`  ::And the Club de Fútbol de Oporto seem to be becoming a base for a Spanish annexation of Portugal. Well, it's five days until I go to my first ``game`` of this season, a friendly an hour and a half up the road against a team I already travelled to last season, and not the most attractive place on Earth either. Still, I couldn't turn down the offer from a friend to go.  On an unrelated note, you may have noticed I'm no longer semi-retired. I had reached the epiphany that university was just a faceless moneymaking scheme keeping me off unemployment statistics for four years (I learnt absolutely nothing and still passed the first year, talk about ``higher education``, gimmee the fucking diploma now and get this charade over with) but it seems I can't do anything worthwhile without it. It's back to the madhouse I go this September. It's a ridiculous amount of money I pay for about three hours ``teaching`` per day (spread across the day so I can't do anything else with my time), and everybody else fills their offtime with drugs...while I edit here.  Meh   `