Tag: vacation

• Jamaica – Thoughts from February 19, 2019

  

  I’m in Jamaica on vacation. Specifically, I’m up at 4:00 AM on the balcony of our room eating nuts because I didn’t have anything to eat before I went to bed. At home, I have beans and rice before I go to bed and that keeps me full all night. On vacation, we eat and…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 17, 2023

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  2019, aggression, all-male team, arbitrary reasons, bad listeners, beans and rice, beers in hand, can’t sleep, competition, Competition ruins everything, Couples Resorts, drinking, eating nuts, entertainment, friends, future note, happiness, hungry, ignored me, Jamaica, married life, men, men versus women, our anniversary, play a game, story ideas, swim-up bar, team, team sports, thoughts, trauma, trivia, unsalted nuts, vacation, vulnerabilities, War Games, winning, women

• Brian Explains Screwing Up and Food – Thoughts from October 1, 2010

  

  Future note: This is the third Brian Explains Life blog article I am including as part of the Thoughts from Life blog, but it should have been the first. I thought it was strange that the introduction to the blog was from 2010, but the articles were from 2011. To make up for this screw…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 27, 2023

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• Large Tree Roots Under the Driveway – Thoughts from September 9, 2003

  

  Tuesday seems to be the day to write my thoughts (all right, type them). Since last Tuesday, we found out from our Insurance company that we needed to fix our driveway before we could continue our insurance on the house. We investigated and found this asphalt patching material that could repair the asphalt. We knew,…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 11, 2023

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  2003, America Online, animation, Animation Master, AOL, asphalt, audio, birthday trip, bored, computer, Dan, drawing, driveway, Excel document, Flash, grand scheme of life, IM, instant messager, job, Laughlin, Matt, my office, nerd, Patti, pooped, programmers, RE:, Sea-Doos, sick day, sweat, the boys, thoughts, Thoughts papers, tree root, vacation, video, win money, workstation, writing

• September 9, 1997 – Thoughts from Life 7

  

  The American dream is a pretty simple concept. You get a job that affords you to buy a house and have a family. It’s a formula that has worked for millions of people. It worked for my parents and their parents and their grandparents (and I could go on … I’m serious … if you…

  Brian Kirwan

  November 24, 2022

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  1997, American dream, cats, cats are better pets, foreign foods, M.C. Hammer, Sister, step-cats, thoughts, three-legged cat, Truck, vacation