The Season of Giving

This is my favorite time of year. Thanksgiving basically kicks off a fantastic month for me. I get a huge meal with my friends, spend a weekend doing things like writing cards to people I miss, and now I'm working my butt off here at GG so I can take a few days off around the holidays to spend time with my family.

However, I didn't expect an early gift, even though that's exactly what I got. This arrived in the mail for me this morning:


Like I said, I'm a busy person, so I didn't have time to babysit. I let my new friend wander around the office while I got the ball rolling on some marketing projects. But I guess I should have paid closer attention to this guy because he caused all sorts of problems. Like bothering Mich while he's working on Torque X docs:


And getting into Matt's "liquid solution" for those tough times while he's preparing a final release candidate for TGEA 1.8:


And apparently, he doesn't like competition, as noted by Channa Langley's now decimated collection of Christmas plushes.


Anyway, many, many thanks to Novack for sending me Gizmo. He's pretty much made of awesome...even if he is a little mouthy on the forums. (Hahaha, Novack, you know I was referring to Gizmo and not you, right? RIGHT?)

And hey, for any of you in the giving mood, don't forget that Penny Arcade is running its annual gamer's charity, Child's Play. If you love buying toys like I do, this is one of the few chances during the year you can do it for someone else.