Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Monkeys

 

Hi Grace.  Yeah, I knew you would go.  You're stubborn like an old man.  Quarrelsome, too.  Get a security detail when you can afford it.

I live in the tropics, and there are certainly a lot of monkeys here.  Not in the village where I'm at, for most of the trees have been cleared out in favor of rice fields.  But it's not too long of a motorcycle ride to get to the jungle.  So occasionally, monkeys pay the village a visit.  All sorts of beasts come around actually, like big snakes and lizards.  Sometimes I wish I had a firearm but we have gun control here, so I have to make do with a steel rod or bamboo staff.

I don't carry a cell phone with me unless I have a task to do, or expecting a call.  It's just a personal habit, but there is a hacker in the area tapping into my cell phone signal.  He likes to mess with the Qur'an when I read it over at the mosque.  He has to be close by to do that, only a few houses away.  That's one of the "perks" of being famous Grace, is that you get monkeys swinging on your vine.  Since they do that to me out here in the Malaysian sticks, then they certainly do that to you over there in the US.  So keep that in mind when you have to go somewhere and there's a chance you need to make an emergency call.  Remember that cell phone hackers have to be nearby in order to affect your signal.  Stay on safe ground, Honey.