Tuesday 12-30-25 Projects, Diamond Painting & More

 

Cold Day

 

We had another cold day with the morning temperature of 30 degrees and the high of 56 degrees. 

Larry decided to see if he could fix my old cordless vacuum cleaner. The battery in it had gone bad two different times. Larry had both battery packs. He tested the cells and found one set was ok but the other pack had a bad cell. Since all the cells were good in the one pack but the final voltage still checked low Larry figured something on the circuit board went bad. He was able to remove and transfer one of the cells to the 2nd battery pack which then tested good. The vacuum ran, he was quite excited. He then charged the battery, when it was full he tried it again it worked for about 30 seconds and turned off. A bit of a disappointment but he still had a good time attempting to repair it. 

Next Larry moved onto playing with the Echo Hub. He had a new plug that runs via Thread/Matter. The Echo Hub has a built in router for Thread/Matter and using that he was able to get the new plug working.

While Larry did his projects I played games. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Easy Street of 30 games. It took me 1 hour and 5 minutes to complete, which put me in 11th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

After lunch we went to town to do a couple of errands. First stop was the UPS Store to pickup a package that was delivered yesterday. While there we got our mail. Next was Walmart. I wanted a couple of warm flannel shirts. I found two that I liked. We used our gift card from Larry's mom, still had money left over. Thank you Shirley. 

 

New Shirts

When we got home I worked out with the Synth Riders for 35 minutes with four songs, which were Keep On Smilin, Keep You In Line,  Silent Movie and Watch Your Mouth. While working out with Keep You In Line I got one new high score. While I worked out with Watch Your Mouth I got two new high score and two outstanding scores. I had a good workout.

 

Keep On Smilin

 

Keep You In Line

 

Silent Movie

 

Watch Your Tongue

After working out with Synth Riders I played one game of Monster Manor in Bounce Arcade for 10 minutes. I earned a bronze trophy. I awoken the manor once and tried to stun the manor and failed. I played the spider multiball and got score on banister buster. It was a short game but I had fun.

 

Monster Manor

I played four pinball games on the mini cabinet and the big cabinet. On the mini cabinet I played Cactus Canyon, Fun House, Playboy and Three Angels. On the big cabinet I played Dracula, Indianapolis 500, Mustang and Tron. I didn't get on the board but I played well.

 

Mini Cabinet Games

 

Cactus Canyon

 

Fun House

 

Playboy

 

Three Angels

 

Big Cabinet Games

Dracula

 

Indianapolis 500

 

Mustang

 

Tron

 

I worked on the Dog in Hammock diamond painting. I'm very close to being done. 

In the evening we watched Black Bag movie on Prime. It was a good movie starring Michael Fassbender as George Woodhouse and Cate Blanchett as Kathryn St. Jean (Woodhouse). It was about intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse, she is accused of betraying the nation and her husband George has to investigate the problem. After Larry went to bed I watched the first Star Wars, which was called Star Wars (Episode IV). I ended up doing 5,000 steps.

 

Relaxing in front of the television