A shot of the drizzly sky above my place taken one late afternoon, on August 20,

It’s been raining here almost nonstop for several days here since Saturday. The direct cause isn’t a strong tropical storm or typhoon, but how this affects and magnifies the monsoon weather (or “habagat” as it’s known in these parts) we have right now. Hoping not have a repeat of what happened last year and I actually want to go back to work. And Tina Turner’s “I Can’t Stand the Rain” is running an ad nauseum loop in my head …