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.

 

 

  

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.