Each patient ought to feel somewhat the better after the physician's visit, irrespective of the nature of the illness. ~Warfield Theobald Longcope

1. Although Dr. S told me that it would take 2-3 days before the oxygen was delivered, I was awakened from a nap yesterday afternoon by a telephone call informing me that a delivery person was knocking on my door and would like to set up the oxygen tank my doctor had ordered. Talk about service!
Of course, as soon as it was set up, Camry had to investigate it. That darn thing is almost as tall as I am! For the time being, it is in the living room, right near my napping couch. I'll have the Amazing Egyptian Dude find a place for it in the bedroom soon because the headaches for which it is supposed to help come most often at night, when I am asleep.


2. Since I've been spending more time at home than usual, I sent the Amazing Egyptian Dude to the market with a shopping list so that we'll have food to cook. Rising to the occasion, I actually cooked dinner on Tuesday and Wednesday! Now that there's only two of us at home, it's hard to get used to cooking in greatly reduced amounts, but I managed. On Wednesday, I made some of my favorite Egyptian dishes. Martha Stewart, I am not. Neither am I a great photographer and because we keep our camera at the business where it gets used regularly, I had to rely on my iPhone for the pictures. Getting the lighting just right with iPhone camera is challenging at best since it has no flash.


The second dish is an eggplant casserole. Usually, the eggplant is sliced and fried before it's put into the baking dish. I opted to bake the eggplant this time instead of frying it, which leaves a lot of oil -- not so healthy -- floating to the top when it's baked. Basically, you layer the eggplant with fried ground beef, onion, garlic, salt, and pepper that has been cooked into a basic tomato sauce. Egyptians eat this one cold, but I like it hot and serve it that way. The Amazing Egyptian Dude tolerates this quirk and eats it my way now.

3. The new iPhone update is installed on my phone! This inspired me to clean up my iTunes to make it easier to sync the phone. The clean-up has taken much longer than I anticipated that it would, so it's still not finished. However, I did manage to remove nearly 300 duplicate songs already. I love "greatest hits" and boxed sets from a single artist, but they sure can clutter up your iTunes, especially when you have the original albums with those hits on them.

4. I registered for the summer class this morning. I am officially a student once again! Considering that The Brain wants to take control of everything I do these days, I decided that one class for now would be sufficient. This one is an introductory class to Microsoft Office and although I wanted an online version of it, I had to take the classroom one instead. So, I'll be pretending that I'm not a retired professor every Tuesday and Thursday morning from 9-12 for the next 6 weeks starting on Tuesday. This should be lots of fun!

5. Anybody have a great peach cobbler recipe they'd be willing to share with me? My mother used to make peach cobbler all summer long, and it has been years since I've had it. I tried to explain it to the Amazing Egyptian Dude, but my description makes it sound too much like pie and since he's not a big pie fan, he's not really interested in it. I know, though, that if I can make him a really great peach cobbler, he will love it. Please refer to #2 -- I need a fairly easy to follow recipe, LOL! Thanks y'all.