Cockroaches in the water

 Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope all is well with you, and you are keeping safe.  It's Friday over here for me, and nothing much going on but the same old same old.  I had to attend the Friday prayer, of course.  They talked about conserving water in the sermon.  The Friday sermon is the same for every mosque in the state.  Islamic activity is monitored and managed by the state government, and the boss official is called the mufti.  I have no rank within the local nor global Islamic hierarchy.  I am a commoner, which is what I should be, because I am a musician.  I finally got to finish cooking my beef jerky today.  It's a sweet batch, and definitely made for snacking, even though I made it hot.  That's because I used fresh hot peppers, which are easier on the stomach.  Would you like to try some?

Beef jerky time

 Hi Natty!  How are you today, my precious darling?  I'm guessing that you are as excited and possibly agitated as the people around you.  Don't you worry about a thing, my love.  Everything is going to work out just great for us inshaAllah.  You are so beautiful to me, and I love you with all of my heart.  I'm going to marry you inshaAllah.  This evening I went outside to check see if the weather permitted me to do yard work.  It looked like rain, but maybe not.  It drizzled lightly on me, then perhaps not.  I guess Allah gave me the option of doing yard work or not (it didn't rain, but I didn't know that until later).  So I chose the lazy option, and made a batch of beef jerky instead.  This time, I wanted to make it sweet and spicy.  I used up the last 2 tablespoons of the kilo of sugar that I had in my cooler since before the Covid started.  That should give you an estimate of how much sugar I consume.  I like sweet things, I'm just not addicted to them.  Anyway, I made curry pups at the same time.  The beef jerky isn't finished yet.  I have to cook it for a long time at very low heat, and I can't let it cook unsupervised.  So I have to cook it a couple of hours at a time, and it should be done tomorrow evening.  Do you want some beef jerky?  There's plenty, you know.

Reprogram the body

 Hi Natty!  How are you today, my beautiful princess?  People in your area are obviously hyped up today, so please try to avoid them and stay indoors and out of sight.  Yes Honey, it is exciting.  It's almost like a sports event, but with old men.  I don't watch sports though.  I do like to cook, especially now that I don't have to work in the food business anymore.  Allah gave me the evening off, so I stayed in the kitchen.  I made dough, I made curry pup stuffing, and I made my dinner, which was chicken tenders and fries.  I made a discovery today.  I had leftover flour from coating the chicken with flour, I had leftover egg from dunking the chicken in the egg, and I had leftover breadcrumbs from coating the chicken in breadcrumbs.  So I poured the leftover egg into the leftover flour and stirred it up.  It made a batter, right?  Then I carefully poured that batter over the leftover breadcrumbs and carefully folded the breadcrumbs onto the batter so the batter was encapsulated in breadcrumbs.  When the time was right, I scooped up the batter that was coated with breadcrumbs with a spoon and laid it into the hot grease.  It came out like a chicken tender, except the batter had turned into a sort of bread.  So basically I wound up with a crispy chewy breadstick that was coated with crunchy breadcrumbs.  It was a surprising success.

It's bikini time for Mary Unknown7's avatar!  But it's November!  Everyday is bikini weather in Second Life!  Mary can't wear a bikini in real life, and she's even shy about it in Second Life, so today was a rarity.  I noticed after the photo shoot that her hands were too small.  Mary said she didn't notice that.  She did notice yesterday however that her butt was too big, so she told me to fix that.  We recently got a new mesh head for Mary's avatar, and a mesh head has to be used with the shape that is provided with it.  The last mesh head, an Akeruka Limited Edition, had a nice body that we had worked on and gotten used to.  Now that we switched to the Catwa HDPRO, we are still in the process of reprogramming the body.

Yet another average day

 Hi Natty!  What's going on over there?  Have you caught election fever?  I suppose it's kind of an interesting one this time.  I think it might get rowdy, so please try to stay indoors and avoid people.  It's another average day here for me.  The cat keeps on taking my knee pillow, so I went downtown to buy another one.  I ate out for lunch.  Today's theme ingredient is rice vermicelli: soup for lunch, fried for dinner.  I suppose I could have cooked something else, but instead of buying ingredients I bought junk food.  And I had a lot of rice vermicelli at home, so there you go.  These are a couple of snapshots on Google, not exactly what I made nor ate but I don't really bother taking photos of my food anymore.  Too lazy.  Stock photos will do.  Want some?

Takoyaki

 Hi Natty!  How are you?  I hope all is well with you.  Now don't you worry so much, just relax and enjoy being at the top of the food chain.  Speaking of which, I just finished my dinner.  I had to lock Lookie and Lily up in the kitty litter room so they're not constantly in my face while I'm trying to eat.  Bro is a good boy though, so I don't have to lock him up (unless I'm preparing cat food).  He still begs a little for a taste, but he's not as aggressive and tenacious as the girls.  I can't give them anymore snacks!  Why?  Because they get diarrhea, that's why!  And I'm the one who has to clean it up!  Besides, they get the best cat food in the world, prepared with love and caution by my own personal chef.  Anyway, I had to spend money at the night market so that's where I got my dinner.  Apart from the usual stuff, there was something new: a guy was selling takoyaki.  A local interpretation of takoyaki rather, as I can't imagine the locals eating octopus.  So I went ahead and bought some.  There was no octopus of course, but I had mine with dried squid.  It was good.  I have no complaints.

Just another average day

 Hi Natty!  How are you, my darling?  Are you healthy and having fun?  I hope you are.  It's just another average day here for me.  Today is Sunday, and I had to clean my mother's bedroom as usual in the morning.  I always eat takeout rice for Sunday lunch, so I don't have to cook.  I did cook my dinner though.  I made teriyaki chicken again, with ginger.  It tasted exactly like teriyaki chicken on rice, but with ginger.  I made another batch of cat food at the same time.  The cats really like my recipe.  It must be like ice cream to them.  In fact, I keep the cat food in an old plastic ice cream container.  Deliciously creamy!  Fish ice cream!

The Catwa hdpro Majer mesh head

 Hi Natty!  How's life today as a Hollywood star?  Yeah this is it, this is the gig, even though everyone always expects something different.  Try to relax and enjoy yourself, and don't get worked up about little things.  Take your time.  How about a hobby?  Instead of social media, how about you master a video game?  Second Life, perhaps?  I had the opportunity to invest in Mary Unknown7's avatar, so I took it.  Get it while you can, you know what I mean?  I bought her the Catwa hdpro Majer mesh head.  It's not necessarily prettier than the Akeruka limited edition head she's been using.  After all, Mary has a certain look that she wants to maintain, so a new mesh head isn't going to deviate from that look.  What makes this mesh head better is that it's more expressive: she can smile much easier now!  It also seems to have a built in face light, which not only illuminates the face but the whole avatar, making it brighter than other avatars.  Some people would call that cheating, but I like face lights.  So Mary will be using the Catwa Majer mesh head from now on.  You can compare it below with the Akeruka head, tell me which one you like better.  I also bought her the Slink Physique mesh body.  She's currently using the TMP/Meshbody Classic mesh body.  TMP/Meshbody mesh bodies kick the competitions' asses because of the smoother lines and beautiful armpits, but the Slink Physique isn't bad.  Plus, Mary has hundreds of Slink shoes which she's not going to discard anytime soon.