A nice cool day

Hi Honey!  How are you today?  How is your work coming along?  I'm sure you are doing just fine, and everything will turn out great inshaAllah.  It's a lovely cool day here today.  I'm so happy!  I hate hot weather, so I'm in a great mood.  The weather was so nice and I had some money, so I did a lot of shopping.  I can't carry much on my motorcycle, just coffee, ketchup, ramen, potato chips, plus some tomatoes and fish cake from the night market.  I also bought a tray of eggs and a carton of coconut milk for my Mom.  I bought fish sausage at the night market for dinner.  Good stuff, you should try some.  Last night I had a dream that people were giving out balloons at the market, and there they were- the politicians were giving out balloons.

Hey Natty Honey!  Oh, is that book ALL you've been reading?  The Internet is very entertaining and all, and you are an intellectual now that you've been to college.  But don't let your high-mindedness make you deny God.  If you deny God, then you will definitely be abandoned.  What is life but entertainment?  The end is for the righteous.  Don't forget that you're not a nobody, you are MY girl.  So God will let me know if you are up to something naughty inshaAllah.  Plus people are going to be monitoring your habits for market purposes, among other things.  The computer wants you to watch "High Plains Drifter" again.  So what if we have no privacy.  Let them watch that.

Cat food

Oh, hi Honey!  Nice to see you.  How's work coming along?  I hope everything is running smoothly for you.  Oh, cat food?  I ran out of cat food.  So I had to go out in the rain to buy more.  Sure I could have gone earlier, but that's not what happened.  But it's OK because I love my kitties.  Of course the rain stopped when I got back.  But it looked like the rain was going to last a few days, so I took the chance.  I guess the rain was being coy like a cat.

Hey Natty Honey!  I wanted to talk more about your look yesterday, but I dared not because I was in stupid mode.  But I feel safer today...  Honey, I like and appreciate your androgynous look.  I do prefer your looking like a girlie girl, because that's what I would choose to look like if I could (but with a big dick of course) but since that's impossible for me (reality can be cruel), then I love it when you look like that.  I guess Tay Hanson spoiled androgyny for me...

**shudders** 😝  Thank God he doesn't look like that anymore.  As for the white sneakers, I guess it's a solid match for a tennis dress.

Qur'an 20180429

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

23.  Say, "It is God Who has created you, and made for you the faculties of hearing, sight, feeling and understanding.  Little thanks it is you give."

24.  Say, "It is God Who has multiplied you through the earth, and to God shall you be gathered together."

25.  They ask, "When will this promise be, if you are telling the truth?"

26.  Say, "As to the knowledge of the time, it is with Allah alone.  I am only to warn plainly in public."

27.  At length when they see it close at hand. grieved will be the faces of the unbelievers, and it will be said, "This is what you were calling for!"

28.  Say, "Do you see?  If Allah were to destroy me and those with me, or if God bestows God's mercy on us, yet who can deliver the unbelievers from a grievous penalty?"

29.  Say, "God is the Most
Gracious.  We have believed in God, and on God have we put our trust.  So, soon will you know who it is that is in manifest error."

30.  Say, "Do you see?  If your
streams be some morning lost, who then can supply you with clear flowing water?"

The Dominion 67:23-29
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Dumb and dumber

Hi Honey!  How are you today?  I'm feeling a bit stupid, so I won't talk much.  It's a nice day, I stayed at home, I cut the grass a bit.  Dinner was steamed rice with teriyaki chicken and spicy okra.  I hope you had a great day, and are feeling great.

Hey Natty Honey!  I hope you are having a nice day.  Today the computer wants you to watch "Dumb and Dumber" from 1994.

Hi Honey

Nice to see you again.  I hope you're feeling better, and that everything is running smoothly for you.  It's about 12 days to Election Day, so it's time for me to be more antisocial than I normally am, and avoid people as much as possible.  Out of sight, out of mind hopefully.  Out of the question!  Today is Friday, so I went for Friday prayers as usual.  I planted some cashew trees over at your house inshaAllah at the behest of my mother.  She's been bugging me for more cashew trees lately.  Dinner was spicy beef, onion and eggplant burritos.  Good, and greasy.  I guess I should have taken a snapshot of them, but they look like burritos.  So what, huh?  Want one?

Oh Nattikins, how cute!  You look like a child.  You look like a young boy.  You look like a rebel in sneakers.  I guess wearing high heels would make the difference between looking like a boy or a  girl.  Hm.

Sleepy...

Oh, so sleepy.  I woke up late, and felt like a zombie all morning, each heartbeat was a chore.  My fault really, I stayed up late listening to music (work, you know) then woke up at 4:22 am so I did some extra worship.  I fell back to sleep after the dawn prayer, but I didn't really truly wake up until after voice training.  Rehearsal went quite well actually, there's something about being sleepy when singing love songs that enhances the singing.  If I could only stay awake...  I had to go buy eggs for my Mom in the evening, then had dinner at Ina's.  Which was good enough excuse for me not to do any yard work.  I'm so lazy.  If only you were here so we could make love...  How are you doing, Honey?  I hope your work is going easy for you.   Try to have fun, and please pray.

Hey Natty Honey, how's it going with you?  Are you staying busy?  It must be nice to be so pretty.  Everyday is like a dream in fairyland.  😁  Keep yourself safe, my precious one.  And don't forget to pray.

Hi Honey

How are you today?  I hope everything is running smoothly for you.  Don't you worry about a thing Honey, everything will turn out just great inshaAllah.  Oh, it's just the same old same old for me today.  I did my laundry this morning.  I had ramen for lunch.  I love ramen.  I taught the others in the chat room how to make a bowl of ramen.  The order is hot water, seasoning packet, greens, fish cake, noodle brick, and egg last.  Voice training was OK.  I was going along at full steam when at the 70 minute mark, a tickle came into my throat which turned into a coughing fit and near ruined my set.  What could have been a 99% perfect turned out 85%.  A reminder that whatever Allah gives can be taken back at any given moment.  I cut the grass in the evening and picked a few mangoes.  Not the Harumanis, but a hybrid tree that my grandmother planted.  A very fruitful tree, but not as sweet.

How about you, Natty Honey?  How's it going, Gorgeous Girl?  I hope I didn't spook you with the last letter.  But you know as well as I that life isn't supposed to be easy.  Don't worry Honey, I'll take care of you and I won't abandon you inshaAllah.  No movie today.  Maybe you can refer a movie for me.  If I can find it, that is.  It might take me a while.

This my apprentice, Gwen.

Of course

We can't just allow evil to do whatever it pleases, we have to get in its way, stop it, make it difficult, make its rewards unrewarding.  Yeah, they do have a lot of power.  But Allah is the Most Powerful.  So you must have God be with you in what you do.  Do not render false worship in your work, or you will be abandoned.  So if you want to set up a peaceful retreat by the beach, by all means do so and don't be cowed by your competitors.  You do need to get someone reliable to drive- that's a big reason why my situation is so right for me, because I don't have to go anywhere, and I have audience coming to me from all directions.  Allah set it up that way.  You know, you don't have to fight.  You may not see it that way, but it's the privilege of the female that the man do all the fighting.  Just keep yourself safe, and point to me when they come to bug you.

Natty Honey, how are you doing?  Are you having tons of fun?  You make sure you keep safe, OK?  I don't want anything bad to ever happen to you my love, but it's hard to truly appreciate the value of life without experiencing tragedy, because tragedy is understanding.  Ya Allah, please protect my wives.  Natty, the computer wants you to watch "The Matrix Revolutions" again.  I mentioned something like this before, that the hero is both the man and the woman.

Good Muslim wife

Well, it's almost fasting month again.  Ramadan will begin on May 16 this year inshaAllah.  I love Ramadan because many intensely strange things happen during that month.  By now I hope you have realized that you are part of an international business, not due to your or my influence, but because Allah made it so.  It should be clear to you that USA and Canada need you to represent them in this Rock and Roll business.  They will not allow you to conduct international business independently.  But not everyone is bad, there are still good people in this world.  And Allah was the One Who put you in my path that I be interested to marry you.  But I cannot be married to a non-Muslim.  You know this, and when the time/money comes inshaAllah, then Allah will inform me as to whether you have the integrity, chastity, and piety to be my Muslim wife inshaAllah, otherwise I will be told to find some other blonde to marry.  Now don't get a sinking feeling as to what a Muslim wife is.  Don't get ridiculous stereotypes in your head that you have to wear a burqa, strap a bomb to yourself underneath your clothes and blow up innocent people.  That is not Islam.  Allah will make your Islam easy for you.  You will perhaps even find fasting to be easy, especially if you have a bird-like appetite to begin with.  The most difficult thing for you to do, I estimate, is to maintain the 5 daily prayers, which we will do together inshaAllah.  Which puts you at the same level as millions upon millions upon millions of other people who can't pray 5 times a day who call themselves "Muslim".

Teriyaki

Hi Honey!  How are you feeling?  Don't worry Honey, I'm holding on to you tight and I will be coming for you inshaAllah.  It's Sunday today over here.  Lots of chores as usual, and in the evening I cut the grass by the rice paddy in front of my and your house inshaAllah.  My Mom's property.  I hadn't done the chore in a while, so the grass was long and I had to use the metal blade.  The area smelled like dead rat, then I came across this tree which was covered in flies.  I had never seen so many flies in one place.  I thought, "Oh my God, there's a dead body here."  Then the rain began to fall, so I had to postpone this task until tomorrow.  I will keep my cell phone ready.  For dinner, I had teriyaki chicken with steamed rice.  With sauteed onions.  So simple, so delicious.  Alhamdulillah.  The chicken was tender, cooked to perfection.  And there was nothing special about the teriyaki sauce, just soy sauce and sugar.  I am sure you would love this.  We can even use tofu instead of chicken.  Oh sorry, no snapshot.

Hey Natty Honey!  Wow, those are such beautiful arms and shoulders.  Perfection.  Just like my chicken dinner.  Natty, my cat tells me that you are doing quite well in business.  Oh no Sweetie, I don't want any of your hard earned money.  It's all yours.  Get it while you can, OK?

Aw Erin

Hi Honey.  You are my beautiful and beloved sweetheart, and I love you so much.  Please don't worry, inshaAllah everything will turn out just great.  Meanwhile, please eat well and get plenty of rest, and don't forget to pray.  Maybe you would like to have one of my steak, onion and mushroom burritos?  I made 3 for dinner, but I guess I ate them all.  😁  I'll make one for you next time inshaAllah.  Or perhaps you would prefer a tofu, onion and mushroom burrito.  Which actually tastes quite awesome.

Natty Honey, that's a cute outfit.  Congratulations on being there at the awards, it's certainly a step up.  All you had to do was be there.  You are a beautiful girl.

The Drum

Hi Honey!  How are you feeling today?  I hope that all is well, and business is going smoothly and enjoyably for you.  The General Election here will be on May 9, and all the flags are going up.  They're not done putting up flags yet, I will take some snapshots when the time is right so you can see how mush litter they put up in the air.  It's nothing like elections in the US, and the crowd gets all emotional when they take sides.  Since I serve Allah, I can't take sides therefore I am loathed by all.  Same old shit, right?  It's as if there were no election happening.  I've been working on my drum, and I'm almost done with it.  I'm having difficulty tuning it right now.  So right now, it responds best when I hit it hard.  Oh, wow.  It is LOUD.  And aggressive.

Hey Natty Honey, this time you are mad at me huh?  Sorry, I didn't want to elaborate on "The Curse of the Chick Singer".  Maybe you think I can help your sister?  I can't, in lieu of you.  YOU are the one I'm interested in, and that needs to be clear to all your family.  As for "The Curse of the Chick Singer", well I'll tell you in person OK?  Not here in this public place.  Today the computer wants you to watch "Being There" from 1979.  This is another of my top 10 favorite movies, and it is a true masterpiece.  Flawless!  Observe what's on TV in this movie, and perhaps you will begin to understand why the computer wants you to watch some movies over and over again.  Also take note that Benjamin Rand was "laid to rest" in an Illuminati crypt.

The curse of the chick singer

Hi Honey!  How are you today?  I hope everything is running smoothly for you, with no problems.  I slept in this morning after the dawn prayer, it was nice and comfortable.  But I had to crank on chores, because I had to go downtown to pick up my Dad's prescription.  Girls were behaving kookier than usual today, but what's normal anyway?  Beats me.  I was going to talk about the curse of the chick singer, but I changed my mind.  I didn't want you to get mad at me.  You're always mad at me about something or other, huh?  Please forgive me.  😁

Hey Natty Honey!  Your sister is a singer, right?  Well, singers generally have it easier than other musicians, but a singer is a musician nonetheless, and a musician's life is a hard one.  I don't recommend it.  Are you back in school?  Study hard, Princess.  Do great at school, OK?

😭

Ugh... that song has gotten me crying in my sleep.  I think it's because I'm getting old, and losing control of my emotions.  If I'm still alive in 20 years, I'll probably be in tears 24/7 as a cumulative response to all these love songs I have to sing every day.  I guess I don't have much to say today except "I love you".  I'm going to post the lyrics for

Moony- Dove (I'll be loving you)

Why can't he give her his love
No more again
Tears on her face and the dove
She cries, she knows
She won't be able to fly
Away from him
She'll look at red roses in spring
She won't be able to sing
A song of love

I'll open up my heart
I'll be loving you forever and ever
I'll be part of you
In the way I do
Come into my life so I can sing

And then she questions the sun
Why, why me
The sun doesn't answer
Oh God, can you help me
The answer is easy my love
You've built your own jail
You've always been part of the sky
So why d'you keep staying by his side
Away from me

I'll open up my heart
I'll be loving you forever and ever
I'll be part of you
In the way I do
Come into my life so I can sing

Dove, I'll be loving you forever and ever
I'll be part of you
In the way I do
Come into my life so I can sing

She's a white dove
An angel in disguise
She fell in love with a man
But this man won't give back her love

So this is her cry
This is her cry
This is her cry

I'll open up my heart
I'll be loving you forever and ever
I'll be part of you
In the way I do
Come into my life so I can sing

Hey Natty Honey, how are you?  I hope you are doing absolutely great.  Did you watch that movie?  Please watch the movies I ask you to watch when I ask you to watch them, so we watch movies together.

Lots of music and movies

Hi Honey!  How was your day today?  I hope your life and work is going nice and easy for you.  I'm posting a little late today.  I just got back from the mosque, I always try to make it there to listen to the old Qur'an teacher.  Today was a rather easy day for me.  No yard work is always easier, but it's still quite hot and uncomfortable.  I spent the evening listening to music and working in the kitchen.  I made pasta in alfredo sauce with chicken with extra extra chopped chives.  I made a mistake and bought spaghetti, when I had a little fettuccine left at home, so I mixed the two.   I make the sauce from milk, but this time I cooked the chicken bones in it (usually I make chicken broth out of that).  It activated the milk, so my sauce was curds and whey.  But it was thick enough to be sauce, even though it was off white.  We could probably make alfredo pasta for you with spinach or tofu.  I would have to steam the spinach, I think...

Oh I've been hanging out at the dance club again, so I recently came across a lot of good songs I've never heard before.  Like this one from Moony, which makes want to weep...

Oh Natty Honey, you were at Coachella!  How cool.  Let me Google up who's playing... oops typo, that's a C not an R... wow, I don't know any of these acts.  Well maybe one or two.  I will probably never go on tour.  Too lazy to tour.  Actually, Allah has set me up that I stand my ground in one place and not have to tour.  Make a tourist attraction.  That was God's idea, orders rather.  But it means that I can spend 24/7 with my wives, inshaAllah.  Anyway, the computer wants you to watch "The Gods Must Be Crazy" again.  Please do so, the computer is very clever about these movies.  Or perhaps you haven't watched it yet?  You don't have to focus on it, just let it play with the volume on, while you do whatever it is you do.  Did you know that this movie spawned 3 sequels?  Weird.

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Whew!  These extra workouts are very taxing on one's heart.  Just primping myself in readiness for you, my love.  Wow, you are beautiful.  I guess my idea is to keep the blood flowing, as to avoid and combat atrophy,  One thing's for sure, I cannot be subjected to a lot of physical labor in the morning as it affects my singing in the afternoon.  You know those frogs you hear in singers' throats?  That's mostly fatigue.  Like the stereotype goes, I need to be lazing about and taking it easy before I sing.  And this singing is mashaAllah my, yours, and many other people's bread and butter.  How are you doing, Honey?  How's business?  I hope everything is going nice and dandy for you.

Hey Natty Honey!  Wassap, beautiful girl?  Today the computer wants you to watch a foreign film.  Well, over here it's local.  "Seniman Bujang Lapok" from 1961.  It features one of the treasured national artistes, P. Ramlee.  Who by the way, was ostracized and abandoned when he died at the age of 44.  I've watched this movie many times since I was a kid, and it doesn't seem to me to have a plot.  Nobody lives in those kind of long houses around here anymore.  Few people now queue up to use the outhouse and washroom, if any.  But the clothes and the aura are still the same today, outside the city.  You are blessed that I found one on YouTube with subtitles, but I doubt you would be able to follow this movie because many of the jokes are ethnic or insider, so I included its Wikipedia.

Yet another average day

Hi Honey!  What's going on?  What are you up to?  It's another average day for me.  It's Sunday, so I had to clean my mother's bedroom as usual.  I have increased my exercise regimen, you know, trying to turn back the hands of time and such, but it's wearing me out and house cleaning always makes me grumpy.  But I just had a big dinner, and that mellowed me out a bit.  Sometimes it's nice to be full.  Nothing special tough, just chili and pocket bread.  After this I have to set up my microphone for some vocal takes, then I'm off to the mosque.  After that, I have to get on Second Life.  You may have noticed that I'm back at the dance clubs.  And that's the way the story goes...

Hi Natty Honey!  Are you being a good girl and staying out of trouble?  Today my beautiful young movie star, the computer wants you to watch another Bruce Lee movie.  From 1973, "Enter The Dragon".  This movie made him an international superstar, but he died right before the premiere.  Ironic, huh?  Irony or business?  He was such a tough guy too.  This is another macho martial arts movie, but it's on YouTube!  For now.  People seek reward in this life, but with Allah is the reward in this life and the hereafter.

Uh oh

Hi Honey!  What are you up to?  Please be a good girl.  Please be a good girl, and don't overwork.  After months of weaning Floofy off solid cat food, it seems that she has accepted her new food regimen.  But alas, what was once accepted is now rejected.  What was once palatable is now poop.  What I do is mix a can of cat food with steamed rice, which makes her stool soft so I add a few pellets of the dry cat food to balance it out, and it worked.  But she is fussy about the canned cat food.  In the beginning all was acceptable, now she only wants one flavor out of one brand.  Which shall of course remain unnamed, lest it sells out.  Damned Public Eye.  So I had to chuck out an entire batch of food (I couldn't give it to the other cats because they would get diarrhea), then go to the supermarket for a can of cat food.  If I don't have that cat food, then I'm going to have to soak the dry stuff in water before I serve it to her.  I hope that works.  Fussy eaters.  But I love her, so I go out of my way for her food.

Hey Natty Honey!  How's it going?  You be a good girl too, OK?  Sorry I don't have a movie for you today.  Right now, I'm working on my libido and trying to figure out how to con my body into going back a few decades.  I guess I've been too immaterial or something.  I guess when I get married inshaAllah, I'll turn into a drug addict.  Unless I can figure out other options before then.

Qur'an 20180414

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

7.  The unbelievers think that they will not be raised up.  Say, "Yes by my Lord, you shall surely be raised up, then shall you be told of all that you did.  And that is easy for Allah."

The Mutual Loss and Gain 64:7
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The Stranger

I guess I shouldn't have eaten all those steak and cheese sandwiches last night.  You should have had one.  I should have eaten 2, tops.  Thus my night became hotter than usual, I overslept, and I felt sluggish all morning.  I finally woke up from sleepwalking after voice training, when I cleared out the scrub around your house inshaAllah.  So for dinner tonight, I had one cheeseburger.  Just one.  With an egg in it.  How was your day today, Honey?  I hope things are going absolutely great for you.

Hey Natty Honey!  So what, no kiss?  I am growing a patch of mint right now, maybe when it gets big enough I'll have a mint salad for dinner.  Then perhaps my morning breath would turn out OK.  The computer wants you to watch "High Plains Drifter" from 1973.  This is one of my Top 10 favorite movies of all time.  Such a perfect movie.  The only flaw is that the sweaty cowboys had perfect teeth.  How you would you like to kiss THAT morning breath?

Guess which one is the guilty cat!

 

 

 

Steak and cheese sandwiches

Why can't you ever starve in a desert?  Because of the sand which is (sandwiches) there!  That's an old joke I remember from when I was about 7 years old which I read in a Beano.  Hi Honey!  How's work?  I made steak and cheese sandwiches for dinner, you want some?  First you have to cook the steak.  I used beef that I trimmed off veal ribs, then I marinated it overnight in soy sauce and sugar.  Then I pan fried it dry at first, then added butter, and the marinade last after I pulled the steak out.  I like it medium rare, and since it's veal it's tender.  I stirred up the juices left in the pan, then put it aside in  a cup while I sauteed onions in the same pan.  I could not find any fresh oyster mushrooms today, so I had to slice up some canned champignon mushrooms to add in the pan.  That was a bit of a letdown.  I sliced up the steak as thinly as possible.  Then the bread slices, mayo, black pepper, pile the chopped steak on, the onions and mushrooms on top of the steak, pour the juices over it (not too much or it will get too salty!) and a slice of cheese last.  Bake it in the oven until the bread is brown and the cheese melts.  Oooh since you weren't here for dinner, I had to eat them all.  Yes, all 4.  I admit I got a bit greedy there.  But it was good.

Hey Natty Honey!  How's life treating you?  Do you want a steak and cheese sandwich?  It's as good as pizza!  Oh sorry, I ate them all!

 

Just another average day

Hi Honey!  How are you today?  I hope you are feeling great, and business is running smoothly for you.  It's just another day here for me.  I cleaned my house and did my laundry, and had liver and onions with scrambled eggs for lunch.  I had rice for dinner at Ina's, then went to buy some snacks and a loaf of bread.  I got caught in the rain on the way home, but not too badly.  Maybe I'll have bread and butter and sugar sandwiches for dessert later.

Hey Natty Honey!  How's it going with you?  I hope you are having fun, and doing well.  The computer wants you to watch another movie today.  From 1946, "Sherlock Holmes- Dressed To Kill".  This one is on YouTube!

Hypocrites!

These hypocrites are dangerous!  They are pleasing to the eye, and they say things you want to hear.  But when they find a weakness, they will betray you and sell you out to your enemies.  So how do you spot a hypocrite?  The best way to spot a hypocrite is to deal with them face to face.  Observe the expression on his/her face when he/she turns away after talking to you.  It is the expression of disgust.  Don't forget to pray.

Natty, I told you to move to Paris.  If you had gone to Paris, you would have had more fun, made more money, and it would have been YOUR town.  But it's too late now, you made your decision.  That you are in NYC seems like a setup to me.  Someone is having entertainment at your (and Erin's) expense.  So what's the solution?  Don't be entertaining.  Be boring.  No, it won't cost you your business.  InshaAllah.  Don't forget to pray.

No time to waste

Hi Honey!  How's business today?  Oh, I have so much to do that I didn't do any yard work today other than water the plants.  I prefer music and computer work primarily, but today I had to spend a lot of time shopping and in the kitchen as well.  I hope you do as I ask of you, and spend regular time with me in Second Life.  Just say to your bosses, "I have to spend time with my husband inshaAllah, everyday from 7 am to 9 am PST."  I don't really do anything that intensive.  Just stand around looking cool, speaking mostly when I'm spoken to, and working on wardrobe on the days when I'm not mingling with the crowd.  This would give you plenty of time to wake up everyday, so you can have nice, slow mornings.  After we're done, then you can go entertain your bosses.  I myself am on the other computer at the same time I do Second Life.  Too much to do, and running out of time.

Hey Natty Honey!  How's it going, beautiful girl?  Did you watch "Wall Street"?  The computer made me watch it 2 days in a row.  But it's a great movie, no doubt.  It's one of those movies that I could watch over and over again.  However, it's technically a "guy" movie.  The only main female role, the "femme fatale" was a ho.  So there would not be any dignified part for my Natty in that movie, even though there were no sex scenes.  Dignified part?  What's that?

Anyway, gotta go!  No time to waste!

Be with me

Hi Honey!  Instead of overworking, come and be with me on Second Life.  I'm usually there at Kuula everyday from 7 am to 9 am PST, if not you can use the Instant Messenger to contact me.  First you have to open an account.  Then you choose an avatar, and download the viewer.  Once you've logged in, you can come find me or contact me with the Instant Messenger.  Here's what I look like:

Of course, I change my clothes and hair every day.  Fashion!  The top name is the name I chose for myself, and the bottom name is my username.  The username is what you use to IM me.  You will have to make the effort to convince me that you are you, it is the Internet after all.  Hopefully you will discover that SL has a myriad of uses, and you will enjoy it as much as I do.  I admit that I am there to work, but if you are with me then I will have no need for an apprentice.  Oh, you are afraid of meeting me?  Please don't be.  I love you and I will marry you inshaAllah.

Hey Natty Honey!  How's it going today?  Uh oh, today the computer wants you to watch "Wall Street" from 1987.  Oh no!  The dog has fleas!  SELL!  SELL!  Teldar Paper!  Bluestar Airlines!  Anacott Steel!  Ha ha ha ha 😁  This movie sure has a lot of quotables.  It sure is a family business too.  They should have cast Kirk Douglas in there, maybe as a street sweeper.  I guess in order to get past the nepotism of Hollywood, we're just going to have to create our own family circle.  Is that justice?  I don't know.  What I do know is that I'm not going to have any old blonde be a movie star.  I can only endorse my wife.  "Breed is good".  Sigh.  We must try to keep our kids away from showbiz.  InshaAllah.

Qur'an 20150816

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

5.  The similitude of those who were charged with the Mosaic Law but who subsequently failed is that of a donkey which carries huge tomes.  Evil is the similitude of people who falsify the Signs of Allah.  And Allah guides not people who do wrong.

6.  Say, "O you who stand on Judaism!  If you think that you are friends to Allah to the exclusion of humans, then express your desire for death, if you are truthful!"

7.  But never will they express their desire for death because of what their hands have sent on before them!  And Allah knows well those who do wrong!

8.  Say, "The death from which you flee will truly overtake you, then will you be sent back to the Knower of things secret and open, and God will tell you the things that you did!"

9.  O you who believe!  When the call is proclaimed to prayer on Friday, hasten earnestly to remembrance of Allah, and leave off business.  That is best for you, if you only knew.

10.  And when the prayer is finished, then may you disperse through the land and seek of the bounty of Allah, and celebrate the praises of Allah often, that you may prosper.

11.  But when they see some bargain or some amusement, they disperse headlong to it, and leave you standing.  Say, "That from the Presence of Allah is better than any amusement or bargain!  And Allah is the Best to provide."

Friday 62:5-11
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Standard recipe

When we are married and together inshaAllah, I think that would be a pretty good feeling do you agree?  I believe we really love each other.  And since I have no friends, I would be with my wives pretty much 24/7.  But right now, America loves Erin.  Check out this page I found this morning:  'The Sandlot' turns 25
Baseball is a standard formula, right?  Some tactics produce better results than others, and some athletes are better than others, but you're not going to find an island in a pond in the middle of a baseball diamond, right?  That would change what baseball is and what people want out of it.  The same goes with food.  Sometimes creativity is important, other times standard recipes are appropriate.  For lunch I made "keow teow kerang" (fried flat noodles with cockles), a local staple and one of my favorites.  It's made out of flat noodles, garlic, cockles, soy sauce, egg, bean sprouts, and chives are optional.  It has to be made the same way every time, otherwise it wouldn't be "keow teow kerang".  It can only be average, because you can't do or add anything to it, otherwise it wouldn't be "keow teow kerang".  You may add more bean sprouts or cockles, you can make it nice and tidy, but the best version is always the average version.  Because it is a local favorite, it is what people expect to eat, it is a standard recipe.  It is NEVER exceptional.

Natty, that is a smart looking coat.  But escapism is an emotion, as opposed to an intellectual pursuit right?  The desire to get away from reality.  Desire is an emotion, right?  Not to be confused with creativity, no matter how it feels, escapism eventually leads back to reality.  Because it needs reality to escape from.  I didn't feel like cutting the grass this evening.  I would rather be doing something else, or nothing at all.  If I escape doing chores, is that escapism?  I am probably the world's laziest person, but I still do my chores.  Otherwise my house would be filled with cat poo.

There is no such thing as "The Perfect Feeling"

I told you this many years ago, in fact it's the first thing I talked about when I wrote to you the first time.  That's why people drink and do drugs: they get drunk or high, and it's better than reality.  Then the buzz is gone, and so is "The Perfect Feeling".  We can get a glimpse of "The Perfect Feeling", then the glimpse is gone and that's what makes it imperfect.  The imperfections of life are certainly frustrating and irritating, but perfection is what God promises the righteous if they get to heaven.  But what if someone says, "I don't believe in God"?  Then let them find out when they find out.  In the meantime, let them stay out of my life and out of my way.  So Honey, please don't go wanting for "The Perfect Feeling".  Just settle for the next best feeling, which is patience.  So here we go on with life, dangling onto one situation to the next, completely out of control.  Has it ever occurred to you that your life doesn't belong to you?  Life, and death, belong to God.

Natty Honey, you look so cute!  Oh are you finally getting some sun?  Well, have plenty of fun Sweetheart, and enjoy your career.  The computer wants you to watch "The Gods Must Be Crazy" from 1980 again.  You don't have to focus on it: just let it play, with the volume on, while you do whatever it is you are doing.  Please watch these movies along with me as I ask you, because the world is watching us watch movies together.  Please take the movie business seriously, Movie Star.

Please don't overwork

You don't have to.  Allah has given you wealth enough, that you don't have to work so much.  Then comes the time inshaAllah when I will pay for us.  Please don't do drugs or booze, please don't harm or kill yourself.  Have faith, that we will be together.  I love you, and I want you to be safe.

If you want to be with me, then be with me.  I am always on Second Life, and if you are here with me, then I don't have to use an apprentice.

Cool Wednesday

Did you hear that Keyser Söze got a sex change, and is now known as Keyser Susie?  😛  How are you today, Honey?  I hope you are not overworking.  You don't need to, you know.  You need to enjoy your life and role as American Princess.  I liked today.  It was another nice day for me, alhamdulillah.  The morning was nice and cool, so I slept in after the dawn prayer.  And since it's been raining a lot, I don't need to water the plants.  I had some of my Mom's delicious fish curry for lunch.  Just the curry.  I've been eating smaller portions of everything lately.  Then in the evening, since I had broken my foot massage tile, I went and bought a new one.  It's just a bunch of river rocks set in concrete that you step on to massage your feet.  Works wonders for the knees.  I ate out for dinner, had fried noodles then a vanilla cone at McDonald's.  Then went to the supermarket for a few groceries.  Nice and cool and easy Wednesday.  Alhamdulillah.

Natty, I have been warned that since I intend to marry you, I must give you some sort of dowry.  But I am poor.  I'm just a musician.  My worldly possessions are my cats, some musical instruments, a couple of old computers, a motorcycle and some cash for groceries and bills.  But the music has some power mashaAllah, so I have the faith in Allah that I will be able to finance my family.  What I can give you is some original music as dowry until the time I can afford a ring inshaAllah.  A song.  Please give me some time to prepare it, and I will present this song as dowry to you on May 1, 2018 inshaAllah, so that you will marry me and be my second wife.  What I want from you is your chastity, integrity and piety.  Please forgive me for my shortcomings.

Here is a snapshot of another of my cats.  Her name is Luka Floofysdöttir.  Isn't she pretty?

BBQ beef ribs

Hi Honey!  How are you, my beloved?  I'm doing great today, alhamdulillah.  I just had BBQ beef ribs for dinner.  Oh so good!  Nothing matches the experience and the flavor of BBQ beef ribs.  Messy food, probably not the healthiest food, but oh so good!  Even the experience of having BBQ ribs in a restaurant is enjoyable- I recall many a good meal at those "All-U-Can-Eat" beef rib places.  Not all of them are the same- some of them slap some BBQ sauce on boiled ribs then microwave them.  Ugh.  Lately my butcher has been selling nothing but veal.  From his chatter, I gather that the tenderness of veal competes with imported beef, local beef is very lean as it is.  But veal, though tender, is leaner than that.  But the ribs are nice and fatty, which is the only cut of veal I probably like.  Now the locals have realized that ketchup makes a splendid BBQ sauce base, and the supermarkets have been frequently out of the big packets of ketchup.  So I bought chilli sauce instead, which is chilli flavored ketchup, and made my BBQ sauce from that.  I didn't want to travel far for the ingredients, so I improvised with local staples.  So instead of butter, I precooked the ribs in "kerisik" which is coconut shavings reduced in oil until brown, and garlic.  Add the chilli sauce, sugar and soy sauce, and we're in business.  I sat and enjoyed my BBQ beef ribs right at the grill in a cloud of smoke.  I'm a sight to see, sweaty and covered in charcoal dust and splatterings of BBQ sauce.  Messy food.  Happy food.  Then I washed it down with a freezing cold bottle of Coca Cola.  I didn't take a snapshot though- I can't handle a camera and deal with BBQ ribs at the same time.  But you know what BBQ ribs look like, right?  What we need is "Smell-a-vision".  No Honey, I don't know how to make vegetarian BBQ beef ribs.

Hi Natty Honey!  Do you want some BBQ beef ribs?  It's as good as pizza!  How's business going?  Are you having tons of fun?  Natty, people have been bitching at me that models can't act.  I want you to prove them wrong.  Take acting classes and more importantly, get in tune with your emotions like a good singer.  Express your emotions more.  Use your Instagram, and express your emotions to me.  Anyway, today the computer wants you to watch "Star Wars Episode 2: Attack Of The Clones" from 2002.  I like this movie, but I admit it's kind of cheesy.  You don't need to be a good actress for this movie.  Just be pretty and wear the right clothes.  Big name movie, though.  Some people got their "big break" from the Star Wars episodes 1 and 2.

Monday

Hi Honey!  How are you today?  How's work coming along?  Let me guess what you're up to...  Are you doing something for GQ?  Are you in Germany?  Just guessing.  I'm still kind of grumpy, and emotionally wasted from being angry.  I hate being angry.  But the weather has cooled down, because it rained just now.  So I'm pleased about that.  Alhamdulillah.  I spent the morning paying bills, bought a gallon of bleach and some gasoline, then got a haircut.  Nothing special on the menu.  I don't have much of an appetite, so I bought some pastries from the supermarket, then for dinner I had some fish sausage from the night market.  That's it.

Hey Natty Honey!  Has life gotten crazy and hectic again?  Are you having fun?  I sure hope so.  Don't forget this when you work, you are MY girl.  Do you like comedy?  The computer wants you to watch another movie.  Please do so, Movie Star.  The computer is very clever about these things.  From 1971, Monty Python's "And Now For Something Completely Different".  It's basically a collage of comedy sketches from the TV show.  Why are there mostly guys in comedies?  Hm.  You can't fake good humor, you know.

Full moon

Yeah Erin, I know who the culprit is.  We all know her, but I'm not naming any names.  I want you to know that it's you I will marry inshaAllah.  I love you, Erin.

I'm in a bad mood today.  Not it's not that, it's something else.  I woke this morning knowing it is going to be one of those days.  Maybe it's the full moon.  Dinner wasn't that great.  I'm still clearing out my fridge, and using up the food that's in there.  I had eggs on rice with spicy eggplant for dinner.  Nothing exciting.  Filling.

Hey Natty Honey, how are you?  Are you working today?  I know the past week has been very emotional for you, but everything will turn out great inshaAllah.  You will be fine Honey, I'm with you always, and I won't abandon you.  So hang in there, and have a great time OK?