Does it really matter if the mainstay of your social life goes up in a smoking, malodorous conflagration? How much would it affect you if the main form of communication you utilised went up in flames? I reckon I never really considered these questions, in fact I chuckled when I heard on news last week that Dell Computers was initiating the world's biggest ever recall of electronic equipment after laptops in several countries started bursting into flames due to faulty batteries.

Now a sense of deja vu envelops me as I send my laptop in for repairs. The cause? A dead battery. And worse, an overly loose cord connection socket which leaves the plug hanging loosely around the metal bit, causing sparking and leaving my bedroom smelling like combusted plastic. And yes I am aware of the danger it causes to the laptop and the house. I am typing this very entry on the current Instrument of Electro-Doom...

We had our second league game on the weekend. Team Ramrod [the "creative input" that goes into the creation of these names kinda makes you long for the oppressive uniformising dictatorial regime of Stalinist Russia. Not in that way...ish] were the opposition, a near carbon copy of the last team with the exception that some of the players were actually good. Still, the chastening loss hit us hard and we were determined not to let ourselves become pushovers for the second week running. So going down 1-0 in the first 30 seconds was not really in the plan. Still we tightened up admirably, and there was a better cohesion between the midfield and the defense.

Nine minutes into the second half we made the breakthrough, and it had to be Gabriel. Taking a long ball down he outran two defenders from the halfway line, sidestepped another as he cut in towards the right post and drew the goalkeeper three steps off his line before tucking it into the far post. Suddenly it was all Offsiders as our team made attack after attack. The opposition barely got a touch, and we must have had at least seven or eight good opportunities to seal a win. In the end poor shooting and luck was against us, and we scraped the draw. Still, it was a vast improvement from the previous week, and we can be rather happy with our general performance. Up next, Socialist Soccer [???!!!W???T??!!!F??!!] =P