Do you remember when a ‘virus’ was a microbial sort of thing? Nothing digital about it, nothing to do with technology, more to do with vomitus? With feeling like you’re going to die, then wishing you could die, then sweating a lot, shivering, shaking, all the while feeling much too hot and much too cold at the same time. Remember that? Well, its best if you do. Because viruses are probably the oldest form of life on the planet. A billion years old (random number picked because its BIG), and yet still going strong. Very strong in some cases.

On Friday night Lila’s mum had ‘the night from hell’, sickness, diarrhoea, all kinds of evil were perpetrated upon her by an evil fucking virus.

So on Saturday night, Lila’s dad suffered the same fate.

Not wishing to be left out, both Mel & I succumbed on Sunday night. One minute we were in bed, almost asleep, but both feeling a little ‘queazy’, and then next we’re in separate bathrooms engaged in a bout of competitive grossness. Ok, I was given a 20-minute head start just because… whatever. Not sure who the winner was, or how you’d define a ‘winner’ at all, but we were both losers. I had visions of the movie ‘Alien’ and the song ‘both ends burning’ by Roxy Music sprung to mind, no idea why.

But fortunately I’m a man. And therefore not prone to give in to such minor obstacles in any significant way. So slept til 3.30 in the afternoon and spent the rest of the day moaning. Heroic. That’s me.

Decided not to go to work today either, mainly because I don’t want to spread the joys of this horrible, nasty, evil thing around.

So instead, I’m learning about one of my modern day heroes, Elon Musk. Having virtually invented the viable totally electric car and driverless vehicles, in between his own personal space programme, he’s building up the Tesla range. He brought out the ‘3-Model’ as a cheaper alternative. But can’t make enough to supply demand. Telsa have orders for 1500 but only made 260 in the year. During which the company spent one billion dollars a quarter (that makes… errr… carry 1, divide by 9… errr) 4 billion spent in a year. Mainly trying to get production up. And now, whilst he’s busy not building the model 3s he’s promised, he’s introduced the amazing lorry thing (0 to 60 in 5 seconds in a 40-ton truck) and a new supercar. Neither of which currently, he has any hope in hell of producing. The problem is that his mind races on at a speed which industry can’t hope to keep up with. Ya gotta love him though. Just don’t invest.

Happy foodless Tuesday

A xxxx