Wednesday 12-18-24 Christmas Dances, Projects & New Synth Riders Songs

 

Smile and have fun

It was a beautiful day with the low temperature in the mid 50s and got up to 65 degrees.

I attended three Christmas dances on Zoom. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 10:00. They took turns calling five tips to 12 participants. Di called a few four couple moves, which were Load The Boat, Spin Chain Thru, Motivate and Acey Duecey. Terry and Di and some dancers wore Christmas outfits. I had a super time dancing with friends.

 Participants at Di and Terry Christmas Plus dance

Second was Ett McAtee's Weekly C1 at 1:00 for 45 minutes. Ett called three tips to 16 participants. She had computer problems so she had to leave early. She worked on the Triangles Concept and Anything Chain Thru. Some of the sequences were hard to see because I had to dance with seven phantoms. But I had a fun time.

 

Participants at Ett's C1 dance

Third was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00 for an hour and a half. Karin Rabe and Greg Moore helped him call the dance. The format was three tips of C1 to 9 participants, three tips of A2 to 10 participants and two Trivia questions in between the A2 tips. I had a great evening dancing with friends. 

Participants at the A2 section of Dave's dance

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: World Tour Mini of 10 games. It took me 40 minutes and 12 seconds, which put me in 22nd place in my group. Then I played some Angry Birds.

Larry spent the day working on the mini pinball machine. He is working with the program that runs the shaker motor. He apparently changed something that stopped it from working, he has no idea what. It took him hours to get it working again and he has no idea what the fix was. He is really stumped and now he does not want to add anything else that uses that program. There are lots of software pieces to virtual pinball and anytime you change any of them there is always a fear something will break. 

I worked on my diamond painting Mandala. I should be finished with it tomorrow.

I worked out using the Synth Riders for 45 minutes. I worked out with three new games and nine other games. The new games are Carol of the Bells, HEX and Shangri-La-La-La. Carol of the Bells is for Christmas, where presents, Christmas trees, candy canes and other Christmas items come towards you while you try to hit the balls with your controllers. HEX is a Halloween songs. The Shangri-La-La-La is where you work out while Walkabout Mini Golf. As you try to hit the balls with your controllers you have gold clubs, golf holes with flags, golfers and ballerina coming at you. I had an outstanding time working out with the music in Synth Riders.

 

New songs available

I also played Gunpowder Gulch and Asteroid Outpost. I played them both a couple of times. I got a bronze metal in Gunpowder Gulch.

Asteroid Outpost score

Gunpowder Gulch score

I played four different games. They were the weekly challenge of Theatre of Magic, Dirty Harry, Elvira and the Party Monsters and Elvira Scared Stiff. While playing the Theatre of Magic I got a new high score for the week, which was 1,035,414,770. This put me in 14th place out of 31 participants. I had a fun time playing pinball.

Dirty Harry

Elvira Scared Stiff

Elvira and the Party Monsters

Theatre of Magic

After the dance we watched Red One on Amazon. It's new Christmas fantasy movie. It's a cute movie. Then I watched The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and a couple of episodes of Everwood. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 3rd place in my group.