John Bayens is arriving here I think tomorrow night. I hope he’s remembered his umbrella as the rain is pretty damn intense at the moment.

When you consider the amount of rain we have here during our 9 month “winter” period you have to wonder how they managed to get the canal finished. The rain caused mudslides that killed thousands of workers. Speaking of which, Sunday was the 90th aniversary of the Canal. I think this still counts as one of the greatest construction feats ever. It has been such a benefit to the world that we must really thank the tens of thousands of people who came from all over the world to build (and many die while doing so) the canal.