Tuesday 3-4-25 Dancing C1/A2 & Games

 

Windy Day

 

We had a very windy day with the high 72 degrees. It was a beautiful day with a lot of sunshine. 

The day started out with a down pour of rain. Larry wakes up at 6:00 and does his morning routine. This morning the rain came down in sheets at 6:30. 

 

Early morning down pour

 

Today we had our weekly C1/A2 dance in Liberty Hill. On the way to the dance the wind was so strong it moved the car around. When we got to where the dance was we had to get out of the car one at a time. When we opened the door the wind almost blew the door off it's hinges. On the way home it was even stronger, the air quality was very bad, you could barely see in front of you while driving. Larry read that the dust had blown in from West Texas.  

We spent the day at Kay and Bob's house dancing C1/A2. We left the house at 10:30 am and was back at the house at 4:30. 

We danced C1 with Henry and Susan at 12:00 for an hour to a Johnny Preston's two couple tap. The tape had us dance with phantoms. At times it was confusing because we weren't sure if we were dancing with phantoms or back to two couples. Susan figured it out when Johnny didn't say with phantoms it meant we were back to two couples. Henry has the tape on his phone, he uses a program where he can stop the tape when we have problems. This way we have time to discuss the move and what Johnny was calling. We did very well. We enjoy this very much. 

Henry had a blast class for C1 during the weekend at Steiner Ranch in the Austin area. It was a three hour session on both Saturday and Sunday. Susan attended the blast. They said they had 10 people there and only got through 1/3 of what they were planning to do. Most of the dancers hadn't danced for five or more years so they had to walk through the moves. They said they had fun.

John Kephart was back to call the A2 dance at 1:00 for a couple of hours. We had enough people for exactly two squares. When we sign in and paid for the dance we were given a card which told us what square we were in. In between the tips we visited with the other dancers. I usually wear a hat and a belly dance belt but today I left them in the car because the wind was too strong. People asked me where my hat was. We had a great time dancing to John and with friends.

 

Dancing with friends

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: World Tour Mini of 10 games. It took me 45 minutes and 58 seconds, which put me in 19th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

 

 

Angry Birds Characters

 

I played four games of pinball. They were Transporter, Rambo, Spiderman and Superman and the Justice League. While playing Spiderman I became the Grand Champion.

 

 

 

Rambo

 

 

 

Spiderman

 

 

 

Superman and the Justice League

 

 

 

Transporter

 

I worked on the Princess diamond painting.

 

 

In the evening we watched a movie on Amazon called The Samuel Project. It was about a high school student writing a paper about his grandfather (Samuel). It was a good movie. Then we watched an episode of Elementary. Then I finished watching the 18th season of Murdock Mysteries. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 1st place in my group.

 

    

Monday 3-3-25 Dancing, Jukebox Project, Diamond Painting & Games

 

We had a very windy with a cloud covering. The National Weather Service issued a wind advisory through the night in Bell County.

 

Hold on tight

We started the day off by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 9:00 for an hour. Di called five tips to 16 participants. Deborah dressed up for Mardi Gras so the rest of the dancers went and got accessories to celebrate Mardi Gras. Michael and Di got silver garland and wore them like a shawl. Some of us went and got beaded necklaces. I got our Mardi Gras hat, necklaces, belly dancer belt (green) and Larry wore a green hat. A few years ago Larry was crowned king at a Mardi Gras dance and got a necklace with a crown. He gave it for me to wear and Di liked it because she lives in the UK. Larry wore a green hat while dancing. Larry danced four of the tips with me. We had a super time dancing with friends. 

Get a partner and dance

 

Larry finished putting a larger monitor working in the red Rock-Ola jukebox. 

 

The finished project with bigger monitor and lights

 

Rock Ola with the smaller monitor

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Medium Mayhem Mini of 5 games. It took me 27 minutes and 1 second, which put me in 41st place in my group. Then I moved onto playing Angry Birds.

 

I worked out with the Wii Fit for a half hour and Gold's Gym for a half hour.

 

I played Asteroid Outpost once and earned a silver trophy. During the game I mined eight times and was successful once. I played a multiball. I earned a new high score. I had a super time.

 

 

 

Asteroid Outpost

 

I played seven games of pinball. They were the weekly challenge of Transporter. The other six were X-Men, Fast Break, Mission Impossible, Guardians of the Galaxy, Red & Ted's Road Show and World Porker Joker. My first high score for the week in Transporter was 1,444,360, which put me in 27th place out of 32 participants. None of our scores have been accepted yet. I had a great afternoon of playing pinball. 

 

 

Transporter

Fast Break

 

Guardians of the Galaxy

 

Mission Impossible

 

Red & Ted Road Show

 

World Joker Poker

 

 

X-Men

 

I continued working on my diamond painting of the Princess.

In the evening we watched a few episodes of Elementary. Then I finished watching the second season of Sherwood. Then I started watching the 18th season of Murdock Mysteries. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 2nd place in my group.

 

 

 

Sunday 3-2-25 Sundancers Plus Graduation, Jukebox & New Pinball Challenge

 

Happy Sunday

 

We had a windy day with the high in the high 70s. 

Larry continued working on the jukebox. Since he is putting in a larger monitor the bezel he painted on the glass was too small. He had to use a razor and scrape off all the old paint. He then had to mask it off for the new monitor. He sprayed painted it black. due to the wind he put cardboard down on the south side of the front of the house where it would be better protected. After he finished painting the glass he left it outside to cure in the sun. It came out great.

Larry ordered another 12.3 touchscreen monitor from Amazon. It's has the exact same model number as the one he put in the red Rock Ola, but it is apparently a new version. The company modified the monitor a little bit. The glass front of the monitor goes all the way to the edge. They modified the mounting holes so you should not be able to put the screws in too deep. They also used shorter buttons. The modifications made it look nice and you can't accidentally short the monitor out. Larry played with the two monitors side by side, both look and work great. 

I did the Daily Challenge of Solitaire and Mahjong. Today's event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 Pyramid and 5 Tri Peaks). It took me 55 minutes and 10 seconds, which put me in 28th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

I worked out on my Wii Fit for 45 minutes. I played Bounce Arcade. I played two games of Monster Manor, two games of Gunpowder Gulch and one game of Pirate's Plunger. While playing Monster Manor I earned a bronze trophy both times and fought the ghosts. The first game I tried to stun the manor and failed. The second game I hit the clock three times and fought the Jack-O-Lanterns. While playing Gunpowder Gulch I earned a bronze trophy during the second game. I fought the deputies twice and failed and cracked the safe. I played the safe multiball and the jailhouse break multiball. While playing Pirate's Plunder I earned a silver trophy. I fought my enemies twice and defeated them. I earned 50,000 points twice for Jolly Roger by hitting the skull on the flag five times. I fought the skulls. I had fun playing the five games on Bounce Arcade.

 

Gunpowder Gulch

 

Monster Manor

 

Pirate's Plunger

I played five games of pinball. I played last weeks challenge of Robocop to get a new high score before the challenge was over at 1:00. I failed to do so. I came in 48th place out of 70 participants. The new challenge for this week is Transporter. Larry downloaded the game and installed it on the pinball cabinet in both 2D and VR. I didn't get a chance to play it but I will tomorrow. The other games I played were Willy Wonka, Star Wars, Fun House and The Big Lebowski. While playing The Big Lebowski I entered my initials as high score #4. 

 

Fun House

 

Robocop

 

Star Wars

 

The Big Lebowski

 

Willy Wonka

 

In the evening went to Sun City to attend their Plus Graduation Dance. Gary Bible called to three squares of dancers and had 22 graduates (three of them weren't there). Gary did a great job of dancing. We had to dance every tip because there was only enough for three squares and no extra people. We hadn't seen Gary in three weeks because he had other obligations. We helped the new dancers when they needed the help. We had a great time dancing to Gary.

 

 Get a partner and dance

The dance was from 6:00 to 7:45 and free. We were home by 8:45. When we got home we watched some YouTube videos. When Larry went to bed I started watching the second season of Sherwood. I ended up doing 18,500 steps, which put me in 4th place in my group fro the week with 127,075 steps.

 

   

    

Saturday 3-1-25 Visiting Louise & Games

 

Gorgeous Day

 

We had a gorgeous day. It got up to 82 degrees and no wind.

We spent most of the day in Round Rock visiting with Louise and playing with Alice (her dog). We left the house around 7:45 am. 

On the way to Louise's house we stopped by Jack 'n' Jill Donuts for breakfast. When we got to Georgetown we stopped at the Home Depot to buy screws Larry needed for his jukebox project. We also bought a flapper for Louise's toilet because her toilet was running after she flushes. Then we went to Louise's house. 

During our visit Larry did some brother dos. First he looked at her toilet. He was going to replace the flapper but he found he only needed to adjust the water level a bit. Now it works correctly. He told Louise to keep the flapper because she may need it later on and it won't work for any of our toilets. 

Next he moved onto her Roku in her bedroom. The Roku device allows her to stream things to her TV. When Larry called her last night she mentioned, that the one in her bedroom had run out of memory. He checked it out and tried to update it. It crashed and would not turn back on. He had brought along our old Fire TV device, he replaced the Roku with it. It works great. He moved onto the Fire TV in the living room. Louise was having trouble getting a couple of channels to work on it. Larry rebooted her router and now that one works.

The third project was her working on her home phone. The device that she used in the past no longer works with Google Voice. Larry set her up with a different device, it seems to work well for incoming calls but not for placing calls. She's happy because she uses her cell phone most of the time.

   

 Doing brother dos

For lunch I baked a pepperoni pizza that Louise bought from Papa Murphy's. We had barbecue chips to go with it. For dessert we had oatmeal cookies. The pizza was good.

While Larry did his projects I worked on Louise's jigsaw puzzle and played with Alice. We had very nice visit with Louise and Alice.

On the way home we stopped by the UPS Store to mail out a couple of monitors back to Amazon. While there he checked our mail. Then we went across the street to Dollar Tree and bought some cookies and bleach. We were home by 3:30.

 

Home Sweet Home  

 

When we got home I played games. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before going to bed last night. Today's event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 Spider and 5 Free Cell). It took me took me 1 hour, 7 minutes and 58 seconds, which put me in 15th place in my group. Then I played Angry Bird.

I played seven different games of pinball. The games were White Water, Dead Pool, Theatre of Magic, The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Elvira Party Monsters and Robocop.

 

Dead Pool

 

Elvira Party Monsters

 

Robocop

 

Star Wars

 

The Lord of the Rings

 

Theatre of Magic

 

White Water

In the evening we watched a movie on Amazon called Quartet, it was based on a true story. It was about a retirement home for retired musicians. It was a cute movie and very entertaining. Then I finished watching the first season of Sherwood on BritBox. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 4th place in my group.

 

 

Friday 2-28-25 End of the Month, Jukebox Project, Dancing with Ett & More

 

Sunny Day

 

We had a sunny day with the high of 78 degrees. This was a great way of ending the month of February.

Larry continued working on his jukebox project. Today he worked on installing the new monitor in the red Rock-Ola. This required unwiring and removing everything. He had to modify the plate that holds the electronics. He made a templet. He found out that he didn't have the correct cable. The cables he has were either too long or too short so he had to order one from Amazon. He also needs some screws for the monitor. A gentleman wrote on a review of the monitor that you had to be very careful of the length, if it's too long it will damage the monitor. He said the screw he put in just barely touched the monitor and blew it up. Tomorrow we need to go to the hardware store to buy the correct size screws.    

I spent the day playing games. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 Klondike and 5 Tri Peaks). It took me 35 minutes and 19 seconds to complete, which put me in 19th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

I worked out with the Wii Fit for a half hour and Just Dance for a half hour using three programs, which were Just Dance 2016, Just Dance 2018 and Just Dance 2019. I had a good workout.

 

Working out

 

I played one game of Pirate's Plunger for a half hour. During the game I got two Jolly Rogers and fought my enemies three times. I was successful in defeating them two times. I earned a silver trophy.

 

Pirate's Plunder

 

I played nine different games of pinball. They were The Champion Pub, The Godfather, Termination 3, The Theatre of Magic, Big Buck Hunter Pro, NASCAR, Nightmare Before Christmas, Robocop and JP's Space Cadet. I played very well. While playing Theatre of Magic I became Grand Magician (Grand Champion).

 

Big Buck Hunter Pro

 

JP's Space Cadet

 

NASCAR

 

Nightmare Before Christmas

 

Robocop

 

Terminator 3

 

The Champion Pub

 

The Godfather

 

Theatre of Magic

 

In the evening I attended Ett McAtee's Weekly A2 dance at 6:30 for an hour. This was the first Friday Ett had called this week because she was visiting Egypt. Ett called five tips of A2 to 11 participants. We just danced with little cueing. In between the tips we visited with each other. I had a fun time dancing with friends and to Ett. 

 

Dancing with friends

 

After the dance we watched a movie on BritBox called The King's Speech. It was about England's Prince Albert, he must take over the throne as King George VI and he had a speech impediment that he had to overcome. He worked with a therapist to do so. It was a good movie. When Larry went to bed I started to watch the first season again on BritBox. It's a British detective series. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 2nd place in my group.