Lately, it seems every drug contains the words "safe and effective" somewhere in the description. Is there any drug that actually is 100% safe or effective for everyone, or even anyone? No, I'm pretty sure there is not. Even aspirin has side effects.

I think "safe and effective" should be removed from descriptions of any and all drugs. Because they seem to be far more about marketing than health. Plus, just reading them now gives me covid vaccine flashbacks and I don't feel happy about trying/ trusting any drug that claims to be safe and effective. A little honesty would be nice.

Did you know Capital Punishment and the Death Penalty are not the same thing? I thought this was common knowledge. It's not.

When I look up Capital Punishment I find people only posting about the Death Penalty, which is just one aspect of it.

I feel people these days are on constant Witch hunts. As if there is a prize for rooting out anyone who does not strictly & completely adhere to the public's expectations/demands. Its like walking/talking around in a trap with a hair trigger. Why do they want to live this way?

Halloween night was pretty here. Lots of leaves fell from the trees so the ground was coated with orange, yellow, and red. I loved the rainy Halloween nights like that when I was a kid. You could hear the leaves smooshing as you walked through them.

Yesterday was a stressy day. My coffee slipped off my desk and all over myself and everything else. It was a particularly GOOD coffee day and the mug was full. I was looking forward to coffee and writing. For whatever reason losing the coffee just flipped my day. I even cried a bit. I'm a bit worried I'm just getting old and upset about little stuff too easily. I wouldn't mind getting old so much if I could keep the parts of me that I actually like, as they are.

Sometimes when I'm upset and feeling kind of lost and hopeless the song, Mona With the Children, by Douglas Cameron, comes into my head and gets stuck there.

On social media I wrote:

OK. So you hate Israel, hate Palestine, hate Iran, HATE HATE HATE. They are all just people. Who are you really hating? Mona with the Children - Never forget Doug Cameron's song and the real young woman who was murdered for the hatred of others.

I don't know what it says about me that this is where my mind goes. Is my brain just telling me to stop hating myself? Only my brain knows. Do you remember the song? Hard to believe (for me) that its already 40 years ago since that song came out.

I feel that people these days are on constant Witch hunts. As if there is some great prize for rooting out anyone who does not strictly and completely adhere to the public's expectations/ demands. Its like walking/ talking around in a big trap with a hair trigger. Why do they want to live this way?

I wrote this to my nephew just now. I'm editing out a bit about a family member. Not that he is likely to read this anyway. It just feels like the right thing to do.

We still don't have the car fixed. Took it in and they said it was all good, no sign of problem with the brakes. Then we drove it around Barrie for this and that and that light warning about the brakes came on again. So, whatever they, or (edited out), say the brakes are not ok. You have no idea how angry this kind of thing makes me. I keep quiet about it but... people so often fluff off things when someone (me) says there is a problem. Always excuses, reasons, fluff about how its nothing and I don't know what I'm talking about... etc. Urgghhh!!! So, the car is back in again this Monday. Will see if they figure out the problem, this 3rd time around. At least they aren't fluffing it off now that the car (not even a human being!) is telling them there is a problem. I don't know why I'm writing all this to you. You probably think I sound like a twit too.