I have found somewhere to settle down (Mile End, east London)! Well, I'll live there for three months at the very minimum. Compared to all the places I've lived so far this year that's settling down. The watershed will come when I put up posters. The invisible tape is staring at me. Kind of looks like an eye.

I've missed badminton for the past few weeks because I've been house hunting in the weekday evenings and seeing my family and friends from secondary school in the evening. Just started again today - my body's going to ache tomorrow. There's something satisfying about that feeling. Yes, it's painful but it reminds you that you got off your arse and did something.

I've been making music, but it's under a pseudonym and I don't want to cross the streams with online identities. I haven't made anything that's actually any good - I really want to learn more about making songs and not just doodling with sound. I don't say anything embarrassing online but I still have this old fashioned feeling that the different 'spheres' of my life should be at least vaguely separate. Thanks to the hyperlink, any boundaries you draw between your different personas have to be watertight or they don't I have a few ideas how to resolve all this. Don't worry, it won't hurt a bit.

Work is going well. I've been talking to other people in the industry (friends) and it seems like the variety of software I get to play with is pretty wide. We don't have strictly demarcated job roles so this really is a good chance to learn about lots of different things. Even as a junior developer, there's a bit of scope for me to use my initiative to introduce new ways of producing software.

I would rant at you all about British politics but honestly I'm not sure what to say. After many legal, semi-legal (but universally unethical) interventions by the parliamentary party, the inner party (the NEC) and people in the media there is going to be another election for Labour Party leader. Constituency Labour parties (i.e. local groupings of registered supporters) have overwhelmingly voted in Corbyn's favour, the parliamentary Labour party has overwhelmingly voted against Corbyn. Internal politics are continuing to heat up - six left wing members have just been elected to the NEC, the administrative head of the party that is independent of Corbyn.