Weakest Link, rockstar

I've been tracking my weakest link play, to see whether I am (as I think) winning, or it's just a leak. This month I'm up 19 quid on 56 games, so the ROI is about 68%. It was at 100%, but this week's been bad and I'm barely breaking even. Random fluctuations of dumb luck I guess.

Rockstar's been reset - not had a chance to fully look into the changes, but it seems like gigging has been made more important, which should add more balance to the game. It's now probably worth owning a solo label as well, seeing how there's two vocalist categories now.

Not much else - a week into the new term, and it's pretty dull stuff early on. Not much being learned, except that there's naturally tons of expensive stuff to buy/print. I'm now 99% certain that if I go on to do an LPC, it won't be at Sheffield, such are the standards at this place.

Hattrick awesomeness

Just managed to find a page which says I've got the 7th toughest VI in England. Which is sick, seeing how there's 1024 of them. Won the first league game 2-1 playing basically a reserve team against the only new side in the division, it was a struggle despite dominating the midfield. The firsts lost 2-0 in the cup at home (almost a sell out) against a very strong V side while playing PIC 4-5-1 pressing. A near first team is playing tomorrow against Blandford, last season's league winners who lost their quali, Chancahuana's still out injured and I lost Piriyakuntorn in midweek, but he was injured/training come the training update and will be fit for the friendly so no lost training there. Bremond popped, as did Herbom who's effectively a backup defensive winger now, not because he can defend, more his PM is so rubbish. Clenin/Amet are playing on the wing although I may sell Amet if he pops PM.

Mega Man lost to Crono in a close one, who went and lost to Mario easily, so no guru win for me. Rockstar's now in silly season as the reset is next week, and I'm still looking for the right solid defender at the right price on Hattrick.

Not much happening in real life, needless to say. Worked all last week, should be good for about 250 quid or so. Lectures et al start Monday, with no 9 starts, thank god.

For fuck's sake...

Yet another hidden student cost comes our way:

Once you begin your new modules you will find that we have moved to a web-based system for the storage and distribution of all teaching documents. All book lists, lecture outlines, and so on are now available to you on our web-site, through WebCT, 24 hrs a day. Paper copies will no longer be circulated.

Oh that's just wonderful. No paper copies will be circulated? Jesus christ. If those bloody people and planet hippies have anything to do about it I've got a good mind to bill them for extra printer credits. You can't use an electronic copy of a lecture outline in the Octagon, can you? Needless to say they'll all need to be printed anyway, as you can't easily scribble down notes on an electronic copy.

Back in rainy Sheffield now, at the top of a bloody great hill. What else is going on in the world? Well, we've regained the Ashes. Get in. I think the best part is not so much the winning, but the great spirit in which the whole series was played (Ponting's Trent Bridge pouting aside), which is something messrs. Rooney et al would do well to learn from. The Aussies played a huge part in the series, even if they were effectively being carried by one man, with ball and bat.

GameFAQs contest is coming to a conclusion. My predicted final is looking more and more likely by the day, and if Squall had have held on against pesky Vincent I'd probably be on the leaderboard or in a tie for a leaderboard place, with a great chance to win. In any case, if Mega Man can pull off a final upset (which is looking unlikely as Mario is looking unstoppable right now), I'll probably end up top 10, as well as winning the guru contest. Project Rockstar is nearing a reset, which is just as well as it's become boring as fuck. Hattrick's in a new season, the expansion to seven divisions means that there was unexpected cup action for Killer Gorillas, and an easy first round win will be followed by a crushing defeat. Still, it's good for a few quid. First choice keeper got injured in the cup though and is out for a while, I've brought in a better backup and will sell the original backup once my #1 is fit again. I've upgraded my coach recently, and am still training PM with a useful off-season stamina boost. Fifth is the goal, sixth will do. Anything less is both unacceptable and unlikely. Luckily I've got an easy match against a new team first up in the league, followed by an unwinnable match or two. I can work the TS in low-risk games while my keeper recovers.

That's about it for now.