Saturday 12-21-24 Playing Pinball, New Diamond Painting & More

 

Beautiful Day

 

We had a beautiful day with a lot of sunshine. We woke up with the temperature of 38 degrees. It was cool all day it got up to 60 degrees.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 Klondike and 5 Free Cell). It took me 29 minutes and 33 seconds, which put me in 12th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

 

Angry Birds

I finished wrapping Christmas gifts.

 

Yesterday, I got a early Christmas gift (well, I  called it a Christmas gift), it was a diamond painting (Horse). I just finished my last diamond painting so the timing of this one was perfect. I started the new one today.

 

 

 

 Horse

 

 

I worked out with the Synth Riders for 45 minutes.

 

I played Bounce Arcade for an hour. I played all four games. which were Gunpowder Gulch, Monster Manor, Pirate's Plunder and Asteroid Outpost. I did get a bronze metal in the Monster Manor. I didn't do as well as yesterday in the games but I had a great time.

 

 

 

Asteroid Outpost

 

 

 

Gunpowder Gulch

 

 

 

Monster Manor

 

 

 

Pirate's Plunder

 

Larry installed a few more pinball games on the mini pinball cabinet. Then he played the games. He had a great time playing on the mini cabinet. The shaker motor is working great and he really likes it.

I played seven games of pinball on the pinball cabinet. They were Theatre of Magic, Monster Bash, Terminator 3, Metallica, No Fear, Willy Wonka and Great Houdini. While playing the Great Houdini I began high score #3.

 

Great Houdini

Metallica

Monster Bash

No Fear

Terminator 3

Theatre of Magic

Willy Wonka

In the evening we watched our traditional Christmas movie, The Polar Express. Then we watched an episode of Elementary. Afterwards I watched a Christmas movie on Amazon called Santa Baby. It was about a highly successful executive Mary Class, who happens to be Santa's daughter. She had to return home because Santa was sick. It was cute. After the movie I watched a few episodes of Everwood. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 3rd place in my group.

 

 

 

Friday 12-20-24 Pizza Night, Games, Pinball & Dancing

 

Do the happy dance

We had a gorgeous day with a lot of sun. 

Before lunch we went to the UPS Store to pickup a package that was waiting for us. It was from Larry's ma, it was Christmas gifts and snacks (Lake Travis Mudd and Cheerios Peanut Cookies). We also picked up out mail. 

The post office returned one of our Christmas cards. They put a sticker on it saying it could not be machine sorted and hand sorting cost more. Some postal worker must not have been in the Christmas spirit. It was not rejected by our local post office. It was only going a few miles down the road to Georgetown, either Austin or Georgetown rejected it. In all the years Larry has been doing cards this is the first one rejected. It was a bit larger than most but he has sent others that were this size. Larry made a new envelope and sent it out in today's mail with extra stamps attached.

Larry spent a good part of the day working on the mini pinball cabinet. He played quite a few games on the cabinet and had a super time.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 Spider and 5 Tri Peak). It took me 1 hour and 21 minutes, which put me in 21st place in my group. Then I played some Angry Birds.

After playing the daily event I worked on my diamond painting Mandala and finished it. I started 12-7 and finished 12-20, which was 20 days. It came out great.

 

Mandala finished

We snacked on the goodies the rest of the day, they were delicious.

 

Cheerios Peanut Cookies

 

Lake Travis Mudd

 

I worked out with the Synth Riders for a half hour. 

I played Pirate's Plunder, Asteroid Outpost and Gunpowder Gulch. I played the games once. I am getting a little better, I played three in forty-five minutes when I usually play five games in a half hour. While playing Pirate's Plunder I got a silver metal with 1,030,039. I fought my enemies twice. I played Asteroid Outpost and mined the asteroids twice. Gunpowder Gulch I did have a shoot out with the deputies twice. I had a good day playing Bounce Arcade.

 

Asteroid Outpost

 

Gunpowder Gulch

 

Fight the Skeleton Swarm

 

The events I did during the game

 

Final score in Pirate's Plunder
 

I played four games of pinball, which were Theatre of Magic, Attack From Mars, Big Buck Hunter Pro and Black Rose. I played very well even though I didn't get on the board.

Attack From Mars

Big Buck Hunter Pro

Black Rose

Theatre of Magic

For dinner we had pepperoni pizza that was baked on the grill. In the evening we watched Elementary. When Larry went to bed I watched another Christmas movie called Unlikely Angel starring Dolly Parton. It was very good. Then I watched Everwood. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in fourth place in my group.

 

 

Thursday 12-19-24 Happy Thursday, Diamond Painting, Games and Pinball Cabinet

 

We had a wonderful day. It was a little cooler than the last few days. The low this morning was 39 degrees and the high was 72 degrees.

Larry spent the day working on the mini pinball cabinet. Today he worked on the top cabinet. He hasn't been able to locate the correct size of speaker covers so he decided to do something else. He took the speakers out and cleaned up the holes. Then he cut some decals using his Cameo, he installed them where you would normally have speaker grills. He also wanted to build a frame to go around the small monitor but he didn't have the correct trim.

After lunch we went to The Home Depot. He found the trim he wanted. It was sold by the foot so he had to cut the trim down to the size he wanted. He bought two 6' length. While there we bought some small screws he was getting low on.

When we got home he built the frame. Then he sanded, primed and painted the wood. Tomorrow he will install the frame.  

While Larry worked on the pinball machine I kept busy doing this and that.

I did my housework, which took an hour. 

 

Doing housework

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: The Hard Road of 16 games. It took me 2 hours, 27 minutes and 39 seconds, which put me in 19th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds. 

I worked out with the Synth Riders for an hour. 

 

 

 

 Working out

 

I played Pirate's Plunder (three times) and Monster Manor (two times). While playing Pirate's Plunder I got a new high score and a bronze metal. Each game I played Pirate's Plunder I raised the sails, got the skulls up and had fun. While playing Monster Manor I played Spider Multiball for the first time. I lite the manor both times.

 

 

Monster Manor

Pirate's Plunder

I played seven games of pinball. They were Theatre of Magic, Star Wars, The Guardians of the Galaxy, The Lord of the Rings, Nightmare Before Christmas, World Joker Poker and Maverick.

 

Maverick

Nightmare Before Christmas

Star Wars

The Guardians of the Galaxy

The Lord of the Rings

Theatre of Magic

World Joker Poker

I worked on my diamond painting a bit. I thought I would finish it today but I didn't quite make it. I am very close.

In the evening we watched Elementary. When Larry went to bed I watched a Christmas movie called Christmas Angel on Amazon. It was very good. Afterwards I watched a couple of episodes of Everwood. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 3rd place in my group.

 

Wednesday 12-18-24 Christmas Dances, Projects & New Synth Riders Songs

 

Smile and have fun

It was a beautiful day with the low temperature in the mid 50s and got up to 65 degrees.

I attended three Christmas dances on Zoom. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 10:00. They took turns calling five tips to 12 participants. Di called a few four couple moves, which were Load The Boat, Spin Chain Thru, Motivate and Acey Duecey. Terry and Di and some dancers wore Christmas outfits. I had a super time dancing with friends.

 Participants at Di and Terry Christmas Plus dance

Second was Ett McAtee's Weekly C1 at 1:00 for 45 minutes. Ett called three tips to 16 participants. She had computer problems so she had to leave early. She worked on the Triangles Concept and Anything Chain Thru. Some of the sequences were hard to see because I had to dance with seven phantoms. But I had a fun time.

 

Participants at Ett's C1 dance

Third 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. The format was three tips of C1 to 9 participants, three tips of A2 to 10 participants and two Trivia questions in between the A2 tips. I had a great evening dancing with friends. 

Participants at the A2 section of Dave's dance

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: World Tour Mini of 10 games. It took me 40 minutes and 12 seconds, which put me in 22nd place in my group. Then I played some Angry Birds.

Larry spent the day working on the mini pinball machine. He is working with the program that runs the shaker motor. He apparently changed something that stopped it from working, he has no idea what. It took him hours to get it working again and he has no idea what the fix was. He is really stumped and now he does not want to add anything else that uses that program. There are lots of software pieces to virtual pinball and anytime you change any of them there is always a fear something will break. 

I worked on my diamond painting Mandala. I should be finished with it tomorrow.

I worked out using the Synth Riders for 45 minutes. I worked out with three new games and nine other games. The new games are Carol of the Bells, HEX and Shangri-La-La-La. Carol of the Bells is for Christmas, where presents, Christmas trees, candy canes and other Christmas items come towards you while you try to hit the balls with your controllers. HEX is a Halloween songs. The Shangri-La-La-La is where you work out while Walkabout Mini Golf. As you try to hit the balls with your controllers you have gold clubs, golf holes with flags, golfers and ballerina coming at you. I had an outstanding time working out with the music in Synth Riders.

 

New songs available

I also played Gunpowder Gulch and Asteroid Outpost. I played them both a couple of times. I got a bronze metal in Gunpowder Gulch.

Asteroid Outpost score

Gunpowder Gulch score

I played four different games. They were the weekly challenge of Theatre of Magic, Dirty Harry, Elvira and the Party Monsters and Elvira Scared Stiff. While playing the Theatre of Magic I got a new high score for the week, which was 1,035,414,770. This put me in 14th place out of 31 participants. I had a fun time playing pinball.

Dirty Harry

Elvira Scared Stiff

Elvira and the Party Monsters

Theatre of Magic

After the dance we watched Red One on Amazon. It's new Christmas fantasy movie. It's a cute movie. Then I watched The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and a couple of episodes of Everwood. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 3rd place in my group.