tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72651928360313182432024-03-27T01:37:28.937-05:00Ruth's Life is GoodRuth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.comBlogger3280125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-72779588943085466552024-03-25T06:46:00.001-05:002024-03-25T08:32:43.167-05:00Sunday 3-24-24 Finished Trip Preparation<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">We're starting our Spring Trip. I'm sorry we won't have any internet or cell service for a few days so there will be no blogs. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">We had a very windy day. A front came through with a cold wind. The high today was 69 degrees. We were suppose to get rain with the front but it missed us. Some places in town did get some rain.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEw5PRP3zR2tFvGU4BhwsnHVzdoL6ARhyphenhyphenx5z6XgIReCJA9T2FkaShwyrFFiuu1EZPbq7P96AN0ZHHwMIPje2KWwN9VabT-pG4q0pp5GtqBpce_MLKuIr1l_-3LoMG1QqSKkGGI4Rv562qoczSXKTy81OjY_FQHqLQOzeJV6vKuZ330GErmiM94mruEy0k/s500/windy-day.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="500" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEw5PRP3zR2tFvGU4BhwsnHVzdoL6ARhyphenhyphenx5z6XgIReCJA9T2FkaShwyrFFiuu1EZPbq7P96AN0ZHHwMIPje2KWwN9VabT-pG4q0pp5GtqBpce_MLKuIr1l_-3LoMG1QqSKkGGI4Rv562qoczSXKTy81OjY_FQHqLQOzeJV6vKuZ330GErmiM94mruEy0k/s320/windy-day.gif" width="320" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"> Hold on tight Tiger</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">We spent most of the day getting ready for the trip. </p><p style="text-align: left;">We ran a heater and a fan in the laundry room to dry the wall out where the leak was. Larry put the fan and heater away. Then he moved the washer back in it's cubby hole. He connected the hoses and turned on the water. There were no leaks. Now I can do laundry for the trip.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I put a load in the washer and then we went to Walmart to pick up a few items to take with us. When we got home Larry checked the wall out again. It was dry. I'm very grateful I have Larry and he found the leak and fixed. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry loaded up all the electronics we're taking with us on our trip. Then we put the motorcycle carrier on the back of the Minnie and loaded the motorcycle. Larry strapped the bike in place while I held it. He put the cover on the bike and strapped it down. </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHU__1c09eyPNmyOpVSX5mRQuaNFNEaKEdUltsFsC7v0gGQQkFbYamP2j4168eX9XsGCttMLzad7aNTSKJ1phaAbxvi-x-T6xpTxbNPw4qMmj8fe-8C00AkMzo-_Ll6NB03OBjxN110eC_pGDSyKnmYVFvJN2nAQNQy_TDTH82lGiQd9R1j2yZONU50wk/s2048/IMG_0504.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHU__1c09eyPNmyOpVSX5mRQuaNFNEaKEdUltsFsC7v0gGQQkFbYamP2j4168eX9XsGCttMLzad7aNTSKJ1phaAbxvi-x-T6xpTxbNPw4qMmj8fe-8C00AkMzo-_Ll6NB03OBjxN110eC_pGDSyKnmYVFvJN2nAQNQy_TDTH82lGiQd9R1j2yZONU50wk/w640-h480/IMG_0504.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Ready for the spring trip</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: left;">I loaded up the refrigerator and freezer with food. After the laundry was finished I loaded up the clothes. In between loading the Minnie I did some housework because I like to come back to a clean house. I vacuumed, dusted and cleaned the bathrooms. I also made taco meat and a pasta dish to take with us.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI0oizJmDHYPacNT7xHyrfU0plnxJf31NO1AUYe1GmVLYWsvh0ASaDQOEwoaU0qfsptJV7agFf5zShIaOSoG0Ydezl6QeJNIVjMyGGF2VmtvcxG407xcX9dVQikU-G9B6w-Vx1DneJw5ydGvQ-VSnM5YDQOmL9wvqkf-092-xNTO78kg8l7erRdQYjKoQ/s247/housework1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="247" data-original-width="204" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI0oizJmDHYPacNT7xHyrfU0plnxJf31NO1AUYe1GmVLYWsvh0ASaDQOEwoaU0qfsptJV7agFf5zShIaOSoG0Ydezl6QeJNIVjMyGGF2VmtvcxG407xcX9dVQikU-G9B6w-Vx1DneJw5ydGvQ-VSnM5YDQOmL9wvqkf-092-xNTO78kg8l7erRdQYjKoQ/s1600/housework1.jpg" width="204" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Doing housework</p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked out with the Synth Riders for about an hour. </p><p style="text-align: left;">I didn't get a chance to play any pinball. In the weekly challenge of Blood Machines I came in 52nd place out of 67 participants.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Two Game Tango of 10 games (5 Klondike and 5 Spider). It took me 1 hour, 14 minutes and 54 seconds to complete, which put me in 25th place in my group. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">In the evening we watched a few episodes of Northern Exposure. When Larry went to bed I finished watching the third season of Madame Blanc
Mysteries. I ended up doing 17,000 steps, which put me in 2nd place in
my group for the week. I ended up doing 122,212 steps for the week. </p><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-9437114866817386442024-03-24T06:43:00.001-05:002024-03-24T06:43:16.906-05:00Saturday 3-23-24 Busy Doing This & That - Water Leak<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimXFfqIFLOhG8jm-L7BWthk-L_DuZJWfse5VS7PoxQ_YTYI-PMBsePSy2AYiz0r7p-od8CPgXIcbgX1ffGvfDwa-NdlvukOnpnb4yP_jxC8oK7PW_9YxDfmkB3PH6-Su9SIVnCXpsxFmLonwG2lgiJPKJ84fu24_i_Gx_v3a_-xTAdEP0HCgAYETlBDIY/s332/Saturday.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="290" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimXFfqIFLOhG8jm-L7BWthk-L_DuZJWfse5VS7PoxQ_YTYI-PMBsePSy2AYiz0r7p-od8CPgXIcbgX1ffGvfDwa-NdlvukOnpnb4yP_jxC8oK7PW_9YxDfmkB3PH6-Su9SIVnCXpsxFmLonwG2lgiJPKJ84fu24_i_Gx_v3a_-xTAdEP0HCgAYETlBDIY/s320/Saturday.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">It was a very nice day with the high of 73 degrees. It was perfect to do things around the house.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I started the day off by finishing up loading the dry products in the Minnie. Tomorrow I'll load up the refrigerator and freezer. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry plugged in the Minnie and turned on the refrigerator. He aired up the air bags and checked the air in the tires. He checked the belts, oil level and made sure everything was ready to go on the trip.</p><p style="text-align: left;">After lunch we went to the convenience store to fill the two gallon container with gas for the motorcycle and lawn mower.</p><p style="text-align: left;">When we got home I mowed the backyard and part of the frontyard. The other day Jason mowed the side of the frontyard by his yard when he mowed his. While I mowed Larry treated for weeds and bugs. Larry used his backpack when he treated for bugs. After I mowed Larry blew off the mower, out the garage and blew the driveway. </p><p style="text-align: left;">When Larry was spraying around the foundation he noticed water was seeping out of the overflow drain for the washer. This was not good news. When we had the house built Larry had the washer area lowered a few inches and a drain installed. He did this just in case we ever had a leak with the washer. He also did this when we had our previous house built. Well, after all those years it paid off. One of the hose connections started leaking at the shut off valve, it was a slow leak but enough for water to run down the wall onto the floor and eventually out the drain. Larry removed the washer and used his shop vac to suck up the excess water. He then setup a heater and fan to blow on the wall to dry it out. We could find no signs of water leaking into the closet that is directly behind the washer. It appears the only damage will be a water stain on the paint which we can repaint. We were fortunate that he spotted the leak and we were home. </p><p style="text-align: left;">When we had the house build Larry also had a water valve to the house installed in the garage and when we travel we normally turn the water off to the house. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioZPGVJ1_5bS9bluNa1dtkjiPPJBx3r5Yu7AbNc-l5iXFOY6udR61BjZIRszjrVKBxrZIDhHDszE9rUVnfj0O-Gj_UcNonISW2Eta6oY9zsPNeRoeLixE7ViWUIGSfS_EoPt7Q-IFcyFzk2V-kyXVl7Y2TzvvuzuqMGH0ITXtI148H28zMKlZQsK6QaqU/s4032/PXL_20240323_212118237.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioZPGVJ1_5bS9bluNa1dtkjiPPJBx3r5Yu7AbNc-l5iXFOY6udR61BjZIRszjrVKBxrZIDhHDszE9rUVnfj0O-Gj_UcNonISW2Eta6oY9zsPNeRoeLixE7ViWUIGSfS_EoPt7Q-IFcyFzk2V-kyXVl7Y2TzvvuzuqMGH0ITXtI148H28zMKlZQsK6QaqU/w640-h360/PXL_20240323_212118237.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Mowing the yards</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked out on the Wii Fit for a half hour and the Synth Riders for 45 minutes.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9wbFzxkzsTyrw8jzGauvbo6oSx6_wpws32TJV_vp_StuuigyQGyNHeKSmWDm5cl6bFk_8yRFDYqLu6GCc72-sNQQzKNb5TADGoXs5KlgYUeyHhvyFFgz5gIcMNJfQO3lE6E79MW380RaxT154tH3rgSB9UDrF95d-wEtc5OSgPIeMpgT3qTuyX8S9D4U/s252/workingout.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="252" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9wbFzxkzsTyrw8jzGauvbo6oSx6_wpws32TJV_vp_StuuigyQGyNHeKSmWDm5cl6bFk_8yRFDYqLu6GCc72-sNQQzKNb5TADGoXs5KlgYUeyHhvyFFgz5gIcMNJfQO3lE6E79MW380RaxT154tH3rgSB9UDrF95d-wEtc5OSgPIeMpgT3qTuyX8S9D4U/s1600/workingout.png" width="252" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Working out</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: left;">I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Easy Street of 30 games. It took me 1 hour, 4 minutes and 51 seconds, which put me in 16th place in my group. I played Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds and Friends.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I played the weekly challenge of Blood Machines to get a new high score but failed. Then I played Cactus Canyon. While playing Cactus Canyon I got the high score #3.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAbufvYi8STLPpvo0EGhqm451hyFRHfAne6KWaYwi45ZoqGAZHqxnwW7DMmHjOjQyiWch8CaLEv9AwNmolx6J3-NXNErkfTFGfQHdLC2Bmh1cjx6VeTVxUhtN4GsXupIVbPoi0qocKpY-icBhZG3yWuzGULn3vCQYVZvHvPOi9SNkaSDjx7-OzpRzM7b4/s2160/Cactus%20Canyon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAbufvYi8STLPpvo0EGhqm451hyFRHfAne6KWaYwi45ZoqGAZHqxnwW7DMmHjOjQyiWch8CaLEv9AwNmolx6J3-NXNErkfTFGfQHdLC2Bmh1cjx6VeTVxUhtN4GsXupIVbPoi0qocKpY-icBhZG3yWuzGULn3vCQYVZvHvPOi9SNkaSDjx7-OzpRzM7b4/w640-h640/Cactus%20Canyon.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Cactus Canyon</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: left;">In the evening we watched three episodes of Northern Exposure. Then I watched Top Gun our of our movie collections. Afterwards I watched a couple of episodes of Madame Blanc
Mysteries. I ended up doing 17,000 steps, which put me in 1st place in
my group. </p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-84824186019954344212024-03-23T06:48:00.000-05:002024-03-23T06:48:18.400-05:00Friday 3-22-24 Dancing, Workout & Spring Trip Preparation<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe1y1xGNb0u5u0nc95M7AJK29VYXFwQW3i2_LAiAzp7p2zd_dGeXTX622ACL_yYhq5_cWlGyf75ZQJjiDuwwnS_Vm-w_zyH85NPYvj0lVxUjWsS6ZB91vI3MMIkfDIzolcqmSNqbLnlTwWJTxWP5odTHFkoowSpUDLPGE4nk0odVfgtAgnl3RSoNsawQQ/s527/spring.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="525" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe1y1xGNb0u5u0nc95M7AJK29VYXFwQW3i2_LAiAzp7p2zd_dGeXTX622ACL_yYhq5_cWlGyf75ZQJjiDuwwnS_Vm-w_zyH85NPYvj0lVxUjWsS6ZB91vI3MMIkfDIzolcqmSNqbLnlTwWJTxWP5odTHFkoowSpUDLPGE4nk0odVfgtAgnl3RSoNsawQQ/s320/spring.gif" width="319" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Springtime is here</p><p style="text-align: left;">The day started with the temperature of 48 degrees. By midday the temperature was 69 degrees. The rain was gone and we had a beautiful shining day.</p><p style="text-align: left;">We started the day out by going to town to do a few errands. First stop was the post office to stop the mail. Next was The UPS Store to pick up our mail and stop the mail. Afterward we went to Walmart to do our grocery shopping for our trip. The last stop was Dollar Tree to pick up items we couldn't get at Walmart, such as Betty Crocker cookies in a bag and bleach for the septic tank. </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge6Kbeu9lQIGCfSgjdjOOnQ7PTNj4UTbQL5lNE12o3R4VHlU0Xvb0oLpYuKDTHpThzkA_ZUdp0cWGw4LqU1FAuNp3MgwLuDhnXn8K7T89-sYOiELYp9qEy243xDN9cnL-6YPczi5f98ybmetErSUR1kHKl65sJn9Q29m-hGt1JRPtwZJN6MbuySVDY7LM/s231/runningerrands.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="231" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge6Kbeu9lQIGCfSgjdjOOnQ7PTNj4UTbQL5lNE12o3R4VHlU0Xvb0oLpYuKDTHpThzkA_ZUdp0cWGw4LqU1FAuNp3MgwLuDhnXn8K7T89-sYOiELYp9qEy243xDN9cnL-6YPczi5f98ybmetErSUR1kHKl65sJn9Q29m-hGt1JRPtwZJN6MbuySVDY7LM/s1600/runningerrands.jpg" width="231" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Running errands</p><p style="text-align: left;">When we got home it was lunchtime. I put the groceries away and put a salad together for lunch. When lunch was over Larry went outside and continued working on the Minnie project he was working on yesterday. He spent the whole afternoon doing the project.</p><p style="text-align: left;">While Larry worked on the project he did take a short break to help the neighbors unload a trailer and take some items in their new home. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Medium Mayhem Mini of 15 games. It took me 57 minutes and 42 seconds, which put me in 27th place in my group. Then I moved onto playing Angry Birds.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I also played Blood Machines on the pinball machine. I still didn't get a new high score but I had fun trying.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh95y9hjHWK4k94kM_vEFVod8XPeaqewu1aDq8yBPcmoFuSwbjZ_iwyAXcUQwIUwRQmgfxBel-tCCvF6_A8S1UoyY2P8P4c7Sj1o7R-KRs9IEzbNdYaOV06zxPNHWU-UEwfyQMeehT-eLinucPmLUkwOsBvqBdvOeBZ1acKR_BQTIaXg1J_fx0Z4CkPoFk/s1440/18d917a290be4473a9358ca95c57c747%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh95y9hjHWK4k94kM_vEFVod8XPeaqewu1aDq8yBPcmoFuSwbjZ_iwyAXcUQwIUwRQmgfxBel-tCCvF6_A8S1UoyY2P8P4c7Sj1o7R-KRs9IEzbNdYaOV06zxPNHWU-UEwfyQMeehT-eLinucPmLUkwOsBvqBdvOeBZ1acKR_BQTIaXg1J_fx0Z4CkPoFk/w640-h640/18d917a290be4473a9358ca95c57c747%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Blood Machines<br /> </p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked out with the Wii Fit for a half hour and Synth Riders for 45 minutes.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBNl5kSMoJc3JI4sCYFL3jfv1s0rcZ3psPg1Dh5LrMj9xOx2TmXeJPnNLUYJRN4st1AWc1N_RH4wsdHvZgne5z3gtvJzHZz56LQQ9xMDFEi0IicZJTEu5pO-fS3P31rAJRoW5oAFVkAMXgRkvyTKcazS2ggHolOJbZSpUTESOL7wLYrF_QlVuhPN2Mq2A/s356/workingout.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="198" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBNl5kSMoJc3JI4sCYFL3jfv1s0rcZ3psPg1Dh5LrMj9xOx2TmXeJPnNLUYJRN4st1AWc1N_RH4wsdHvZgne5z3gtvJzHZz56LQQ9xMDFEi0IicZJTEu5pO-fS3P31rAJRoW5oAFVkAMXgRkvyTKcazS2ggHolOJbZSpUTESOL7wLYrF_QlVuhPN2Mq2A/s320/workingout.gif" width="178" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Working out</p><p style="text-align: left;">I had a pleasant surprise. I thought that I didn't have a dance today but Ett emailed us and said she was calling her weekly dance. At 6:30 I attended Ett McAtee's Weekly A2 dance for an hour. She called four tips to 12 participants. We just danced. She will be gone for a couple of weeks and return to call a week. Then she's going overseas on a trip. I let everyone know I'll be gone for six weeks. I had a great time dancing to Ett and with friends.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiy2VACKbBF14BL47ZUJjuJ78Tcb4mJkQDn8-loQLrtjj_DhggII99K-oGAWYUS4wy58kR9UUp3NJpXL1jVqrF47YLWen-Uj_lDAAA-t-ytiNvPafn32LDSgifV1OPW4kKdZEKv5-B5CWNXFFZXo6xL0xuPSJ6wbLePiUzqbypuLdv-bXkP3JmTSSxY4I/s281/SquareDancing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="281" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiy2VACKbBF14BL47ZUJjuJ78Tcb4mJkQDn8-loQLrtjj_DhggII99K-oGAWYUS4wy58kR9UUp3NJpXL1jVqrF47YLWen-Uj_lDAAA-t-ytiNvPafn32LDSgifV1OPW4kKdZEKv5-B5CWNXFFZXo6xL0xuPSJ6wbLePiUzqbypuLdv-bXkP3JmTSSxY4I/s1600/SquareDancing.jpg" width="281" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Get a partner and dance</p><p style="text-align: left;">After the dance we watched a couple of episodes of Northern Exposure. When Larry went to bed I watched the last movie in the Harry Potter series of movies called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. I started the third season of Madame Blanc
Mysteries. I ended up doing 17,000 steps, which put me in 1st place in
my group.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-47368729413825028962024-03-22T06:32:00.001-05:002024-03-22T06:32:14.145-05:00Thursday 3-21-24 Getting Ready For Spring Trip & More<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsmQE8uy9lFNSPYr4BPlMvkAfB6_TjJVTnGVf7YBowjavPXY2RqDNa0CNbdYYQtWSF7hJuebT0HQCfIo_auHn3akBycxZGHHtl09aJyV1xXywqA-Jjyl15NHvdHCoibmmcrA8D3dhnwFJMPfFEIISZBYfq2yFwHUKp7cYSBtcAjSgk0V6wDHj7bZ3yIsc/s2048/Minnie.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsmQE8uy9lFNSPYr4BPlMvkAfB6_TjJVTnGVf7YBowjavPXY2RqDNa0CNbdYYQtWSF7hJuebT0HQCfIo_auHn3akBycxZGHHtl09aJyV1xXywqA-Jjyl15NHvdHCoibmmcrA8D3dhnwFJMPfFEIISZBYfq2yFwHUKp7cYSBtcAjSgk0V6wDHj7bZ3yIsc/w640-h480/Minnie.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Preparing for Spring Trip</p><p style="text-align: left;">It's about time for our spring trip, we will be wandering around in the Minnie for six weeks. We started to get the Minnie ready yesterday and continued today.</p><p style="text-align: left;">It sprinkled all day. In the evening a rain storm came through. While we were relaxing in front of the television we saw lightening and then there was thunder. Next came the rain. It poured for awhile but by 10:00 the rain stopped.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOOjDSiXolIVlRd-L21my2dgWsBQwUivamvhGwKmFiO_p8ASdK-rHwOOznCQvWI9707JosiEi205z2aFqcc9zA8W0-szQtlx1McoYM1ur1TKa9TnjY48FmWPBOH_iYwrDgOKgEHiH2nq6QGwitiIlJY99gFLzZp-oCb51RQk0OBoTg_yQeVlyk4eR30oE/s750/Raining2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="630" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOOjDSiXolIVlRd-L21my2dgWsBQwUivamvhGwKmFiO_p8ASdK-rHwOOznCQvWI9707JosiEi205z2aFqcc9zA8W0-szQtlx1McoYM1ur1TKa9TnjY48FmWPBOH_iYwrDgOKgEHiH2nq6QGwitiIlJY99gFLzZp-oCb51RQk0OBoTg_yQeVlyk4eR30oE/s320/Raining2.png" width="269" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Raining hard</p><p style="text-align: left;">We didn't have any dances today so we planned to work on getting the Minnie ready. Unfortunately the wet weather hindered this. Larry did a bit of work on the wiring and a switch to change the refrigerator from the house battery to the Lithium battery. He decided to install a new fuse block that will allow future expansion but he didn't have one. Amazon delivered it this evening so he'll install it tomorrow. I started to load the Minnie with the dry foods and paper products. </p><p style="text-align: left;">I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 Klondike and 5 Free Cell). It took me 55 minutes and 38 seconds to complete, which put me in 17th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked out with the Wii Fit for a half hour and with the Synth Riders for an hour.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I played the weekly pinball challenge of Blood Machine and James Bond Dr. No in Virtual Reality on the pinball cabinet. I didn't get a new high score on Blood Machine but had fun. The virtual reality room, that Blood Machine is very cool. When I played Dr. No I entered my initials at the end and had a super time playing the game. While I was playing Larry said when I finished Dr. No I could play Donkey Kong Jr., I thought he was talking about our arcade cabinet but he was talking about the virtual reality room. It had an arcade cabinet with Donkey Kong Jr. in it, of course you can't really play it but inside of virtual reality it looks real.<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBAEN3sZpJq2WLqroLCGzGhQf0J0Xx_7UnxYt2I5slxoXwk-j46M-uzTKBMttNNdhRxTrN7Bne3HpY8zK5789TzMZVfYdfavLwy8f7cIvRLhg_sC321ZPlgdbf25dDwGkiWwS8iU80dYm4iAAsbGl99f-vd2Q2lM6Nos7Q9gahuuw-Y-b6QFTj32rR0Rg/s1440/Dr.%20No-002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBAEN3sZpJq2WLqroLCGzGhQf0J0Xx_7UnxYt2I5slxoXwk-j46M-uzTKBMttNNdhRxTrN7Bne3HpY8zK5789TzMZVfYdfavLwy8f7cIvRLhg_sC321ZPlgdbf25dDwGkiWwS8iU80dYm4iAAsbGl99f-vd2Q2lM6Nos7Q9gahuuw-Y-b6QFTj32rR0Rg/w640-h640/Dr.%20No-002.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Dr. No virtual reality room with Donkey Kong Jr.</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhofvAHGcW4IGamlU9Z4QHbrSlgIfDwDht-ZgK2p_nMPKaxtneIV1Aers3Iy_Ncfsns9sRK9VpPoNflrLn3Qi8sWGKIAk6mT-qkLlLtYNArensKMP2_k_8LT8QPDRr4wflLHAXCpnSsCRqjy2jE30wbZUCJqop1DWa8c5J57plcpbnSFc6b-d2cQl0avSg/s1440/Blood%20Machines.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhofvAHGcW4IGamlU9Z4QHbrSlgIfDwDht-ZgK2p_nMPKaxtneIV1Aers3Iy_Ncfsns9sRK9VpPoNflrLn3Qi8sWGKIAk6mT-qkLlLtYNArensKMP2_k_8LT8QPDRr4wflLHAXCpnSsCRqjy2jE30wbZUCJqop1DWa8c5J57plcpbnSFc6b-d2cQl0avSg/w640-h640/Blood%20Machines.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Blood Machines room</p><p style="text-align: left;">Later on I played games on the arcade cabinet. I played four pinball games (Goldeneye, Rock 'n' Roll Diner, Dolly Parton and Elvis) and two arcade games (Super Pac-Man and 1941). When I played Goldeneye I entered my initials in the game. The arcade game 1941 is a war game, where you shot the enemy planes and other war items as you fly around. It a lot of fun. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJFYWwNGEaY8uN70ncFXvP-yi9615xlvH240jOAEh0VVscT3dfjQmU5ZIIsjunr56-KV_fblnqzors5WGvwzesATXbiYKD9lDwMSgNPuWZNfdyVXeCOlYGNAs6-k-mODgBBtLv9Ybt5wG-u3kJujNW-n39nnwE5dGmU2OwMKJ8WOaadFn9XxEzxkV7VRA/s2048/1941%20Arcade.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJFYWwNGEaY8uN70ncFXvP-yi9615xlvH240jOAEh0VVscT3dfjQmU5ZIIsjunr56-KV_fblnqzors5WGvwzesATXbiYKD9lDwMSgNPuWZNfdyVXeCOlYGNAs6-k-mODgBBtLv9Ybt5wG-u3kJujNW-n39nnwE5dGmU2OwMKJ8WOaadFn9XxEzxkV7VRA/w480-h640/1941%20Arcade.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">1941<br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3DAtAdP6U5E_Fk__q74_EdKCUMuiHgGY1opifVfi1D0KjQVXJQ6eDU70AKnlW-QKV1vyIH4dhlSyNmz0CciCS-bxt_gj9sNoWwbNCRsgw2Za-d6U8EOqlw8AUOjP7QRe3lUkC3HKiznF31H5KfpKseXPbvQ4TgV3HDt_HSU3YHm2p5bCXM5vrpFTMXAg/s2048/Dolly.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Then I watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and a couple of episodes of Madame Blanc Mysteries. I ended up doing 17,000 steps, which put me in 1st place in my group.<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-49944240458502681942024-03-21T06:55:00.001-05:002024-03-21T13:10:15.572-05:00Wednesday 3-20-24 Dancing, Projects & More <p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz2t9Q81tmxkeqFFSrKKRolsGr4Z67OjOzksZZTxnt8XErfH6lB80R8VNN7-LubQEHQn4f4e2itJU08Q_fwt4S61w_CNgf0OHrR38bOZnQ1F_w_Dng3HZKTpCvF1_J0Dfg3HLN_pv2V9yduSxiIvHQOTNxjyFJA6xAkfclktHIGG31oMdKjqVJXSk6nd4/s230/smileyface.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="219" data-original-width="230" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz2t9Q81tmxkeqFFSrKKRolsGr4Z67OjOzksZZTxnt8XErfH6lB80R8VNN7-LubQEHQn4f4e2itJU08Q_fwt4S61w_CNgf0OHrR38bOZnQ1F_w_Dng3HZKTpCvF1_J0Dfg3HLN_pv2V9yduSxiIvHQOTNxjyFJA6xAkfclktHIGG31oMdKjqVJXSk6nd4/s1600/smileyface.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Awesome day and keep smiling</p><p style="text-align: left;">We had an awesome day with the high of 67 degrees.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry kept busy doing different projects. He's doing a few small projects on the Minnie. He replaced the step cover and spare tire cover. He refilled a couple of propane canisters. He is also working on adding a switch to make it easy to switch the refrigerator from the lithium battery to the house battery. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjOGo3m70_VcuWL1sUz7FlVruw1KrA4wnG4C5xbi3lANVBCldOQLN_dXtcLiwuG_Lh9GHPbJEKJaboGd-qQXU_Vh0xeUED_MGFvmN1jf-a85GVfcOvg8NgjOS-VEdntosm5hfL7vCypuM9PByy_ZAYl0QUOpXcLoNTMmVRgwZwTHjcKhOCwEpl7CQvbeQ/s2048/Washing%20and%20Waxing%20the%20Minnie-001.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjOGo3m70_VcuWL1sUz7FlVruw1KrA4wnG4C5xbi3lANVBCldOQLN_dXtcLiwuG_Lh9GHPbJEKJaboGd-qQXU_Vh0xeUED_MGFvmN1jf-a85GVfcOvg8NgjOS-VEdntosm5hfL7vCypuM9PByy_ZAYl0QUOpXcLoNTMmVRgwZwTHjcKhOCwEpl7CQvbeQ/w640-h480/Washing%20and%20Waxing%20the%20Minnie-001.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Minnie Projects</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">His other project was fixing one of the septic spray heads. The landscape guys replaced it but left it covered by sod and too low in the ground to work correctly. Yesterday, we went to The Home Depot and bought the pieces he thought he needed. This morning when he dug it out he found out he needed a part he didn't have. So off to The Home Depot we went. When we got back Larry went outside and fixed the head. While he was working outside he noticed that Jason's new irrigation system wasn't working correctly, some of the sprinklers weren't spraying the right way or direction. One had a large leak, another was buried under the sod. He fixed the buried head and adjusted the others the best he could. He then texted Jason to let him know. Jason texted back and said he thought the crew was coming back Friday. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYWrR4g-9aEm1AcdGzLPIyLYUQtoBJoYMlOG8Qg8FD2x7ED9jyIov49htICvpsk-hzupbAVRwvAhsrtLppPyD6KgQxOkzxnnaVQz34-Zg2RIzbgiqm9Pn79DrKGQvgQ_wE8Oq-8ePMo-LydjWqTk_MxWxgrfzEgYLIkX2TcfkvgPouaPvi5oGf82hlElM/s4032/Mowing%20Backyard.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYWrR4g-9aEm1AcdGzLPIyLYUQtoBJoYMlOG8Qg8FD2x7ED9jyIov49htICvpsk-hzupbAVRwvAhsrtLppPyD6KgQxOkzxnnaVQz34-Zg2RIzbgiqm9Pn79DrKGQvgQ_wE8Oq-8ePMo-LydjWqTk_MxWxgrfzEgYLIkX2TcfkvgPouaPvi5oGf82hlElM/w640-h360/Mowing%20Backyard.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Irrigation system in the backyard</p><p style="text-align: left;">While Larry worked on his projects I attended two virtual square dances. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 11:00 for an hour and fifteen minutes. Di and Terry took turns calling five tips to 8 participants. I had a super time dancing with friends.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I logged in to attend Ett McAtee's Weekly C1 at 1:00, she was not there but Lutz (a gentleman from Germany) let everyone know the dance was cancelled. It was cancelled due to her having an infected tooth, she has been fighting it for weeks. I was sorry to hear about her tooth problem because we thought she had it solved. We all wished her well and thanked Lutz for the information.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Second was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00 for an hour and a half. Karin Rabe and Greg Moore helped him call the dance. Karin and Greg called a tip of C1 and A2 together, Dave called a tip of C1 and A2 and the third tip of C1 and A2 all three called together. The C1 session had 8 participants and the A2 session had 9 participants. In between the A2 tips we had a couple of Trivia questions. I had a great time dancing to Karin, Greg and Dave and with friends.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnF_d7iLRSLrdkLokC_p55uokS0k0CtPMGTE2LAl2TxfhpktPW3L-fLNKzxHBAld5oeb0Io8hZ8o8S0yR3inGysUTvDhHVAyZLFOyjvOxGHbvOTo6qwiEK3c-wxqXV9RIXtIA6fOHBkJzSl4FUhqeolVbq1LTkOiSJl2Mkm5qW1oXqTfkElUbFuKODWTM/s281/SquareDancing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="281" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnF_d7iLRSLrdkLokC_p55uokS0k0CtPMGTE2LAl2TxfhpktPW3L-fLNKzxHBAld5oeb0Io8hZ8o8S0yR3inGysUTvDhHVAyZLFOyjvOxGHbvOTo6qwiEK3c-wxqXV9RIXtIA6fOHBkJzSl4FUhqeolVbq1LTkOiSJl2Mkm5qW1oXqTfkElUbFuKODWTM/s1600/SquareDancing.jpg" width="281" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Get a partner and dance</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: left;">I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Solitaire World Tour of 30 games. It took me 1 hour, 46 minutes and 11 seconds, which put me in 11th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked out with the Synth Rider for an hour. Afterwards we watched YouTube videos.</p><p style="text-align: left;">After the last dance we watched a couple of episodes of Northern Exposure. When Larry went to bed I watched Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and an episode of Madame Blanc Mysteries. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 2nd place in my group.</p><p style="text-align: left;">We had a busy day of doing this and that. We had a fun time doing this and that. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-9919868761073538302024-03-20T06:17:00.002-05:002024-03-20T09:11:56.233-05:00Tuesday 3-19-24 Dancing at Corsicana & Games<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7qp3RNgbHpXHJIVG0ntB0LI1GW_RSozinaagvZpekXsZVelBkkqC3hOLWTGnBBHNOMDYmrljd1mMjgyQ2nyoNyWEjwZFydKhy6NUiPd71J-fw-YaHP3ZvYRP1YZOTcPG9Io0s1kW4W0TVapoOPBrpQffSfpjHZtpRARO0UGaLN6ZpETS_7W71y15boW8/s1600/IMG_0007.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1064" data-original-width="1600" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7qp3RNgbHpXHJIVG0ntB0LI1GW_RSozinaagvZpekXsZVelBkkqC3hOLWTGnBBHNOMDYmrljd1mMjgyQ2nyoNyWEjwZFydKhy6NUiPd71J-fw-YaHP3ZvYRP1YZOTcPG9Io0s1kW4W0TVapoOPBrpQffSfpjHZtpRARO0UGaLN6ZpETS_7W71y15boW8/w640-h426/IMG_0007.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Spring in Texas</p><p style="text-align: left;">Spring is here. For the last couple of weeks as we were driving around we saw bluebonnets, Indian Paintbrush and more flowers growing on the side of the highways and in people yards. It's a little early but it's beautiful to see. The picture above are some of the flowers we saw in 2017. Usually we are on the road for our Spring trip when they bloom but the last couple of years the flowers have appeared before we left.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Today we spent the day in Corsicana dancing A2 with friends. As we were driving we saw a lot of gorgeous wildflowers. We had two squares of dancers. They were happy to see us considering we hadn't been there in a few weeks. We danced 9:30 to 11:30, took an hour lunch break and danced 12:30 to 2:15. We called it fifteen minutes early because we were tried. We had danced a lot and had a two song break between tips. Everyone had to dance to make two squares. We had a super time.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic4U33uvG4ms_jrZE-CaoXf8H2Mlh8s7aMUeTaxHQFcNjWE4WA6ZEGIPvBovk4H8SlzHQvFLBMV0VkTBJD74IPCm05WUTcadox8YLm0WCoS2u7I4DVTKh-yYEIDW9ChDOf30kY6ozD5iDjoXu5CDLBqpNJOs6lKM8EJAYR9Zldb7iTuuj2y03lb2AQ-B4/s177/square%20dancing.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="173" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic4U33uvG4ms_jrZE-CaoXf8H2Mlh8s7aMUeTaxHQFcNjWE4WA6ZEGIPvBovk4H8SlzHQvFLBMV0VkTBJD74IPCm05WUTcadox8YLm0WCoS2u7I4DVTKh-yYEIDW9ChDOf30kY6ozD5iDjoXu5CDLBqpNJOs6lKM8EJAYR9Zldb7iTuuj2y03lb2AQ-B4/s1600/square%20dancing.gif" width="173" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">We love square dancing</p><p style="text-align: left;">I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before I went to bed. When we got back from the dance I did the event, which was Event: Free Cell Mini of 5 games. It took me 8 minutes and 58 seconds, which put me in 8th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked out with the Synth Riders for 45 minutes. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">I played the weekly challenge in pinball Blood Machines and got a new high score of 38,514,150. I'm in 25th place out of 33 participants. I also played Creature From the Black Lagoon.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8BxPjkF_Wj4Lr12A5uVBbsxbKXUkJrN0Kpguv58FwHlbeOGywGcQTamQW7mDZR1aZnBMCAEH6r4f_9fOaHTYktI-lXWS4hdMfwtvbU8zuTfSMZ8RIkfchm_tcNF9UsfJGIR14BHYPNodEw5Bl2sXiWT83r7BiV0P6CyRj40MnKSIkUgQ-H30AwlqZFQg/s1440/Blood%20Machines.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8BxPjkF_Wj4Lr12A5uVBbsxbKXUkJrN0Kpguv58FwHlbeOGywGcQTamQW7mDZR1aZnBMCAEH6r4f_9fOaHTYktI-lXWS4hdMfwtvbU8zuTfSMZ8RIkfchm_tcNF9UsfJGIR14BHYPNodEw5Bl2sXiWT83r7BiV0P6CyRj40MnKSIkUgQ-H30AwlqZFQg/w640-h640/Blood%20Machines.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Blood Machines</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_BS1rNFKqK-JvpgFpqJ2n44VEypUPkacmz07kxeERmFsyNc6aihOrGalLxTaFDDFLQY7XPK8i9kIho8oz4cq0du17uDklqJf9uSfze7BRpWTnKbaq8uPXsbJJRXBN7tfW8jxeSBA4cqfFW5xM5aii5lRyuSg9N_kzTltIITr-dHYWNhzlSXNcy_suLas/s1440/Creature%20From%20the%20Black%20Lagoon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_BS1rNFKqK-JvpgFpqJ2n44VEypUPkacmz07kxeERmFsyNc6aihOrGalLxTaFDDFLQY7XPK8i9kIho8oz4cq0du17uDklqJf9uSfze7BRpWTnKbaq8uPXsbJJRXBN7tfW8jxeSBA4cqfFW5xM5aii5lRyuSg9N_kzTltIITr-dHYWNhzlSXNcy_suLas/w640-h640/Creature%20From%20the%20Black%20Lagoon.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Creature From the Black Lagoon</p><p style="text-align: left;">In the evening we started watching a Star Trek series, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. It was very badly written and the acting was just as bad. We watched two episodes and will not continue watching it. Then I watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I watched a couple of episodes of the second season of Madame Blanc Mysteries. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 2nd place in my group. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-90652776750454280802024-03-19T06:41:00.001-05:002024-03-19T06:41:12.678-05:00Monday 3-18-24 Dancing, Minnie & Having Fun<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvcdZU0F5J3vPCP5sHbzL3D1nScqIb3ECrzfBQcNgCrlRT0xHdk1dG0wr1ttp1I11Zr3XYv5E4rrqgb1Qnf8Sa8rW2zUT3m37JkOl3g7sqOcceCDlYjQMsxoa67IQLfMkGvd_C39fL7oR0gnZGlHI12A45B4HC7uTstjPjyXUdGPgFjmnIPrHdApcfg54/s359/monday.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="229" data-original-width="359" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvcdZU0F5J3vPCP5sHbzL3D1nScqIb3ECrzfBQcNgCrlRT0xHdk1dG0wr1ttp1I11Zr3XYv5E4rrqgb1Qnf8Sa8rW2zUT3m37JkOl3g7sqOcceCDlYjQMsxoa67IQLfMkGvd_C39fL7oR0gnZGlHI12A45B4HC7uTstjPjyXUdGPgFjmnIPrHdApcfg54/s320/monday.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">The rain went away and the wind came up. We had wind out of the north and at times it was strong. The high temperature was 62 degrees and with the wind it was chilly.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I started the day by vacuuming the house and got the living room ready for our dance. I put a blue X with painter tape so we know where the flag pole center of the square is. This is very important so we'll be on the right place while dancing. I do this everyday we dance. When we're finished I take up the tape so we get our living room back.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhe8b9wDNFXRMHSSU32G2XERYi26YUHJjVgEyTD9xTdiivr2p_7AcwVunlvzkr-32DMjpeQhyphenhyphenMXbpTXostkNl1XbTMNSiA7z_27y2QXqInRlq-ijncbMzwUD0xP407wSnYeNTyMnQe1um0LTr2Lv6G-0_aL5ck-MO6hRiUqHE50MoRq1mGzKojct4B8vY/s225/housework.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhe8b9wDNFXRMHSSU32G2XERYi26YUHJjVgEyTD9xTdiivr2p_7AcwVunlvzkr-32DMjpeQhyphenhyphenMXbpTXostkNl1XbTMNSiA7z_27y2QXqInRlq-ijncbMzwUD0xP407wSnYeNTyMnQe1um0LTr2Lv6G-0_aL5ck-MO6hRiUqHE50MoRq1mGzKojct4B8vY/s1600/housework.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Doing a little housework</p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry and I attended Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 11:00 for an hour. This week Di called and danced by herself because Terry had to do some errands. Di called five tips to 18 participants. Some of the dancers said they were having problems knowing where to be because they usually follow Terry. Larry danced the first two tips with me. He helped me a lot. The dancers dressed in green to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, which was yesterday. Di called to Irish songs. We had a super time dancing to Di and with friends.</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG0grLtm3EUDJ-RvS2nnK5Dh3Y9ZezIs9_tRNEafxEVm1P6ZEykIEEeH0GEfuTjtt3ubqOk-EkDh14LV07gptbx7pXClwVXqWGUSHiQ0bzH5-iPZ4-50a029xpqwTAV3nUCDQSO7wp60g2k5JfB9i6yA-9OXwOGjduWxEgE5f3ZF6xgwPdNntRGDsR5_I/s2048/IMG_8392.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG0grLtm3EUDJ-RvS2nnK5Dh3Y9ZezIs9_tRNEafxEVm1P6ZEykIEEeH0GEfuTjtt3ubqOk-EkDh14LV07gptbx7pXClwVXqWGUSHiQ0bzH5-iPZ4-50a029xpqwTAV3nUCDQSO7wp60g2k5JfB9i6yA-9OXwOGjduWxEgE5f3ZF6xgwPdNntRGDsR5_I/w640-h480/IMG_8392.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Robin's background of Terry and Di during their visit</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoUNizuWHJq6WDLhyqbq9Km_rNk3xqa_jGh0N3BYtNh4Nx6bKc23Kdc7oNN2uKdFsTj43mt6xczmbH7IUROInpLS-hCjR1eOItPg8adQe5p0HnrbxFduA0oqQhECbgsCKAn_w82q9xrWtUYRItHdVbQto_nFoQdyVf1vNvfcsQuv5zvSa13xpoVxlXUt4/s2048/IMG_8391.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoUNizuWHJq6WDLhyqbq9Km_rNk3xqa_jGh0N3BYtNh4Nx6bKc23Kdc7oNN2uKdFsTj43mt6xczmbH7IUROInpLS-hCjR1eOItPg8adQe5p0HnrbxFduA0oqQhECbgsCKAn_w82q9xrWtUYRItHdVbQto_nFoQdyVf1vNvfcsQuv5zvSa13xpoVxlXUt4/w640-h480/IMG_8391.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Amy showing off her St. Patrick's Day coffee mug</p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUJdS9s3IMl8H_jRvoDktdzLgGvhBx0Q_r7HD2AP53dY9393Amt2K5rE-mj7zFTwBttzZsABMu_T6uJKt3aAMgNPnb4F1B3wl8GTNJpe1I7-7f91fcNhPf6FWlEvMWksb6Svc9Y5Rf3EPKmIBkQmAS_S6tNR_7RTCxEAQLH0zZIku08rk11nohOaaii60/s1606/IMG_8390.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1197" data-original-width="1606" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUJdS9s3IMl8H_jRvoDktdzLgGvhBx0Q_r7HD2AP53dY9393Amt2K5rE-mj7zFTwBttzZsABMu_T6uJKt3aAMgNPnb4F1B3wl8GTNJpe1I7-7f91fcNhPf6FWlEvMWksb6Svc9Y5Rf3EPKmIBkQmAS_S6tNR_7RTCxEAQLH0zZIku08rk11nohOaaii60/w640-h478/IMG_8390.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;">All the participants</p><p style="text-align: left;">I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Experts Only of 10 games. It took me 1 hour, 41 minutes and 50 seconds, which put me in 8th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.</p><p style="text-align: left;">After lunch we went to town to do a couple of errands. First we stopped at The Home Depot to get replacement parts for our irrigation system (extensions and sprinkler heads). The landscape guys repaired/replaced some of our irrigation heads last week. Unfortunately they didn't do a very good job. Most of them were spraying incorrectly. A couple were buried under the new sod and are therefor not working at all. They had to replace one of the septic heads and not only did they cover it with sod it is so low in the ground that even when it is exposed it doesn't spray correctly. Larry fixed and adjusted all the irrigation heads today but he will have to dig up and extend the septic one. He will do that later this week.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">We also went to the storage center to pick up the Minnie. We're going on our Spring trip next week and we wanted to get it ready.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL5wItopZWayVi_rZ6GdAjHlYIFV4WXgLZfykjCXDd4zZN1FqbtAA9Yw2zDg3A-ykgMyeDaxO67N-FCRcslgCt-wwb63ismwKsMtpj27zVdErVPA4HRv7GHx4Mj0_wggwx_QsNok6Xcimv3jF7iTkiG2Eq_dEO-imEidIZgeXLM9LGEzKJUrtryEuUr0c/s2048/Minnie.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL5wItopZWayVi_rZ6GdAjHlYIFV4WXgLZfykjCXDd4zZN1FqbtAA9Yw2zDg3A-ykgMyeDaxO67N-FCRcslgCt-wwb63ismwKsMtpj27zVdErVPA4HRv7GHx4Mj0_wggwx_QsNok6Xcimv3jF7iTkiG2Eq_dEO-imEidIZgeXLM9LGEzKJUrtryEuUr0c/w640-h480/Minnie.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Minnie</p><p style="text-align: left;">When we got the Minnie home Larry filled it up with water. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Last fall every once in awhile we would get a faint smell of propane near the back door of the Minnie. Larry bought a electronic propane leak detector. Today he used it and did indeed find a very small leak on the back of our refrigerator. He fixed it and checked all the other propane connectors around the Minnie. Everything is fine. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked out with the Wii Fit for a half hour and with Synth Riders for 45 minutes.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8x1lCoAAAeICV41DK40LgiJVYF0szr8gUJ8707L_ENpHflePnl-qJW6_A0f4yUwO-mA2A1GitrlJGLsnn7HBbXN7h1HygD3_m7IxM1a_aXTX_H5TwIOMJqQc64vXFmWkSn-JJCDGcJd-J1iDHKSEle-ffE0IA57zTxExKUzd6RvHbGqjtH-4IGc7itQc/s252/workingout.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="252" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8x1lCoAAAeICV41DK40LgiJVYF0szr8gUJ8707L_ENpHflePnl-qJW6_A0f4yUwO-mA2A1GitrlJGLsnn7HBbXN7h1HygD3_m7IxM1a_aXTX_H5TwIOMJqQc64vXFmWkSn-JJCDGcJd-J1iDHKSEle-ffE0IA57zTxExKUzd6RvHbGqjtH-4IGc7itQc/s1600/workingout.png" width="252" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Working out</p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry put in a grocery delivery this morning and it arrived at 3:00. After the groceries were delivered I put them away.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Mb9bCLAnRexzBk2JzU1PO79rDHkYaoF0HKre06iMwHvTU2clb05jHf3q8AG1XngPBGEr7d0_SbY5DW3B1QUOB8QWx6bGnuNJu6qYggeNZ4bM5UmVadkKisn6TjUQWnxzAw9VqdQFbDlJKPIWeuEAQZN1AqsMWfgU__fW1PHjE5kaVZL0hP6R_-BmvWI/s325/groceries.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="235" data-original-width="325" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Mb9bCLAnRexzBk2JzU1PO79rDHkYaoF0HKre06iMwHvTU2clb05jHf3q8AG1XngPBGEr7d0_SbY5DW3B1QUOB8QWx6bGnuNJu6qYggeNZ4bM5UmVadkKisn6TjUQWnxzAw9VqdQFbDlJKPIWeuEAQZN1AqsMWfgU__fW1PHjE5kaVZL0hP6R_-BmvWI/s320/groceries.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Grocery shopping</p><p style="text-align: left;">For dinner we had leftover Hawaiian Grillers. Today I barbecued them on the grill and they tasted better.</p><p style="text-align: left;">In the evening we watched A Wrinkle In Time, a movie out of our collection. I thought it was cute but Larry wasn't impressed. After Larry went to bed I watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and the 10th episode of the 11th season of Father Brown. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 1st place in my group. This a great beginning for the week. LIFE IS GOOD!!!<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-11215194864349853932024-03-18T06:41:00.001-05:002024-03-18T17:21:56.614-05:00Sunday 3-17-24 Rainy Relaxing Day<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSSxETg6mC0-A-6IuV9_s3Ywb2GNlugQAu1RIoz5FHHLP_gYRoRDYHAiL8EWAM3Nj2sBKiB4s1prC8YnPGskDX-QWChYctGOxiJVgZIhPpJDWogWOlY-gkhASOdiDemnbadg2EoBwINlwpbC_7if69c8p0gNUNoMFaj2hov0gZZsxzuw1Mx8dXKxuKlkQ/s334/sunday.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="334" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSSxETg6mC0-A-6IuV9_s3Ywb2GNlugQAu1RIoz5FHHLP_gYRoRDYHAiL8EWAM3Nj2sBKiB4s1prC8YnPGskDX-QWChYctGOxiJVgZIhPpJDWogWOlY-gkhASOdiDemnbadg2EoBwINlwpbC_7if69c8p0gNUNoMFaj2hov0gZZsxzuw1Mx8dXKxuKlkQ/s320/sunday.gif" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Rainy Day</p><p style="text-align: left;">We had an overcast day with drizzling throughout the day. We just hung around the house.</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJl_mpaElbrpRTTF8auJp3RNbrJqbTptHxVzuxXdDJ_RDMSZz5OhqZe1Zo5_UwrCMgeu9qhkxo-vzCgLYV04t6UXlnMjSIKoeFkXPhjFzh1et4iJxgNkkUpSMJCxglch7Wh2yskcvQNoDvS_sh8LC3-zlKs3VuopqRmZn7R2bilM3SUVDetdPNNAmHtjk/s800/hanging.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="800" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJl_mpaElbrpRTTF8auJp3RNbrJqbTptHxVzuxXdDJ_RDMSZz5OhqZe1Zo5_UwrCMgeu9qhkxo-vzCgLYV04t6UXlnMjSIKoeFkXPhjFzh1et4iJxgNkkUpSMJCxglch7Wh2yskcvQNoDvS_sh8LC3-zlKs3VuopqRmZn7R2bilM3SUVDetdPNNAmHtjk/s320/hanging.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Just hanging around</p><p style="text-align: left;">I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Tri Peaks Adventure of 20 games. It took me 1 hour, 6 minutes and 55 seconds to solve, which put me in 15th place in my group. Then I moved onto playing Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds and Friends.</p><p style="text-align: left;">The weekly challenge of The Lost World Jurassic Park ended today at 2:00 my time. I played the game for about an hour and didn't get a new high score. I came in 57th place out of 69 participants. This week is the end of the season so instead of taking the next game on the list, they had a special poll. The game that won was Blood Machines. This game was taken from the movie and custom designed instead of taken from a real pinball game. This made it was a little difficult to install. Larry downloaded the game and installed in both 2D and virtual reality. The game looks a lot different from 2D to virtual reality, it looks like a different game. Once it was installed Larry played it a couple of time to make sure it worked correctly in both. I played it a bit and got a high score of 29664593. So far there were only five participants and I came in last place. It's only the first day so I have plenty of time to improve my score.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi3kP6_vDCzlR2tBpO1P6XU576WgzdXxHkWAHGabm3vzZY2sanAPRm0VZpW-KpekaII7xez0x3eHSY-nBy7QiOJb1QnwMcoNTzsUgPIPMM9wgOoHkQP8c7xCr1mSLZXs5DVBdBhWOjcHSiQaK-B6wSYY3edykn-0k_VgLB3Zd7_QolunbxqFp81wQ6RWk/s1440/18d917a290be4473a9358ca95c57c747.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi3kP6_vDCzlR2tBpO1P6XU576WgzdXxHkWAHGabm3vzZY2sanAPRm0VZpW-KpekaII7xez0x3eHSY-nBy7QiOJb1QnwMcoNTzsUgPIPMM9wgOoHkQP8c7xCr1mSLZXs5DVBdBhWOjcHSiQaK-B6wSYY3edykn-0k_VgLB3Zd7_QolunbxqFp81wQ6RWk/w640-h640/18d917a290be4473a9358ca95c57c747.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Blood Machines</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1goXbQaORED2yAEqLeW5ZlagcVEt7fo5RUMSsFdHQHA7jPQmrf5a3NsCRr1TPRKdORVCQ89BEkcflCLHPBdPSZku2A-PLadxDxyS9PxeNbrEPWtfA-CkJE8zTySbJlQQ1iabcFgS-od-A4AW4Kp3-vlSLywQCk1T68MIX6SVXUBTQUMVpq9CnAW26QN4/s2160/88df06ae89440c5aeb3e1e6ca7923b15.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1goXbQaORED2yAEqLeW5ZlagcVEt7fo5RUMSsFdHQHA7jPQmrf5a3NsCRr1TPRKdORVCQ89BEkcflCLHPBdPSZku2A-PLadxDxyS9PxeNbrEPWtfA-CkJE8zTySbJlQQ1iabcFgS-od-A4AW4Kp3-vlSLywQCk1T68MIX6SVXUBTQUMVpq9CnAW26QN4/w640-h640/88df06ae89440c5aeb3e1e6ca7923b15.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">The Lost World Jurassic Park</p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked out on the Wii Fit for a half hour and with Synth Riders for 45 minutes.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Afterwards I played a few fruit/slot games on the arcade cabinet. They were Jackpot Bars, Jackpot X and Jolly Taverner. I hadn't played the slots games in a very long time and had a fun time.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpD_gZrSSZClitXt4RTKKNZxfbWJG_xVDaT2zeNlWD5eiJYKwj0zqNTdAvv9sKowsuDhSEDTohSHSAFp-9k12josH9_MK5W8BoB-JfTrXnxapM53REbUAULIZ0p0eaoLbHtUgYJBATmGlveqY1VNebkJE9WOvVG4EChCEbyBxXxaWh5mirlE-_AR1yyBw/s2048/Jackpot%20Bars.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpD_gZrSSZClitXt4RTKKNZxfbWJG_xVDaT2zeNlWD5eiJYKwj0zqNTdAvv9sKowsuDhSEDTohSHSAFp-9k12josH9_MK5W8BoB-JfTrXnxapM53REbUAULIZ0p0eaoLbHtUgYJBATmGlveqY1VNebkJE9WOvVG4EChCEbyBxXxaWh5mirlE-_AR1yyBw/w640-h480/Jackpot%20Bars.JPG" width="640" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jackpot Bars</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyYip-mbVKcshp4hs-Hw9YqYrgB_U0458wRN_Dfs2H34kGLPK1G0F58BSx6FwiUKf339meJbN8MamvVhX-IB_ACP70q96PeRrFSrvHEUJrLI4EOIbFeu-xULVTE0UjvrYYD-DCziTqnyprMd7i-qID-Bj-64qjKQ6f7sFiMu7a4cQ-XHpzlINDEyaxKVo/s2048/Jackpot%20X.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyYip-mbVKcshp4hs-Hw9YqYrgB_U0458wRN_Dfs2H34kGLPK1G0F58BSx6FwiUKf339meJbN8MamvVhX-IB_ACP70q96PeRrFSrvHEUJrLI4EOIbFeu-xULVTE0UjvrYYD-DCziTqnyprMd7i-qID-Bj-64qjKQ6f7sFiMu7a4cQ-XHpzlINDEyaxKVo/w480-h640/Jackpot%20X.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Jackpot X</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzHPamIgTmi0RjhhkyxfNQCST6vmBnmiSreVMfylE8qQq2RKYHzUWn3wVQtUr9suKzgcRuaZeqqdsfPKlOyiNrNZWuAfEHyBor1U_VZ0_Fe03U-s9cEaSN1OfqMiIecry8bGTXwO_yDaMK_H_ZJSd1P5lMgFkUUi2gT8_xsqbiCBQdgE0akSpiZb_StFA/s2048/Jolly%20Taverner.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzHPamIgTmi0RjhhkyxfNQCST6vmBnmiSreVMfylE8qQq2RKYHzUWn3wVQtUr9suKzgcRuaZeqqdsfPKlOyiNrNZWuAfEHyBor1U_VZ0_Fe03U-s9cEaSN1OfqMiIecry8bGTXwO_yDaMK_H_ZJSd1P5lMgFkUUi2gT8_xsqbiCBQdgE0akSpiZb_StFA/w480-h640/Jolly%20Taverner.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Jolly Taverner</p><p style="text-align: left;">In the evening we watched a movie called Marlowe. It was a private detective movie set in 1939. It had a lot of big name stars but the script and acting was very poor. It jumped around a lot. I didn't like it. Afterwards I watched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 2nd place in my group for the week with 123,609 steps.<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-46789932178594014932024-03-17T06:26:00.001-05:002024-03-17T12:55:17.438-05:00Saturday 3-16-24 Fun Day Wit h Virtrual Reality & More <p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnnR9iF6PzGbsl8ONRizRB6VEo0BuCctV_Vz-G29DrCpqrL1CCQc3CrtvgB1PSxgei7P0z91m0i4gfqHnyYYYCrRATfZQUG7cJlRHQa5rxXNhUKGXPDXTbyTkPKexGBQLTs-3tkuqYK_983Ew77YNiqoyc_4AtRsefNpOLtzauajyRn4qJ2-1c95hfYdY/s1300/overcast.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="1300" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnnR9iF6PzGbsl8ONRizRB6VEo0BuCctV_Vz-G29DrCpqrL1CCQc3CrtvgB1PSxgei7P0z91m0i4gfqHnyYYYCrRATfZQUG7cJlRHQa5rxXNhUKGXPDXTbyTkPKexGBQLTs-3tkuqYK_983Ew77YNiqoyc_4AtRsefNpOLtzauajyRn4qJ2-1c95hfYdY/s320/overcast.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Overcast Day</p><p style="text-align: left;">We had an overcast day. The weathermen predicted that it was going to rain. We had very little rain just enough to damp everything and mess up the roads. In the evening the rain came back and drizzled all night. The high was 66 degrees.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I made Cinnamon Toast Crunch pancakes for breakfast from Betty Crocker. It's comes in a kit, that includes pancake mix, cinnamon and cereal for the topping. They taste very good. Tomorrow I may try putting the cereal in the batter instead of on top.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvIFJaV_8hjz3bP3sBzc10C0l9o6IdJk8PxX3s7-PJ3mVJ8yRiWvo4IOU48hPv38bAYg_PKXO2k6XAyLRpEsUWj20H2GL0WERm_AkGjfJ3gXpAU1wwD9Wav7nBXnMzeX6AJ-BxJ-qatZkRTrqdkkE5CpLoWcFmAHsVZpBjEvRbZOj8YecZ9rtptACf_rk/s2048/Cinnamon%20Toast%20Crunch%20Pancakes.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvIFJaV_8hjz3bP3sBzc10C0l9o6IdJk8PxX3s7-PJ3mVJ8yRiWvo4IOU48hPv38bAYg_PKXO2k6XAyLRpEsUWj20H2GL0WERm_AkGjfJ3gXpAU1wwD9Wav7nBXnMzeX6AJ-BxJ-qatZkRTrqdkkE5CpLoWcFmAHsVZpBjEvRbZOj8YecZ9rtptACf_rk/w640-h480/Cinnamon%20Toast%20Crunch%20Pancakes.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Cinnamon Toast Crunch pancakes</p><p style="text-align: left;">I started the day out doing the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 Spider and 5 Pyramid). It took me 1 hour, 39 minutes and 24 seconds, which put me in 21st place in my group. Then I moved onto playing Angry Birds.</p><p style="text-align: left;">We logged onto Horizon Worlds on our Quest 3 headsets. Larry invited Louise to join us in a private room of Puzzle Paradise. In puzzle paradise you can have a lot of people show up to assemble jigsaw puzzles but when you have a private room you invite who you want and how many people you want in the room. This afternoon it was only Larry, Louise and me. By having a small group it's easier to teach someone how to do the activity and you don't feel you're holding up the other people. We spent over an hour in the room assembling puzzles. After Louise left Larry and I went to a table tennis world. It was very hard and we weren't successful in doing a volley. From there we went to a digital poker world. We were in Horizon for two hours and had a super time.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijcUwev8ZuUJFc_UIyGjCWurBBV2-SKe3nuJDD0spKcrI-VKFn8V_3dVMcWAnQ0DphM-_Z2Z8SGQOHuPbwdEoHE9wZt78SIdRKo2n4dGKY4RscveT4P84OKPsgtr9h8W4svNDLQveJflj9LFG5X9bEUM6wxyUi2qQvQ9CHolWq3W4QiQX65GGvHEF3rio/s1280/06ead0eb9dfc9157f7a887175d2921d9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijcUwev8ZuUJFc_UIyGjCWurBBV2-SKe3nuJDD0spKcrI-VKFn8V_3dVMcWAnQ0DphM-_Z2Z8SGQOHuPbwdEoHE9wZt78SIdRKo2n4dGKY4RscveT4P84OKPsgtr9h8W4svNDLQveJflj9LFG5X9bEUM6wxyUi2qQvQ9CHolWq3W4QiQX65GGvHEF3rio/w360-h640/06ead0eb9dfc9157f7a887175d2921d9.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Our avatars in Horizon<br /> </p><p style="text-align: left;">After I rested I worked out with Synth Riders for 45 minutes.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I also played the pinball game, The Lost World Jurassic Park to get a new high score but wasn't successful. Tomorrow the challenge is finished at noon in Texas. Larry found out my new weekly challenge is White Water, which is a rafting adventure. He downloaded the game and installed it in both virtual reality and virtual pinball. Then he played it a couple of times to make sure it worked. Afterwards I played it a couple of time to see how it played.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I played a couple of pinball games on the arcade cabinet. They were Fun House and Game Show.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb2mY3dmpfUdJituVPevfshET2zcdnTKkKInBIp4TnZ2UX5AnnRt20FMgGAWRNFMJaS-8rR9wUS4n9UKsZq-to3qZrw8YfXeB1Nq-Un3K0ETP7ii6mAzq1dKH2T7nHFwaX8ctzud6trlNay7KavVFZfAxPm2TqgSFJLicEolTzxPzobLEMKayF9PgwfVw/s2048/Fun%20House.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb2mY3dmpfUdJituVPevfshET2zcdnTKkKInBIp4TnZ2UX5AnnRt20FMgGAWRNFMJaS-8rR9wUS4n9UKsZq-to3qZrw8YfXeB1Nq-Un3K0ETP7ii6mAzq1dKH2T7nHFwaX8ctzud6trlNay7KavVFZfAxPm2TqgSFJLicEolTzxPzobLEMKayF9PgwfVw/w480-h640/Fun%20House.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Fun House</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJIL1_1vtp4Q62CNowr7_VrOKpLj00_bE1l0dRE3feJCao91flBUgNzd-Prqx93jlMT8KDZRjmLEoPBNHsHZIWI7n09qc3HDJgQ4v6KZ2TnAmVHyJyrbzBOVj6jXIBAAraVhLUtuDzbpwl_QTgZjXoCuTjZtaIBMHVkUe3G_ph6vkUvRfI58YMg4fjL2E/s2048/Game%20Show.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJIL1_1vtp4Q62CNowr7_VrOKpLj00_bE1l0dRE3feJCao91flBUgNzd-Prqx93jlMT8KDZRjmLEoPBNHsHZIWI7n09qc3HDJgQ4v6KZ2TnAmVHyJyrbzBOVj6jXIBAAraVhLUtuDzbpwl_QTgZjXoCuTjZtaIBMHVkUe3G_ph6vkUvRfI58YMg4fjL2E/w480-h640/Game%20Show.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Game Show</p><p style="text-align: left;">In the evening we returned to Horizon Worlds and went to the Tower of Reflection room. We played for about 90 minutes and got through three rooms, we were almost out of the fourth when we got stuck. Had a great time and will have to try it again. </p><p style="text-align: left;">After Larry went to bed I watched Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I continued watching the first season of Madame Blanc Mysteries. I ended doing 16,500 steps, which put me in 2nd place in my group.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-53555779113251739112024-03-16T06:42:00.000-05:002024-03-16T06:42:18.246-05:00Friday 3-15-24 Happy Friday & Having Fun With VR<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnu8U4jJbjLG2_s8bLjfatYjQH2zZReojmxAiI99boUlOfW-vSjDZFAatpm1qLh2eBU8JYj-rForeSeTQqSDijfSDKkGyR5subvN4MHxeRdlaAHf0BUe01UQu3e0pMWPI-YRUNK0Z3l0udJTD5vz9miazuyrscuwS6qR6BMmIOqWM5tAA45zlkf2P_73A/s225/Friday.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnu8U4jJbjLG2_s8bLjfatYjQH2zZReojmxAiI99boUlOfW-vSjDZFAatpm1qLh2eBU8JYj-rForeSeTQqSDijfSDKkGyR5subvN4MHxeRdlaAHf0BUe01UQu3e0pMWPI-YRUNK0Z3l0udJTD5vz9miazuyrscuwS6qR6BMmIOqWM5tAA45zlkf2P_73A/s1600/Friday.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Doing the happy dance</p><p style="text-align: left;">We had another fun day of playing with the Quest 3 headsets (Virtual Reality). </p><p style="text-align: left;">I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Hard Road Mini of 5 games. It took me 31 minutes and 2 seconds, which put me in 21st place in my group. Then I moved onto play Angry Birds. I also played a couple of games of Sudoku.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I played The Lost World Jurassic Park to try to get new high score but was unsuccessful.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked out with Synth Riders for an hour. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry and I continued playing with virtual reality. In the afternoon we played in Horizon World with Louise. We went to the jigsaw puzzle room, where I assembled a couple of puzzles along with six other people. Larry watched me and Louise tried helping. Then we went to the NFL room, where we shot hoops. Larry didn't shoot any hoops because you have to jump and he has problems with the movement. We were in Horizon for a couple of hours and had a super time.</p><p style="text-align: left;">After dinner we went back into Horizon World. Louise was already there, we sent her an invite to join us but either she didn't receive it or she preferred to stay in another world. We went to the puzzle room Larry was in the other day. When he was there before a kid discovered a lot of the answers and was moving so fast that sometimes Larry didn't know what he did. There are nine rooms and you have to solve puzzles to move from one room to the next. We got through the first two of the rooms. When you solve the puzzle everyone in the room has to do the last piece before you can move on. We had mostly been alone, sometimes a kid would show up but they would soon get bored and leave. In the third room a girl came in and figured out the last clue but then other people arrived and not understanding how things worked they ended up undoing what had been done. We could not communicate with them, not sure if they were not listening or possibly they didn't speak English. Anyway we could not get out of the room and Larry was being bothered by motion sickness so we left. We had a lot of fun and will attempt it again but next time we will choose to use a private room. We had no idea others could show up and join in after we started the game.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">After leaving Horizon Worlds we watched an episode of Northern Exposure. When Larry went to bed I started watching the Harry Potter movies series of eight movies. I watched Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Then I watched a couple of episodes of Madame Blanc Mysteries. I ended doing 17,500 steps, which put me in 1st place in my group.</p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-82144401842938648882024-03-15T06:36:00.002-05:002024-03-15T06:36:49.205-05:00Thursday 3-14-24 Visiting Louise, Virtual Reality & Irrigation<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgacpQcUTyPDHhkaNoqquft1p7FbTDUme6rAd1Ctj4J7V-h5ZEH9j4RRj6z-q6PCYQxF1DL5UXvoAptfKgC9tvPt3w3h5kdDavhawDGuxlhmkapV-xQPmjam9_Fzyeh6rCFLZgOQsicgdbXU4GsogI-9jVRnYwIyrxT66pTN2ZwbqXGnexFzLNwWDXfaZA/s1031/IMG_8356.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="1031" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgacpQcUTyPDHhkaNoqquft1p7FbTDUme6rAd1Ctj4J7V-h5ZEH9j4RRj6z-q6PCYQxF1DL5UXvoAptfKgC9tvPt3w3h5kdDavhawDGuxlhmkapV-xQPmjam9_Fzyeh6rCFLZgOQsicgdbXU4GsogI-9jVRnYwIyrxT66pTN2ZwbqXGnexFzLNwWDXfaZA/w640-h342/IMG_8356.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Virtual Reality</p><p style="text-align: left;">We started the day out by going to Round Rock to visit Louise and Alice. Larry had finished setting up Louise's virtual reality headset and wanted to delivery it to her. We left the house a little before 8:00 and got back about 3:00. </p><p style="text-align: left;">On the way to Round Rock we stopped by Jack & Jill Donuts to buy breakfast. When we arrived at Louise's house we were met by Alice and Louise. Alice was so excited to see us she ran around the front yard. A few months ago Louise's yards looked like the grass had died but her yards are recovering and starting to green up. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry spent the day explaining to Louise how to use her headset and the programs on it. We had brought one of our headsets so Larry could connect with her and help her through the process. Louise played a couple of games, they were Synth Riders and First Encounter. When Louise and Larry put on their headsets Alice wasn't sure if she liked the headsets. She was a little scared of them. Then we took a lunch break and had pizza, chips and Keebler Coconut Delights for dessert.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpTaplTkKsFYNYYCdIFqYDkL6vnkh_Y_wpL8ygxe1NRua7DuQAfmuFNWCEY9malBcE-XfNuYVkjBzIClydNrG8WMsGmNr8kODdmqXZIMa_lF1qXb8B8VbcxpJ85KiSMWpXzGcQBnaGi4R4Irp22Hkz4YEC2SC1VhycChxqiLNHa_FddIKBrXNORwL7Rbk/s2688/Louise%20Virtual%20Reality-004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpTaplTkKsFYNYYCdIFqYDkL6vnkh_Y_wpL8ygxe1NRua7DuQAfmuFNWCEY9malBcE-XfNuYVkjBzIClydNrG8WMsGmNr8kODdmqXZIMa_lF1qXb8B8VbcxpJ85KiSMWpXzGcQBnaGi4R4Irp22Hkz4YEC2SC1VhycChxqiLNHa_FddIKBrXNORwL7Rbk/w360-h640/Louise%20Virtual%20Reality-004.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Alice watching Louise playing</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAVhn6WnYJ-al_1j4HSEOW8Dp1rcMtq2QdB9LeL-VU6hnvzebz0XYGsChHmTp_vMK1bRvA9mkWvJioTqLchHy-UTFsfam1_8Szw9afGztK4PbeeiZbpM0ivV2jASlx2ouLc3Jup1txLvxGCgXvp89DbMSd6oYcrecxPebAO2PGoV6OUlaVV15jM4K2_k0/s2688/Louise%20Virtual%20Reality.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAVhn6WnYJ-al_1j4HSEOW8Dp1rcMtq2QdB9LeL-VU6hnvzebz0XYGsChHmTp_vMK1bRvA9mkWvJioTqLchHy-UTFsfam1_8Szw9afGztK4PbeeiZbpM0ivV2jASlx2ouLc3Jup1txLvxGCgXvp89DbMSd6oYcrecxPebAO2PGoV6OUlaVV15jM4K2_k0/w360-h640/Louise%20Virtual%20Reality.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Louise playing with her new headset</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: left;">After lunch Larry and Louise went into Horizon World and played in the fishing world. A couple of small girls took them around the island teaching them to fish. The girls were very nice and quite intelligent. Apparently they were around 11. They had a great understanding of the game and how it worked. When moving from place to place they could move really fast but they would come back to make sure Larry and Louise were still coming. They had a great time learning from the girls. </p><p style="text-align: left;">While Louise and Larry played on the headsets I worked on her diamond painting project ( Winnie the Pooh & Friends). I also paid attention to Alice. About 2:00 we said our good-byes and went home. We had a fun day hanging out with Louise and Alice.</p><p style="text-align: left;">On the way home we stopped by The UPS Store to pick up our mail. Then we walked across the parking lot to Walmart and picked up a few items. </p><p style="text-align: left;">When we got home the landscaping crew next door had put down more sod but they still didn't have enough to finish the job. Larry walked over and asked if they wanted to adjust the sprinkler heads they had replaced, Luis said sure thing. They adjusted two of the heads they replaced but the third one didn't work. After removing some of the new sod and digging a big hole in what was now mud they discovered a broken pipe. They didn't have the parts to fix it, Larry had some of it but there was one piece he didn't have. One of the guys went to town to get it but when he returned the part he bought was too long. Larry went through his irrigation stuff and found a coupler they could use to shorten it. He was next door with them for a few hours.</p><p style="text-align: left;">While he was gone I worked out with Synth Riders for 45 minutes. </p><p style="text-align: left;">I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before I went to bed. After I worked out I did the event, which was Event: World Tour Mini of 10 games. It took me 50 minutes and 32 seconds, which put me in 21st place in my group. Then I moved onto play Angry Birds.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I played the weekly challenge of The Lost World Jurassic Park a few time. </p><p style="text-align: left;">In the evening Larry and I went fishing and invited Louise to join us. We all went into Horizon World on our virtual reality headsets. It is hard to believe how real things seem in virtual reality. We were sitting on the couch and at one point I got up and tried to walk where I wanted to go, too funny, all I had to do was move there using the controller. We spent about three hours fishing. We had a super time. </p><p style="text-align: left;">When Larry went to bed I watched The X-Files: I Want To Believe and then I continued watching Madame Blanc Mysteries. I ended doing 18,500 steps, which put me in 1st place in my group.</p><p style="text-align: left;">We had a very fun day with our Quest 3 headsets. <br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-20847690537743230452024-03-14T06:18:00.002-05:002024-03-14T23:39:58.931-05:00Wednesday 3-13-24 Dance Day, Drainage & Having Fun<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHKGXYPjIf4Bn6aWn3I2DRuTj_mysdlKLdq-2Eeir9AkNpdU1vLzSF1fjftcbd6Par9wytjopvdks8Qi49Oe814XRd3K0Ppk6T0gP28x6jdEhAQ4Bwbgf-mBSNC_U5f8rE7AA_0fSjDv8LabgwEoGV7TFWLo_Ktoht8w-PY4SbFVpGcFBWHAD-o3mXCgk/s177/squaredancing1.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="173" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHKGXYPjIf4Bn6aWn3I2DRuTj_mysdlKLdq-2Eeir9AkNpdU1vLzSF1fjftcbd6Par9wytjopvdks8Qi49Oe814XRd3K0Ppk6T0gP28x6jdEhAQ4Bwbgf-mBSNC_U5f8rE7AA_0fSjDv8LabgwEoGV7TFWLo_Ktoht8w-PY4SbFVpGcFBWHAD-o3mXCgk/s1600/squaredancing1.gif" width="173" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">I love virtual square dancing</p><p style="text-align: left;">We had another fun day of hanging around the house.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry went next door early and talked to the landscaping crews lead person and once again explained how the drainage should work. Luis said he understood and before they laid the sod he would come talk to Larry and make sure he was happy. Sure enough a couple of hours later he knocked on the door. Larry walked over and was very happy, they had done a great job of shaping a drainage ditch that will handle the majority of the runoff. Sure glad we were home so Larry could work with them.</p><p style="text-align: left;">After Larry gave his approval they started laying sod. Unfortunately they didn't have enough to totally finish but they did put down what they had. It is suppose to rain the next few days so that should really help the new sod. They were not sure when they would get more to finish. The said maybe tomorrow but it didn't sound very likely.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">I attended three virtual square dances. I wore a green hat and green square dancing blouse to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, which is Sunday.</p><p style="text-align: left;">First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 11:00 for an hour. Di and Terry showed up fifteen late because Di had to work. They took turns calling five tips to 11 participants. Di worked on Spin Chain the Gears and Spin Chain and Exchange the Gears. Di cued the moves and the dancers were successful in getting into the right place. I had a super time dancing with friends.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Second was Ett McAtee's Weekly C1 at 1:00 for an hour. Ett called four tips to 19 participants. She did a little cueing to help. She didn't think she helped but she helped me get in the right place. I had fun dancing to Ett and with friends.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Third was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00 for an hour and a half. Karin Rabe and Greg Moore helped Dave call the dance. Karin and Greg called a tip in C1 and A2 together, Dave called a tip in C1 and A2 and the third tip in C1 and A2 all three called together. In between the A2 tips we had a couple of trivia questions. During the C1 tips we had 6 participants and the A2 tips had 8 participants. I had a great time dancing to Karin, Greg and Dave and with friends. </p><p style="text-align: left;">I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Klondike Adventure of 20 games. It took me 1 hour and 30 seconds, which put me in 12th place in my group. Then I moved onto playing Angry Birds.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I played the pinball challenge of The Lost World Jurassic Park a few time. I wasn't successful in getting a new high score but I did come close.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMJGb84yDheb4SIdY-7OisIsyB8WXdZLtKdcyA4xDdI9TJszjt8Ro1HYDQCsG24-61htNdM61LEjL-DfLQvsSap2lKJ_be-4zTWbNsVDS9FSvWc23uYqQIR_hOcDeUcz0OmJpwCidblAJHuE3Ujsc2nMVXVngBHeCpVCqdaGcMdnJ-wp9H7NboaUGo9Qk/s1440/f3ce09973cb64efedc7a350d28421fcc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMJGb84yDheb4SIdY-7OisIsyB8WXdZLtKdcyA4xDdI9TJszjt8Ro1HYDQCsG24-61htNdM61LEjL-DfLQvsSap2lKJ_be-4zTWbNsVDS9FSvWc23uYqQIR_hOcDeUcz0OmJpwCidblAJHuE3Ujsc2nMVXVngBHeCpVCqdaGcMdnJ-wp9H7NboaUGo9Qk/w640-h640/f3ce09973cb64efedc7a350d28421fcc.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">The Lost World Jurassic Park</p><p style="text-align: left;">After Ett's dance I worked out a half hour on the Wii Fit and 45 minutes with Synth Rider.</p><p style="text-align: left;">While I danced Larry continued working on trying to get the Big Screen program working on his old computer. </p><p style="text-align: left;">When I was working out he put on his virtual reality headset and went into Horizon Worlds. He got into the puzzle world. He was checking it out when a kid came into the world and asked him to play with him. The kid said it would be easier and more fun with two of them so Larry joined him. The game was a series of 9 rooms that you had to figure out how to get out of. They played for over an hour and got through 7 of the nine rooms. The kid was very polite, extremely smart and fast in finding solutions. Larry said there was noway he would have figured out some of the solutions without the kid, when the kid got stuck Larry was able to discover clues that would help him to move forward. After an hour the kid had to leave. Larry had a super time. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">After Dave's dance we watched an episode of Vera. This season they have been releasing an episode every week instead of the whole season. After Larry went to bed I watched the movie The X-Files. I started a series on Acorn called Madame Blanc Mysteries. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 3rd place in my group. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-34268038640665940252024-03-13T07:04:00.000-05:002024-03-13T07:04:30.823-05:00Tuesday 3-12-24 Dancing, Games & VR Project<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhHzxW2aX3O5-huMZ8eVG2zBpMD_reufJnMHkj2G9UQgtK7hyphenhyphengRMtXEYxSL8JuCKwJE02cEvr71akwlGvvU4JQ4c7_DDPrLa3qUpXbo-MdDvBGje3rgDfBJODJha-u0U-OswCGt_AoHoqRqzjQUUW33LSNpI73ortnWdxbjiF2_7a29YV_dUM591SKb0U/s300/fun.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhHzxW2aX3O5-huMZ8eVG2zBpMD_reufJnMHkj2G9UQgtK7hyphenhyphengRMtXEYxSL8JuCKwJE02cEvr71akwlGvvU4JQ4c7_DDPrLa3qUpXbo-MdDvBGje3rgDfBJODJha-u0U-OswCGt_AoHoqRqzjQUUW33LSNpI73ortnWdxbjiF2_7a29YV_dUM591SKb0U/s1600/fun.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Just having fun</p><p style="text-align: left;">We had a great time just having fun. The weather today was cloudy with a breeze and the high of 76 degrees.</p><p style="text-align: left;">We hung around the house just having fun. We usually go to Corsicana to dance with friends but we haven't been for a few weeks. Our neighbor Jason is in the process of getting landscaping at his new house next door. Jason and Larry have discussed how to make sure that the drainage works correctly and doesn't go into our backyard. Larry wanted to make sure it is done correctly. A couple weeks ago Larry and Jason worked with a a dirt crew to make sure a drainage ditch was put in. They made the drainage ditch and it looked perfect. When the landscaping crew came a week or so ago to prepare the area for sod they filled in the drainage. Larry went over and talked to the crew and explained about the drainage. The crew dug out the drainage once more, unfortunately not as deep. They also sodded most of the front yard but they didn't have enough to finish the project. This week they are back with a bit more sod and a new crew who once again filled in the drainage. Larry has once again talked to them and Jason, they are suppose to fix it. During the construction they damaged or buried some of our sprinkler heads, Larry marked them and today they dug them up and fixed them. </p><p style="text-align: left;">So due to the above we have not been going to our Tuesday dance in Corsicana. Larry feels he needs to be here to try and ensure most of the drainage stays out of our lot.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">We are very grateful that Di Green and Terry continue calling their A2 dance virtually. This morning we attended the dance at 11:00 for an hour. Terry and Di took turns calling five tips to thirteen participants. Di worked on Scoot Cain Thru & Chain Thru. Larry danced with me. We had a super time dancing with friends.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Easy Street Mini of 5 games. It took me 11 minutes and 53 seconds, which put me in 26th place in my group. Then I moved onto playing Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds and Friends.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I played a few pinball games. The weekly challenge of The Lost World Jurassic Park and got a new high score of 4,598,850. I also played Medieval Madness and Twister. Twister was last weeks challenge and was set for three balls so Larry changed it to five balls before I played it. I didn't get on the board in either game but I had fun.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMVDu3f-zRSOkNwPfqZzwfTluy0ofTArEYFif2M77kGFsB3eyW1ctcYV1qmbO9cfvQi_HRzk_dkJHUnyFtGEW29VKJGqSmaLfcsXxSBrvo9K-1mmPKny2j_-XApMlzOf3L4h5oSd_Vly0v1W79fUdFTTsGFvvx5duZZibmnZulZb4u6X8sfsvSMgCtcTg/s2160/Medieval%20Madness.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMVDu3f-zRSOkNwPfqZzwfTluy0ofTArEYFif2M77kGFsB3eyW1ctcYV1qmbO9cfvQi_HRzk_dkJHUnyFtGEW29VKJGqSmaLfcsXxSBrvo9K-1mmPKny2j_-XApMlzOf3L4h5oSd_Vly0v1W79fUdFTTsGFvvx5duZZibmnZulZb4u6X8sfsvSMgCtcTg/w640-h640/Medieval%20Madness.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Medieval Madness</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUU7GYj9DELc4KX5VHEjgydyYGM3NS1VSQ1moB64plpKdxswIbGrJoaixKr8Ntl_botKlRnwdKcqWZ2ep8ehoJvsEqhKyMRt0qm93iS3MvkG1z5r4CcDSSrhMEM2dYgL40ovPU1HcMZP8wcgXC5A8GaTNoF7x4gEgmAsFzv_KD_A3oFL6LjHTUrCGXSyQ/s2160/The%20Lost%20World%20Jurassic%20Park.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUU7GYj9DELc4KX5VHEjgydyYGM3NS1VSQ1moB64plpKdxswIbGrJoaixKr8Ntl_botKlRnwdKcqWZ2ep8ehoJvsEqhKyMRt0qm93iS3MvkG1z5r4CcDSSrhMEM2dYgL40ovPU1HcMZP8wcgXC5A8GaTNoF7x4gEgmAsFzv_KD_A3oFL6LjHTUrCGXSyQ/w640-h640/The%20Lost%20World%20Jurassic%20Park.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">The Lost World Jurassic Park</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjDh8QykSzl_Uhml8ViTP7S4H4v1XuHu6ZHLO_iXTPt1qskazcuDBAiF44-_OWa7NNPSZyXJjIdD143MxYCaO-ryMQjiIQmhFYQFCrDbmeslLZMi1huK7kgKRZ-uM6SX0MaCT_0q-NmOSzwZXDT4im-Mf_BxhnMEF0zVwpZvgRRzEtnKdAHt2CsuytZKo/s2160/Twister.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjDh8QykSzl_Uhml8ViTP7S4H4v1XuHu6ZHLO_iXTPt1qskazcuDBAiF44-_OWa7NNPSZyXJjIdD143MxYCaO-ryMQjiIQmhFYQFCrDbmeslLZMi1huK7kgKRZ-uM6SX0MaCT_0q-NmOSzwZXDT4im-Mf_BxhnMEF0zVwpZvgRRzEtnKdAHt2CsuytZKo/w640-h640/Twister.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Twister</p><p style="text-align: left;">I'm having so much fun working out on Synth Riders, I got carried away and worked out for an hour and fifteen minutes. I worked out with 10 songs. Afterwards I worked out with the Wii Fit for a half hour.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry spent the day working on a project for virtual reality. Last night when we watched Big Screen we did it via a laptop computer. It worked really well but Larry thought he could make it even better using the old Dell computer that was in the pinball machine. He ended up rebuilding the computer, which took a long time. Once it was rebuilt he loaded Big Screen but for some reason it will not work. He hasn't given up. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">In the evening we tried getting into Big Screen to watch a move but we weren't successful. So we went into Horizon Worlds using the virtual reality headset. We went to an art studio called Ice Cream Museum. In order to get through the museum you have to jump on cubes to get across the room. If you fall off one cube you start all over. It took me a long time but I made it. In the other rooms you saw different types of ice cream. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry has some motion sickness issues inside virtual reality. Bouncing is especially bad so after a few times trying to jump on the cubes he had to move to a different world. From the Ice Cream Museum we went into a bar world, where we walked around and played games. You can shoot hoops, throw horseshoes and other games. We went into a bar with other people and walked around. There we played air hockey and shuffle board. We had a fun time for a couple of hours.</p><p style="text-align: left;">There can be a lot of people in some of these worlds making conversation challenging and making walking around difficult. Lot of these folks are friendly and want to talk. However, if you want to visit a world without distractions there is a way where you can be in the world alone or only with the people you invite. We experimented with that a bit today. We went into a bar world and then made it our own private bar. We were able to wander around learning the world without the disturbance of other people. It is more fun when there are more people but for exploring it was nice to be alone.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">After Larry went to bed I watched Jack Reacher: Never Go Back and an episode of Father Brown's 11th season. I ended up doing 17,500 steps, which put me in 2nd place in my group. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-87863645674108278212024-03-12T06:52:00.001-05:002024-03-12T08:43:02.164-05:00Monday 3-11-24 Dancing, Big Screen & Having Fun<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw76wQZD-CAwvTwrSIJSnXHsqHudcLWT1UWAe3myd5sPKIzxuJlJy4-gp3Mn9BqpQ5EauzylBfFRzYi8fKZFbnH6rGBjWidHbpZ1oQNtQeGjifaV0k9GG3tCzUW3oMzSeMf3_u7gnWZpKLAJJ9py9q_foqRHIk8zaygknghj14tj5Bcd8np0ER7jBauYw/s800/sunny.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw76wQZD-CAwvTwrSIJSnXHsqHudcLWT1UWAe3myd5sPKIzxuJlJy4-gp3Mn9BqpQ5EauzylBfFRzYi8fKZFbnH6rGBjWidHbpZ1oQNtQeGjifaV0k9GG3tCzUW3oMzSeMf3_u7gnWZpKLAJJ9py9q_foqRHIk8zaygknghj14tj5Bcd8np0ER7jBauYw/s320/sunny.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Beautiful Day</p><p style="text-align: left;">We had a beautiful day with the high of 70 degrees.</p><p style="text-align: left;">We started the day off by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 10:00 for an hour and fifteen minutes. It's usually at 9:00 but the UK doesn't change to daylight savings time until 3/31/24. Di called five tips to sixteen participants. During the dance she workshopped a few four couple moves, that were requested. They were Linear Action, Relay The Top and Tally Ho. She walked us through the moves with the perfect amount of cueing. Larry danced four of the tips with me. I also enjoy it when he does because he helps me to get in the right spot. We had an outstanding time dancing to Di and with friends.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPxPN1vmwmngkX_CUuO8VAECILCNC34B-d1d1jrQotu9bZDB0MSpg3bk5a7ZcsNzVUNbRaWk0Ur-PN9XJb9jwnYDX343tPaF5oMWslweuMG8RhxvAh_9iBEcM6pJNS9uHxcXoZ-SqAk4mPfJdY52kLeOQHtLgAnSdLWPl9ahlN-OZ4SRKGnHMdj303EZQ/s220/square%20dancing1.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="220" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPxPN1vmwmngkX_CUuO8VAECILCNC34B-d1d1jrQotu9bZDB0MSpg3bk5a7ZcsNzVUNbRaWk0Ur-PN9XJb9jwnYDX343tPaF5oMWslweuMG8RhxvAh_9iBEcM6pJNS9uHxcXoZ-SqAk4mPfJdY52kLeOQHtLgAnSdLWPl9ahlN-OZ4SRKGnHMdj303EZQ/s1600/square%20dancing1.gif" width="220" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">We love virtual square dancing</p><p style="text-align: left;">I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The Event was Event: Free Cell Adventure of 20 games. I ended up only doing 19 of them. I worked on the games for 1 hour, 57 minutes and 54 seconds, which put me in 11th place in my group. I played Angry Birds. </p><p style="text-align: left;">I played my new weekly challenge in pinball, which is The Lost World Jurassic Park. My first high score was 2,293,610, which put me in 25th place out of 25 participants. This is ok considering the week just started. I also played The Lord of the Rings. I didn't get on the board but I had fun.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ0EyR-GPtoEf7RPia1X62Fc3bXPSugUxaWVROZYAG64j9gCoIOauRwrJsEo4smE0gvW0GgalOhf0BDq91UjjfBemDr6A9fOKjBNOD25OAJ_OTVh8oVenh0k5RiP70RejBSCGE7iQrbV3WDG76On9OJ0QBdnwN8ZSh89JZ8JDU2QP1rPN1GLljFt9J_Ow/s2160/The%20Lord%20of%20the%20RIngs.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ0EyR-GPtoEf7RPia1X62Fc3bXPSugUxaWVROZYAG64j9gCoIOauRwrJsEo4smE0gvW0GgalOhf0BDq91UjjfBemDr6A9fOKjBNOD25OAJ_OTVh8oVenh0k5RiP70RejBSCGE7iQrbV3WDG76On9OJ0QBdnwN8ZSh89JZ8JDU2QP1rPN1GLljFt9J_Ow/w640-h640/The%20Lord%20of%20the%20RIngs.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">The Lord of the Rings</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAOaMYjcNgwUp8Kqiuv_8zWcuqi6WuKnn_VQmrnB3xzuBB0I3cYpaBFmTc9elpYRD6EsSJuMrqlfV5pgkt7gzz1R6bfZN65BgDIy0rt7wwqhPvWabkCdvN3XNSgefbqAcqjs7f0TI9FBTsWiNjC-UXgyOoq2IY5ZHd3rBxvDRoEsV4JAoldOAfM4NihgY/s2160/The%20Lost%20World%20Jurassic%20Park.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAOaMYjcNgwUp8Kqiuv_8zWcuqi6WuKnn_VQmrnB3xzuBB0I3cYpaBFmTc9elpYRD6EsSJuMrqlfV5pgkt7gzz1R6bfZN65BgDIy0rt7wwqhPvWabkCdvN3XNSgefbqAcqjs7f0TI9FBTsWiNjC-UXgyOoq2IY5ZHd3rBxvDRoEsV4JAoldOAfM4NihgY/w640-h640/The%20Lost%20World%20Jurassic%20Park.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">The Lost World Jurassic Park</p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry spent a good part of the day reading about Big Screen and our virtual reality headsets. This morning we tested watching one of our a movies together in our virtual reality headsets using Big Screen. It worked excellent. In the evening we watched Beauty and the Beast on Big Screen. We had a bit of a problem getting me on Big Screen. Once Larry fixed the problem it worked great. We're still learning.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked out on the Wii Fit for a half hour and on Synth Riders for 40 minutes.</p><p style="text-align: left;">After Larry went to bed I watched Jack Reacher from our movies collection. I ended up doing 17,500 steps, which put me in 3rd place in my group. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /> <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-24569483112526225062024-03-11T06:32:00.002-05:002024-03-11T15:49:49.438-05:00Sunday 3-10-24 Daylight Saving Starts, Virtual Reality & Having Fun <p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-l6IOCj03rcj3pvPtfml35FMDiIV0xs_REVQb32NOsGFlQfn0i6Hwx9c4aSQRXcbsyJfqMW5niIDuNK1GURc2WK8nXMAU9kAXfSSFkZ-RH95x91VeFbLBNhHktEvvktdCzjNni4mDMyvNvMmdA-uLT6Upit0SEGNs9cSceRnhSNlFF4k8YCWmbdL7byk/s588/daylight%20saving.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="457" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-l6IOCj03rcj3pvPtfml35FMDiIV0xs_REVQb32NOsGFlQfn0i6Hwx9c4aSQRXcbsyJfqMW5niIDuNK1GURc2WK8nXMAU9kAXfSSFkZ-RH95x91VeFbLBNhHktEvvktdCzjNni4mDMyvNvMmdA-uLT6Upit0SEGNs9cSceRnhSNlFF4k8YCWmbdL7byk/s320/daylight%20saving.gif" width="249" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Daylight Saving Starts</p><p style="text-align: left;">Today started daylight saving. Last night before I went to bed I moved the clocks that needed it forward. The Alexa devices set themselves. </p><p style="text-align: left;">I started the day making oatmeal for breakfast. After breakfast we went to Walmart in Belton to buy a Quest 3 headset for Louise. While there we picked up a few items we were getting low on. Afterwards we went across the street to HEB to buy some more of the Western Grillers and other items we couldn't buy at Walmart. </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfCLfsHXGRNqINrjJUn0n2BQBBEL7XKwy8Wdy1M9E0zyMDZckvg2rklLGLJ0f0kJ1difH5txZuCa1PEI03JkrY72M5oLTAXRQTPrf7DxbNlvUJmPQTWXtl1XPpAjS8AFGnCK0t3-ZlYraOJfjKnzvBhAE0kfb_87kaZxxbg94shSD0K_50J_kyq6TX1Iw/s188/HEB.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="188" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfCLfsHXGRNqINrjJUn0n2BQBBEL7XKwy8Wdy1M9E0zyMDZckvg2rklLGLJ0f0kJ1difH5txZuCa1PEI03JkrY72M5oLTAXRQTPrf7DxbNlvUJmPQTWXtl1XPpAjS8AFGnCK0t3-ZlYraOJfjKnzvBhAE0kfb_87kaZxxbg94shSD0K_50J_kyq6TX1Iw/s1600/HEB.jpg" width="188" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Shopping at HEB</p><p style="text-align: left;">When we got home I decided to go back to bed for a couple of hours. While I slept Larry started working on setting up Louise's headset. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry spent the day working on virtual reality headsets. He worked on using Big Screen on the three headsets. He would like to have all the headsets to be able to communicate with each other. Last night Larry and I watched a movie together and had fun. Today he worked on being able to have us all casting together instead of individually. He had it working but in the evening we tried it and it failed. He's not giving up, he'll continue working with it.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Spider Mini of 5 games. It took me 16 minutes and 25 seconds, which put me in 15th place in my group. Then I moved onto playing Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds and Friends.</p><p style="text-align: left;">This morning was the end of this weeks pinball challenge of Twister. I played a few times trying to get a new high score but didn't. I ended up going in 60th out of 73 participants. The new challenge for this week is The Lost World Jurassic Park. I didn't have time to play it but I will tomorrow. </p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked on the diamond painting of Winnie the Pooh & Friends. I finished it. Now I have to decide what to do with it. This was the last one out of set of six (Disney, Bambi, Lady and the Tramp, Stitch, Lion King and Winnie the Pooh & Friends).</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPZt9D9fzNEIR_WYRtJr3UzLV3Ol5EkXJ9iHnDMGegNv_tX7by3vtpkU_eELHkKS7B0y-xOPaBtcL-C4IpHmb-s1cXwPra3k1mXwR_2uEfd4vLwi0NA-G0DKnxZfTKGj1ke75VBRJeB5-o3cEToqceSR80B86QrSmIDXkarZW65J-T5YB-Ojh1qfSh06k/s2688/PXL_20240311_045633993.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPZt9D9fzNEIR_WYRtJr3UzLV3Ol5EkXJ9iHnDMGegNv_tX7by3vtpkU_eELHkKS7B0y-xOPaBtcL-C4IpHmb-s1cXwPra3k1mXwR_2uEfd4vLwi0NA-G0DKnxZfTKGj1ke75VBRJeB5-o3cEToqceSR80B86QrSmIDXkarZW65J-T5YB-Ojh1qfSh06k/w360-h640/PXL_20240311_045633993.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Winnie the Pooh & Friends</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDsZWFlOL2fEvUw4yy-mJjMELknzDaMuzNKyDkxyY4PmA7_R7uI_peMMQ9UGgeneFPCrIpxZwj10w4hxxcbUYV4AxUXC428h0ipBMCXZ7EqvX4S10Chz2Dpz2TO_o4gIfS655h1pTmmb8eDCvCQowrYWR12g8xDytny3UmeTn9klH5I_JKR50w1qkfPBM/s2688/Winnie%20the%20Pooh%20and%20Friends.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2688" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDsZWFlOL2fEvUw4yy-mJjMELknzDaMuzNKyDkxyY4PmA7_R7uI_peMMQ9UGgeneFPCrIpxZwj10w4hxxcbUYV4AxUXC428h0ipBMCXZ7EqvX4S10Chz2Dpz2TO_o4gIfS655h1pTmmb8eDCvCQowrYWR12g8xDytny3UmeTn9klH5I_JKR50w1qkfPBM/w640-h360/Winnie%20the%20Pooh%20and%20Friends.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">The set of of diamond paintings</p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked out with the Wii Fit for a half hour and a half hour with Synth Riders. While working out with Synth Riders I complained about the balls being too low and I had to sit on the floor to hit them. Larry put on Louise's headset and joined me in the program. He found out how to fix the problem, it was under settings where the height of the balls were set at 3.4. He told me to set them at the same height as he had, which was 5.4. I did that and it worked perfect.</p><p style="text-align: left;">After Larry went to bed I watched Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and Shrek 3 from our movie collection. I ended up doing 17,000 steps, which put me in 2nd place in my group for the week wit ha total of 123,096 steps. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-48228209763676209632024-03-10T07:18:00.003-05:002024-03-11T00:38:23.599-05:00Saturday 3-9-24 Louise Visit and Virtual Reality<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipVqbw-8MV5vdxQ8c42Zp4M1wVVr8lW8DlLk7fkBYt796U_6VI5AQZ3Desu4dEkqD9sSkegOKBOX9VsajzEH8tPR7lszTZfZrFY8qlYaS9giG1UdYmx1AYD86GkuIiWu9GKCTGRgTdCDbHiMvb6njcv9d4JurcATb_CiG1He5QR17bj01Bki9t5UBAAhk/s243/friends.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="208" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipVqbw-8MV5vdxQ8c42Zp4M1wVVr8lW8DlLk7fkBYt796U_6VI5AQZ3Desu4dEkqD9sSkegOKBOX9VsajzEH8tPR7lszTZfZrFY8qlYaS9giG1UdYmx1AYD86GkuIiWu9GKCTGRgTdCDbHiMvb6njcv9d4JurcATb_CiG1He5QR17bj01Bki9t5UBAAhk/s1600/friends.png" width="208" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Having Fun</p><p style="text-align: left;">We had a great day. The temperature was cooler it got up to 71 degrees with a breeze.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I started the day off by cleaning the bathrooms and vacuuming the house.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD_K9KJhMksv6fCQW9EKMY4vIGR1DCnNPm3Jl81VFF7XgekIhRcS-LjtUgZsfqw_H9a5tAKXy_lLoKE3Tt-_niyt94NnIcjrj6x-_KG-HRgQjPbWN_pYpqyPNpETaxnzNz_vsyQDgqLhHhK1CFtGc8PJ4Zm7vnGY-u4OrN-2QXQVFonsYjcME5Snh7Fv4/s225/housework.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD_K9KJhMksv6fCQW9EKMY4vIGR1DCnNPm3Jl81VFF7XgekIhRcS-LjtUgZsfqw_H9a5tAKXy_lLoKE3Tt-_niyt94NnIcjrj6x-_KG-HRgQjPbWN_pYpqyPNpETaxnzNz_vsyQDgqLhHhK1CFtGc8PJ4Zm7vnGY-u4OrN-2QXQVFonsYjcME5Snh7Fv4/s1600/housework.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Doing housework</p><p style="text-align: left;">Louise and Alice arrived about 9:00 and left around 2:00. Larry invited Louse to come over to play some virtual reality. Alice was in a great mood, she came running into the house. We visited for a bit before the fun began. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry explained to Louise how virtual reality works and how to put on the headset. She started out by playing Wander, this program takes you to different places. You ask the program
to take you to an address, place or anywhere you want to go. For example
when you ask the program to take you to the Eiffel Tower, the program
puts you in the tower. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Next up was First Encounters, this is a fun program where a space ship breaks through your ceiling and fuzzy creatures start coming out of the walls, television
and other objects laying around. The object is to shoot as many as you
can within a certain time. It is a mixed reality program so you can still see the room you are playing in. It's a lot of fun, easy and a great way to start learning how virtual reality games work. </p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;">Then she moved onto playing pinball. From there to the workout program Synth Riders. Before each program Larry explained what the object was and how to do the game. I played Synth Riders to demonstrate how I play and to show how to score better. I'm getting better but I have been playing it for awhile. Louise did well. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Next I showed her how to play Asguard Wrath II and then I took her into Horizon Worlds. I went into the Survival World, where you do things just like the television series. When playing the games Larry had set the headset to cast through the television, that way everyone can see what the person playing was doing. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry also showed her Big Screen. This program takes you into a movie theater where you can watch Amazon or YouTube videos. Alice was very good considering we spent a lot of time playing. I played with her a bit. </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOIDxrbHfCyTTCduA5DSFnoeMNFB-Vqb1v5qpA47T7BwPIR35xkX7E1lCnIbXdEQ3gBbH-Lbw9uki9nk78dxku_5iTAGBiN_Z3Dcy_ITPrCWQZ5veaD9JXIis_tgztGZlAPEquGZXRleUVgslRCC6EbIAvnhfWiPTqd12ss28KxsdM8iI3Sz3Z5Kkuh7Q/s4032/PXL_20240309_160032629.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOIDxrbHfCyTTCduA5DSFnoeMNFB-Vqb1v5qpA47T7BwPIR35xkX7E1lCnIbXdEQ3gBbH-Lbw9uki9nk78dxku_5iTAGBiN_Z3Dcy_ITPrCWQZ5veaD9JXIis_tgztGZlAPEquGZXRleUVgslRCC6EbIAvnhfWiPTqd12ss28KxsdM8iI3Sz3Z5Kkuh7Q/w640-h360/PXL_20240309_160032629.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Playing First Encounters</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: left;">For lunch we had Western Grillers: Chicken Tickler, they're chicken breasts stuffed with jalapeno and cheese wrapped in bacon. We also had waffle fries cooked in the air fryer and baked beans. For dessert we had cupcakes. The meal came out tasting good.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Before Louise left Larry replaced the hatch supports on her car and put her new license sticker on the windshield. I gave her the Christmas stocking that Santa left for her. I kept forgetting to give her the stocking so it worked out perfect today. She was very excited to get the stocking. She is so excited about virtual reality that she has decided to buy a headset. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaq2yF_GiOAz-A0EyY7cu1_v0SL6sRzFlSPYe83cHOSorA_KVYsnhAC7E_wldZfLkaGTg7tXJUYEqGA5Twp7DMi0HR_GkYFzOtdo5zOo_-nGfXVPpMJhm5P1mFKLF17JujRStKezlKmS7FSrcsx2IGAzdoWxddSZWIRdC0I97pAM94ZyygkndOd0_HhnI/s4032/PXL_20240309_205009797.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaq2yF_GiOAz-A0EyY7cu1_v0SL6sRzFlSPYe83cHOSorA_KVYsnhAC7E_wldZfLkaGTg7tXJUYEqGA5Twp7DMi0HR_GkYFzOtdo5zOo_-nGfXVPpMJhm5P1mFKLF17JujRStKezlKmS7FSrcsx2IGAzdoWxddSZWIRdC0I97pAM94ZyygkndOd0_HhnI/w360-h640/PXL_20240309_205009797.MP.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Louise with her Christmas stocking</p><p style="text-align: left;">After Louise and Alice left I worked out on Synth Riders for another half hour. When I finished Larry joined me on the couch and we went through the music playlists that are available on Synth Riders. There must be 50 or so free songs, there are others that cost $1.99. </p><p style="text-align: left;">I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Hard Road Mini of 5 games. It took me 1 hour, 1 minute and 51 seconds, which put me in 35th. I had a rough time solving the Free Cell game. Then I moved onto playing Angry Birds.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked on Winnie the Pooh & Friends.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I played four pinball games on the cabinet in 2D because the headsets were charging. The games were Big Buck Hunter, Twister, Black Rose and The Sopranos. While playing Black Rose I became Grand Champion. When I played The Sopranos I was put on the board as the 4th high score. </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY6mRHXaqWNKsmSPTN2goHNNPx_hNxdLtidrV-n-kgnOAM30M3xuY23rUHUfIQ9iM6OtLhTzOLjMZFMMmKaPmu_Efh8FFmYSd7dfoJU_vP1UyBHhCQCY-kdQ0kTjkctiwxjs6C_n6KpZT4C2SXwjua_lG5w0JqWK9DMpKAXCIv2rxAmUR9evPujSs8QFo/s4032/PXL_20240310_002906912.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY6mRHXaqWNKsmSPTN2goHNNPx_hNxdLtidrV-n-kgnOAM30M3xuY23rUHUfIQ9iM6OtLhTzOLjMZFMMmKaPmu_Efh8FFmYSd7dfoJU_vP1UyBHhCQCY-kdQ0kTjkctiwxjs6C_n6KpZT4C2SXwjua_lG5w0JqWK9DMpKAXCIv2rxAmUR9evPujSs8QFo/w360-h640/PXL_20240310_002906912.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Black Rose</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpYzpXiW6dZQP4-Qolau36JE2_yMshE7bh84fACZouX7e-f9mqF5dyooklagm96y8t96QCzoovSXGYRC1OqHMEcycyL42e21EpZAHII-7nUL-P0icvqQEDZvc63Hyqr7AaDo0HXmTWcV-j7THhAsaUeqWONW4XmmM0bJYcXkye1Bnsqqr0JfPEOWYdnmY/s4032/PXL_20240310_004925469.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpYzpXiW6dZQP4-Qolau36JE2_yMshE7bh84fACZouX7e-f9mqF5dyooklagm96y8t96QCzoovSXGYRC1OqHMEcycyL42e21EpZAHII-7nUL-P0icvqQEDZvc63Hyqr7AaDo0HXmTWcV-j7THhAsaUeqWONW4XmmM0bJYcXkye1Bnsqqr0JfPEOWYdnmY/w360-h640/PXL_20240310_004925469.MP.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">The Sopranos</p><p style="text-align: left;">Everyday we play with the Quest 3 headset we learn more and more about how it works and how the programs work. It's a learning process and we're having fun.</p><p style="text-align: left;">In the evening we watched Lara Croft: Tomb Raider on Pluto. Angelina Jolie plays Lara Croft. We watched the movie in virtual reality using the headset. We only watched about an hour of it because my headset died. After Larry went to bed I watched Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jr. and I watched Shrek 2 out of our movie collection. I ended up doing 17,500 steps, which put me in 2nd place in my group. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-11220452256630043652024-03-09T06:40:00.000-06:002024-03-09T06:40:32.362-06:00Friday 3-8-24 Dancing, Diamond Painting and Virual Reality<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDiUrj68cZMfUuQ9Ny87uaMr07nH1hzmHjZm7nMFf9BoQYkX5LKr6rR3peQhpTXpTBZHm-I3bXdlFrKRMbimDxTsTIXprE9VFCXjG2zpCcRlhyufgBA3SxX90-rBSWiChhYcIK1gYdMP4p7pdkaOdi6z-gFSmdbS9FVp7Irl5l-2zHh35zHbaQUYsbQwc/s350/Humid.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="262" data-original-width="350" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDiUrj68cZMfUuQ9Ny87uaMr07nH1hzmHjZm7nMFf9BoQYkX5LKr6rR3peQhpTXpTBZHm-I3bXdlFrKRMbimDxTsTIXprE9VFCXjG2zpCcRlhyufgBA3SxX90-rBSWiChhYcIK1gYdMP4p7pdkaOdi6z-gFSmdbS9FVp7Irl5l-2zHh35zHbaQUYsbQwc/s320/Humid.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Humid Day</p><p style="text-align: left;">We started the day out with a short rain shower. It didn't rain long but it rained hard enough to wet everything. The clouds stayed around so it was humid. It got up to 74 degrees. We kept cool under the fans.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: World Tour Mini of 10 games. It took me 47 minutes and 27 seconds, which put me in 17th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds and Friends.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry spent the day playing with our Quest 3 headsets and learning how to do different things with it. Asguard Wrath II is a free game that came on the headset. It's an action game and I spent a few hours playing the game until I got stuck in a room. It's a lot of fun. Larry continued working with the Big Screen program. After Ett's dance we watched an episode of Northern Exposure through the headset and Amazon. It worked great.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEJoTfVaephpwCuY2n9bSvjq50x788g8o7BqmwIwDqvp29XCWyqEueicyetnzWfK-gRT7pK19rzdCHR8Du9qm3ezs00BZpaTwtNQKMPLU20Z0PrqTonC4Yy9bV1l6seAchyO22WoRVbo9WDsbLTCQFENNZ8pLAMozHiCrIiUkw3UTqDNa5ddbsEZm59ZY/s474/Asguard%20Wrath.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="474" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEJoTfVaephpwCuY2n9bSvjq50x788g8o7BqmwIwDqvp29XCWyqEueicyetnzWfK-gRT7pK19rzdCHR8Du9qm3ezs00BZpaTwtNQKMPLU20Z0PrqTonC4Yy9bV1l6seAchyO22WoRVbo9WDsbLTCQFENNZ8pLAMozHiCrIiUkw3UTqDNa5ddbsEZm59ZY/w640-h360/Asguard%20Wrath.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Asguard Wrath 1 scene</p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked on Winnie the Pooh & Friends diamond painting. I played Twister a few times to get a new high score and failed but had fun.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">In the evening I attended Ett McAtee's Weekly A2 dance at 6:30 for an hour. Ett had problems login on Zoom so we started a little late. People were worried because she usually login early. She ended up calling three tips to 9 participants. I had a super time.</p><p style="text-align: left;">While I dance Larry called Louise and invited her to the house tomorrow to play with Virtual Reality. She was excited about learning Virtual Reality.</p><p style="text-align: left;">After Larry went to bed I watched Armageddon from our movie selection. I ended up doing 17,500 steps, which put me in 2nd place in my group. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-68654502446049310082024-03-08T06:41:00.001-06:002024-03-08T06:41:35.988-06:00Thursday 3-7-24 Playing With Quest 3 Headsets & having Fun<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSghGq4LXlRirXLLZKbhOuAcOSJfLP3zM4IA27-I_SD1inAjSPy7YB9aa-wB6rlG_Iy4oLxFwBZnBaP4jC9FhyphenhyphenKcgf63Ew9UakhPAIOvtp8MRogev35ptZ9GtTzIi4rvXE_BkRpN4zBo8DuzG9Hafpp1akRIYBRH7XhiV83_9qjm5CLgcj6DoQBvtdKZ4/s248/awesome.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="204" data-original-width="248" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSghGq4LXlRirXLLZKbhOuAcOSJfLP3zM4IA27-I_SD1inAjSPy7YB9aa-wB6rlG_Iy4oLxFwBZnBaP4jC9FhyphenhyphenKcgf63Ew9UakhPAIOvtp8MRogev35ptZ9GtTzIi4rvXE_BkRpN4zBo8DuzG9Hafpp1akRIYBRH7XhiV83_9qjm5CLgcj6DoQBvtdKZ4/s1600/awesome.jpg" width="248" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Awesome Day</p><p style="text-align: left;">We had an awesome day. </p><p style="text-align: left;">We didn't have any dances today but we had fun playing with the Quest 3 headsets. Larry setup the new headset to enter into Meta Horizon Worlds. It's a free game that came on the headset. He first had to create an avatar for me. Next he had to setup an account. Once I was all setup the headset was ready for me. After I entered into the program Larry invited me to join his group. Then we entered into the main menu so I could get familiar in moving around the worlds using the controllers buttons and joystick. I walked around the area and into rooms. I tried out shooting objects with a gun I had to learn how to grab it. Larry explained this. After a bit we went into a social world, where we met a gentleman from the Netherlands. He took us through different worlds, some he created. He answered our questions. The worlds are mind blowing. One of his worlds was his house. We walked through it and went outside. We stood on the deck and watched sailboats go by, heard the water in the ocean, birds flying overhead and many more things. He spent over two hours showing us around. There are thousands of worlds. We had a super time.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihdb16166fVBqLarFEncnVYg2P9Nv636bPVIytc__nG6EUkBjVvXRKFH1xx_6eBO-Fa4o3GLMttiacP7xlx-YASl7luAwIAc4OBbgKZXy5VJCo3IzhJIYasdLwY1J8y_qmnIpG5OasZlM0sJ0pO4Ga1GiaX6iR9X06ydL0gwR15Xo8JGDIeVKVtiIZ7CA/s1280/2b3a73b60808798b46d0851041b42204.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihdb16166fVBqLarFEncnVYg2P9Nv636bPVIytc__nG6EUkBjVvXRKFH1xx_6eBO-Fa4o3GLMttiacP7xlx-YASl7luAwIAc4OBbgKZXy5VJCo3IzhJIYasdLwY1J8y_qmnIpG5OasZlM0sJ0pO4Ga1GiaX6iR9X06ydL0gwR15Xo8JGDIeVKVtiIZ7CA/w360-h640/2b3a73b60808798b46d0851041b42204.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Our avatars waving </p><p style="text-align: left;">In the evening we played with the headset on another program called Big Screen, where you can watch movies together. It took awhile to figure how to make it work. Once Larry figured it out we watched part of Ant Man. The picture on the screen was very crisp and the sound was very clear. Tomorrow we'll play with it some more. </p><p style="text-align: left;">I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 Free Cell and 5 Tri Peaks). It took me 1 hour, 11 minutes and 29 seconds, which put me in 12th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked on the diamond painting of Winnie the Pooh & Friends. So far I have completed Pooh, Eeyore and Piglet. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAqWqO2oV6QSr9_9mIqjanQ3Jxe9BaNi1-BAXmTc9m3bI3PGaiTKGbQt7jYsWOoaiyapHZ7VGCgYQN-5OKSiXRQSFASklaYbpPOtT5Vdy_BUSvxWXJvzWaATdCsakVkibznPnJtHJPbJxK2wGzNIPpudGxi5gddFu3IC9IZwmzaMsz7XhUSnOSSknRCfk/s2688/PXL_20240308_063845935.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAqWqO2oV6QSr9_9mIqjanQ3Jxe9BaNi1-BAXmTc9m3bI3PGaiTKGbQt7jYsWOoaiyapHZ7VGCgYQN-5OKSiXRQSFASklaYbpPOtT5Vdy_BUSvxWXJvzWaATdCsakVkibznPnJtHJPbJxK2wGzNIPpudGxi5gddFu3IC9IZwmzaMsz7XhUSnOSSknRCfk/w360-h640/PXL_20240308_063845935.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Winnie the Pooh & Friends</p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked out using the Wii Fit for a half hour and a half hour with Synth Riders. I worked out to five different songs on Synth Riders. They were rhythm songs.</p><p style="text-align: left;">After Larry went to bed I watched the last Borne movie, which was Jason Bourne. I ended up doing 17,500 steps, which put me in 2nd place in my group. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-50883134915184544812024-03-07T06:10:00.002-06:002024-03-07T06:10:57.553-06:00Wednesday 3-6-24 Dance Day & Having Fun<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirGhXi3g6FxWFXMs-Z2lvgbJJzcwnIVahZ5faFKBoviGi9ic40A5YqwPHluONC1OXZZIZSW2N0kc0GGbAgCMFeRTOUnbjsWWaKYuXqYFueuyPIbDp7OMeWRqbMhdQHQVtHwP4o0Qs6d_l-6te8dGlNiJJFaB8xyNj0oBR_N3E4dDXVWPvmjUL1XFNN59U/s225/beautifulday.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirGhXi3g6FxWFXMs-Z2lvgbJJzcwnIVahZ5faFKBoviGi9ic40A5YqwPHluONC1OXZZIZSW2N0kc0GGbAgCMFeRTOUnbjsWWaKYuXqYFueuyPIbDp7OMeWRqbMhdQHQVtHwP4o0Qs6d_l-6te8dGlNiJJFaB8xyNj0oBR_N3E4dDXVWPvmjUL1XFNN59U/s1600/beautifulday.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Beautiful Day</p><p style="text-align: left;">We had a beautiful day with the high of 81 degrees. We spent the day hanging around the house and having fun.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I attended three virtual square dances. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 10:00 for an hour. Di and Terry took turns calling five tips to 13 participants. When Di called the third tip she worked on Crossfire in different positions because Ange requested the help. Di and Terry always do an outstanding job of cueing the moves through out the dance and this helps a lot. If a dancer asked to go over a move Di is more than willing to do so. I had a super time dancing with friends.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Second was Ett McAtee's Weekly C1 at 1:00 for an hour. She called four tips to 15 participants. Today was National Oreo Day so Ett did three Trivia questions in between the tips about Oreo. Tage from the Netherlands said they were boycotting Oreo cookies because they make them in Russia. They don't agree with the war. Ett said she didn't know and she was sorry. Taga also said they have their own Oreo cookies, they are called Domino. I had fun dancing to Ett and with friends.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmdmRWSM4eQNcNnk7lT7tPUdyhfMYjvjxIv4E7GbwJigjoI1gU-FYNM-v3Q6Y_DSI3wNnd2Gohn0y2dEx_3I5-w7LvGPGabPGtEP9t_oKd2awBFxVQYWlB9A95nW30WTfjpXMNM7-q6LQRndm2H0LP4LdZ8hKzL1XlU5N4RBMkeppZBhxzG2DiwBTdqaY/s4032/Oreo%20Trival%20Dance-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmdmRWSM4eQNcNnk7lT7tPUdyhfMYjvjxIv4E7GbwJigjoI1gU-FYNM-v3Q6Y_DSI3wNnd2Gohn0y2dEx_3I5-w7LvGPGabPGtEP9t_oKd2awBFxVQYWlB9A95nW30WTfjpXMNM7-q6LQRndm2H0LP4LdZ8hKzL1XlU5N4RBMkeppZBhxzG2DiwBTdqaY/w640-h360/Oreo%20Trival%20Dance-001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Taga virtual background of the Domino cookies</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisV4GDyxcfBD0QhhS7DAxhqUGMiJrb9CrAp6Sry1mMB19KUBB6Gk7hUtuIa9Di73t4Kp7eY7Y5kRY9uNmEFw49uOUIX1-tXQVvLy-yZLkefOK7leaZz_GWxpqOkcjs2k3Q5Rc0eWW5vjeGIcjCFdiwaRBzSDDjD7EIu7pLez0yiFzEyQploBN0RroFmzg/s4032/Oreo%20Trival%20Dance.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisV4GDyxcfBD0QhhS7DAxhqUGMiJrb9CrAp6Sry1mMB19KUBB6Gk7hUtuIa9Di73t4Kp7eY7Y5kRY9uNmEFw49uOUIX1-tXQVvLy-yZLkefOK7leaZz_GWxpqOkcjs2k3Q5Rc0eWW5vjeGIcjCFdiwaRBzSDDjD7EIu7pLez0yiFzEyQploBN0RroFmzg/w640-h360/Oreo%20Trival%20Dance.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Ett's virtual background of our Oreo cookies</p><p style="text-align: left;">The third dance was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00 for an hour and a half. Karin Rabe and Greg Moore helped Dave call the dance. The format was three tips of C1 and three tips of A2. During the C1 tip Karin and Greg called they worked on Cross and Roll. Dave worked on Relay the Shadow. The last tip all three called together. We had 8 participants in both the C1 tips and A2 tips. In between the A2 tips we did a couple of Trivia questions. One was about Oreo. I had a great evening of dancing to Karin, Greg and Dave and with friends.</p><p style="text-align: left;">While I danced Larry worked on setting up my new virtual reality headset. Now we can play together or by ourselves. He ordered a new headband for the new headset because the original one is very uncomfortable.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8K5ynswINhtqSZmQe-Z4DrqSTRMQOjeOX6mr23Uo6P9fYAtU8_vy9IzVv4l0PrBBOWj2RyhgoWfae_trFRiE2miKS5MTRnvXur0YY3kD7SWpPK-WZWUTsVkKoEzRcKsN9O1j5BEuXCC275ONVbpkGnjcjHVxGZjvu73mRvxJKdJjOhHO99ln3C7nCXiA/s4032/Virtual%20Reality%20Headsets.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8K5ynswINhtqSZmQe-Z4DrqSTRMQOjeOX6mr23Uo6P9fYAtU8_vy9IzVv4l0PrBBOWj2RyhgoWfae_trFRiE2miKS5MTRnvXur0YY3kD7SWpPK-WZWUTsVkKoEzRcKsN9O1j5BEuXCC275ONVbpkGnjcjHVxGZjvu73mRvxJKdJjOhHO99ln3C7nCXiA/w640-h360/Virtual%20Reality%20Headsets.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Larry's virtual headset</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgVlk3Kp5D-SiGa22h4xEgrCOkilUQCNVJDRdkd2h1qKPuYqPRh3bfdkbjuGoBrRx2QFyMb8Z78qvocDhXy5RXgQYXIgKkACWUgwPhpjD0xzsLhnH669Ho8CsI2msfSy_Lgdk5a75hbHY7OhkzzFCdaKXbFDl42np2l2nrjRP_8KNTWsAir7aougkHVVA/s4032/Virtual%20Reality%20Headsets.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgVlk3Kp5D-SiGa22h4xEgrCOkilUQCNVJDRdkd2h1qKPuYqPRh3bfdkbjuGoBrRx2QFyMb8Z78qvocDhXy5RXgQYXIgKkACWUgwPhpjD0xzsLhnH669Ho8CsI2msfSy_Lgdk5a75hbHY7OhkzzFCdaKXbFDl42np2l2nrjRP_8KNTWsAir7aougkHVVA/w640-h360/Virtual%20Reality%20Headsets.MP.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">New headset and extra battery</p><p style="text-align: left;">I played three pinball games in both virtual reality and 2D. It was a lot of fun seeing the difference. The games were Big Buck Hunter, Fish Tales and Twister. In the virtual reality version of Fish Tales the water is moving and there are fish swimming by. There is also a large grab that walks by. Very cool.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaHN5Lf2bgofZpt4Tdnmzd6_Z_-c0S6QnevSBW-SUS5oPqhBe-Neti5EP2dz-POla0TwFVSPwA_y49rETh0e3RIk_z83fBg-tWranmf_lFb0EGajsYxsJoRcwGPJ_adogevRUkrftx5SAQVJ8x2-mD1jYBUyxrFtd7VfT_mkEmjcg7_Nwr1kCn7rj1lBU/s2048/Big%20Buck%20Hunter.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaHN5Lf2bgofZpt4Tdnmzd6_Z_-c0S6QnevSBW-SUS5oPqhBe-Neti5EP2dz-POla0TwFVSPwA_y49rETh0e3RIk_z83fBg-tWranmf_lFb0EGajsYxsJoRcwGPJ_adogevRUkrftx5SAQVJ8x2-mD1jYBUyxrFtd7VfT_mkEmjcg7_Nwr1kCn7rj1lBU/w480-h640/Big%20Buck%20Hunter.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Big Buck Hunter in 2D</p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkn9OUWNlOCD_kcy-65GN6s-9Cmlk7HodPlDpj59TH49Vr9Ww3V597BDT80Lh64gikIO9NZOvwHFxuowON-j1RgKVemm1Oz6BQJHdkA0U1V3tQT6NCSpBemqm734EP-vw-wOMC2wsKN4HvvWy1t2Gjv0Wa2zuAYIRpi7k8L8h7keTAJ9_z5oN2J4fghsw/s2160/Big%20Buck%20Hunter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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The event was Event: Experts Only Mini of 5 games. It took me 1 hour, 27 minutes and 54 seconds, which put me in 20th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked out for a half hour on the Wii Fit and with Synth Riders. I continued working on the diamond painting of Winnie the Pooh & Friends.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">After the last dance we watched the next episode of the 13th season of Vera. Then I watched The Bourne Ultimatum and the next episode of Father Brown. I ended up doing 17,500 steps, which put me in 2nd place in my group. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p></div>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-63521202004199480062024-03-06T06:41:00.001-06:002024-03-06T08:57:29.562-06:00Tuesday 3-5-24 Virtual Reality, Games, Dancing & More <p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAdmXBK1bBshZSP7RcecZgIOl2_l5S7TwInRMMrvpOkbYHbK4nxvI9M6oyx4hPYiQ2EzKij-zWmBnjlUncXW-Nr8kqY548oXwOCrqQ8ov71XlbTMserFj0rpmD6ZNmjWjZH0G-566gjffVmxgQu0nyJApVUZJnWRRSSaycqczj1rhLAjUcwVdgmj0KRDc/s600/tuesday.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAdmXBK1bBshZSP7RcecZgIOl2_l5S7TwInRMMrvpOkbYHbK4nxvI9M6oyx4hPYiQ2EzKij-zWmBnjlUncXW-Nr8kqY548oXwOCrqQ8ov71XlbTMserFj0rpmD6ZNmjWjZH0G-566gjffVmxgQu0nyJApVUZJnWRRSSaycqczj1rhLAjUcwVdgmj0KRDc/s320/tuesday.gif" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Happy Tuesday</div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">We had a fun day. It got up to 85 degrees. </p><p style="text-align: left;">We started the day out by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly A2 dance at 10:00 for an hour. Di and Terry took turns calling five tips to 15 participants. The last tip Di worked on Motivate from different positions because it was requested. She walked all of us through the move. Larry danced with me and we had an outstanding time. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Uvwc1dd5BlwgRL2fd9V41buU4jubB6BcPQAo1dT_ESe-me34d1L8r40VJZLTMxKGT5Bn8HPK6P8zLM5nvs6LRd8CnCrl34RbZH93sCOLWp8y5XX9FfiUrdmSEAXfLfRKOFMNPnZBj9eqTgPqaUhx6pIyPtHRWB2cZ1Hfa1r-Ol-_hL9K9THxs-iskcY/s177/squaredancing1.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="173" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Uvwc1dd5BlwgRL2fd9V41buU4jubB6BcPQAo1dT_ESe-me34d1L8r40VJZLTMxKGT5Bn8HPK6P8zLM5nvs6LRd8CnCrl34RbZH93sCOLWp8y5XX9FfiUrdmSEAXfLfRKOFMNPnZBj9eqTgPqaUhx6pIyPtHRWB2cZ1Hfa1r-Ol-_hL9K9THxs-iskcY/s1600/squaredancing1.gif" width="173" /></a></div><p></p><p>I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango of 20 games (10 Pyramid and 10 Tri Peaks). It took me 1 hour, 43 minutes and 11 seconds, which put me in 18th place in my group. Then I moved onto playing Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds and Friends.</p><p>I worked on a diamond painting project, Winnie the Pooh and Friends.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCerTya1gcW9NKblh56mp1F2eYDkLqZBGMUyw0wC7VgUjv-zzTOVZQHaD3qAPsztSWUm5jHc_OQrQ519I1XHK2vo6MgfU4dSB6bsXRJWReWzTxZLIH2QTJv9SuBswBMX1agqdULJ1EKsXU-CkRmsUpTdtdlreZLF85eQTFu2cFxAccxLGAxCXLkXmpNB0/s2025/Winnie%20the%20Pooh%20&%20Friends-002.jpg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2025" data-original-width="1423" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCerTya1gcW9NKblh56mp1F2eYDkLqZBGMUyw0wC7VgUjv-zzTOVZQHaD3qAPsztSWUm5jHc_OQrQ519I1XHK2vo6MgfU4dSB6bsXRJWReWzTxZLIH2QTJv9SuBswBMX1agqdULJ1EKsXU-CkRmsUpTdtdlreZLF85eQTFu2cFxAccxLGAxCXLkXmpNB0/w450-h640/Winnie%20the%20Pooh%20&%20Friends-002.jpg.jpg" width="450" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Winnie the Pooh & Friends so far</p><p style="text-align: left;">While I was playing games Larry continued learning more about virtual reality rooms. One of the programs that came with the headset is called Horizon Worlds, you enter into a common room and from there visit different worlds. He has tired it a few times but had not really figured out how it works. Today he was in the program and a gentleman walked up and started talking to him. Larry explained he had no idea what he was doing so the gentleman explained a few things and Larry asked him some questions. </p><p style="text-align: left;">When you are using this program you appear in the program as an avatar, kind of a cartoon character that you design to represent yourself. One of Larry's first questions was how did he appear, everyone was "walking" around but Larry was sitting on the couch. The gentleman explained even though you are sitting down the program shows you as standing, as you move around it appears you are walking. </p><p style="text-align: left;">After a bit they went into a puzzle room where his wife was working on a jigsaw puzzle. The gentleman and his wife both answered his questions and demonstrated some of the features. The puzzle room is where a group of people meet and put a jigsaw puzzle together. You can also setup a private room and assemble a puzzle on your own or invite people you know into your room. From there they went to a couple of other worlds which were games.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">They ended up spending about 90 minutes with each other. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmsUREnDbOCq0fEUcULPcC_Jxw62-kbJ0to68xv83-83HZYXvGfWtrUukb4SWFTqG_kcEuHBDE5VSf1WaSE41UV-6fCNqWIQQF8XAOYUrJdQcqBbDDxzaxz0v4xAg8HH2CYvEibiBRLRE5f-7SSdCbMWi8aUCzw3525PJ5vgMtIDaWTHLLV-mcC9Vzuyg/s4032/Virtual%20Reality%20Icon.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmsUREnDbOCq0fEUcULPcC_Jxw62-kbJ0to68xv83-83HZYXvGfWtrUukb4SWFTqG_kcEuHBDE5VSf1WaSE41UV-6fCNqWIQQF8XAOYUrJdQcqBbDDxzaxz0v4xAg8HH2CYvEibiBRLRE5f-7SSdCbMWi8aUCzw3525PJ5vgMtIDaWTHLLV-mcC9Vzuyg/w360-h640/Virtual%20Reality%20Icon.MP.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Playing with virtual reality</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: left;">The picture above is of the screen on the pinball machine where you choose to go into the virtual reality pinball games. Larry created this screen by finding images on the internet and modifying them to work for this screen. In real life they look fantastic. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">I played a few pinball games. I played Cirqus Voltaire in 2D, yesterday I played the same game in virtual reality and did very well. Today I also did very well but I didn't get on the board. Then I moved onto virtual reality games. They were Twister, Black Rose and Tales of the Arabian Nights. Tales of the Arabian Nights is probably the most beautiful of all the games. I was successful in getting all the jewels but failed in freeing the Princess. I did get a high enough score to enter my initials as the 3rd high score. I had fun playing pinball.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV4RmLkWuO-GkW6ElaTC_9l1KK1jSQVcYeA3FXpSw5XM1Ro8BQaxqrjz4Pdb6R8Llfdug3rodByrMnm7Ijb-03J9M3Irniz70xWG-KPV_HGEdKAnVQHmQfNK0TpokqlTD5Hnjj5v34eJRqmNmFWu59emy9bXv6FZL050YVk1-a_G8vcmFtTlrke-kcHe0/s2160/Black%20Rose.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV4RmLkWuO-GkW6ElaTC_9l1KK1jSQVcYeA3FXpSw5XM1Ro8BQaxqrjz4Pdb6R8Llfdug3rodByrMnm7Ijb-03J9M3Irniz70xWG-KPV_HGEdKAnVQHmQfNK0TpokqlTD5Hnjj5v34eJRqmNmFWu59emy9bXv6FZL050YVk1-a_G8vcmFtTlrke-kcHe0/w640-h640/Black%20Rose.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Black Rose</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ7lQEzupjYhbO6iMf7oQAbomVjTIG5ltniAM6Ys35ntDEIcuLlK0ZLTu99ccGIN3oM0n6UfrU8jSFNUCYsEUS3Jp1AxOuhOQB-amaoCea36X6KE8pu7oTC3gLe1DAb29pzuaCathYMTHZFhwrtES2WgrUDbLsEmgONPhDCAvDIwS2McqXHR_vzAnN4UY/s2688/Cirqus%20Voltaire.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ7lQEzupjYhbO6iMf7oQAbomVjTIG5ltniAM6Ys35ntDEIcuLlK0ZLTu99ccGIN3oM0n6UfrU8jSFNUCYsEUS3Jp1AxOuhOQB-amaoCea36X6KE8pu7oTC3gLe1DAb29pzuaCathYMTHZFhwrtES2WgrUDbLsEmgONPhDCAvDIwS2McqXHR_vzAnN4UY/w360-h640/Cirqus%20Voltaire.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Cirqus Voltaire (not in virtual reality)</p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMWPM1CV8RqJ90xGYIPqeH3s_sEgl9XCjPGpDkSq742g-y-GDISdA2uupHL8baYjt36h7u9-MpPteKkAEto13xcXWLv_CAE3aS4qHQoAgNAE-QnVdhL6r7-ZN1FhIpWdmE4M7qwKCG28-GjYVugCqO0l25Stop9AM00T-CGAGjmjS7F8dyXzJ72ToHL0A/s2160/Tales%20of%20the%20Arabian%20NIghts.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMWPM1CV8RqJ90xGYIPqeH3s_sEgl9XCjPGpDkSq742g-y-GDISdA2uupHL8baYjt36h7u9-MpPteKkAEto13xcXWLv_CAE3aS4qHQoAgNAE-QnVdhL6r7-ZN1FhIpWdmE4M7qwKCG28-GjYVugCqO0l25Stop9AM00T-CGAGjmjS7F8dyXzJ72ToHL0A/w640-h640/Tales%20of%20the%20Arabian%20NIghts.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Tales of the Arabian Nights</p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked out on the Wii for a half hour and Gold's Gym for a half hour. I did Synth Riders of a half hour and burned 123 calories.</p><p style="text-align: left;">We have been talking about buying a second virtual reality headset so after dinner we went to Walmart and bought one. Some games allow you to play with other people, I think it will be fun to play together. Unfortunately pinball does not do this.</p><p style="text-align: left;">In the evening we watched Top Gun: Maverick. After Larry went to bed I watched The Bourne Supremacy and Shrek. The movies were out of our collection. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 2nd place in my group. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-42660499911696220982024-03-05T07:11:00.004-06:002024-03-05T08:50:07.195-06:00Monday 3-4-24 Virtual Reality & Having Fun<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioVce6V-sbO0aTVjj3tXuHwy90FvUX5QtTrU1QQs8_umA4Wl4Ni3xeTxL8rOuFjMqikyL9ukmJELKdeNmN6SkXP1Tdr4quSVOBEZy0l24l63Txzj4FIphzvf_oHIAetoA-5RIX4tGyMD3aQ4S0cg_xDxPapIXk_R8uC7DbEfckJHPB3chi9rFZGW5VKZM/s248/awesome.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="204" data-original-width="248" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioVce6V-sbO0aTVjj3tXuHwy90FvUX5QtTrU1QQs8_umA4Wl4Ni3xeTxL8rOuFjMqikyL9ukmJELKdeNmN6SkXP1Tdr4quSVOBEZy0l24l63Txzj4FIphzvf_oHIAetoA-5RIX4tGyMD3aQ4S0cg_xDxPapIXk_R8uC7DbEfckJHPB3chi9rFZGW5VKZM/s1600/awesome.jpg" width="248" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Awesome Day</div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">We had an awesome day. It felt like a spring day with the high in the low 80s.</p><p style="text-align: left;">The other day I mentioned, that the Twister virtual pinball game had different rooms. I'll try to explain what I meant by this. When you play games in virtual reality you put on a headset (Quest 3). Once the headset is on you see what is displayed inside the headset, on pinball you can't see any "real" things around you. A menu comes up where you select the game you want to play. When the game opens you are inside a virtual room, some of these rooms are minimal, maybe only part of a room with the pinball machine, some stripes on the wall and maybe a poster or end table. On some games the room is far more sophisticated, Twister even has multiple rooms to choose from. The rooms put you inside a tornado,
where you can see what is happening around you. From the perspective inside the headset some rooms appear to be a normal size room, others might make it seem as if you are outside and things are made to that scale. These rooms can seem so real, they are amazing. Below are the Twister rooms.</p><p style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNTsScqf7fjSMl_8jFvPFfBdo5zyssABdhdZRoc2265Y0FhOd60m6OaQpnm2ezgXFaBMUOJeStGWsE2XDsNjexS4C_fuwxaWAjiHdwbJ50y26HRmfJGx5uBIbDmeiO0dqjI9bvpyfvn1e9c8hOaN0WqTVxVmJWbZJpQC56lmRKugfcIaNlZHd2Xk_XB9A/s2160/9c1c9afc8c35ca87aba6c0efa59a2336.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNTsScqf7fjSMl_8jFvPFfBdo5zyssABdhdZRoc2265Y0FhOd60m6OaQpnm2ezgXFaBMUOJeStGWsE2XDsNjexS4C_fuwxaWAjiHdwbJ50y26HRmfJGx5uBIbDmeiO0dqjI9bvpyfvn1e9c8hOaN0WqTVxVmJWbZJpQC56lmRKugfcIaNlZHd2Xk_XB9A/w640-h640/9c1c9afc8c35ca87aba6c0efa59a2336.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Lightening at the far end of a field</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk5Jc-QN6705BzgxCEwI64Lh21ivQep-bV2wND0wjzrYJ5S8qwQwcjx0tfT3CrOaK7QtlJCY-jXS0x1AUB2IEPK1QBP6JoWX1JUBpauhwfI-5uDwaZbtIGMmS3poaRK9DuEMiVVi_pyE4UZtZPfcnI3z7fop4r7xum5vsuRnms7ooRt9tboJuWM0Zh9-0/s2160/613c6ea3c9fea4f250c192d125ea8221.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk5Jc-QN6705BzgxCEwI64Lh21ivQep-bV2wND0wjzrYJ5S8qwQwcjx0tfT3CrOaK7QtlJCY-jXS0x1AUB2IEPK1QBP6JoWX1JUBpauhwfI-5uDwaZbtIGMmS3poaRK9DuEMiVVi_pyE4UZtZPfcnI3z7fop4r7xum5vsuRnms7ooRt9tboJuWM0Zh9-0/w640-h640/613c6ea3c9fea4f250c192d125ea8221.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">A house being tossed in a tornado</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP1Wdz2EjEn2ghEKkEvlseiJMDvvZtkAq70XTCC0ji1wxDB4cmNBhjRm1zhpkXv_GVi2Eo2QorPHCXkBXhkielXJh9JNU-bn9NQF9gwxe8OkCV_D-17WCVVCizkOWWo3gqA7-kTurAuYuKTbcBucoN1JE-8Q_XD-ZS5ffzQt0tUsjSJ0rpV1UgGpJyBqc/s2160/44196e7c53d688a71bc3c1123f47de5c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP1Wdz2EjEn2ghEKkEvlseiJMDvvZtkAq70XTCC0ji1wxDB4cmNBhjRm1zhpkXv_GVi2Eo2QorPHCXkBXhkielXJh9JNU-bn9NQF9gwxe8OkCV_D-17WCVVCizkOWWo3gqA7-kTurAuYuKTbcBucoN1JE-8Q_XD-ZS5ffzQt0tUsjSJ0rpV1UgGpJyBqc/w640-h640/44196e7c53d688a71bc3c1123f47de5c.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">The field before the tornado</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Sometimes a pinball game is developed by an individual, he might spend more than a year working on it, other games are developed by teams of people and might still take a year to develop. Hard to believe that it is for free. Part of the reason is they love doing what they do and part of it is to try and avoid legal trouble. Since many of these games are direct copies of real pinball machines including all the artwork if they were to sell the games they would be in violation of copyright laws and could be sued. By giving the work away they tend to avoid this. There have been a couple of pinball manufactures send letters threatening to sue if their games are not removed, the community then removed the games from that company and no longer reproduce any of their work. There are other pinball companies who have no problem with their tables being recreated as long as the table is more than three years old.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">We started today out by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 9:00 for an hour and fifteen minutes. Di called five tips to 16 participants. Today the songs began with the letter F so when when got back home we celebrated with a fist and raising a foot. She called some four couple moves we don't dance to that often. They were Relay The Shadow, Checkmate the Column and Tally Ho. Larry danced with me. We had a fun morning.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Before the dance I vacuumed the house.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked on the diamond painting of Winnie the Pooh and Friends. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">After the dance I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Easy Street Mini of 15 games. It took me 22 minutes and 35 seconds, which put me in 10th place in my group. Then I moved onto playing Angry Birds.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry took me to Popeyes for lunch. We hadn't been to Popeyes in years and it was nice to return. We shared a two piece chicken plate with mashed potatoes and gravy, a biscuit and a medium drink. We bought an extra biscuit. We had a great experience. The store was clean and the service was very good.</p><p style="text-align: left;">In the afternoon we had a home grocery delivery from Walmart. Larry brought the groceries inside because I was working out. When I finished I put the food and stuff away.</p><p style="text-align: left;">My workout was a half hour on the Wii Fit. I really enjoy working out in virtual reality using Synth Riders. Today I worked out to seven songs for about an hour and burned 181 calories. The songs were I Love You Then, It Ain't Right, Nightmare Cure, Delight, Light Up The Night, Imperfection and Empire. Each song has a different routine to hit the balls to. I did each song twice. While I was working out with Synth Riders Larry stood in front of me for a long time and I never saw him because I was in my room.</p><p style="text-align: left;">The pinball games I played today were Twister, Cactus Canyon and Cirqus Voltaire. While playing Cirqus Voltaire I joined the cirqus but didn't defeat the ringmaster. It was a great game and I got on the high score board, I came in 4th. </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJSXyRIxMGGW9is7mVc5hS0I1RRFRurzKj_vNpPknZozAklF9NUqHo_aKyiydUtqe88deYA-H0WIr6HwfXEMfl5hPsYIV8UgJ-CzoIF91uQIbV0ISQYhn_Jn6GvJHEQf_x8lnoDEDtkI6dwGOIpBoCs0tIX6U4q5R49lozKrhHqi_FRIxvEIk-eGpmUXs/s2160/Cirqus%20Voltaire.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJSXyRIxMGGW9is7mVc5hS0I1RRFRurzKj_vNpPknZozAklF9NUqHo_aKyiydUtqe88deYA-H0WIr6HwfXEMfl5hPsYIV8UgJ-CzoIF91uQIbV0ISQYhn_Jn6GvJHEQf_x8lnoDEDtkI6dwGOIpBoCs0tIX6U4q5R49lozKrhHqi_FRIxvEIk-eGpmUXs/w640-h640/Cirqus%20Voltaire.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Cirqus Voltaire</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4J3JGCUh9P8eLKBq2H5zGj1TRZdYWgoKkWd1IwzfuM9fCSkTlAW0UCJCy3MAZMxHPbMsQey8N55V5f4LIzQlBWNgiF7AzY9QqiE3C2rclGDEsfBxIvbD40sBbm7pGEucCgcmvwQnBW7TYDs9nG2bh-8olMxOhi8Cy8mPv4nCw1_8SkS-ZxvLavDOchFo/s2160/Cactus%20Canyon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4J3JGCUh9P8eLKBq2H5zGj1TRZdYWgoKkWd1IwzfuM9fCSkTlAW0UCJCy3MAZMxHPbMsQey8N55V5f4LIzQlBWNgiF7AzY9QqiE3C2rclGDEsfBxIvbD40sBbm7pGEucCgcmvwQnBW7TYDs9nG2bh-8olMxOhi8Cy8mPv4nCw1_8SkS-ZxvLavDOchFo/w640-h640/Cactus%20Canyon.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Cactus Canyon</p><p style="text-align: left;">In the evening we watched The Suicide Squad from our movies. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry stayed up past his bedtime playing with a new virtual reality program. The program is very cool, you put in an address or place you want to see and using Google Street View it takes you there. Larry put in the address of the home I grew up in and it put me right in front of the house. It was like standing in the street looking at the house, you can turn around and see all the neighboring houses and even move down the street. Larry stood outside his mom's house and waved. He also went to Yellowstone and looked at some of the places we have visited. The pictures are not live, the month and year they were taken is displayed and if there is history you might even be able to go back in time. The oldest views Larry found was 2006. This is all based on Google Street View and they have only been around so long. This is a very cool program. </p><p style="text-align: left;">There were lots of reviews on the program, people loved that they could see things like the Eiffel Tower and The Pyramids of Egypt, places that they will never get to visit in real life. Many folks talked about spending hours and hours using it. This program cost $10 and you can use it as much as you like, there are very few things you can do today for $10.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">After Larry went to bed I watched Dolittle on Freevee. It starred Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Dolittle. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 4th place in my group.<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-61237577173601063172024-03-04T06:47:00.001-06:002024-03-04T16:25:32.854-06:00Sunday 3-3-24 Just Having Fun<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTWwMltJQLU0UA52l8x_RcJxflkWQSkUDd7BOc4eqJy_8-pb9CvCj-pKDB3740WRN23UhJbHyWrlGasTuBu4Bya78ZMpZ1K6cOQRXuCJO0-TYSR37Mb6XCl7KIjpMcUdiFk13dFDVV9kZK0QEATozuwSXrj01hEob8PDT-7H__-0_Wd01QncNGST7MWnA/s300/fun.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTWwMltJQLU0UA52l8x_RcJxflkWQSkUDd7BOc4eqJy_8-pb9CvCj-pKDB3740WRN23UhJbHyWrlGasTuBu4Bya78ZMpZ1K6cOQRXuCJO0-TYSR37Mb6XCl7KIjpMcUdiFk13dFDVV9kZK0QEATozuwSXrj01hEob8PDT-7H__-0_Wd01QncNGST7MWnA/s1600/fun.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Just having fun</p><p style="text-align: left;">We had a great day of having fun. It was a warm day with the high of 81 degrees and wind. </p><p style="text-align: left;">The wind didn't keep the birds away from building their nest in the birdhouse. They were gone for a couple of days, it had gotten colder, windy and little sun but they came back yesterday. It still amazes me how they build their nest just using their beaks. The two birds work very well together. One of them brought a long stick and had to maneuver to get it to fit in the small hole. The birdhouse is about half full of leaves and twigs. </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyA9PXb4CXt9joY8VBiFCkidNHKZk9JZKBv_qB7O74KNc1mYEgdCnbrwX1yyDbn2C9tUm-GGxOf9XOQNyZFt5l5iyvioNxdSiID7WQeeMjnLQyXt_ZI4p-mQYYNG6QYHuny-1FeYFGDuWiKyFQhyphenhyphen7eycw34CzCETa_SxDAip4gvnY0DOp-l1EZK8VTYCg/s2688/Birds%20Return-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2688" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyA9PXb4CXt9joY8VBiFCkidNHKZk9JZKBv_qB7O74KNc1mYEgdCnbrwX1yyDbn2C9tUm-GGxOf9XOQNyZFt5l5iyvioNxdSiID7WQeeMjnLQyXt_ZI4p-mQYYNG6QYHuny-1FeYFGDuWiKyFQhyphenhyphen7eycw34CzCETa_SxDAip4gvnY0DOp-l1EZK8VTYCg/w640-h360/Birds%20Return-001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">One of the birds</p><p style="text-align: left;">I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Pyramid Mini of 5 games. It took me 21 minutes and 3 seconds, which put me in 36th place in my group. That ok, it's just luck of the draw. Then I moved onto playing Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds and Friends.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I played last week challenge in pinball The Sopranos. I didn't get a new high score but I did very well. I came in 38th out of 70 participants. After the time expired at 12:30 pm Larry changed the number of balls from 3 to 5. I played the new challenge, Twister. My first high score was 463,939,150. Twister is a very cool and has multiple virtual reality rooms. Before I played Twister Larry asked me to look around and he changed the rooms. This was so cool. After playing the challenges I played Attack From Mars. I played a great game I got all the spaceships for Germany, France, Italy, England and the United States and I attacked Mars but I still didn't get on the board. This is the first time I had ever got all the counties so I'm very excited about that.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguCDfi0yTQcw49RZZmP9MgL_9ncFB16ZiI4bK3wYngbKFizdpcVE26uPatqfO3Kucd1tl3IdXPKOEposi27VQNbcPGh0RDLIS33SW0TVA4VCwSUd0Xgr7TqiyFmWYTSGB0hXbl3HOtOTzomiaMnUGb7UBQ9_TAAFgjtDg38hWsj-W1Z7k53mV9qfGUkLk/s2160/Twister.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguCDfi0yTQcw49RZZmP9MgL_9ncFB16ZiI4bK3wYngbKFizdpcVE26uPatqfO3Kucd1tl3IdXPKOEposi27VQNbcPGh0RDLIS33SW0TVA4VCwSUd0Xgr7TqiyFmWYTSGB0hXbl3HOtOTzomiaMnUGb7UBQ9_TAAFgjtDg38hWsj-W1Z7k53mV9qfGUkLk/w640-h640/Twister.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Twister</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9RMP7U8y44nI0LauFGhWKXBEeIKJPjoaQP4ii-p4HMB74qv3pKGfuqro3QbfL2b6dGL0ASa2Kl7xVlv4u5uHQdnXOYm4HiFVmBYDiKYh_9rHgRApCGlAI3IPI_GkKhJYbXN1MAjSjQP4BVWGWfOZfU7GXhPsAPjR9P7xH2MjeS8uBT1KlKdfpixVDBOo/s2160/Attack%20From%20Mars.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9RMP7U8y44nI0LauFGhWKXBEeIKJPjoaQP4ii-p4HMB74qv3pKGfuqro3QbfL2b6dGL0ASa2Kl7xVlv4u5uHQdnXOYm4HiFVmBYDiKYh_9rHgRApCGlAI3IPI_GkKhJYbXN1MAjSjQP4BVWGWfOZfU7GXhPsAPjR9P7xH2MjeS8uBT1KlKdfpixVDBOo/w640-h640/Attack%20From%20Mars.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Attack From Mars</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmFBiehNM-sRyoWNH0fiE27H8wP6V3GfRQbCAPciTSG3NFSyWiu0C1sE1iwYXceHd_e0Zm2Hrj38Gbu5zBwh3ALHWua5uo1Q0uUvYvnT8iio9-r-lp7_2otQzNbwYZhlcMUJbYCFSVtdj_BpjusOzcZP4hGRqzwirdp3_ypsZdj9tMltEFb0NcDpKaLMQ/s2160/The%20Sopranos.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmFBiehNM-sRyoWNH0fiE27H8wP6V3GfRQbCAPciTSG3NFSyWiu0C1sE1iwYXceHd_e0Zm2Hrj38Gbu5zBwh3ALHWua5uo1Q0uUvYvnT8iio9-r-lp7_2otQzNbwYZhlcMUJbYCFSVtdj_BpjusOzcZP4hGRqzwirdp3_ypsZdj9tMltEFb0NcDpKaLMQ/w640-h640/The%20Sopranos.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">The Sopranos</p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked out on the Wii Fit for a half hour and a half hour on Just Dance 2014. I danced six songs for 20 minutes and three other songs for 10 minutes. I worked out with Synth Riders for a half hour and burned 123 calories.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-uuQa3zO4o0ICnoQhgDvIUmkxZ6AuQF1FaY_Ir6cVgNIwLXDhooAxcTOmM5zAHZEJc8W_TogMBp9oim16Nk5yejprQCyreYypJ4J4Nm7J0v_NxNUt9l09QDspH8uQIHn6r4pVRs1JAq-AzcFgL9-fpkuO-h0Tp5ZJVfgtFSQRyQTlV_N1o_sOWEMQN_Q/s4032/Just%20Dance%202014.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-uuQa3zO4o0ICnoQhgDvIUmkxZ6AuQF1FaY_Ir6cVgNIwLXDhooAxcTOmM5zAHZEJc8W_TogMBp9oim16Nk5yejprQCyreYypJ4J4Nm7J0v_NxNUt9l09QDspH8uQIHn6r4pVRs1JAq-AzcFgL9-fpkuO-h0Tp5ZJVfgtFSQRyQTlV_N1o_sOWEMQN_Q/w640-h360/Just%20Dance%202014.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Six songs for 20 minutes</p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked on the diamond painting of Winnie the Pooh & Friends.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIiP7wtSAe5mhYWA0zMLXVDV8Lh1meAc9NnpkXhvzuf5HHrXQArv3j63-yrLS67IZaG369cTZDCul0I3en9qHD8mvYFAJSs-onMfSc1yrmOFNIxFNbBz8VTimJddI11hm5zJFkfEcaZkeJwxrJgfqrwgv6bL-BZPtHJ76CpWqS0_vZtmCb6KH7TwwsxvE/s4032/Winnie%20the%20Pooh%20&%20Friends-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIiP7wtSAe5mhYWA0zMLXVDV8Lh1meAc9NnpkXhvzuf5HHrXQArv3j63-yrLS67IZaG369cTZDCul0I3en9qHD8mvYFAJSs-onMfSc1yrmOFNIxFNbBz8VTimJddI11hm5zJFkfEcaZkeJwxrJgfqrwgv6bL-BZPtHJ76CpWqS0_vZtmCb6KH7TwwsxvE/w360-h640/Winnie%20the%20Pooh%20&%20Friends-001.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Winnie the Pooh & Friends</p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry played with virtual reality in a theater atmosphere. One of the movies he experimented with was Black Widow so in the evening we watched it on our television. It a Super Hero movie and is very good.</p><p style="text-align: left;">For dinner I cooked a frozen pizza on the grill. It was a Great Value Rising Crust Supreme. We hadn't done this in a long time and it tasted good. After Larry went to bed I watched Twister and The Bourne Identity. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 2nd place in my group for the week with the total of 123,654 steps.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsALkk5iG4SNZuXxTCV4mna40nopnCAFsdiTxbjX7o3SeN-8FNKoAyyV-ffy-iHPYfnw9ZJAfzpcQBuMTB21KrT-XKXSKKFCqT4XrQBzokMZq7U-vFgMXvjmwyD3R6oqI_D_An38BObJ9XOir8lUOxgiWcyz4FCGQpSDbvI2Olfv0_3l-yh6GwAQ0NwsY/s4032/Great%20Value%20Supreme.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsALkk5iG4SNZuXxTCV4mna40nopnCAFsdiTxbjX7o3SeN-8FNKoAyyV-ffy-iHPYfnw9ZJAfzpcQBuMTB21KrT-XKXSKKFCqT4XrQBzokMZq7U-vFgMXvjmwyD3R6oqI_D_An38BObJ9XOir8lUOxgiWcyz4FCGQpSDbvI2Olfv0_3l-yh6GwAQ0NwsY/w640-h360/Great%20Value%20Supreme.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Our dinner</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-38483818962952314112024-03-03T06:36:00.005-06:002024-03-03T12:23:57.307-06:00Saturday 3-2-24 Mowing, Games, Diamond Painting & More <p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx1vnZ0dYCsJV_HnBc7lXQ4_f2Sf9LTEfIIUkMhY83VKZuaezRLfPHn3QIvvOQXm4npul1-uwPHWhv09p7YW7dYFclWBT1wC_5hTsOee-5XVZhWqPXLPQ57cfMMa2oVOjn_LGOAMr3XdetOcq2XCGvdzFR4PcD4kih2g5oPBsTehzTVqLPn3w8fl-q7L0/s225/beautifulday.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx1vnZ0dYCsJV_HnBc7lXQ4_f2Sf9LTEfIIUkMhY83VKZuaezRLfPHn3QIvvOQXm4npul1-uwPHWhv09p7YW7dYFclWBT1wC_5hTsOee-5XVZhWqPXLPQ57cfMMa2oVOjn_LGOAMr3XdetOcq2XCGvdzFR4PcD4kih2g5oPBsTehzTVqLPn3w8fl-q7L0/s1600/beautifulday.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Beautiful Day</p><p style="text-align: left;">We had a gorgeous day with a lot of sunshine. The temperature in the morning was 45 degrees and the high was 82 degrees. </p><p style="text-align: left;">I started the day off by starting my last diamond painting, which is Winnie the Pooh & Friends.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZo_3kONe19IviEQjxFUf4NRbV2Pr0SNoziqaU-wu11g_rYJunMU4gT_PyHNWiDV0z43P7g2bnFppSMQO03jYLXfGFLXDRlzm52NPH0W3baR9Fw8WbZiIecfmJLolZWhPWjR_J_OHro3hJKgfO5qoW_4NX_qnFQD3SeMobcrvIxvdJsAitELhw7RSoPjw/s4032/PXL_20240302_151457274.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZo_3kONe19IviEQjxFUf4NRbV2Pr0SNoziqaU-wu11g_rYJunMU4gT_PyHNWiDV0z43P7g2bnFppSMQO03jYLXfGFLXDRlzm52NPH0W3baR9Fw8WbZiIecfmJLolZWhPWjR_J_OHro3hJKgfO5qoW_4NX_qnFQD3SeMobcrvIxvdJsAitELhw7RSoPjw/w360-h640/PXL_20240302_151457274.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Winnie the Pooh and Friends</p><p style="text-align: left;">My new weekly challenge, which starts tomorrow is Twister. He downloaded and loaded it on the pinball cabinet. It was one of the easier tables to install. They all take a little longer because he has to install not only the normal table but also the virtual reality version. Once he got them installed and configured he had to play both of them to insure they worked correctly. He said the virtual reality version is very cool. I'll play it tomorrow.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I did play this week's challenge The Sopranos. I didn't get a new high score but I had fun trying.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLJpHfXPE7XAM9YAHhJtYQUqiFeHdta9NSKzApVvksziux2e0cTdnk6UpPs9voFLQ18k3o5QHwVJVwsfBGuXjLcPIjjD14ckVEPUTx-abWU7FgbvAKdSxoN2VZr4V_VMhgRUEJzzRUcBPheWzlEw8ikXYbYHrk5b1ocSBdIzN0lLYwd6W6fjdtgGm299M/s1440/The%20Sopranos.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLJpHfXPE7XAM9YAHhJtYQUqiFeHdta9NSKzApVvksziux2e0cTdnk6UpPs9voFLQ18k3o5QHwVJVwsfBGuXjLcPIjjD14ckVEPUTx-abWU7FgbvAKdSxoN2VZr4V_VMhgRUEJzzRUcBPheWzlEw8ikXYbYHrk5b1ocSBdIzN0lLYwd6W6fjdtgGm299M/w640-h640/The%20Sopranos.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">The Sopranos</p><p style="text-align: left;">We had some dew this morning and our septic system also sprayed the backyard so we had to wait for the temperature to rise and the sun to dry it out so I could mow. The far part of the backyard was getting our of control. Larry filled the mower with gas and got it running. It took a bit because it hadn't been started for a long time. It took me a little over an hour to mow. While I mowed Larry weedeated, edged and blew off the driveway. Then he went inside and replaced the air filters. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFhI_GkO61Cm2vzJbCiqaBvPaoRGb0n0CrJ9T5S0FeRCc-uHQM8hQ0A4DFEqZ0vkKSmgsLBI2gAHk-93dmttctRTHh2FQJ4QcVIY2QZdIdj_l3dC-rWsyqTkfXsINgWaMT6o4_cG7xsOFq5p6hb_lZ9D8DEAKpU4LoHc-tDGQ8tRuKBZUYdr31zk8v-F8/s4032/Mowing%20Backyard-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFhI_GkO61Cm2vzJbCiqaBvPaoRGb0n0CrJ9T5S0FeRCc-uHQM8hQ0A4DFEqZ0vkKSmgsLBI2gAHk-93dmttctRTHh2FQJ4QcVIY2QZdIdj_l3dC-rWsyqTkfXsINgWaMT6o4_cG7xsOFq5p6hb_lZ9D8DEAKpU4LoHc-tDGQ8tRuKBZUYdr31zk8v-F8/w640-h360/Mowing%20Backyard-001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Backyard mowed</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrSNpqfhkYVjLX6DVaIpLaHDJTQXy_rf3HiR4qm4D2HJcBuvWCOEGzD4wicYAkzdvjRd49ippPLBXmtSPpYcs7cXrb_AL8L-_AAFJEHa3F8q2xjPkd_UEKb-pEnP1O_eAVEuFffPzBRwIXJZx78l24v7tfeb48sV8ZoaC9U4E851l7YDE674Isql4PHyE/s4032/Mowing%20Backyard.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrSNpqfhkYVjLX6DVaIpLaHDJTQXy_rf3HiR4qm4D2HJcBuvWCOEGzD4wicYAkzdvjRd49ippPLBXmtSPpYcs7cXrb_AL8L-_AAFJEHa3F8q2xjPkd_UEKb-pEnP1O_eAVEuFffPzBRwIXJZx78l24v7tfeb48sV8ZoaC9U4E851l7YDE674Isql4PHyE/w640-h360/Mowing%20Backyard.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Backyard before it was mowed</p><p style="text-align: left;">After I cooled off I worked out with Synth Riders. Today I started working out with new songs. I ended up working out to two new songs, there were other songs available but they were not free, $1.99. I worked out with the two songs two times. Then I worked out with the other five songs I have been working out with. I ended up working out with Synth Riders for 30 minutes and burned 123 calories. Then worked out for a half hour with the Wii Fit.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt8qXWdIfzBUwP1W6schiPYPzH6oYLTO8Vu-eBp9nafRTE5qinzyhZ_UKUhGKnFeB28Yo3mZb2FIz_9VkqFVh-C5MDj4TkuWf5RwmuiNl_OT_tKQtsFHrP0LqZi0osDwjHah6FAEkmxLm9_MtfvTHN6M-j-NG2BqDuuZu17dfeoYrGuyiZ663LtwaBFLo/s356/workingout.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="198" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt8qXWdIfzBUwP1W6schiPYPzH6oYLTO8Vu-eBp9nafRTE5qinzyhZ_UKUhGKnFeB28Yo3mZb2FIz_9VkqFVh-C5MDj4TkuWf5RwmuiNl_OT_tKQtsFHrP0LqZi0osDwjHah6FAEkmxLm9_MtfvTHN6M-j-NG2BqDuuZu17dfeoYrGuyiZ663LtwaBFLo/s320/workingout.gif" width="178" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Working out</p><p style="text-align: left;">I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Spider Adventure of 20 games. It took me 3 hours, 22 minutes and 12 seconds, which put me in 14th place in my group. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">In the evening we watched Spider-Man No Way Home. After Larry went to bed I watched Aquaman and Frozen II from our movie collection. I ended up doing 17,000 steps, which put me in 4th place in my group.<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-73105755369270433872024-03-02T07:02:00.001-06:002024-03-02T10:30:53.658-06:00Friday 3-1-24 Real Pinball, Dancing & Having Fun<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzDpFsWhh_K39dCQiGRFX8thgt-Ou-nsSN515vy1JTgnQ2oFCtnsyITd_YmYLEJ0Ma-jzpbCOBSpegbUhk0xGQIwY3-5HDI4J_F1pjS2wdQef3tDWIkgpOXIbAV-BjL5Z3fw3mLW42w70aMuyZih8kpciIMML_7S7s6eMMpkHL5d2CZU2UNda3a5U9CLM/s250/Friday.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="250" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzDpFsWhh_K39dCQiGRFX8thgt-Ou-nsSN515vy1JTgnQ2oFCtnsyITd_YmYLEJ0Ma-jzpbCOBSpegbUhk0xGQIwY3-5HDI4J_F1pjS2wdQef3tDWIkgpOXIbAV-BjL5Z3fw3mLW42w70aMuyZih8kpciIMML_7S7s6eMMpkHL5d2CZU2UNda3a5U9CLM/s1600/Friday.gif" width="250" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">We had a super day of having fun. The high today was 68 degrees.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I started the day working on my diamond painting of Stitch. I finished it during the night.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUvtjumtJVZYWtQ7p0EVLb-LxvJ6O4zVrkZDH_iTD2WubIxqA4_PqEuIQ4QDmh-oJHZNkCvhzka8-TSg3QdDpXKgM1Nbpu-mMO3jIJZzIdrKYUjqpFQy_LISL710qR-_flZpHyfg_CfnHYGLI-nHbrWqx07qqmVyZTjRG1FTq_RwzhpvxHC7RiDnTZ1Y4/s4032/Stitch-003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUvtjumtJVZYWtQ7p0EVLb-LxvJ6O4zVrkZDH_iTD2WubIxqA4_PqEuIQ4QDmh-oJHZNkCvhzka8-TSg3QdDpXKgM1Nbpu-mMO3jIJZzIdrKYUjqpFQy_LISL710qR-_flZpHyfg_CfnHYGLI-nHbrWqx07qqmVyZTjRG1FTq_RwzhpvxHC7RiDnTZ1Y4/w360-h640/Stitch-003.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Stitch finished</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry started the day out doing his monthly projects. He backed up the computers and put bleach in the septic.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry asked if I would like to go play some real pinball. There is a game place that opened in Killeen a couple of months ago. A majority of the reviews said it was expensive but the facilities and workers were great. They offer bowling, roller skating, 8 pinball machines, lazer tag and arcade games. They also serve food. </p><p style="text-align: left;">In Austin there are multiple places to play pinball. We decided to go to Pinballz Arcade. It's located near 183 & Burnett Rd. The reviews were good, they had over 65 pinball machines and tons of arcade games. They also have an onsite food truck with a limited menu.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Pinballz Arcade works pretty nicely. They add however much money you want to spend to a card. We started out putting $20.00 on the card and later added another $10.00. The machines cost between $1.00 to $1.50. To start to play the game you tap your card on the front of the machine, the machine will take the cost of the game off the card and tell you the balance. Then your push the start button. We played a lot of games we have and couple we don't have. There was a giant pinball machine where I could barely reach the flipper buttons and the ball was wooden and very slow. The name of the game was Hercules. It was fun to play. We were there for a couple of hours. We ate lunch there, we shared chicken bites, fries and a diet coke. The place was very clean. Many of the machines were old but most of them worked. A few of the machines had flippers that stuck or were slow in responding. Some of the playfields were worn and the mechanical parts didn't work correctly. The workers were very friendly. Overall we had a super time. </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-KTvGjDv5dKSj31FtcBwPu8pHD6SxJs4sAjBHbSfppjVZbOXBnW9tsiOd6KtGKbB9i3DHeBgyS2l89bwtDLhJe8FuTgMMfQP-D-ZCX3jJPsC7x6juerZvMfKQWgirfiQNJMUKv8oF2-fakKOiRObAnCI_s2msnbcTEZ2AApO_uDW9twlxpc2Pth-fTcw/s2688/Pinballz-002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2688" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-KTvGjDv5dKSj31FtcBwPu8pHD6SxJs4sAjBHbSfppjVZbOXBnW9tsiOd6KtGKbB9i3DHeBgyS2l89bwtDLhJe8FuTgMMfQP-D-ZCX3jJPsC7x6juerZvMfKQWgirfiQNJMUKv8oF2-fakKOiRObAnCI_s2msnbcTEZ2AApO_uDW9twlxpc2Pth-fTcw/w640-h360/Pinballz-002.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Playing pinball</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcMv76CQOl64TVLjN87BeqT0VxouWsM-NBXOf-7ZkBoVXr1qaW7b4Wrz0wIf-vx2RQclPi0soAdYGex1gI0Uts4cQqjAr9yu7dbfxpXSmFV9-6t_125evYA1Eajd8iEF-Y4RW3oFdR4op2z5zKBJc5UBjK25fO_w0o7MXLwbmnR50HTqvVVNRwVehmeIg/s2688/Pinballz-004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcMv76CQOl64TVLjN87BeqT0VxouWsM-NBXOf-7ZkBoVXr1qaW7b4Wrz0wIf-vx2RQclPi0soAdYGex1gI0Uts4cQqjAr9yu7dbfxpXSmFV9-6t_125evYA1Eajd8iEF-Y4RW3oFdR4op2z5zKBJc5UBjK25fO_w0o7MXLwbmnR50HTqvVVNRwVehmeIg/w360-h640/Pinballz-004.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Creature of the Black Lagoon</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyjIhh8Qdi3K6YQelhDGOZAglLJHsdiWDA8jM3SpKAzmkfEHjvUUHJStNYbM7Rx9O7ZjSz1ibl0shI1iYfN4Wyal1ZM8eXC1_3-oyNcdm7JCv9AdNPk2wZG-Ih859jeWhH_xwP7aqZs0jv4yWlZo_7q3Gsg3IpDEsnMfBAv5NSPQ_I8fnqLHLFKEZHKMs/s2688/Pinballz-005.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2688" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyjIhh8Qdi3K6YQelhDGOZAglLJHsdiWDA8jM3SpKAzmkfEHjvUUHJStNYbM7Rx9O7ZjSz1ibl0shI1iYfN4Wyal1ZM8eXC1_3-oyNcdm7JCv9AdNPk2wZG-Ih859jeWhH_xwP7aqZs0jv4yWlZo_7q3Gsg3IpDEsnMfBAv5NSPQ_I8fnqLHLFKEZHKMs/w640-h360/Pinballz-005.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Larry playing Godzilla</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgghlWvC-IgI5vSLDfJh0oBTL60wtnVDKzbT8ZEGJ6xH0Tncs82GhQcTVpHmVcXf7RFBIdoIrYuPQU48lx_9osJaQ9cTc-1O0cWVHNLfKX4lNiZ9qaed2gd_ePJWpGNXAaSgPbEat-RBtDkT6vV4h3JggnMCk3Dl0lACBW-92lW3VRD8BwjWWSE3Z4N_AU/w360-h640/Pinballz.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Lunch</p><p style="text-align: left;">On the way home we stopped by the UPS Store to pick up our mail.</p><p style="text-align: left;">We were home by 3:30. I worked out for a half hour using Synth Riders and burned 128 calories.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Afterwards I played games. Before going to bed last night I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. Today I played the event, which was Event: Klondike Mini of 5 games. It took me 14 minutes and 26 seconds, which put me in 33rd place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.</p><p style="text-align: left;">At Pinballz I played The Sopranos and Fun House and wanted to see the difference between the real games and virtual reality. I think our games are a lot better. At Pinballz both of these games needed maintenance, The Sopranos has a safe that you hit multiple times and it will then open, that mechanism did not work correctly, on Fun House the sound did not work at all. On modern machines you really need the sounds because they tell you things you need to do.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">With real pinball machines at retail establishments there are always machines that have some type of problems. Many of these machines are decades old and they require maintenance. It is difficult for the operators to keep up with the constant maintenance. Flippers wear out, the playfield graphics wear down from the ball, other mechanical and electrical items wear out or quit. Most places do their best to keep everything working. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Even individual people who own real pinball machines talk about how much maintenance it takes to keep them working. Many of them purchase new machines but still end up with maintenance. The individual parts can be very difficult to find and expensive. Most individual owners have to learn how to fix their machines because there are not many pinball technicians. Most of the machines weigh anywhere from 250 to 400 lbs making it impossible to take them in for repair, the technician has to come to you which makes it expensive.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">With our virtual machine we don't have these types of issues, our playfields always look perfect and there are no mechanical items on the playfield nor any actual lights, everything is software driven and always looks perfect. Sometimes a game will act up but we can simply exit the game and restart it. There is very little maintenance. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggCsALna4Wv9xN1FHR-iBdEuFTPAgHL1aZJLlcoX3wdowLHgxwFF2KbynXVMCKpZkRyTuc0y9mWqZbJ15JnSz72sWkrT3WYcxstxf6z0W4EaJ_SdulgjozUe-9-q9WGx0ic-ivuTAk0LNHIze-t4mQiY_EAczrY6gsbnyqAh87VCmofM43H3FQBoQ9FVc/s2160/Fun%20House.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggCsALna4Wv9xN1FHR-iBdEuFTPAgHL1aZJLlcoX3wdowLHgxwFF2KbynXVMCKpZkRyTuc0y9mWqZbJ15JnSz72sWkrT3WYcxstxf6z0W4EaJ_SdulgjozUe-9-q9WGx0ic-ivuTAk0LNHIze-t4mQiY_EAczrY6gsbnyqAh87VCmofM43H3FQBoQ9FVc/w640-h640/Fun%20House.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Fun House</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigOSlLq_WIYOT1ZyuuxMujWn4SnLDcexecRNQMfHsvHEkSBzZb5gTIMyejF9-38x1HRDKlm_U75ijysa95qM9lUd7bOYlkCjJxstmM37broF4NdIBKnGFGvI6WaudvP1KBoKXUv6qOmGPSYDwQxC-Cd9lUWzcaKT-YNwdecBYA2vkMrcmTMReaXR05aUg/s2160/The%20Sopranos.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigOSlLq_WIYOT1ZyuuxMujWn4SnLDcexecRNQMfHsvHEkSBzZb5gTIMyejF9-38x1HRDKlm_U75ijysa95qM9lUd7bOYlkCjJxstmM37broF4NdIBKnGFGvI6WaudvP1KBoKXUv6qOmGPSYDwQxC-Cd9lUWzcaKT-YNwdecBYA2vkMrcmTMReaXR05aUg/w640-h640/The%20Sopranos.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">The Sopranos</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqQqJXuJudrY8wjJKh28pXS_bKCgrK1sQTjcBEvMOqONtgiZd_4U2SfCIUfJi8bXvwheMV2BcFnJvpZZGIdJFG3sJWaze-p4vkZsWJhqsVPwkZ5DJoYVKfRQuTZWrUaV82HnKooDg5_lZLVFoTogOhk5WzuLdFhNZ779qihkJCJ8opLThBPlu0vY4R73A/s2688/Pinballz-003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqQqJXuJudrY8wjJKh28pXS_bKCgrK1sQTjcBEvMOqONtgiZd_4U2SfCIUfJi8bXvwheMV2BcFnJvpZZGIdJFG3sJWaze-p4vkZsWJhqsVPwkZ5DJoYVKfRQuTZWrUaV82HnKooDg5_lZLVFoTogOhk5WzuLdFhNZ779qihkJCJ8opLThBPlu0vY4R73A/w360-h640/Pinballz-003.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Real Pinball</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">In the evening I attended Ett McAtee's Weekly A2 dance at 6:30 for an hour. She called four tips to 13 participants. She worked on Switch Concept and Hourglass Concept. I had a great time dancing with friends.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8CzzgRsmUywRpmW9QWa7vEvuWJQfrjTNxMyV5xR1QleNp4VQ16efTaW-XaeS0olefHnPag7wBDvlfYt7SW3AQALXdvNbZ42OtbSUTL1Dsz4heq_qmWK-tUlJipixob-kVcCARefdx7GZ0f0s0A8A6gRLbIvkf8WlfmZs08GDUg3CkYEFNJShtgd00HgE/s453/squaredancing.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="111" data-original-width="453" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8CzzgRsmUywRpmW9QWa7vEvuWJQfrjTNxMyV5xR1QleNp4VQ16efTaW-XaeS0olefHnPag7wBDvlfYt7SW3AQALXdvNbZ42OtbSUTL1Dsz4heq_qmWK-tUlJipixob-kVcCARefdx7GZ0f0s0A8A6gRLbIvkf8WlfmZs08GDUg3CkYEFNJShtgd00HgE/s320/squaredancing.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>After the dance we watched an episode of the 13th season of Vera. Then I watched The Da Vinci Code and Frozen from our movie selection. I ended up doing 17,500 steps, which put me in 3rd place in my group. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265192836031318243.post-6871407264174200242024-03-01T07:16:00.000-06:002024-03-01T07:16:32.074-06:00Thursday 2-29-24 Happy Leap Year, Doing This and That<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrwXP7d3WLwBXiATP5Fp1xFMUmzDd_GRIQrvITZjU6a6Kjde5a0QvKBlqtjssdACVWU7m1v7mY6GsXhY2CBsYrRe39T2nVNHtPb7lZknc6xKe2zV1IMVaZDnCNEhNQ_v5ZdwHIc2vlqKuw2Ggeje93a0LtH8o_YzOQZ3J71CFM15vvmiABTybCDWmewxM/s1920/Leap%20Year.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1351" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrwXP7d3WLwBXiATP5Fp1xFMUmzDd_GRIQrvITZjU6a6Kjde5a0QvKBlqtjssdACVWU7m1v7mY6GsXhY2CBsYrRe39T2nVNHtPb7lZknc6xKe2zV1IMVaZDnCNEhNQ_v5ZdwHIc2vlqKuw2Ggeje93a0LtH8o_YzOQZ3J71CFM15vvmiABTybCDWmewxM/s320/Leap%20Year.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Happy Leap Year</div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">Yesterday, while I was dancing Megan from Australia said she knew a gentleman, who was celebrating his 20th birthday, because he was born on Feb 29th. He actually is 80 years old. </p><p style="text-align: left;">We had another cold day with the low of 42 and the high was 54 degrees. It was windy but not as windy as yesterday. It was overcast.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry had a very productive day. A couple of gentlemen from California called him at noon to talk about a jukebox project. They own a business in California, where they sell wall jukeboxes to 50's diners. They are interested in converting some of them into home use. Larry had posted pictures and videos of the conversions he had done on a Facebook builders group, they saw those and contacted him. They talked about what they wanted to do. They agreed to send him one of the jukeboxes to see if their idea was achievable and what it would take. They also asked if the jukebox could be run via Bluetooth. The amplifier that Larry used has Bluetooth built in but Larry had never tried using it for anything.</p><p style="text-align: left;">After the conversation Larry went to one of our jukeboxes and got it to work with Bluetooth and his phone. It works great. Now he'll have to just wait for the jukebox to see how to convert it.</p><p style="text-align: left;">The next project was to checkout the pinball machine flipper button to see if it sticks. He played The Sopranos and the buttons worked great.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSo0detRARdSUwD263ZigzVFSNQuwaoSPbN4oaPhsKPZAZlov2RGC-k6R3kkyPAsaRR3_eLunMpRNiMqvcM1dz7mvOMkSIdHcd4t8MwnMLYXqeXl0S5pdcnKxmifoyx-Ls0LtcVnpSQRohwZToFZqyQNmpeZbI1f6FNLg7l7rNuJxgE9WQZSyGNc8EhQ0/s2688/Completed%20Pinball%20Machine%20(5).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSo0detRARdSUwD263ZigzVFSNQuwaoSPbN4oaPhsKPZAZlov2RGC-k6R3kkyPAsaRR3_eLunMpRNiMqvcM1dz7mvOMkSIdHcd4t8MwnMLYXqeXl0S5pdcnKxmifoyx-Ls0LtcVnpSQRohwZToFZqyQNmpeZbI1f6FNLg7l7rNuJxgE9WQZSyGNc8EhQ0/w360-h640/Completed%20Pinball%20Machine%20(5).jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Pinball Projects</p><p style="text-align: left;">Last week we got the renewal for our home owners insurance, it went up last year and this year it is going way up, between the two increases it has doubled in price. We have never made a claim on our home owners insurance. The only time we ever made a home owners claim was more than 25 years ago for hail damage. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Larry decided to shop our insurance around. He started off by submitting an online request to Liberty Mutual (years ago we had this house insured with them), the automated online service said there was a problem and we would have to contact an agent. Larry was not sure what the problem was but the only thing he could think of was something was not right with our credit reports. </p><p style="text-align: left;">We have never checked our credit reports but Larry knew you could check them for free. He was able to get a online report from Equifax, the report looked great except they had our home address listed as our old address in Austin, we haven't lived there in over a decade. They had our current address in the report but showed we didn't live there. Larry called and was able to get it changed on both his report and mine.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">There are three of these credit agencies, they share some information and some they don't. Larry wasn't able to get online reports from the others because the online systems kept indicating they couldn't verify our identity, probably because of the incorrect address. Today he called the other companies, it was very painful getting through the phone prompts. When he finally got to talk to someone their accents made it very difficult to understand them. He found that our credit was perfectly fine but the address was once again incorrect. The changes were suppose to be immediate so next week Larry will again attempt to shop our insurance around. </p><p style="text-align: left;">I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 games Klondike and 5 games of Spider). It took me 1 hour, 28 minutes and 30 seconds, which put me in 12th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked out on Synth Riders for a half hour and burned 132 calories. Then I worked out a half hour on my Wii Fit and a half hour on Gold's Gym.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_3gVTuYAaiCD4hvfWQtdxiHSfcDbWylgmdsiY4XjathDHxRkbIAY4hjP3NEAlJqAMONJQb4PBeD84veYS8ciZQFCPVXYh0N24WG5yUP1iWc_mHg1CfG-9S8B7n-vyayrqZ88Pd4Iibdl_CU_fz5OpsdeQ7VL0hEAS66GVBzVK1a5VwquXmhni-zQoBSM/s356/workingout.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="198" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_3gVTuYAaiCD4hvfWQtdxiHSfcDbWylgmdsiY4XjathDHxRkbIAY4hjP3NEAlJqAMONJQb4PBeD84veYS8ciZQFCPVXYh0N24WG5yUP1iWc_mHg1CfG-9S8B7n-vyayrqZ88Pd4Iibdl_CU_fz5OpsdeQ7VL0hEAS66GVBzVK1a5VwquXmhni-zQoBSM/s320/workingout.gif" width="178" /></a></div> <p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Working Out</p><p style="text-align: left;">I worked on my diamond painting of Stitch. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">In the evening we watched a couple of episodes of Northern Exposure. When Larry went to bed I watched Taken and Hugo from our movie collection. I ended up doing 17,500 steps, which put me in 3rd place in my group.<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p>Ruth's Life is Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10022426580416566485noreply@blogger.com0