Victory is Mine!

After over a month, my search is over. The battle is won!

I found pepper! That tasty, speckled dust is mine!

I thought that I had searched everywhere, high and low, near and far, for ground black pepper. Alas, I neglected the bulk kiosk at the Carrefour, which actually offers three varieties of black pepper: peppercorns, slightly less round than peppercorns, and ground up into the delicious powder that I know and love and use on everything. It did not occur to me to buy pepper in bulk, I suppose, because I have never bought pepper in bulk. Still, I cannot understand why I can purchase salt in a shaker but not pepper.

Right now, my precious commodity remains in its "original" packaging.

As a bonus, this entire bag cost 2.79 Qatari riyals, which amounts to 77 US cents. (By the way, does everyone realize the cents sign no longer appears on computer keyboards?)

Luckily I managed to smuggled one pork-related product in Qatar.

 Pepper Pig

Salty Sow lives with KZog in TX. Anyway, now I may enjoy my perfectly poached eggs with black pepper. Huzzah!

Elevator Update: Since Monday, only three of our six lifts have returned to operational status, though, really, that suffices to keep all us residents mobile.

Dissertation Situation: On Monday, I sent my second of five chapters to my adviser and began working through the next one. Though my brain feels a little fuzzy, I think I can keep this pace and turn in the third chapter within three weeks.

Next Episode: Parts I and II of "Medical Mayhem in the Middle East" or "Liaison Schmiaison". 

'Til then!

XO,
JZog