Tuesday, January 9, 2024

No farmers no food

 
Natty, where are you?  Please talk to me.  I love you.

No farmers no food, and that's only one aspect of it.  Food shortage is imminent.  Protect the food supply chain now.

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected.

50.  Say, "Explain to me if there came to you the Wrath of God by night or day, which punishment is asked to be hastened by the sinners?"

Jonah 10:50



Monday, January 8, 2024

James Bond

 
Natty, where are you?  Please talk to me.  I love you.

So who's going to be the next James Bond?  I sure hope they don't mess with his character: he's meant to be a callous womanizer.  So what if people hate that?  Make them love to hate it.  I repeat: MAKE THEM LOVE TO HATE IT.  The last real man on earth.  As for old versus new movies, there are good and bad on both sides.  The old movies did have the advantage of a smaller budget, so they were forced to focus on human details like story, situation, and character.  I suppose you could credit Ian Fleming for that.  But if he were alive today, he probably wouldn't know how to use a cell phone.  Anyway, here are a few of my favorite Bond moments:










Sunday, January 7, 2024

What the hell do I do with this?

 
Hi Natty?  How are you feeling, Honey?  I'm guessing the holidays were hell on the hormones.  Where are you now?  Are you in New York?  Please don't forget to talk to me, because I love you.  It's about a 3 day window before I need a Natty fix.  Today is day 3.  You don't have to do a photo shoot, just email me.  What a life, huh!  Don't look back, Natty.  It's the other wife who looks back, not you.  Please keep safe and healthy.

I was at the Chinese grocery store the other day to get some peanuts, and I saw pistachios going for cheap so I bought half a kilo.  But they weren't pistachios: they were gingko nuts.  What do I do with these?  They either have a meaty flavor to them, or they taste like chestnuts.  I hate chestnuts, but the meaty flavor has potential.  So I roasted the lot to no effect.  The dried up ones could use salt, so I shelled them all last night while watching TV in order to roast them again in oil and salt.  That took me 2 hours and hurt my thumbnail.  Was it worth it?  Probably not.

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected.

84.  Say, "We believe in Allah and in what has been revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Ismail, Isaac, Jacob and the tribes, and in given to Moses, Jesus, and the prophets from their Lord.  We make no distinction between one and another among them, and to Allah do we bow our will."

The Family of Imran 3:84


Saturday, January 6, 2024

Size is the difference

 
Hi Natty!  How are you?  Did something spook you?  It was probably nothing.  It was probably just a social spook.  I've lived in the city: the solution is not to be seen.  Your profile has gotten bigger.  We all dream about the big life, but we don't know what it's like until we get there.  Know who you are: you are MY girl, and I love you with all my heart.  Don't you worry about a thing, my beautiful Honey.  Everything will work out fabulously for us inshaAllah.  At least YOU get to have money.  Keep safe and healthy OK!  Ya Allah, please protect my Natty.


There seems to be some sort of trend in Japan, where they serve large portions and people come in droves.  The food is nothing special.  The cook in the video is so small compared to the portions he serves and his patrons.  That might be a business edge: if you don't have anything special to offer, just serve large portions and charge more.  People will think it's delicious.  I couldn't finish watching the video.  I got full in less than halfway through.

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected.

219.  They ask you concerning wine and gambling.  Say, "In them is great sin and some benefit for humans, but the sin is greater than the benefit."  They ask you how much they are to spend.  Say, "What is beyond your needs."  Thus does Allah make clear to you God's Signs, in order that you may consider.

The Heifer 2:219





Friday, January 5, 2024

Gunhilde's great adventure

 
Hi Natty!  How you doin' today, Honey?  How's the family?  I hope that all is well with you over there.  Don't get overwhelmed with all this globalism.  In the end, we're just another couple trying to get together.  Please keep safe and healthy for us.

My female cats are in heat right now, so I keep them separated from the boys in the kitty litter room.  Gunhilde escaped the room by weakening the barrier I set up at the window.  This leads to my grandfather's old house right next to mine, only about a meter away.  Gunhilde being an indoors cat since birth, had a sensory overload and became frightened.  She hid within the rubble and I didn't see her again until Mary was singing, when I saw Gunhilde outside cautiously inspecting the grass.  I tried to bring her inside but she was still frightened, and fled into the rubble.  Eventually the princess figured out that I was her ticket back into the palace, and I found her at sunset sitting on my motorcycle waiting for me.  Alhamdulillah she didn't get eaten or anything, she just missed a meal.  But the stress of her adventure made her puke out her next meal.  What a pampered pussycat.

You try to chase a frightened cat in this mess.  This is the same mess I have to clean up in order to build a house for my wife.  I can't even get started!  **Sob*"









Thursday, January 4, 2024

Bok choy

Hi Natty!  Hi Honey, it's good to see you.  Did you have a wealthy Christmas?  I hope you are having a wonderful time over there.  You probably don't know what to say to me, but I believe we really do need each other.  Just be mundane, how you feel, what's going on.  Please keep safe and healthy, OK.  I love you.

It seems to me that the humans will invest all their labor into tech, that they'll forget to invest labor into food.  But for right now, I'm still able to go to the market.  I bought some bok choy!  You eat both the leaves and stems.  I recently rebooted my fried noodles routine, and I think I perfected it.  InshaAllah.  This time, with bok choy.  The cats approved.



Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Lobster!

 
Natty, where are you?  Please talk to me.  I love you.

People are tattooing names on their foreheads, but I don't think the earth has changed the direction of its spin just yet.  The hot season began right on schedule here, January 1.  That's when it got hot and windy.  I spent the last couple of evenings burning trash coconuts, before things get too dry.  Intense storms don't really happen that often around here.  Sure it gets wet, but it's not often that God blows out adult trees.  The sea isn't that deep either, but it is muddy.  Which makes it great for shellfish and snails, but what about lobster?  I don't the locals have ever beheld lobsters, but if they grew in Vietnam then they can grow here.

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected.

16.  Say, "If Allah had so willed, I should not have rehearsed it to you, or would God have made it known to you.  A whole lifetime before this have I tarried amongst you.  Will you not understand?"

Jonah 10:16