I keep forgetting that it's October. That's a little weird, and probably deserves a post of its own (in addition to a medical examination), but it isn't a bad thing.

You see, every time I remember that it's October, I remember that I'm PDC bound, and I get excited all over again for the first time.

I have to admit, though, that I'm a bit worried.

I'm worried about how good it's going to be. I think I must be having the thoughts that a perfectly normal human being has before making the switch to being a full time heroin junkie.

I'm worried about how much I'm going to love the technologies. The few glimpses I've had of Longhorn and Whidbey have left me in a very salivatory state.

It almost isn't even fair - We're going to go to the PDC, get a bag of goodies, go home, install them, be happy that they work, but then have to sit with the knowledge that the real thing is still a ways out.

We deserve this, though. Developers are notorious for going to marketing with "functional" prototypes which drive the marketers to paroxysms of ecstasy of the "It's done already?" variety. That kind of joy is almost spiritual. The letdown is almost psychotic.

And now, it's our turn. We're going to jump up and down while crying “It's ready!” We're going to walk away with these beautiful unpaved roads.

To quote from Cyrano (in English):

And to quote the junkie:

And to quote Kori's grandmother:

We all want something.

And I want Longhorn.

All of it.