I need stronger coffee

 Oh, pretty girl!  In pink pants!  Or are you a boy who wears pink pants?  That must be California I'm looking at, the survivors of a wildfire.  That ground sure looks dry to me, but I don't think there is enough kindle there to sustain another fire at this time.  Wish I were there with you, my love.

Ugh... I need stronger coffee.  These coffee sticks don't have the muscle to keep me awake while Mary Unknown7 sings.  I felt like my heart was going to stop.  It it just me, or does anyone else who listens to her have the same problem?  I got a sinus cavity infection about 2:30 am.  I took one too many pills to combat it, so I woke up at 9:45 am later and felt sluggish all day.  Recent events made me a bit paranoid, and that made me miss a delivery.  It's just a free cell phone, nothing I really needed, but it's nice to have another toy.  I did manage to leave the house today.  I did some shopping for my mother, and I bought more potatoes.  Dammit, I forgot to buy more coffee!

Coincidence

 

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope you are well, and everything is easy for you.  It's Sunday, and busy as usual.  I cleaned my mother's bedroom in the morning, then I had leftovers for lunch.  The Internet cut out 20 minutes into Mary Unknown7's set today.  If it had been a hack then it was a lame one, because the Internet was back up and running 20 minutes later.  16 hours earlier, Israel blew up a building that housed some global media organizations.  Note that the target was neither Hamas nor Palestine.  The target deserves part of the blame in this case.  If they were to pool all their resources into one spot during a war, of course it would become a military target.  It was a lame hack, though.  Perhaps the media would learn to spread out their base over a larger area.  This is the Internet age, one could run a media center out of an outhouse if need be.

I spent the evening breaking down the tree that had fallen alongside my grandfather's old house.  It has been raining a lot lately, so I had to cover all my skin with clothing and wear a hat because the air was thick with mosquitoes.  The dangerous type too, the black and white mosquitoes.  Please remember this mosquito, Natty.  It is extremely dangerous.

The mosquitoes were overwhelming me, so I had to start a fire somehow to get some smoke happening.  Good thing the tree was rotted out, that the rain didn't have much effect on it and I was able to burn it up.  I discovered the cause of death of the tree: termites.  The crown was enormous, and all I could do was snap off bits and pieces of it to throw into the fire.  I managed to clear out a lot of the smaller branches today.  It was a blessing that the tree fell perfectly parallel to the old house without killing anything, not even another plant.  It was a blessing, not a coincidence.

Qur'an 20210516

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

142.  The fools among the people will say, "What has turned them from the direction of prayer to which they were used?"  Say, "To Allah belong East and West."  God guides whom God will to a way that is straight.

(The Heifer 1:142)

Chilli sauce

 Hi Natty!  How are you feeling?  I hope you are feeling great and having a fabulous time.  Don't you be sad, because you are beautiful and you are MY girl.  Just keep yourself safe and healthy, OK?  For us.

Apparently I was mistaken about the chilli sauce that I bought.  I accidentally bought a bottle of chilli sauce when I intended to buy soy sauce, and it has remained unopened until today.  That's because my experience with chilli sauce is that it has ketchup and sugar in it.  But this sauce, cheap though it is, has no tomatoes in it.  That's what I would recommend for chilli sauce folks, choose the one that has no tomatoes in it ingredients.  this sauce I have was quite tasty, and went well with my fries.  It still had a lot of sugar, though.  But I guess it would be impossible to find a bottled chilli sauce, or ketchup, that had no sugar or sweetener.  Impossible!  I would have to make such a sauce myself.

Qur'an 20210515

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

139.  Say, "Will you dispute with us about Allah, seeing that God is our Lord and your Lord, and we are responsible for our doings and you for yours, and that we are sincere in God?"

140.  Or do you say that Abraham, Ismail, Isaac, Jacob and the descendants were Jews or Christians?  Say, "Do you know better than Allah?"  And who is more unjust than those who conceal the testimony they have from Allah?  But Allah is not unmindful of what you do.

(The Heifer 1:139-140)

More and less ketchup

 

Hi Natty!  How are you, my darling?  Google sent me the above video, and I immediately thought about you.  Please don't seek recreation from danger.  Please keep yourself safe and healthy, because I love you with all of my heart.

All the surplus food and cakes from the Eid has people riled up.  I'm sorry folks, but I'm not a trash can.  I can't just eat anything and everything, I'll get sick!  Now that I have become old, I prefer my own cooking.  I like fries, I ate fries pretty much every other day during Ramadan.  The trouble with being a fries connoisseur is that I have become sensitive to ketchup.  A 14oz squeeze bottle of Heinz ketchup is almost 30 bucks local currency here!  Yikes!  I found a different brand which is pretty close in flavor, and it comes in one kilo plastic bags.  The problem is once you open the bag, the stuff turns into laxative quickly.  Refrigerating it slows down the process, but I took my jar of ketchup out of the cooler to make way for a bottle of Coca Cola.  I thought it would last a couple of days until there was room, but I was wrong.  The ketchup totally ruined my fries lunch experience.  So I had to throw the stuff away.  So what do I do for ketchup now?  I don't want to go out and buy more while there are thugs on the road, besides the stores are still closed anyway.  I have a cheap bottle of chilli sauce which I bought by mistake, thinking it was soy sauce.  Chilli sauce here is chilli flavored ketchup, and I don't like the stuff.  But I guess I can't let it go to waste.

Coffee!

 

Selamat Hari Raya!  Hi Natty!  Today is the Eid, so I was wishing you Safe Eid.  How are you today, my love?  I pray that you are well and having a wonderful time.  I drank coffee today!  I'm so happy!  Not my usual blend, but a convenient name brand coffee stick.  But coffee nonetheless!  Housewives busy themselves this time of year making cakes and sweets to give out, and that's what you see above.  To me they all taste the same: like sugar.  Not to be rude, but I don't consume much sugar to begin with so I'm going to have to chuck most of them away.  I can't give them away, because I would only be giving them to the people who made them.  I was about the 4th chain in the link with the above sample as it is.  I'll probably hang on to the stuff I can swallow that lasts, as long as the ants don't claim them first.  Not to be rude again, but sometimes the ants don't want them either.

In other news, a black snake was lurking in the cage where I keep my motorcycle.  Black snake is cobra!  Big one too, this was about 2 meters.  Not a king cobra, but a cobra nonetheless.  In spiritual innuendo, I guess it means that some dangerous fuckers are targeting me most likely while I'm on the motorcycle.  I did manage to arm myself but the damned thing got away, and all I could manage was a lame miss.  Life is but a dream, huh?  When you see a dangerous snake, you can't just let it do as it pleases, you must confront and kill it!  This is true both awake and in dreams!