There are only 7 more weeks left.

Adam started working on Sundays. He’s not sure if he can get away to attend my friend’s wedding with me this coming Saturday (oh, hey, tomorrow).

Rumor is, the rest of the team will start working Sundays as well soon. Nothing official yet.

My sister also asked me if I wanted to arrange a baby shower for her. I said, YES. She wants it the weekend before Halloween. I don’t know where I’ll be finding the time to plan it. My only hope is the small amount of time during compiles, and at the end when the game is submitted.

ツカレタ。

I arrived in San Diego at 10 AM. I met my sister and her husband at the convention center.

Since Sundays always have crap events (which turns out it’s because it’s kid’s day), I stuck to the exhibit hall. Somewhere nice to spend my hard earned cash on things I do not need.

We ran into the the Yama-Taka gang. I got to hold Popo and she fell asleep in my arms. So adorable.

Best thing I bought this weekend? This.

Anyway, it wasn’t a complete waste of money because my sister and her husband are there right now! And they seem to be having a good time.

Since I don’t have to work tomorrow, I’m going to check out Comic-Con on the last day. Not much left to do at that point, but maybe I could haggle down the prices of things I want.

Anyway, it was a long Catholic wedding with lots of rituals and stuff. Adam and I barely made it in time. That was kinda my fault as I took too long getting ready. (I got hungry so instead of getting ready, I was making hiya yakko.) There was also a blackout in the area, so the only lighting the church had was the light coming in from the outside through the stained glass windows, the open doors, and the candles.

Did I mention that L.A. was experiencing a heat wave at the time? Hot. Melting. Adam made a makeshift fan with the donation envelopes. Although, I doubt the A/C would have done much to help in such hot weather.

After the ceremony, the band kiddies went to Rock Bottom since it was near the hotel where the reception was going to be. Appetizers and such since there was an hour and half before the next event of the evening. (Ok, so it really didn’t make too much sense to be purchasing food when we were going to be getting free food in less than 2 hours, but we had to do something. We’re used to going out to get food after band events.)

(The beer there is tasty, I told Adam that we need to go there again so I can order beer. Mayhaps recruit one pregnant sister and her non-alcohol drinking husband… I is ebil. I know.)

The reception had a cheesy photobooth. I took a few pictures. Free alcohol for an hour.

Nothing really out of the ordinary for the reception. Food, dancing, cutting of the cake, etc. There was a candy buffet, which Adam insisted on calling it a candy bar (har har). I forgot to take pictures of my dinner. Oh, well.

And I caught the bouquet.

I need to get her a new nickname as Laurven sounds too boyish. Larvina is definitely not cute. I’ll have to think about it.

Now it’s time to sleep.

When I bought the umes, I knew I couldn’t make umeshu as soon as I got home, so I thought I’d be smart and put them in the fridge to keep them safe from bugs and mold. Instead, I had to chuck a good 1/3 out because they got frostbite (mushy). I thought the rest was salvageable, but it looks like the correct answer was not really. :(

I only went on Tuesday as that’s the only day the company gave. Some people went for an additional day, but I kinda felt that 1 day is good enough. I must be getting old.

I think the only game I really wanted to see was Final Fantasy XIV. My friend at SE let me in to play the game since there was a seat that was open. Woohoo! :) Ok, so the game was confusing, but I see the awesome potential there. Pretty, too.

MindHack is a WTH game. As in, this is not fun. :\

Medal of Honor’s multiplayer was kinda fun, but it felt like MW2.

Legend of Zelda’s controls were confusing.

Didn’t see Nintendo 3DS. The line was long and the wait could be anywhere between 30 minutes to over an hour. At my age, anything longer than 15 minutes better be worth it. I don’t find trailers and demos as worth it anymore. :P

The 2nd floor area was blocked off to exhibitors/2nd floor access badges, so I couldn’t get myself free water and food. My badge was exhibits only. That made me sad. Next year I need to figure out a way to upgrade my badge. :|

After E3 was over for the day, Adam and I tried to get into Wolfgang Puck’s so I can see the Lakers vs Celtics game. The restaurant was booked solid with RSVPs. :( We ended up walking around downtown Los Angeles looking for this one place that’s supposed to have a party, but we couldn’t find it. Turns out there was an intermediary location that we were supposed to go to first, but I never got the text because of AT&T’s network failure. -_- Anyway, at the party, I met up with people that I haven’t seen in a while. Pretty cool.

At a little past 9 PM, I was hungry and so was Adam, so we walked back to our car, stopping at the Panini Cafe for some grub. It was delicious. :9 Then back to the LACC to get my car and go home!

Let’s see if I can remember all the famous stars…

Usher
NERD
Rhea
Jane’s Addiction
Soundgarden
Eminem with Rhianna
Bohemian Rhapsody dude who’s name I don’t know…

Here’s an article about ATVI’s E3 event…

Ok, so I think the best part was Usher and Eminem. I don’t think I really cared about the rest, although Bohemian Rhapsody was fun.

When Call of Duty: Black Ops came on, there were fire coming out and fireworks! Crazy. That’s when Eminem got on stage, too. Pretty awesome.

Since the show started late, it ended late. I am so tired right now, but I’m really pumped about Black Ops and the event tonight that I had to make a blog entry.

According to the article above, the entire thing cost at least $5 million. Crazy.