Conference

After sleeping badly last night, I needed a lie-in, and then worked in my room for the rest of the morning. I did see one half-interesting talk before lunch, but afterwards I skipped an awards ceremony and one of the great and the good delivering a "career review" plenary. Finally it was time for me to give my talk, and the audience consisted of  "friends" and the silent uninterested. After the last talk in my stream, I switched to the "Operational Research in Sport" stream, with one talk analysing points scoring and entertainment in rugby. To explain the scoring system, the speaker opened with a video of the great Gareth Edwards try in 1973! Now, that was entertaining!

Maybe chat at tonight's gala dinner will be more worthwhile.