I'm sitting in the lobby of the hotel writing this, surfing on their wireless connectivity that's here. It's early...about 8am, PST. I woke up at around 6:30am with a pretty bad headache that's slowly subsiding. I'm thinking that the headache was due to too much caffeine, lots of heat, a bit of swallowed chlorine, and sleeping on a cot. But whatever. As long as it goes away before I get in the air at 3pm PST, I don't care.
I don't even know where to start. I had (am having) the best time. I didn't run into Jez San...although if I had thought about it before I left, I would have asked M to make the introduction. I did, however, run into some people I used to work with at Modem Media. It was great to have lunch with David, who now works at AOL, and I was pretty surprised to turn around and see Paul standing behind me, grinning. Paul works at Children's Workshop now.
Anyway, I got to play or see 95% of all the upcoming games that I've been curious about. Notably, I did not get a chance to play Halo2...and that can be said for just about everyone at the conference. In fact, many of them didn't get a chance to even see it running. All behind closed doors.
But I did get a chance to play Fable, and Full Spectrum Warrior, and many many others...and I'm thinking that I'm pretty much going to spend a ton of money this fall.
I had a great time hanging out with the GTDB guys. Poker, laughs, and of course, the convention.
Great vacation. I definitely needed it.
Links later. Think I'll have some breakfast.