Just fed up with this weather. Enough is enough. I’m going to write a letter to the editors of the SCMP. I’m sure that will have a large impact.

This afternoon, wanted to go out for lunch, wanted to bring the dogs with me. Get to SK town, park the car, get out to the street and it starts coming down. It went from zero to buckets in a matter of seconds. Stood under an awning, waited 15 minutes and finally the rain stopped, made it to Cru, sat and had lunch.

Tonight. 6 PM is doggie dinner time. It’s raining, feed them, rain has stopped, get them outside again. Walking up to the road, water is pouring full speed through the drainage pipes, walk over a grate and notice it is filled with snakes, big ones, getting washed down the hill. Get about a kilometer down the road and it starts pouring down again. Run back to the house. All three of us – Spikey, Bogey, me – are soaked. Walk in the door, without thinking I grab one of the towels kept by the door for drying the dogs and use it to dry my own head. Now my head is dry – and covered in dog fur. Finish drying off the dogs and then jump into the shower.

Now it’s time to think about my dinner. Stay in SK or head over to HK? Either way, guess I won’t be driving with the top down tonight.

Note to self: don’t panic, pick the right towel!

Was trying to look up some Ry Cooder stuff on the Rolling Stone DVD-ROM (thanks e@l) and my computer wouldn’t read the disc. I thought, oh great, either another DVD-ROM drive down the drain or the disc has gone bad and I gotta see about getting a replacement. Then I noticed I had iTunes running. iTunes was so busy trying to figure out what disc was in the drive that it was just a few hertz shy of locking up the computer. Removed the disc, shut down iTunes, put the disc back in, worked just perfeckly.

Note to self: iTunes doesn’t play nice in the sandbox with others.

Last but not least, among all the options I’m considering, thinking that if it were to come to it, I’d downsize my life (or at least my lifestyle) in order to remain in HK. And then saw today’s Opus. (Click on it to see it full size.)


Note to self: Hide the sledge hammer.

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