Saturday 5-23-26 Workout & Puzzle Redo

 

Relaxing Day

We had a very relaxing day. The morning temperature was 64 degrees and it got up to 85 degrees for the high. We had a small rain storm come through in the early morning. 

We started the day off by going to town to check our mail at the UPS Store. Before doing so we stopped by Jack 'n' Jill Donuts to get breakfast. Next we went to Walmart to pick up a few items. Once we put the groceries in the car we walked to the UPS Store to get our mail. My driver's license was waiting for me. After getting our mail we went home. 

Running Errands

Larry continued working on the editing and bookmarking the square dancing tapes

I spent most the day doing this and that.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 6 games (3 Spider and 3 Tri Peaks). It took me 15 minutes and 34 seconds, which put me in 17th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out for an hour and a half. 

I worked out with the Wii Fit for a half hour. I worked out with My Wii Fit Plus program of 12 games. I did one Aerobic game (Basic Run), one Balance game (Table Tilt), three Strength Training games (Torso Twist- 3 reps, Jack Knifes -10 reps and Sideways Leg Lifts- 10 reps), five Yoga games (Half Moon, Standing Knee, Deep Breathing, Downward Facing Dog and The Chair) and two Training Plus (Rhythm Kung Fu and Skateboard Arena for 25 minutes instead of 26 because I didn't do well with the Table Tilt. I did the Table Tilt Plus in the Plus Training two times for a total of 6 minutes.

Aerobics (Basic Run)

Balance (Table Tilt) 

Strength Training (Torso Twists- third on top row, Jack Knifes- fourth on top row and Sideway Leg Lift-third on second row)

 

Yoga (Deep Breathing- first on top row, Half Moon- second top row, Standing Knee- first second row, Chair- third second row and Downward Facing Dog- fifth on second row)

Training Plus (Rhythm Kung Fu- third on top row, Skateboard Arena- second on last row and Table Tilt Plus- third on third row)

I worked out with Just Dance 3 for a half hour with Dance Crew songs, where you choose what character you want to dance as. The songs were Baby One More Time, Boogie Wonderland, Dynamite, I Was Made For Lovin' You, Night Boat To Cairo, Spectronizer and This Halloween.  

This Halloween

Spectronizer

Night Boat to Cairo

I Was Made For Lovin' You

Dynamite

 

Boogie Wonderland

. Baby One More Time

I worked out with the Synth Riders for a half hour with Carbon Cult, From Hell, Satanic Panic and Space Rock. While doing Carbon Cult I did two outstanding scores and one high score, Satanic Panic I did two outstanding scores and Space Rock I did one outstanding. When doing From Hell I didn't get a new high score or an outstanding score but I did come close.

Carbon Cult

From Hell

Satanic Panic

Space Rock

I played Pirate's Plunder in the Bounce Arcade. I earned a silver trophy by getting three Jolliest Rogers, Cutlass Clash, two Skeleton Swamp, Raised the Sails three times, Fought and Defeated my enemies twice and earned an extra ball.

Pirate's Plunder

I played 10 games of pinball. 

I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were The Big LeBowski, The Godfather, The Goonies, Transporters and Willy Wonka. While playing The Godfather I became high score #2 and Transformers I became Grand Champion.

The Big LeBowski

The Godfather

The Goonies

Transformers

Willy Wonka

I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Blizzard of Ozz, Dracula,  James Bond 60th Anniversary, No Fear and Theatre of Magic. I didn't get on the board but I had fun.

Blizzard of Ozz

Dracula

James Bond 60th Anniversary

No Fear

Theatre of Magic

Today Larry purchased Superman 2025 from Amazon so we watched it in the evening. It was a good super hero movie. When Larry went to bed I watched Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Jesse Stone: No Remorse from our movies collection. I ended up doing 6,000 steps.

Last night I finished putting the Nancy Wernersbach jigsaw puzzle together. I decided to do The Blue Truck jigsaw puzzle by James Piazza. I built this same puzzle two years ago. I didn't take the Nancy Wernersbach puzzle apart because it was missing three pieces I hope to find them. So I found another piece of cardboard to assemble the Blue Truck on it. The Blue Truck is a 1,000 pieces puzzle in a shape of a truck.

The Blue Truck 
  

 

  

   

    

Friday 5-22-26 Tape Projects, Workout, Dancing with Ett & More

 

Do the happy dance

Smile it's Friday. We had an overcast day with the morning temperature of 67 degrees and the high was 85 degrees.

Larry continued editing and bookmarking the square dancing tapes for our Liberty Hill dance.

In the morning while I was playing some of my games about 9:00 am we had a pleasant surprise. Larry looked out the back window and saw a fawn curled up by our septic tank. It looked like it wasn't even a hour old. It stayed there until around noon. Mom kept an eye on it. She would disappear for a little bit and then come back to check on the fawn. When she finally finished grazing she came back for the fawn. The fawn was so excited it ran to her and ate a little until mom said that was enough. Then they walked away. I took pictures from the security camera because I didn't want to scare the doe and fawn away.

Fawn sleeping at the arrow

Doe grazing in the backyard

Fawn nursing 

 

Today is National Solitaire Day so Microsoft celebrated it by tripling your score for any Solitaire games you play. I did the Daily Challenges Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was National Solitaire Day of 10 games. It took me 29 minutes and 50 seconds, which put me in 25th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out on the Wii Fit for 45 minutes and Synth Riders for a half hour. 

While working out with the Wii Fit I did 10 minutes of Balance doing Penguin Slide (4 minutes), Ski Slalom (2 minutes), Ski Jump (2 minutes) and Balance Bubble (2 minutes), 13 minutes of Aerobics doing Rhythm Boxing (8 minutes) and Basic Run Island (5 minutes), 7 minutes of Strength Training doing Single-Leg Extension (2 minutes 10 reps), Torso Twist (3 minutes), Single-Leg Twist (1 minutes 10 reps) and Sideway Leg Lift (1 minute 10 reps), 10 minutes Yoga doing Half Moon (2 minutes), Warrior (2 minutes), Tree (2 minutes), Sun Salutation (2 minutes) and Standing Knee (2 minutes) and Plus Training doing Perfect 10 (5 minutes).

Aerobics Menu (Rhythm Boxing and Basic Run)

Balance Menu (Penguin Slide, Ski Slalom, Ski Jump and Balance Bubble)

Strength Training left to right first row and second row (Single-Leg Extension (1), Torso Twist (3), Single-Leg Twist (2) and Sideways Leg Lift (3)

Yoga Menu right to left and first row and second row (Half Moon (1), Warrior (3), Tree (4), Sun Salutation (5) and Standing Knee (1)

Perfect 10

I worked out to four songs with Synth Riders, which were Choices, Neo Tokyo, Sunset Hologram and Suppress It. While playing with Chooses I earned two outstanding scores, Neo Tokyo I earned two outstanding scores, Sunset Hologram I earned 1 outstanding and 1 new high score the first time and Suppress It I earned two outstanding scores.

I played five games of pinball on the big cabinet, which were Big Trouble in Little China, Elvira House of Horrors Blood Red Kiss, Theatre of Magic, Willow and World Cup Soccer. I didn't get on the board but I had fun.

Big Trouble in Little China

Elvira House of Horrors Blood Red Kiss

Theatre of Magic

Willow

World Cup Soccer

Our neighbor Keileigh had her graduation party tonight between 6:00 pm and 9:00 pm. They asked if they could have some of the people park in our driveway. Larry said no problem. The driveway was full of vehicles three across and two deep and the vehicles were on both sides of the street. We didn't attend but I went over earlier in the afternoon to deliver the graduation card Larry made. I congratulated her on her graduation and wished her good luck in college. While there Jason said they were going on a cruise as a family to celebrate the graduation. Keileigh and her friends were going on another cruise without the adults to celebrate their graduation for 13 days. The party was very quiet we didn't even know it was going on except for the vehicles.    

I attended Ett McAtee's Weekly A2 dance at 6:30 for an hour. She called four tips to 11 participants. I hadn't danced to her since 3/3/26 and it was nice to see her again. She had been calling locally and travelling and we were gone for eight weeks.

After the dance we watched The Boy In The Striped Pajamas on Hoopla. The movie was about an eight year old son of a commandant at a German concentration camp who befriends a Jewish boy at the camp. It was a good movie until the ending. After Larry went to bed I watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Jesse Stone: Thin Ice from our movies collection. I ended up doing 4,000 steps.

I continued working on my jigsaw puzzle.  

 

    

   

Thursday 5-21-26 Rain, Computer Project, Workout & More

 

Rainy Evening

We had a relaxing day. 

The morning temperature was in the 60's and the high was 80 degrees. The rain rolled in at 3:00 pm and stayed around through out the evening. 

Larry spent the day formatting the square dancing tapes we use for C1 on Tuesday. Glen sent him some C1 tapes for four couples just in case we have enough dances for a full square. Larry worked on formatting the four couple tapes and continued working on the two couple tapes. He worked with the application Henry used but he was not happy with it. He tried out three other programs and while he was not thrilled with any of them he found one that worked better than the others. He enjoys learning new programs.

Get a partner and dance

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: The Hard Road of 16 games. It took me 2 hours, 2 minutes and 35 seconds, which put me in 10th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out for an hour and a half. I worked out with the Wii Fit for a half hour using My Wii Fit Plus, which is where the Wii Fit puts a workout together for you. I decided on all four categories of 12 different games, which were three Yoga exercises (Half Moon, Palm Tree and Warrior), three Strength excises (Jack Knifes, Tricep Extensions and Rowing Squats), three Aerobics exercises (Advance Step, Basic Run and Super Houla Hoops), one Balance exercise (Table Tilt) and two Training Plus (Rhythm Parade and Skate Board). It had been 63 days since I used the Wii Fit and I had a great workout.

The menu for you to choose your workout from

The Wii Fit letting me know how long it has been since I worked with it

Next I worked out with Gold's Gym for a half hour. I chose my own lessons, which were Left and Right Step Combo for 8 minutes, Advance Combo for 16 minutes and Cross Punch Combo for 6 minutes. I had another great workout.

Lesson Selection for the Advance 

  

The final workout was with the Synth Riders for a half hour using four songs twice, which were Pursuit, Silver Stallion, The Curse and The End of the Night. While using the Synth Riders I did seven outstanding out of eight, which means I hit only the balls. The first time I did The Curse I missed an outstanding because I missed one ball completely.

  

Pursuit

Silver Stallion

The Curse

The End of the Night

I played ten games of pinball. I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were Dark Chaos, JP Space Cadet, Nightmare Before Christmas, Pirates of the Caribbean and Three Angels, While playing Dark Chaos I became Grand Champion and Nightmare Before Christmas I became high score #3. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Goldeneye, The Godfather, Theatre of Magic, Time Lord and World Joker Poker. I didn't get on the board playing on the big cabinet but I still had a great time.

Dark Chaos (Mini)

JP Space Cadet (Mini)

Nightmare Before Christmas (Mini)

Pirates of the Caribbean (Mini)

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Three Angels (Mini)

Goldeneye (Big)

The Godfather (Big)

Theatre of Magic (Big)

Time Lord (Big)

World Joker Poker (Big)

 

We watched our YouTube videos.

In the evening we watched Finding Bobby Fischer on Hoopla. It was based on a true story about Josh Waitzkin, who was a prepubescent chess prodigy. It was about his training to become a champion like the famous Bobby Fischer. It was a 1993 movie loaded with big stars: Joe Mantegna, Laurence Fishburne, Ben Kingsley, David Paymer and more. It was a very good movie. When Larry went to bed I watched Harry Porter and the Goblet of Fire and Jesse Stone: Sea Change from our movies collection. I ended up doing 4,500 steps. 

Relaxing in front of the television

I worked on my jigsaw puzzle while watching television.