Sunday 12-28-25 Goodreads, Pinball Project, Diamond Painting & More

 

Awesome Day

 

We had an awesome day. The morning temperature was 67 degrees and the high 81 degrees. It was a gorgeous day with sunshine and wind that kept the temperature very comfortable. The wind got stronger in the evening. I can't believe it, that it's the end of December and we're running the air conditioner. 

 

Hold on tight

 

We received an e-mail from Social Security saying we had a message waiting. We seldom login to Social Security and they had made a change to the way I login. It took quite awhile to setup the new process, it wasn't user friendly, some of it had to be done on the computer, then you had to do part of it on the phone and then back to the computer. If you made a mistake you had to start all over. I'm glad I have Larry help with all of this. I get frustrated when it comes to computer stuff. When it works for me I'm very happy but when it doesn't work I complain to Larry and he fixes the problem. Thank you Larry for updating my Social Security information.

Larry had tried to update my Social Security stuff before I got up but ran into a problem when it required a selfie picture, he didn't want to wake me so he had to wait until I got up and start the entire process over. 

While waiting for me to wake up he worked on my new vacuum cleaner. He installed the bracket to hold the vacuum itself in the pantry. The new vacuum came with a big bag to hold the attachments and there was a hook in the pantry already so he put the bag on the hook. The old vacuum had a bracket, that held it's attachments. He found the new attachments could fit on the bracket. He put as many attachments as he could on the bracket and the rest in the bag. The pantry looks great after Larry organized it. I didn't get around to playing with the new vacuum but I'll try tomorrow.

 

   

Storing the vacuums in the pantry

 

 While eating lunch Larry received an e-mail from Goodreads that gave him his a annual report on the books he read. He is very good on writing reviews on books he reads. He writes a review and rates it as soon as he finished the book. The e-mail gave him a lot of information. It told him how many books he read, how many books per month, genres the books were in, how they rate to other readers and other information. 

 

94 books read

 

Genres were Historical Fiction Mystery & Thriller Contemporary Fiction

 

 

  

Books read per month

 

 Yesterday, Larry received the new power supply for the mini pinball cabinet. He spent the afternoon replacing it. It took a little bit. It wasn't the same power supply so he needed to do modifications to mount it in the cabinet. He doesn't mind this because he loves figuring things out. He gets to use his big drill press. Once he did the modifications he installed it in the cabinet. He always likes to make his projects neat by connecting the wires and cable with ties and labeling them. By doing this when he needs to go back and work on the project he knows where everything goes. This makes it easier. The new power supply fixed the problem and the machine works. He has a few more things he wants to do to it. 

 

Drill Press

 

Power Supply

 

I spent most of the day working on Dog In Hammock diamond painting.

 

Dog In Hammock so far

 

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Tri Peaks Adventure of 20 games. It took me 1 hour, 9 minutes and 42 seconds, which put me in 8th in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out with Synth Riders for 30 minutes with three songs, which were Empires (3:10), It Ain't Right (3:42) and I Loved You Then (3:06). I did the three songs twice and earned 5 outstanding scores. I missed the first time with I Loved You Then getting an outstanding score by one ball. But during the outstanding score of I Loved You Then I got a new high score.

 

Empires

 

I Loved You Then

 

It Ain't Right

I played one game of Gunpowder Gulch on Bounce Arcade. I earned a silver trophy. I played four multiballs, which were Saloon, Wooden Sign Rally, Jailhouse Breakout and Safe Crack. I played two events three times, which were Barrel Barricade twice and Crack Safe. I was successful with the cracked safe event. I played the game for 15 minutes and had fun.

 

 

 

Gunpowder Gulch

 

I played seven games of pinball, which were Big LeBowski, Creature From The Black Lagoon, No Fear, Tron, Willow, Willy Wonka and World Cup Soccer. While playing Big LeBowski and Creature From The Black Lagoon I became high score #1 and World Cup Soccer I became high score #3. I had a great day of playing pinball.

 

 

 

Big LeBowski

 

 

 

Creature From The Black Lagoon

 

 

 

No Fear

 

 

 

Tron

 

 

 

Willow

 

 

 

 

Willy Wonka

 

 

 

 

World Cup Soccer

 

 

In the evening we watched The Extraordinary Adventure of Adele Blanca-Sec on Prime. It wasn't that good because of the script and acting. It was translated from French to English. It was about a famous novelist and her adventures. After Larry went to bed I watched Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. I ended up doing 3,500 steps.