Wednesday 1-28-26 Dance Day & Warmer Temperatures

 

Awesome Day!

 

We had a warmer day and a lot of the ice and snow are melting. More people were driving around because the main road to the neighborhood is clear of ice. We even got mail in our mailbox. It was nice to see people driving around but they were still being careful.

Our morning temperature was 23 degrees and the high was 54 degrees. We had a pretty day.

I attended three virtual square dances. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus dance at 10:00 for an hour. Terry called the first tip and Di called the other four tips. They called to 9 participants. Di called the new A1 moves, that were moved to the Plus moves. She asked if we wanted her to go over the moves considering we were all A2 dancers. We said it would be great to review them. We had people from the U.K., U.S. and Canada. I had a great time dancing with friends.

Second was Ett McAtee's Weekly C1 at 1:00 for an hour. Loren Smith from Canada called the dance for Ett. He called four tips to 11 participants. Larry danced with me. I was happy he did because he helped me get in the right place at times. We had people from Germany, Canada, Finland and U.S. We had a super time dancing to Loren because he put us in different positions were not use to be in. He worked on Relay The Top because the dancers were have problems with it.

Third was Dave Eno Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00 for an hour and a half. Karin Rabe and Greg Moore helped Dave call the dance. The format was three tips of C1 to 10 participants, three tips of A2 to 10 participants and two trivia questions. The participants were from Australia and the United States. It's always a small group but we have a lot of fun dancing together. 

 

 

Get a partner and dance

 

While I danced Larry read. He started a new book and finished it.

 

Reading is relaxing

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 6 games (3 Spider and 3 Free Cell). It took me 13 minutes and 54 seconds, which put me in 22nd place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out for a half hour with the Synth Riders. I worked out with four songs twice, which were Dust to Dust, Enemy, Into The Void and Unshakeable. While working out with Dust to Dust I earned one new high score, Enemy I got two outstanding scores and Unshakeable I earned one new high score. I had a good workout.

 

Dust to Dust

 

Enemy

 

Into The Void

 

Unshakeable

I played seven games of pinball, which were three on the mini cabinet and four on the big cabinet. The games on the mini cabinet were Dead Pool, JP Space Cadet and Red & Ted Road Show. On the big cabinet the games were Cactus Canyon, Medieval Madness, The Big LeBowski and Willy Wonka. I didn't get on the board but had a lot of fun.

 

Dead Pool (mini)

 

JP Space Cadet (mini)

 

Red & Ted Road Show (mini)

 

Cactus Canyon (big)

 

Medieval Madness (big)

 

The Big LeBowski (big)

 

Willy Wonka (big)

 

Last year Larry became a member of the Houston Library, this allows him to read ebooks via an app called Libby and we can stream movies via Kanopy. We have been using it for a couple of months, you get 20 tickets (credits) per month, you use them for the movies and TV shows. Each movie or show will tell you how many tickets it cost. The Kanopy app is not very user friendly, the other night we used a few tickets on movies we had already watched, Kanopy doesn't keep track of what you watch.  

The Houston Library also offers movies via a second application called Hoopla. Today Larry installed it and now we have a lot more movies to choose from. Every application is different. I think Hoopla will be easier to use than Kanopy. It also appears to have more movies to choose from. You can watch 15 movies per month. Both Kanopy and Hoopla restart the tickets every month.         

After Dave Eno's dance we watched Aeon Flux on Hoopla. It was a science friction movie where people were cloned. It was an ok movie. Then I watched Rain Man on Hoopla. It a 1988 movie starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman. I've watched it before many years ago and liked. I ended up doing 2,000 steps.