Then again, maybe not

Okay, so Raquina’s not expecting. She’s just getting fat. Which doesn’t help her next year when we breed her and she is expecting. Looks like it’s time for me and the li’l nibbler (okay, she’s not that little anymore – at the beginning of the second half of this video, she’s the horse who almost runs over me) to do some walking. (Seriously, she follows me around. And tries to nibble anything relatively loose that I’m wearing – jackets, hats, you name it. Hence the nickname.)
Speaking of video, I bet that even if you have a Transmat Dalek, it doesn’t do this. Neat little practical lighting effect – no video trickery whatsoever!
OK, now that my weekend “Christmas by way of eBay” is over, it’s time to reveal the spoils of my mad consumer lust. 😆 A couple of these items are things I’ve waited almost 20 years to obtain, but scarcity (and therefore of course price) kept me from ever laying hands on them. The first big prize was a complete, pristine, still-in-the-box Dapol Doctor Who 25th anniversary playset. This may not seem like a big deal, especially not with the hundred-dollar BIN, until one realizes that the 80s-style TARDIS console alone – the one piece of the set that has never been re-released later in any form – routinely sells, by itself, for well over a hundred bucks. This one’s been in the box since it left the factory. So has my other prize catch – an original 1987 Galoob Star Trek: TNG shuttlecraft. Unlike the TNG shuttle scaled for the Playmates figures in the early 90s (which I also liked), this was based on the much curvier shuttle design that fell out of use early in the show’s history (and I loved that design), and was scaled for the smaller, Star Wars-sized TNG figures that Galoob had on the market for, oh, about a year. There’s also a very nice desk model of NASA’s Voyager space probe – something I’ve wanted since the first time I ever saw a picture from Voyager back in the late 7os, and a handsome little green fellow with an elongated head and something looking suspiciously like a katamari (a custom-crafted, home-made one no less – I can believe in that for a few minutes).

There’s also a cluster of Avid SCSI drives to add to my current setup. These will effectively multiply my available project space by six times of the system’s present capacity. This is how PDF DVDs get made. 🙂
It works like this: this takes care of my Christmas (hell, this takes care of at least two or three Christmaseseses, or it least it ought to – that’s a lotta toys, both literal and otherwise, and it beats a bunch of tube socks). Now I’ve gotta go out there and find something really cool for my wife. I’ve got something in mind, actually, but more on that later.