Matt encouraged me to post some pics of my Skyrim character so here they are.  He’s an Argonian (fixed spelling!), so he’s basically a humanoid lizard or Gorn if you prefer, focusing on magic skills, hence the flowing wizard robes and lack of shiny metal armor.

Here’s Lydia, my companion.  Hey Carrie, does her mouth look weird?

While visiting my family in Utah over my Christmas vacation I was able to convince Mom and Sis (and Matt a little bit) to help me paint some WarHammer 40K models!  It was awesome fun and a great way to get to hang spend some time with the AND they both seemed to really enjoy it!

The Orks we mostly painted by my Mom and Sis and I think they turned out great.  The main thing I need to add to my Ork Army is infantry and this squad of Ork Boyz and squad of Gretchin will help out with that.  The bright colors they used and their attention to detail (my sister did more detail work than I usually do) make these models both fun and awesome looking and I can’t wait to deploy them next to the rest of my Ork Army.

I painted most of the Tau but Sis painted a few and Mom helped glue them together.  I based their color scheme on the Alaska Railroad (or the Alaska Flag) and I think these colors totally work well for these guys.  The yellow was really difficult because it takes several coats to get a clean solid color and then the paint is really thick and kind of sloppy but I think I can fix that in the future.  These are the very first Tau units I’ve ever done and so these represent my entire Tau army at the moment.  I’ll need to build/paint some more before I have enough to actually play a game but I’m super excited to do so.  The Tau have that sleek, advanced techy look that I like even more than the Space Marines which always look a little clunky to me and I like their style of excelling in ranged combat.  I cannot wait to field these guys in a game (once I make some more)

I didn’t do any Tyranid work in Utah but this has been a big project for me for a long time and it’s finally finished so why not show it off too while I’m at it?  This is an entire Tyranid Battle Force plus a Tyrant Guard (the battleforce doesn’t come with any HQ units and at least one is required for a proper game, the Tyrant Guard fills that role).  They’re actually for Robert (who co-hosts The Worm podcast with me) because he hates painting so LaDonna (recently cohosted an episode of the ToddCast with Matt and I) and her husband glued them together and then I painted them (Robert chose the color scheme).  I actually had a lot of fun painting them, they’re the opposite of the techy stuff that I love since they’re big bug monsters but there’s something really cool about painting things that don’t have belt buckles and little tiny insignias on them  LOL.    I am looking forward to delivering them to Robert and then watching my Orks slaughter them on the gaming field!  LOL

Carrie guest hosts as we discuss Video Games Live, our favorite games that we played (not necessarily that was released) in 2011 and the top fifty tech news articles of 2011.

We talk all about TV shows and holiday episodes then we discuss the haps in Champions Online.  Mining Asteroids, Higgs Boson, Black Holes, Textured Touch Displays, Memes, Robot The Make Sandwiches, all this and more!

Being in the same house hasn’t stopped us from recording!  We talk about our Christmas haul and discuss possible future technology.  All this and more!