The Pickleball Cabin

 So, the tournament went well. Onwards and upwards, planning the next one. Just 2 (and a bit) months after the first.  Lessons learnt.  Hours spent pouring over a spreadsheet trying to get the algorithm right to generate a fair set of 2nd round matches, with no glitches...   Meantime someone develops a tool to do this:  https://picklegames.netlify.app/  BUT it doesn't do mixed matchups!!!  So still had to manually get the match ups working - and it still required a bit of a tweak on the day. As did the scoring mechanism (for some reason the correct results didn't transfer from one set of cells to another despite it working seamlessly in testing (reminder to self - get this sorted for the Summer Slam this week!!) - thanks Danielle for helping me sort this out!). Diadem supported the event again, providing paddles and other prizes for winning/placing.  I got some trophies made up by Temu, which look pretty good (blocks of acrylic with printing on th...

 Well, the saga continued...  The Polestar 4 *IS* an excellent car, but it also the reason I won't be getting a Polestar as my next car, or any time soon.   I do really love the ideas and the technological aspirations of the Polestar 4, and in any other area of life I'd probably put up with the niggles (and the dashcam's inability to stick to the windscreen) and work around them, but...  I had the Polestar 4 for nearly 2 months, and knew I had to give it back soon, so far so good, I was enjoying the car and actually dreading going back to my 'little' Polestar 2, despite the quirks of the navigation saying I was about 200m away from where I acually was on a regular basis, but then it happened...   One morning I went down to the car to drive my Son to college and no Driver assist - odd, think I. Sure that a simple 'reboot' would solve the issue, after delivering him. I got out, opened and closed all the doors, and windows. Powered the car down and got back in...