I’ve been at my current day job for over a year now.  This job has a pretty steep learning curve — the main tool being used is a beast — but I finally feel like I’m getting a handle on things.  I can write code without having to look up references all the time.  I’m learning the finer points of the trade, too, from various idiosyncrasies (took a few stabs to spell that word!) of browsers to loading issues of Ajax calls.

That doesn’t mean anything to those of you who are not web developers, does it?  

Of course, when you dig deeper into fields, you start seeing subtleties that you just can’t appreciate when you were looking from the outside.  You learn the most by just doing it, just logging time in performing the acts.

Recently I also feel that sense of expansion with my guitar playing, too.  I can’t practice a lot in the current life set-up, but I try to practice a little every chance I get.  I’ve always been a person who practices 2 hrs one day and none for 13 days afterward — but it appears that 10 minutes a day for 12 days in a row and 2 days off seems to add up better.

Of course, it’s really enjoyable when you can detect the difference.  And it’s just another instance of Ideas Turned Reality.  You practice because in your mind, you have the capacity to be better — though in the current reality, you aren’t.  You have the capacity but it’s not developed.  You own up to your own potential, you uncover more of it, by doing it.  It doesn’t matter how small steps you take, how little time you can spend.  Progress builds the fastest when you don’t take any shortcuts — you just show up each day and put your one cent in the jar.

I’m really looking forward to the day when the ratio of guitar time vs. web development time are reversed.  I can only imagine how much better guitarist/musician I’ll be.