This weekend I’m going to be down at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle getting my geek on, so I thought I’d share with you some things I’m looking forward to experiencing down there this year.

  • Friends!  For the first year ever, people we know in real life are also going to be attending PAX.  Plus, a bunch of the tweeple I know are also going to PAX.
  • Being in the presence of so much awesome!  Wil Wheaton, Scott Kurtz, not to mention Gabe and Tycho.  This convention has always been driven by gaming enthusiasts instead of gaming industry, and it draws some of the most awesome people to it as a result.  I find many of the other attendees are just super cool, friendly people, you can slip into conversation or games with very easily.
  • Shopping!  In years past I’ve been much more frugal when attending (the last year we attended was 2007).  I’ve loosened up a bit since then, and am in a much more spendy mood in general right now, so I’m sure I’ll come home with some geek stuff, and some Sephora stuff, and a racing seat1
  • Celebrations and drinking.  We’ve got a few things that we will be celebrating with this little weekend away.  BenevoLance is finished another CGA course2 and our friends The Vizier of Nameology and his wife3 have just bought a house.4  It was in 2007 when we discovered the delicious 5 Spice Sidecar at a little Thai restaurant nearby and we’re hoping to continue our adventures in mixology during the weekend.
  • Gaming!  It is a gaming convention after all.  And this year, I’m a much more confident gamer, so I might actually jump in and try out some games.  Like in public.  While people watch me!  Shocking, I know.  There should be some new stuff there to check out, and plenty of space to just hang out and play some games of whatever strikes our fancy.
  1. I’ll do up a whole separate blog post about this sometime, but not today. [↩]
  2. the exam was last night and we drove straight down afterwards [↩]
  3. who really needs some sort of title – Vizier, get on it! [↩]
  4. There are a few other teensy tiny minor things that we are also celebrating, such as the passing of another birthday for me and the completion of the first draft of my novel. [↩]

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