Sunday 3-1-26 New Month, New Pinball Challenge, Workout & Games

 

Smile and have fun

Today started the month of March and it's Sunday. I hope everyone had a great week of doing whatever you enjoy doing. We kept busy doing this and that. We had a lot of fun doing so.

Happy March

Today was a very warm day with a lot of sunshine. The morning temperature was 64 degrees and it got up to 83. It also was very windy.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 Klondike and 5 Free Cell). It took me 1 hour, 25 minutes and 26 seconds, which put me in 20th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.  

Today is the beginning of a week so I got a new weekly challenge of pinball, which is Metallica. We already have the game installed but our version was a bit older so Larry had to download and install the newer version. He also had to change the number of balls from 5 to 3.

Before last week's challenge of Guns N' Roses was over I played it for about an hour. I didn't get a new high score but I came close. When the challenge was over I came in 65th place out of 119 participants. The participants were from U.S., France, Finland, Italy, Argentina, Germany, U.K., Netherlands, Japan, China, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Australia and Curacao. I played this week's challenge of Metallica and got my first high score of 28,949,640. I'm in 11th out of 19 participants. 

Guns N' Roses (big)

Metallica (big)

I played seven other pinball games. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were 60th Anniversary, Dr. No, Goldeneye and Medieval Madness. While playing Dr. No I became high score #2. I played three games on the big cabinet, which were Willy Wonka, World Cup Soccer and Tour Joker Poker. I didn't get on the board playing on the big cabinet but had fun.

60th Anniversary (mini)

Dr. No (mini)

Goldeneye (mini)

Medieval Madness (mini)

Willy Wonka (big)

World Cup Soccer (big)

World Tour Joker Poker (big)

Larry spent a good part of the day reading. Yesterday he started reading The Professor's House by Willa Cather, He finished it today. Willa Cather was born in 1873 and she wrote 12 books. Larry has now read three of  them. He has enjoyed all of them. Reading them today they are historical fiction but at the time she wrote The Professor's house (1925) it would have simply been fiction.

Relaxing with a book

I worked out for a little over an hour and a half.

I worked out using the Wii Fit for 35 minutes. I usually use the Wii Fit routines but today I did my own routine using the menu board. The routine was 10 minutes of Balance Games (2 minutes with Soccer, 2 minutes Snow Skiing, 2 minutes Ski Jump, 2 minutes Tight Rope Walking and 2 minutes Penguin Catching Fish), 10 minutes of Aerobics (4 minutes Boxing, 2 minutes of Hola Hoop and 4minutes of Super Hola Hoop), 5 minutes of Strength Training (1 minute of Single-leg Extension, 1  minute of Torso Twists, 1 minute of Single-leg Twist and 1 minute of Side-ways Leg Lift) and 10 minutes of Yoga (2 minutes of Half Moon, 2 minutes of Warrior, 2 minutes of Tree, 2 minutes of Palm Tree and 2 minutes of Chair).

Aerobics

Balance Games

Strength Training

Yoga

I worked out a half hour with Just Dance with Just Dance 2018 (10 minutes) and Just Dance 2019 (20 minutes). Just Dance 2018 I did three songs (Another One Bites The Dust, Risky Business and Foot Loose) and Just 2019 I did six songs (Mad Love, Not Your Ordinary, Finesse, Rave In The Grave, A Little Party Never Killed No Body and Toy). I had fun.

Just Dance 2018

Just Dance 2019

I worked out with the Synth Riders for a half hour to four songs twice. The songs were Escape, Hypothermia, Stay and The Wild. While working out with Escape I got an outstanding score and a new high score. While working out with Stay I got one outstanding score. While working out with The Wild I got two outstanding scores. I had a great workout.

Escape

Hypothermia

Stay

The Wild

I worked on my jigsaw puzzle when I had time.

In the evening we watched Curious Case of Benjamin Button on Kanopy. It was about a boy, who was born old and gets younger as he gets older. We have seen this movie years ago and enjoyed watching it again. It stared Brad Pitt as Benjamin and Cate Blanchett as Daisy, Benjamin's girl friend. When Larry went to bed I watched Battleship from our movies collection. It was a movie about a fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals. It about two brothers in the navy and are opposites. It was a good movie. I ended up doing 4,000 steps.