Friday, August 24, 2018

Qur'an 20180825

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

1.  Say, "God is Allah, the One and Only."

2.  Allah the Eternal, Absolute.

3.  God begets not, nor is God begotten.

4.  And there is none like unto God.

(The Purity of Faith 112:1-4)
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BBQ!

Oh of course I sill love you, Erin.  I'm just waiting for your response.  Until then, I guess I can't say much of anything to you.

Natty, I LOVE that skirt!  It's so CUTE!!!  I want it!  I want you!  So,Vogue Japan huh?  Congratulations.  Ask them to send my avatar one of those skirts.  Have you been studying Sailor Moon?  Yeah there are lots of anime from Japan, but the only one that concerns us is Sailor Moon.  Perhaps you've come across the manga, you may have noticed that it's not quite the same story as the anime.  There is a reboot of the Sailor Moon anime called Sailor Moon Crystal, which I hear is closer to the manga.  Even Sailor Moon herself looks closer to the manga (and nothing like a 15 year old girl).  I haven't watched the whole series yet.  The only ones I found on YouTube have Mexican subtitles, and I don't speak Mexican.  Maybe later on the years the series will fall into my lap, and I will watch it then.  Right now though, I'm in the middle of a SailorStars marathon!

Yay, BBQ!  I prepped a whole lot of ribs yesterday.  I originally planned to grill them up on Saturday, but I just couldn't wait.  So I set up my trusty stone grill this evening instead, and got ready to do some good old guzzling.  And the cats...  I swear cats are strange creatures.  I hadn't got the ribs out of the cooler yet, I was just walking out the door with a lighter in my pocket, and my house cats were meowing like crazy.  Then I was cleaning the grill, and the neighbor's cat came and watched me from a short distance and was drooling.  I mean, it was slobbering all over the ground, with a line of drool hanging down.  I was afraid it had rabies or something.  But my yard cats chased it away, so they were the ones that enjoyed the snackipoos for the day (because I don't grill inside the house, naturally).  Ah, there's nothing like the scent and flavor of charred animal flesh with BBQ sauce.  My BBQ sauce recipe... is for the family only, of course.  All I can say is today I made it with a base of honey and ketchup.  Yeah, I found a pint of local honey going for real cheap.  I ate 3 servings, which is about 6 whole ribs.  Not what you would call REAL gluttony.  There are probably some people that can eat a whole rack by themselves.  Emma enjoyed gnawing on the bones, but Bat Cat tasted one then lost interest.  He's a macho cat.  He catches his own food.

I had technical trouble on Second Life during voice training today.  While I was singing "Worry", the voice feed cut out.  More often than not, it was probably a hacker.  So I was trying to sing and fix the problem at the same time, because I had a local audience as well: I couldn't stop singing.  But alhamdulillah, someone fixed the problem on the other end, so the last half hour of the set went smoothly.  Thank you, whoever that was.