Wednesday 2-11-20 Dancing, Olympics & Games

 

 

We had a terrific Tuesday.

The weather was fantastic. The morning temperature of 52 degrees and the high of 71 degrees. There was a breeze, which kept it very comfortable.

I attended two virtual dances today. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 10:00 for an hour. It was their Valentine Dance because Saturday is Valentine Day. Some of the dancers wore red or pink and I wore my red flashing hat and a red square dancing top. Di wore a shirt with a lot of flowers on it and Terry had a red shirt. It was fun to dress up for the occasion and theme of the dance. Terry and Di called to songs, that were appropriate to Valentine Day. Terry called the first tip and Di called the other four tips. They called to twelve participants from the U.K., U.S.A. and Canada. The tips Di called she worked on the A1 moves, that were moved to Plus. The moves she worked on were Quarter Thru, Triple Trade, Scoot and Dodge, Pass the Sea, Clover & and Partner Tag. Di did a great job working the dancers through moves we were having problems with. I had a super time dancing with friends and to Di and Terry. 

 

Dancers at Di and Terry's Valentine Day dance

Second was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00 for an hour and a half. Karin Rabe and Greg Moore helped call the dance. The format was three tips of C1 to seven participants, three tips of A2 to eight participants and two Trivia question in between the A2 tips. The participants during the C1 tips were from Australia (2) and United States (5). The participants during the A2 tips were from Australia (1), Canada (1) and United States (6). I had a great time dancing to Dave, Karin and Greg and with friends.

I worked on my jigsaw puzzle in between playing games and dancing. 

Larry installed a new Web browser and he played with it. He asked me to use it instead of Firefox. I played Angry Birds Friends with the new browser. I had to do my blog using Firefox because the new browser wasn't quite ready for it.

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before going to bed last night. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 6 games (3 Spider and 3 Pyramid). It took me 15 minutes and 54 seconds, which put me in 23rd place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

We watched some of the Olympics. We finished watching the Men's Short Program Part 2 in ice skating. We watched the Women's Moguls final, part of the Nordic Combined Men (NH 10km), some of the Biathlon Women's 15km, Men's Super G and started to watch the Pairs Free Dance. We're having fun watching the Olympics and learning about the different sports.

I played eight games of pinball. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were Goldeneye, Great Houdini, Medieval Madness and Monster Bash. While playing the Great Houdini I came in high score #2. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were Junk Yard, Star Wars, The Addams Family and The Game Show.

 

Goldeneye (mini)

 

Great Houdini (mini)

 

Medieval Madness (mini)

 

Monster Bash (mini)

 

Junk Yard (big)

 

Star Wars (big)

 

The Addams Family (big)

 

The Game Show (big)

 

After Larry went to bed I watched Avengers: Endgame from our super hero movies collection. I ended up doing 2,000 steps. 

      

 

Tuesday 2-10-26 Liberty Hill Dance, Olympics and Games

 

Overcast Day

 

We had an overcast day. The morning temperature was 61 degrees and the high temperature was 72 degrees.

We spent most of the day in Liberty Hill doing the weekly C1/A2 dance to John Kephart. We met up with Henry and Susan at noon at the Ski's house to do an hour of C1 via tape. This week we danced to Johnny Preston. He usually pretty easy but this week he was challenging because he put us in positions we weren't use to dancing with phantoms. Even though it was challenging we had time to walk through the moves we had problems with. It was a great time.

At 1:00 we danced two hours of A2 to John Kephart. He called six tips and John Carlson called one tip to one square of dancers and four dancers were sitting out. John Kephart workshopped Turn and Deal from columns and Scoot Chain Thru because the dancers were having problems. The last tip John Kephart did a six couple tip so all the dancers could dance the last tip. We had a super time dancing with friends and to both John Kephart and John Carlson.

 

    

Get a partner and dance

 

Before leaving to go to Liberty Hill I worked on my jigsaw puzzle. Then later on while I watching television I worked on it.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before going to bed last night. Today the event was Event: Tri Peaks Adventure of 20 games. It took me 1 hour, 26 minutes and 8 seconds to complete, which put me in 9th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds.

I played four games of pinball on the big cabinet. They were Fish Tales, The Addams Family, The Game Show and Willow. While playing Willow I became high score #1. I had a good time playing pinball.

 

Fish Tales

 

The Addams Family

 

The Game Show

 

Willow

 In the evening we watched the Olympics. The events we watched were Curling, Men's Free-ski Slopestyle and Men's Short Program Part 1 and 2. We saw the U.S. get a sliver medal in curling and Sweden got the gold medal. During the Men's Free-ski Slopestyle the U.S. got a silver medal. 

After Larry went to bed I watched Avengers: Infinity War from the super hero movies collection. I watched The Little Mermaid from our movies collections. I ended up doing 6,000 steps, which included 15 minutes of a Jazz routine.

 

 Working Out

 

Monday 2-9-26 Dancing to Di and Terry, Olympics & More

 

Gorgeous Day

 

We had another gorgeous day of sunshine. The morning temperature was 50 degrees and the high was 85 degrees.

We started the day out by attending Di Green's Weekly C1 dance at 9:00 for an hour and fifteen minutes. She danced with Terry through out the dance while she called five tips to thirteen participants. She worked on Left Turn and Deal, Track (0,1 & 2), Cross Chain Thru and Stretch Cross Trail Thru. The participants were from the U.K., U.S., Russia, Germany and France. Larry danced four of the tips with me. We had a super time dancing with friends.

 

Dancing with friends virtually

Larry continued playing with the old phone. He's learning more and more about different programs he can install on the phone. He's having a great time.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 Klondike and 5 Pyramid). It took me 31 minutes and 22 seconds, which put me in 20th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2. 

I worked out for a half hour with the Synth Riders using three songs two times a piece. The songs were Abyss, Automatic Call and Empire of Steel. I only earned one outstanding score, which was with Empire of Steel. It was a good workout.

 

Abyss

 

Automatic Call

 

Empire of Steel

 

I played two games of Monster Manor on Bounce Arcade. The first game I crashed and burned. The second game I earned a silver trophy. I Awoken the Manor twice, Stunned the Manor once, I summoned the spiders for the multiball twice and did Banister Buster. When I summons the spiders I had gotten rid of the spider webs and the spider walked across the screen but I unable to hit the spider to start the multiball. I had fun playing Monster Manor.

  

  

Monster Manor

 

I played eight games of pinball. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were Junk Yard, Pirates of the Caribbean, No Fear and No Good Goffers!. While playing No Fear I became high score #1 and No Good Goffers! I became Grand Champion. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were Indianapolis 500, JP Viper Night Driver, Mustang and The Game Show. I got a new high score in the challenge of The Game Show. The new score is 8,762,340, which put me in 25th out of 49 participants. I didn't do too well on the other three games but had fun.

 

Junk Yard (mini)

 

No Fear (mini)

 

No Good Goffers! (mini)

 

Pirates of the Caribbean (mini)

 

Indianapolis 500 (big)

 

JP Viper Night Driving (big)

 

Mustang (big)

 

The Game Show (big)

 

We watched the Olympics in the afternoon and evening. The events we watched were Curling U.S. vs Sweden, Speed Skating Men's 5000 Meters, Speed Skating Women's 1000 Meters, Men's Team Combined, Men's Normal Hill, Women's Big Air and Rhythm Dance Part 1 and Part 2. Men's Team Combined is a new event to the Olympics. The event is where each country has a two men team (one does the Downhill and the other one does the Slalom Skiing). We have a great time watching the Olympics and learning more about some of the sports.

I worked on my jigsaw puzzle.

After Larry went to bed I watched Ant-man and the Wasp, which is the next super hero movie from our super hero movies collection. Then I watched Twisters from our movies collection. I ended up doing 7,000 steps.    

  

Sunday 2-8-26 Olympics, New Pinball Challenge & More

 

Olympics

 

We had a super day. The weather was partly cloudy all day. The morning temperature was 48 degrees and the high was 80 degrees. 

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Easy Street of 30 games. It took me 1 hour, 6 minutes and 29 seconds, which put me in 19th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.   

We spent the afternoon and evening watching the Olympics. We watched Curling (U.S.A. vs Sweden), Big Air Snowboard Finals, Women's Downhill and four team events of figure skating. The figure skating events were Men's Short Program, Pairs Free Skate, Women's Free Skate and Men's Free Skate. It was a very good day of watching the Olympics. The USA did well, they won gold in Women's Downhill and in Team Skate.

Larry continued working on the new program he installed on the old cell phone.

Today was the beginning of the week so I got a new weekly challenge of pinball. This weeks challenge is The Game Show. We didn't have this game so Larry had to download and install it on the big cabinet. He installed it in both 2D and VR. We probably won't keep this game after the challenge because it's an old game. After installing the game Larry played it to make sure it played correctly.

I played four games of pinball on the mini cabinet, which were Batman Forever, Dark Chaos, Scared Stiff and Transformers. While playing Transformers I became high score #3. 

 

Batman Forever

 

Dark Chaos

 

Elvira Scared Stiff

 

Transformers

I played four games of pinball on the big cabinet, which were Blizzard of Ozz, Dracula, No Fear and The Game Show. I played last week's challenge of No Fear before the challenge was over at 1:00. I didn't get a new high score but I had fun trying to. I ended up with the high score of 703,890,060, which put me in 112th place out of 131 participants. Then I played the new challenge of The Game Show. My first high score was 4,983,470, which put me in 15th place out of 23 participants. I didn't get on the board while playing Blizzard of Ozz and Dracula but had fun.

 

No Fear (high score)

 

The Game Show high score

 

Blizzard of Ozz

 

Dracula

 

I worked on assembling my jigsaw puzzle. 

After Larry went to bed I watched the next super hero movie, which was Thor: Ragnarok out of the super hero movies collection. Then I watched Twister from our movies collection. I ended up doing 5,000 steps. 

     

Saturday 2-7-26 Olympics, Puzzle & Games

 

It's a beautiful day

 

We had a beautiful day with sunshine. The morning temperature was 42 degrees and the high was 80 degrees.

Larry continued working with the cell phone. He is very excited because he got the new operating system loaded on the phone and got it working very well. He's learning more about the system and how it works. He's having a great time.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event today was Event: Medium Mayhem Mini of 5 games. It took me 17 minutes, which put me in 14th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I spent most of the day working on my jigsaw puzzle. It's going to take some time to get started because the puzzle pieces have bright colors and they are close to the some color. I'm not complaining because I'm have fun sorting the pieces out.

We spent the afternoon into the evening watching the Olympics. It's nice to have the events recorded, that way you can choose what you want to watch. We watched Men's Downhill, Women's 10km-10km Skiathon, Men's Free-Ski Slopestyle: Qualification, Speed Skating Women's 3000m, Women's Normal Hill and Men's Single Luge (two rounds). The Women's 10km-10km Skiathon has two different tracks, they have to do three laps on each track. They start on one track and do three laps. Then they change out their skis and poles and finish the race on the second track with the three laps. The tracks aren't flat, the skiers have to go up and down hills. 10km is 6.2 miles so in this event the women had to go about 12.5 miles. We don't know much about some of the events but we had fun learning more about them.

I played five games of pinball on the mini cabinet, which were Ace of Speed, Cirqus Voltaire, Monster Bash, Tales of the Arabian Nights and The Big LeBowski. While playing pinball on the mini I came high score #1 on The Big LeBowski, Grand Champion on Monster Bash and high score #2 on Tales of the Arabian Nights. 

 

Ace of Speed

 

Cirqus Voltaire

 

Monster Bash

 

Tales of the Arabian Nights

 

The Big LeBowski

 

I played five games of pinball on the big cabinet, which were Big Buck Hunter Pro, Godzilla, JP Viper Night Driver, No Fear and Superman and the Justice League. While playing pinball on the big cabinet I became high score #4 on Big Buck Hunter Pro and high score #8 on Godzilla.

 

Big Buck Hunter Pro

 

Godzilla

 

JP Viper Night Driving

 

No Fear

 

Superman and the Justice League

After Larry went to bed I watched the next super hero movie out of our super hero movies collection, which was Doctor Strange. Then I watched Ooops! Noah Is Gone from our movies collection. I ended up doing 3,000 steps.