Tuesday 11-10-26 Liberty Hill A2 Dance

 

Partly Cloudy Day

We had a partly cloudy day. The clouds had it very humid. The morning temperature was 61 degrees and the high temperature was 76 degrees. 

In the morning we usually attend Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly A2 dance but today Di cancelled it. Di said she was in the middle of a project. That was ok because we went to Liberty Hill and danced A2 to John Kephart for two hours. 

We had lunch around 11:00 am and left the house about 11:25 am to go to Bob and Kay's house in Liberty Hill, which is about 60 miles from the house. It takes us an hour and fifteen minutes to get there. The dance started at 1:00 pm and was over by 3:00 pm. We got to the dance about 12:40 pm, which gives us time to visit and Larry doesn't like being late. Larry surprised Kay by giving her Mr. and Mrs. Scarecrow to decorate her garage for fall. She loves to decorate for each season and holiday. She already had decorations up but she was so excited she hung the scarecrows with the other decorations. We had enough people for one square and one extra person. Larry and I danced each tip. John gives enough time in between the tips to rest so it wasn't too bad to dance each tip. It is a pleasure to dance to John and with friends. John walked us through a few moves we were having problems, which were Split Transfer, Box Transfer and Transfer And. These moves are hard because you're only working with four people on the same side. We had a super time dancing.

Mrs. and Mr. Scarecrow

Dancing to John Kephart from San Antonio 

We got home from the dance at 4:15 pm. It was time for dinner. I barbecued chicken breast skewers from Aldi. They came out delicious. It only takes 10 minutes to barbecue them. 

Chicken Breast Skewers

Before and after the dance I kept busy playing games. 

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The Daily Event was Event: Tri Peaks Adventure of 20 games. It took me 1 hour and 37 seconds to complete, which put me in 10th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played nine games of pinball. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were Jaws, Michael, Mission Impossible and Queen. While playing Jaws I became high score #3. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were John Wick, The Beach Boys, The Godfather, Whirlwind and Willow. While playing The Beach Boys I played two players and became high score #2 and #3. While playing Whirlwind I got a new high score of 3,385,110, which put me in 53rd place of 60 participants so far. 

Jaws (Mini)

Michael (Mini)

Mission Impossible (Mini)

Queen (Mini)

John Wick (Big)

The Beach Boys (Big)

The Godfather (Big)

Whirlwind (Big)

Willow (Big)

 

We watched our YouTube videos.

In the evening we watched Two By Two: Overboard, which was a reunited cast from All Creatures Small and Large about Noah's Ark. It was just as cute. It was about the ark finding land, out running a volcano and having a peace treaty among the animals on the ark and island. When Larry went to bed I watched the fourth chapter of John Wick. 

By the end of the day I did 4,000 steps.   

  

Monday 11-9-26 Rainy Day, Dancing with Di, Jukebox Project & More

Another Rainy Day

We had another rainy day. It rained on and off all day but not hard. The morning temperature was 59 degrees and the high temperature was 66 degrees.

We started the day off by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 9:00 am for an hour. Terry hadn't been dancing lately and he wasn't sitting in his chair. Bill asked if he was ok and Di said yes he was in the other room. The next tip he moved to his chair so people wouldn't be worried. Di called five tips to 13 participants. Larry danced four of the tips with me. I had a little metal block on a left-handed Percolate so Di walked us through it a few times. I kept on hinging to the right instead of left. Overall we danced well. We had a super time dancing to Di and with friends.

We love square dancing virtually and in person

We spent the rest of the day doing this and that. 

Larry kept busy working on his jukebox. He's working on designing a skin, which is the music player with the list of your songs. He wants the skin to display and play a whole album instead of song.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The Daily Event was Event: Medium Mayhem Mini of 5 games. It took me 13 minutes and 45 seconds to complete, which put me in 24th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I did some housework for 45 minutes. I cleaned the bathrooms, dusted the house, vacuumed the house and laundry.

Doing housework

I worked out for an hour. 

I worked out for a half hour with the Wii Fit. I did my own routine. I did two exercises from the Aerobics menu for 10 minutes (Hula Hoop for 2 minutes and Rhythm Boxing for 8 minutes), three exercises from the Balance Games menu for 6 minutes (Balance Bubble two times for 2 minutes, Penguin Slide for 2 minutes and Soccer Heading for 2 minutes), and three exercises from the Strength Training menu for 10 minutes (Balance Bridge 10 reps for 3 minutes, Lunge 20 reps for 4 minutes and Torso Twist 6 reps for 3 minutes) and two exercises from the Yoga menu for 4 minutes (Triangle for 2 minutes and Warrior for 2 minutes). It was a great workout.

Aerobics (Hula Hoop and Rhythm Boxing)

Balance Games (Balance Bubble, Penguin Slide and Soccer Heading)

Strength Training (Balance Bridge, Lunge and Torso Twist)

Yoga (Triangle and Warrior)

I worked out to four songs two times on the Synth Riders, which were Code War, Phoenix, You Know That You Love Me and Wolves. While working out with You Know You Love Me I earned two outstanding scores and Wolves I earned two outstanding scores.

Code War

Phoenix

You Know That You Love Me

Wolves

I played 10 games of pinball. I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were Batman Forever, Dark Chaos, JP Space Cadet, The Goonies and The Lords of the Rings. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Borderlands, John Wick, Mass Effect, Medieval Madness and Whirlwind. While playing Borderlands I became high score #2. I had a fun time playing pinball.

Batman Forever (Mini)

Dark Chaos (Mini)

JP Space Cadet (Mini)

The Goonies (Mini)

The Lord of the Rings (Mini)

Borderlands (Big)

John Wick (Big)

Mass Effect (Big)

Medieval Madness (Big)

Whirlwind (Big)

We watched our YouTube videos.

In the evening we watched All Creatures Small and Large, which is the same movie as we have Ooops! Noah Is Gone. It's an animated movie about Noah's Ark. It's a good movie and cute. After Larry went to bed I continued watching John Wick. I watched John Wick Chapter 3. 

By the end of the night I had done 6,000 steps.

 

 

  

 

Sunday 11-8-26 Rainy Day, New Challenge, Pinball Project & More

 

Playing in the rain

The rain came in last night and stayed around all day. It didn't rain hard or continuously but it was damp outside. The morning temperature was 58 degrees and the high was 63 degrees. We hung around the house and kept busy doing this and that.

Larry spent the day doing pinball stuff. He continued working on making VR rooms and loading two new games. He made a beautiful VR room for Michael and installed it on both the mini cabinet and the big cabinet. Below are pictures of the VR room on the big cabinet. The two games he loaded are the new weekly challenge of Whirlwind and Mass Effect. Mass Effect was taken from Attack From Mars. We love playing Attack From Mars. Mass Effect plays great and is very fun.

Pinball cabinet of Michael in the VR room

A chair in the VR room of Michael

A couch in the VR room of Michael

Larry installed both Whirlwind and Mass Effect on the big cabinet in both VR and 2D. Once he got them installed he played them and had a great time. When he finished making the VR room for Michael he played it and had fun.

My weekly pinball challenge from last week was World Poker Tour. The challenge ended at 1:00 so I played it for about a half hour to try to get a new high score. I failed but I had fun. My high score of 29,455,020 put me in 54th place out of 119 participants. I played the new weekly challenge of Whirlwind when it started. My first high score was 2,232,730, which put me in 23rd place out of 23 participants so far.

World Poker Tour 

Whirlwind

I also played three more pinball games on the big cabinet, which was John Wick, Mass Effect and Michael. I had fun playing pinball on the big cabinet.

John Wick

Mass Effect

Michael

I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were Godzilla, Great Houdini, Guardians of the Galaxy, Theatre of Magic and Transformers. While playing Guardians of the Galaxy I became high score #4 and Theatre of Magic I became high score #2. I had a great day playing pinball on the mini cabinet.

Godzilla

Great Houdini

Guardians of the Galaxy

Theatre of Magic

Transformers

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The Daily Event was Event: Easy Street of 30 games. It took me 57 minutes and 11 seconds to complete, which put me in 7th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out for an hour and a half. 

I worked out with the Wii Fit for 30 minutes. I did the Wii Fit Plus Routine of 12 exercises, which were two exercises from the Aerobics menu (Advance Step and Rhythm Boxing), one exercise from Balance Games menu (Table Tilt), three exercises from the Strength Training menu (Balance Bridge of 6 reps, Sideways Leg Lift of 10 reps and Single-Leg Twist of 10 reps), four exercises from Training Plus menu (Big Top Juggler, Bird's Eye Bull's Eye, Rhythm Parade and Skateboard Arena and two exercises from the Yoga menu (Chair and Half-Moon). I had a great workout.

Aerobics (Advance Step and Rhythm Boxing)

Balance Games (Table Tilt)

Strength Training (Balance Bridge, Sideways Leg Lift and Single-Leg Twist)

Training Plus (Big Top Juggler, Bird's Eye Bull's Eye, Rhythm Parade and Skateboard Arena)

 

Yoga (Chair and Half-Moon)

I worked out on Just Dance 2014 for 35 minutes. I danced to 9 songs, which were 6 songs for 20 minutes and another 3 songs for 10 minutes. The songs were Wild, Maria, Rich Girl, Nitro Bot, Just Dance and Turn Up The Love for 20 minutes and C'mon, Careless Whisper and Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) for 10 minutes. I had fun dancing to Just Dance.

Wild, Maria, Rich Girl, Nitro Bot, Just Dance and Turn Up The Love

C'mon, Careless Whisper and Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

I worked out to four songs two times with the Synth Riders, which were Escape, ID, Outburst and Underdog. While working out with ID I earned one Outstanding Score, Outburst I earned two Outstanding Scores and Underdog I earned two Outstanding Scores and one New High Score. I had a great workout.

Escape

ID

Outburst

Underdog

We watched YouTube videos.

In the evening we watched Toy Story 3. When Larry went to bed I watched The Nut Job and John Wick Chapter 2 on Amazon. The Nut Job was a cute movie about collecting nuts for the winter and working as a team. I enjoyed watching the movie. 

By the end of the day I had done 4,600 steps.