Well, now that I'm back from my usual Santa Barbara trip, life is getting back to its usual frenetic, over-extended form.  I had the opportunity this morning to attend the morning segment of what will be a two-day lecture/demo course on VS.NET 2005.  The course is presented by my good friend Scott Golightly (our local Microsoft Regional Director) and our new Microsoft Developer Evangelist, Ani Babaian.  Unfortunately, I had to leave early in order to be able to meet some deliverables this week, but I wanted to show up and show my support.

This evening, I had the opportunity to have a special Microsoft Insider's community leadership roundtable with Ani Babaian, Ashwin Karuhatty (our departing DE), Aaron Skonnard, Scott Golightly, Pat Wright, Robert Love, T.J. Belt, Jason Walker, Justin Long, Ben Galbraith (of our local Java User Group).  Others were invited as well, but apparently were unable to make it.  It was a fun time catching up with my long-time friends and associates and discussing the community and what we can do to help bolster enthusiasm.

All in all, it was a pretty good day.  Now onward for another 8 hrs or so (and yes, it's already 9:30 PM).  Se la vi.