Wednesday 8-5-26 Virtual Dancing, Computer Project & More

 

Having fun with friends

Larry spent part of the day continuing to shrink our movies files. He spent most of his time working with his new computer. It works great with his jukebox software. Jay released a new version of Jukecab, some to the included changes were suggestions made by Larry. He downloaded the new version and then had to make changes to his configurations to take advantage of the changes. Some of them new things he still has to explore.

I attended three virtual square dances. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 10:00 for an hour. Di called five tips to 10 participants. Terry danced the first tip with her. Larry danced four of the tips with me. Di reviewed some of the moves, that were added to the Plus program. They were Quarter Thru, Left Quarter Thru, Pass the Sea, Partner Hinge and Triple Trade from tidal waves. She did a great job. We had fun time dancing with friends and visiting with them in between tips.

Second was Ett McAtee's Weekly C1 at 1:00 for an hour. She is traveling all month so Loren Smith will be covering for her when he can. He called four tips to 7 participants. I danced by myself and had a great time.

Third was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00 for an hour and a half. Dave wasn't going to be there because he had to go to the airport so he asked Dave Hutchinson to come and call. Dave asked Loren to come and help him call. Dave's wife plane was delayed until tomorrow. So we had three callers there to call. The format was three tips of C1 to 9 participants, three tips of A2 to 13 participants and trivia questions in between the A2 tips. During the C1 session the first tip was called by Dave Hutchinson, second tips was called by Loren and the third tip was called by Dave Eno, Dave Hutchinson and Loren. During the A2 session the first tip was called by Dave Hutchinson, second tip was called by Mary Hutchinson (she's learning to call), Paula (one of the dancers) and Loren and third was called by Loren. I danced by myself and had fun dancing with friends.

Get a partner and dance

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango of 20 games (10 Klondike and 10 Spider). It took me 2 hours, 48 minutes and 53 seconds to complete, which put me in 13th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

Between Di and Loren's dances I worked out on the Wii Fit for 30 minutes. I did the Wii Fit Plus Routine for 27 minutes and Perfect 10 three times for 3 minutes to get the 30 minutes. The routine had 12 different exercises. The exercises were one Aerobics (Basic Step), two Strength Training (Lunge of 10 reps and Single-Leg Twist of 10 reps), four Training Plus (Bird's Eye Bull's Eye, Island Cycling, Obstacle Course and Rhythm Kung-Fu) and five Yoga (Palm Tree, Sun Salutation, Standing Knee, Tree and Triangle). I had a great workout.

Basic Step

Lunge and Single-Leg Twist

Bird's Eye Bull's Eye, Island Cycling, Obstacle Course, Perfect 10 and Rhythm Kung-Fu

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

I played eight games of pinball. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were Cactus Canyon, Fast Break, Jaws and The Goonies. While playing The Goonies I became high score #3. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were Big Bang Bar, Big Buck Hunter Pro, Blizzard of Ozz and Dracula. I had a great time playing pinball.

Cactus Canyon (Mini)

Fast Break (Mini)

Jaws (Mini)

The Goonies (Mini)

Big Bang Bar (Big)

Big Buck Hunter Pro (Big)

Blizzard of Ozz (Big)

Dracula (Big)

After the last dance we watched Charlie Wilson's War from our movies collection. It was based on a true story about Charlie Wilson, a Texas congressman and his covert dealings in Afghanistan, He assisted the rebels to defeat Russia. When Larry went to bed I watched the fourth Harry Potter movie, which was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I ended up doing 2,000 steps.

I worked on Horse of Iron jigsaw puzzle.

 

 

 

Tuesday 8-4-26 Dancing A, Games & Having Fun

Awesome Day of Dancing

We had an awesome day of dancing. 

The morning temperature was 76 degrees and it got up to 102 degrees. 

When we were driving to Liberty Hill we noticed a lot of smoke in the air. Larry Googled where the smoke was coming from. It said it was coming in from the fires in Washington. We're planning to start our fall trip in a couple of weeks but if the smoke doesn't clear out we may have to put it off.

We started the day out by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's weekly A2 dance at 10:00 am for an hour. Di called five tips to 12 participants. Terry danced most of the dance with Di. Larry danced four of the tips with me. When the dancers were having problems with a move Di would walk us through it. We had a super time dancing to Di and Terry and with friends.

We love square dancing

After the dance we had lunch. We did not have a C1 session so we didn't have to be at the Ski's house until 1:00 pm. We left the house at 11:30 am and we got to Ski's house at 12:40 pm. This week the Ski's were out of town but they asked their daughter to open the house for the dance. It is so nice of the Ski's to open their home for the dance. We used cards this week and we had enough dancers for seven couples and an extra dancer. John Kephart called the dance for two hours, he asked John Carlson to call a tip. John Kephart is going to be in Japan for three weeks so John Carlson will cover for him. John Carlson needed to practice because he doesn't call A often. He did a good job of calling the tip. We rested for a couple of tips. John worked on All Four Couples Do The Right Square Thru and a Left Relay The Deucey.  We had a fun afternoon of dancing to John Kephart and with friends.

Get a partner and dance

In between the dances Larry continued experiments on his new mini computer. He also working on our movies.

I played games. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Medium Mayhem Mini of 5 games. It took me 21 minutes and 28 seconds to complete, which put me in 27th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played ten games of pinball. I played five on the mini cabinet, which were Ace of Speed, Batman Forever, Dr. No, Lord of the Rings and No Fear. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Beetlejuice, Big Buck Hunter Pro, Elvira House of Horrors Blood Red Kiss, Transformers and World Poker Joker. While playing Transformers I became Grand Champion.

Ace of Speed (Mini)

Batman Forever (Mini)

Dr. No (Mini)

Lord of the Rings (Mini)

World Poker Joker (Mini)

Beetlejuice (Big)

Big Buck Hunter Pro (Big)

Elvira House of Horrors Blood Red Kiss (Big)

Transformers (Big)

World Poker Joker (Big)

In the evening we watched the next super hero movie for our movies collection, which was Captain America: The Winter Soldier. After Larry went to bed I watched the next Harry Potter movie from our movies collection, which was Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I ended up doing 3,000 steps.

I worked on the Horse of Iron jigsaw puzzle.

     

Monday 8-3-26 Dancing with Di, Movie Project, New Computer & More

 Happy Monday

We had a hot and humid day. The morning temperature was 69 degrees and the high was 103 degrees and it felt like 111 degrees. 

We started the day by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's weekly C1 dance at 9:00 am for an hour and fifteen minutes. Di danced by herself while she called five tips to 11 participants. Larry danced four of the tips with me. We had a super time dancing to Di and with friends.

Get a partner and dance

Larry continued shrinking and getting subtitles for our movies. 

Larry ordered a brand new mini computer and received it today. His plan is to use it to replace a Raspberry Pi that is in one of his jukeboxes. Raspberry Pi's don't run Windows and the new Jukecab software runs on Windows. He did lots of experimenting with it and is working on creating an image of the hard drive.  He wants to use and run it a lot to try and ensure it will not fail. It works great so far.

Mini Computer

Mini computer with it's cover off

I played games. I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Free Cell Adventure of 20 games. It took me 2 hours, 34 minutes and 17 seconds to complete, which put me in 18th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played four games of pinball on the big cabinet, which were Big Buck Hunter Pro, Fish Tales, Playboy and The Beach Boys. While playing Playboy I played Manson Mania, which I became a Playboy Grand Champion. I have fun playing pinball on the big cabinet.

Big Buck Hunter Pro

Fish Tales

Playboy

The Beach Boys

I worked out on the Wii Fit Plus for 45 minutes. I did two exercises from the Aerobic menu for 10 minutes (Basic Run 2 minutes and Rhythm Boxing for 8 minutes). I did four exercises from the Strength Training menu for 11 minutes (Lunge 20 reps for 4 minutes, Rowing Squat 15 reps for 1 minute, Torso Twist 6 reps for 3 minutes and Tricep Extensions 20 reps for 3 minutes). The reason I only earned 1 minute in rowing squats because I was unsuccessful in doing any squats at all. I did three exercises from the Training Plus menu for 14 minutes (Obstacle Course for 4 minutes, Perfect 10 four times for 4 minutes and Table Tilt Plus for 7 minutes). I did five exercises from the Yoga menu for 10 minutes ( Chair for 2 minutes, Palm Tree for 2 minutes, Standing Knee for 2 minutes, Tree for 2 minutes and Triangle for 2 minutes). I had a great workout on the Wii Fit.

Basic Run and Rhythm Boxing

Lunges, Rowing Squats, Torso Twist and Tricep Extensions

Obstacle Course, Perfect 10 and Table Tilt Plus

Chair, Palm Tree, Standing Knee, Tree and Triangle

In the evening we watched Masters of the Universe. It was sword-and-sorcery film based on the media franchise by Mattel. It wasn't that good. After Larry went to bed I watched the second Harry Potter movie called Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I ended up doing 3.500 steps.

I worked on the Horse of Iron puzzle when I had time.  

  

  

Sunday 8-2-26 New Pinball Challenge, Movies Project & Having Fun

Smile and have fun

We had a fun day of doing this and that. 

We had a hot humid day. The morning temperature was 67 degrees and the high was 100 degrees and humidity was 29%.

 Temperature at 3:00 at the house

Larry spent the day working on subtitles on our collection of movies.

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 6 games (3 Klondike and 3 Tri Peaks). It took me 11 minutes and 49 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 Plus for 30 minutes. I did my own routine, which was one exercise from Aerobics for 8 minutes (Rhythm Boxing), two exercises from Balance Games for 8 minutes (Penguin Slide two times for 4 minutes and Soccer Heading two times for 4 minutes), three exercises from Strength Training for 8 minutes (Single-Leg Extension 20 reps for 3 minutes, Single-Leg Twist 20 reps for 2 minutes and Torso Twist 6 reps for 3 minutes) and three exercises from Yoga 6 minutes (Chair for 2 minutes, Half-Moon for 2 minutes and Warrior for 2 minutes). I had a great workout.

Aerobics (Rhythm Boxing)

Balance Games (Penguin Slide and Soccer Heading)

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

Yoga (Chair, Half-Moon and Warrior)

I worked out with the Synth Riders for 30 minutes with three songs two times a piece. The songs were Abyss, Automatic Call and Empire of Steel. I had a good workout with the Synth Riders. 

Abyss

Automatic Call

Empire of Steel

I played one game of Asteroid Outpost on Bounce Arcade. I hadn't played Asteroid Outpost in two months. I did very well. I earned a silver trophy. I mined the asteroids four times and was successful in mining the asteroids once. I earned an extra ball and charged the fusion module, which is one of the three modules on the ship. 

Asteroid Outpost

It's Sunday so I got a new weekly challenge in pinball. Last week's challenge was Bay Watch so I played the game for a half hour to get a new high score. I was successful I got 997,529,640, which put me in 62nd place out of 102 participants. Next week challenge is Big Buck Hunter Pro. We had the game but the challenge was a newer version so Larry had to download the newer version. Then he installed the newer version on the big cabinet and changed the number of balls from 5 balls to 3 balls. My first high score was 40,839,220, which put me in 7th place out of 14 participants so far this week.

Bay Watch (Big)

Big Buck Hunter Pro (Big)

After doing the weekly challenges I played three pinball games on the big cabinet, which were Queen, The Beach Boys and Time Lord. While playing Time Lord I became high score #2. I played five pinball games on the the mini cabinet, which were 60th Anniversary, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Medieval Madness, Michael and The Big LeBowski. While playing Michael I became high score #3. I had good time playing pinball.

Queen (Big)

The Beach Boys (Big)

Time Lord (Big)

60th Anniversary (Mini)

The Creature From The Black Lagoon (Mini)

Medieval Madness (Mini)

Michael (Mini)

The LeBowski (Mini)

We watched YouTube videos.

In the evening we watched the next super hero movie from our movies, which was Thor: The Dark World. When Larry went to bed I watched the first Harry Potter movie, which was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Larry has been working hard on our movies to make sure they have subtitles and they work correctly. I asked him what movie I should watch to make sure everything is good. He said whatever movie before the letter J. I ended up doing 3,000 steps. 

Relaxing in front of the television