I noted one of the national drug store chains has completed its consumer healthcare signage logically. In addition to places on the aisle for footcare, eye care and oral care there is now a place for miscellaneous body part care ... Police have found a heroin mill behind a secret door at a New York City candy store.

My wife said she was going to a "Girl's Night Out" event this weekend. I said, "Don't you mean 'Older Women's Night' Out?" ... My wife and I are just a couple of romantics. I called her mid-week and asked, "Are we doing anything Saturday?" "Yes, we're going to that memorial service." "Probably not for our anniversary." "Oh." ... I was somewhat taken aback at the headline in the area weekly newspaper today:

After referring to Elizabeth Warren as Pocahontas because of her small percentage native American ancestry, GOP president candidate Donald Trump then doubled down against the Republican establishment referring to them as the "Lost Boys". He also attacked the latest X-Men movie promising to ban mutants from the country and to prevent prisoners from being released from the Phantom Zone in the Superman story. Democrats immediately questioned the parentage of Trump's hair. ... I was noticing a news item that a cat in Las Vegas alerted its owners to a house fire. I always suspected our cat would more likely start the fire.

I went to a recital at a church in Jersey City this weekend which was held to benefit restoration of its organ. Someone asked me what I knew about organ restoration and I replied, "They have pills for that now." .... I was watching my wife working on eggs in the living room. "Are those deviled eggs?" I asked. "No, just mildly annoyed," she responded. ... The 160th birthday of Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychoanalysis, is this month, and it's worth a reminder that sometimes a candle, is just a candle.