Unlike many of my fellow bloggers in the OSR corner, I didn't get any gaming goodness under the Christmas Tree.
I'm not complaining, as my geekness was still fully satisfied.
My girl got me both an Alienware Gaming Netbook (an 11" gaming monster) and a Roku HD Player, so now I can Netflix, Hulu, Pandora and many others from my TV... thank you hun :)
Lots of Jet's shirts, hats, glasses... I'd never buy for myself, so great stuff to get as gifts.
Oh, and Amazon and Outback gift certificates.
I done did good ;)
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