My 2019 Christmas Presents

Hello everyone! This is CEO100able, back to blogging. I hope you all had a Merry Christmas, and I'd like to wish you all a Happy New Year... and a Happy New Decade! Normally I'd record a video about my Christmas presents and upload it to YouTube, but since I somehow caught a cold last week (and I'm still recovering from it, but nearly all better at this point), I decided to display some of their names on a blog post here instead. So until I get completely better, please keep me in your prayers; thanks! I ran out of ideas for blog posts anyway, so to keep this old blog relevant year after year, this is a new format I'll do with showing Christmas presents and Easter/Resurrection Sunday presents on the web from now on. Here we go...

• The VeggieTales Show: The Best Christmas Gift (2019)
• Hot Wheels '98 Subaru Impereza 22B STi (2020 toy)
• 2019 Hot Wheels Race Day Dodge Charger Stock Car #76 (Red)
• 2019 Hot Wheels Ford Mustang Funny Car Dragster (Imported from Canada)
• Hot Wheels Datsun Fairlady Z 2000 (Imported from France)
• Hot Wheels 2013 BMW M4 (2014 toy; loose but brand new) (Imported from the Netherlands)
• 2018 Hot Wheels Lotus Espirit S1 (Orange) (Imported from Hungary)
• 2019 Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Rodger Dodger (Blue)
• Need for Speed II (North American NTSC PlayStation 1 release)
• Ultimate Board Game Collection (North American NTSC PlayStation 2 release)
• WRC 3: The Official Game of the FIA World Rally Championship (UK PAL PlayStation 2 release)
• The Beach Boys - Surfin' Safari (Original Masters Collection) (CD)
• Peanuts 2020 Calendar
• Winnie the Pooh 2020 Calendar

My Internet Game Cars Database Account

Hello everyone, this is CEO100able blogging once again. I have just registered for an Internet Game Cars Database account today because I like vehicles and seeing them in video games (including ones I played in my childhood) and I thought it would be fun to join a website about them. For those who don't know, it's a website that can be used to find in which video game a particular car is visible, or to have more info about some cars visible in a particular video game. You will also find lots of pictures of these cars, taken directly from the video games they're featured in. I will add pictures of in-game vehicles and post comments on the ones that have already been posted over the years. Here's a link to it:

http://www.igcd.net/profile.php?id=CEO100able

Thanks for reading, and enjoy! See you next time!

My Collection of Vinyl Records, Audio Cassette Tapes and Audio CDs

Wow, it's been a year and a half since the last time I posted something on this blog. I have recently decided to get back to writing blog posts by writing a list of my collection of vinyl record, audio cassette tape and audio CDs for those who are curious.

Audio CDs:

• Blue's Clues - Blue's Biggest Hits
• Blue's Clues - Blue's Big Musical Movie
• Brum - The Album (This CD was imported from the UK.)
• Cars: Original Soundtrack
• Cedarmont Kids - Bible Singalong Collection (Bible Songs, Action Bible Songs and Sunday School Songs) (2004 re-release)
• Cedarmont Kids - Gospel Singalong Collection (Gospel Bible Songs, Gospel Praise Songs and Gospel Action Songs)
• Cedarmont Kids - Action Bible Songs (1990s release)
• Cedarmont Kids - Sunday School Songs (1990s releases)
• Cedarmont Kids - Songs of Praise (2004 re-release)
• Cedarmont Kids - Silly Songs (1990s release)
• Cedarmont Kids - Lullabies (1990s release and 2004 re-release)
• Cedarmont Kids - Hymns (2004 re-release)
• Cedarmont Kids - Toddler Tunes (1997 re-release)
• Cedarmont Kids - Toddler Action Songs (2002 release)
• Cedarmont Kids - Toddler Bible Songs (2002 release)
• George Strait - Twang
• Heartbeat Musical Therapy - Jesus Loves Me
• Hide 'Em In Your Heart Songs with Steve Green Two for One (Volumes 1 and 2)
• James Coffey - Come Ride Along With Me
• James Coffey - I Love Toy Trains: The Music!
• James Coffey - Lots and Lots of Trains (bonus audio CD)
• James Coffey - Lots and Lots of Trucks
• James Coffey - Lots and Lots of Trucks (bonus audio CD)
• Rush - 2112
• Teletubbies - The Album (1998 US release)
• Teletubbies - Big Hugs (This CD is based on the Teletubbies reboot.)
• Teletubbies - Nursery Rhymes & Other Fun Songs! (1999 US release)
• Teletubbies - Bedtime and Playtime Stories (2000 US release)
• The Best of Beethoven (I purchased this audio CD because one of the songs are included in Windows Vista as one of the sample tracks, so this disc is nostalgic.)
• Thomas & Friends - Thomas' Train Yard Tracks (2002 release)
• Thomas and the Magic Railroad
• VeggieTunes Volume 1
• VeggieTales - Greatest Hits

Cassette Tapes:

• 101 Dalmatians - A Lucky Christmas (bonus cassette tape)
• Baby Animals at Uncle Larry's Farm (bonus cassette tape)
• Putt-Putt's Night Before Christmas (bonus cassette tape)
• Heartbeat Musical Therapy - Jesus Loves Me
• Lionel Great Railway Adventures - The Daylight Limited (bonus cassette tape)
• Lionel Great Railway Adventures - The Mighty Mogul (bonus cassette tape)
• Lionel Great Railway Adventures - The Torpedo Run (bonus cassette tape)

Vinyl Records:

• George Strait - Twang
• The Very Best of VeggieTales

Currently, this list is incomplete. I will add more at another time.

My Steam Account

Hello everyone, this is CEO100able blogging again. This place hasn't been updated in over a year, so I am writing about something completely different. It's about my Steam account. I registered for one today because the PC games "Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and "The Lego Movie Video Game" required a Steam account to play them, even though they're physical copies. I installed them and added the same games to my collection.

For those who don't know, Steam is basically a website that provides video games as digital downloads. It started years ago, but I haven't thought about starting a Steam account until now as the two particular games mentioned above prompted me to do so. Here's a link to it:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/CEO100able

Thanks for reading, and enjoy! See you next time!

My Thoughts on Grunko Films

Hello everyone. I am starting to make blog posts about my thoughts on things, which basically describe my opinions on things I care about. Here, I am starting off with a company called Grunko Films. For those who don't know what this company is about, it's a company that produced home videos about wildlife, fishing and hunting. Not only that, but they produced two TV shows, "Experience the Wild" and "The Wild Gourmet." (Experience the Wild had a home video series of its own as well.) Bill Grunkemeyer, the owner, started the company in 1982, ran it for a couple of decades and died in June 2003 at the home of Lou Gehrig's disease, so his company became defunct. Let's get on with my opinions...

First of all, I was really interested in children's home videos about animals (e.g. Baby Animals at Uncle Larry's Farm) when I was little, so my parents bought them, including two different home videos made by this particular company: "Baby Animal Fun" and "Wild Animals at Play." They are actually the 1999 re-released distributed by a Canadian company called Madacy Entertainment Group. The two home videos were first released in 1988. The VHS tape I loved the best was "Baby Animal Fun." Why you may ask? Because it features a little girl named Ashley Tyler and her dad Lyle Tyler (referred to as "Burr"). They go out on animal adventures. The episodes have amazing music. I was really obsessed with that home video, from 2002 to 2005. The second VHS tape, "Wild Animals at Play," was also great. The footage was nice and so was the music. Later on in 2014, I decided to start collecting more home videos.

What I like about this company is that their home videos have great music choices (some of the music tracks can be found on some stock music libraries, such as the ones made by FirstCom Music) and the narration, from Fred Arthur's efforts to Bill Grunkemeyer's talents, was really informative. It provided true information about how wildlife and nature work, facts about animals, etc. They're both entertaining and educational (great educational value of course), so think of them as "documentaries." I like the fact that they take place in Wyoming and a few other regions because the scenes look beautiful. Above all, those home videos are really great.

The bad? Well, they NEVER released their home videos on DVD, so all of them are exclusive to VHS, which really stinks. You'd think they would release their great shows on up-to-date technology because DVDs and Blu-rays took over VHS tapes. If they did so, I would buy all of them in a heartbeat! Also, they never released all of the Experience the Wild episodes from the TV series, nor the other TV show, "The Wild Gourmet." Thus the fact that it was only aired in Canada as far as I know, and Experience the Wild only aired in the state of Wyoming, which is weird. I think the productions really deserved to be released on modern technology products for future generations of wildlife fans.

Well, that's all I have to say about this company. I have some home videos made by Grunko Films, but I only have a few on Dailymotion at this moment because once in late 2012, I uploaded a couple productions made by this company. Nearly a year later, I was a little bit paranoid about copyright issues, so I moved them to my Dailymotion account (it's called ChristianGuy1). I almost forgot that I have a wiki on Wikia based on this company. Check it out here:

http://grunkofilms.wikia.com/

Thanks for reading!

My VHS and DVD Collection

Hey everyone, this is CEO100able. I don't seem to be adding things very frequently to this blog because I haven't been coming up with good ideas for my blog posts. However, I am posting something new right now; a user on YouTube named MrAcrizzy gave me a request to show my collection of VHS tapes and DVDs, but because I have so many of them in my household, I decided to write out a list here. It will save myself a lot of stress that way. Anyway, let's begin...

North America (United States and Canada)

VHS:

• Blue's Clues: Story Time (1998)
• Blue's Clues: Rhythm and Blue (1998)
• Blue's Clues: ABC's and 123's (1999)
• Blue's Clues: Blue's Discoveries (1999)
• Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Treasure Hunt (1999)
• Blue's Clues: Blue's Safari (2000)
• Blue's Clue's Stop, Look, and Listen! (2000)
• Blue's Clues: Magenta Comes Over (2000)
• Blue's Clues: Playtime with Periwinkle (2001)
• Blue's Clues: Café Blue (2001)
• Blue's Clues: Blue's News! - Read All About It! (2001)
• Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Holiday (2001)
• Teletubbies - Here Come the Teletubbies
• Teletubbies - Dance With the Teletubbies
• Teletubbies - Favorite Things
• Teletubbies - Big Hug!
• Teletubbies - Nursery Rhymes
• Teletubbies - Bedtime Stories and Lullabies
• Teletubbies - Baby Animals
• Teletubbies - Silly Songs and Funny Dances!
• Teletubbies - Naughty Noo-Noo!
• Teletubbies - All Together Teletubbies
• Bob the Builder - To the Rescue!
• Bob the Builder - Bob Saves the Day
• Real Wheels: There Goes a Fire Truck
• Real Wheels: There Goes a Police Car
• Real Wheels: There Goes a Train
• Real Wheels: There Goes a Truck
• Real Wheels: There Goes a Bulldozer
• Real Wheels: There Goes an Airplane
• Real Wheels: There Goes a Spaceship
• Real Wheels: Here Comes a Roller Coaster
• Real Wheels: There Goes a Monster Truck
• Real Wheels: There Goes a Helicopter
• Real Wheels: There Goes a Rescue Vehicle
• Real Wheels: There Goes a Mail Truck
• Real Wheels: There Goes a Garbage Truck
• Real Wheels: There Goes a Dump Truck
• Real Wheels: There Goes a Tractor
• Real Wheels: There Goes a Farm Truck
• Real Wheels: There Goes a Bus
• I Love Toy Trains Part 1 (2002 Version)
• I Love Toy Trains Part 2 (2000 Version)
• I Love Toy Trains Part 6
• I Love Toy Trains Part 11
• I Love Toy Trains Part 12
• I Love Toy Trains 90-Minute Special #2 (Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6)
• I Love Toy Trains - OH NO!
• I Love Toy Trains - The Music Video
• I Love Big Trains Part 1
• I Love Cat Machines Part 1
• I Love Cat Machines Part 2
• I Love Cat Machines Part 3
• I Love Cat Machines Part 4
• All About John Deere Part 1
• Lots and Lots of Trains Volume 1
• Lots and Lots of Trains Volume 2
• Lots and Lots of Trucks Volume 1
• Lots and Lots of Trucks Volume 2
• Choo-Choo Trains: Close Up and Very Personal
• Snowplows on Patrol
• Lenny the Lumberjack
• Baby Animals at Uncle Larry's Farm
• Toddler Takes (1997 Edition)
• The Wiggles - Yummy Yummy
• Thomas and Friends: Thomas Gets Tricked (1990 Edition)
• Thomas and Friends: Thomas' Christmas Party
• Thomas and Friends: Gallant Old Engine
• VeggieTales: Rack, Shack and Benny!
• VeggieTales: Dave and the Giant Pickle
• VeggieTales: LarryBoy and the Fib From Outer Space!
• Alaskan King (1985 Edition)
• The Yellowstone and the Madison: One After Another! (1985 Edition)
• Wapiti Creek: The Story of the American Elk
• Alaska: Once in a Lifetime?
• Cowboys and Cutthroats
• Prairie Babies (1999 Edition)
• Babies of the Pond (1999 Edition)
• Babies of the Forest (1999 Edition)
• Baby Animal Fun (1999 Edition)
• Survivors of the Fire: Yellowstone's Elk
• Whitetail Hunting: "Luck or Logic"
• Living With The Elk
• Hunter-Warrior of the Plains
• Wild Animals at Play (1999 Edition)
• Four Seasons in the Wild

DVD:

• Thomas and Friends: Make Someone Happy
• Thomas and Friends: Thomas and the Jet Engine
• Thomas and Friends, On Site With Thomas
• Thomas and Friends: It's Great to Be an Engine
• Real Wheels: Truck Adventures (Fire Truck, Truck, Garbage Truck)
• Real Wheels: Travel Adventures (Train, Airplane, Bus)
• Real Wheels: Mega Truck Adventures (Bulldozer, Monster Truck, Tank)
• Real Wheels: Rescue Adventures (Rescue Hero, Rescue Vehicle, Police Car)
• Real Wheels: High Speed Adventures (Race Car, Spaceship, Motorcycle)
• Real Wheels: Land, Sea and Air Adventures (Boat, Helicopter, Mail Truck)
• VeggieTales: The Ballad of Little Joe

Currently, this list is incomplete. I will add more sometime later.

News About My PlayStation 2

Hello everyone. I have some bad news about my PlayStation 2. After a year of playing games on it, it stopped reading CD-ROM based games (PlayStation 1 games and PS2 games that are CD-ROM based). I believe the lens is starting to wear out. I still have the original SCPH-30001 model. I'm planning on taking it to my local retro video game store since they repair video game consoles very well. In the meantime, I will not upload anymore let's plays and walkthroughs of PS1 and PS2 games that are CD-ROM based, until I can have it repaired. Fortunately, I can still play PS2 games that are DVD-ROM based since it still reads them.

Now, for those of you who have the newer PS2 models, you may be wondering, "Why aren't you upgrading to the slim model?" Well, first of all, it's because the original model has the ability to read games, including 102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue and ATV Offroad Fury 3. Second, and finally, I like how the original model operates. Not to mention, it's a good thing my other consoles (my Nintendo Wii, my Nintendo GameCube and my original Xbox) still work. Even though Sony no longer supports the PlayStation 2, I can still have fun with PS1 and PS2 games.

So, that's all I have to say in case you're wondering what's going on with my video game consoles. See you next time, and have a Happy New Year!

Update (09/04/2015): I know I'm really late to say this, but in January of this year, it has been fixed. Now I can still play CD-ROM based games.