Rainy Season Thoughts

Hong Kong is enjoying its summer monsoon season and so rains are frequent, though often tightly-bound geographically. In other words, precipitation can be bucketing down in one spot whilst just a few minutes’ drive away the pavements are as dry as a bone.

A couple of minutes’ worth of video taken through a passenger-side window of a moving vehicle on a wet mid-July afternoon just as it had begun spitting rain.
Hong Kong is a left-hand-drive region, so you’re seeing the right side of a highway.

I shaky-cammed the above video clip about a month ago, on July 14th, by pressing a phone hi-res-camera-side-outwards against the glass of a passenger side window in a moving vehicle on an afternoon when what became a heavy rain was just beginning to kick up.

Packing fasteners (photo taken in Early August). — Snapshot taken while I was packing up my lil’ home hardware store, showing some bins of stainless steel fasteners. Photo taken in Early August.

The move is over, has been over for several days. A few bits of our stuff, as inevitably happens, got scratched or dinged up in the process. We did a fair bit of the moving ourselves and yours truly got a bit dinged up himself. A couple of days of recuperation has made a world of difference. Now, we’re in the phase where we’re assembling furniture and shelving and waiting on the delivery of additional furniture and shelving. Unpacking hasn’t yet begun in earnest.