Woo, post-vacation ketchup, and now time to fulfill two-thirds of the decree:
I was in Miami from Thursday until Monday morning for a wedding. While I was there, it was 15-25°C. Monday afternoon, I arrived home, and it was about 2°C. This coming Saturday, the high will be around -5°C, both at home and where I'll be this coming weepend (Boston).
I am so glad to see that you're recovering, addams, and that your trip into the Gully resulted in no further injuries. The picture you painted of you crawling through the mud to climb back out is priceless
Do please try to avoid a repeat performance, however. We wouldn't want anything to happen to you!karhell wrote:*I mean, it was a really pleasant and interesting ride (or I wouldn't have done it), but there was that constant feeling of not actually getting any closer to the present that made the whole thing a tad more stressful that it should have been.
This was my experience at times when Blitzing. At times (shortly after T** **d, and again around the First Timeversary, and possibly other times too) it seemed as though I could log on in the morning, spend about 80% of my day Blitzing, and only be 2-3 pages closer to the Present, just because the Present was moving so fast. And later on (well after T** **d), when I could routinely spend about 20-25% of my time Blitzing, even then sometimes I'd only gain 5 NP on the Present because of the length of the posts that I was reading.
Nowadips, though, the OTT is certainly moving slow enough so that Blitzers are able make significant progress through the early parts of the OTT. The only problem is that now it's such a daunting task (2566 pages and counting), and somewhere around the middle of that the pages start becoming significantly longer because the posts start becoming significantly longer. During my first Blitz, I could easily get through 6NP per np, with that number growing to 10 if I was able to focus on it. During later Blitzes, there were times that I was lucky to get through 2NP per np, and at that clip the sheer magnitude of the size of what you're reading is tough to wrap your head around at times. I'm just glad my Blitzes were all fairly short by comparison.