Thursday 5-8-25 Projects, Games & More

 

Having fun doing this and that

 

We started the day out by taking the Minnie to Discount Tires to get it's tires rotated. Larry made an appointment for the Minnie last night for 8:45 am. After having breakfast we drove the Minnie to Discount Tires. We were there by 8:30. They got us right in and they were finished by 9:00. This was the fastest we had ever been in and out. This was a great surprise. The gentlemen, who took care of us were very friendly.👍👍

 

Discount Tires

When we got home Larry backed the Minnie on the side of the house to our dump station and dumped the tanks. Then he moved the Minnie in front of the single bay of the garage. He put a mixture of Dawn and Calgon into the tanks and filled them about 3/4 with water. He put the air sensors back on the tires and the hub caps back on.

I finished reading March by Geraldine Brooks. It was a great fiction novel based on the novel Little Women. I've heard about Little Women but never read it. The story took place during the Civil War. 

After lunch we took the Minnie back to storage, we won't use it until the end of August when we go on our fall trip. While driving around we stopped by the UPS Store and picked up out mail. On the way home Larry swung by Jack 'n' Jill Donuts but they were closed. That's ok I really didn't need a donut.

When we got home I worked out on my Wii Fit for a half hour and the Synth Riders for a half hour. I played one game of Pirate's Plunder, where I earned a silver trophy. I fought my enemies twice and won both times and earned two Jolly Rogers. I had a great time.

 

Pirate's Plunder

I have been playing Microsoft Solitaire for a long time for free. Today Larry signed me up to go Premium so I wouldn't get commercials. Then I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Easy Street Mini of 15 games. It took me 27 minutes and 33 seconds, which put me in 8th place in my group. Afterwards I played Angry Birds. 

I played six games of pinball. They were Fun House, Theatre Magic, Big Buck Hunter Pro, Transformers, Dark Chaos and JP Space Cadet. While playing Transformers I got a new high score but it wasn't worth entering in the weekly challenge because it didn't move up. It was a little more than I already had. I came in as #2 high score in JP Space Cadet. I had a great afternoon of playing pinball.

 

Big Buck Hunter Pro

 

Dark Chaos

 

Fun House

 

JP Space Cadet

 

Theatre of Magic

 

Transformers

While I played games Larry worked on a electronic projects. Louise's home phone (and ours) work via a Obihai device. These devices work with Google Voice to give us free home phone service. Louise's Obihai had been unplugged for awhile and apparently Google removed it from their database. Last year Google announced they would no longer allow any new devices to be added and killed the process to configure them. Recently someone posted on a group Larry follows a process to program these devices. He had kept Louise's old Obihai, it took him a bit but he got it to work. He was so excited. Now Louise will again have a home phone that works.

 

Obihai Obi200 device

Larry was all caught up with his YouTube videos so he watched a couple new ones that were posted. 

In the evening we watched a couple of episodes of Death In Paradise. When Larry went to bed I started watching the second season of The Chelsea Detective on Acorn. I ended up doing 13,000 steps.