Ten Ton Hammer's Reuben "Sardu" Waters, especially valued by us not only for his knowledable nice-guyness, love of MMOs, and his complete inability to turn off his gamer side (as you'll see), made several withdrawals on the old sleep account to journal his experience at PAX 2009.

Unprompted and unscripted, we'll air Sardu's artfully constructed running commentary in two parts, today and tomorrow, starting with Loading... Sardu's PAX Journal (Pt. 1 of 2). If you weren't able to attend PAX, this (combined with our PAX 2009 coverage) is the next best thing. Enjoy!