I don’t think it’s fully hit me yet.  This past Thursday was the last user group meeting of the year and the last meeting with me present as leader.  Next week I am meeting with about 4 or 5 people to hand over the KC Office Geeks.  Every so often I look back and reflect on where I have come in the past few years and how I got to this point in time.  We have 177 people on the mailing list and an average from 15-20 people at each meeting.  When Jeff handed off the group to me we were average 3 people per meeting.  There were no events in Kansas City – SharePoint or Dot Net related.  Since then we have had a Day of Dot Net and SharePoint Saturday (thanks Lee Brandt).  I just don’t know what to say.  Thank you Kansas City.  Thank you Jeff Julian, John Alexander, Doug Butscher, Bob Davis, Karthik Venkataraman, Brian Laird, Joyce Laird, Clint Edmonson…

It just hit me recently that in 5 weeks I won’t have Lee or Brian nearby.  No geek lunches for a while.  Do people in New Jersey organize geek lunches for their .Net friends?  Do they scream out annoyingly “BECKKYY