Important Streak Almost Lost

 

I was particularly busy for over a week during the transition from April to May. On the 6th of May I realized that I had not done my Internet Go School spaced repetition problems for a shocking eleven days.  I was alarmed to realize that I only had three vacation days left and I was dangerously close to losing my streak of well over 2500 days on the site.

I had resolved in 2025 to build up my store of vacation days, but I still have trouble remembering to do my problems in spite of having multiple daily reminder alarms set to do them.  I am trying to do my minimal ten problems first thing in the morning now. This way regardless of what happens, I won't lose another vacation day, though I do run the risk of building up a huge backlog of problems. I want to build back a few more vacation days because I will be particularly vulnerable to losing my streak during the U.S. Go Congress in July since I will be so busy at the Congress, and not thinking about logging in to the Internet Go School website each morning. Given that I had so few vacation days in my pocket I can't afford the risk involved.

Today while I was doing problems I came upon one that I particularly enjoy.

When I see this problem I know immediately that the tombstone is coming, and I know exactly how to make it happen.  It feels great to have that little bit of knowledge securely tucked away.

Back to the story about my streak...

I went for a full week without losing another vacation day, and I earned another vacation day as a result.

More time has passed, and I have not missed a day since May the 6th, and I am up to six vacation days now.

I won't consider myself out of danger until I have built up to 20 vacation days again, and that will take me another 14 weeks.

You may be wondering about the day with over 400 problems and the one with over 250 problems.  When I build up a huge backlog I don't actually solve all of the problems. I find it demoralizing to have a huge backlog of problems, so I just click "hard" on them to quickly wipe the slate clean.  Clicking them away is the easiest way to get rid of them when I have had multiple missed days, or have failed to finish all due problems for a few days in a row.

Now for my usual Go Activities Report...

I was working overtime last week with over 30 hours devoted to go activities.

It has been a while since I posted so I will include the games from the previous two weeks. You will see that my winning streak started at that time. The one game I have lost in the past three weeks was only a 1.5 point loss, so it is has been quite a good three weeks.

The reference to "Week Off" in the image above means that I did not have a lesson with Clossius that week. My lessons with him have been alternate weeks recently.