That was a *long* short trip

I long for the day when car firmware updates and recalls will be as quick and painless as updating an OS. I swear it felt like they were installing Service Pack 2 about 10 times over while I waited for them to handle all necessary service actions and then swap on the winter tires. In any case, it took me far too many hours to get back home - I'm just now starting on Part 2 and I've got a meeting in about 40 minutes, so it looks like the article won't go live until tomorrow morning at this rate. We'll see, maybe I'll be extremely productive and will crank this thing out in record time tonight :)

I know you want to see as many benchmarks and comparisons of various hardware as possible, and I promise that I will do my best to provide the most complete picture of Half Life 2 performance I can, it just takes time. Derek is on the west coast meeting with ATI and the rest of the guys are all working on articles for next week so I'm left alone with the burden of Half Life 2, so bear with me as I try to work as fast (and well) as I can.

Next week Vinney and I are heading back to NC for Thanksgiving with the family, which will be wonderful. The only drawback: between Half Life 2 and another highly anticipated review I'm working on, I will have had absolutely zero time to actually play the game. You have no idea how much it's killing me to have two GeForce 6800 Ultras and a SLI motherboard yet not being able to have time to play HL2. After I'm done with all of this though, I'm hoping to get some quality gaming time with HL2...I hope.

Off to work I go...