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BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Flux + Weekend = Elsewhere



Wednesday, October 26, 2005  

Flux + Weekend = Elsewhere


I've not blogged much lately since (amongst other reasons) I'm working hard on the book, trying to finish editing chapter 6 (another 55k words) so I can print it out and take it with me when I head down to San Diego on Thursday. Mom has been reading the chapters, you see, and since I've got 5 sitting here ready to go as well, I'd like to double the pleasure.

As for the vacation trip thing, I'm theoretically going down mostly for BlizzCon, which takes place Friday and Saturday. The plan is to fly down on Thursday, borrow mom's car to drive up to Anaheim Friday morning, stay overnight with an old friend Saturday, hit day 2 of Blizcon, and then drive back to SD that afternoon. And no, the sizzling allure of an Offspring concert wasn't enough to keep me there late. Not with a two hour drive home afterwards, at least. I'll then do various things with the parents Sunday and Monday, before returning home Tuesday afternoon.

As a result, you can probably expect blogging to continue to be rather light until early next week. That's not a promise though; sometimes I end up with a lot of free time and blogging thougths while on vacation, and since I'll have a laptop with me, there may be blogging galore. I'll at least be writing up some sort of article about Blizcon, though that'll be posted on the D2 site, or perhaps on Loaded Inc, the main site for the .net work.

The ironic part is that I was only going down to Blizcon and adding in the SD visit because Rush and Elly asked me to and were going to provide me with a Blizcon ticket. They're over in Scotland and weren't about to spend $1000+ and 18 hours flying time each way just to attend a two day gaming convention with nothing new other than some early WoWx footage. I asked them if they really wanted me to go, if they couldn't find someone in the SoCal area who cared about WoW and wanted to write about it, if they really cared, etc. They had no one else and wanted me to go, and then last week Rush mailed me and said that Blizzard Europe had suddenly decided to send him along. Perhaps no one in Europe was paying attention to BlizzCon and they wanted some UK attention? I dunno, but I was pretty annoyed at that news, since I wouldn't have gone if they hadn't needed me to, and suddenly... they didn't need me to.

Well, I wasn't that annoyed, or I would have cancelled the plane tickets. I didn't, but only because my parents were all excited about my visit and making plans for us to do stuff while I'm there. So I'm going, even though BlizCon is pretty much irrelevant to me at this point, and who knows, maybe I'll even enjoy myself a bit if I can pretend it's a voluntary vacation. I doubt anyone reading this is going, but if you are and you see me, feel free to say "Hi." I'll be the bored one in the Blizzard North t-shirt.
Comments:

Don't you have a Lord of the Clans t-shirt? Wear that, you'll get 'uber-props' from all the warcraft nerds who didn't even know that game existed.


 

Yes, my Smithsonian quality lord of the clans t-shirt. I actually do make some effort to keep it spiffy, hardly ever wearing it except to E3 or other bliz-related things. Not that it's hard to pass up, with the half dozen other bliz-related black t-shirts I accumulated over time.

I don't think they ever sold the bliz north t-shirt i have either though. It's white with a stylized CG image of the useless act 5 monster that shoots those tentacles underground, only it's waving them around like it's got some sort of whip attack in the shirt image. Plus, just for the fact that it's white it stands out against the 99% black t's every other video game image goes on.

And yes, these 2 shirts are the most tangible reward I possess for 7 years working on the same gaming fansite. And they make me very, very special.


 

I remember seeing that t-shirt around the time that D2X was officially announced. IIRC it was worn by Blizz N people, and you're right, was never available for sale.

Given that Blizz N is no-longer operating, it too would be an interesting choice of shirt. Someone from Blizzard HQ might think that you used to work there :)


 

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