Monday 7-13-26 Camera Research, Rain, Puzzle & More

 

Rain in the Afternoon

We had an overcast day. The morning temperature was 76 degrees and the high was 91 degrees at 1:00 pm. A rain storm came through at 1:30 pm and lasted about 45 minutes. The rain went away and won't be back until tomorrow.  

Larry has been playing with ideas for a new Zoom camera, he has not found something that will do what he wants but he is continuing to research different cameras. Lots of information on Amazon and YouTube to dig through.

He started reading another book today. By the end of the day he had finished it.

He also installed my new weekly pinball challenge. This weeks challenge is AC/DC, we have never had this installed so it will be fun to play something totally new. 

Larry played a number of pinball games today. Mostly he played what are called "Original" table, these games are normally totally made up by a developer, not copies of real pinball games. It is amazing that they dream up an idea, create the table, graphics, code and game play almost exclusively by themselves, they may get a bit of help from other developers on some of the code but mostly the work is done by the one person. If someone helps them they always give them credit.

Reading is relaxing and fun

While Larry read I played games and worked out.

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Spider Adventure of 20 games. It took me 3 hours, 9 minutes and 42 seconds to complete, which put me in 18th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out for 1 hour and 45 minutes.

I worked out with the Wii Fit for 45 minutes using the Aerobics, Balance Games, Strength Training, Training Plus and Yoga. I did 10 minutes off the Aerobics menu with two exercises, which were Basic Run for 2 minutes and Rhythm Boxing for 8 minutes. I did 10 minutes off the Balance Games menu with three exercises, which were Penguin Slide two times, Ski Jump two times and Soccer Heading two times. I did 10 minutes off the Strength Training menu with four exercises, which were Sideways Leg Twist 20 reps for 2 minutes, Single- Leg Extensions 20 reps for 3 minutes, Single Leg Twist of 20 reps for 2 minutes and Torso Twist 6 reps for 3 minutes. I did 5 minutes off the Training Plus menu with Perfect 10 four times. I did 10 minutes off the Yoga menu with five exercises, which were Chair for 2 minutes, Half Moon for 2 minutes, Palm Tree for 2 minutes, Standing Knee for 2 minutes and Warrior for 2 minutes. I had a great workout.

Aerobics (Basic Run and Rhythm Boxing)

Balance Games (Penguin Slide, Soccer Heading and Ski Jump)

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

Training Plus (Perfect 10)

 

Yoga (Chair, Half Moon, Palm Tree, Standing Knee and Warrior)

I worked out with Gold's Gym for 25 minutes. I worked out with Brenda using a Prepared Routine of Beginning Combo for 6 minutes, Left and Right Ducking Combo for 16 minutes and Punch Dodge for 3 minutes. I worked out with Brenda. I had a good workout.

Brenda and the Prepared Workout Menu

Left and Right Ducking Combo from the Intermediate menu

Beginner Combo from the Beginner menu

Punch Dodge from the Exercise menu

I worked out with Synth Riders for 30 minutes to four songs two times. The songs were ID, Outburst, Paris Night Walk and Underdog. While doing ID I earned two outstanding scores and one new high score. While doing Outburst I earned one outstanding score and one high score. While doing Paris Walk I earned two outstanding scores, While doing Underdog I earned two outstanding scores. I had a great workout.

ID

Outburst

Paris Night Walk

Underdog

I played one game of Monster Manor on the Bounce Arcade. While playing the game I earned a silver trophy. I did this by being a Banister Buster, Midnight Harvest by fighting the Jack-O-Lantern, Awoken the Manor, Stunned the Manor and Spooky Skylight. I played very well.

Monster Manor

While I was playing games Larry played a few games of pinball on the big cabinet.

I played ten pinball games. I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were Elvira Scared Stiff, Fun House, Nightmare Before Christmas, No Good Goffers! and Playboy. While playing No Good Goffers! I became high score #3. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were AC/DC, Beetle Juice, Big Bang Bar, Star Fox and The Beach Boys. While playing Beetle Juice I became high score #3 and The Beach Boys I became high score #4. While playing AC/DC I did my first high score of 6,664,200, which put me in 38th out of 40 participants.

Elvira Scared Stiff (Mini)

Fun House (Mini)

Nightmare Before Christmas (Mini)

No Good Goffers! (Mini)

Playboy (Mini)

AC/DC (Big)

Beetle Juice (Big)

Big Bang Bar (Big)

Star Fox (Big)

The Beach Boys (Big)

Larry watched YouTube videos while I played pinball.

In the evening we continued watching Spider-Noir on Amazon. When Larry went to bed I watched the third Indiana Jones movie, which was Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. I ended up doing 3,000 steps.

While watching television I continued working on the Horse Of Iron jigsaw puzzle.

We had a super day hanging out with each other.