E3 or Just When I Think I'm Out, They PULL Me Back IN!

So it's E3 right now, as I type. So far, there's been a crazy amount of debuts, including the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Nintendo Revolution systems. I had seriously considered stopping gaming, as I have less and less time to devote to it and need to start to try to go all career on my ass, but seeing what the near future holds has me reconsidering... The CG cinemas of yore are the graphics of today.
I'd have to say that the most interesting thing I've seen so far is Elektroplankton for the DS. Not so much a game as an art piece and creative tool, the thing looks killer. They even had a DJ make a song live on stage using the thing... It was super rad! Stuff like Castlevania, Advance Wars, Mario Kart, Metroid, and Viewtiful Joe all look promising as well. I'd have to be so bold as to say that at least the DS is going to have something original to play, rather than just ports of PS2 games like the PSP.
This past week has been uneventful. I've been playing Civilization for the SNES quite a bit, got the Civilization board game off Ebay (and had to remove 750 pieces from plastic sprews... that took FAR too long...), finally watched Rashomon (which ruled hardcore), worked, had some wings at 30 cent wing night at the Pony Corall (my cut off point for not feeling sick from eating wings is around 16 or so...), played a kickin' game of Samurai Swords with Dave, Ryan, Tina, and Erin (which Dave won through villany!), picked up Seinfeld Season 4, started and stopped reading a 1970's self help type book ("The Road Less Travelled")... then again, I guess I've done a fair amount of stuff after all.