Sunday 2-22-26 Dancing with Di, New Pinball Challenge & More

 

Have a great Sunday

We had a great day. 

The weather was fantastic. It was cool with a morning temperature of 35 degrees and a high of 60 degrees. There was a wind out of the north.

We received a few pictures from Shirley showing us her birthday gifts. Louise send her a gift card and three books, Ray (Larry's brother) and Mary (Ray's girlfriend) gave her flowers in a vase and  she got a few birthday cards. 

Flowers from Ray and Mary and birthday cards

Louise's gifts

Flowers on the left are flowers we gave her this year and flowers on the right are flowers we gave her last year

Shirley's birthday gifts

We attended Ett McAtee's Weekly C Series dance, which was C1 at 1:00 for an hour. Di Green called the dance to 12 dancers. She called five tips and danced with Terry. Di called from another laptop because the one she usually use died on her right before the dance. Her video looked a lot better on the newer computer. She had to take a cable from the television she uses to watch dancers while they dance so  she only had the one monitor. Larry danced four of the tips with me. At times we were in the wrong place and we're not sure why. But we had a fun time dancing with friends. The dancers were from Canada, Germany, U.K. and the U.S.A.

Get a partner and dance

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before I went to bed. The event was Event: World Tour Mini of 10 games. It took me 48 minutes, which put me in 20th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out with the Synth Riders for 30 minutes with three songs twice. The songs were Calling Out, Revenger and Showdown. While working out with Calling Out I got one outstanding and one new high score and Revenger I got one new high score.

Calling Out

Revenger

Showdown

I did some housework. I did laundry and vacuumed the house.

Doing laundry

Today starts a new weekly challenge of pinball. The game this week is Guns N Roses. We didn't have the game so Larry had to download it. He installed the game on the big cabinet in both 2D and VR. He had trouble getting it to work in 2D. After a bit of investigation he discovered a change he made a couple of weeks ago caused the problem. He replaced one file and that fixed it. Then he played the game to make sure everything worked correctly. 

Before last weeks challenge, which was Who Dunnit ended at 1:00 I played it for about an hour. I didn't get a new high score. I ended up being in 46th place out of 120 participants. I played the new challenge of Guns N Roses and got my first high score of 551,089,470, which put me in 15th out of 18 participants. 

Who Dunnit

Guns N Roses

I played five more games of pinball besides the challenges. I played two games on the big cabinet, which were Magic Pinball and Playboy. I played three games on the mini cabinet, which were Monster Bash, Theatre of Magic and Willy Wonka. I didn't play pinball too well today.

Magic Pinball (big)

Playboy (big)

Monster Bash (mini)

Theatre of Magic (mini)

Willy Wonka (mini)

In between doing this and that I worked on my puzzle.

We watched YouTube videos.

In the evening we watched a movie on Kanopy called Hannah Arendt. It was a biographical drama about Hannah Arendt. Hannah Arendt was a German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. It took place during the trail of a Nazi, Adolf Eichmann in 1961 in Jerusalem, she reported on the trail for the New Yorker. She wrote a report on the Banality of Evil. People didn't like what she wrote because it was critical of some Jewish leaders. It was a good movie, it was in both German and English. I would have liked it better if it was in English instead having to read subtitles. After Larry went to bed I watched the second movie of Fantastic Breasts, which was Fantastic Beasts: The Crime of Grindelwald from our movies collection. I ended up doing 4,000 steps. 

 

  

 

Saturday 2-12-26 Olympics, Puzzle, Reading & Workout

 

Happy Saturday

We had another day of doing this and that. 

The weather wasn't bad. We had blue skies and occasionally the clouds would roll in. We had a little wind. The morning temperature was 51 degrees and the high was 68 degrees, very comfortable. 

Temperature at 2:30 pm

Larry finished reading Project Hail Mary and started another book. I'll probably will read Project Hail Mary when we go on our Spring Trip, which is at the end of March after Spring Break.

 

Relax with a book

I spent most of the day working on my jigsaw puzzle.

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before going to bed last night. The event was Event: Experts Only Mini of 5 games. It took me 1 hour, 8 minutes and 31 seconds, which put me in 21st place in my group. I always get stuck on solving the Free Cell game but it 's ok. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

     

In the afternoon I was going to workout with my Wii Fit but the console won't read the disc. Larry tried to get it to work by unplugging the device still wouldn't work. We even tried other workout disc. We finally gave up. Larry went on the internet and found a console so he ordered it. It was off E-Bay so it will take awhile.  Thank you Larry.

I worked out with the Synth Riders for 30 minutes with three songs. The songs were Carry On, I'll Fight Back and Voidwalkers. I did all songs two times except I'll Fight Back I did three times because my right controller died. I had a good workout.

Carry On

I'll Fight Back

Voidwalkers

I played one game of Pirate's Plunder on Bouncer Arcade for 30 minutes. I earned a silver trophy, defeated my enemies three times, played Skeleton Swamp (hit the skulls with ball), Cutlas Clash (broke the banister on the ship) and I got four Jolliest Rogers. I had a great game. I hadn't played Pirate's Plunder since 2/5/26, which was 16 days.

Pirate's Plunder

I played ten games of pinball. I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were Ace Of Speed, Cactus Canyon, Jaws, Godzilla and Pirates of the Caribbean. While playing Cactus Canyon I was high score #2, Godzilla I was high score #6 and Pirates of the Caribbean I was high score #2. I had a super day of playing pinball on the mini cabinet. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Fish Tales, Mission Impossible, Theatre of Magic, Who Dunnit and World Cup Soccer. I didn't get on the board while playing on the big cabinet but I did well.

Mini Cabinet

Ace of Speed

Cactus Canyon

Godzilla

Jaws

Pirates of the Caribbean

Big Cabinet

Fish Tales

Mission Impossible

Theatre of Magic

Who Dunnit

World Cup Soccer

We watched three events of the Olympics. They were Men's Mass Start (16 Speed Skaters 10,000m), Women's Mass Start (U.S.A. got a bronze metal) and Men's Ski Cross Free Style Ski. There were other events but not events we were interested in. 

We watched YouTube videos. 

Afterwards we watched a movie on Kanopy called Infinite. It was a science fiction movie based on a novel called The Reincarnation Papers. The movie was about Evan McCauley (Mark Wahlberg), who was diagnosed as having schizophrenia. He finds out he is an "Infinite", who can remember past lives and retain skills from them. It was an ok movie. When Larry went to bed I watched Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them from our movies collection. I ended up doing 2,000 steps

 

Relaxing in front of the television

    

   

Friday 2-20-26 Shirley's Birthday, Dancing to Ett & More

Shirley's Birthday Flowers

Happy Birthday Shirley (Larry's Mom). We hope you had a great day. 

 

It's Friday Let's Celebrate

We had another day of relaxing. We didn't have anything on the agenda so we didn't do too much.

The weather was overcast most of the day. The clouds would move in and out which gave us a little sunshine. It was cooler today. The morning temperature was 50 degrees and the high was 62. The clouds kept it cooler and there was a little breeze.

I spent most of the day either playing games or working on my jigsaw puzzle. 

Larry spent the day reading. A movie is coming out next month called Project Hail Mary. Awhile back on one of camping trips we read the book. We really enjoyed it and are looking forward to the movie. Larry wanted to refresh his memory on the book so today he starting reading it again.

Reading is fun

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Tri Peaks Mini of 5 games. It took me 13 minutes and 24 seconds, which put me in 21st place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

After lunch I took a two hour nap. When I woke up I worked out with the Synth Riders for a half hour. I worked out with four songs two times a piece. The songs were Keep On Smilin, Keep You In Line, Silent Movie and Watch Your Tongue. While working out with Watch Your Tongue I earned outstanding scores both times.

Keep On Smilin'

Keep You In Line

Silent Movie

Watch Your Tongue

I played eight games of pinball. I played four on the mini cabinet, which were Dark Chaos, JP Space Cadet, Transformers and Willy Wonka. While playing I became Grand Champion in Dark Chaos, High Score #2 in Transformers and High Score #1 in Willy Wonka. I had a super day playing pinball on the mini cabinet. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were 60th Anniversary, Dr. No, Goldeneye and Who Dunnit. While playing Who Dunnit I got a new high score 4,635,251,090, which put me 31st out of 85 participants in the weekly challenge.

Dark Chaos (mini)

JP Space Cadet (mini)

Transformers (mini)

Willy Wonka (mini)

60th Anniversary (big)

Dr. No (big)

Goldeneye (big)

Who Dunnit (big)

I attended Ett McAtee's Weekly A2 dance at 6:00 for an hour. She is back from her cruise to Antarctica. She called four tips and in between the tips she talked about her trip. She had an outstanding trip. Her partner Linda and her have now visited all seven Continents. She called to twelve dancers. I had fun dancing to Ett and with friends.  

We watched the Olympics before Ett McAtee's dance and after it. The events we watched were Men's Freeski Half Pipe (U.S.A. got gold), Short Track Men's 5000m Relay and Short Track Women's 1500m finals ( U.S.A. got bronze). First medal in Women Short Track in 19 years.

We watched YouTube videos before Larry went to bed. After Larry went to bed I watched Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. It's not on the super hero movies list but it's in our movies collection. I ended up doing 3,000 steps.