Monday 7-21-25 Reading, Puzzle, Workout & Games

 

Happy Monday

 

We had a great Monday. 

We usually dance C1 to Di Green and Terry McCann on Mondays but Di had to cancel, she is still working and she had meetings to attend for her job.

Larry finished reading Conclave. We have the movie and he said the movie followed closely to the book. He liked this very much and enjoyed reading the book.

 

Relaxing with a book

After finishing Conclave Larry downloaded a new book reader on his tablet. He wants to play with a new book reader. We love our Kindles but he wants to play with some other options. Kindles are tied to Amazon and other e-readers are not.    

Every Monday I play Solitaire games (16) so my points will double. So I played Spider hard level of 16 games, this unlocked the golden ticket to double my points. I played the event, which was Event: Easy Street Mini of 5 games. It took me 11 minutes and 20 seconds, which put me in 8th place in my group. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. I played Angry Birds and Angry Birds and Friends.

I worked on my jigsaw puzzle called Birdhouses. 

 

The birdhouses puzzle so far

I worked out with my Wii Fit for a half hour and Gold's Gym for a half hour. 

 

Working out with the Wii Fit

 

Working out with Julie on the Gold's Gym

 

Afterwards I played two games of Monster Manor on Bounce Arcade. I ended up earning a bronze trophy each time but the second game was the best. I tried to stun the manor twice and failed. I was successful waking the manor two times. I didn't play too well but had fun.

 

Monster Manor

I played four games of pinball. I played the weekly challenge of Dracula and got close to getting a new high score. Then I played Cirqus Voltaire, Bay Watch and Big Bang Bar. While playing Cirqus Voltaire I didn't get a new high score but I joined the Cirqus, which means I entered my initials in the game. I also went to battle with the ringmaster and defeated him. I had a great game of Cirqus Voltaire.

 

Bay Watch

 

Big Bang Bar

 

Cirqus Voltaire

 

Dracula

In the evening we watched Star Trek Into Darkness and I watched Alice in Wonderland from our movies collection. Today I did 3,500 steps, I'm slowly working myself up to 12,000 steps.

 

 

 

   

Sunday 7-20-25 Covid Free, Games, Puzzle & Reading

 

Awesome Day

 

I'm Covid free. I have been fighting Covid for two weeks and the last four days I've been feeling good. I still have a little cough. I took a test this afternoon and it came back negative. This was my third test. C is the control line and T is the test line. When you are positive a line shows up on both C and T.

 

Test result of Covid-19

Larry finished reading the Martian on his Kindle. He said he liked the movie better because the book had too much technical science information. Then he started another book.

 

Relaxing with a book

I worked on my jigsaw puzzle most of the day.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: The Hard Road of 16 games. It took me 1 hour, 43 minutes and 29 seconds, which put me in 12th place in my group. I played Angry Birds and Angry Birds and Friends. 

Today is a beginning of a new weekly pinball challenge. I played last week's challenge of Truck Stop a few times to get a new high score but was unsuccessful. My high score put me in 39th out of 74 participants. So far this weeks challenge has three participants but it just the first day. My first high score for Dracula challenge is 105,455,910. 

 

Truck Stop

 

Dracula

 

I played six games of pinball, which were Dark Chaos (2), The Flintstones (3), World Cup Soccer (1), Willy Wonka (2), Medieval Madness (1) and Big Bang Bar (1). While playing World Cup Soccer I entered my initials as high score #3 and Willy Wonka I became high score #4.

 

Big Bang Bar

 

Dark Chaos

 

Medieval Madness

 

The Flintstones

 

Willy Wonka

 

 World Cup Soccer

 

In the evening we watched Star Trek Beyond. Then I watched the last Harry Potter movie called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.  

 

 

    

Saturday 7-19-25 Trip Research, Games & Synth Riders

 

Hanging out

 

We had a laid back day. We just hung around the house. One of those days where I didn't feel like doing anything. 

In a bit over a month we will be heading out on our Fall Trip. We're thinking about going to Canada. Today Larry looked at what we will need to do for cell phone and internet access if we do go there.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: World Tour Mini of 10 games. it took me 34 minutes and 36 seconds, which put me in 13th place in my group. I played Angry Birds and Angry Birds and Friends.

After lunch I was feeling good so I decided to workout with the Synth Riders for a half hour. Then I played two Pirate's Plunder on the Bounce Arcade. The second game was my best game. I earned a silver trophy and defeated my enemies twice. I got the Jolly Roger twice and earned an extra ball. I played Bounce Arcade for a half hour.

 

Pirate's Plunder Silver Trophy

 

While I was playing Bounce Arcade Larry watched some YouTube videos. He had to be careful when he walked in front of me because I was moving my arms around to hit the balls to play the game. I was playing Bounce Arcade and the Synth Riders in VR so I had my headset on. A few weeks ago Larry bought a new face piece for my headset. With the old one I could not see anything outside of the VR world, with this one I can see outside a bit and told him be careful I might hit him. The openings in the new face piece also make it cooler.

I played seven different games of pinball. I played the weekly challenge of Truck Stop, I didn't get a new high score so I'm in 31st place out of 58 participants. The other six were Metallica (2), Playboy (2), The Lord of the Rings (2), World Tour Joker Poker (2), Star Trek the Next Generation (1) and Spider-Man (1). While playing the second game of Playboy I collected all 12 playmates and played Mansion Mania so I entered my initials as a champion. I had fun.

 

Metallica

 

Playboy

 

Spider-Man

 

Star Trek the Next Generation

 

The Lord of the Rings

 

Truck Stop

 

World Tour Joker Poker

Larry thinks next weeks pinball challenge will be Dracula, he downloaded and installed it on the cabinet in both 2D and VR. Of course until they announce it you don't know for sure. I'll play it tomorrow.

In the evening we watched Star Trek out of our movies collection. Then I watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I.  

    

    

 

Friday 7-18-25 Errands, Reading, Games & Getting Better

 

Happy Friday

 

Happy Friday. Have a great weekend.

We're getting better. It feels more like a head cold or allergies. We feel very well during the day but when the sun goes down the allergies kick in.

We started the day out by going to town. We hadn't checked our mail for three weeks. First stop was at the Little Bohemian Bakery for a cinnamon roll but they were out of cinnamon rolls, this was 10 minutes to 9:00 am. They were sold out of everything but one pastry. First time we have seen this. Then we stopped at the UPS Store and got our mail. There wasn't much. Afterwards we went to Walmart to do a little grocery shopping. Then we went home.

 

Doing errands

Larry started the book The Martian. We have the movie and Larry wanted to read the book. He said so far it's very scientific with lots of facts on biochemistry. 

 

Relaxing with a book

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango of 20 games (10 Spider and 10 Tri Peaks). It took me 2 hours, 9 minutes and 16 seconds, which put me in 19th place in my group. I played Angry Birds and Angry Birds and Friends.

I ended up playing seven pinball games. I played Truck Stop, Theatre of Magic, Big Bang Bar, JP Space Cadet, Great Houdini, Time Lord and Big Lebowski. While playing Time Lord I entered my initials as high score #4.

 

Big Bang Bar

 

Big Lebowski

 

Great Houdini

 

JP Space Cadet

 

Theatre of Magic

 

Time Lord

 

Truck Stop

 

I continued working on the Birdhouses jigsaw puzzle.

I was going to go to Ett McAtee's Weekly A2 dance at 6:30 for an hour. I tried to log in for over 15 minutes and gave up. Ett wrote an e-mail about 7:00, she said she fixed the problem and if we wanted to dance she would call. I had moved onto watching television with Larry.

We watched Ford VS Ferrari from our movies collection. When Larry went to bed I watched Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I ended up doing 3,000 steps.

 

  

   

    

Thursday 7-17-25 Mowing, Games, Reading & Puzzle

 

Smile and have fun

 

 

We had a wonderful Thursday. I'm feeling much better. I might be over this. Unfortunately Larry has not fully recovered. He is feeling better but still a bit under the weather.   

 

Larry finished reading his book. 

 

 

 

Relaxing with a book

 

 

After lunch he went outside and mowed the frontyard. Last week when the the mowers came they cut the yards very short. After he finished mowing he said, that the frontyard wasn't as bad as it looked. Now it looks great.

 

 

  

Mowing the frontyard

 

 

I did my daily challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Pyramid Mini of five games. It took me 15 minutes and 41 seconds, which put me in 27th place in my group. I played some Angry Birds.

 

I worked on my jigsaw puzzle of the birdhouses.

 

I played seven games of pinball. I did the weekly challenge of Truck Stop and was unsuccessful in getting a new high score but had fun trying. Then I played six games developed by Marty. They were Rambo, Jaws, Willy Wonka, The Godfather, Superman and the Justice League and Mission Impossible. I entered my initials in Rambo as high score #4, Jaws high score #3, Willy Wonka high score #1 and Superman and the Justice League high score #2. I didn't get on the board in Mission Impossible. I had a super afternoon playing pinball.

 

 

 

Jaws

 

 

 

Mission Impossible

 

 

 

 

Rambo

 

 

 

Superman and the Justice League

 

 

 

The Godfather

 

  

 

Truck Stop

 

 

 

Willy Wonka

 

 

I worked out with my Wii Fit for a half hour. It had been 21 days since I did.

 

 

Working out

 

 

I played two games of Asteroid Outpost on Bounce Arcade. I earned a bronze trophy and a silver trophy. During the silver trophy game I mined the asteroids seven different times and was successful in mining the asteroids twice. I played two multiballs. I had fun. 

 

 

 

Asteroid Outpost

 

 In the evening we watched Inferno out of our movies collection. When Larry went to bed I watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix out of our movies collection. 

 

We had a good day. Hopeful Larry will feel better tomorrow.