{"id":77,"date":"2004-12-31T10:54:56","date_gmt":"2004-12-31T10:54:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-12-31T10:54:56","modified_gmt":"2004-12-31T10:54:56","slug":"santa-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/12\/31\/santa-take-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Take 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas seems like a distant memory \u2026 except for all the toys thrown all over the house, and the tree that still needs to be undecorated, and all the boxes stacked up in the corner waiting to be kindly thrown out in the trash, and \u2026 ah, forget it.  There are still plenty of Christmas reminders around the Calvert household.<\/p>\n<p>And then there are JC\u2019s Christmas toys.  I spoke of the GameCube Game Boy player a few days ago \u2013 technically that is Joshua\u2019s, but who is counting?<\/p>\n<p>Goodie list not counting clothes, adult beverages (yes, I got me some Christmas spirits!), and other non-entertainment stuff:<\/p>\n<p><b>American Idiot \u2013 Green Day<\/b><br \/>\nThis is my first Green Day music; it is very good listening tunes.  I am surprised that it is so solid from beginning to end.  Good stuff!<\/p>\n<p><b>The Lord Of The Rings:  The Return Of The King<\/b><br \/>\nThis is the unlimited, super secret, special edition.  Collectable or something like that.  I really enjoyed the movies, and the soundtrack (this is the only LotR soundtrack in my library) is fantastic.<\/p>\n<p><b>American IV:  The Man Comes Around \u2013 Johnny Cash<\/b><br \/>\nI cannot say enough good things about this CD.  I do not own any other Cash, and I have to admit that I never really paid attention to Cash.  This is by far my favorite CD right now, damn your eyes!<\/p>\n<p><b>Need for Speed:  Underground 2<\/b><br \/>\nHave not even opened this one yet; shame on me.  I really enjoyed the first Underground, so hopefully this one will play just as well if not better.  Will post an update sooner or later.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ace Combat 5<\/b><br \/>\nAnother still in the shrinkwrap game.  Do I suck or what?  I have always been a big fan of the series, but I have not really gotten \u201cinto\u201d the games.  Mostly just casually flying around blowing up chit.  Much like NFS:U2 ? will post an update at some point \u2026 fairly soon I hope.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kirby Air Ride<\/b><br \/>\nOK, this one is really Joshua\u2019s, but dad has to help out and play it some.  I mean, what are dads for, right?  The game is pretty simplistic, and I do not see a whole heck of a lot of strategy involved.  You ride around, sucking up stuff in the typical Kirby manner, and try to be the first to cross the finish line.  I think the game just uses the left control sick and the green action button \u2013 simplicity is good I suppose.  Joshua likes it, so I guess that is all that really matters.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure there is some stuff that I am forgetting; if so, that will have to wait until take 3.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas seems like a distant memory \u2026 except for all the toys thrown all over the house, and the tree that still needs to be undecorated, and all the boxes stacked up in the corner waiting to be kindly thrown out in the trash, and \u2026 ah, forget it. There are still plenty of Christmas &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/12\/31\/santa-take-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Santa Take 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}