Tag: thoughts
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Celebrating Too Much, Censors, and Living Out of Your Car – Thoughts from June 1, 2024
June 1, 2024 Well, June is finally here. It’s not only the time of gloomy weather, but it’s also the time of Patti and Brian’s anniversary. June 14 is less than two weeks away. We didn’t have a vacation set for this time of year, so I decided to take an extra day off work.…
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Non-Smokers, Feminist Punks, and Cassette Recorders – Thoughts from May 28, 2024
Patti is still a non-smoker, but she said she found it rough recently, so she bought a week’s worth of nicotine patches. I have mixed feelings about it. You would think the time to use them would be weaning yourself off the cigarettes. She has been smoke free for weeks now. The physical effects of…
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Mormons, Caffeine, and BFFs – Thoughts from May 22 and 25, 2024
May 22, 2024 Yesterday, a fellow employee retired. He retired from his primary job a while ago and this was his retirement job. Now he’s fully retired from all jobs. Patti is still retired and still not smoking. I never really had a plan for retirement. I will never see myself as a retired person…
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The Mothers, The Beatles, and The Other Bands – Thoughts from May 12 and 19, 2024
May 12, 2024 As I mentioned in my non-existent seminar, it’s Mother’s Day today. Patti and I no longer have living mothers so it’s just a reminder of what’s missing in our lives. We also don’t have living fathers, but we’ll deal with that when we get to Father’s Day. I celebrated the day by…
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Cinco de Mayo, Retirement, and Seeing Cubs – Thoughts from May 5 and 11, 2024
May 5, 2024 As I mentioned yesterday, today is Cinco de Mayo. Someone joked that no one knows what it’s about. I could use my research I did yesterday to inform him that everyone knows it’s about the victory of Mexico over France in 1862. My heart would grow three times larger if he thought…
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The Force, IKEA, and Target – Thoughts from May 4, 2024
The force isn’t a real thing, but May the Fourth is. Star Wars nerds unite on this day to celebrate what’s wrong with the movies and television shows they love. I collect Star Wars things, but I’m not obsessive about it. This is just a day that I point out on the Nerd Mouse calendar…
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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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Through the Door, Not Smoking, and Being a Research Robot – Thoughts from April 21 and 24, 2024
April 21, 2024 Walking through a closed door is a nerve-racking experience. You can usually guess what’s on the other side of it, but all bets are off if there’s a person on the other side. If you’ve had bad experiences with unwanted happenings behind closed doors, you might be anticipating a repeat of that…
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Visiting LAs Art District and My Past – Thoughts from April 20, 2024
Appropriately for today, I will point out the times recently when I have smelled marijuana around me. This, of course, is 420, man. I’ve never smoked … well, anything, but no one I know has ever even smoked marijuana around me. I only know what it smells like because it smells like skunk. This has…
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Vegas from Fremont Street – Thoughts from April 14, 2024
Patti and I went to Vegas for five days and I didn’t write one word while I was there. Many things happened, but I was too busy eating, drinking, and gambling. Now, I’ll try to think back on the days and write about them. The first thing was leaving the cats knowing we wouldn’t be…
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