Tag: dad
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Route 66, Dreams, and Second Breakfast – Thoughts from September 19, 2024
My last morning in the Roswell hotel began with a dream. I was walking up a cluttered stairwell with my mom and a cousin of ours. The cousin and I were kids. My mom was younger and could walk up and down the stairs easily. This was not the reality for my mom, especially in…
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Birth, Falling, and Our Stories – Thoughts from April 27, 2024
The biggest thing that happened today is the birth of our nephew and his wife’s baby boy. I’m really hoping I can reword that first sentence when I edit this Thoughts paper. Now that I’ve mentioned wanting to edit it, I’ll have to leave it as it is so you can see what I’m talking…
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Anger at Idiots and Fix-it Jobs – Thoughts from February 27, 2024
I need cheering up. The past few days have been a series of events that have pushed me into angry guy territory. I have either yelled at people directly or secretly to myself. The world is pissing me off more than it has in years. It’s nothing new that’s getting me angry. The things that…
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Thinking About Quest – Thoughts from July 16, 2023
I’ve become the guy who brings down the room by talking about Quest going blind. I can’t really talk about anything else because it’s the only thing on my mind. She just turned thirteen years old and I don’t know if she’s going to make it to fourteen. I tell people her age and they…
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Dad’s Backyard Used Car Lot – Thoughts from February 1 and 3, 2023
February 1, 2023 We’re already one month into 2023 and I haven’t mistakenly written 2022 once. I don’t know if that’s even a thing anymore. People used to write checks and other things that required writing out the date, but we hardly have to write anything down these days, let alone the date. I would…
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Space Alien – Thoughts from May 3 and 4, 2033
May 3, 2022 I’m listening to a book that is an oral history of The Next Generation and subsequent Star Trek shows. They talked about Deep Space 9 which I never watched. Hearing a description of the show, I don’t think I’ll ever watch it. They talked about spirituality being a part of it, which…
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Mom’s Final Days – Thoughts from November 20, 2013
(Future note: This was written about my mom’s final days. Her last day alive was on November 20, 2013, so that is the date of this Thoughts paper. Despite the sad subject, there were amusing and surreal happenings going on.) My mom had multiple sclerosis for many years. Near the end of her life, she…
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Brian Explains Hoarding – Thoughts from December 10, 2010
Brian Explains: Hoarding If you haven’t seen any of the shows about hoarding, you owe it to yourself to watch one. The basic premise of every show is that the person who the show is about cannot let go of things. “Things” include both physical and emotional things. It is the emotional baggage that compels…
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Working with Anxiety – Thoughts from October 19, 2004
Well, it’s been a while, but I’m back. Back in time, back to the Assessor’s office, and back to being clueless about what I’m doing with my life. Back to being scheduled every minute of the day, and back to that anxious feeling in the pit of my stomach for much of the day. Most…
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Eye Twitching Holidays – Thoughts from November 17 to December 18, 2003
November 17, 2003 My system had a minor crash again. I had worked on a song (a sad song), and it suddenly wouldn’t let me logon to Windows. After much ado, it’s back, but I’ve been saving all my songs in multiple locations – which I should have done before, but at least I’m doing…
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