Day two was an early lesson in how challenging it is to prioritize a special project when other things demand your attention. 

I started the day getting caught up with email and spending a little time with processing — not enough to get through even one chapter of GSwP, but enough time to play with the drawing commands I learned yesterday.  (I turned this into the above picture.)

Then it was off to a dentist appointment, meetings and social obligations. The first thought that crossed my mind when I woke up was that I hadn’t even made it two days into my project before screwing up.  But, you know, it happens.  And to ignore it or worse, be discouraged by it, gets me nowhere.  So onward! Day three awaits.

p/s. I’m embarrassed to admit it, but as I read through the “A Little Math” section, I discovered two things that I didn’t know.  The first “+=” and the second “++.”  I’m not so embarrassed about += because I’d never seen that before, but I’ve seen x++ more times than I can count and have never understood what it was doing. Now, I do: x++ is the same as x = x + 1. Programmers and their tricky shortcuts!