Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Letter to Erin 20160518

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

Say, what do they serve at "The Famous Cock" anyway?  It must be some kind of public house.  Not to be confused with the bookstore called "The Camus Fock".  Do they allow women in there?  I was hoping it would be a place that serves exotic foods.  It can't be that they serve...  No!  Don't serve that stuff to my sweet, innocent Erin!  I love her and I need her!

I found a video on YouTube where in Vietnam, some men eat dog penis to increase thier virility.  No, I didn't actually see them eat dog penis.  There was just this one vendor boasting that men can eat dog penis and become better men.  Doesn't that seem like a contradiction to you?  That a man eat penis to become a better man?  My boy cats are giving me trouble lately.  Bob Cat got his gums all red somehow.  He doesn't eat cat food very often, but he's not thin, so he must catch his food.  But cat food is good for cat teeth.  I've seen cats with serious mouth diseases before, so I pray that he doesn't get worse, but for now it looks like simple gingivitis.  I'm going to have to douse his gums with rubbing alcohol whenever I see him until his condition improves.  Then Bat Cat is sensitive to moisture.  It's been raining lately, and he like to dig around in the mud and scrub, probably looking for game.  He's a mud cat, which is great but he attracts fungus.  So I have to feed him anti fungal pills.  Have you ever tried to feed a cat a pill?

I spent the evening cutting grass.  Grass sure grows quickly around here.  It seems like I'm always cutting grass.  Now that the rain has returned, the clover is growing again.  I like clover.  I want the clover to take over the whole yard, at my little house and at your house inshaAllah, because clover grows short and it hampers the growth of other grasses.  So I cut the grass until it's right at clover level, so the clover will dominate.  But the clover needs to be watered.  After I finished cutting grass, the whole sky was dark with rain clouds.  And I saw about 500 cranes flying in from the west, against the wind.

I made a batch of dough this morning.  I put up my dough recipe for you and for others to see.  It's a simple dough, made from flour, water, yeast, salt, and oil.  The greedy cat was nosing around me while I made the dough, licking her lips.  Dough has to be made regularly if you want to get good at it.  Dough is subject to environmental conditions.  For example, in Malaysia I always use water at room temperature even on cold days, but in USA I always make sure the water is at 110 degrees in winter.  Some people like to control water content to control the quality of the dough, but I find it easier to control the flour content and keep the water amount constant.  I used to make the dough hard so it would last longer, but nowadays I make it soft then I freeze it, and defrost a portion whenever I need it.  Lunch was noodles in shrimp head broth.  Very tasty.  Want some?

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Please allow me to say something to Antonia.

Hey there!  I must say that you looked great at Cannes.  I think you look your best when dressed formally.  Plus your face looks much more relaxed nowadays.  Do you have a camera?  Can you take a photo of your camera?  The only camera I have is on my cell phone, and it's crummy.  Be cool, Antonia.  Please make a donation of a minimum of one Euro to a worthwhile charity.