Yesterday I had the pleasure of having dinner at the Beach Cafe. The restaurant has pretty good food, but its selling point is its lakeside location (Lake Washington). It was a .NET heavy dinner as our group was: Paul Y (VB.NET PM), Jay Roxe (VB.NET Product Manager), and Omar (ASP.NET PM) and me (Transports and Connectivity Intern PM). The dinner was a good time and I got to learn a lot about MS culture, .NET, Jay’s killer user group trips and Paul's desire to buy a boat. Even though these guys are past their prime partying years they are always a good time - Paul, Jay & Omar would dispute this fact until the bitter end and will most definitely have a lengthy rebuttal to this point the next time I see them J. I can’t be too hard on either Paul or Jay as they picked up my tab for the night – thanks gents! While it will take more than a dinner for me to convert from the curly brace, semicolon world of c#, VB looks pretty attractive with these gents at the helm.