Just an average day

 

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope all is well with you, and you are healthy and happy.  It's just an average day here for me, not much going on other than the usual.  I had to go downtown in the morning to pick up my mother's meds.  Then I had lunch downtown: back to the place I always went for rice vermicelli soup.  Omar had been closed for 6 months for fear of the virus.  Poor guy.  The virus is a sign of Judgment Day, so don't fear the virus but fear God.  I was going to cut the grass at my grandparents' graves in the evening, but that didn't work out.  Instead I made another batch of peanut butter, extra chunky!  Then I cooked my dinner, a cheeseburger with fries.  You know what, Natty?  I love you no matter what day it is!

A very long movie

 

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope you are doing well.  I want you to know that I think of you always, and I long to be with you always.  Try not to be sad, and I will try too OK?  Yeah, sometimes it feels like we're in a very long movie.  And I've been in that movie about 30 years longer than you.  No, I don't want a movie to be made about my life.  I just got done watching "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.  Now THAT is a long movie.  About 12 hours long, and it took me 7 days to finish it.  So why did Frodo leave Middle Earth?  Because the ring killed him.

Qur'an 20210920

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

100.  Say, "Not equal are things that are bad and things that are good, even though the abundance of the bad may dazzle you.  So fear Allah, o you that understand, that you may prosper."

(The Repast 5:100)

Hi Natty!

 Wow, that's a great photo of you.  I love your serious face.  You always look great to me.  You are so beautiful Natty, and I love you with all of my heart.  It's Sunday here today, and it's been a busy day.  I managed to record some drum fills at a very low volume.  I'm having a lot of fun with this current project, making up for having no equipment with scientific trickery and changes of perception.  Hee hee!  I'm not going to talk about it.  Let it be a mystery.

Wow, there are so many female heavy metal drummers in Japan.  I didn't know heavy metal was that popular over there.  The band names over there are very interesting.  Junna is my favorite Japanese female drummer.  She's got flair and charisma.

Steak and hummus calzones with curry dip

 

Hi Natty!  Hi there, you beautiful creature!  What's going on?  I hope all is cool with you.  Are you hungry?  I made some steak and hummus calzones with curry dip for dinner.  Yeah, I had to use up all that hummus I made.  I actually tried making hummus calzones before, but it tasted incomplete.  I so decided to push it further by adding meat and curry.  It probably would have worked if I put the curry inside the calzone, but this way is a little more civilized don't you think?  The dip is just mixed curries that I bought from Embun's restaurant at the crossroads.  That's where I usually buy my lunch when I'm too lazy to cook.  The calzones came out nicely, I think.  Nice and round.  They're about fist-sized, maybe smaller.  Want one?

Peanut butter

 

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  Is everything ship-shape, Sailor?  I'm doing OK over here, just longing for you as usual.  I went to the Chinese grocery store the other day to get a pack of my favorite fried peanuts.  The usual brand I buy was sold out, but there was another brand that was more expensive and well-packaged.  The peanuts were tightly vacuum-packed and that's the key to buying cooked peanuts, is that the vacuum pack isn't compromised.  However, the peanuts didn't taste good.  It didn't taste bad, and it didn't even taste neutral.  Which may seem strange, but this is my palate and my blog.  I'm not going to eat all those peanuts as is, but I can't throw them away either.  So I decided to turn them into peanut butter.  I don't have a food processor, but I do have a blender/grinder.  I had to grind the peanuts up before putting them into the blender.  I added some real butter in there, in the hope that it would help move the mix and add flavor.  I guess I should have melted the butter first.  In the end, I had to add palm oil to get the mass to move in the blender.  The end result was a success, plus I know for certain that it has no sugar.  I'm pretty sure you love peanut butter, and there are even the brands you are used to available here possibly.  But I can safely claim that the home made stuff is better.  It's strange how sweet the peanut butter is over the peanuts it was made from.

Relativity as applied to the valuation of values

 Hi Natty!  How are you today, Honey?  I hope you are feeling well, and all is well.  Have you done your accounting?  Don't procrastinate with your accounting, Honey.  Something is better than nothing, and have a permanent place among your stuff for your accounting.  Do it yourself unless you can afford to pay someone to do it for you.  Tax years move faster than regular years so please don't be a politician, and make sure you are current with the taxman.

I worked on my latest wands this evening.  I don't have any tools other than a hacksaw and a flat file, so it's a long process.  I don't even have any clamps, nor anything to clamp the clamp onto.  I have to hold the bamboo with my hand and work it with the hacksaw, and that damn thing snags like hell.  But I finally got past the hacksaw stage, next I can start with the flat file.  I did create a splinter on the smallest wand.  Careless and impatient.  The splinter isn't on any impact point but on the handle, so I may have to tape it.  Damn.  That pisses me off.