So, I narrowly and very cunningly avoided the full impact of the flu I caught recently.

You know I was just wondering(while sitting here on the tube), at what point do you realise that you've lived too far and it's been too long? Is it on the way to work? On the tube? One Saturday morning as the sun streams through onto your half-open eyes? Does it perhaps happen to you when you're standing at the bus stop or buying groceries? I don't know but I know one thing for sure, if that happens, I'll truly dread that day.

Beside that last earth shattering thought, I did get my passport back from the the government and now I'm considered to be officially "settled" in the UK - yeah, that took its sweet, sweet time...

Yesterday I bought a streamer for £21 and took it home and put some veg in it and let it do its thing. On the other side, the veg came out pretty well and that there folks is the story how I got my vegetables in my diet...but if that steamer even looks at me funny or burns me, it's out on its ace - it surely knows how I feel about owning appliances.

An interesting vegetable, now that I'm talking about vegetables is the Parsnip, now to come and think about it...You know, I had never eaten parsnip before growing up as a child. It's a nice vegetable. We've grown closer since I bought that steamer yesterday and had 2 for dinner. It's a good vegetable. A very good vegetable. I give it 6 stars.

/In other news, I got the flu again this weekend(after avoiding the first one!)and felt rather unusual. You know it coincides once again with walking cold home. I need to be more careful so I'm going to not do that anymore. Sometime ago I heard that being cold doesn't actually make you sick(duh?), but makes you susceptible to getting sick. Perhaps that's down to lowering the natural temperature where the immune system functions best at? I'm also going to lay off running for 2 weeks and take a holiday. That sounds good right? I need it.

I got this Wierd situation at home where I'm having to chase the land lord to pay the electricity bill which is way, way Wierd. The dudes going to call me soon hopefully so i can forget about it.

Started planning features for next release, been involved in what our Chicago based Architect calls "ideating" , which we found was a newly constructed Americanism. Enjoying it. Had two really silly good laughs today. felt great. Sat on the tube going home smiling and giggling which must have seemed Wierd because everyone knows the rule right? Don't show emotion on the tube just in case the police see you and take you out. Am I kidding? Well yeah. Got this new playlist that I've been listening to and it's got all these foreign pop-rock songs on it which are pleasing as mush as they are confusing. Its my traveling playlist.

Someone said to me the other day, while sitting opposite me and having a conversation, "Dude, you're getting skinny" and I kinda thought that was a weird thought...what does one do when you get skinny, eat I guess. Maybe I should start eating again? It feels like just the other day someone said to me "you bulking up or something?". You cant win. Been taking my iPad into the office lately as I'm taking a break from running - the former is a cool thing: using your ipad to do work-work(not just browsing the web)...

I guess I should explain why the title is called "Diamond hub-capped halo", right? Well, in truth I dont have a good reason. I heard it in a song and well, I thought, "did he say diamond hub-capped halo?". He did and i dont know why he did and I suspect he also doesnt have a good reason either. Probabaly for a similar reason to mine. He heard if off a passing lorry with people shouting on the back and he thought, "Did that guy say Diamond hub-capped halo?" and so thats why we dont have a good reason for the title of this blog post. 

Sorry.