If Only - we had a song

The team managed to grind out another W despite Mr Jessen not performing to his own high expectations in one of the opening matches & digging a bit of a hole for us. Not that Steve saw too much of this cuz he didn't realise we were playing at 6:30, despite the fact the captain had published an email to such effect earlier in the week. Shoulda sent it out on match day too I guess. Can't assume that intelligent people can remember stuff like that. My bad.

Weasler got off the shnide this week, which was nice to see. 'Bout firking time. It looked like he played quite well to, surprisingly enough. Well done my son.

Liz won too & looked a little beat after. She didn't understand the word "knackered" & the definition offered, involving old horses, didn't come across quite right either. A google search for "knackered" images produced the following:


which captures the meaning rather well.

Skipper won too.

Slipper suggested we needed a team song & we decided to pick the next one that we knew that Amsterdam played. As is normal with such ideas, the next song we didn't know & the whole idea was quickly fogotten until "You're Beautiful" came out over the airwaves & Swell & I looked at each other & said "Yes. This is it". And each time Liz came near us during her match we tunefully serenaded her with "You're beautiful" as she eyed us quizically. Lap & Steve don't like the song so it may not catch on as our anthem....

Slipper & Lap undertook a challenge to arrange a set of pool balls in a tray such that (with the cue ball having a value of zero):

- every row added up to 30
- every column added up to 30
- the two diagonals each added up to 30
- the 4 groups of 4 balls in each corner each added up to 30
- the center square of 4 balls also added up to 30

and I was amazed to see they came up with an answer. I metioned this puzzle to the wife on Friday & she spent the evening trying to come up with an answer, which she eventually did. Thankfully. Myself, I decided that a computer program could be written to get all the possible answers. The first attempt would have taken about 2 years of processing time on my desktop to cover all the possible combinations (20,922,789,888,000). A later approach proved better BUT I DID WASTE A TON OF THE WEEKEND DOING THIS C**P. Obsessive? Perhaps....

BTW there are 3,456 different ways of setting up the pool balls for the numbers to work. Unbelievable!

Update 17th Oct 18:00 - make that 3,456 / 4 = 864