Rocking Rackets

I recently became interested in watching tennis do to the exploits of Milos Raonic, the phenom out of Canada. Naturally though I wanted to emulate his rise and what better way than through a game. However I found playing tennis to be quite boring as far as video games go. I was about to give up but I stumbled upon Rocking Rackets. This is a simulation of being a tennis agent; you train a few players and register them into tournaments. Following their progress and help shaping it.

As someone you enjoys organisation I took to the game immediately. I developed a strategy I thought could be effective for non-playing members and am now implementing it.

The game has different worlds, servers, that operate on varying speeds. The fastest is 24 game hours being equivalent to 40 minutes in real life. An entire year in the game is then about 10 days in real life. I'm a little impatient and decided this speed suited me best. I signed up on the maximum of two different worlds at this speed.

I have a combined four players, two of which are turning 17 and two turning 16 this year. There are two types of attributes for these players. Ones that are trainable and ones that grow, and fade, naturally as a result of aging. The endowed attributes are strength, speed, mental, endurance, talent and advantage playing in home country. The trainable attributes are skill, serve and doubles.

I went for high strength, speed, mental and talent. Quickly training skill to a reasonable level before I work on serving. I also am playing only on clay courts trying to gain proficiency on the second most numerous court.

I'm trying to build players that will compete for a top 30 spot in their prime, age 25, after which I can retire them to train the second generation of my players.

Also the best part about the game is that playing can take as little as 5 minutes twice a day.

Lost Socks

I enjoy doing laundry. I find the exercise rather calming. I started doing my own laundry back when I went off to University at the age of 17 years and 9 months. We had washers and dryers, in the basement of our building, that required payment. To minimize the cost of doing laundry I would wait till all my clothing was dirty. This system I devised was simple enough that I've never needed a revision. Something else that has stuck with me from the start is my ability to lose a sock every other time I do laundry. I was wondering the other day how many socks I had indeed lost since I began doing laundry.

As previously mentioned I started doing laundry at the age of 17 years and 9 months and I am currently 23 years and 3 months old. The elapsed time I've been doing laundry is 5 years and 6 months, in weeks this would be 286.

How often have I been doing laundry? This is season dependent, I have a collection of sweaters that are not worn during the summer months. I would guess that the maximum amount of time between doing laundry is 2 weeks during the summer and 4 weeks during the winter. For the ease of argument let us say that I do laundry every 3 weeks.

With the elapsed time of 286 weeks and the averaged time between laundry at 3 weeks I've done laundry roughly 95 times.

I do lose socks at what I feel is an extraordinary rate of once every two times doing laundry. Since socks are usually found in pairs it makes sense to count them as such. Rephrasing my statement to include pairs of socks; I lose a pair of socks every four times doing laundry.

Having done laundry 95 times over the course of my life I've lost roughly 24 pairs of socks. Or about 4 pairs of socks a year.

Anthem Songs

Most of the music I play is upbeat in general but nothing tops a good anthem song. A nice beat, catchy lyrics and at least a small amount of replay-ability. Today I found a new song that fits into this niche for me, 'We Are Young' by Fun. I'm going to include the official music video, more for the sound than anything else as I don't care much for the video.