{"id":40,"date":"2020-08-23T17:04:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T17:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siteoptimiser.co.uk\/testtubes\/?p=40"},"modified":"2021-01-09T14:21:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T14:21:15","slug":"scoring-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siteoptimiser.co.uk\/testtubes\/2020\/08\/23\/scoring-for-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Scoring for Fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I joined a sports club (name withheld to avoid embarrassing them that I am a member). And the club runs competitions, where gliders race around the sky. Exciting stuff, eh? And at my previous club, I foolishly volunteered to learn to be a scorer for this sort of thing. It involves dealing with flight recorder files and a scoring program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This sort of event is usually held only once a year, unless they run an extra special event, such as a national championship. Which leads to the small problem of trying to remember how you did it last year&#8230; Setting up the system is the long slow bit that gets done once a year and is the hard bit. The actual scoring gets easier every day as it is the repetitive bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having been known as someone who sits in a cupboard and plays with the software to late in the evening, they asked if I&#8217;d help with a smaller style competition, starting quite soon. They had lost their previous scorer, as no-one knew where he was hiding. I wonder why he was hiding &#8211; perhaps the stress had got to him, or he&#8217;s a faster learner than me. And so, being a slow learner, I said yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/siteoptimiser.co.uk\/testtubes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/day-2-ash-m.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siteoptimiser.co.uk\/testtubes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/day-2-ash-m.jpg 350w, https:\/\/siteoptimiser.co.uk\/testtubes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/day-2-ash-m-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>So here I am again, sitting this time in a shipping container disguised as a cupboard, trying to score a competition. And then they caught me at a weak moment and asked about next year and the year after! So I might be doing this more often!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will I ever learn?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I joined a sports club (name withheld to avoid embarrassing them that I am a member). And the club runs competitions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siteoptimiser.co.uk\/testtubes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siteoptimiser.co.uk\/testtubes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siteoptimiser.co.uk\/testtubes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siteoptimiser.co.uk\/testtubes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siteoptimiser.co.uk\/testtubes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/siteoptimiser.co.uk\/testtubes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/siteoptimiser.co.uk\/testtubes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siteoptimiser.co.uk\/testtubes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siteoptimiser.co.uk\/testtubes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siteoptimiser.co.uk\/testtubes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siteoptimiser.co.uk\/testtubes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}