For the past three weeks I have returned to tracking the time I spend on go using the IOS app "Now Then". When I attended the U.S. Go Congress in 2024, in Portland, I had stopped tracking, as I do at every Congress. I find it too annoying to track at a Congress. After returning home, I decided to take a break from tracking altogether for a while. Unfortunately, I found that this pretty much put an end to blogging for me. After that I stopped tracking, I blogged seldom, and intermittently.
It wan't that I had nothing to say, but I found that reporting on my go activities was the trigger that prompted me to post. When I did post, I often had more to say, but my trigger was gone, so the posts ended. Therefore, I am here again with my finger on that familiar trigger, posting my beach balls and my activity lists for the world to see.
It was a busy week for go activities. My week runs from Friday to Thursday because my lessons with Clossius fall on Fridays. I did not have a lesson with Clossius last week. He was meeting with friends for a fun filled go weekend, so my usual Friday afternoon slot was unavailable.
Last week I spent over 23 hours on Go Activities. My top activity was attending BenKyo Baduk's Invasion Workshop. It was a great workshop with good attendance. I look forward to more workshops with Ben.
I created an entirely new Twitch category for my friend Patrick, who has been an inspiration to me. He streams most of his league games, and if I am not doing something else at the time he is streaming, I enjoy watching.
I was shocked this morning to discover that I did not have any time devoted to Guo Juan's Internet Go School on my beach ball, so I logged on to see that I had missed quite a few days, and had lost quite a few vacation days as a result. It is easy to forget to do my minimal number of problems if I am busy with other go activities. I had made a resolution last year to build my IGS vacation days back up to 70, and I had achieved that goal. However, forgetfulness had chipped away at those days to a dangerous extent, and I must do better.
I am down to 17 vacation days, and I do not want to risk my 2491 days in a row. I'll lose that number if I run out of vacation days. I have multiple reminders on my calendar to do my problems, but the reminders are easy to overlook. At my best, I finish all due problems every day. This earns me bonus points. My recent forgetfulness has brought me to 953 problems due. Bonus points are not important now. Building up vacation days is what is important.
I have a two hour lesson with Clossius coming up, which is not going to be live streamed. I've got nine games that he can review for me.
The games that have not been reviewed since January 14h are available for Clossius to review. I'm saving my Go Magic League game for BenKyo Baduk to review. That is a Lesson which I will share with my opponent, as I am encouraging him to join BenKyo League.
Here is a better view of the games available for review. If there is no name in the right column the game has yet to be reviewed.
I might return to streaming my lessons with Clossius, but I'm currently feeling a bit self conscious, and prefer to keep them private for now.
Next week I will be back with another Go Activity report, and perhaps more thoughts to share.
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