Sunday 6-15-25 New Pinball Challenge, Shelves Project & More

Overcast day with rain

We had an overcast day with the high of 80 degrees and humidity of 68%. A hard rain came through around 3:00 and was gone by 3:30. It didn't stay around too long but it was hard enough for the trash can to be blown over. 

 

Temperature at 4:00

Larry spent the morning and a part of the afternoon working on the shelving. He assembled two shelves on the north wall and a third shelf on the wall above the workbench. Then he started to put things back on the shelves. The shelves on the north wall he put the two Rock Ola jukeboxes. The other new shelf he's putting the two Seeburg jukeboxes. It's looking good.

 

The shelving unit Larry built with one Seeburg

 

Rock Ola jukeboxes in their new home

 

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Tri Peak Mini of five games. It took me 9 minutes and 4 seconds, which put me in 22nd place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

I played eight games of pinball.

Today is a beginning of a new week so I have a new weekly pinball challenge, which is The Addams Family. We have The Addams Family already but it wasn't the right version so Larry downloaded the correct version. He installed it on the cabinet in both 2D and VR. Then he played it. The new version of The Addams Family has a very nice VR room.

 

Pictures on the wall of Uncle Fester and Morticia

 

Clock on the wall 

Before playing The Addams Family I played last week's challenge of Cirqus Voltaire. I got a new high score of 59,691,070, which put me in 36th place out of 74 participants. My first high score of The Addams Family was 23,293,270, which put me in 5th place so far. 

  

Cirqus Voltaire

 

The Addams Family

 

The other six games were Deadpool, Fun House, Fast Break, Cactus Canyon, Creature From The Black Lagoon and Indianapolis 500. While playing Cactus Canyon I became Grand Champion. 

 

Cactus Canyon

 

Creature From The Black Lagoon

 

Deadpool

 

Fast Break

 

Fun House

 

Indianapolis 500

 

I worked on my diamond painting of the tree. It's about halfway done.

 

Diamond painting tree

 

Usually on Sunday nights we go to Sun City to dance with the Sundancers at their weekly plus dance. I wasn't feeling prefect so decided to stay home. Instead we watched YouTube videos and Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol. After Larry went to bed I watched Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania from our movies collection. I also watched True Grit starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Hailee Steinfeld. I ended up doing 13,500 steps.

  

 

  

 

  

 

Saturday 6-14-25 Shelving Project, Games & Having Fun

 

Hot humid day

 

We had another hot humid day with the high of 91 degrees and the humidity was 60%.

We started the day by going to town to pickup a few items for the shelving project. First stop was The Home Depot to return four long shelve brackets, Larry decided he wants shorter brackets. They didn't have anything shorter. Larry currently has a Home Depot cardboard box where he stores electronic cables. The box is falling apart so decided to replace it with a plastic container. While in The Home Depot we bought one. We went to Lowe's, they had the shorter brackets. 

Back at home we went to work on the shelving project. Larry decided to make three shelves out of scrap plywood he has. He cut them to size using his table saw and miter saw. I helped him by holding the boards while he moved them through the saw. After they were cut we sanded them down to prepare them for the staining. When the sanding was done we took a break and had lunch. After lunch Larry stained the boards. We called it a day to let the boards dry.

 

 

Shelves with the stain on them

 

The stain we used on the boards

 

Staining the shelves

 

Before stain

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Easy Street of 30 games. It took me 1 hour, 14 minutes and 28 seconds, which put me in 20th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

I continued working on my diamond painting of a tree. 

I played three games of Gunpowder Gulch on Bounce Arcade. I didn't play well but during the third game I earned a silver trophy. I earned an extra ball, cracked the safe and played a couple multiballs (jail breakout and cracked the safe).

 

Gunpowder Gulch

 

Larry played five games on the mini pinball cabinet. It had been a few weeks since we used it. He played Three Angels, Metallica, James Bond 60th Anniversary, No Fear and Creature From The Black Lagoon. While playing Creature From The Black Lagoon Larry became Grand Champion.

After he finished playing pinball on the mini cabinet I played the same games on the mini cabinet. Then I moved over to the big cabinet and played the weekly challenge of Cirqus Voltaire and Big Bang Bar. Today I didn't get on the board but had a time playing pinball.

 

Big Bang Bar

 

Cirqus Voltaire

 

Creature From The Black Lagoon

 

James Bond 60th Anniversary

 

Metallica

 

 

 

No Fear

 

 

Three Angels

In the evening we watched Mission Impossible 3 out of our movies collection. When Larry went to bed I watched Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp out of our movies collection. I ended up doing 13,500 steps.

    

     

Friday 6-13-25 Friday the 13th, Projects, Games & Dancing

 

Happy Friday the 13th

 

It's Friday the 13th are you superstitious? I'm not.

We had a hot humid day with the high of 93 degrees and humidity of 53% at 3:30 pm. 

 

High temperature at 3:30

We started the day out by going to town, Larry needed some items from The Home Depot, he is building and modifying shelving in his workroom. Before going to The Home Depot we stopped by the storage center to take the Minnie for a ride. Larry tries to take the Minnie for a short ride every month, it helps keep it running correctly and exercises the generator. Everything started right up and worked great.   

Larry spent most of the day working on the shelves in his workroom. He wanted to make shelves for his jukeboxes. First he decided how he wanted to modify the existing shelves and where to put additional shelves he needed. The existing shelves are above his workbench. The shelves hold screws, washers, spray cleaners, alcohol and other items he uses on projects. He removed the items from the existing shelves. Then he screwed an upright bracket to the wall and put a few brackets in it. Next he lowered one of the shelves so it was even with another one. He cut a piece of wood to hold the two boards together. Once the shelves were hanging he started putting his stuff back on the shelves. He has a ways to go to finish. He decided he wanted shorter brackets for the new shelves so tomorrow we'll go back to town to buy shorter ones. 

 

Workroom project begins

 

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 Klondike and 5 Free Cell). It took me 53 minutes and 41 seconds, which put me in 16th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

I worked out with Synth Riders for a half hour and I did my Jazz routine for fifteen minutes. 

 

Working Out

 

I played two games of Monster Manor in Bounce Arcade. I didn't play that well but the first  game was the best. I earned a bronze trophy. I woke the manor and tried to stun the manor and failed.

 

Monster Manor

I played four games of pinball, which were Big Bang Bar, Big Lebowski, Cirqus Voltaire and World Cup Soccer. I became Grand Champion in World Cup Soccer.

 

Big Bang Bar

 

Big Lebowski

 

Cirqus Voltaire

 

World Cup Soccer

 

I worked on my diamond painting of a tree.

I attended Ett McAtee's Weekly A2 at 6:30 for an hour. Ett has been traveling for the last month so we haven't danced to her for over a month. She called four tips to 10 participants. During the dance she mentioned that Gail was going to the convention in San Francisco and it was her first time to this convention. I told her I was going to be there with Larry for the first time. She was very excited to hear Gail, Larry and I were going to be there. She sent us a link on how the convention is run. We had a small group of dancers but had a great time. It was nice to see Ett again.

 

Participants at the dance

After the dance we watched YouTube videos. When Larry went to bed I watched the fourth Jason Bourne movie, which was Jason Bourne. It was out of our movies collection. I ended up doing 13,500 steps.

During the day we didn't see any deer. I guess it's because it was hot and humid. But I did see them in the security camera at 11:45 pm. It was a doe and a fawn, they were grazing. 

   

 

 

 

      

 

  

Thursday 6-12-25 Busy Day of Doing This and That

 

Busy doing this and that

 

The day started out with rain in morning. When I went to bed last night around 1:00 am a front came through. It started with a lot of thunder and lightening. Then the rain came. It was overcast most of the day. The high was 82 degrees.

 

Rainy morning

 

When the rain went away the deer came through the backyard. First a doe and fawn came through. They went to Jason's backyard and did a little grazing. The fawn laid down in the yard and mom walked away, this was about 9:00. A couple of hours later three does showed up and the fawn got up. It thought one of them was it's mom but it wasn't. Then they wandered off through the gate to the neighbor's yard and the Corps of Engineers property. The fawn looked like it was confused because mom hadn't come yet. He went back into Jason's yard and laid down. Mom finally showed up after lunch. He hung around a little while longer then wandered off in the trees. They didn't come back. 

While the fawn was waiting for it's mom a hawk, a squirrel and a hummingbird showed up. We had a busy day watching the wild life. I enjoy watching the deer on the security cameras and out the back window. 

Larry spent the day doing small projects. He worked on the movies he downloaded. He worked on the septic system. He checked the amount of bleach it went through. It was less than the other day but still more than before. He made a video of the Rowe jukebox and put on the digital jukebox builders website. 

 

Doing projects

 

I played games. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Medium Mayhem of 27 games. It took me 1 hour and 34 minutes, which put me in 15th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

I continued working on my diamond painting of the tree.

I worked out on the Wii Fit for a half hour and Synth Riders for a half hour. I also did a jazz routine for fifteen minutes. I hadn't done this routine in a very long time.

 

Working out 

 

I played one game of Pirate's Plunder on Bounce Arcade. I earned a silver trophy, defeated my enemies three times, earned an extra ball and earned three Jolly Rogers. 

 

Pirate's Plunder

I played seven games of pinball. They were Playboy, Medieval Madness, Attack From Mars, Elvira Scared Stiff, Mustang, Goldeneye and Cirqus Voltaire. While playing Mustang I became high score #3. 

 

Attack From Mars

 

Cirqus Voltaire

 

Goldeneye

 

Medieval Madness

 

Mustang

 

Playboy

 

Elvira Scared Stiff

In the evening we watched Mission Impossible II to make sure everything was working correctly such as subtitles. Everything looks good. When Larry went to bed I watched The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum from our movies collection. I ended up doing 13,500 steps.