Regardless of what appears below it is all good fun & these folks are absolutely the best at what they do (whatever that is....)
    These are the folks that make all our stuff come together - the hotel rooms, the event locations, the shipping, the booth build - all that crap.
    They are all extremely efficient, incredibly well organized, and genreally a lot of fun to be with......

That being said -

I'll work on this as time permits - but for this event I'm with:

Laura Cioffi
    - invisible to service staff in restaurants
    - has champagne tastes on Guarana budget
    - recent (but fervent) convert to the benefits of Tiramisu and Leibfraumilch (but not combined)

Susan Hayden
    - can speak in almost any language with her hands & strategically places "o"s and "el"s
            "Cost-o"?  "El Check-o, por favor"
    - or just speak to them in English as if they know what the hell you are saying
    - actually - Susan is quite good at translation & important phrases and really could care less if she is understood or not
    - can chronicle any event with frightening detail - particularly if you've fucked something up (but I mean that in a good way)
    - cheap date (one beer & buzzed)
    - can turn a ten dollar project into sixty or seventy
    - has little tolerance for "International Incidents" and therefore keeps a tight reign on my behavior
    - will tell you way more than you want to know about "slave necklaces" - just ask her!

and special Guest from the Brazilian Office -
Andrea Bakotic
    - this show is Andrea's - we're just here as grunts....
    - I don't really know Andrea well enough yet to make many comments comfortably, but...
    - Andrea can get pretty excited while talking - and will tend to try to maintain eye contact (even if you're behind her).... therefore she appears to have a tendency to bang into large, mostly immovable objects (like trees & concrete pillars)
    - fortunately, (for her), Andrea appears to bounce quite well.....
    - at one time Andrea lived here in Brazil & leaned quite passable Portuguese.... unfortunately, she cannot spend every waking moment with us on our travels - and if she did this little journal would most likely be really boring...........