Letter to Julia 20130527

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

Aaaaa!  I broke a guitar string!  **sob**  I never break guitar strings.  Well, hardly ever.  The last time I broke a guitar string was a bass string, somewhere around 1994, I think.  I love old strings.  The strings on my SG are nearly 5 years old, and are getting nice and rusty.  But I broke my high E string last night.  I must have used too much muscle.  It must have been the full moon.  I had to replace it with the E string that came with the guitar when I first got it in 2008.

Anyway, only Allah can bring down the rain.  Ya Allah, please bring down the rain, because the rice fields are really dry.  The 2 massive floods we had here recently must have made the local authorities over-compensate by digging more drainage.  Massive flooding of the like are actually quite rare, so the local government can't be blamed for not being God.  A possible answer is to build miniature dams in the minor waterways.  The world is changing.  Global warming.  The Qur'an speaks of "seas boiling over".  Perhaps the Earth's core is going to heat up along with the atmosphere.  Hey, instead of stockpiling arms in preparation for invasion, perhaps they should use their brains and technology to clear up greenhouse gases?  That should help clean up the environment, plus manage their natural resources better, so they don't have to commandeer other people's resources, and enslave the impoverished.  No?  Too greedy and corrupt?  Well, Allah has prepared for Judgement Day in a most mysterious way.  We are righteous people insyaAllah, and it is our duty to try to slow down Armageddon.  Only the unbelievers try to speed it up.