I am a little tired, so I'm not counting this as my official post. I think I need some time and some sleep to process. I did get 6 1/2 hours of sleep last night, which is the most I can say for last week's total. So anyway....I had no idea what to expect from this event. It is my third full on SharePoint Event. I am a code camp nut, so I usually end up meeting all kinds of .Net and SharePoint people. I would have to say this was one of my favorite events. I'm not so sure it can beat the Regional SharePoint Conference, where I first met Paul Galvin and Michael Lotter (plus some other crazies). That event was certainly a pinnacle of events and kind of a turning point for last year. This event was more like let's see how far you've come in the past year. I can't believe it. It was almost one year ago that I started going from event to event traveling all over the U.S. In April of 2008 I attended the St. Louis MOSS Camp. At that point I knew of AC, John Holliday, Todd Bleeker, Joel Oleson, but I didn't really know anyone. I met Paul Schaeflin, Todd Kitta, Scott Spradlin, and Corey Van Dyke. It was a pretty good event, but seriously nowhere near SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach. Virginia Beach was kind of like opening my eyes and realizing what i've been trhough and how I got there. I met Bleeker a month ago at KC Day of Dot Net. I saw him again. He seems like a really nice guy. I still haven't seen his awesome List/FBA Presentation. One day I will see it somewhere, just like I finally saw JD Wade's SharePoint: The Tour Starts Here presentation. We went out to dinner a bunch of us after Virginia Beach and Bleeker made an appoint to talk to everyone. You don't see people doing that often. That's a good quality to have. Now you all know Joel Oleson was there and I had the opportunity to hang out with him a bit on Friday night. He's a cool guy, but everyone knows how I am. I spoke with him a bit on Friday, but not much (I couldn't hear anything). Ok so I have to board a plane so I will continue my post later (bigger, better, and uncut).