Monday 12-9-24 Dancing C1 with Ett, Bounce Arcade, Mini Cabinet & More

 

Beautiful Day

 

We had a beautiful day with a lot of sunshine. Morning temperature was 50 degrees and the high was 80 degrees.

I started the day off by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 9:00 for an hour. Di was out of town calling in person, Di asked Ett McAtee if she could cover the calling. We had a small group of 8 participants. Monica from Germany was having trouble with her audio, she could barely hear the calling. Ett tried to help her but was unsuccessful. Monica had tried everything, that was suggested. Monica stayed the whole dance. I hope she gets her computer fixed. Ett did a great job of calling and helping the dancers get in the right place. She told the dancer who was having problem where they should be. Ett called five tips. Don Moger another Zoom caller showed up just to watch. He is now in Mesa AZ. for the winter. He's from Tonto, Canada. I had a super time dancing to Ett and with friends.

 

 

Get a partner and dance

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. Today the event was Event: Tri Peaks Mini of 5 games. It took me 7 minutes and 17 seconds, which put me in 17th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

After the dance we went to town. We took the truck because it needed to be inspected to get it's tags. Starting January, Texas will no longer require vehicle safety inspections. But if your county or city require you to take your vehicle through emissions you will still have to do so. The first stop was the UPS Store to return a defective pinball part to Amazon. Larry just had to drop it off, they will package and ship it back. Next stop was to get the truck inspected at Quick Lube. Third stop was the post office to mail out Christmas cards and gifts to Shirley and Barbara. After doing the errands we stopped by a restaurant in downtown Belton for lunch, not sure why but it was not open, they didn't have their hours on the door. We decided to stop by Little Caesar and pickup a pizza and take it home. Now we have lunch and dinner for the day. Thank, you Larry.

 

Lunch and dinner

When I work on my diamond painting I setup a card table and put a cardboard board on it. Larry made the board years ago for me to assemble my jigsaw puzzles and it's large enough for 2,000 pieces puzzles. The board makes it easy to move the puzzle or diamond painting when we dance. The days we dance I move the project to the spare bedroom bed, fold up the card table, move it to the spare bedroom and I move the chair I sit on while doing the project to the spare bedroom. Then I put painters tape on the floor to show us where the flag pole center of our square is (tape is a big X). Now we have a dance floor. When we're finished I pull up the tape and set the table back up.

Before setting the table back up I workout because I use the dance floor as my workout area. Today I worked out for an hour with The Synth Riders. Then I played the four games on Bounce Arcade. Yesterday, we watched a few YouTube videos on Bounce Arcade. One of them explained that each game on Bounce Arcade has five objectives to complete. Today while playing Pirate's Plunder I did two of the five. I raised the sails and loaded the canons. Then I looked like I was on a pirate ship. I was very excited about this. While playing Monster Manor I lit all the candles, this lit up the mansion and you can see the hidden objects. This was very cool. The other two games Gunpowder Gulch and Asteroid Outpost I got a new high score for myself. I had a super time playing Bounce Arcade.

 

I'm so excited

 

I played four different games of pinball. They were Lord of the Rings, Aerosmith, The Godfather and Playboy. I got a new high score of The Lord of the Rings, which was 17,940,760. This score put me in 8th place out of 11 participants. While playing Aerosmith I entered initials. I had a great afternoon of playing pinball.

 

Aerosmith

 

Lord of the Rings

Playboy

The Godfather

 

Larry spent the day working on his mini pinball machine. He worked on installing the hinge on the back so he can open the lid to work on the computer and electronics. He installed all the electronics in the machine. It's looking great. He still has a ways to go. He's having fun.

 

Mini Pinball Cabinet

 

Cabinet top latched up

Inside of the cabinet

 

In the evening we relaxed in front of the television. We watched a couple of episodes of Elementary. After Larry went to bed I watched The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and one episode of the 1st season of Everwood. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 3rd place in my group.