Our offices were still lodged in university buildings, and our CEO, Prof. Camara was already talking about the library we would have once at the new building headquarters. Our future library would serve to gather all of YDreams’ bibliographical resources, as well as large numbers of books Prof. Camara had acquired over the years.

By the time we’d settled into the new building, I had already earned a “bad reputation” as the person who would steal books from the professor’s office. Maybe as a form of “punishment”, Prof. Camara and Ivan (our Director of R&D) invited me to implement and manage the YDreams’ library - an invitation (and challenge) I accepted gladly!

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Some “moving out” moments as we get ready to move to our brand new headquarters:

Boxes emporium at Alcântara’s Offices, 10 am:

On the other side of the river, at Caparica’s main room, YDreamers finish playing a real life game of Sokoban:

And then they celebrate!

Production room finds some lost bottles amidst the moving and also celebrates! In sepia tone!

By then YLabs is also celebrating the discovery of a new revolutionary technology (their daily routine) and the fact that they have figured out how to seal up the moving boxes

People at Alcantara’s offices open up umbrellas, defying bad luck and paying tribute to all the floods they have been subjected to during the last year

In the meanwhile, someone forgot to tell the HW department that they should be engaging in silly celebration and phototaking, so they stare in disbelief at their PC screens when celebration pictures start circulating on the internal mailing lists

And speaking of silliness, someone found out that thinking out of the box is really the way to go