Another day in Paradise.

It has been raining steadily now for 24 hours. Our goal of researching Jaco, finding the competition for our little publishing company and getting a feel for the place has been a bit difficult to reach - but we have done a lot under the circumstances.

We met Daphne today - a wonderful person who has lived and worked here for 13 years. It would have been a far more comfortable meeting if I had not literally been dripping wet, after slipping off a curb and landing in an inch and a half of water, but overall it seemed to go well. I am a bit nervous, because first impressions are important, and I think she is one of the company's most reliable and loyal customers - but not much to be done about it now.

We are in the middle of a tropical depression, and a "Yellow Alert" has been issued for flash floods and so on causing dangerous driving conditions. Dangerous here could mean that your car is in danger of being washed off the road into the ocean, as happened to one young family a few days ago. In any case, our research for the day has left us full of anticipation and excitement once again. This looks like a well established and wonderful little business, and we are really looking forward to meeting Ruth and getting down to the final discussions tomorrow.

Aska Banana!