The griefer

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope you are feeling great and having a great time.  Yes Honey, I listened to your podcast.  Sometimes it is not God's purpose to give us peace.  Why is that?  Perhaps our form of worship is unacceptable.  This is not a perfect world.  It's not supposed to be.

Oh, what did happen today?  Mary Unknown7 was able to start her set just fine, the setup went without incident.  But after the first song, my pc suddenly got an "out of memory" crash.  Which was weird to me, because there was no one else on the sim.  No big deal, I just rebooted and logged back into Second Life.  So she started singing again, then after a couple of songs the guy that had been interrupting her set for the past couple of days showed up, and asked us to help someone learn how to use the stream.  I took over the keyboard, and told him that we were "too busy to help him. Click the board if you want to sing."  So he clicked the board, and I took Mary's avatar over to the other side of the sim to continue singing.  Then the Internet slowed down, and we got logged out.  I'm guessing the Internet slowed down to 14.4 kbps (which was the speed of the Internet back in 1998), so I tried to log back in and miraculously, we got back in.  Mary's avatar didn't render, but the voice feed was working so she went back to singing.  Then I noticed that guy wasn't using the stream, so I put Mary on it.  Then he came over and shot her.  After being shot, Mary's avatar got teleported to a Safe Hub which is usually crowded, but there was only 3 people there.  The stream was still working, even though the Internet was still slowed down.  A little after midnight PST, we lost Second Life, but the stream remained connected right until the end of Mary's set.  I have no idea how we kept the stream.  Perhaps a thousand angels assisted us.  Thank You, ya Allah.

Why all the drama, though?  What else is going on?

Qur'an 20200421

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

3.  The unbelievers say, "Never to us will come the Hour."  Say, "No!  But most surely by your Lord, it will come to you, by God Who knows the unseen, from Whom is not hidden the least little atom in the heavens and the earth, nor is there anything less than that or greater, but is in the Record Perspicuous."

Sheba 34:3

The live audience

Hi Natty! How are you today?  I'm sure you are keeping busy.  I just got done with the sunset prayer, and I watched the Jap kids video before that.  I had rice for dinner, with sunny side up eggs and spicy sardines sauce.  The eggs were perfect today!  Until I tried to plate them, and broke one of them.  Sigh!  I think I'm getting a foolproof routine down though inshaAllah.

Mary had some trouble today with her set, some online rivals trying to mess with her emotions and her time.  I want you folks to know that she is never alone, I am always with her.  It is my job to protect her, I masquerade as her many times but she does the singing.  In crisis, I take over the controls and tell her to close her eyes and keep singing.  After all, there is still the local audience here at all times, which the West would find near impossible to capture.  I simply moved her to a different spot on the sim and turned the voice feed on.  Then it becomes a battle of stamina: who gives up first?

Anyway, next up is wardrobe.  I'm going to log back on with Mary, and I will listen to your latest podcast at the same time.  42 minutes, huh?  Congratulations.

Shopping

Hi Natty!  How's it going?  I hope everything is going well for you, and you are feeling good.  It's been a busy day for me.  I cleaned my mother's bedroom as usual every Sunday.  I made a quick lunch after that- scrambled eggs with 2 pieces of fresh pita bread.  In the evening, I went out to buy some supplies.  Ramadan begins this Friday, so I'm preparing for that.  I got lentils, beans, chicken breast, anchovies, etc.  Lentils are cheap, but you can't get too creative with them or they will taste like crap.  Just plain old hummus, but that should go well with pita bread.  I also bought some of those tiny shrimp which are plankton size.  I've never used them before, so I'm going to try some shrimp experiments with them.  Wish me success.

I was also busy on Second Life: TMP is having a giveaway on its classic mesh body for 1 Linden.  It was a maze I tell you, navigating the store and it was CROWDED.  Mary was off by then, so I used her avatar to get the gift.  I think I may have gotten the male body though, I don't know because I haven't opened the box yet.  If it is the male body then I can't show it to her.  She's very sensitive about that stuff.  Yeah, oh-so-feminine, huh?  I'm sorry, I'm sorry!  I'll delete it!

Qur'an 20200419

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

63.  People ask you concerning the Hour: say, "The knowledge thereof is with Allah."  And what will make you understand?  Perchance the Hour is nigh!

The Confederates 33:63

Real heroes have long hair

Hi Natty!  How are you, my love?  I'm sure you are as beautiful as ever.  I hope you are healthy and enjoying yourself.  I love you with all of my heart.

Here's to those of you who imprisoned in your homes, besieged by a virus, who survive to visit a barber.  Here's a meme for you: real heroes have long hair.

A nice, cool day

Hi Natty!  How are you, my darling?  I hope you are having a great time, and feeling healthy.  I had rice and sardines with eggs for dinner, do you want some?  I guess it's hard to make sardines glamorous, but the locals adore sardines.  So do my cats. I had to lock them up while I prepped the sardines.

It's been a nice, cool day over here, and I'm in a great mood.  But I'm oh so comfortable.  I just wanted to sleep all day.  I want to sleep right now.  But I have stuff to do.  Busy adult, work to do.  This time around, I actually enjoy my work so I don't want to miss out on it by sleeping too much.  Oh, but I love to sleep!  It's so comfortable right now...



Mary Unknown7 has so many black outfits, it's time to try to use them up.  Plus when reviewing new clothes, no more black!  And no more tube dresses either.  Such a lazy design.  Might as well wear a towel.