Hmmm, is it just me or is it pretty hard to get a block now with solo mine?
Yep. It is.
If you've got a single gpu, then the BEST you can expect solo is about 2 blocks per day. Before the big boom the same gpu would have solved 1 or 2 per hour.
Wow, in 7 hours and 3 GPUs, I found only 1 block.