Tag: vacation
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Politics and Route 66 Trips – Thoughts from August 4, 2024
August 4, 2024 This is going to be a different kind of Thoughts paper. These might look like the regular words I use, but don’t be fooled. I’m writing them under a change tree. What’s a change tree? It’s the tree of change, of course. I’ve never been a fan of change. It always comes…
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American Disfunctional Family – Thoughts from June 25 and 30, 2023
June 25, 2023 I’ve been back to work for two days now. I’m still feeling tired, itchy, puffy, and not quite back to normal. The one thing I didn’t miss while on vacation was my difficulty breathing at home. In bed, my office, and while watching TV, I’m surrounded by fur in the form of…
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Goodbye Jamaica, Hello Miami Airport – Thoughts from June 21 and 22, 2023
June 21, 2023 Our last day here in Jamaica is here. We got up at 7:00 this morning. Tonight, we have to be in bed by 8:00 pm because we have to wake up at 4:00 am tomorrow. We have to have our luggage outside our room by 5:30 am and be out of our…
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Jamaican Dreams, Crackers, and Endings – Thoughts from June 19 and 20, 2023
June 19, 2023 As I woke up in Jamaica this morning, I remembered two dreams. They seemed like one long dream, but I realized they were two separate dreams. The best titles for them would be Lazy Zombies and Flying Hamster Friend. I wrote them down so I could eventually develop them as stories. Perhaps…
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Our Hermit Crab, Peacock, and Rooster Friends – Thoughts from June 16 to 18, 2023
June 16, 2023 It’s Friday and I think we all know what that means. Usually, it means grocery shopping at home, but today it’s vacation shopping. Patti is looking for a bag for the cat sitter and guardian of our girls while we’re here in paradise. We lost water this morning before we could shower.…
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Jamaica, Here We Come – Thoughts from June 11 and 12, 2023
June 11, 2023 Here we sit in the LAX airport. It’s about 9:30 pm and our flight is at about 11:30 pm. Who is this “we” you speak of? This might be your question if this is your first ever Thoughts paper you’ve read from this Brian guy. Brian is one of the we and…
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Vacation PTSD and Loud Nerds – Thoughts from May 14 and 15, 2023
May 14, 2023 I’m tired and cranky. It’s Mother’s Day, but that’s not why I’m cranky. Patti’s mom and my mom are no longer alive. It’s my life that’s feeling more and more out of control. Patti makes decisions for me, my work makes decisions, and time doesn’t allow me to make more than a…
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Disposable Wipes and Freeway Rants – Thoughts from April 12, 2023
I haven’t talked about my toilet habits in a while, so let’s do that. At home, I’ve been using disposable wipes. I use two disposable wipes and much less toilet paper. In this way, I’m single handedly saving the environment. Okay, enough with the jokes. They simply get me cleaner sooner than toilet paper alone.…
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Waiting at the Airport – Thoughts from February 16 to 25, 2023
February 16, 2023 Well, here we are at the airport. I intended to write during our vacation, but didn’t. We are currently waiting for a flight that got delayed twice and is still four and a half hours from now. At least this flight didn’t get degraded like our flight coming to Florida. The worse…
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Covid-19 – Thoughts from May 30 and June 23, 2022
May 30, 2022 Today started out crappy. I got a negative comment about the book The New Jim Crow about how racism has changed since the days of Jim Crow laws, but it still exists. The comment simply said, “ridiculous.” It was from an older man with Air Force on his baseball cap. Originally, I…
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