Ok. My past couple of entries explain how it will suck to wait until Christmas to get Half-Life 2. It turns out that I have had a free copy of Half-Life 2 since the game came out via Steam thanks to ATI and the AIW Radeon 9600 Pro video card I bought a while back. Inside was a registration card that garaunteed a free copy of Half-Life 2 upon it's release. The other day I was cleaning my room and found a print out of my registration confirmation... with the Half-Life 2 CD key!!! This was about a couple of days after it's release. I was kicking myself for forgetting that I had that. Any way, needless to say, I have been enjoying Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source for the past couple of days. These games are the best that I have played all year (next to Doom 3 of course). Something about downloading games off the internet bugs me though. Maybe it's because I am a pack-rat and I have every box to every PC game I own on my bookshelf. Not seeing the Half-Life box makes me think that I don't have it. Oh well... I can by the retail version when the price come down. Oh, and one more thing.... ATI Rulez!