Thursday 7-30-26 Just Another Day of Doing This & That

 

Summertime Fun

We had another beautiful day with sunshine. The morning temperature was 76 degrees and the high was 101 degrees. 

Larry continues working with Jukecab. He is also working on our movies to shrink the size of each movie.

Late in the afternoon we got a phone call from Doughty Automotive saying the Equinox was ready to be picked up. So we went and picked it up. We are very impressed with the service. They called us everyday giving us update on where they were on the Equinox. Yesterday, they said they were 80% done. We didn't hear from them until 4:30 so we figured the work wasn't going to be done until tomorrow. For $2200 we now have a properly working air conditioner. 

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango of 20 games (10 Spiders and 10 Tri Peaks). It took me 2 hours, 12 minutes and 38 seconds to complete, which put me in 22nd place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out for an hour and 45 minutes. 

I worked out 45 minutes on the Wii Fit using the Wii Fit Plus routine, that was chosen for me for 27 minutes, Training Plus Perfect 10 3 times for 3 minutes, three exercises from the Balance Games for 10 minutes (Ski Jump three times for 3 minutes, Ski Slalom three times for 3 minutes and Table Tilt for 4 minutes) and two exercises from Strength Training for five minutes (Single-Leg Twist 20 reps for 2 minutes and Torso Twist 6 reps for 3 minutes. The Wii Fit Plus Routine was 12 exercises, that consist of three exercises from Aerobics (Advance Step, Hula Hoop and Rhythm Boxing), one exercise from Strength Training (Rowing Squats of 15 reps), three exercises from Training Plus (Perfect 10, Rhythm Kung-Fu and Snowball Fight) and five exercise from Yoga (Deep Breathing, Half-Moon, Palm Tree, Triangle and Warrior). I had a great workout.

Aerobics (Advance Step, Hula Hoop and Rhythm Boxing)

 

Balance Games (Ski Jump, Ski Slalom and Table Tilt)

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

Training Plus (Perfect 10, Rhythm Kung-Fu and Snowball Fight)

Yoga (Deep Breathing, Half-Moon, Palm Tree, Triangle and Warrior)

I worked out with Just Dance for 30 minutes with Just Dance 2019 with 9 songs. The songs were Rhythm of the Night, New Rules, Work Work, New World, Water Me, Havana, One Kiss, A Little Party Never Hurt Nobody and Sweet Unforgettable Thing. I earned new avatars by dancing to songs I haven't danced to. The avatars are the people sing the song. It was a fun workout.

Just Dance 2019 10 minute songs (Rhythm of the Night, New Rules and Work Work)

Just Dance 2019 for 20 minutes songs (New World, Water Me, Havana, One Kiss, 

A Little Party Never Killed Nobody and Sweet Unforgettable Thing)

I worked out with the Synth Riders for 30 minutes with four songs two times. The songs were Choices, Neo Tokyo, Sunset Hologram and Suppress It. While I did Choices I earned 2 outstanding scores, Neo Tokyo I earned 2 outstanding scores and 1 new high score, Sunset Hologram I earned 1 outstanding score and Suppress It 1 outstanding score and 1 new high score (not the outstanding score). I had a great workout.

Choices

Neo Tokyo

Sunset Hologram

Suppress It

I played eight games of pinball. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were Ace of Speed, Great Houdini, Theatre of Magic and Willy Wonka. While playing Great Houdini I became high score #4 and Willy Wonka I became high score #1. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were Bay Watch, Guardians of the Galaxy, Jaws and Mustang. While playing Guardians of the Galaxy I became high score #1. I had a fun time playing pinball o both the mini cabinet and the big cabinet.

Ace of Speed (Mini)

Great Houdini (Mini)

Theatre of Magic (Mini)

Willy Wonka (Mini)

Bay Watch (Big)

Guardians of the Galaxy (Big)

Jaws (Big)

Mustang (Big)

I worked on Horse of Iron jigsaw puzzle.

In the evening we watched the next superhero movie from our movies collection, which was The Avengers. When Larry went to bed I watched the last Mission Impossible movie, which was Mission Impossible-The Final Reckoning, I ended up doing 4,000 steps. 

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Wednesday 7-29-26 Virtual Dance Day, Jukebox Project & Missing Bowl

 

Awesome Day!

We had an awesome day. The morning temperature was 75 degrees and the high was 98 degrees with the humidity of 42%. 

High Temperature

For the last two days I have been putting a small metal bowl with nectar in it on the back porch for the squirrel to drink. Larry and I have been fighting with a squirrel for awhile now. He kept climbing up the rail on the back porch to get to the bowl we have full of nectar for the humming birds. It made a mess and we had to spray off the area where the squirrel spilled the nectar. Then we had to chase down the bowl. We put Velcro around the bowl to hold it on the Command Strips. The squirrel figured out how to remove the Velcro from the bowl. That's when I decided to put the metal bowl on the porch. The squirrel has been drinking from it and the humming birds bowl hasn't been touched by the squirrel. I had a big surprise when I woke up this morning. The small metal bowl was gone. We looked everywhere, it was no where to be found. Larry looked through the back porch security camera footage from the early morning. He discovered a racoon was on the porch, it found the bowl and drank some of the nectar. Then it picked the bowl up in it's paws and walked away with it at 1:01 am. 

Years ago Larry had read, that racoons like shiny things. When they find anything shiny they will take it. There are signs around campgrounds we camp in to put everything away because they have masked bandits around. People have lost their car keys and other items. The signs have a picture of a racoon as the mask bandit. 

A cute racoon

I attended three virtual square dances.

First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 10:00 am for an hour. This week Di asked Loren Smith to cover for them because they had another engagement and wouldn't be back in time. He called four tips to 6 participants. He called the moves, that were added to the Plus moves from the A1 moves. He also called Spin-Chain-The-Gear and Exchange, Relay The Deucey and Coordinate, which are four couples moves. Larry danced with me and Liz from Canada was happy he did that way she could follow him dancing. She dances the man's position. We had a super time dancing to Loren and with friends from United States, United Kingdoms and Canada.

Second was Ett McAtee's Weekly C1 at 1:00 pm for an hour. She called four tips to 15 participants. During the third and fourth tips she worked shopped Half Tag, Vertical Half Tag, Vertical Tag (3/4, 1/2, 1/4 and full tag. She explained what formation you were in. She didn't cue but she did say where you should be. I had a fun hour dancing to Ett and with friends from the United States, United Kingdoms, Canada, Australia and Germany.

Third was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00 pm for an hour and a half. Karin Rabe and Greg Moore helped Dave call the dance. The format was three tips of C1 to 7 participants, three tips of A2 to 9 participants and two trivial questions in between the A2 tips. It's always a small group but we have fun dancing with each and visiting in between tips. Dave, Karin and Greg did a wonderful job of calling the dance. I had a great evening dancing with friends.  

Get a partner and dance

While I danced and played games Larry continued learning Jukecab and how it works. He spent most of the time today redesigning a skin to work with the program.

In between the dances I played games and worked out. 

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: World Tour Mini of 10 games. It took me 36 minutes and 32 seconds to complete, which put me in 6th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2. 

I worked out on the Wii Fit for 30 minutes with the Wii Fit Plus Routine. The routine was for 32 minutes but I only did three Aerobics exercises (Advance Step, Basic Step and Basic Run), two Balance Games exercises (Lotus Focus and Table Tilt), one Strength Training (Balance Bridge 6 reps), four Training Plus (Big Top Juggling, Rhythm Parade, Skateboard Arena and Snowball Fight) and two Yoga exercises (Triangle and Warrior). I did Perfect 10 to do the 30 minutes. I had a great workout.

Aerobics (Advance Step, Basic Step and Basic Run)

Balance Games (Lotus Focus and Table Tilt)

Strength Training (Balance Bridge)

Training Plus (Big Top Juggling, Perfect 10, Rhythm Parade, 

Skateboard Arena and Snowball Fight)

Yoga (Triangle and Warrior)

I worked out with the Synth Riders to four songs two times. The songs were Pursuit, Silver Stallion, The Curse and The End Of The Night. While working out with Pursuit I earned two outstanding scores, Silver Stallion I earned two outstanding scores and The End Of The Night I earned one outstanding score. I had fun working out with the Synth Riders.

Pursuit

Silver Stallion

The Curse

The End Of The Night

I played six games of pinball. I played three games on the mini cabinet, which were Pirate's Life, Pirates of the Caribbean and The Goonies. I played three games on the big cabinet, which were Bay Watch, The Beach Boys and Willow. I didn't get a new high score or on the board in any of the games but I had fun.

Pirate's Life (Mini)

Pirates of the Caribbean (Mini)

The Goonies (Mini)

Bay Watch (Big)

The Beach Boys (Big)

Willow (Big)

After the last dance we watched Stuart Little from our movies collection. When Larry went to bed I watched the next Mission Impossible movie, which was Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning Part One from our movies collection. I ended up doing 4,000 steps.

 

         

        

Tuesday 7-28-26 Liberty Hill Dance & More

 

The moon at 10:00 pm

We had a hot sunny day. The low was 74 degrees and the high was 101 degrees according to the National Weather Channel. When Larry went to bed he noticed how bright the moon was. It was full but very small. We went outside on the back porch to look at it. It was beautiful.

Before going to Liberty Hill. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong from yesterday and today. The event was Event: Pyramid Adventure of 20 games. It took me 1 hour, 37 minutes and 6 seconds to complete, which put me in 18th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

We had a great day of dancing to John Kephart at the Ski's house in Liberty Hill. We left our house at 10:15 am. When we got to Liberty Hill we parked in a parking lot and had lunch. We arrived at the Ski's house at 11:40 am. We said our hellos to Kay and Bob and their dog Baily. We had six dancers (Brenda, Mike, Susan, Lynn, Larry and me) for the C1 tape session at 12:00 pm for an hour. We danced to Johnny Preston. We had a super time dancing C1. 

At 1:00 pm we danced A2 to John Kephart. We had enough dancers for one square and four sitting out. Lynn is nice enough to bring her computer, which has a program designating what square you dance in and with who. Larry and I danced together but other people didn't dance with their partner and others were single dancers. We had a great afternoon of dancing with friends and to John. 

Dancing with John in Liberty Hill

We were back at the house at 4:45 pm. Just in time for dinner. 

After dinner I played seven games of pinball. I played three games on the mini cabinet, which were Dr. No, JP Dead Pool and Mission Impossible. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were Bay Watch, Big Bang Bar, Dracula and Junk Yard. While playing Bay Watch I got another high score for the week challenge of 918,735,170, which put me in 30th place out of 48 participants. Even though I didn't get on the board playing the other games I had a great time playing. 

Dr. No (Mini)

JP Dead Pool (Mini)

Mission Impossible (Mini)

Bay Watch (Big)

Big Bang Bar (Big)

Dracula (Big)

Junk Yard (Big)

While I played pinball we watched YouTube videos.

After playing pinball and watching videos we watched the next Super Hero movie, which was Thor from our movies collection. After Larry went to bed I watched the sixth Mission Impossible movie, which Mission Impossible-Fallout from our movies collection. I ended up doing 4,000 steps.

Monday 7-27-26 Dancing, Project, Puzzle & More

 

Another 100 degree day

We had a hot Monday with the high of 100 degrees and the morning temperature of 74 degrees.

We started the day out by taking the Equinox to Doughty Automotive shop. Every year or two Larry has been having to add freon to the air conditioner. A month or so ago he once again had to add freon and today the AC is already not blowing as cool as it should. Time to get the leak fixed. He stopped by Doughty Automotive Thursday and made an appointment for today. They looked at it and found a leak in the evaporative core, unfortunately that is the worst place to have a leak, the entire dash will have to be removed to replace it. About $2,300.00 dollars. We could continue putting freon in for a bit but the leak is getting worse. Larry decided to let them do the work so we'll be without the car for a number of days.

Getting the Equinox worked on

When we got home we attended Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 9:00 am for an hour and fifteen minutes. Di called five tips to 16 participants from the U.K., U.S., Canada, France and Germany. Larry danced four of the tips with me. Di worked on moves the dancers were having problems with. A couple of them were Mix The Windmill and Anything Chain Thru. We had a super time dancing to Di and with friends.

Participants in the C1 dance

Larry continued playing with Jukecab. Jay got back with Larry and told him he did some fixes to the program to help him with his problems. Larry played with the fixes and continued communicating with Jay. Larry thought Jay was in the U.K. but found out he actually is in Settle, Washington. Larry is having a great time playing with Jukecab.

Before I played the event in Solitaire I played eight games of Spider and eight games of Pyramid to earn a golden ticket, which doubles my score when I solved a Solitaire game during the week. I played the event was Event: Klondike Mini of 10 games. It took me 26 minutes and 41 seconds to complete the games, which put me in 8th 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 the Wii Fit Plus Routine of 12 exercises for 32 minutes and 12 minutes more with Balance Games to make the 45 minutes. The routine consist of  three Aerobics exercises (Basic Run, Basic Step and Super Hula Hoop), one Balance Game exercise (Lotus Focus), two Strength Training exercises (Balance Bridge 6 reps and Single-Leg Extension 6 reps), five Training Plus exercises (Big Top Juggling, Obstacle Course, Rhythm Parade, Skateboard Arena and  Snowball Fight) and one Yoga exercise (Warrior). The extra Balance Games exercises for 13 minutes (Ski Jump twice for 2 minutes, Ski Slalom three times for 3 minutes, Table Tilt for 4 minutes and Tightrope Walk 3 times for 4 minutes). I had a great workout.

Aerobics (Basic Run, Basic Step and Super Hula Hoop)

 

Balance Games (Lotus Focus)

Strength Training (Balance Bridge and Single-Leg Extension)

Training Plus (Big Top Juggling, Obstacle Course, Rhythm Parade, 

Skateboard Arena and Snowball Fight)

Yoga (Warrior)

Training Plus (Ski Jump, Ski Slalom, Table Tilt and Tightrope Walk)

I worked out with Just Dance 2018 for 40 minutes to ten songs. The songs were Kissing Strangers, Instruction, Got That, Fight Club, Waka Waka (This Time For Africa), Rockabye, Boom Boom, Daddy Cool, John Wayne and Naughty Girl (This Time For Africa). I had a good workout.

                                                                                                                          

Just Dance 2018

I played ten games of pinball while we watched YouTube videos. I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were Fish Tales, Great Houdini, No good Goffers!, Tales of the Arabian Nights and Theatre of Magic. While playing Fish Tales I became high score #3, Great Houdini I became high score #3 and Theatre of Magic I became high score #4. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Bay Watch, Indianapolis 500, JP Viper Night Driver, Mustang and The Beach Boys. I had fun playing pinball on both the mini and big cabinet.

Fish Tales (Mini)

Great Houdini (Mini)

No Good Goffers! (Mini)

Tales of the Arabian Nights (Mini)

Theatre of Magic

Bay Watch (Big)

Indianapolis 500

JP Viper Night Driving (Big)

Mustang (Big)

The Beach Boys (Big)

In the evening we watched the next Super Hero from our movies collection, which was Iron Man 2. Then when Larry went to bed I finished watching the second season of Inspector Ellis and the fifth season of Harry Wilder. I ended up doing 6,000 steps.