In this post, I’m starting to go back and filling in the challenges I missed in 2024-2025 when my mother was hospitalized and dying. Perl Weekly Challenge 295‘s tasks were “Word Break” and “Jump Game”.

As I discovered when I actually made myself a spreadsheet of my music choices, I used Joni Mitchell’s Circle Game three separate times, so I decided to steer clear of that. I’ve played on “word” twice, so that left me with “break” and “jump”. I decided to pick Jump because it made me remember Junior year of high school…

Perl Weekly Challenge 374‘s tasks are “Count Vowel” and “Largest Some-digits Number”.

I can’t go back to Count von Count every time we have a counting problem, so I started thinking about “some”. It didn’t take long… my brain started asking “Hey… won’t you play… another some-digits largest vowel count song? And make me feel at home…”

Perl Weekly Challenge 373‘s tasks are “Equal List” and “List Division”.

But if you insist on knowing my BLISS
I’ll tell you this
If you want to know what the Reason is
I only smile when I lie, then I’ll tell you why…

Because your kiss, your kiss is an equal list
Because your kiss, your kiss divides my list
Because your kiss is on my list of the best things in life

Perl Weekly Challenge 372‘s tasks are “Rearrange Spaces” and “Largest Substring”.

The music connection is very train of thought and tenuous. This morning, my wife linked me a short of The Lakes Brass Quintet playing a polka arrangement of Empty Chairs at Empty Tables from Les Misérables. Yet in my head, I was repeating the incorrect lyric “empty chairs and empty spaces“. So now, when I think spaces, all I can think of is this.

You’re welcome.

Perl Weekly Challenge 371‘s tasks are “Missing Letter” and “Subset Equilibrium”. Immediately, I heard The Box Tops in my head.