the cats, sleeping on the printer, social butterfly, the smell of poo, thoughts, Thoughts papers, towel on the printer, violence

• Falling for April Fools and Multitasking – Thoughts from April 1 and 3, 2023

  

  April 1, 2023 It’s April Fools’ Day! Believe nothing I say today unless it sounds too boring to be a joke. I hooked up my dash-cam to look out at the traffic and inside my car. I like everything about it except how fat it makes me look. It’s capturing the video of me accurately…

  Brian Kirwan

  April 30, 2024

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• Vegas Hotel – Thoughts from September 14 and 15, 2022

  

  September 14, 2022 Patti is in the middle of trying to watch TV with no power. It’s 10:40 pm, and the power has been out since about 9:00 pm. This is a planned outage, so it hopefully won’t be out until the estimated 5:00 AM time. I showed Patti how to tether her phone with…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 2, 2024

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