Tuesday 12-31-24 New Years Eve, Dancing,Gold's Gym, Pinball Project & Crafting

 It's New Year's Eve

We had a beautiful day with a lot of sunshine. A cold front rolled in so it only got up to 63 degrees. 

Larry started the day out by downloading a new pinball game called John Rambo. It was just released yesterday. After downloading the game he installed it in both 2D and VR on the big cabinet. Then played the game in both 2D and VR. He likes it a lot better in VR because you can see the ramps and other challenges.

We attended Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly A2 dance at 10:00 for an hour and fifteen minutes. Di called the five tips to 10 participants. Di wore an outfit for New Year's Eve. I wore blue jeans and a red, white and blue shirt. Larry wore blue jeans and a plaid shirt. We both wore our red hats, that light up in different positions we kept it on the flashing position. Donna from Colorado was there and said she was going to wear a blouse with flashers on it (like a belly dancing belt) to a dance tonight. So I went and put a belly dancing belt on and she put her vest on and we jiggled together through out the dance. There were a few other dancers wearing red to celebrate New Year's Eve. Shirley and Steve from the UK were in a motel room and wanted to dance so they had to dance in the bathroom of the room because it was the biggest area. They're used to it because they dance in their kitchen when they're home. Terry didn't call but he danced with Di. We had a great time dancing the last dance of the year with Di Green and Terry McCann and our Zoom friends.

 

Di Green

 

Dance participants

 

I worked out with Gold's Gym for 30 minutes. I moved onto Synth Riders for 45 minutes.

Afterwards I played Gunpowder Gulch twice. First game I got a Bronze Trophy and second game I got new high score and Silver Trophy. During the second game I did three different multi-balls, which were Saloon, Jailhouse Break and Safe Breakage. The events I did were shoot the barrels twice and failed, Shootout with the deputies twice and failed, quick Drawl with deputies once and Cracked the Safe. I got an extra ball. I had a great game.

Bronze Trophy score

Silver Trophy score

 

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Easy Street Mini of 15 games. It took me 3 hours, 38 minutes and 16 seconds, which put me in 41st place in my group of 50. I was very disappointed because I didn't really play the games that long. I must have forgot to sign out of the event when I was dancing and doing other things. I played Angry Birds.

Larry continued working on the nudge on the mini pinball cabinet. Over a couple of days he spent about 7 hours working on it and finally had it working really well. He did all of the setting changes in 2d because its easier to get in and out of tables. Yesterday he played in VR and the nudge was messed up, still worked great in 2d. He decided there was something different while in VR that was making the controller board more sensitive. When the shaker motor kicked in or the sound was turned up the ball started doing strange things. He decided to build a vibration isolation board to mount the controller on. He cut a couple of plastic pieces and used some foam. Took him most of the day but at the moment he thinks it has fixed the problem. His nudge is working and the rest of the sound is working excellent. Larry played a few games on the mini cabinet to make sure everything works correctly in both 2D and VR. 

In the picture below you can see the hole from the relocated button. He will fill that when he takes the machine apart for paint and graphics.

Larry playing pinball on the mini cabinet

I played five different games of pinball, which were Die Hard, Rambo, Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man and Aerosmith. While playing Die Hard I got a new high score for the challenge, which moved me into 19th place out of 23 participants. Rambo is a new game so I played it a couple of times. It's a lot of fun. When I played Aerosmith I entered my initials onto the high score board but I'm not sure what number I am. I had a great day of playing pinball.

 

Aerosmith

Die Hard

Iron Man

Rambo

Guardians of the Galaxy

I worked on my diamond painting the horse.

In the evening we relaxed in front of the television. We watched the movie The King's Man on Amazon. It was a British spy movie about the early 20th century, when the Kingsman agency was formed to protect millions of people. When Larry went to bed I watched The Dark Knight and an episode of Everwood. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 6th place in my group.