It's mostly downhill from up here

 

Hi Natty!  How are you?  Are you enjoying the ride?  How's your back?  Please be careful and aware, because habitual injury can be irreversible.  Try to find a comfortable way to labor.  Sleep on the floor.  I sleep on the floor, and I don't get back pain.  Alhamdulillah.

It can get lonely at the top, but at least you're at the top.  The good news is that nobody can ever reach God, so there will always be steps to climb.  But if our agenda were anything other than God, then we're shit out of luck.  Only one direction to go.  So please be righteous.  I  love you for the sake of Allah.

Cowboy beans

 

Hi Natty!  How are you today, my darling?  I hope you are feeling great, and having a marvelous time.  I'm doing fine here, alhamdulillah.  I didn't have to go anywhere other than buy some breakfast for my mother, then lunch for myself, and that was just to the crossroads.  Traffic is constantly murder there nowadays.  It wasn't like that 10 years ago.

Are you a cowboy, Natty?  Do you eat beans?  Everybody knows that real cowboys eat beans!  Look at Blake Shelton!  After I cut the grass this evening, I had beans for dinner.  I had only 3 slices of bread left, including the butt end.  So I laid down some hot sauce in the pan, and heated it up.  Then I put my burger on that and cooked that up.  I dumped my beans on top of that and heated it until the whole mess was steaming hot, then I made a cavity in the beans and cracked an egg in there on top of the burger.  I put a lid on it and when the egg was done, I scooped it out with the burger and that was my sandwich.  Lookie and Adolf Kitler were all over me throughout dinner.  My cats love my beans.

Married

 

Hi Natty!  How are you?  How's business?  I hope you are handling life and work well.  It's business as usual over here for me.  It's Monday, and everyone seems to be rushing around and standing in line to take care of business.  See that old house up there?  I need to buy the land (and the land where I'm living now, which is at the end of that rubber hose), tear down the old house, and build a new house for my wife in order to get married.  So I need to remind everyone, if I failed to build a house here for my wife, then I will be forced to move out of this village in order to get married.

Yes I need to be married to my Natty, and today I'm very grumpy about it.  People may argue that Allah will take care of me, but it may be that Allah will do something different altogether, something that no one would enjoy.  So what did I do today?  I went downtown this morning to pick up my mother's prescription.  I went to the big supermarket and bought 3 bars of soap and a couple bags of potato chips.  Okra was dirt cheap, so I bought some of that.  I had lunch downtown, that's where I found out my cousin had just passed away.  I made white rice for dinner.  I sautéed onions in soy sauce, then mixed them with okra chunks.  I topped the rice with that, and topped all that with eggs fried in hot sauce.  Dinner was acceptable.  It was certainly better than yesterday's slop.  That was my Monday.  Business as usual.

The pest

 

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  Are you still mad at me?  Please don't be mad at me, because I love you with all of my heart and I will marry you inshaAllah.  How's your back?  Have you been laboring hard?  Try to stretch often, and sleep on the floor straight and face up to help your back.  I just got done with dinner, and it was crummy.  I had to cut the grass this evening then bust ass to feed myself before sunset, and I was in no mood to cook so dinner was crummy.  It was just a burger and fries, but it was crummy.  Goes to show that the product will suck no matter how much skill and experience you have, if you didn't give your work your heart and soul.

Lately somebody has been messing with Mary Unknown7's avatar.  The world of Second Life is made of many regions, and when the viewer program starts up it tries to communicate with the chosen region.  I've made a video of the startup above to show you.  Someone managed to sneak past my antivirus and run a program to hijack my network adapter and modem to deny my access to the region at the "Requesting region capabilities" point of the startup.  Obviously I found a solution, but that avatar is very important to us here at Shadowplay.  I have the task of protecting Mary Unknown7, and the avatar is how she presents herself to the world without having to show her face.  The avatar helps us convey that Mary Unknown7 is perhaps every bit as beautiful as her avatar.  What!  Are you folks suggesting that she isn't as pretty as her avatar?  You better not let Mary hear that.  You'll hurt her feelings.  She's very sensitive.

Qur'an 20211024

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

158.  Are they waiting to see if the angels come to them, or your Lord, or certain of the Signs of your Lord?  The day that certain of the Signs of your Lord do come, no good will it do to a soul to believe in them then if it believed not before, nor earned righteousness through its faith.  Say, "Wait you: we too are waiting."

159.  As for those who divide their religion and break up into sects, you have no part in them in the least.  Their affair is with Allah.  God will in the end tell them the truth of all that they did.

160.  He that does good shall have ten times as much to his credit.  He that does evil shall only be recompensed according to his evil.  No wrong shall be done unto them.

161.  Say, "Verily my Lord has guided me to a way that is straight, the religion of right, the path by Abraham, the true in faith, and he joined not gods with God."

162.  Say, "Truly my prayer and my service of sacrifice, my life and my death, are for Allah, the Cherisher of the worlds."

163.  No partner has God.  This am I commanded, and I am the first of those who bow to God's Will.

164.  Say, "Shall I seek for Cherisher other than Allah, when God is the Cherisher of all things?"  Every soul draws on the meed of its acts on none but itself: no bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another.  Your goal in the end is towards God.  God will tell you the truth of the things wherein you disputed.

(The Cattle 6:161-164)

Spaghetti Western

 

Hi Natty!  How are you?  I hope all is cool over there for you.  I made spaghetti for dinner for us but I guess you couldn't make it, so I ate the whole lot.  Are you mad at me?  I wanted it hot and spicy for a change, so I added green hot chilli peppers.  Lookie shared my spaghetti on your behalf.  She proved good at eating the noodles right out of the strainer, then sticking her nose into my plate.  She even likes the raw noodles.  Don't worry, Honey.  We'll have spaghetti dinner together someday, inshaAllah.

Instead of sharing my spaghetti, you can watch a Spaghetti Western with me.  I'm so glad this movie is on YouTube!  It's one of my childhood favorites.  "They Call Me Trinity"(1970)- that's the year the Beatles broke up!  The are at least 4 Trinity movies, but only the first 2 are any good.  After that Trinity got serious, and in a weird way.

Fried banana fritters

 

Hi Natty Honey!  How are you? Oh it's so exciting being you nowadays, huh supermodel?  That's because you're so beautiful, and I love you with all of my heart.  Please make sure you keep yourself safe and healthy OK!  Oh, there's not much going on over here other than the same old stuff.  I went and picked up my mother's prescription this morning, then I finally got around to making my ramen with the beef broth I brewed up a couple of days ago.  My ramen was OK, it came out mild but that's because I made extra care not to over-salt it.  It was also too busy, I guess I don't need fish cake and seaweed with beef broth.  Humph.  I've become so used to using fish, I guess I forgot that beef is a different animal.

I had spaghetti planned for dinner, then my Mom bugged me to get her some fried bananas.  I don't usually eat the stuff.  I don't dislike it but I can live without it, you know what I mean?  So any old recipe is the same for me, as you can see the video above.  But my mother lives and breathes the stuff.  She used to make it herself but the kitchen has taken its toll on her (that I can relate to), so I went to buy it for her from a hawker down the street west.  It turned out that I really liked it, so I went back and bought a bag for myself.  It was greasy and crispy.  I've tried fried bananas countless of times, but this one had that magic touch.  Otherwise I wouldn't have stuffed myself with it so much, that I had to cancel  my spaghetti dinner.  Even the cats liked it.  I was so full, it felt like I ate too much pizza.  Grease is gold!  I'm sorry if you had plans to come over and share my spaghetti with me.  Spaghetti for dinner tomorrow night, inshaAllah.  I would love to have you join me for dinner.