Ruth's Life is Good: 2026

Monday, November 9, 2026

Sunday 11-8-26 Rainy Day, New Challenge, Pinball Project & More

Playing in the rain

The rain came in last night and stayed around all day. It didn't rain hard or continuously but it was damp outside. The morning temperature was 58 degrees and the high was 63 degrees. We hung around the house and kept busy doing this and that.

Larry spent the day doing pinball stuff. He continued working on making VR rooms and loading two new games. He made a beautiful VR room for Michael and installed it on both the mini cabinet and the big cabinet. Below are pictures of the VR room on the big cabinet. The two games he loaded are the new weekly challenge of Whirlwind and Mass Effect. Mass Effect was taken from Attack From Mars. We love playing Attack From Mars. Mass Effect plays great and is very fun.

Pinball cabinet of Michael in the VR room

A chair in the VR room of Michael

A couch in the VR room of Michael

Larry installed both Whirlwind and Mass Effect on the big cabinet in both VR and 2D. Once he got them installed he played them and had a great time. When he finished making the VR room for Michael he played it and had fun.

My weekly pinball challenge from last week was World Poker Tour. The challenge ended at 1:00 so I played it for about a half hour to try to get a new high score. I failed but I had fun. My high score of 29,455,020 put me in 54th place out of 119 participants. I played the new weekly challenge of Whirlwind when it started. My first high score was 2,232,730, which put me in 23rd place out of 23 participants so far.

World Poker Tour

Whirlwind

I also played three more pinball games on the big cabinet, which was John Wick, Mass Effect and Michael. I had fun playing pinball on the big cabinet.

John Wick

Mass Effect

Michael

I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were Godzilla, Great Houdini, Guardians of the Galaxy, Theatre of Magic and Transformers. While playing Guardians of the Galaxy I became high score #4 and Theatre of Magic I became high score #2. I had a great day playing pinball on the mini cabinet.

Godzilla

Great Houdini

Guardians of the Galaxy

Theatre of Magic

Transformers

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The Daily Event was Event: Easy Street of 30 games. It took me 57 minutes and 11 seconds to complete, which put me in 7th 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 30 minutes. I did the Wii Fit Plus Routine of 12 exercises, which were two exercises from the Aerobics menu (Advance Step and Rhythm Boxing), one exercise from Balance Games menu (Table Tilt), three exercises from the Strength Training menu (Balance Bridge of 6 reps, Sideways Leg Lift of 10 reps and Single-Leg Twist of 10 reps), four exercises from Training Plus menu (Big Top Juggler, Bird's Eye Bull's Eye, Rhythm Parade and Skateboard Arena and two exercises from the Yoga menu (Chair and Half-Moon). I had a great workout.

Aerobics (Advance Step and Rhythm Boxing)

Balance Games (Table Tilt)

Strength Training (Balance Bridge, Sideways Leg Lift and Single-Leg Twist)

Training Plus (Big Top Juggler, Bird's Eye Bull's Eye, Rhythm Parade and Skateboard Arena)

Yoga (Chair and Half-Moon)

I worked out on Just Dance 2014 for 35 minutes. I danced to 9 songs, which were 6 songs for 20 minutes and another 3 songs for 10 minutes. The songs were Wild, Maria, Rich Girl, Nitro Bot, Just Dance and Turn Up The Love for 20 minutes and C'mon, Careless Whisper and Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) for 10 minutes. I had fun dancing to Just Dance.

Wild, Maria, Rich Girl, Nitro Bot, Just Dance and Turn Up The Love

C'mon, Careless Whisper and Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

I worked out to four songs two times with the Synth Riders, which were Escape, ID, Outburst and Underdog. While working out with ID I earned one Outstanding Score, Outburst I earned two Outstanding Scores and Underdog I earned two Outstanding Scores and one New High Score. I had a great workout.

Escape

Outburst

Underdog

We watched YouTube videos.

In the evening we watched Toy Story 3. When Larry went to bed I watched The Nut Job and John Wick Chapter 2 on Amazon. The Nut Job was a cute movie about collecting nuts for the winter and working as a team. I enjoyed watching the movie.

By the end of the day I had done 4,600 steps.

Sunday, November 8, 2026

Saturday 11-7-26 Two Car Shows, Workout, VR Project & More

Smile and have fun

We had overcast skies, which kept it nice and cool. The morning temperature was 55 degrees and the high temperature was 72 degrees. We had a little breeze.

We started the day out by attending two car shows. The first show was in Waco, about 55 miles from the house. The car show was the 2nd Annual Autopalooza Autism Awareness Car/Truck/Bike Show. It was located at Camp Fimfo.

Camp Fimfo is a gorgeous RV resort. It has 247 RV sites with full hookups, 88 cabins including options for up to 11 guests and primitive tent spots. The amenities are a heated resort-style pool with a swim-up bar, a water playground, mini golf, pickleball courts, jumping pillow, and on-site dining at Squirrely's Tavern and the No Dive Bar. The resort is pet-free, free Wi-Fi in public areas and free self-parking. In the playground the resort had a cool swing. You sit on the cable and go a long a cable to the other side and have to swing your legs to get you back to where you start or walk the sit back to the start. It's like a zip line.

Camp Fimfo Waco

Kids enjoying the jump pillow

Families enjoying the playground

Families enjoying the slides, merry-go-round and teeter tooter

The water playground

The car show had a lot of beautiful vehicles. The paint jobs were outstanding. It took place on a huge grassy area. There were four or five aisles of vehicles and a row of food vendors. There were a few vendors in the aisles with the vehicles. The vehicles were stationed going one direction. They had people driving around on golf carts to take spectators to the show. Below are some pictures of vehicles we saw while walking around. It took us about a half hour to walk through the car show.

1937 Roadster

Straight Axle Sandy Roadster

VW Bus Camper

Black Widow 2023 Corvette

Venom with the owner dressed up as the Venom

Alpha Raptor

Back of a Chevy Truck

Front of the same Chevy Truck as above

1956 Thunderbird

1949 International

The second show was in Belton. It was the 2nd Annual Cars & Camaraderie, which was honoring veterans throughout the community. It was very small so it didn't take long to walk through. They had very nice cars and motorcycles. Below are a few pictures of the cars.

Black Panther Smart Car

1948 Chrysler

1958 Ford Fairlane Victoria (Vicky)

2020 Corvette (Streethunter)

On the way home we stopped at Little Caesar and bought a pizza for lunch. After lunch Larry spent the afternoon playing with the VR program of converting pinball games to VR. Today he worked on the Sexy Girl game, he made a VR room and put a graphic on the side of the pinball cabinet in the room. Once again he used AI to help him with creating the side graphic. It came out great.

Sexy Girl

I worked out for an hour and a half.

I worked out with the Wii Fit for 30 minutes with 12 exercises. The exercises were two exercises from the Aerobics menu for 9 minutes (Advance Step for 5 minutes and Rhythm Boxing for 4 minutes), two exercises from the Balance Games menu for 7 minutes (Penguin Slide for 4 minutes and Tightrope Walk four times for 3 minutes), three exercises from the Strength Training menu for 4 minutes (Sideways Leg Lift 10 reps for 1 minute, Single-Leg Extension 10 reps for 2 minutes and Single-Leg Twist 10 reps for 1 minute), two exercises from the Training Plus menu for 4 minutes (Perfect 10 one time for 2 minutes and Table Tilt Plus for 2 minutes) and three exercises from the Yoga menu for 6 minutes (Chair for 2 minutes, Half-Moon for 2 minutes and Palm Tree for 2 minutes). I had a great workout.

Aerobics (Advance Step and Rhythm Boxing)

Balance Games (Penguin Slide and Tightrope Walk)

Strength Training (Sideways Leg Lift, Single-Leg Extension and Single-Leg Twist)

Training Plus (Perfect 10 and Table Tilt Plus)

Yoga (Chair, Half-Moon and Palm Tree)

I worked out for 31 minutes with Gold's Gym. I used a prepared workout for 25 minutes, which was an exercise from the Intermediate menu for 8 minutes (Warm Up with Left and Right Ducking Combo), an exercise from the Beginner menu for 14 minutes (Beginning Combo) and an exercise from the Exercise menu for 3 minutes (Jump Rope). I also did another exercise from the Beginner for 6 minutes (Warm Up Cross Punch Combo). I had a good workout.

Beginner Menu (Cross Punch Combo and Beginner Combo)

Intermediate Menu (Left and Right Ducking Combo)

Exercise Menu (Jump Rope)

I worked out with the Synth Riders for 30 minutes. I worked out with four songs two times. The songs were Paris Night Walk, Spectrum, Stardust and The Wild. It was a super workout.

Paris Night Walk

Spectrum

Stardust

The Wild

I played Monster Manor on Bounce Arcade for 15 minutes. While playing Monster Manor I earned a Bronze Trophy. I did the Banister Buster, earned the Skeleton Key, Awoken the Manor and Stunned the Manor. I had fun playing Monster Manor.

Monster Manor

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The Daily Event was Event: Hard Road Mini of 5 games. It took me 21 minutes and 27 seconds to complete, which put me in 8th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played ten games of pinball. I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were Dark Chaos, JP Space Cadet, No Fear, Pirate's Life and Ted & Red Road Show. While playing Pirate's Life I became high score #1. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Borderlands, Cirqus Voltaire, Nightmare Before Christmas, Sexy Girls and World Poker. I had fun playing pinball.