Tuesday 8-4-26 Dancing A, Games & Having Fun

Awesome Day of Dancing

We had an awesome day of dancing. 

The morning temperature was 76 degrees and it got up to 102 degrees. 

When we were driving to Liberty Hill we noticed a lot of smoke in the air. Larry Googled where the smoke was coming from. It said it was coming in from the fires in Washington. We're planning to start our fall trip in a couple of weeks but if the smoke doesn't clear out we may have to put it off.

We started the day out by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's weekly A2 dance at 10:00 am for an hour. Di called five tips to 12 participants. Terry danced most of the dance with Di. Larry danced four of the tips with me. When the dancers were having problems with a move Di would walk us through it. We had a super time dancing to Di and Terry and with friends.

We love square dancing

After the dance we had lunch. We did not have a C1 session so we didn't have to be at the Ski's house until 1:00 pm. We left the house at 11:30 am and we got to Ski's house at 12:40 pm. This week the Ski's were out of town but they asked their daughter to open the house for the dance. It is so nice of the Ski's to open their home for the dance. We used cards this week and we had enough dancers for seven couples and an extra dancer. John Kephart called the dance for two hours, he asked John Carlson to call a tip. John Kephart is going to be in Japan for three weeks so John Carlson will cover for him. John Carlson needed to practice because he doesn't call A often. He did a good job of calling the tip. We rested for a couple of tips. John worked on All Four Couples Do The Right Square Thru and a Left Relay The Deucey.  We had a fun afternoon of dancing to John Kephart and with friends.

Get a partner and dance

In between the dances Larry continued experiments on his new mini computer. He also working on our movies.

I played games. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Medium Mayhem Mini of 5 games. It took me 21 minutes and 28 seconds to complete, which put me in 27th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played ten games of pinball. I played five on the mini cabinet, which were Ace of Speed, Batman Forever, Dr. No, Lord of the Rings and No Fear. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Beetlejuice, Big Buck Hunter Pro, Elvira House of Horrors Blood Red Kiss, Transformers and World Poker Joker. While playing Transformers I became Grand Champion.

Ace of Speed (Mini)

Batman Forever (Mini)

Dr. No (Mini)

Lord of the Rings (Mini)

World Poker Joker (Mini)

Beetlejuice (Big)

Big Buck Hunter Pro (Big)

Elvira House of Horrors Blood Red Kiss (Big)

Transformers (Big)

World Poker Joker (Big)

In the evening we watched the next super hero movie for our movies collection, which was Captain America: The Winter Soldier. After Larry went to bed I watched the next Harry Potter movie from our movies collection, which was Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I ended up doing 3,000 steps.

I worked on the Horse of Iron jigsaw puzzle.

     

Monday 8-3-26 Dancing with Di, Movie Project, New Computer & More

 Happy Monday

We had a hot and humid day. The morning temperature was 69 degrees and the high was 103 degrees and it felt like 111 degrees. 

We started the day by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's weekly C1 dance at 9:00 am for an hour and fifteen minutes. Di danced by herself while she called five tips to 11 participants. Larry danced four of the tips with me. We had a super time dancing to Di and with friends.

Get a partner and dance

Larry continued shrinking and getting subtitles for our movies. 

Larry ordered a brand new mini computer and received it today. His plan is to use it to replace a Raspberry Pi that is in one of his jukeboxes. Raspberry Pi's don't run Windows and the new Jukecab software runs on Windows. He did lots of experimenting with it and is working on creating an image of the hard drive.  He wants to use and run it a lot to try and ensure it will not fail. It works great so far.

Mini Computer

Mini computer with it's cover off

I played games. I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Free Cell Adventure of 20 games. It took me 2 hours, 34 minutes and 17 seconds to complete, which put me in 18th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played four games of pinball on the big cabinet, which were Big Buck Hunter Pro, Fish Tales, Playboy and The Beach Boys. While playing Playboy I played Manson Mania, which I became a Playboy Grand Champion. I have fun playing pinball on the big cabinet.

Big Buck Hunter Pro

Fish Tales

Playboy

The Beach Boys

I worked out on the Wii Fit Plus for 45 minutes. I did two exercises from the Aerobic menu for 10 minutes (Basic Run 2 minutes and Rhythm Boxing for 8 minutes). I did four exercises from the Strength Training menu for 11 minutes (Lunge 20 reps for 4 minutes, Rowing Squat 15 reps for 1 minute, Torso Twist 6 reps for 3 minutes and Tricep Extensions 20 reps for 3 minutes). The reason I only earned 1 minute in rowing squats because I was unsuccessful in doing any squats at all. I did three exercises from the Training Plus menu for 14 minutes (Obstacle Course for 4 minutes, Perfect 10 four times for 4 minutes and Table Tilt Plus for 7 minutes). I did five exercises from the Yoga menu for 10 minutes ( Chair for 2 minutes, Palm Tree for 2 minutes, Standing Knee for 2 minutes, Tree for 2 minutes and Triangle for 2 minutes). I had a great workout on the Wii Fit.

Basic Run and Rhythm Boxing

Lunges, Rowing Squats, Torso Twist and Tricep Extensions

Obstacle Course, Perfect 10 and Table Tilt Plus

Chair, Palm Tree, Standing Knee, Tree and Triangle

In the evening we watched Masters of the Universe. It was sword-and-sorcery film based on the media franchise by Mattel. It wasn't that good. After Larry went to bed I watched the second Harry Potter movie called Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I ended up doing 3.500 steps.

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

  

  

Sunday 8-2-26 New Pinball Challenge, Movies Project & Having Fun

Smile and have fun

We had a fun day of doing this and that. 

We had a hot humid day. The morning temperature was 67 degrees and the high was 100 degrees and humidity was 29%.

 Temperature at 3:00 at the house

Larry spent the day working on subtitles on our collection of movies.

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 6 games (3 Klondike and 3 Tri Peaks). It took me 11 minutes and 49 seconds to complete, which put me in 18th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out with the Wii Fit Plus for 30 minutes. I did my own routine, which was one exercise from Aerobics for 8 minutes (Rhythm Boxing), two exercises from Balance Games for 8 minutes (Penguin Slide two times for 4 minutes and Soccer Heading two times for 4 minutes), three exercises from Strength Training for 8 minutes (Single-Leg Extension 20 reps for 3 minutes, Single-Leg Twist 20 reps for 2 minutes and Torso Twist 6 reps for 3 minutes) and three exercises from Yoga 6 minutes (Chair for 2 minutes, Half-Moon for 2 minutes and Warrior for 2 minutes). I had a great workout.

Aerobics (Rhythm Boxing)

Balance Games (Penguin Slide and Soccer Heading)

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

Yoga (Chair, Half-Moon and Warrior)

I worked out with the Synth Riders for 30 minutes with three songs two times a piece. The songs were Abyss, Automatic Call and Empire of Steel. I had a good workout with the Synth Riders. 

Abyss

Automatic Call

Empire of Steel

I played one game of Asteroid Outpost on Bounce Arcade. I hadn't played Asteroid Outpost in two months. I did very well. I earned a silver trophy. I mined the asteroids four times and was successful in mining the asteroids once. I earned an extra ball and charged the fusion module, which is one of the three modules on the ship. 

Asteroid Outpost

It's Sunday so I got a new weekly challenge in pinball. Last week's challenge was Bay Watch so I played the game for a half hour to get a new high score. I was successful I got 997,529,640, which put me in 62nd place out of 102 participants. Next week challenge is Big Buck Hunter Pro. We had the game but the challenge was a newer version so Larry had to download the newer version. Then he installed the newer version on the big cabinet and changed the number of balls from 5 balls to 3 balls. My first high score was 40,839,220, which put me in 7th place out of 14 participants so far this week.

Bay Watch (Big)

Big Buck Hunter Pro (Big)

After doing the weekly challenges I played three pinball games on the big cabinet, which were Queen, The Beach Boys and Time Lord. While playing Time Lord I became high score #2. I played five pinball games on the the mini cabinet, which were 60th Anniversary, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Medieval Madness, Michael and The Big LeBowski. While playing Michael I became high score #3. I had good time playing pinball.

Queen (Big)

The Beach Boys (Big)

Time Lord (Big)

60th Anniversary (Mini)

The Creature From The Black Lagoon (Mini)

Medieval Madness (Mini)

Michael (Mini)

The LeBowski (Mini)

We watched YouTube videos.

In the evening we watched the next super hero movie from our movies, which was Thor: The Dark World. When Larry went to bed I watched the first Harry Potter movie, which was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Larry has been working hard on our movies to make sure they have subtitles and they work correctly. I asked him what movie I should watch to make sure everything is good. He said whatever movie before the letter J. I ended up doing 3,000 steps. 

Relaxing in front of the television

 

 

Saturday 8-1-26 Happy August, Cultural Activities Center & More

 Awesome Day

We had an awesome day. 

It was cooler than it's been. We had overcast skies, which kept the temperature down. The morning temperature was 80 degrees and the high was 93 degrees.

Larry continued working on our movies. He also worked on the Jukebox program Jukecab.

When I woke up I made pancakes for breakfast. After breakfast around 9:30 we went to town. The yearly Comic Con started today at 10:00 am at Cadence Bank Center (Bell Expo Center). There was a car show going on in the parking lot. We were going to go to it but it was too busy. The parking lot was almost full and there was a line of vehicles to get in the parking lot. The police directed traffic in the parking lot on horse back. This was cool to see. The line to attend Comic Con was going around the entrance building. We decided to continue driving down the road. 

Larry read, that there was something going on at the Cultural Activities Center for kids. So we went there instead. We didn't do the kids event but we walked through the Saulsbury Gallery and Howard Gallery. We also walked down the halls, where they had 3-D Art from Saul Silverstein Themed Summer Camp. The Saulsbury Gallery had art by Iwona Janskowski called Western Spirit and Healing Hearts mural. The Howard Gallery had Fun Art exhibits by Theresa Bayer, Kevin Middleton and Svetlana Novikova. The hallway had art from summer camp.  We enjoyed looking at the art exhibits.

Flowers in front of the entrance of the Cultural Activities Center

No Rules by Iwona  Janskowski Embroidery on Burlap

3-D Art from Shel Silverstein

Left to Right: Cool Run, Morning Thunder, Western Green and Working Time by Iwona  Janskowski

Leaf Peeper and Puzzled by Theresa Bayer

Under the Sea by Kevin Middleton (Austin Fun Art Artist)

We're All In Together by Kevin Middleton

Cats n Dogs by Kevin Middleton

Boots by Svetlana Novikova

After visiting the Cultural Activities Center we drove to the Railroad and Heritage Museum in downtown Temple. We walked round downtown for a bit . We walked around the museum complex. We saw the splash pad, which was a fountain and a couple of kids were playing on the splash pad. In front of the Railroad and Heritage Museum the electrical boxes had beautiful art on them, there was a small train engine and a sculpture of a mother and little girl. While we were walking around an Amtrak train had dropped a few passengers off and was pulling out. I took pictures and waved at the passengers and workers as the train pulled away. We walked around Fred Springer Park, where we saw families playing on the train and the playground. We had a wonderful walk around downtown Temple.

 

Butterfly train in Fred Springer Park

Playground

Family playing on the train in Santa Fe Kid's Stop

Central Texas Area Model Railroaders Museum

Amtrak train waiting to leave

Art on one of the electrical boxes

The splash pad

The sculpture in front of the Railroad and Heritage Museum

Railroad & Heritage Museum train

Before leaving downtown Temple Larry ordered a pizza from Little Caesar's. He decided to order a specialty pizza because he wanted a freshly baked pizza. He order the Detroit-Style Deep Dish Pepperoni pizza. We arrived early to pick up our pizza so we using Little Caesar's application we tracked our pizza. When the pizza was ready Larry went inside and got it. When we got home we had a couple of pieces of the pizza for lunch. It had a smoky flavor to it and was delicious.

Detroit-Style Deep Dish Pepperoni Pizza

After lunch he went back to working with Jukecab and his movies project. I worked out for an hour and a half.

I worked out for 30 minutes with the Wii Fit. I did the routine the Wii Fit Plus picked for me of 12 exercise for 26 minutes and four times Perfect 10 to make the 30 minutes. The exercises were two exercises from the Aerobics (Advance Step and Hula Hoop), four exercises from the Strength Training (Balance Bridge 10 reps, Lungs 10 reps, Sideways Leg-Lift 10 reps and Single-Leg Twist 10 reps), one exercise from Training Plus (Obstacle Course) and five exercises from Yoga (Chair, Downward Facing Dog, Half-Moon, Palm Tree and Sun Salutation). I had a great workout.

Aerobics (Advance Step and Hula Hoop)

Strength Training (Balance Bridge, Lungs 

Sideways Leg-Lift and Single-Leg Twist 10 reps)

Training Plus (Obstacle Course and Perfect 10)

 

   Yoga (Chair, Downward Facing Dog, Half-Moon, Palm Tree and Sun Salutation)

 

    

 

       

I worked out with Gold's Gym for 30 minutes. I did my own routine. I did two exercises from the Advance Lesson menu, which were Warm Up for 8 minutes with Left And Right Step Combo and Weaving Combo for 21 minutes. I had a great workout.

Left and Right Step Combo and Weaving Combo

I worked out with the Synth Riders for 30 minutes with four songs two times. The songs were Galaxy Joyride, Space Rock, Star Fighter and Vampirevania. While doing Galaxy Joyride I earned a new high score, Space Rock I earned two outstanding scores and Vampirevania I earned one outstanding score. I had a great workout. 

Galaxy Joyride

Space Rock

Star Fighter

Vampirevania

I played one game of Monster Manor on Bounce Arcade. While playing the game I earned a bronze trophy by earning the Skelton Key, I Awoken the Manor, I Stunned the Manor, Banister Buster and Midnight Madness (Jack-O-Lanterns). I had fun playing the games for 15 minutes.

Monster Manor

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Easy Street Mini of 15 games. It took me 36 minutes and 35 seconds to complete, which put me in 19th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played eight games of pinball. I played four on the mini cabinet, which were Batman Forever, Dr. No, Godzilla and The Goonies. While playing Dr. No I became high score #3. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were Bay Watch, Fish Tales, JP Viper Night Drivin' and Star Fox. I had fun playing pinball even when I didn't get on the board.

Batman Forever (Mini)

Dr. No (Mini)

Godzilla (Mini)

The Goonies (Mini)

Bay Watch (Big)

Fish Tales (Big)

JP Viper Night Drivin' (Big)

Star Fox (Big)

We watched out YouTube videos. I worked on Horse of Iron puzzle a little bit.

 

In the evening we watched the next super hero movie, which was Iron Man 3 from our movies collection. When Larry went to bed I watched Jack Reacher: Never Go Back from our movies collection. I ended up doing 5,000 steps.

We had a fun day.