Tag: writing

• Competing Audio, Cassette Players, and Gender Outlaws – Thoughts from March 14 and 16, 2024

  

  March 14, 2024 I’m at the Honda dealer getting my car worked on. It’s just a regular oil change with a tire rotation and new windshield wipers added. There is a TV on in the waiting area with a house buying show on it. Music is playing in the background much louder than it usually…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 7, 2025

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  1989, 2024, audio cassette tapes, competing audio, dedicated audio interface, digital audio, dual tape player, flash drives, Gender Outlaw: On Men Women and the Rest of Us, graduated high school, grease the gear, Honda dealer, house buying show, incomplete categories, judging other people’s color choices, labeling people, LGBTQ community, loss of privilege, loud screeching noise, marginalized group experience, new model, noise overload, oil change, one good ear, other people’s stories, research online, screechy noise, seeing a rainbow in black and white, thoughts, trans person, true scope of people, VCR interface, writing

• Meditation, Hypnosis, and Rock Stars – Thoughts from January 14 and 20, 2024

  

  January 14, 2024 I was listening to a meditation today. Why I was listening to it is not what I’m talking about today. Part of it was a positive affirmation to tell yourself. I’ve heard people saying these things before, but I was noticing how the affirmations have no connection to reality. Telling yourself you’re…

  Brian Kirwan

  November 19, 2024

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  2024, audio examples, audiobook, autobiography, avoiding conflicts, Barbra Streisand, being hypnotized, Bono, changing your life, credit cards, diplaying toys, fame, famous people, good people, Goodwill, hiding thoughts, high interest credit cards, hypnosis, indesicive, innermost thoughts, Irish band, loan, meditation, not a normal job, organizing, paragraph, Patti, people’s thoughts, playing with writing structure, positive affirmation, premise sentence, rambling, removing stress, rock star, rock stars, songs, strangers, stress, structure, the logic behind my actions, thoughts, thoughts about other people, Thoughts paper, toys, typical rock star, U2, unaware of the world, vocal range, Wilipedia, writing

• Cabinets and Bun Bun – Thoughts from November 11 and 18, 2023

  

  November 11, 2023 Today is 11/11. Need I say more? It would be funny if that was all I said, but I actually have thoughts to write about. I don’t know what they are right now, but I’m sure I will come up with something. My thoughts are happening all day long. I just need…

  Brian Kirwan

  October 8, 2024

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  2023, attaching cabinets to the wall, bouncy nose, Bun Boy, Bun Bun, bunny, cabinets, cat ears, eating a dead plant, eating our grass, finishing the cabinets, gaining weight, grocery shopping, I speak cat, memory, neighborhood animal, paint the wall, Patti, petting rabbit, rabbit, rabbit ears, rabbits eat hay, remembering past thoughts, running out of time, sniffing my hand, speaking cat, speaking rabbit, Thanksgiving, thoughts, what can be done in one day, writing, yelling at other drivers

• I’m a Cat Trapped in a Dog’s Body – Thoughts from September 24 and October 8, 2023

  

  September 24, 2023 Flourishing in my own filth is the first thing I typed for this Thoughts paper. Where do I go from there? There’s only one place to go. I’m going where I always go. Here we are in my usual talk of wondering when the world is going to stop being so predictable.…

  Brian Kirwan

  September 3, 2024

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  2023, autobiography, barrier to moving, book, bring up images, caring about other people, cat trapped in a dog’s body, comparing men to dogs, creativity, depressing thoughts, driving on the freeway, editing and scheduling, feminist author, hiatus from writing, I’m a Cat Trapped in a Dog’s Body, lack of time, men’s behavior, moving closer to my work, my own filth, not collecting new stuff, our stuff, Patti, plosives, problematic letters, retired, sibilance, suicide for horrible men, the word moist, the world is predictable, think like a cat, thinking, thoughts, Thoughts paper, Thoughts papers, tired of my stuff, wishing people dead, writing

• Too Much Work and Mystical Beliefs – Thoughts from August 21 to 28, 2023

  

  August 21, 2023 Yesterday, I got a call from work, and they said I didn’t have to come in if I didn’t want to. You don’t have to beg me to take a day off, so I did. The reason they offered it was because of the hurricane warnings we had in the area. It…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 13, 2024

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  2023, autobiography, Bart Simpson, bathroom routine, Brian Creates, Brian Kirwan, BrianCreates.com, BrianKirwan.com, day off, doing voices, hurricane warnings, I don’t care about beliefs, I’m too old for this crap, losing interest, multi-site website, mystical beliefs about the world, Nancy Cartwright, offending me with religious talk, offending people, people’s stories, problem solving, reading, religion, religion has ruined people’s lives, religion is not entertaining, religion of the Hollywood rich, religious language, Scientology, talking about religious beliefs, thoughts, Twilight Zone movie, video tutorials, websites, working on my websites, writing

• 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

• Ubernerds and Time Math – Thoughts from July 26 and 30, 2023

  

  July 26, 2023 I tried to type QWERTY on my swipe keyboard and it typed “Way”. I guess people don’t type QWERTY much. This Thoughts paper is being interrupted to bring you a special news bulletin. Patti just told me Sinead O’Connor just died. She was only 56. 53-year-old me thinks that’s way too young…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 18, 2024

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  2023, 401k, being a nerd, being a rock star, collecting facts, communicating, Competition ruins everything, confusion, considering feelings, died at 56, Disneyland, emotionless people, emotions, Excel worksheet, facts, facts are boring, focus, heed my own words, interpreting facts, learn from my failure, lifetime pass, my retirement, nerd-friendly, never became a rock star, never consider myself retired, new employee, Patti, QWERTY, retirement, screwed up youth, showing off nerdiness, Sinead O’Connor, social security, swipe keyboard, ten based, thoughts, Thoughts paper, time math, too young to die, ubernerd, vacation hours, virtual coins, wasting time, Wordscapes tournament, working for a living, writing

• My Abnormalities – Thoughts from July 22 and 23, 2023

  

  July 22, 2023 I was talking to a new employee about several subjects. I have alternative points of view to almost everything he said. He was saying it’s not illegal to use a VPN (virtual private network). I agreed, but said he was lying when he did. We use free services in exchange for information…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 11, 2024

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  2023, abnormal sides, acting normal, alternative points of view, away from religion, bogged down in facts, care about others, caring about all of society, common thinking, companies, compromise, confession, conflict, considering other points of view, discussion, ethical issues, how you treat strangers, I’m normal, logical and ethical, lying, mental illnesses, my weirdness, new employee, normal people, normal-looking, not having prisons, not willing to lie, other points of view, our surfing history, prevention, prisons, problems of the world, rehavilitation, seeing ads, societal norms, strange brain spices, the contract of using free services, thoughts, Thoughts paper, using free services, virtual private network, VPN, wasting time, writing

• 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