Tag: driving

• Women and Men Walking – Thoughts from October 16, 2022

  

  I was driving into work on the freeway and I saw a large white truck with a flag sticking up in the back of it. From a history of seeing flags sticking up in the back of trucks, I know they write nothing pleasant or encouraging on the flags. Sure enough, they inscribed the words…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 11, 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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• Waiting for Disney – Thoughts from January 6 and March 23, 2010

  

  Future note: The following entry was from an “incident” that happened in November 2009. It was nighttime. A plumber was walking backstage, and I was driving to pick up some people. When I got close to him, I could see him slowing down and looking at me. As I passed him, he screamed, “Five miles…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 15, 2023

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  2009, 2010, a talker, anger management, appeal, awaiting his fate, bruise, Disney, Disneyland, driving, fired, first incident, headlights, incident, incident report, judge, lawyer, leads, let go, meeting, other employee, Patti, plumber, punch, stenographer, suit, thoughts, waiting, Waiting for Disney, yelling

• 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…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 18, 2023

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