Tag: Thoughts from Life

• Stealing Archie’s Food, Relocating Animals, and Happy Endings – Thoughts from December 9, 2025

  

  This Thoughts from Life is going to take us into the lives of five cats. Four of the cats are indoor cats and one is an outdoor cat. The inside cats are Scout, Willow, Luna, and Beatrix. Scout is the mom of the other three. They are all female cats. The outside cat is Archie.…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 26, 2026

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  2025, after living happily ever after, animal control, animal stealing Archie’s food, Archie, author created world, autobiographies, backyard animals, Beatrix, belief in supernatural happenings, déjà vu, fantasy stories, fate, five cats, friendships, grammar checker, I keep it random, indoor cats, keep myself interested, lazy writing, live happily ever after, Luna, my story writing, non-believer, nothing is predestined, opossums, outdoor cats, Patti, pest control, raccoon, raccoons carry rabies, religious concepts, relocating, relocating raccoons, relocating raccoons is illegal, romantic concept, Scout, sups, the problem will solve itself, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, vocal orange cat, wet cat food, whatever happens will be the solution, wild animals, Willow

• Avoiding Wheat, Error Code 9, and Nerdy Audio Discussions – Thoughts from December 3, 2025

  

  Patti and I went to Thanksgiving at her nephew’s house. None of her older sisters were there, so the day was incident free. The only thing I avoided eating was the stuffing because of the wheat. Patti made it from a mix and said I wasn’t missing much. The new baby is walking around now…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 5, 2026

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  2025, 26 screws, 8 tracks, ADAT machine, audio cables, audio interface, audio meters rising, audio tracks into the computer, avoiding wheat, boring holidays, brilliant idea, digital audio, easy holidays, error code 9, finishing leftovers, leftovers, nerdy audio discussion, new baby, Patti, shy baby, simple discussions, stuffing from a mix, syncing machines, tape playing mechanism, Thanksgiving, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, transferring audio to the computer, transport belt, tricking the machine into working, VCR tapes, weird restroom habits, XLR audio cables

• Playing with Mice, the Mean Streets, and Infections – Thought from November 11, 2025

  

  Full disclosure, I wrote this on a different day, but 11/11 is such a cool day. It was at least around this day when these things happened. I could have just said nothing about my rearranging of time, but I like to keep these Thoughts from Life interactive. If I’m fully disclosing everything, I should…

  Brian Kirwan

  April 21, 2026

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  11/11, 2025, 2026, Archie, Archie’s game, being cruel to the mouse, cat acting like a cat, cat bite, cats, cats from the mean streets, chasing a mouse, chewing on the mouse, distracted by us watching, doing what cats do, drawing blood, four cats, healing slowly, holding a mouse in his mouth, infection from cat bite, infection from the mouse, keeping physically active, large red mark on her arm, losing the mouse, mouse catch, mouser, mousing capabilities, outside cat, Patti, Patti’s health, physical activity, playing with a mouse, playing with a real mouse, retirement, scars for weeks, Scout, staying healthy, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, written by artificial intelligence

• Time Changes and World Champions – Thoughts from November 2, 2025

  

  We just had the time change where we gain an hour, but my body is still acting like I got less sleep. Patti said it’s seasonal affective disorder. I think my body is rebelling against the stupid time change that needs to go away. Hopefully, future readers of Thoughts from Life will look back on…

  Brian Kirwan

  April 7, 2026

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  “their” team, 2025, 2025 World Series champions, avoiding facts, bored by sports facts, cheering at TV, congratulations, declaring me a jinx, Dodgers, eleventh inning, facing away from TV, flying cars, forbidden to watch, future reader, I don’t like sports, interrupt the story with facts, my future reader, no facts declaration, Patti, scaring the cats, seasonal affective disorder, slapping Chris Rock, sports blah blah, talk about a movie you like, talking about films, the other team, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, time change, too many facts, Will Smith, World Series, yelling at TV

• My Fantastical Reality – Thoughts from August 12, 2024

  

  This Thursday, August 15, is my appointment to see a throat specialist. I mostly just want to find out what is wrong with my throat. After that, I want to find out what they can do to fix it. I’ve been experimenting with different toothpastes to see if they could be irritating my throat. My…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 15, 2025

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  2024, acting properly, acting rude, Alice in Wonderland, anti-hero, boring story, characters, contrariwise, Disney version, doctor appointment, fantastical things happen, fantasy stories, griffins, history teachers, how magic works, magic and magical creatures, magic is reality, magical creatures evolution, metaphors, new to this world, rules of your universe, science fiction, slapping together existing animals, stories, stuck-up English girl, the reality of the story, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, throat problem, throat specialist, whitening toothpaste, writing

• Writing Thoughts and Me – Thoughts from July 8 to 14, 2024

  

  July 8, 2024 There’s been a rumor that this is my last Thoughts paper. I just want to state for the record that I still have thoughts I write down and I don’t see an end to them anytime soon. Who started the rumor is not important. Why they started the rumor is more relevant…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 3, 2025

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  2024, autobiagraphy, average height, average looks, average white man, big nose, blind without glasses, camera down my throat, curious what authors look like, deaf dumb and blind kid, deaf in one ear, ears stick out, graying hair, inner thoughts, interesting paragraphs, laughing at my flesh, life experience, living in the past, meeting expectations, midlife, motives, my surface level self, near sighted, outer appearance, paragraphs, Patti, Pete Townsend, point of living, product of the times, questioning your purpose, reading, receding hair, Roger Daltrey, rumor free, rumors, sentences, shampoo with dye, sore throat, The Who, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, Thoughts paper, throat cancer, throat problems, throat specialist, unprecedented times, wearing glasses, weight, Wordscapes, writing, you can only live in the present

• Restrooms, Dirty Cars, and Lessons on Lying – Thoughts from August 30 and September 3, 2023

  

  August 30, 2023 And now for my favorite way to start a TfL paper. No, I didn’t have a stroke while typing. I’m trying out a shortened version of Thoughts from Life. Don’t worry. You probably won’t ever see it again. Oh yeah, I haven’t even told you what is my favorite way to start…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 20, 2024

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  100+ temperatures, 2023, ABDS (always be doing something, acting like a weirdo in the restroom, being a good person, bringing a magazine into the restroom, clearly stated sin, constant sore throat, dad was homosexual, dusty car interior, ethical lessons, favorite way to start, forgiving any sin, group discriminating against members, hard time peeing, Irish Catholic, just sitting on the toilet, making up sins, missing information, Molly Shannon, next paragraph, on the phone on the toilet, power cleaning on my car, religion as identity, religious thinking, restroom, restroom behavior, shy in the restroom, sitting on the toilet doing nothing, sniffing in a stall, stealing, sweating, teaching young people to lie, TfL, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, untouched grossness, urinal, weirdos

• 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

• 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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  2022, 2023, back pain, being distracted by pain, blog, Buick, Cadillac, Chrysler, constant distractions, dash cam videos, dealing with incidents, dehydration, distractions, drinking water, expensive vehicles, idiots on the freeway, ignoring problems, irregular circumstances, kidney stones, looking for problems, out of the ordinary, pain in my lower back, pain scale, Patti, preparing extra water, random subjects, reading, rude drivers, showering at night, showering in the morning, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, Thoughts papers, valuing other people, vehicle emblems, water shut off, water to drink, white river rafting, writing

• New People, Laundry, and Insecurities – Thoughts from August 5 and 6, 2023

  

  August 5, 2023 When I meet someone new at work, I try to find out work related things first and then move on to their interests. No one completely loses me with their interests, but I find myself less enthused about what some people find interesting. Sports is one of those things. Many people assume…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 25, 2024

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  2023, atheism, baseball fan, behind-the-scenes, being an atheist, blog, Brian Kirwan, difficult discussions, dislikes reveal insecurities, emotional distress, ethical problems, fake smiles, fears and emotional state, flaws are interesting, forwarding to Facebook, highly cultivated version of the world, interests, laundry night, lyrics, meet someone new, Patti, people hide interesting parts, perfect people are boring, perfection doesn’t exist, presenting your fake life, religion, religious discussions, religious phrases, religious symbols, songs are good despite their lyrics, sports, sports conversations, subjects of songs, texting, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, Thoughts paper, Thoughts papers, waiting on the towels, wife, WordPress postings