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!