7:50 PM. Everyone home, at last. Getting drizzly. We just ordered food from Chow King and bought fresh mangoes at the Sitio Catacutan fruit stand.

Minimal TV for me tonight. I'm devouring one of the Judge Dee books that arrived this afternoon. I love losing myself in stories of ancient China. It is something that no other Filipino writer I know of enjoys. I must have been a mandarin in one of my past lives.