I’ll let you in on a secret: tomorrow my posts will once again be from Seattle. Yep, my extended trip is finally coming to a close, but there’s a second one waiting in the wings for me. One of my top priorities for the weekend? Figure out how to make a week’s worth of scheduled posts just to entertain you all. I cannot fail my duties once again in such a short timespan, but I’m also not delusional enough to believe that live posting will have a chance in the world at working on this specific trip.

In order to satiate my desire for Draw Something and to avoid buying a $200-250 Android tablet to do so, I went ahead and just sideloaded it onto my Fire. Aside form some slight graphical issues when scrolling (which I’m not 100% sure aren’t on officially supported devices as well), it seems to work fine. Of course, if there are such things as notifications when you have a new game waiting to be played, I don’t get those since the Fire has no constant internet connection aside from when it is in use.

On that note, the live posting experiment was a completely success with no gap occurring just before the five year mark was reached. Two years ago I completely forgot about the day, and this year it’ll come in the midst of a scheduled (yes, actually) post set. I guess five years is a little special; maybe if I can do my math correctly and remember, I’ll give you a bonus piece of entertainment that day.

As the plan continues, we’ll be proceeding to the airport around 4:00 in the morning. This should be a much better experience than my early flight last year where I was hanging out in the ticketing area for hours upon end. Having a year experience under my belt means that many of those first year mistakes were not repeated, much to my appreciation.

The live posting thing actually hasn’t been that bad, but the +3 time zone difference also helps significantly in that regard. I may try to keep it up with Prime in under 5 months, but chances are I’ll go back to scheduled ones. As long as I have time to prepare material, you can’t deny that those are more entertaining than what you’ve been getting out of me this week.

Tomorrow at the actual now, PAX will be over and teardown will be happening. Well, it may have happened and then be put on pause, buy I’m pretty sure it will still be happening. Last year this was when oversaw TV deconstruction; I wouldn’t be entirely surprised for that to be the same case this time around, but the chances of me participating in it are correspondingly greater as well.

Today my big thing that I went to was the Uncharted 3 panel, in no small part due to having their panel in my theater last East and enjoying it quite thoroughly. In fact, the only really big things I’m doing this time are panels; the one year I attended, that was all I really did outside of Expo as well. Just swap Expo for CFP this year, and I guess you could say the setup is the same.

If you know how to look at my Twitter posts (*cough* points to the right sidebar *cough*), you can find pictures from the trip up to this point. This will be the way I deliver pictures throughout the weekend, so keep an eye there for your little viewfinder into my world over the next 72 hours. Of course, you could always come to PAX as well and see it first hand; in fact, it makes my life a lot easier if you do it that way.

In other news, the PATV episode today was about the Child’s Play golf tournament and dinner last year, both events that I worked. You’ve seen the videos of PAX, you’ve seen the video of what Enforcers are like, so it seems only fair that I let you round out the video experience by seeing what the third component of my Penny Arcade volunteer life is like. Go watch, my readers.

The presentation went well today; as always there were more people than what Microsoft was anticipating it seemed like. You’d think that by now they should just plan on 300 people at presentations and reuse whatever is left over at the end. Oh well, I’m not the one who gets to make those decisions. In fact, my only real decision to make for the rest of the trip is the one in the first paragraph as aside from work, it’s the primary candidate for consuming the most of my next 40 or so hours.