Well, it has begun.
As the inevitable change reaches our lives again and even the small city of Strasbourg, the time comes for us to say goodbye to many of our colleagues. With the project live since October and stabilization essentially complete, we will see all of the Application Engineers return to the US or new jobs in Europe. So although we know we will see each other again, we also know that we will no longer have a dinner at Matteo's, a bitch session in the smoke hut, or coffee in Building 900.
(That's probably a good thing though, since we suspect there was a Six Sigma project to find a cheaper coffee supplier, and the quality is just not what it used to be.)