Tag: work

• First Surgeries, Allergies, and Pleasant Eating – Thoughts from November 2, 2024

  

  Before I left for work today, I got a call from Kaiser to schedule the appointment to treat my throat and plan the removal of the polyp on my vocal cord. Honestly, I didn’t know if I was going to be scheduling the procedure itself. I wasn’t. This is the checkup before the procedure. It…

  Brian Kirwan

  October 21, 2025

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  2024, alcoholics, all the milks, almond milk, beef, beer, checkup, coconut, dairy, eggs, future note, hair analyzed for allergies, high reactivity, Kaiser, minor surgery, moderate reactivity, mustard, my first surgery, no broken bones, no major health problems, no reactivity, Oranges lemons and duck, pecans, pleasurable eating, reactivity test, remove the polyp on my vocal cord, restrictions on my diet, satisfied, smokers, taking health seriously, thoughts, throat problems, tomatoes, unpleasant surprise, veal, vegan diet, wheat, wheat is a major ingredient, work

• Emergency Rooms, CT Scans, and Old Habits – Thoughts from February 29, 2024

  

  It’s leap day or leap year or however you say it. I’m at the emergency room with Patti. She woke up and was blind in her right eye. Eventually, she could see out of the top of her eye, but the lower half was gray and blocking her sight. Because Patti is Patti, she drove…

  Brian Kirwan

  December 24, 2024

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  2024, admitted to the hospital, alarms, be honest or be silent, bean dip, blind in her right eye, cat scan, cats, CT scan, denial, doctor, emergency room, feelings, freezing room, Fritos, health, health problems, hospital gowned, ignoring health with humor, leap year, mixed emotions, mixed nuts, mom cat, nurse, ophthalmology, overnight in the hospital, Patti, person who gets sick, phone by the bed, physical tests, quiting smoking, raisins, Scout, silence, smoke related health problems, smoking, stroke, strokes, thoughts, TV as a nightlight, work

• Never Seeing Quest Again – Thoughts from July 18, 2023

  

  I just got a call at work from Patti about Quest. Quest was in our bedroom on the floor, and she couldn’t lift her head. Patti’s sister came over and they are going to take Quest to the vet. Patti and I dealt with this situation before. Sister (the cat) had the same thing happen…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 9, 2024

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  2023, acting differently because of loss, bedroom, Blaze, blind cat, cat, cat dealing with loss, cats, couldn’t lift her head, death, end to suffering, fear, feeling her absence, four furry faces, getting used to the loss, growling cat, hostility, kittens, last time I saw her, losing a family member, meeting as kittens, missing Quest, mix of happiness and saddness, obsessive, one cat less, Patti, putting cat to sleep, Quest, reminders of her, Scout, Sister, Slash, slideshow, tearing up, teary-eyed, thoughts, tolerating her, too aggressive, typing, vet, Willow, work, writing

• Ignoring Other People and My Moth Friend – Thoughts from May 20 and 21, 2023

  

  May 20, 2023 I’m on day six of eight days of working the same earlier shift. It’s only two hours off the shift I enjoy better, but it’s an annoying two hours. The most annoying part about it is feeling tired every day. If I told you when I was coming to work, you would…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 23, 2024

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  2023, abnormal jobs, autism, being an atheist, bored or freaked out, boring people, carefull word choice, caring about other people, catering stories to the group, connecting to other people, conversations about religion, coworker, drumming in the air, exciting people, experiencing the world, ignoring other people, ignoring the world, incidence, interesting people, little creatures, looking strangers in the eye, loud clothes, moth, moth on my windshield, movements as communication, my Monday, my moth friend, no beliefs, observations, Other People Exist, people’s stories, shyness, snoozes, stimulus, storytelling, the early shift, thoughts, tired, unpleasantness of the world, videoing, weird stories, work

• Zipper Malfunction – Thoughts from March 25, 2023

  

  Something happened today that will only be entertaining with time. I was in the restroom at work and I zipped up my pants to find that only one side of the teeth was still connected to the zipper. Trying to connect the zipper back to the other teeth while I was standing at the urinal…

  Brian Kirwan

  April 23, 2024

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  2023, changing room, costuming, covered the hole, embarrassed, entertaining with time, humor, laughing, loaner clothes, loaner pair of pants, open fly, picking up people, restroom, restroom stall, safety pin, sweating, thoughts, toilet, urinal, walking stiffly, wardrobe malfunction, work, zip up my pants, zipper malfunction, zipper teeth

• Sitcom Decisions and Nostalgic Nerds – Thoughts from March 18 and 22, 2023

  

  March 18, 2023 I was thinking today about making sitcom decisions. Sitcom decisions mainly use lies to avoid making actual decisions. Lying to your spouse about doing something you forgot to do is a sitcom decision. Characters make decisions in sitcoms purely for comedic purposes. Sitcoms have taught us dangerous and absurd life lessons that…

  Brian Kirwan

  April 18, 2024

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  2023, accepting realities, adding tags to articles, anti-religious, avoid making decisions, behavior, books, calling out, characters, comedic purposes, comedy, Comp USA, covering something up, David Sedaris books, entertaining nerds, fellow nerds, funny, hilarious, humor, learning from failures, lies, life lessons, literary agents, lying to your spouse, making the same mistakes, nostalgia, nostalgic nerds, Patti, query letter, quirky personality, rain, raining heavily, Reality Acceptance, selling books, sitcom decisions, sitcoms, stupid decisions, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, unhappy marriage, weird observations, wet freeways, work, writing

• Followed by Cats – Thoughts from January 8 to 14, 2023

  

  January 8, 2023 Most things are ending at my work today. There are parades, shows, and events that are having their last performances for the season. Tomorrow will differ from today. We’re back to mainly having only the cranky old timers here. I got to know many new people and they will only rarely be…

  Brian Kirwan

  March 14, 2024

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  2023, accidentally posting, audio, book, breaking the rules, Brian Creates, cats, cats follow me, cats ignoring people, cats on my lap, cats on top of me in bed, cats see me as a big furless cat, clumsy, cranky old timers, didn’t break anything, end of holiday season, Facebook, fake enthusiastic hellos, fellow atheist, ignoring other people, Julie Sweeney, justifying their job, lift on the deck, managers, more money but a joy free life, My Ears, new people, outstanding balance, Patti, Patti fell, personal work on work computers, posting on Facebook, problem people at work, Quest, rain sucks, raining, rules for everyone, SoundCloud, special connection with cats, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, tiny feet, upload songs, work, writing

• Grocery Scanner – Thoughts from December 3 and 4, 2022

  

  December 3, 2022 Patti came in with me to work today so she could go into the park. We stopped by a local Walmarket on the way in. As spell check reminds me, Walmarket is not its real name, but that’s what we call it. I needed blueberries and hair gel. The hair gel was…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 8, 2024

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  2022, avoid buying organic, bad at suicide, beliefs, blueberries, commiting suicide, competition, depression, escalator, feeling alone, hair gel, hate, helping each other, ignoring mental health, loneliness, loud bang, low self-esteem, major problem in society, man jumped, mental health, mental state, organic, parking structure, Patti, scanning items, self-checkout, selfish act, suicidal thoughts, suicide, thoughts, tragedy, unacceptable item, Walmarket, Walmart Market, wasting time, work

• Behind the Scenes – Thoughts from November 28 and 30, 2022

  

  November 28, 2022 Everything about American football pisses me off. I’m definitely not a fan of any sport, but only football can send me into a rage whenever I hear about or see it. This time of year, there are commercials on the radio and TV. I have to switch away from them if I…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 6, 2024

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  2022, American football, basic routine, behind-the-scenes, commercials for football, creating new Thoughts papers, dreading meeting new people, enjoyable, exercise, football, football fills me with rage, football is racist, football is sexist, football is violent, football’s history of hate, forgot ID, high Triglycerides, housework, interrupted routine, meeting new people, moving around, new character in a book, new document, new people, new people have no baggage, one continuous thought, parking lot, point of interest, pretending, pyro debris, rage, something on my mind, sports are boring, stolen mements to write, stopping randomly, switch away, thought of the day, thoughts, Thoughts paper, thoughts to paper, treadmill, work, work ID, yard work

• Out on a Live Stage – Thoughts from August 10 and 14, 2022

  

  August 10, 2022 I’m almost glad that the nervousness of performing live was too much for me. If I could do it easily, I would not be as happy and healthy as I am. I don’t like watching live performances so I don’t know why I thought I would ever want to perform live. Whether…

  Brian Kirwan

  December 7, 2023

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  2004, 2022, accepting you are gay, acting, admitting you are gay, anti-gay stance, applying, being honest with yourself, believe in yourself, believing in religion, concert, daily workings, dementia, Disneyland, drunk A-holes, exclusion, family reaction, fast forward, fear, gay, happy, healthy, illogical, ingoring your surroundings, live events, live performances, live shows, living a lie, misconceptions, my body is just a meat sack, nervousness, not pleasurable, performing live, rejected, religion, short thought, singing, South Park, supernatural being, telling jokes, thoughts, Thoughts from Life blog, Thoughts papers, tour of nowhere, understandable but sad, valuing religion over people, voice performance, volume, work, writing