Tag: books

• 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

• Sitcom Decisions and Nostalgic Nerds – Thoughts from March 18 and 22, 2023

  

  March 18, 2023 I was thinking today about making sitcom decisions. Sitcom decisions mainly use lies to avoid making actual decisions. Lying to your spouse about doing something you forgot to do is a sitcom decision. Characters make decisions in sitcoms purely for comedic purposes. Sitcoms have taught us dangerous and absurd life lessons that…

  Brian Kirwan

  April 18, 2024

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  2023, accepting realities, adding tags to articles, anti-religious, avoid making decisions, behavior, books, calling out, characters, comedic purposes, comedy, Comp USA, covering something up, David Sedaris books, entertaining nerds, fellow nerds, funny, hilarious, humor, learning from failures, lies, life lessons, literary agents, lying to your spouse, making the same mistakes, nostalgia, nostalgic nerds, Patti, query letter, quirky personality, rain, raining heavily, Reality Acceptance, selling books, sitcom decisions, sitcoms, stupid decisions, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, unhappy marriage, weird observations, wet freeways, work, writing

• Fighting Brothers – Thoughts from August 15 and 16, 2022

  

  August 15, 2022 Yesterday, I kept getting interrupted by work. I only had one thought. Actually, I had many thoughts, but I only had time to write one of them. Today is a whole new story. I should be able to think my brains out and write most of them. I have plenty of sit…

  Brian Kirwan

  December 12, 2023

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