…and I am staggeringly drunk in a staggeringly short amount of time.  I'm sure that (for certain values of sure) I've only been in the city for an hour, and the taxi ride and check-in process took quite a while. [I am not proud, I merely document ( Read more... )

Well it isn't every day you save a multi-million Dollar/Euro/Pound/Real contract ( Read more... )

So Fred and Estêvão arrived last night, in fact I saw Estêvão arrive while I was in the lobby with Sergio and a CaipirinhaWe met at breakfast then walked to the laboratory this morning.  The weather was nice and bright and it's not as menacing as Aline (the cute receptionist) made out.  Either it's a lot worse after dark or they're overly ( Read more... )

Today was almost a wash-out. I woke up at about 8:35am, thinking it was 09:35 due to the winter-summer time transition while I was flying and the failure of the local telecomms company to update their clocks; thus the time on my mobile was wrong and constantly threatens to be updated again. It didn't help that the hotel hadn't updated the alarm ( Read more... )