Sunday 7-26-26 New Weekly Challenge, Projects, Workout & More

Smile and have fun

We had another hot day with the high temperature of 99 degrees and the low of 75 degrees.

It's summertime

Larry continued learning Jukecab. Now that he has it working on a computer he has figured out it will not work on his jukeboxes. He contacted Jay, the developer of Jukecab, he is going to add Larry's ideas so it will work on small jukeboxes that only have a limited amount of buttons. Currently it works great with a mouse or touch screen, neither of which an actual jukebox has. He is amazing at responding and working on updating things, he lives in the U.K., which is six hours ahead of us. He also works an 8 to 5 job.

Larry also played with his new crimper. 

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Easy Street of 30 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 worked out with the Wii Fit for 45 minutes. I did my own workout. I did one Aerobic exercise for 8 minutes (Rhythm Boxing), two Balance Games exercises for 7 minutes (Soccer Heading two times for 4 minutes and Tightrope Walk two times for 3 minutes), four Strength Training exercises for 10 minutes (Sideways Leg Lift 20 reps for 2 minutes, Single-Leg Extensions 20 reps for 3 minutes, Single-Leg Twist 20 reps for 2 minutes and Torso Twist 6 reps for 3 minutes), three Training Plus exercises for 10 minutes (Obstacle Course for 4 minutes, Perfect 10 for 2 minutes and Table Tilt Plus for 4 minutes) and five Yoga exercises for 10 minutes (Chair for 2 minutes, Half-Moon for 2 minutes, Palm Tree for 2 minutes, Tree for 2 minutes and Warrior for 2 minutes). I had a great workout.

Aerobics (Rhythm Boxing)

Balance Games (Soccer Heading and Tightrope Walk)

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

Training Plus (Obstacle Course, Perfect 10 and Table Tilt Plus)

Yoga (Sideways Leg Lift, Single-Leg Extension, 

Single-Leg Twist and Torso Twist)

I worked with four songs two times a piece from the Synth Rider for 30 minutes. The songs were Go!, Lazer Pink, Riot and Tonight. While working out with Tonight I earned one outstanding score, which means I didn't miss any of the balls. I had a good workout considing I hadn't use the Synth Riders for a week.

Go!

Lazer Pink

Riot

Tonight

Today starts a new weekly challenge in pinball, which is Bay Watch. I already played this game as a challenge back in February of 2025 so Larry had to reload the game. I reloaded the game in both 2D and VR. Then he played it to make sure it worked correctly. Before the new challenge started at 2:00 I played last week's challenge of Sponge Bob's Bikini Bottom. I played it for 45 minutes to try to get a new high score but wasn't successful. But I had fun trying. I came in 46 out of 108. When the new challenge started I played it a few times. My first high score was 584,544,350. I'm waiting for it to be approved. When it is I'll be in 13th out of 20 participants so far.

Sponge Bob's Bikini Bottom high score for the week

Bay Watch first high score this week

I played six other games of pinball. I played two games on the big cabinet, which were Big Bang Bar and The Beach Boys. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were Batman Forever, Cactus Canyon, Great Houdini and Pirates of the Caribbean. While playing Cactus Canyon I became Grand Champion and Great Houdini I became high score #2. I had a fun afternoon playing pinball.

Big Bang Bar (Big)

The Beach Boys (Big)

Batman Forever (Mini)

Cactus Canyon (Mini)

Great Houdini (Mini)

Pirate of the Caribbean (Mini)

We watched YouTube videos while I played pinball. I worked on the Horse of Iron jigsaw puzzle when I could.

In the evening we watched the next Super Hero movie from our movies collection, which was The Incredible Hulk. When Larry went to bed I watched the next Mission Impossible movie, which was Mission Impossible-Rogue Nation from our movies collection. I ended up doing 3,000 steps.  

 

 

 

Saturday 7-25-26 Jukebox Project, Workout, Puzzle & More

 Keeping Cool

We stayed at home trying to keep cool under the air conditioner. I hope everyone is keeping cool. The morning temperature was 75 degrees and the high was 98 degrees and it felt like 109 degrees. Just think it's only halfway into the summer.

Temperature at the house at 3:00 pm

Larry spent the day playing with jukebox stuff . He continued learning the Jukecab software. He's having fun. 

Jukecab
 

 

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. While playing Mahjong I played yesterday's daily challenge. The event was Event: Spider Mini of 5 games. It took me 16 minutes and 44 seconds to finish, which put me in 17th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out for an hour. 

I worked out on the Wii Fit for 30 minutes. I let the Wii Fit Plus choose a routine for me to do. The routine was for 26 minutes using 12 different exercises. I worked out with one Aerobics exercise (Basic Run), one Strength Training exercise (Single-Leg Twist 10 reps), five Training Plus exercises (Big Top Juggling, Bird's Eye Bull's Eye, Island Cycling, Obstacle Course and Rhythm Kung-Fu) and five Yoga exercises (Chair, Half-Moon, Standing Knee, Sun Salutation and Triangle). I earned 24 minutes out of the 26 minutes the routine had predicted. I did another Aerobic exercise (Rhythm Boxing for 4 minutes and another Training Plus exercise (Perfect 10 for 2 minutes). I had a great workout.

Aerobics (Basic Run and Rhythm Boxing)

Strength Training (Single-Leg Twist)

     

Training Plus (Big Top Juggling, Bird's Eye Bull's Eye,

 Island Cycling, Obstacle Course, Perfect 10 and Rhythm Kung-Fu)

 

Yoga (Chair, Half-Moon, Standing Knee, Sun Salutation and Triangle)

 I worked out with Gold's Gym for 30 minutes. I had Gold's Gym Prepare a Workout, which had one exercise from the Advance Lesson Menu, one exercise from the Beginner Lesson Menu and one exercise from the Exercise Menu for 24 minutes. The prepared workout was Forward And Back Step Combo for 7 minutes warmup, Ducking Combo for 14 minutes and Roadwork for 3 minutes. I worked out for another 6 minutes with one exercise from the Intermediate Lesson Menu with Weaving Combo. It was a great workout.

Advance Lesson Menu (Warm Up Forward and Back Step Combo) 

Beginner Lesson Menu (Ducking Combo) 

Exercise Menu (Roadwork)

Intermediate Lesson Menu (Warm UP Weaving Combo)

I played 11 games of pinball. I played five on the mini cabinet, which were Jaws, Michael, No Good Goffers!, Pirate's Life and Playboy. While playing Michael I became high score #2. While playing Playboy I played Mansion Mania, where I entered my initials as Playboy Champion because I got all 12 playmates. I played six games on the big cabinet, which were Beetlejuice, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Sponge Bob's Bikini Bottom, Star Fox, The Beach Boys and World Cup Soccer. While playing The Beach Boys I became high score #3. I had fun playing pinball.

Jaws (Mini)

Michael (Mini)

No Good Goffers! (Mini)

Pirate's Life (Mini)

Playboy (Mini)

Beetlejuice (Big)

Creature From The Black Lagoon (Big)

Sponge Bob's Bikini Bottom (Big)

Star Fox (Big)

The Beach Boys (Big)

World Cup Soccer (Big)

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

Horse of Iron puzzle

We watched the YouTube videos we follow.

In the evening we continued watching Super Hero movies from our collection. The first movie was Captain Marvel and the second was Captain America. Tonight we watched Iron Man. After Larry went to bed I continued watching the Mission Impossible movie series of eight movies. The fourth movie is Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. I ended up doing 5,000 steps.

Relaxing in front of the television

After watching Iron Man Larry watched some YouTube videos. He got a new crimping tool called iCrump IWS-3220M Micro Connector Pin Crimping Tool from Amazon. It didn't come with instructions so he watched some YouTube videos on how the tool works.  

  

 

 

Friday 7-24-26 Dancing, Workout, Jukebox Project & More

 

Celebrate it's Friday

We had a good day of doing this and that.

We had an over cast day with wind. The low was 78 degrees and the high was 96 degrees with the humidity of 42%. We kept busy doing this and that.

We started the day out going to town because I had an appointment with a pelvic therapist. I have a little leakage and the therapist said it not unusual for women to have this problem. Today she taught me some exercises, that can help build up my muscle in the pelvic. It's going to take time but I can fix the problem.

On the way there we stopped by Top Donuts and Larry bought breakfast for us. After my appointment we went to Harbor Freight. We hadn't been there for awhile and we wanted to see what they had. There's always a tool you like to have. But you have to think are you ever going to use it or how often or do you need it. We didn't buy anything. By the time we got home the morning was gone.

When we got home Larry put in an order for groceries via Walmart Home Delivery. We received our groceries at 4:00. After putting the groceries away I barbecued some pork for dinner.

Larry spent the day messing with jukebox stuff. Before I got up he had opened up a couple of his jukeboxes to see if a mini computer he has would fit inside, previously he has used Raspberry Pi computers which are really small, the Windows based mini computer is more than twice the size. By rearranging things it will fit. He also must be able to turn it on and off without opening the jukebox, this requires adding an external switch, he disassembled the computer and soldered a couple of wires to the motherboard that will allow him to connect a switch.

Next up was installing Windows and then Jukecab. He discovered something else that will need to be changed in order for it to work on his jukebox, he wrote Jay, he replied saying it was a great idea and he will think about how to add it in. Larry is having fun learning the new program.

After lunch I went and took a nap for a couple of hours. When I woke up I played games and worked out. 

I played the Daily Challenge of Solitaire and the event. The event was Event: Medium Mayhem of 27 games. It took me 1 hour, 23 minutes and 23 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 a half hour with the Wii Fit. I did the Wii Fit Plus Routine for 26 minutes and four minutes with Perfect 10 three times to make the 30 minutes. The routine had one exercise from the Aerobics menu ( Rhythm Boxing), two exercises from the Balance Games menu (Lotus Focus and Table Tilt), three exercises from the Strength Training menu (Rowing Squats 15 reps, Single-Leg Twist 10 reps and Torso Twist 3 reps), two exercises from Training Plus menu (Island Cycling and Rhythm Kung-Fu) and four exercises from the Yoga menu ( Downward Facing Dog, Standing Knee, Sun Salutation and Triangle). I had a good workout.

Aerobics (Rhythm Boxing)

Balance Games (Lotus Focus and Table Tilt)

Strength Training (Row Squats, Single-Leg Twist and Torso Twist)

Training Plus (Island Cycling, Perfect 10 and Rhythm Kung-Fu)

Yoga (Downward Facing Dog, Standing Knee, Sun Salutation and Triangle) 

I played eight pinball games, I played four from the mini cabinet, which were Dark Chaos, The Godfather, The Goonies and Willy Wonka. While playing Willy Wonka I became high score #1. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were Medieval Madness, Metallica, Queen and Sponge Bob's Bikini Bottom. While playing Queen I became high score #2. I had fun playing pinball.

Dark Chaos (Mini)

The Godfather (Mini)

The Goonies (Mini)

Willie Wonka (Mini)

Medieval Madness (Big)

Metallica (Big)

Queen (Big)

Sponge Bob's Bikini Bottom (Big)

We watched YouTube videos.

I attended Ett McAtee's Weekly A2 dance at 6:30 for an hour. She has been busy traveling and calling in  person so we hadn't danced to her in couple of weeks. She called four tips to 9 participants. In between the tips we visited with each other. Dancers came from the United States, Canada and Australia. I had fun dancing to Ett and with friends.

After the dance we watched Captain America from our movies collection. After Larry went to bed I watched Mission Impossible III from our movies collection. I ended up doing 4,000 steps.