Wednesday 8-12-26 Dentist, Two Dances, Project & More

Just Having Fun

It was another 100+ day with a wind. The morning temperature was 78 degrees and the high temperature was 103 degrees and felt like 114 degrees. 

Beautiful Hot Day

We started the day off by going to the dentist. It was time for our six month cleaning. Our appointment was at 8:00 am so I had to get up earlier then normal. I got up at 7:00 am. Our appointments went very well. Larry has to go back and get a small cavity filled. We made our next cleaning appointment. On the way home we stopped by Jack 'n' Jill Donuts to buy donuts for our breakfast.

Six month cleaning

Larry spent a good part of the day working on getting Windows to work on a Raspberry Pi. There are not a lot of folks who have done this so information is sometimes outdated and not very good. By the end of the day he had it working and running JukeCab. He was really excited about getting it to work and while he had fun with the challenge the usefulness of this would be very limited. The Pi simply is not powerful enough for Windows 11.  

I attended two virtual square dances. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 10:00 am for an hour. Di called five tips to 9 participants. Larry danced four of the tips with me and to help Liz dance the man's part. She thanked him. Terry danced part of the first tip with Di. Di worked shopped Spin Chain The Gears because the dancers were having problems. She also worked on a few of the new moves in Plus, which were Quarter Thru, Left Quarter Thru, Triple Trade and Partner Tag. We had a super time dancing to Di and with friends.

The second was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00 pm for an hour and a half. Karin Rabe and Greg Moore helped Dave call the dance. They were in Aspen, CO. They said the smoke was really bad but they did dance with four squares outside. They stopped when a black bear showed up with her two cubs. The format for the dance was three tips of C1 for 6 participants, three tips of A2 for 8 participants and two trivia questions in between the A2 tips. During the A2 session when it was time for Dave to call one of the dancers (David) called a couple of sequences. He did a super job. I had a great evening of dancing with friends.

Having fun dancing with friends

In between the dances I played games and worked out.

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Klondike Mini of 10 games. It took me 32 minutes and 3 seconds to complete, which put me in 18th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out for an hour. 

I did the Wii Fit Plus for 30 minutes. I used the routine the program picked for me of 12 exercises for 22 minutes. The exercises were one of Aerobic (Hula Hoop), four exercises of Strength Training (Jack Knives 10 reps, Lunge 15 reps, Rowing Squats of 15 reps and Torso Twist 3 reps), two Training Plus (Perfect 10 and Rhythm Kung-Fu) and five Yoga (Downward Facing Dog, Half-Moon, Standing Knee, Sun Salutation and Triangle). I did an additional 8 minutes using two Strength Training exercises for 4 minutes (Sideways Leg Lifts of 20 reps for 2 minutes and Single-Leg Twist 20 reps for 2 minutes) and one Aerobic exercise for 4 minutes (Rhythm Boxing). I had great workout.

Hula Hoop and Rhythm Boxing

Jack Knives, Lunge, Sideways Leg Lifts,  Rowing Squats, 

Single-Leg Twist and Torso Twist

Perfect 10 and Rhythm Kung-Fu

Downward Facing Dog, Half-Moon, Standing Knee, 

Sun Salutation and Triangle

I worked out with the Synth Riders for 30 minutes with four songs twice. The songs were Delight, Imperfection, Light Up The Night and Nightmare Cure. While playing Imperfection I earned two outstanding scores and Nightmare Cure I earned one outstanding score. I had a fun work out.

Delight

Imperfection

Light Up The Night

Nightmare Cure

I played six pinball games. I played three games on the mini cabinet, which were Cactus Canyon, The Goonies and Willy Wonka. I played three games on the big cabinet, which were Last Action Hero, Nightmare Before Christmas and No Fear. While playing Last Action Hero I got a new high score for the challenge of 114,937,000, which put me in 50th put of 60 participants so far.

Cactus Canyon (Mini)

The Goonies (Mini)

Willy Wonka (Mini)

Last Action Hero (Big)

Nightmare Before Christmas (Big)

No Fear (Big)

After Dave's dance we watched Bling from our movies collection. It's an animated love story movie about Sam, who is a theme park mechanic and his girlfriend and childhood sweetheart Sue, who is a reporter for channel six news. It's cute and funny. When Larry went to bed I watched the third X-Men movie, which was X-Men: The Last Stand. I ended up doing 4,000 steps.   

 

 

  

 

 

Tuesday 8-11-26 Day of Dancing A2, Jukebox Project & Having Fun

 

Day of Having Fun

We had a fun day of dancing with friends.

The morning temperature was 75 degrees and it the high was 101 degrees. We had a breeze. Thank goodness we have air condition.

Hot Day!!!

We started the day by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly A2 dance a1 10:00 am for an hour. Terry didn't dance but Di danced with us and called the dance. When the dancers were having problems with a move Di would walk us through it. When she called four couple moves she would cue the the move and tell us where we should be. Larry danced four of the five tips with me. We had 10 participants. We had a super time dancing with friends.

We love square dancing

After the dance we had lunch. Then we got ready to go to Liberty Hill to dance A2 to John Kephart. The dance was at 1:00 pm for two hours. We had six couples of dancers we used cards to let us know who was dancing in the square and which two couples will be sitting out. Kay and Bob were back from their trip to Tennessee and it was nice to see them. Larry and I sat out three tips. John worked on Relay the Deucey in a position we weren't use to being in. He also worked on Spin Chain the Gears. In between the tips we visited with each other. During one break John sang a song and he played the harmonica. He is a very talented caller and has a great voice. We had a super time dancing to John and with friends.

   Get a partner and dance

In between dancing Larry worked on his jukebox project. He posted about a problem he was having in the JukeCab forum, the developer (Jay) wrote back verifying the issue and said he would fix it. He is having a super time playing with this project.

Rock Ole Jukebox Project

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Easy Street of 30 games. It took me 59 minutes and 5 seconds to complete, which put me in 8th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played six games of pinball. I played three games on the mini cabinet, which were Nightmare Before Christmas, Pirate's Life and The Big LeBowski. I played three games on the big cabinet, which were Last Action Hero, Michael and The Beach Boys, While playing pinball I became high score #3 in Michael and high score #2 in The Beach Boys. I had a great time playing pinball.

Nightmare Before Christmas (Mini)

Pirate's Life (Mini)

The Big LeBowski (Mini)

Last Action Hero (Big)

Michael (Big)

The Beach Boys (Big)

When we got home from Liberty Hill we had dinner and watched our YouTube videos.

After dinner we watched the next super hero movie from our collection, which was Spider-Man: Homecoming. When Larry went to bed I watched the next X-Men, which was X2 from our movies collections. I ended up doing 3,000 steps.

We had a fun day of dancing. LIFE IS GOOD!!!! 

 

Monday 8-10-26 Jukebox Project, Dancing with Di & More

 

Happy Monday!

We had a great Monday. 

The morning temperature was 75 degrees and the high was 98 degrees. We had some cloud covering in the afternoon. 

We started the day out by going to Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 9:00 am for an hour. Di called five tips to 13 participants. Larry danced four of the tips with me. In between tips we visited with other dancers. Dancers came from United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Russia and France. We had a super time dancing to Di and with friends.

Having fun dancing with friends

Larry spent much of the day working on his jukebox project. He worked on the hardware part. He removed the Raspberry Pi and installed a mini computer. The Pi uses 6 volts and the mini computer uses 12 so some wiring changes were required. He also had to change some button stuff around. Both of these things required soldering wires. It took him the majority of the day but it is back up and running. He believes he is done with the hardware piece but now that he is using it in the jukebox without a keyboard or mouse he has discovered a software problem that will need to be figured out. There is also another change that needs to be done in Jukecab, the developer (Jay) said the change will be in the version he is releasing on Sunday. Overall it works very well.

Finished Project

The removed Pi is on the bottom left, new mini computer is on top.

I spent the day working out and playing games.

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: World Tour Mini of 10 games. It took me 1 hour, 6 minutes and 40 seconds to complete, which put me in 20th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out 31 minutes on the Wii Fit Plus using the routine of 12 exercises for 26 minutes and two exercises for the other 5 minutes (Single-Leg Extension 20 reps for 3 minutes and Ski Jump two times for 2 minutes). I did two exercises from Aerobic (Basic Run and Basic Step), two exercises from Balance Games (Ski Jump and Table Tilt), two exercises from Strength Training (Sideways Leg-Lift and Single-Leg Extension), three exercises from Training Plus (Rhythm Kung-Fu, Skateboard Arena and Snowball Fight) and five exercises from Yoga (Palm Tree, Standing Knee, Sun Salutation, Tree and Warrior). I had a great workout.

Basic Run and Basic Step

Ski Jump and Table Tilt

Sideways Leg-Lift and Single-Leg Extension

Rhythm Kung-Fu, Skateboard Arena and Snowball Fight

Palm Tree, Standing Knee, Sun Salutation, Tree and Warrior

I worked out with Just Dance for 30 minutes with Just Dance 2015. I did three songs for 10 minutes, which were Problem, The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) and Happy. I did six songs for 20 minutes, which were Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Bang Bang, Diamonds, Let It Go, Dark Horse and Till I Find You. I had a lot of fun dancing to the nine songs.

Problem, The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) and Happy

Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Bang Bang, Diamonds, 

Let It Go, Dark Horse and Till I Find You

I worked out to five songs on the Synth Riders for 40 minutes. The songs were A Matter Of Time, Hard To Love, Interstellar,  Never Gonna Die and New Comedown. It was a great workout. 

A Matter of Time

Hard To Love

Interstellar

Never Gonna Die

New Comedown

I played one game of Pirate's Plunder on Bounce Arcade. I hadn't played Pirate's Plunder in over a month and had fun. I earned a silver trophy and an extra ball. I fought my enemies three times and defeated them two times. I did the Skeleton Swamp, I got three Jolliest Rogers and one Cutlass Clash.

Pirate's Plunder

I played ten games of pinball. I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were Batman Forever, Fast Break, The Godfather, Three Angels and Transformers. While playing The Godfather I became high score #1. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Dark Chaos, JP Space Cadet, Last Action Hero, Time Lord and World Cup Soccer. While playing Last Action Hero I got a new high score for the challenge and moved to 31st out of 37 participants so far. 

Batman Forever (Mini)

Fast Break (Mini)

The Godfather (Mini)

Three Angels (Mini)

Transformers (Mini)

Dark Chaos (Big)

JP Space Cadet (Big)

Last Action Hero (Big)

Time Lord (Big)

World Cup Soccer (Big)

In the evening we watched the next super hero movie, which was Black Widow from our collection. When Larry went to bed I started to watch the four X-Men movies we have in our collection. The movie was X-Men. I ended up doing 4,000 steps. I worked on Horse of Iron jigsaw puzzle.