Tag: distractions

• Going Home, Laundry Day, and Cat Scratches – Thoughts from March 1 and 9, 2024

  

  March 1, 2024 I woke up about 9:00 am and all four of the cats were in bed with me. This was as good a time to get up as any. I looked at my phone and hadn’t heard from Patti. I texted her and told her I was up and to call me when…

  Brian Kirwan

  December 31, 2024

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• Kidney Stones and Vehicle Emblems – Thoughts from August 7 and 13, 2023

  

  August 7, 2023 I started feeling a pain in my lower back. When I noticed it was only on one side, I worried. I had kidney stones once in my life and I vowed never to get them again. A pain in only one side of your lower back is how it begins. The pain…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 30, 2024

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• Easter and My Weird Resting Face – Thoughts from April 9, 2023

  

  Easter is rearing its ugly head today. I keep meaning to look up what it means to Christians so I can make fun of it. Right now is as good a time as any, so I’ll do that right now and get back to you. I’m back. Did you miss me? It is when they…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 2, 2024

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  2023, aging, audio recordings, baby and zombie Jesus, candy, candy and gifts, catering to the live audience, concerts, conversational pauses, dash-cam, distractions, Easter, Easter meaning, electronic music, fictional characters, Germany, getting older, grocery shopping, horrible stories, I don’t like live recordings, I’m a work in progress, ignorance, Jesus story is not kid friendly, kids, kids are pretty stupid, live recordings, lying to kids, my weird resting face, origins of the Easter Bunny, Patti, positive side of a deteriorating body, rabbits delivering eggs, ranting, reality, resurrection version of Easter, Santa Claus, slow song introduction, thoughts, thoughts are inaudible, worse eyesight, YouTube Music

• Falling for April Fools and Multitasking – Thoughts from April 1 and 3, 2023

  

  April 1, 2023 It’s April Fools’ Day! Believe nothing I say today unless it sounds too boring to be a joke. I hooked up my dash-cam to look out at the traffic and inside my car. I like everything about it except how fat it makes me look. It’s capturing the video of me accurately…

  Brian Kirwan

  April 30, 2024

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• Fictional Stories of Belief – Thoughts from July 25, 2022

  

  I had a thought as I was driving to work, and I sent myself a note about it. I will now expound upon it in the storage locker of my thoughts. It continues my previous musing about telling your story. Your beliefs are not part of your story so you should not include them when…

  Brian Kirwan

  November 21, 2023

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