Tag: embarrassment

• White Lineage, Personal Planners, and Shoe Racks – Thoughts from July 21, 2024

  

  Yesterday, I was coming into work, and I saw a personalized license plate on a white Ford truck in front of me. I stared at it and figured out the weird combination of letters. It could only be one thing. I couldn’t think of anything else it could be. The license was as close to…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 17, 2025

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  “white lineage”, 2024, acting, birthday, building, built a shoe rack, bumper stickers, collaboration, cordless drill, embarrassment, focusing, Ford truck, happy wife, I need a manager, making doctor’s appointments, music, Patti, personal assistant, personalized license plate, phone calls, planning skills, planning vacations, race cars, racist phrase, rage, recent obsession, speedway bumper sticker, tennis shoes, thickness of the wood, thoughts, vague memory, white lightning, white racists, writing, writing details

• Sweating Nerd Blog – Thoughts from August 14 and 16, 2023

  

  August 14, 2023 Sometimes I start my Thoughts paper with nothing to say. I put in the date and save it as a document, but I have no idea what I’m going to talk about. There are some things I could talk about, but I don’t want to talk about them. I had an idea…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 6, 2024

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  2023, An Atheist’s Day, atheist, blog, broken zipper on my pants, embarrassment, extreme heat, humorous story to tell, kidney stone, Laura Belgray book, loaner pants, my websites, nerdy, nerdy conversations, non-nerds, religious stuff, restroom break, sweating, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, Thoughts paper, website connections, what I’m going to talk about, wipe my sweat, WordPress, writing, you might be a nerd, zipper teeth

• Breaking Plastic Mirrors – Thoughts from May 22 and 25, 2022

  

  May 22, 2022 Someone asked about the term “reality denier” that I use for people who deny basic realities and behave badly because of it. I use it mainly to call out people’s behavior instead of swearing at them and getting angry. It’s not a perfect term so I usually only use it when I’m…

  Brian Kirwan

  October 19, 2023

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