What are your favorite Christmas shows and movies to watch?

Hello everyone! This is CEO100able, doing one more blog post for 2025. As the Christmas season of 2025 comes to a close, it's Christmas question time once more as well! This one is about one of our favorite festivities: watching Christmas shows and movies on physical media, TV and streaming.

Back in the day, my family and I watched various Christmas programs of our childhood, such as the 1964 Rankin/Bass version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Holiday, Teletubbies: Christmas in the Snow, Barney & Friends: Barney's Night Before Christmas, The Polar Express and more. We still have them on VHS and DVD to this day. As time went on, more and more Christmas shows and movies were watched by my family. 

What are your favorite Christmas and, additonally, winter shows and movies to watch during the Christmas season? Here are the following Christmas and winter programs my family and I have watched in 2025:

1. A Paw Patrol Christmas (CBS)
2. Various Wheel of Fortune episodes featuring its Disney Christmas editions of 2025 (CBS)
3. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964 Rankin/Bass stop-motion version) (NBC)
4. Winter Steam Spectacular (DVD)
5. Thomas & Friends: The Complete Series 1 (2012 UK DVD) (Christmas and winter episodes)
6. Thomas & Friends: The Complete Series 2 (2009 Australian DVD) (Christmas and winter episodes)
7. Thomas & Friends: The Complete Series 3 (2012 UK DVD) (Christmas and winter episodes)
   
8. Mickey's Christmas Carol (Official Disney Kids YouTube Channel, although also available on VHS, DVD and Disney+)
9. Lots & Lots of Trains Volume 1 (1998 Superior Home Video VHS version) (Winter scenes of passenger in freight trains)
10. The Very Best of Brum (2004 UK DVD) (Brum and the Snow Thieves episode)
11. A Charlie Brown Christmas (DVD)
12. It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown (DVD)
    
13. Thomas & Friends - Thomas' Snowy Surprise (2003 US Anchor Bay Entertainment DVD Release)
    
14. The Polar Express (2007 Blu-ray)
15. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1998 GoodTimes cartoon movie remake) (DVD)
    
16. Real Wheels: There Goes Santa Claus (VHS)
    
17. Snowplows on Patrol (DVD)
18. Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Holiday (VHS)
    

A very big list, isn't it? Everything listed above was great to watch. Let's see what can we can watch during next Christmas season! I'd like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thanks for reading!

My 2025 Christmas Presents

Hello everyone! Celebrating Christmas has been great this year, and celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ has been excellent as well. It has been that time of the year again. I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Here is a list of some of the presents I received this year:

• Thomas & Friends: 10 Years of Thomas (2005 Anchor Bay Standard Case DVD Release)
• Back to the Future (2020 Univeral DVD Release)
• The Dukes of Hazzard: Return of the General Lee (PlayStation 2)
• Sonic Origins Plus (PlayStation 4) (This retro Sonic the Hedgehog console game compilation released in 2023 is similar to Sonic Mega Collection Plus released for the PlayStation 2 in 2004, but with even more features, plus HD enhancements.)
• WRC 7 (PlayStation 4) (2017 GameStop Edition)
• Hillsong Worship Australia - You Are My World (CD) (And how!)
• George Strait - One Step at a Time (CD) (Lots of fabulous country music!)
• NCAA Final Four Edition Wilson Basketball (Basketball is my most favorite sport.)

Lots of amazing things from over the years! Fun stuff to enjoy for years to come. I hope you all enjoyed reading this blog post. Merry Christmas 2025, and thanks for reading!

What are your favorite things to get for Christmas?

Hello everyone! This is CEO100able blogging once again, and Merry Christmas Eve 2025! Remember when we used to get tons of stuff for Christmas when we were kids? Well, as time would go on, the amount of gifts would reduce considerably in our adulthoods, although we still love giving and getting some presents to this day, of course. Life moves on as well, you know. It is fun to find different things at local stores, shopping malls and on the Internet for those we care about.

Back in the day, we would always get lots of toys of various types, alongside some other things like candy, media on CDs, VHS tapes, DVDs and Blu-ray discs, and more. Lots of childhood excitement and memories! In adulthood, several certain types of toys are commonly obsolete, even though toys for both kids and adults like model trains are very popular especially nowadays. Giving and receiving media items for Christmas is still a thing in adulthood. Often, we also give and receive adult-oriented stuff like sporting goods, toiletries and whatever. It shows how many years of maturity does for all of us!

So, what are your favorite things to get for Christmas nowadays? I am just curious about it, so please let me know by posting a comment below. Thanks.

What are your favorite things about Microsoft Sam?

Hello everyone! This is CEO100able, finally back to blogging about things besides just special occasions. This time, I'd like to speak of a classic text-to-speech voice named Microsoft Sam since I have returned to making videos about him for my YouTube channel. 

For many years, Microsoft Sam has been very popular mainly as a result of the SAPI5 version of him being included on the Microsoft Windows XP computer operating system. His voice is depicted as a grown man who sort of sounds like Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. He is also known as one of the text-to-speech voices of a discontinued software program named Speakonia, under the original SAPI4 version of him. For those who don't know, the SAPI4 version of Microsoft Sam was also featured in Microsoft Windows 2000 and both versions of Microsoft Sam were featured as default TTS vocies in Windows 2000 and Windows XP back in the day as a way of having narration provided in certain scenarios, though I belive lots of people went for the speech settings in the Control Panel to use custom text.

I like how Microsoft Sam's voice sounds as it works well for a general audience on various computer operating systems to this day. Yes, you can also use a program named TTSApp and find classic Microsoft TTS voices compatible with it like Sam on the web nowadays. My other favorite things about Microsoft Sam are his ROFLcopter sounds whenever he tries to say "soy" as a result of an unfixed bug, which lead to the ROFLcopter becoming an Internet meme back in the 2000s, as well as how he speaks various sentences.

What are your favorite things about Microsoft Sam, and what do you remember about him? Please feel free to comment below to mention what it is. Thanks for reading!

My 2025 Easter / Resurrection Sunday Presents

Hello everyone! This is CEO100able, and this is my first 2025 blog post. Today is Easter, the time for celebrating Jesus Christ's resurrection. I'd like to wish you all a Happy Easter! Today is also known as Resurrection Sunday. 

This blog happens to be a great place for showing lists of things I received on special occasions on an annual basis, but hopefully I can finally come up with something amazing besides just the Easter and Christmas subjects, for real this year. For now, what do you say we check out the names of the things I received for Easter this year?

• America By Rail: 4-DVD Set (This DVD set of classic train documentaries produced by Railway Productions looks cool.)
• World of Outlaws Dirt Racing (PlayStation 4) (This is a cool motorsport video game that came out in 2022, and it's something I've always wanted to play ever since.)
• Hillsong Worship Australia - Touching Heaven, Changing Earth (US CD)
• Our Lady of the Woods: Easter Music (US CD)
• The Hanover Band - Joseph Haydn: Symphonies 90, 91 and 92 (UK CD)

Everything mentioned above is an incredible selection of gifts from over the years! I hope you enjoyed this blog post. Happy Easter / Resurrection Sunday, and thanks for reading!

My 2024 Christmas Presents

Hello everyone! This is CEO100able. It's that time of the year again, to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. It's the most wonderful time of the year, as they all say! I'd like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Here are the names of some of the things I received for Christmas this year:

• American Visions: Portraits of the National Parks - The Great Smoky Mountains (1988 / 1989 VHS) (So many great memories of receiving VHS tapes as special occasion gifts!)
• NASCAR Video - Alan Kulwicki: Champion of Dreams (1993 VHS)
• Pikes Peak Cog Railway (Blu-ray)
• NASCAR 99: Legacy PlayStation 1 Game & NASCAR Rocks Audio CD Bundle (This is the deluxe version of NASCAR 99, released in 1999. It is one of the coolest I've ever seen!)
• LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham PlayStation 4 Game & LEGO Batwing Set Bundle (Very interesting!)
• American Profile: Country Gospel Favorites (US 2-CD Set) (And how!)
• Rocky Top: Peace in the Valley (US CD) (This is a cool music CD featuring instrumental Christian hymns, released in 2015.)
• Point Productions - J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 (UK CD) (Wonderful!)

Lots of great stuff from over the years! Wasn't that a fantastic selection of gifts? I hope you enjoyed this blog post. Merry Christmas 2024, and thanks for reading!

My 2024 Easter / Resurrection Sunday Presents

Hello everyone! This is CEO100able, and this is my first 2024 blog post. It's that time of the year again, to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It's happening in March this time. I'd like to wish you all a Happy Easter! Today is also known as Resurrection Sunday. 

It seems blogging here never ends because of blog posts for lists of amazing things I've received for special occasions, but it's done for those who are curious about it. I mean, it seems that I ran out of ideas on what to blog about besides these cool things, so hopefully I can finally come up with something amazing. For now, what do you say we check out the names of the things I received for Easter this year?

• Scenic National Parks: The Best of the National Parks (Blu-ray) (I always enjoy documentaries about nature and animals, so this Blu-ray released in 2010 looks very cool.)
• Driveclub (PlayStation 4) (Original Release)
• Songs 4 Life - Lift Your Spirit! (2-CD Set) (This audio CD set contains lots of great Christian songs of the 1990s.)
• He Is Risen: Instrumental & Vocal Easter Favorites (CD)
• Australian Chamber Music: The Qantas Collection Volume 6 (Australian CD) (It's interesting to get audio CDs from around the world. This 2002 classical CD imported from Australia looks fabulous.)
• Three Mini Snickers Chocolate Bars

What an interesting selection of gifts from over the years! I hope you enjoyed this blog post. Happy Easter / Resurrection Sunday, and thanks for reading!