Tag: writing

• Celebrating in Annoyance – Thoughts from July 17, 2023

  

  Today is a big day at my work. July 17, 1955, D-land opened. I can still recite the dedication from memory. I memorized it before I came to work here. Memorizing things was something I did back then. It has reached my permanent memory. After eighteen years of working here, I can say that. I…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 4, 2024

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  2023, burgers, celebration, craving unhealthy food, directions to food, finding a topic, getting free stuff, imagination, imaginative people, July 17 2955, memorizing dedication, memory, random access memory, readers read, talking about food, The Habit, thoughts, unhealthy people, unhealthy treats, vegan diet, what you eat matters, writers write, writing, writing topic

• Thinking About Quest – Thoughts from July 16, 2023

  

  I’ve become the guy who brings down the room by talking about Quest going blind. I can’t really talk about anything else because it’s the only thing on my mind. She just turned thirteen years old and I don’t know if she’s going to make it to fourteen. I tell people her age and they…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 2, 2024

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  2023, backing up data, Blaze, blind cat, cat, cats, cloudiness in her eyes, dad, don’ want her to suffer, following the sound of my voice, hard drives, kittens, mom, NAS, nerdy, nerdy stories, Network Attached Storage, older cat, older pet, Quest, Quest is blind, sadness, Scout, thinking, thinking about Quest, thirteen year old cat, thoughts, writing

• 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.…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 6, 2024

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  2023, Asian cuisine, birds, black rooster, cat sitter, cats, cats fighting, cock-a-doodle-doo, Competition ruins everything, drinking at the pool bar, earplugs, eye mask, fruit sticks, grocery shopping, hermit crab, last smoking vacation, normal diet, noticing animals, numb butt, paperback book, Patti, peacock, pool, pool lounger, pool volleyball, reading, red feathers, rooster friend, shopping, showering at night, showering in the morning, sleeping, smoking, swimming, thoughts, Thoughts paper, vacation, Vacation Land, vacation problems, vacation shopping, white Kindle, writing

• Sexist Old Men and Unpleasant Pets – Thoughts from April 30 and May 06, 2023

  

  April 30, 2023 Last day of the month, here we are. I want to start this Thoughts paper with a thought from yesterday. I was in a van of older gentlemen and they started talking about comedians. One of them said he doesn’t like female comedians that speak vulgarly. As part of that, he mentioned…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 16, 2024

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  1970s, 2022, 2023, Amy Schumer, animals, attitudes about women, Bill Cosby, blogging, cats, childhood, comedians, diary entry dribble, Disneyland, dogs, educate yourself, farms, female comedians, female lead, female led comedies, fish, Fritz, fury raging inside me, good behavior, growing up on a farm, hamsters, humor, listening to women, male comedians, male executives, male-centric forms of entertainment, memoirs, minds in the past, old man lead, older gentlemen, period humor, periods, pets, pure breed, questioning things, roosters, sexist men, sports, stored-up thoughts, thoughts, Thoughts paper, ugly, unwritten, vulgar comedians, vulgarity, women are better than men, writing

• Drugs and Fairies in a Capitalist Society – Thoughts from April 19 and 23, 2023

  

  April 19, 2023 I just heard on the radio someone referencing 4/20 tomorrow. It’s a pot head holiday. I think it’s the same station that plays Bob Marley at 4:20 in the afternoon. They made a joke about hot boxing a taxi. I understand these references, but don’t find them funny. Marijuana has never been…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 14, 2024

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  2023, 4/20, 4:20, accepting reality, atheism, atheism acceptance, atheist parents, authors, bare feet, capitalism, catering to religion, competitive thinking, costumes in Las Vegas, crap, English, fairy, fairy look, false histories, hot boxing, I never did drugs, intentional weird thoughts, marijuana, mental problems, mind-altering substances, my mind works differently, nerdy, prioritizing reality, radio, Reality Acceptance, reality denial, religious language, socialism, swearing, teaching atheism, thoughts, Thoughts papers, useless information, weird thoughts, whimsical person, woman with wings on, writing

• 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

• 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…

  Brian Kirwan

  April 4, 2024

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  2023, airport, almost naked, behaving badly, Californians in the rain, digital video files, first-class, flight delayed, Florida, flying, home in our bed, home with the cats, how you treat strangers, I’m a good person, insane in the rain, knowing I’m a good person, lack of sleep, logic, low quality, LP (long play), Patti, rain all night, raining, sleeping on the plane, SLP (super long play), snow, snow in the desert, snowing, SP (standard play), stuck in the airport, thoughts, treating other people well, vacation, VCR recordings, writing

• Money-Making Schemes and Metaphors – Thoughts from January 29 and 31, 2023

  

  January 29, 2023 I just want to start this Thoughts paper by telling you, the reader, how much I appreciate what you do. I don’t know what you do beyond reading these words, but I appreciate what you’re doing right now. There are many words you could be looking at and you chose mine. It…

  Brian Kirwan

  March 28, 2024

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  2023, 8 millimeter films, a quarter for grocery cart, Aldi, Animal Kingdom Lodge, Brian, Brian’s space movies, digitizing VHS home videos, Disney World, donuts, drinking in Vegas, exaggerating for comic effect, gas station, getting along with my sister, grocery shopping, I don’t lie, I don’t like poetry, I look like a Brian, metaphors, money-making scheme, my sister, my weirdness, news is useless, news on the screen at the pump, not a unique name, nothing is exactly like something else, one version of my name, parking lot, Patti, perfection doesn’t exist, reading, recent death on the news, Star Wars figures, stop motion films, the reader, thoughts, Thoughts paper, vacations, vacations are not good for my health, Vegas, video commentary, words, 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

• Writing My Thoughts Down – Thoughts from December 27, 2022

  

  I’m back at work today and as promised in the brochure at the beginning of this seminar, I’m back to writing my thoughts on my phone. I’m always tempted to say, “write my thoughts down”, but my fancy grammar checker discourages it. We rarely write things on paper anymore so maybe that’s why it’s discouraged…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 27, 2024

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  2022, amplifying moments in life, background of my mind, bad decisions, bitter old person, boredom, brownies, Charlie Manson, Christmas Eve, Christmas party, conversation, cookies, criticizing kids, cynical, do the right thing, families, fun, fun conversation, fun in life, gift exchange game, goofball, grammar checker, habit, ignoring bitter old people, learning, mobile home, nephews, nieces, old people, Patti, persuing interests, raffle, sarcasm, seeking only success, Sister, thoughts, vocabulary, write my thoughts down, writing, young people