The resting brain is anything but idle — that simple proposition would be clear if you could peer into Mike Mrazek’s noggin as he putters around his kitchen preparing his daily morning feast of scrambled eggs, oatmeal and fresh fruit.

As he plods through his quotidian ritual of gathering ingredients, cutting, chopping, bringing the pan to the correct temperature and boiling water for tea, Mrazek’s thoughts, too, are something of a scrambled feast, as he later recounts.

Alzheimer’s Support Group

4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Shared Care office at George Weaks Community Center, 607 Poplar St., Murray. Group leader is Connie Dailey, a licensed practical nurse with Shared Care at Murray-Calloway County Hospital. Free sitter service. 753-0576.

AL-ANON

For those affected by someone’s drinking —

For local western Kentucky meeting call: 224-2955, 898-4585 or 1-888-425-2666.

Sept. 16 seminar to discuss prostate

As part of the NFL campaign “Know Your Stats: Prostate Defense Begins at 40,” Western Baptist offers a free breakfast seminar for men on prostate health and a demonstration of the da Vinci robot from 7 to 8 a.m. Sept. 16 in the Baptist Heart Center auditorium.

WASHINGTON — It’s flu-shot season already, and for the first time health authorities are urging nearly everyone to get vaccinated. There is even a new high-dose version for people 65 or older.

What a difference a year makes: Crowds lined up for hours for scarce shots during last fall’s swine flu pandemic, when infections peaked well before enough vaccine could be produced. This year, a record vaccine supply is expected — an all-in-one inoculation that now promises protection against that swine flu strain plus two other kinds of influenza.