Interference

 

Hi Natty!  How are you?  I hope all is well with you, and you are safe and healthy.  I'm a bit grumpy today, I'm afraid.  Too much labor.  Ironically, more labor is needed to work off the anger.  So I did a lot of burning in the evening.  About time, too.  Things are finally drying up enough to burn.  I would have preferred to hammer on the drums.  Ugh, my left arm is shaking...

I'm sorry about the interference in Mary Unknown7's set today, folks.  Hackers.  But I'm sure you stuck around and waited for her to come back, so we would like to thank you for that.  She sang a bit of Sia's "Chandeleir" today.  I was surprised.  She always said she couldn't reach that note, and the song is worthless without that note.

Born to be a stud

 

Hi Natty!  How's the prettiest girl in the world doing today?  What, they're not as pretty as you?!  Please pray for them, and give thanks to Allah for your beauty.  You are the girl I love with all of my heart.  Ya Allah, please protect my Natty.  Check out the food in the video above!  Which one is your favorite?  I have to say that the Covid soup is the best dish!

Lookie is 7 years old now, and she needs to have her first batch of kittens because she's getting old.  She's been in heat lately, and Adolf Kitler hasn't been doing his job pumping out kittens whenever she's been in heat.  The most he's been doing for her is lying on his side and gnawing on her kitty G-spot.  If you folks don't know where the kitty G-spot is, it's the scruff of the neck but you need to bite it with sharp teeth in order to stimulate it properly.  I suppose it's good that he's relieving some of her tension while she's in heat, but we're going to need those kittens because she's not going to live forever, and Lookie is the last of Floofy's kittens.  I want to extend Floofy's bloodline as long as possible.  Today it seemed the last day of her current heat, and I finally saw them doing the deed properly.  I think we are going to have kittens!  InshaAllah.  Kittens are a big deal in this house.

This dress is supposed to be black and red, but you can't see the red with ALM on.  No wonder it was on sale.

Urban hell

 

Natty, you're so pretty!  I love those photos.  Yes there's no doubt: you are the prettiest girl in the world.  Where are you now, Honey?  Are you still in the city?  Or are you always in the city no matter where you are?  For a nature girl, you always seem to me to be enjoying the city.  I'm glad I don't live in the city.  It didn't work out that way intentionally, I just followed the path that Allah put me on.  When I was young, I always loved the city and its toys.  Then it happened, that living in the city sucks when you don't have any money.  Not having money sucks period, but poverty is more intense in the city.

Especially since the Covid, it doesn't really matter nowadays where you base your career because of the Internet.  If I had brought Mary to the city, it would have taken much longer for her to get to the karaoke joint in Second Life, and easier for Mary to get caught and killed.  It seems that neither talent nor beauty matters anymore in the city: one has to overcome the selfishness of survival.  Which is true anywhere of course, but much more intense in the city.  What about the rural poor?  How to raise the quality of life and wealth of the rural?  It seems to me that one has to turn the village into a city.  Have something to attract people to come here and plant their investment.  And once the village becomes a city, then it gets the problems and intensity of the city.  Ugh.  How awful.

 

Christmas politics

 

Hi Natty! How are you today, Honey?  I'm sure you are busy, so please take care of your health and safety.  Get lots of beauty sleep after all, you are a beauty.  I hope doing Christmas politics isn't bringing you down too much.  We have to do politics even though we're not politicians, and it sucks.  I hate politics but you are a sociologist, so perhaps you might find some enjoyment in the process.  Isn't it annoying about people who don't give a shit about God unless the situation is in their favor?  C'est la vie, such is life.  God be the Judge.

What else did I do today?  Not much that is different or interesting.  I did my laundry in the evening, because tomorrow morning I have errands to run.  This morning, I had errands to run.  So I had lunch downtown, rice vermicelli in soup.  Good stuff, you must try it someday inshaAllah.  Dinner was eggs and beans with sliced bread.  Convenient with laundry.  Want some?

Coffee

 

Hi Natty!  Whatcha doin', Honey?  I assume you are busy being a Christmas figurehead, running around doing all sorts of festive things.  Well you're gorgeous my darling, and I love you with all of my heart.  Oh, my parents came back!  I guess they didn't like it over there.  Looks like I have to go back to the old schedule.  I'm glad I put down those drum tracks yesterday...

I thought of you somehow when I was making coffee this morning.  Coffee makers are hard to find here, because nobody uses them.  What rules here are instant coffee and coffee grounds.  Can't find coffee filters here, either.  I recall the days when I was a 20-something musician in SLC, when coffee filters were cheaper than toilet paper.  In fact, we used them as toilet paper.  But over here I use coffee grounds, because instant coffee is overpriced for something that tastes and smells awful.  I just add water to a teaspoon of coffee grounds, then filter it with a steel strainer.  It doesn't get all the grounds, but they sink to the bottom.  And that's how most people here drink their coffee, is to let the grounds sink to the bottom and drink the top.  Espresso makers?  I think I've seen that at the supermarket, but no coffee makers.  The brand of coffee I use is the same one as the video below.  I love the fragrance.

The drum

 

Hi Natty!  How are you today, Honey?  I suppose you are getting into the spirit of the holiday season.  I hope you are having a great time Sweetheart, and enjoying good health as well.  I spent the evening today doing drum tracks.  Ah, there's nothing like live acoustic drums.  My main drum is something I made out of an old water reservoir, known locally as a "tempayan".  It sounds so good, Natty.  I mean, it sounds scary.  For the rim, I used the cage of an old fan which I noticed to be just about 20", the size of the drum head.  As you can see, I had to make some adjustments.  In lieu of tension rods, I found some tension hooks at the hardware store which I presume is for pitching tents.  I had them hooked up with steel wire to the grill of another old fan at the bottom of the reservoir.  I love this drum!  And there's still more I can do to make it perfect, but it already sounds so good.

I have decided that I can't rely on online shopping for the work that I do.  I'm certain that I would be wasting a lot of money online, especially in pursuit of name brands.  The only way to shop for name brands is to go to a brick and mortar store.  More than being ripped off, I have found it very entertaining to build my own musical instruments.  Not just in itself, but also to avoid "buying a new engine without a having a car."  You know what I mean?

Qur'an 20211204

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

38.  Say to the unbelievers, if they desist their past would be forgiven them, but if they persist the punishment of those before them is all ready.

39.  And fight them on until there is no more tumult and oppression, and there prevails justice and faith in Allah altogether and everywhere.  But if they cease, verily Allah does see all that they do.

The Spoils of War 8:38-39