Tag: cats

• 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

• Christmas, Cats, and a New Cat Tree – Thoughts from December 25, 2024

  

  Just as Christmas Eve was mainly about our niece and nephew’s new baby, Christmas Day was about Scout and her three kittens. Actually, it’s about Scout and her only slightly younger than her adult cats. Until next July, Scout is four and Beatrix, Luna, and Willow are three. Beatrix is about the same size as…

  Brian Kirwan

  November 25, 2025

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  2024, Beatrix, big cats, Blaze, boxes, building cat tree, can’t handle their own weight, cat dad, cats, cats had destroyed it, Christmas Day, covered in sweat, custom Funko Pop!, disassembly, followed instructions step by step, four cats in one house, Funko, Funko characters, House of Cat, Luna, new cat tree, old cat tree, other pets, Patti, piles of stuff, pink cat tree, pink house, presents, Quest, regulate cats food, Scout, Scout’s boys, season for cat trees, Slash, sturdiness, supervising cats, thoughts, time to get used to, toys, Willow, wish list, wrapping paper

• Route 66, Peggy Sue’s Diner, and Home with the Cats – Thoughts from September 21, 2024 – Last Day Part 2

  

  Now that we knew the Bagdad Café didn’t have food, we had to pick a new place to eat. I asked, “Aren’t we driving by Peggy Sue’s Diner? We could eat there.” Patti said we were, so we did. We arrived at about 4:30 pm at Peggy Sue’s 50s Diner in Yermo, California. This was…

  Brian Kirwan

  October 7, 2025

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  2024, 50s attire, Bagdad Cafe, ball-shaped tiger, baseball with feet, baseballs, big-eyed monkey, cats, cats sniffing everything, curiosity and fear, Eddie World, fridge magnets, fried chicken, fried food, gift shop, ice cream sundae tower, Javin slow loris, mannequins, missing home, must-have plushes, not a food-critic blog, Patti, Peggy Sue’s 50s Diner, Peggy Sue’s Diner, pictures from the trip, plushes, post vacation, purple dragon, restroom, self-control, shot glasses, Sit whereever you like, sitting with cats, Southern fried chicken, souvenirs, stuffed animal addiction, stuffed animals, stuffed cowboy at a fake urinal, thoughts, vacation Brian, Yermo California

• Loud Laughter, Ugliness, and Cat Fur – Thoughts from July 23 to 27, 2024

  

  July 23, 2024 There was a group of people who were talking about 100 feet from me. One member of the group had a laugh he bellowed several times which I could hear from where I was. Eventually, the entire group erupted into laughter at an equal volume to the bellower. Some people enjoy being…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 1, 2025

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  2024, bad ear, being allergic to cats, bellowing, blocking fur, cat allergy, cat fur, cats, cool numbers, day matches the year, disgust, fictional beings, four cats, good ear, group discussions, group insults, group topics, groups of people, Halloween candy, Halloween decorations, Halloween season, hearing aids, hearing test, humidifier, I thank myself for being weird, loud laughter, loud leaders, loud noises hurt my ear, mono hearing, parties, Patti, proper descriptions, scientific chart of ugliness, summer season, take a mental picture, the cats, the end of summer, thoughts, ugliness, ugly, ugly has no scale, ugly things don’t exist, unattractive things, wearing masks at night, weird squirrels

• Being Tired, Poop Schedules, and Genuine Friendships – Thoughts from June 4 and 8, 2024

  

  June 4, 2024 This is one of those entries that most people wouldn’t start. If you have nothing to write about, why would you start writing? I’m at the point that many people would call writer’s block. That doesn’t stop me. It just means you have nothing structured to write about, but there’s always a…

  Brian Kirwan

  April 22, 2025

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  2024, being tired, best man, breathing cat hair, casual and informal friends, cats, close friends, deep discussions, earplugs, eye mask, Facebook, follow-up questions, friends, genuine friends, getting married, Good friends talk about poop, Nerd Mouse calendar, normal questions, Patti, poop questions, poop schedule, poop schedule discussion, profound thought, Sebastian Bach autobiography, sore throat, spouses, surface level descussions, thoughts, tired, typing, wearing two masks to bed, weird questions, writer’s block, writing

• Cinco de Mayo, Retirement, and Seeing Cubs – Thoughts from May 5 and 11, 2024

  

  May 5, 2024 As I mentioned yesterday, today is Cinco de Mayo. Someone joked that no one knows what it’s about. I could use my research I did yesterday to inform him that everyone knows it’s about the victory of Mexico over France in 1862. My heart would grow three times larger if he thought…

  Brian Kirwan

  March 4, 2025

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  1862, 2024, additional destinations, babies, baby boy, cats, Cinco de Mayo, clever, cold water, disgusted by fast food, enjoying vacuuming, extra errands, falling, freaking out the cats, humor, just watching me, knowing stuff, knowledge off the top of my head, nephew, non-refrigerated water, not eating, Patti, pizza eating, research, retirement, retiring, roasting people, sleeping baby, The Lion King, thoughts, Thoughts paper, tiger cubs, tiger documentary, tigers, tigers hunt kill and eat, trimming bushes, tv shows, vacuuming, Walmart, watch tv, workshopping ideas, writing, writing in retirement card

• Through the Door, Not Smoking, and Being a Research Robot – Thoughts from April 21 and 24, 2024

  

  April 21, 2024 Walking through a closed door is a nerve-racking experience. You can usually guess what’s on the other side of it, but all bets are off if there’s a person on the other side. If you’ve had bad experiences with unwanted happenings behind closed doors, you might be anticipating a repeat of that…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 11, 2025

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  2024, anxiety evoking, behind closed doors, being rude, call instead of research, calling with a question, cats, fashionable people, fashionable shirts, Google, listening to a book, looking stylish, minimal amount of effort, no cigarettes, not smoking, Patti, personal research robot, reading what you type, restroom doors, restroom sights sounds and smells, robot me, shirt without buttons, something they could have answered themselves, text puzzle, the unknown, thoughts, unnecessary fashion accessories, utilitarian clothes, walk around with computers on us, walking through a closed door, wedding ring

• Vegas from Fremont Street – Thoughts from April 14, 2024

  

  Patti and I went to Vegas for five days and I didn’t write one word while I was there. Many things happened, but I was too busy eating, drinking, and gambling. Now, I’ll try to think back on the days and write about them. The first thing was leaving the cats knowing we wouldn’t be…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 28, 2025

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  2024, buffet, carpool raffle, cats, comedians, daily routine with cats, demanding a wheelchair, drag show, driving to Vegas, eating drinking and gambling, falling asleep, forgetting drivers license, Fremont Street, going to puke, half-naked people, Handsome podcast, Las Vegas, lesbians, liberal views, licking my hair, Long Island iced teas, loudspeakers, older server, oldest hotel in Vegas, Patti, people screaming, players club card, pure alcohol, several drinks past the limit, slurring words, smell of marjuana, stretching, themed slot machine, thoughts, Tig Notaro, truly big money, vacations, Vegas, Vegas at night, winning big money, writing, young women dancing on the bar

• Preparing for Vegas – Thoughts from April 6, 2024

  

  Patti and I drive out tomorrow to Las Vegas. She wants to leave the house at 11:00 am. You may consider that barely in the morning, but it’s what time I woke up this morning. I set the clock for 9:00 am so I can do some of my morning stuff. Yes, two hours is…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 21, 2025

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  2024, avoiding sweets, buffet, cats, cigarettes a day, cleaning litter boxes, cutting down smoking, drowning in the chocolate river, encouragement, entertaining thoughts, feeding cats, gaining weight, give away our room, hiding cats, Las Vegas, lost part of her sight, Patti, petting the cats, quit smoking, regular morning stuff, smoking less, thoughts, Thoughts papers, too drunk, vegan diet, Vegas trip, watching the cats, Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, writing on vacation