I was excited to have Traveller coming up. Then I found out all about ACKS, and I became excited about that. After some discussion, the group eventually settled on going with Traveller, even though it wasn't filling me the excitement any more.
But now we're moving into pre-campaign prep, my Traveller excitement is increasing again. I'm going to be running Pirates of Drinax using rules I develped from the Mongoose Traveller 1e playtest document, with bits and pieces taken from various other sources.