I surrendered my life to Google shortly after I signed up for my first GMail account [I have a veritable plethora of accounts].  I've occasionally feared that I would suddenly wink out of existence if -- gasp -- Google suddenly disappeared.

Besides Gmail, I use Google Docs, Google Calendar, and I was among the initial invitees to Google Voice.  As the title of this post says: Google Rules My Life.  It truly does, in a "cyber kinda way" anyway.  So, it was only natural that when I became aware of Google Wave way back in the spring I instantly petitioned for inclusion in its initial rollout.

I eagerly, and somewhat impatiently, awaited the September 30th "go live" date for those lucky enough to snag one of the initial invitations, hoping [and praying to the Gods of the Internet] that I would be among them.  September 30th came and I could not concentrate for the frequent twitter searches for Google Wave trying to catch the moment of The Event.  The day of September 30th turned into the evening of September 30th, which turned into the night of September 30th... then turned into October 1st.

No invitation arrived.  Eventually, I gave up and assumed I would have to wait for the public offering.   

I was deeply disappointed. 

Then...

This evening when I arrived home and checked my general purpose [read: not in need of frequent monitoring] GMail account I found my Google Wave invitation had arrived at 5pm today.

To say that I was thrilled would be an understatement.  My Inner Geek squealed like a little girl on Christmas morning.  Even if "Christmas morning" was 23 days late.

There have been a lot of historic events in my lifetime, many of them I've followed.  Some have changed America, some have changed the world.  Some have even been good.  Google Wave is going to change the very nature of the internet... and my Inner Geek is still squealing will all the sense of anticipation I had when I first tumbled to the Wave way back in the spring.