My brother, who had a stroke two days ago, is feeling better. He is up and walking around. Almost all of the symptoms are gone. He is coming home from the hospital this afternoon, he thinks.

My friend Koch gave me a cell phone. He had used it for a few months but didn’t like, and so he went out and bought a smart phone. (I helped him load the Google Sky app on it and he loves it.)

The cell phone is an inexpensive one, the kind you get free on the cheap plans, but it is fairly new and the battery is still good. I activated it and put $30 worth of minutes on it. He didn’t use it because he didn’t want to use up the $30. Now that he is in the hospital and lonely, he is calling all of his friends and really enjoying the phone. He has accidentally called me three times so far because he has trouble reading the small letters on the little phone. He had to send a friend back to the house to get the charger for it.

Soon I will have to take him to the Verizon store and show him how to add minutes to the phone.