To perm or not to perm, that is the question

Permanent account or not?

On the one hand, it's $150... on the other hand, that's "only" €122. Which I do actually have in my bank account just now, thanks to my share of the annual company bonus not long ago, though I had earmarked most of it for other things.

On the one hand, I'm paid until November (account) or next March (extra pics) and there's the PAF... on the other hand, I'm never sure how long I'll keep doing support for, so the PAF will probably go away at some point.

On the one hand, I'm not sure whether I'll still be using LiveJournal in four years' time... on the other hand, I've had mine for two years now (I think) and have been using it pretty regularly.

Meh. *gnaws at finger*

Here, have a poll.

[Poll #504881]

Random thought

I'd've thought that one of the points of having a local sports team (whether it be football, tennis, or whatever) is to show how well the locals can play that sport.

Trading players to other teams would seem to defeat that point; after all, what's the use of cheering for, say, your city's team if only one of the players is actually from that city? That would seem to defeat the purpose of team loyalty to me. You might be cheering one some of the same players that you were booing out last season, because they were on the rival city's team.

The immediate result would seem to be that the success of a team is determined less by how well people in a given city play the sport and/or how well they can train others, but by how much money the local team has to buy top athletes.