It's never too late for people to contact. Especially when it's from great people that you didn't expect it from. No, I did not get mail from Queen Beatrix, a president or Gates. I got it from people that directly mean more to me at this time.

Wansang (Software Design, Korea) mailed me 5 days ago that he mailed the DVD with photos and such and I could expect it in 2 weeks or so, I was surprised that the package arrived today. Although I'd love to send the unaltered material we have here (the photos here on TheSpoke are resized for obvious reasons) I still have to wait for the remainder of material to be served. I'm not talking so much of the material Lex will send, but also the material on our own camera which Rolf still has to copy.

Tomasz (Algorithm, Poland) who I mostly remember as my bestest drinking buddy at IC (he passed on the alcohol just for me...after he got drunk anyway :) ). He remembered most of my rants I had over at the room of team LCL in Delhi. He's really interested in the project of the Slovenians (perhaps the vodka they took wasn't from the Russians after all) and completely forgot to get their email addresses. Anyway, I'll be sending a postcard to him when I get in to town (which should be somewhere this week) and hope he does the same. I still haven't gotten any IC postcard so far (the ones that were in the welcome kit) so this might be my second letter, Wansang being first. You guys rock. :)

Oh, and Mohannad rocks apart from his constant camping at Enemy Territory. It's a real shame that we were having the round when everyone was yelling at me to head for home as we were done at Sebastian's. But when I got home I still beat him 2 to 1 map.

I have no idea how long the declaration system takes over at Microsoft, but we sent the coupons and such over to our ADE's to get the expences that were made back. Perhaps someone who is reading my blog and works at Microsoft knows and is kind enough to drop a comment how long it takes (hint hint). We expected something like 2 weeks or so, but it seems that it's longer. Of course, we could also send a mail, but considering my history of "politically correct mails" during IC2k6, it's probably a good idea to let someone else do it.

So, to summarise: "Dear Bill, we sent the notes what we spent to you 2 weeks ago, but we haven't gotten a postcard back yet. That makes me a saaaaad panda." But at least Tomasz and Wansang rule in keeping the prehistoric snailmail system intact. Watch those mailboxes!