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• New Year, Cassette Repairs, and Cats Living Together – Thoughts from January 5, 2026

  

  This is my first entry for 2026. After screwing up and writing 2025, I wrote 2026 for the first time this year. I thought about it the other day and figured out I don’t have many opportunities to write the year anywhere. These entries are one of the last places I write out the whole…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 23, 2026

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  2025, 2026, 8-track ADAT audio tracks, ADAT cassette, Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, Archie, cassette tape, cats were freaking out, champagne, CNN, commercials, countdown started, digital tape, done working in my office, drinking throughout the night, fit of laughter, Hulu, illegal fireworks, karma, lip sinking to songs, live TV, living in the same house together, meow-screams, mid-90s, nerd talk, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Eve with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen, Patti, putting it back together, regular TV, signing something, taking apart a cassette, thoughts, tiny parts, toast the New Year, too much noise, VHS tapes, writing the year, YouTube

• Celebrating Too Much, Censors, and Living Out of Your Car – Thoughts from June 1, 2024

  

  June 1, 2024 Well, June is finally here. It’s not only the time of gloomy weather, but it’s also the time of Patti and Brian’s anniversary. June 14 is less than two weeks away. We didn’t have a vacation set for this time of year, so I decided to take an extra day off work.…

  Brian Kirwan

  April 1, 2025

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  2024, Aldi, autobiography, before VCRs, boycotting shows, Brian, censors, chocolate lasagna, Christian fundamentalists, commercials, dessert, gaining weight, going out, June gloom, living out of the car, mini vacation, network executives, Norman Lear, Olive Garden, Patti, Patti and Brian’s Anniversary, racism, real people, religion ruins everything, retired, retirement payment, sexism, shrimp scampi, Streaming services, SUV full of stuff, thoughts, tiramisu, tuning in to watch TV, TV, VCR