I just got this picture from Marek (thanks, dude!). It was taken during the WASA farewell workshop.

From left to right: Jan Greiff, Mikhail Bashkanov, Tatiana Skorodko, Marek Jacewicz;
Front: Florian Kren, well, you know who, Christian Pauly, and Samson Ketela.
Not on the picture: Filippo Cappellaro, Inken Koch, Jens Pätzold, Henrik Pettersson, Karin Schonning.

It brings back a lot of memories. Assuredly, it was the best and the worst of all times. Things didn’t work out as expected, and then, Alas!, they didn’t work out even more. I don’t have to go into detail here, the poor horse was flogged long and hard enough. Sufficient to say that we all worked long and hard to bring it to a decent end. And that we did. Therefore, those five and a half years do and will always have a special place in my memories. It was a time when I faced desparation and disappointment and still prevailed… *cough*

Well, sort of. A certain damage to both my cognitive abilities and my personality cannot be denied. Which turned me into the (almost) bearable person I am today. Not too bad for a science experiment, isn’t it? So in best Skapesperian manner, let me cry out to all of you who have been there:

From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood
(or shares his PAW macro;
or spends time on night shift;
or has a “Frustburger”) with me
Shall be my brother;
– (mainly) William Shakespeare, “Henry V”