CCP’s annual EVE FanFest is November 6th through 8th. It takes place in sunny Iceland, the company’s HQ. I am headed there for drunken parties with the CCP employees, listening to hungover CCP employees talk about EVE Online.
Last year, I made the grave error of landing in Iceland on Thursday morning, after an entire day of travel and no sleep. Suffice to say, that did not make for a good time. I ended up sleeping that day until 4 PM (thus missing an entire day of the FanFest), then never quite recovered from the 4 hour time change.
This year, I am arriving on Tuesday morning and will fight off sleep deprivation to try and stay up the entire day so I can go to sleep at a normal hour their time, then be on a better clock. This will additionally give me the time to actually have fun in Iceland, so I can see some sights and try out some of the local restaurants instead of just eating at the Pizza Hut as I am underfed and under-rested. I’m looking forward to checking out the hot springs that I never had the energy to see last time and… uh… enjoying the Viking bleakness.
This time should be a lot more interesting for me as well. I now know several people who work for CCP in a personal capacity and I am on a friendly professional basis with several of them as well, thanks to the writing I have done for them. I also recently learned my best friend knows one of the artists that was recently hired by CCP. So that should be neat too.
