Thursday 2-27-25 New Monitor, Playing Pinball & Diamond Painting

 

 

We had a wonderful day. It was overcast with wind. It got up to 72 degrees.

Larry spent the morning playing pinball. He played on the mini cabinet. The games were Space Cadet, James Bond, Playboy and Cactus Canyon. He had a great time and the games played excellent.

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 Free Cell and 5 Pyramid). It took me 1 hour, 46 minutes and 09 seconds, which put me in 25th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds and Friends.

 

Angry birds characters

 

 

In the afternoon we received an Amazon order. It was a 12.3" touchscreen monitor that Larry hoped to use in his next jukebox build. When he ordered it he was not sure if it would even work with a Raspberry Pi or the jukebox software. He was very impressed by it. Everything worked perfectly and it looks great. It is a really wide monitor with a different aspect ratio than normal monitors. This monitor is to replace the two small monitors he had hoped to use before he discovered the jukebox software would not work with two monitors. While playing with the new monitor he reworked one of the skins to work better with the wide screen. The skin looks great. The front of the music selections are easier to read because they're bigger. Now he knows Fruit Box works on the monitor. It came out excellent. He thinks with some modifications he may be able to fit the monitor into the red Rock Ola.

 

While Larry worked on the monitor I worked out. I worked out with the Wii Fit for a half hour, Gold's Gym for a half hour and Synth Riders for a half hour.

 

 

 

Working out

 

I played one game of Asteroid Outpost on Bounce Arcade. During the game I earned a silver trophy. I mined the asteroids four times and was successful once. I did a multiball, which was very fast. I lost the ball as soon as it came to me. I had fun.

 

 

 

Asteroid Outpost

 

I played seven different games. I played the weekly challenge of Robocop and got a new high score of 2,841,860, which put me in 33rd place out of 46 participants. The other games were Goldeneye, Godzilla, The Great Houdini, Bay Watch, The Big Lebowski and Dead Pool. While playing Godzilla I entered my initials as high score #5.

 

 

 

Robocop

 

 

The Great Houdini

 

  

The Big Lebowski

 

Goldeneye

 

Godzilla

 

Dead Pool

 

Bay Watch

 

I continued working on my diamond painting of the Princess.

 

In the evening we watched a movie on Amazon called Man of the Year. It was comedy starring Robin Williams. He was a comedian that decides to run for president and is elected. It was a funny movie. Then I finished watching the second and final season of Murder City. I watched the 6th episode of the 12th season of Father Brown. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 5th place in my group.