Next week is the Austin Game Developers Conference, wherein my fellow GAMBITeer Matt Weise and I will be presenting our video game adaptation workshop. I'm excited, because this will be the first time I've presented at a GDC event, but I'm also a little apprehensive – not because of the whole public speaking thing (which is cake), but because Hurricane Ike is scheduled to make landfall in Texas at the same time that we were.

Luckily, the active word in that sentence is were: JetBlue earned even more bonus points with me today for relocating all three of us to the Sunday morning flight from the Saturday morning flight. There's still a chance that the weather will cause some sucky delays on Sunday morning, but it's way, way less likely that we'll be trying to land in a hurricane on Sunday than on Saturday. Now we'll just be landing in a puddle.

Right.

Anyway, I hope all my exes down in Texas (well, not exes – I don't think I have any exes in Texas, but I do have a lot of friends) are doing well, have successfully battened down all the appropriate hatches and are keeping dry! Jen-Jen, Ben, Joel, Leia – this means you.