After all the exhaustion of yesterday - physical and mental - today was time for some peace and quiet. A bit of admin required first: entering all the cards from yesterday's Invitational into Intelligent Golf (and yes, there were quite a few who had made scoring errors, but fortunately none amongst the prizes!).
Back home for lunch and a lazy afternoon in front of the cricket: England vs New Zealand. And what a treat that was: we saw Alistair Cook bat right through the day and, even more impressively, young Ben Stokes score the fastest hundred ever seen at Lords. Tomorrow will tell whether both of these scores together are enough to turn the final day into a win or a draw, but it was great entertainment today.
The rest of the time was spent working on son #1's Christmas present of a year ago: a
Raspberry Pi. This is very reasonably priced computer, the size of a cigarette packet. For those of my generation, it's an extraordinary piece of kit. I am old enough to remember the
Sinclair Scientific Calculator, with Reverse Polish logic, which is now to be seen in a museum.
The Raspberry Pi is the same sort of size as this but must have literally billions more oomph as far as processing power is concerned: it runs off an 8Gb SD card, whereas our first PC had 40 Mb of memory... I must stop here as I am starting to show my age....
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