It's a quest! It's a quest for fun! My paid vacation is just around the corner, and I have to say that I'm at a bit of a loss. I've never (A) had a job that actually offered me paid vacation, or for that matter (2) had enough money that I could even consider taking one had said time been offered to me to begin with. Being the nerd that I am, I'm actually leaning towards attending this year's Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle. Also, having never had (and never will have :() the opportunity to attend an E3, PAX seems like a pretty fair substitute. Games aside, I dig Jonathan Coulton (site's apparently down at the moment) and the Minibosses, so it should be pretty cool to check them out in person. I've also never visited Washington state before, so I'm looking forward to that. I'm pretty sure GameSpot will be covering the event as well, so maybe I'll get to meet some of the folks while I'm there... Which would also be pretty cool. I haven't had much free time lately. I usually end my days just staring at the TV for a couple hours every evening and then going to sleep. But whenever I get a chance (usually two or three hours on the weekends) I'm working my way through Command & Conquer 3. Fantastic game! The gameplay feels exactly like the gold-standards of the C&C games from the 90s, and the graphics are really impressive. The FMV sequences are bad, borderline awful really. Maybe that's what they were going for? But I don't remember C&C and Red Alert being this bad. Billy Dee seems like he was just phoning it in, and the rest are either really good at acting campy or were in dire need of a real director. I actually bought the game a couple of weeks back, fully intending to play in the recent C&C3 tournament here on GameSpot. But then I completely forgot about it...