Thursday 10-29-26 Errands, New Pinball Games & Puzzle

 

Rainy Day

We had a relaxing day with rain.

The morning temperature was 67 degrees and the high was 71 degrees. It started to rain about 10:30 am and went away around 3:00 pm.

We started the day out by going to town to do some errands. First stop was at Aldi to do some grocery shopping for items we like buying there. Next stop was the Tax Appraisal District to pay our property taxes. Final stop was at Tommy's Express Car Wash. 

Tommy's Express Car Wash in Temple

 

The other day we received a coupon in the mail for a free car wash at Tommy's Express Car Wash. We had the Equinox in the shop for about a week. It was sitting in a dirt parking lot so today we took advantage of the coupon. This is the first time we have been there. It's setup a little different. The car wash itself has a roller pad on the driver's side wheels, they pull the car through the wash. When you vacuum your car you have to push a red button to turn on the vacuums and you have to hold the button down to shut off the vacuums. This was great because the vacuums aren't running all the time. You can buy an Interior Detail Kit for $5.00, that includes 1 glass wipe, 1 surface cleaner wipe, 1 super -absorbent disposable towel and 2 vent clip air fresheners. We didn't buy a kit but we wiped down the car with our own rags.

As we were driving down Adams towards the house it started to rain. We laughed because we just washed the car. When we got home I put the groceries away and Larry wiped the car down again. The Equinox computer system said that the tires were low. Larry put air in the tires while I put the groceries away.

Larry did an online groceries shopping from Walmart in morning. We received the order at our door at 11:00 am. They delivered the chips from the warehouse about fifteen minutes earlier. It's weird that Walmart will deliver one item separate from the rest of the order and it's free of charge.

Grocery Shopping

I spent most of the day working on The Garden Shed by Carol Decker. 

The Garden Shed 

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The Daily Event was Event: Two Game Tango of 6 games (3 Klondike and 3 Tri Peaks). It took me 12 minutes and 33 seconds to complete, which put me in 14th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

While we were on vacation one of our favorite pinball developers (Marty) released two new games. The games were John Wick and Borderlands. Larry downloaded both games and installed them on the big cabinet in both 2D and VR. Then he played the games to make sure they worked. Later on I played the games. They both play great. I like John Wick the best because the playfield looks better and there's more things for you to do. We love Marty's games.

I played ten games of pinball. I played five on the big cabinet, which were Borderlands, John Wick, The Addams Family, The Beach Boys and The Godfather. I became high score #4 in Borderlands and high score #1 in John Wick. I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were Fish Tales, Fun House, Great Houdini, No Good Goffers! and Three Angels. While playing No Good Goffers! I became high score #1. I had fun playing pinball on both cabinets. I had a super time trying the two new games (Borderlands and John Wick).

Borderlands (Big)

John Wicks (Big)

The Addams Family (Big)

The Beach Boys (Big)

The Godfather (Big)

Fish Tales (Mini)

Fun House (Mini)

Great Houdini (Mini)

No Good Goffers! (Mini)

Three Angels (Mini)

We watched YouTube videos.

In the evening we watched the the first John Wick movie off of Amazon. It is a 2014 movie about a retired hitman (Keanu Reeves), who comes out of retirement to seek revenge against the men who killed his dog and stole his car. When Larry went to bed I watched the fifth Mission Impossible movie called Mission Impossible- Rogue Nation. I ended up doing 3,000 steps.

Relaxing in front of the television

       

Wednesday 10-28-26 Halloween Dances, Projects & More

 

Smile and have fun

We had a super day. The weather was very nice. The morning temperature was 62 degrees and the high temperature was 84 degrees.

I attended three Halloween dances virtually. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 11:00 am for an hour. Terry wasn't at the dance. Di called five tips to 13 participants. Some of the dancers dressed up for Halloween. Di workshopped some four couple moves, which were Spin Chain The Gears, Coordinate, Track Two, Crossfire and Scoot and Dodge. Larry danced four of the tips with me. We had a fun time dancing with people from the U.K., Canada, Mexico/Canada, France and U.S.

Dancers participating in the dance

Bill's cool background for Halloween

 

Lynda from the U.K. dressed up like a witch

Angie and her dance partner Sue dressed up for Halloween

Second was Ett McAtee's Weekly C1 at 1:00 for an hour. Ett called four tips to 15 participants. Ett played one Halloween song. She called a lot of Relay-The-Top, Linear Action and Switch the wave/line. I danced a lot better this week than last week. I had a fun time dancing with dancers from the U.S., Netherlands and Australia.

 

Participants for the dance

Third was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00 for an hour and a half. Karin Rabe and Greg Moore showed up to help Dave call the dance. Karin couldn't call or dance because she fell while running and cracked her jaw in three places. Karin was there in case she was needed and to setup Greg to call the dance. The format was three tips of C1 to 8 participants, three tips of A2 to 11 participants and two Trivia questions in between the A2 tips. Dave and Greg did a great job of calling the dance. I had a great evening of dancing with people from U.S., Canada/Mexico and Canada.

Participates during the C1 session

Participants during the A2 session of the dance

While I danced Larry continued working on his jukebox project. He assembled the Werewolf he cutout yesterday. I hung it on the refrigerator for Halloween. It came out super.

Werewolf 

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The Daily Event was Event: Pyramid Adventure of 20 games. It took me 1 hour, 38 minutes and 45 seconds to complete, which put me in 18th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out with the Wii Fit for 32 minutes using the Wii Fit Plus Routine of 12 exercises. The exercises were three exercises from the Aerobics menu (Advance Step, Basic Step and Rhythm Boxing), one exercise from the Balance Games menu (Lotus Focus), three exercises from the Strength Training menu (Jackknife 10 reps, Sideways Leg Lift 10 reps and Tricep Extension 10 reps) and five exercises from the Training Plus menu (Big Top Juggling, Bird's Eye Bull's Eye, Island Cycling, Obstacle Course and Rhythm Parade). I had a super workout.

Aerobics (Advance Step, Basic Step and Rhythm Boxing)

Balance Games (Lotus Focus)

Strength Training (Jackknife, Sideways Leg Lift and Tricep Extension)

Training Plus (Big Top Juggling, Bird's Eye Bull's Eye, Island Cycling, 

Obstacle Course and Rhythm Parade)

I played six games of pinball. I played three games on the mini cabinet, which were 60th Anniversary, Batman Forever and Ted & Red's Road Show. While playing Batman Forever I became high score #2. I played three games on the big cabinet, which were Godzilla, The Addams Family and Willow. While playing Godzilla I became high score #3 and saved New York. I had a fun time playing pinball.

60th Anniversary (Mini)

Batman Forever (Mini)

Ted & Red's Road Show (Mini)

Godzilla (Big)

The Addams Family (Big)

Willow (Big)

During my workout we received a call from Doughty Automotive to say the Equinox was ready to pickup. After I finished my workout we went to Doughty Automotive and picked up the Equinox. It didn't cost anything, they had worked on it a few months ago so they covered it under warranty. 

We watched YouTube videos. After Dave's dance we started watching a movie on Peacock but didn't finish it because it was really bad. We ended watching more YouTube videos. When Larry went to bed I watched Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol (the fourth Mission Impossible movie). While I watched television I worked on the jigsaw puzzle: The Garden Shed by Carol Decker.

The Garden Shed by Carol Decker

By the end of the day I had done 4,000 steps.

 

  

 

 

Tuesday 10-27-26 Dentist, Dancing, Projects & More

Awesome Day!

We had an awesome day of doing this and that.

The morning temperature was 61 degrees and the high temperature was 85 degrees. We had a little breeze, which kept the weather very comfortable.

We started the day out by going to town. Larry had a 8:00 am appointment to see the dentist. The dentist filled a tooth and patched one of his front teeth. When we were on our trip Larry had cracked a tooth and got it filled. The dentist looked at the job and said the other dentist did an excellent job. HE didn't want to do anything with it because the tooth may last a long time. He was in and out by 8:45. 

Dentist appointment

Then we swung by the UPS Store and checked our mail. Larry was looking for the new truck tags, it was waiting for him in the mail. When we got home he replaced the old tag with the new one.

On the way home we stopped in at Jack 'n' Jill Donuts to buy breakfast.

When we got home Larry continued playing with his jukebox that is running Jukecab for windows. The project is coming along very well. After installing the newest version of the software Larry had small issues with things that use to work correctly. He had written the developer Jay. Jay discovered they were both bugs that he had introduced with other changes he made. He has now fixed them and gave Larry the newest code. Everything is now working correctly. Larry still has some things to do, he needs to sort out a album playing skin and he needs to relabel a couple of buttons. He is having a great time playing with the jukebox.

The jukebox

We attended Di Green and Terry McCann's Halloween dance at 11:00 for an hour. It was their weekly A2 dance and Di called five tips to 13 participants. Larry danced four of the tips with me. Terry tried to dance the first tip but couldn't so Di danced by herself. In between the tips we visited with each other. Di did a great job of calling and cueing. Some of the dancers dressed up for Halloween and others wore the colors for Halloween. We had a super time dancing with people from the U.K., Canada, U.S. and France. 

Lynda from the U.K. dressed up like a witch

Di wearing her Halloween glasses

Dancers participating in the dance

I decorated the house for Halloween with items Larry made. I hung a Skeleton, a Witch, Dracula, Frankenstein and Jack-O-Lantern on the China cabinet. On the refrigerator I hung Mr. and Mrs. Scarecrow. Larry had made a couple of werewolves but gave them away. He decided to make me one. He has all the pieces cutout and tomorrow he'll assemble it. 

Mr. and Mrs. Scarecrow on the refrigerator

Rock and Roll Pumpkin and a Ghost on the window sill

Skeleton, Witch, Dracula, Frankenstein and Jack-O-Lantern

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The Daily Event was Event: Hard Road Mini of 5 games. It took me 37 minutes and 54 seconds to complete, which put me in 16th place in my group. I played Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds Friends.

I worked out for 32 minutes using the Wii Fit. I worked out with three exercises from the Aerobics menu for 8 minutes (Basic Run for 2 minutes, Hula Hoop for 2 minutes and Rhythm Boxing for 4 minutes), three exercises from the Balance Games menu for 8 minutes (Penguin Slide for 2 minutes, Soccer Heading for 2 minutes and Tightrope Walk four times for 4 minutes), three exercises from the Strength Training menu for 12 minutes (Balance Bridge 20 reps for 6 minutes, Single-Leg Extension 20 reps for 3 minutes and Torso Twist 6 reps for 3 minutes) and three exercises from the Yoga menu for 6 minutes (Chair for 2 minutes, Palm Tree for 2 minutes and Warrior for 2 minutes). I had a great workout with the Wii Fit.

Aerobics (Basic Run, Hula Hoop and Rhythm Boxing)

 

Balance Games (Penguin Slide, Soccer Heading and Tightrope Walk)

  Strength Training (Balance Bridge, Single-Leg Extension and Torso Twist) 

 

 

Yoga (Chair, Palm Tree and Warrior)

I worked out with three programs of Just Dance for a half hour, which were Just Dance 2014, Just Dance 2015 and Just Dance 2016. I worked out with three songs from Just Dance 2014 for 10 minutes, which were Feel This Moment, Dancando and Starships. I worked out with three songs from Just Dance 2015 for 10 minutes, which were Problem, What Does The Fox Say and Happy. I worked out with three songs from Just Dance 2016 for 10 minutes, which were Kaboom Pow, All About The Bass and Cool For The Summer. I had fun working out with Just Dance.

Just Dance 2014 ( Feel This Moment, Dancando and Starships)

Just Dance 2015 (Problem, What Does The Fox Say and Happy)

Just Dance 2016 (Kaboom Pow, All About The Bass and Cool For The Summer)

I worked out with the Synth Riders for a half hour with three songs, which were Carry On, I'll Fight Back and Voidwalkers. I had a good workout with Synth Riders.

Carry On

I'll Fight Back

Voidwalkers

I played ten games of pinball. I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were Batman Forever, Big Buck Hunter Pro, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Fast Break and Willy Wonka. While playing Willy Wonka I became high score #2. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Beetlejuice, Cactus Canyon, Dracula, Medieval Madness and The Addams Family. While playing Beetlejuice and Cactus Canyon I became high score #2. While playing The Addams Family I got a new high score for the weekly challenges of 54,573,730, which put me in 48th place out of 63 participants.

Batman Forever (Mini)

Big Buck Hunter Pro (Mini)

Creature From The Black Lagoon (Mini)

Fast Break (Mini)

Willy Wonka (Mini)

Beetlejuice (Big)

Cactus Canyon (Big)

Dracula (Big)

Medieval Madness (Big)

The Addams Family (Big)

We watched YouTube videos.

In the evening we watched Ford V Ferrari from our movies collection. It's a great movie based on a true story about  American car designer Carrol Shelby and driver Ken Miles. When Larry went to bed I watched Mission Impossible III from our movies collection. I ended up doing 6,000 steps.