Tuesday 11-3-26 A2 Dancing at Liberty Hill and with Di Green

 

Smile and have fun

We had a super day of dancing A2.

The weather was great. It rained early this morning, about 2:00 am a front rolled in with thunder and rain. The morning temperature at 6:00 am was 67 degrees. By 3:00 pm it was 81 degrees. We had a lot of wind. It was another beautiful fall weather.

Larry started the day off working with his new VR program. A couple of days ago I said Larry had created and added an image to the pinball cabinet in the Willow VR room. He did this using an image from the web and an AI engine. Below is how it came out.

Willow graphic on the pinball machine in VR

 

I played my games. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. I also did the Daily Challenge of Mahjong from yesterday. I did the Daily Event, which was Event: Easy Street Mini of 5 games. It took me 8 minutes and 16 seconds to complete, which put me in 15th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

At 10:00 am we attended Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly A2 dance for an hour. Terry didn't dance or attend the dance. Di called five tips to 11 participants. Larry and I only danced four of the tips because we were going to Liberty Hill to dance. Di did a super job of calling the dance and dancing with us. She cued the moves and said what formation we were in through out the dance. When we had problems she would walk us through the move to make sure we were successful. We had a fun hour of dancing with friends and to Di.

Get a partner and dance

After Di's dance we had lunch. I put a cooler together and a bag of snacks to take with us to Liberty Hill. We began our drive at 11:20 am. Liberty Hill is 60 miles from the house and it took us an hour and fifteen minutes. We had not danced to John Kephart since August 11th. We had six couples and danced for two hours. Everyone was happy we were back. We only sat out one tip. The dance was very good. John had to workshop a couple of moves, which were Motivate and Scoot Chain Thru. We had a great time.

John Kephart

We were home by 4:15 pm. I made dinner, which was leftovers from last night. 

After dinner I played ten games of pinball. I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were Batman Forever, Big Buck Hunter Pro, No Fear, The Goonies and Willie Wonka. While I was playing Willie Wonka I became high score #1. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Junk Yard, Superman and the Justice League, The Godfather, Willow and World Poker Tour. While playing the weekly challenge of World Poker Tour I became Grand Champion, which was another new high score for the week. The score was 29,455,020, which put me in 20th place in the group of 55 participants. I had a great day playing pinball.

Batman Forever (Mini)

Big Buck Hunter Pro (Mini)

No Fear (Mini)

The Goonies (Mini)

Willie Wonka (Mini)

Junk Yard (Big)

Superman and the Justice League (Big)

The Godfather (Big)

Willow (Big)

World Poker Tour (Big)

We watched YouTube videos. I worked on my jigsaw puzzle of Starring Night Cats and I finished it. I started 10/30/26 and finished it 11/3/26, which 5 days.

Starring Night Cats

In the evening we watched The Da Vinci Code from our movies collection. When Larry went to bed I watched Mary Poppins Return from our movies collection. I ended up doing 5,000 step. 

   

 

 

Monday 11-2-26 Dancing with Di, Workout, Project & More

 

Beautiful Fall Day

We had a beautiful fall day. The morning temperature was 64 degrees and the high temperature was 84 degrees. We had a strong wind out of the north.

Hold on tight

We started the day out by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 9:00 am for an hour and 15 minutes. Terry didn't dance with Di but he was there keeping her company. Di called five tips to 20 participants from the U.K., U.S., Canada, Germany, France and Russia. Larry dance four of the tips with me. I was glad that Di cued through out the dance. We had a super time dancing to Di and with friends.

Get a partner and dance

After the dance we went to town. We stopped at Walmart to pickup a few items. Then we went to Taco Bell and had lunch. We shared a Nachos Bell Grande. On the way home we stopped and filled the Equinox with gas.

Larry did his monthly projects. Yesterday, he backed up the computers. Today he put bleach in the septic system. He continued working on making VR rooms for some of the pinball games on the big cabinet using the new VR program.

I worked out with the Wii Fit for 45 minutes. I did two exercises from the Aerobics menu for 12 minutes (Rhythm Boxing for 8 minutes and Super Hula Hoop for 4 minutes). I did three exercises from the Balance Games menu for 8 minutes (Ski Jump three times for 3 minutes, Ski Slalom for 1 minute and Soccer Heading two times for 4 minutes). I did three exercises from the Strength Training menu for 9 minutes (Balance Bridge 10 reps for 3 minutes, Single-Leg Extension 20 reps for 3 minutes and Torso Twist 6 reps for 3 minutes). I did two exercises from the Training Plus menu for 8 minutes (Obstacle Course for 4 minutes and Table Tilt Plus for 4 minutes). I did four exercises from the Yoga menu for 8 minutes (Downward-Facing Dog for 2 minutes, Half-Moon for 2 minutes, Standing Knee for 2 minutes and Warrior for 2 minutes). I had a great workout using the Wii Fit.

Aerobics (Rhythm Boxing and Super Hula Hoop)

Balance Games (Ski Jump, Ski Slalom and Soccer Heading)

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

Training Plus (Obstacle Course and Table Tilt Plus)

 

Yoga (Downward-Facing Dog, Half-Moon, Standing Knee and Warrior)

I worked out for 30 minutes with Gold's Gym. I did my own routine, which was one exercise from the Advance Lesson Menu (Left and Right Step Combo for 8 minutes), one exercise from the Intermediate Lesson Menu (Up and Down Ducking Combo for 15 minutes) and one exercise from the Beginner Lesson Menu (Beginner Combo for 6 minutes). I had fun exercising with Gold's Gym.

Advance Lesson Menu (Left and Right Step Combo)

Beginner Lesson Menu (Beginner Combo)

Intermediate Lesson Menu (Up and Down Ducking Combo)

I worked out with the Synth Riders for 30 minutes with four songs two times. The songs were Escape, Hypothermia, Stay and The Wild. While working out with Escape I earned two outstanding scores and one new high score. While working out with Stay I earned one outstanding score. While working out with The Wild I earned one outstanding score. I had great workout.

Escape

Hypothermia

Stay

The Wild

I played the Daily Challenge of Solitaire and the Daily Event. The event was Event: Free Cell Adventure of 20 games. It took me 1 hour, 33 minutes and 42 seconds to complete, which put me in 6th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played seven games of pinball. I played three games on the mini cabinet, which were Creature From The Black Lagoon, Fun House and World Joker Poker. While playing World Joker Poker I became high score #4. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were John Wick, Theatre of Magic, Transformers and World Poker Tour. While playing Transformers I became high score #4 and World Poker Tour I became Grand Champion. While playing World Poker Tour, which is the weekly challenge I got a new high score of 26,817,140. I became #17 out of 47 participants.

Creature From The Black Lagoon (Mini)

Fun House (Mini)

World Joker Poker (Mini)

John Wick (Big)

Theatre of Magic (Big)

Transformers (Big)

World Poker Tour (Big)

We watched YouTube videos.

In the evening we started watching the second season of Maigret on PBS. We watched two episodes. There's one more available but we'll wait until the fourth one is available because each story has two parts. Maigret is a detective series and is very good. After Larry went to bed I watched Mary Poppins from our movies collection. 

Relaxing in front of the television

While I watched television I worked on my jigsaw puzzle. I ended up doing 5,500 steps. 

  

  

Sunday 11-2-26 Dancing with Loren, New Challenge, Projects & More

 

Daylight Saving Time Ended Today

Daylight Saving Time ended today so we got an extra hour of sleep because the time fell back an hour.

We had another overcast day with the morning temperature of 61 degrees and the high temperature of 85 degrees.

Larry started the day out by doing a small project, which was putting air in the tires of the truck, Equinox and motorcycle. 

He also replaced two of the remotes for the Equinox. The buttons on the old remotes had deteriorated, one of them was so bad he had taped it up. These remotes are the type where the key is built in, it is a key that takes a special machine to cut it and then the remotes have to be programmed. If you purchase these from Chevrolet and have the dealer do everything it is quite expensive. Larry purchased replacement remotes from Amazon for $10 each, he was able to take them apart and transfer the key from the old remote to the new one and then he programmed both of them. 

He spent rest of the day working on a VR project. A gentleman has been converting some pinball games that didn't have a VR room to having a VR room. He used a new program that had been developed to do this. The program is called VPX VR Injector (Injector for short). Larry wanted to give it a try. Larry has added VR rooms to some tables in the past, it was very complicated and would take a good part of the day. With this new program it took him ten to fifteen minutes. Really impressive. He spent more time working with it. He was working on the Willow table, he found graphics on the web that pertained to Willow, he then used the AI engine Chat GPT to edit and add the graphics to the table. The results were terrific. It's amazing how much AI can do.

There are new programs coming out every day that are mainly created with AI. Many of these are done by a single developer in their spare time. They can create and update these programs really quickly using AI. If they had to do all the coding by hand it would take them months and they might not even have the skills to do some of it. Some of these programs will probably end up languishing and eventually dying because the developer will lose interest and move on to something else. But it will interesting to see where it is goes.

Three programs that Larry has started using over the past few months were all mainly coded by AI, each of these programs are really impressive. The developers are all really excited and constantly improving their programs. They are free, normally if you donate a few dollars they will give you an enhanced version. 

I spent a good part of the day working on Starring Night Cats jigsaw puzzle. By separating the pieces by the letter on the back makes it easier and faster.

Starring Night Cats

At 1:00 we attended Ett McAtee's Weekly C Series dance. This week she was in California so Loren Smith covered for her. He called four tips of C1 to 9 participants and one tip of C2 to 5 participants. Larry danced with me for the C1 session. Loren called a lot of four couple moves, which was hard because he doesn't do too much cueing anymore. I was having problems with Tally Ho so he worked shopped the move from different positions. We had fun dancing to Loren and with friends.

We love square dancing

  

Today is the first day of a new weekly pinball challenge game, which is World Poker Tour. Larry downloaded the game and installed it on the big cabinet in both 2D and VR. Then he played it. It has an outstanding VR room. The game takes place in a casino. Below are pictures of the room.

Before the new challenge began at 1:00 I played last week challenge of The Addams Family and got a new high score of 79,060,540. This score move me up to 79th place out of 114 participants. When the new challenge began I played it. The first high score for me this week was 9,378,870, which put me in 23rd place out of 25 participants so far. I also played three other pinball games on the big cabinet, which were Borderlands, John Wick and Willow. While playing John Wick I became high score #4.

The Addams Family (Big)

World Poker Tour (Big)

Borderlands (Big0

John Wick (Big)

Willow (Big)

I played four pinball games on the mini cabinet, which were Cactus Canyon, Cirqus Voltaire, No Good Goffers! and Transformers. I didn't get on the board playing the games but I had good games.

Cactus Canyon (Mini)

Cirqus Voltaire (Mini)

No Good Goffers! (Mini)

Transformers (Mini)

I worked out for 30 minutes on the Wii Fit using the Wii Fit Plus Routine for 24 minutes with 12 exercises and two more exercises from the Training Plus menu for 6 minutes. The 12 exercises on the routine were two exercises from the Aerobics menu (Basic Run and Hula Hoop), four exercises from the Training Plus menu (Perfect 10, Rhythm Kung Fu, Rhythm Parade and Snowfall Fight) and six exercises from the Yoga menu (Chair, Half-Moon, Palm Tree, Standing Knee, Triangle and Warrior). The other two exercises from the Training Plus menu were Table Tilt Plus for 3 minutes and Perfect 10 three times for 3 minutes. I had a great workout.

Aerobics (Basic Run and Hula Hoop)

Training Plus (Perfect 10, Rhythm Kung Fu, Rhythm Parade, Snowfall Fight and Table Tilt Plus)

Yoga (Chair, Half-Moon, Palm Tree, Standing Knee, Triangle and Warrior)

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The Daily Event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 Klondike and 5 Tri Peaks). It took me 24 minutes and 55 seconds to complete, which put me in 6th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

In the evening we watched a movie on Amazon called Robot and Frank. It was a cute movie about an elderly man who's son gives him a robot to help him with his daily routines. It was a good movie. After Larry went to bed I watched the last Mission Impossible movie called Mission Impossible- The Final Reckoning. I ended up doing 2,000 steps.