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Curbing my Enthusiasms

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As a side note, I seriously have to curb the number of ‘active’ projects I have going, and stick with games (and sports) that I like to play.

Baseball and racing will always have a spot in my rotation.  Soccer and hockey take the next tier, with football and basketball lower on my list.

I also have golf, tennis, boxing, wrestling and lacrosse in various forms.  Of those, I have to be in the right mood/mindset to play any of those.  None of those games are ones I consider playing with a long-term ‘season’ or replay.

And then there’s the least played games: bowling, roller derby, demolition derby, and some interesting fictional sports.  Someday, I keep telling myself.

I just started the 2013 SCRAM season, and the 2024 SCRAM/SCRAM-B sets arrived in the mail today.  Yikes.

So yeah, I need to curb my habit, considering the vast amount of other hobbies I have and would like to pursue as well.

Stay tuned, I guess…

Tennis!

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For my first match up, mostly to relearn how to play this game, I played a set between these two.

Set tied at 6,  Arthur Ashe won the tiebreaker 7-5.

I think I scored everything correctly.

I’m gonna try a full match soon with the pairings that my friend Tony gave me.

Eventually I’ll try a tournament or two with the fictional sets.

Stay tuned!

Service!

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First off, kudos once again to PLAAY Games for a quick delivery (ordered Wednesday, arrived Monday) of their newly released printed edition of Let’s PLAAY Tennis.

Great service!

I snagged a print-and play copy during their 2022 holiday sale, and fumbled my way through a couple of sets to learn now to play, but once I heard that they were going to release a full blown printed version I set aside the print and play and waited for this release.

Tennis and golf are both games I grew up watching on TV.

After Mom passed away I stopped watching regularly, maybe stopping on a match while channel surfing if someone I recognized was playing.  Unfortunately, it got to a point where the Williams sisters were the only ones I recognized.

Same happened with golf after Dad passed away, to a lesser degree, but that’s another story.

I had been playing table top golf on and off for about 10 years, after my brother sent me a copy of ASG Golf, and then getting my own copies of APBA Golf and PLAAY’s History Maker Golf.

For tennis, I had a different print-and-play tennis game about 8 years ago (Diggin’ Deep Tennis), but never managed to get it out on my tabletop to play.

Flash forward to this morning, and the arrival of this new tennis game, and I’m already excited about playing it.

My friend Tony has requested a few match ups, and I had one of my own that I planned to play.

Michael Chang was a guy I remember rooting for back in college, though Arthur Ashe I barely remember seeing.

But flipping through the rest of the All-Time Great player cards a while ago just made me go though a rather nostalgic trip, remembering seeing a lot of those names on TV from grade school through college.

Really looking forward to playing this game soon.