Yeah i live in SoCal, over in Santa Clarita. Kind of funny cause I only live 5 minutes from magic mountain but i haven't been there for 3 years now :P go figure.
Ok so I'm still in denial, I had to prove to myself that hl2 wasn't on the shelves by visiting the stores themselves. Here's my story
In my excitement I woke up this morning at 7:30 a.m. and immediately got dressed and took a shower, not necessarily in that order... I waited for 11 o'clock...
hl2 = coolest game ever
bench = thing you sit on
mark = thing you make with pencil on paper
hl2 benchmark = program that tells you how good your computer will run with hl2