Finally above water

Well, I got back from MVP Summit last week and I have been nearly underwater with Easter and customer issues.  I wanted to take a moment and thank a couple of people that I met last week.  Some I met for the first time, others I had met before. 

• Kirk Evans, Scott Sargent, and Phil Winstanley.  You guys are awesome.  Since we talk, email, and IM so much, I feel like I know you so well, though I have only physically met you guys a few times. 
• Ben Miller.  You are the man.  Ben is the ASP.NET MVP lead and a great guy.  He went the extra mile on EVERY question that I asked him.
• David Penton.  David is a great guy and a SQL guru.  He has answered many of my database questions in the past.  What a cool dude to hang out with.  “What happens in Seattle, stays in Seattle.“
• AspInsiders.  There were so many folks from the AspInsiders that I met.  While I am an AspInsider, I really don't have a lot of interaction with everyone else do to the fact that I am the technology desert.
• Shaykat.  Wow, what a great guy.  I remember Shaykat from a few years ago during the beta days of .NET 1.0.  He was exceedingly helpful with showing me some of the tricks with the debugger in VS.NET.  I finally got to meet him last week.

The plane ride home was pretty rough.  I took the 11:25 redeye on Wednesday night to Chicago O'Hara airport.  We got in there at about 5:00 am.  I didn't know that Chili's served breakfast until then.  I went to my gate, watched some TV, and promptly fell asleep on the floor.  I woke up when they did a bording call for my flight to Knoxville.  I got on the plane.  I remember us moving away from the gate.  The next thing I remember is the pilot announcing that we were about 80 miles from Knoxville.  We touched down about 10:30 am on Thursday morning. 

All in all, the Summit was what I had expected.  It had its high points and its not so high points.  Anyone need breakfast at 4:30 am?

Wally