Painful History

I genuinely can't remember when my hamstring first flared up.  I think it was in February, but I'll have to look back at my old logs to check.  Its still a bit of a pain, and shows no sign of going away - very frustrating.  I'm a good minute down on my pre-injury pace/mile although fortunately doesn't seem to affect longer distances, but they're that bit slower.
Also, the cycling is unaffected and although I get a twinge or 2 it hasn't stopped me doing anything yet.  The company have entered a few of us in a 100 mile sportive on Thursday so here's hoping it doesn't deter me much.

Adapting To Survive

I often use the phrase 'Its all relative' if someone makes a comment about another comment another person has made.  The point I'm trying to make is that one's perspective is often (but not always)  affected by your most recent experience of something similar.  There are many examples of this, such as 'my mobile phone is rubbish', when you are used to an iPhone costing 3 times the price; 'the quality of this shirt is poor' for when you usually buy more up market stuff to wear, and the most common one we hear now is 'it's too hot to do anything' when all it means is that we are not used to it being this hot and therefore struggle to adapt.
Its the adapting bit we struggle with.

Softop Software

Back to one of my favourite topics, self driving cars  - the ultimate lazy mans driving machine.
It seems that Apple have 'finally admitted that are making autonomous vehicles'.  Actually, they didn't admit that, but that was the headline.  the head line should have read something like ' Apple are making software to go into autonomous vehicles, which makes much more sense for a technology company.  I can't see Apple, or even Google for that matter stepping into the car manufacturing market and being a success, so they have to concentrate on what they do well.
Interestingly, Apple seem (in my opinion) to have lost the plot with their consumer electronics lately, or maybe all their rivals have caught up which is probably more like reality.  They seem to be trying unsuccessfully to lead us into things like 'wearables' (a word that should never have been allowed to be created) just so they can sell something new.  I look forward to a range of automotive devices that have similarly bad names.  Their marketing department must be very proud.

Cross Times

Its voting day today which of course is very exciting.  I'll be putting my cross in the box later on, hoping I will remember to go.  Not that it make any difference in my constituency which has been bright Tory blue since time began so can't see it changing.  It has the occasional few protest votes going to the greens and that's about it.

As for the bigger national picture, Mrs. May appeared to be coasting, but then she made a couple of errors with manifesto announcements followed by a good showing from Mr. Corbyn on the campaign trail and has never really got her mojo back.  The polls still show her with a healthy lead but nowhere near what she had a few weeks back so it will be interesting to see how it goes.

I'm not a big fan of Mr. Corbyn with his idealistic policies cut and pasted from the 70s, but the main thing is that all his ideas rely on spending money, money that we haven't necessarily got.  How he squares that one I don't really know, but rest assured I'm sure it will not be successful without a great deal of pain somewhere.