Wednesday 5-20-26 Dancing Day, Computer Project & More

 

Virtual Square Dance Day

We had a beautiful day with a lot of sunshine. 

I spent most of the day virtual square dancing. I attended three dances. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 10:00 am for an hour. Terry was at the dance but didn't dance so Di danced by herself and called the whole dance. She called five tips to 8 participants. She worked on all the new calls, that were put in Plus from A1. She also worked on Plus moved the dancers were having problems with. I had a super time dancing to Di and with friends.

Second was Ett McAtee's Weekly C1 at 1:00 pm for an hour. This week Loren Smith covered her dance and Larry danced with me. Loren called five tips to 9 participants and he called a C2 tip. Loren did an outstanding job of calling for Ett. Larry and I had a great time dancing to Loren and with friends.

Third was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00 pm for an hour and a half. Karin Rabe and Greg Moore helped call the dance. The format was three tips of C1 to 7 participants, three tips of A2 to 9 participants and the last tip 11 participants and two Trivial questions. Dave Hutchinson showed up to dance because his club cancelled their dance because of snow. During the C1 session Dave introduced us to a couple of old moves, which were Cross Back and Turn and Trade. Cross Back is the dancer facing out turns back as the in facing dancer crosses. Hinge and Trade, which is the dancers at the end of the wave hinges and trade as the center dancers trade and roll. It always fun when Dave introduces us to old and higher level moves. I had a great evening of dancing to Dave, Karin and Greg and with friends.

While I danced Larry worked on formatting the C1 tapes we use on Tuesdays dance. He e-mailed Henry and asked what program he was using and how he was connecting to the Skis amp.  Henry wrote him back and gave him the information. He worked on the application Henry was using.

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Expert Only of 5 games. It took me 1 hour, 22 minutes and 17 seconds, which put me in 18th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played eight games of pinball. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were Batman Forever, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Fish Tales and The Goonies. While playing Batman Forever I became high score #1. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were Big Bang Bar, Big Buck Hunter Pro, Big Trouble In Little China and Theatre of Magic. While playing Theatre of Magic I became high score #2 and got a new high score for the weekly challenge of 1,150,292,910. This score moved me into 15 place out of 75 participants. While playing Big Trouble In Little China I became high score #3. I had a great day of playing pinball.

Batman Forever (Mini)

Creature From the Black Lagoon (Mini)

Fish Tales (Mini)

The Goonies (Mini)

Big Bang Bar (Big)

Big Buck Hunter Pro (Big)

Big Trouble In Little China (Big)

Theatre of Magic (Big)

After the dance we watched a couple of episodes of the second season of Dalgleish on PBS. When Larry went to bed I watched the third Harry Potter movie from our movies collection. It was Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I watched Jesse Stone: Death In Paradise from our movies collection. I ended up doing 3.000 steps.

I worked on my jigsaw puzzle while watching television.

     

Tuesday 5-19-26 Liberty Hill Dance , Di Green A2 Dance & More

 

Awesome day of dancing

We had an awesome day. The morning temperature was 67 degrees and the high was 93 degrees. We had wind and front came in at 8:30 pm. The front brought thunder and lightening and a stead rain. 

We started the day out by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly A2 for an hour. Di called the whole dance and Terry danced with her. As she called she cued through out the dance. She called to 11 participants. She called five tips but we only stayed for four of them. We had a super time dancing to Di and Terry and friends.

After leaving Di and Terry's dance we had lunch. The reason we left Di's dance early was because we decided to go to Liberty Hill to dance A2 to John Kephart. We were surprised to see Char and Glenn Larson. We talked to them and they weren't going to travel to dance this year. Char has been having problems falling. Over the past couple of years she has fallen three times, she broke one shoulder, then the other and then her hip. Larry asked if they would be interested in dancing C1 to tapes. They said they would. He also talked to Lynn, who dances C1 but she's going on a cruise for a couple weeks. She would be more than happy to dance C1 when she gets back. Larry has a project to do to get the C1 tapes ready for the dance next week.

John called for two hours to two squares and three extra dancers. He used cards so everyone had a chance to dance. We danced the whole dance. We hadn't danced with this groups of dancers in over two months because and had fun. Kay and Bob are always a pleasure to see and talk to. We appreciate their hospitality. Bob said he would be happy to let us dance C1 an hour before the A2 dance.

Liberty Hill is 60 miles from our house and it takes an hour and fifteen minutes to get there. We left the house at 11:20 am and didn't get home until 4:15 pm. It was a long day.

Get a partner and dance

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Easy Street of 30 games. It took me 1 hour, 17 minutes and 4 seconds to complete, which put me in 23rd place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played four games of pinball, which were three on the mini cabinet (Metallica, Pirate's Life and The Godfather) and one game on the big cabinet (Theatre of Magic). While playing Pirate's Life and The Godfather I became high score #1. I had a super time playing pinball.

Metallica (mini)

Pirate's Life (mini)

The Godfather (mini)

Theatre of Magic (big)

In the evening we watched a movie on Hoopla called Rose Hill. It was 1997 western starring Jennifer Garner as Mary Rose. It was about four boys, who lived on the street and recued an infant baby girl and raised her as a sister. It was an ok movie. After Larry went to bed I watched Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets from our movies collection.

While watching television I worked on my jigsaw puzzle. I ended up doing 5,000 steps. 

  

         

Monday 5-18-26 Dancing with Di, Workout, Computer Project & More

 

Happy Monday

We had a manic Monday. The weather was beautiful with the morning temperature of 64 degree and the high of 88 degrees. We had partly cloudy skies and wind.

We started the day out by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 9:00 am for an hour. Di called five tips to 12 participants. Larry danced four of the tips with me. I'm so glad that Di and Terry dance with us and Di cues moves because it saved me a few times and put me in the right place. Larry helped a lot also. We had a super time dancing to Di and with friends.

Get a partner and dance or dance by yourself virtually

Larry has been dong some research on tablets because the one he uses is getting very slow. But he hasn't been able to find one the size he wanted at a reasonable price. This afternoon he decided to wipe his tablet and reload it. Before he wiped out his tablet he backed it up in case he had troubles. It will take him a bit to reload the tablet. 

Today is the beginning of a new week so I played 16 games of Tri Peaks to earn the golden ticket. Then I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Medium Mayhem Mini of 15 games. It took me 46 minutes and 31 seconds to complete, which put me in 17th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

Before I setup the card table to work on my jigsaw puzzle I worked out with Synth Riders for a half hour. I worked out with four songs, which were Go!, Laser Pink, Riot and Tonight. While doing Tonight the second time I earned a new high score. It had been two months since I had worked out with the Synth Riders and I did pretty good.

Go!

Laser Pink

Riot

Tonight

Then I played Bounce Arcade for a half hour. I played two games of Monster Manor and one game of Gunpowder Gulch. 

I didn't do too well on the first game of Monster Manor but I did ok on the second game. During the second game I earned a bronze trophy by awaken the manor once, stunned the manor and I became a banister buster. 

Monster Manor

While playing Gunpowder Gulch I earned a new ball and silver trophy. I played three different events, which were Barrel Barrage twice, Gun Fight twice and Safe Crack once. While playing doing the Gun Fight I was successful in completing and Safe Crack and successful in completing. I played four multiballs, which were Wooden Sign Rally, Jail House Break twice, S.A.L.O.O.N. and Safe Crack. It was a good game.

Gunpowder Gulch

Larry e-mailed Henry and told him we were back from our trip. He replied back saying he had sold his house and moved already. We were disappointed because we won't be able to do C1 dancing on Tuesday. Larry had given Henry the tapes we dance to and he has a copy of the same tapes. He downloaded a program to his phone to see if he could run the tape sessions on Tuesday, He worked on the program and tapes and found he could do it. He e-mailed Susan and she wrote back. She said she was in London for a couple of weeks but she would be interested in dancing C1 again. She also said that Glen, Char, Brenda and Mike had showed up one week for C1 and Lynn and Belinda had showed up a few times. Maybe they would be interested in C1. Larry will talk to the Ski's tomorrow about the C1 session.

I played ten games of pinball. I played five on the mini cabinet, which were Dead Pool, Guardians of the Galaxy, Jaws, Lord of the Rings and Medieval Madness. While playing Guardians of the Galaxy I became Grand Champion. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Big Trouble in Little China, Blizzard of Ozz, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Theatre of Magic and Time Lord. I didn't get on the board on the big cabinet but I had fun.

Dead Pool (Mini)

Guardians of the Galaxy (Mini)

Jaws (Mini)

Medieval Madness (Mini)

The Lord of the Rings (Mini)

Big Trouble in Little China (Big)

Blizzard of Ozz (Big)

Tales of Arabian Nights (Big)

Theatre of Magic (Big)

Time Lord (Big)

In the evening we watched You Hurt My Feelings on Hoopla. It was a cute comedy starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tobias Menzies. It's about saying things to spare peoples feelings. After Larry went to bed I Started to watch the Harry Potter's movie series. The first movie was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Jesse Stone: Stone Cold from our movies collection. I ended up doing 4,000 steps.

While watching television I worked on my jigsaw puzzle.  

   

 

  

 

Sunday 5-17-26 Errands, New Challenge, Dancing with Loren & More

Have a great day!

We had a great day of doing this and that. 

The weather was windy and humid. The morning temperature was 75 degrees and the high was 85. We had a little fog in the morning.

I got up at 8:00 and got dressed. Then we loaded up the truck with the old oil and oil filters to recycle them. We also loaded an empty propane container to exchange it for a full container. We decided to take the Minnie back to storage, the maintenance is done and we're not going to use it for awhile. On the way to the storage center we stopped by 317 Donuts and bought donuts for breakfast.

Once it was in the storage unit we went to Walmart and recycled the oil and oil filter and exchanged the propane container. While we were at Walmart we bought items we were low on and a replacement paper towel holder in the kitchen. The old holder broke last night. We couldn't find one like the old one, which was a plastic holder that hung from the cabinet. Most of the new holders stand on the counter top. We did find one that hung from the cabinet. When we got home Larry hung it and it looks great.

New paper towel holder

While we were out we swung by Aldi to buy items we like from there. On the way home we saw some cars in the parking lot of the mall so we stopped and walked around looking at them. It was just a get together of people showing off their vehicles. Some of the cars were at the car show yesterday. It was a very small show but very nice to see the cars.

 

A Dodge viper

Just hanging out together with you cool car

Some of the cars at the get together

Larry started the day off by downloading a new pinball game, Big Trouble In Little China. We saw a YouTube on the game and it looked great. Once he downloaded the game he installed it on the big cabinet in both VR and 2D. He had a problem and went on Reddit and found other people were having the same problem. The developer said you could disable a function and it will go away. It worked and later on he played with the volume of the music and callouts. He got it working great. It has a cool VR Room. Below are pictures of the VR Room.

 

Playfield of the game Big Trouble in Little China

Skeleton on the left

 

Kurt Russel on the left in the room

Back of the room

Guards in the room

Ceiling in the room

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango of 20 games (10 Spider and 10 Pyramid). It took me 2 hours, 8 minutes and 25 seconds, which put me in 9th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

Today is the beginning of a new week so I get a new weekly challenge in pinball, which is Theatre of Magic. Last week's challenge was Tales of the Crypt, I played it for about a half hour before the challenges ended. I didn't get a new high score but I had fun trying. I ended up in 39th place out of 127 participants. I played the new challenge of Theatre of Magic. My first high score was 402,682,430, which put me in 19th place out of 26 participants. I played two new pinball games, which were Ready Player One and Big Trouble in Little China. I had fun playing the new games.

Big Trouble in Little China

Ready Player One

Tales From the Crypt

Theatre of Magic

I also played three pinball games on the mini cabinet, which were Creature From the Black Lagoon, Pirate's Life and Red & Ted Road Show. While playing Pirate's Life I became high score #3. I had fun playing pinball.

Creature From the Black Lagoon

Pirate's Life

Red & Ted Road Show

We attended Ett Sunday C Series at 1:00 for an hour. Loren Smith covered for Ett because she was out of town. Loren called five tips of C1 and one tip of C2. Loren called to 7 participants. Larry and I danced the C1 session of the dance. Loren did a great job of calling and worked us through moves we were having problems with. We had a super time.

We love square dancing

In the evening we watched Gemini Man on Hoopla. It was a 2019 science fiction movie about cloning of a retired Force Recon Marine sniper. It was a good movie. When Larry went to bed I watched Sonic The Hedgehog 3 and Jesse Stone: Night Passage from our movies collection. I ended up doing 4,000 steps. 

I worked on my jig saw puzzle while watching television and playing games.

 

The puzzle so far