Day 10

Today is kind of a catch up day. I was trying to do a 3-1-2-1 schedule, but I forgot that the rest of the world does things on Saturdays. Last Tuesday was the end of Week 1, and since I skipped Saturday, today is the end of Week 2. Since my parents are coming up this weekend, I'll be doing the 5-2 again next week.


So rotating dots was going ok. When it got to 6, this pattern kept coming up. It was the same pattern coming from about the same spot. On the bottom left it was center, left, right and then it would move on to the rest of the pattern. The first time I went center, right-X. It came up again like 3 times. Maybe one of them actually was CRL and I went CL instead. But then I was doing really well, but missed a few. I really thought I had it, but I dropped it and it kicked me way back down.

Something similar must have happened to Sorter yesterday since I started off at 4 and I know I can do 5 or 6.

Again, there I go making it harder than it is. Or assuming it was harder than it was and inventing complexity for no reason. Pretty sure that's an anxiety response.

I don't get easily frustrated. I'm really quite patient. It's not until my 4th failure in a row that I can really feel it. But when it happens (and it's happened twice today), this stress ball really gets a workout.

Nothing is more annoying than missing the first dot.

It's interesting how you can really feel the speed of memory. Or slowness, in this case. I've started seeing the grid in a different way for the first dot (4x2x2, see which of the 4 squares it's in, and it's trivial to see which of the dots in that square). It takes the full time (about 3/4 of a second) to really retain that and then switch to the relative motion mode.

One of the breakthroughs that I think has really been helpful is moving the clock out of sight. I still can see it when I pop open to write, but if I don't do that too much (or keep myself from looking) I'm alright.

Grid was kind of a trial. I had done a lot of writing during it and there were a number of ups and downs. But I did place 2nd, so that's a win for me. I wouldn't have felt it if they weren't tracking my score for me.

Input module. Kind of uneasy about this one. I'm up pretty high, so things could get rough.

Let's see if I can just knock em out.

That went fine. Got up to 9 again, but couldn't quite make it. Another 2nd place finish, though.

Sucked it up on Data Room. Placed at the bottom. After today, I might not even show up on the score board.

At least Stabilizer is interesting. And I did ok.

Man. I'm just getting tired of follwing dots. And let me tell you, so far that's most of this program.

It's kind of funny. I totally get constillations now. I've got the Enterprise consillation, the Sandcrawler constillation, the boomerang, the karate guy...

Well at least I crushed Rotating data link. Saw it driven before me. And heard the lamentations of its dots.

Now on to blind input panel. Which I similarly ravaged yesterday. I'm up to 7 now, about to reach 8 and we'll see how today goes. I'm feeling better after my earlier success.

So my new goal is not to enter it in chunks of 3 or 4, but to just stream out the digits on a beat. It feels amazing when I get it. <archer>WHICH IS ALL THE TIME!</archer>

Oh man. Yeah, the game made me miss one, but I still rocked.

What? Still no extra robot? Whatever. You're still going down, Svalbard.

That 3rd robot friggin' cheats. But I finally got him.