Wednesday 12-20-23 Dance Day & Having Fun

 

Christmas decorations

It's five days before Christmas. Have you done your Christmas shopping yet. We're almost finished with ours.

I attended three virtual square dances. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 10:00 for an hour and fifteen minutes. Today was their Christmas so some of the dancers danced for the occasion. Terry and Di wore matching outfits except Di's sweater had Christmas trees on it. Angie wore a nice sweater and antlers and Christmas earrings. Di cued a little more than usual because one of the dancers was new to plus. They took turns calling five tips to 13 participants. I had a super time dancing with friends.

Angie Christmas sweater

Angie with her antlers

Participants at the Christmas dance

Second one was Ett McAtee's Weekly C1 at 1:00 for an hour. Ett called four tips of C1 to 20 participants. Michael was back from visiting his 101 year old Grandmother in Italy. It was nice to see him back after about a month. He had a great time and bought a lot of his favorite chocolate candy bars that are only made in Italy. Some of the dancers dressed up for the occasion. Carol shared a Christmas Bear she made to decorate the hair stylist shop she owned. She retired a couple of years ago and only kept one of the many bears. It was very cute. Di was at her local club and they were having a Christmas party so she dressed for the occasion. I had a great time dancing to Ett and with friends.

Di dressed up for Christmas

Carol and her Christmas bear

Participants for the Christmas dance

Third was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00 for an hour and a half. This week Karin Rabe, Greg Moore and Dave Hutchinson helped called the dance. Dave Eno showed up for the last half of the dance because he had a family emergency. They called three C1 tips, where Dave Hutchinson called the first tip, Karin and Greg took turns calling the second tip and the third tip all three took turns calling. They called three A2 tips, where Karin and Greg called the first tip, Dave Hutchinson called the second tip and Dave Eno called the third tip. In between the A2 tips they did three Trivia question about Christmas. The C1 tips had 9 participants and the A2 tips had 12 participants. I had a wonderful evening dancing with friends.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event today was Event: Spider Adventure of 20 games. It took me 4 hours, 24 minutes and 9 seconds, which put me in 9th place in my group. I played some Angry Birds.

While I danced and played games Larry continued playing with the jukebox. It's working great. He posted his change on the Facebook jukebox group, one of the members who wrote an installation document for the program wants to test the process and add it to his document. Another member said he had previously made a request to the program developer for this option, he also wants Larry's process. The developer also replied saying it will be included in his next version of the program but that is many months away. Larry is thrilled that others wanted the same thing and want to use his solution.

After the last dance we watched an episode of Midsomer Murders on BritBox. Then I finished watching the first season and started the second season of The Last Detective. I ended up doing 17,000 steps, which put me in 4th place in my group.