End of Week 1

Wow! This has been tough. My coach warned me time and time again. She even said that I didn't believe her, and I kind of didn't. But this has been difficult.

I'm still in it, though. I mean 20% done is pretty good. Some of the other stuff in my life is starting to come together. I don't really know if I can say I'm feeling any effects, yet. I am definitely getting better at the exercises. For the most part, at least. Here, have some data:

Time and overall improvement

As you can see, I spent a lot of time blogging. I just open a new tab in Notepad++ and throw it all in there and then at the end of the session paste it into blogger. Np++ doesn't have spell check, hence the errors. Anyway, you can also guess by the way the posts are getting shorter that I've been spending less time writing and that shows pretty clearly. I've also been taking more and more small breaks.

It also shows that I have been improving. It looks like a log plot so far, but hopefully I'll make a breakthrough at some point. And at least it isn't going down.

This shows you the progress on each exercise. Decoder and the input panels have been exploding. I think those had the most room to grow since they had an auditory component.

My worst is rotating data link. It's really not that hard conceptually, but I keep messing it up.

It looks like things are coming to some kind of stable point though, which means if I keep at it, I can break out.

Next week will be tough. All the low hanging fruit has been picked. That's when the sweat really starts.