05 May 2021

A fairly forgetful day today. Mostly filling forms in for a funding 
bid and wondering why people love macro filled excel files. Why use 
macros to shuffle sheets around? Why use excel for a form? The joys of 
corporate mandated windows use with an attitude of 'office is all you 
need'. Weather is improving and some pretty sky to look at tonight. 
There are lots of local elections tomorrow and I have somewhere 
different to go and vote. The election is for the region mayor, police 
person who seems to be a waste of money and local councillors. I have 
not really seen the point in the police and crime commissioner. It is 
a voted in political role to work with the police somehow. I have 
noticed no changes other than some entertaining scandals where they 
hire some cronies without due diligence and are surprised when caught 
out. I am always dubious of someone who wants to be in politics. Just 
seems an odd thing to want to do outside of helping people. I would 
say it doesn't pay but the ever revolving door for former politicians 
into banks, newspapers and various other nefarious businesses suggest 
otherwise.