Brendon and I spent some time hanging out with the Virtual Labs guy and the Visual Studio 2005 guy at TechEd this year. Or, as we like to call them - Mr. Blonde and Mr. Green (obvious Resevoir Dogs reference). Anyway, we managed to snap a photo with this half of the Visual Studio Source Fource while we were hanging out and chatting the day away. Now, if you know anything about Brendon and I, you'll know that we didn't waste any time buttering these two up to ask them for favors. We asked Virtual Labs guy (Mr. Blonde) if he could help us out with our SharePoint evangelism campaign by hosting some virtual labs of our SharePoint 1, 2, 3! series hands on labs. We're still negotiating, but things look good so far! We turned to our spikey friend Mr. Green (Visual Studio guy) and asked him if we could get a free license for Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server with enough licenses for our INETA developer buddies to help out in the quest to build better software that can support the user group community at large. While the jury is still out on this request, my personal suspicion is that he's just recovering from some recent and uncomfortable jetpack burn and he'll be getting back to us sooner or later.
Before I forget, or actually - since I did forget, I need to give a quick shout out to our friend Trisha. Here is Trisha: 
Trisha is a dear friend to both Brendon and myself. Yes, both of our wifes have met Trisha, and no, she's not always being stalked by this crazy pink towel. Anyway - Trisha works for Microsoft and is responsible for many of the good Microsoft community things in our lives, even if you don't know it. Everyone thank Trisha as she sometimes feels underappreciated and is occasionally tempted to show off how powerful she is behind the scenes there. "Thanks Trisha". This is of course totally gratuitious since she complained to me only today that she didn't get mentioned in the blog for TechEd this year but she did make the blog after last year's event.