Tag: California

• Route 66, the Bagdad Cafe, and Tourists – Thoughts from September 21, 2024 – Last Day Part 1

  

  Patti and I woke up for the last time in our hotel room in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Tonight, we would be home and sleep in our own bed. The end of our vacation was hours and not days away. We drive back today but we still have a few more places to visit. The…

  Brian Kirwan

  September 30, 2025

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• Route 66, Alien Cats, and Donuts – Thoughts from September 18, 2024 – Roswell Part 2

  

  We bought several alien and Roswell-related things from the various shops we traveled through. The best one was an alien ship driven by an alien cat who is attempting to beam up a mouse. There were several other things I wanted to get, but I’m realizing I have too much stuff from past vacations, so…

  Brian Kirwan

  September 9, 2025

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• Route 66, Aliens, and Spacewalks – Thoughts from September 18, 2024 – Roswell Part 1

  

  Patti and I woke up in Roswell, New Mexico. This was the location she was most excited about visiting. We would be here two nights. She didn’t plan it this way, but we needed another day just to make up for arriving so late on the first night. At 3:00 pm, we were visiting the…

  Brian Kirwan

  September 2, 2025

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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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• 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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• Fantasy, Reality, and the Unreal – Thoughts from July 12 and 15, 2023

  

  July 12, 2023 Listen up, people. I’ve got something to say. Just kidding. If I had something to say, I would just say it. I don’t like it when people introduce what they’re going to say. Patti does this quite often. She says, “I’m going to tell you something, but you have to promise not…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 27, 2024

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• Laughing at Conservatives – Thoughts from February 26, 2023

  

  This happened at the beginning of February, but I thought I’d talk about it before February runs out. Patti and I were grocery shopping and an older gentleman was walking around with a blazer on making him look like a professor at a college. For all I know, he was. As he walked by us,…

  Brian Kirwan

  April 9, 2024

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• November 3, 1992 – Journal Assignment 1

  

  This journal entry comes from a Psychology 115 class I had in college. I mixed it in with my Thoughts papers because it represents my only written thoughts from 1992. Each week, we were asked to write about specific aspects of our lives. For that reason, this is probably my most organized series of thoughts.…

  Brian Kirwan

  December 8, 2022

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