The Wait

Well, I'll be heading out this Sunday to this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), which is pretty much the greatest thing in the world for a gamer like myself. What's more, courtesy of the fine folks at www.vgchartz.com, I'll be getting in as a member of the press--I get to combine my two favourite things: writing and gaming!

I've gotten invites to pre-show media briefings from the big three console manufacturers (Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony), where there's a good chance my face will be melted with all the amazing announcements. The show proper begins on June 2nd, and I've got plenty of interviews and game demos lined up.

The wait over the last weeks and months has been pretty hard to bear, though plenty has popped up to occupy my time in anticipation. Sending my passenger information to Air Canada was 'fun', considering the fact that I'd filled out the entire form before the web site informed me that they were having technical difficulties. Tried that four times over two days before calling their tech support, who needed some serious convincing that such a form even existed.

It's been fun trying to find air-travel-ready toiletries, too. When the airport says that all the liquids you bring with you must be a certain size and be in a non-opaque container, you'd think that the containers specially designed for air travel would meet these criteria. They haven't. Still trying to work that out...

My flight's scheduled to land at LAX at 2:23 LA time on Sunday, so I'll keep ya posted!