Well, tonight is Burning Crusade launch.  It certainly says something about the sheer overwhelming presence of World of Warcraft that their mere expansion pack inspires midnight openings and crowds out the rest of the MMO field to the point that there were basically no major MMO releases for Holiday '06 in fear of it.

Not that that's stopping Vanguard, but that is a different matter altogether.

Anyways, turns out my local EB, where I have the Burning Crusade reserved, is not in the lucky set doing midnight release.  So at 11:55 I'll be at the local Walmart hoping to score a copy tonight.

I can't really explain why I feel so motivated to pick it up tonight as opposed to tomorrow AM, but nevertheless I'm excited to do so.   In fact, there was some discussion at work today what the best way to try and bribe a Gamestop employee into letting us buy a copy early would be...