Movies – TV – Games – NYC – Me

Last summer I spent a pretty huge number of hours playing the heck out of Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA4). I had played and loved the very first Grand Theft Auto game, but never got into GTA3, GTA: Vice City, or GTA: San Andreas. These were initially Playstation 2 (PS2) games and I didn't have a PS2 at the [...]

Another fine Christmas has come and gone.  We spent the evening of Christmas Eve walking around the Christmas attractions of Manhattan including visiting the window displays at Macy's, Lord and Taylor, and Saks Fifth Avenue. We also visited the Bryant Park holiday shops and Times Square. For Christmas day, we had a quiet day at home [...]

About two ago we ventured from the cold northeast to the warm state of Florida to embark on a cruise of the Western Caribbean.  I believe this is the fourth cruise the missus and I have been on. Previously we did a short Bahamas cruise on Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas, an Alaska cruise on [...]

We also watched the movie Fred Claus. It was a cute film, Vince Vaugn did a nice job, but I didn't find it nearly as entertaining as Elf, which holds strong with my favorite Christmas films such as Bad Santa and A Christmas Story. For the first half of Fred Claus, they dubbed in Flintstones-esque sound [...]

We had a joyously long, relaxing weekend. I will share some of what we did, although the order is probably all wrong.

Made great strides toward catching up on our TiVo recordings which included a lot of CSI, Heros, Cook's Country, etc.
Watched the movie Get Smart, which we really enjoyed. Steve Carell was a lot of fun as [...]