The weekend started for me at about 4:30 Friday night. Made my way over to the Milwaukee Hyatt Regency where the Wisconsin .NET Users Group was hosting an invite only dinner. I am on the board and got there early to help with the preparations. I should have known that Scott Issacs, our President, had everything under control. This dinner was a precursor to our big Deeper in .NET 2006 event on Saturday and most of the event speakers were already there. This gave me a chance to talk to Scott Hanselman, Julie Lerman and MichÃle Leroux Bustamante, all of which are incredibly intelligent, well spoken individuals. With people arriving in droves it was hard to talk to everyone, but I did manage to talk to some of our sponsors and numerous friends and colleagues. In addition I had the pleasure of meeting Avonelle and Val the C# Gal, both of whom were charming and fun. I found myself at the dinner table with Avonelle, Val, Doug Rhoten, Scott Spradlin, optionsScalper, and casey chesnut. What could be better than sampling a "Welcome to Wisconsin" dinner buffet with people like this? A band you say? Scott had actually lined up two great bands! I have to thank Scott (and his wife Kelly) for putting so much hard work into this event. It turned out AWESOME!