Month 9 - Drills

So, have I been playing Mahjong? Yeah. I've also been working on a little app to help with drilling specific situations, which has been fun. Let's talk motivation.

Month 8 - Therapy's A Lovely Start

Last month, when I noted that tracking and commitments tend to sap my motivation, I told myself I wouldn't write about mahjong during this update. See if that helped. So, no mahjong this month! But lots of thinking.

Month 7 - Freedom

I've been unintentionally sabotaging myself. Time to go back to the roots.

Month 6 - Abandoning Winning

I'm going to gush about some things I really like for a while, then talk about getting back to the 'Jong, as the kids are calling it these days.

Week 15 - Conflict

Some factors I didn't consider made this schedule not work quite as well as I'd hoped. Time to make adjustments, and search for alternative ways to fit in Mahjong.

Week 14 - Scheduling

I've been pretty busy this week. Not with anything important, but I suppose Mahjong is also not important in the grand scheme of things.

Week 13 - Push and Pull (Mostly Pull)

It's time to start thinking about how to improve push / pull, and also, decide what to do about AI reviews now that I have experience with NAGA.

Week 12 - Improving Mental (With a Guest!)

Going to ippan for mental training ended up working unexpectedly well, in the sense that I had to bear an extremely high amount of it. Let's briefly talk about that, then bring in a guest to talk about an entirely different flavour of tilt.

Week 11 - It's in the Ref Doc! !refdoc

 My detour into making a riichi ref doc is now mostly finished.

Week 10 - Distraction

 I'm. So. Sleepy.

Week 9 - Mentality

 Jared Tendler's book is very good. I think basically everyone should read it.

Week 8 - New Year, New Goals

With the calling month coming to an end, it's time to move on to the next topic.

Week 7 - Merry Christmas

Christmas is tomorrow, so I'll do the update a bit early this week. Speeding up the calls felt good, but there's one specific type of call I'm still torn on.

Week 6 - Slowing Down

You know, maybe deciding to start calming down wasn't the best idea when I'm playing in the Silver Room... Oh well, time to start speeding up.

Week 5 - Calling Month Starts Now!

I have the beginnings of a calling system now. Considering my previous playstyle, maybe it's more of a "restriction" than a "system." Next step, drilling it into habit.

Week 4 - Real (?) Games

 I somehow forgot what it was like to play against beginner players. Never make me play bronze room easts again.

Week 3 - Graduation

Another week down, the last week of pure preparation. I decided to do a daily journal thing this time.

Week 2 - Awakening

I was on vacation from work this week, so I had a lot of free time. I ended up watching a lot of Mahjong videos on YouTube.

Among those, I watched several videos from the guy who played with Northernlion, yu_song. After having watched ないおトン so much, going to watching a middling player was quite interesting. The difference in play was immediately obvious. And as my goal is above yu_song's level, knowing where those differences lie is valuable. Watching critically with the mentality of, "I must surpass this person."

Week 1 - From the Ashes

Hello hello. Long time no see.

In the time I've been gone, I've done a few things. I've learned Japanese, to a comfortable level at least. I've published a bunch of yuri stories on Wattpad. I've made an extensive guide for Uma Musume, which had a resurgence recently thanks to the global release. I got a pet snake, and geckos. I played a whole lot of Raid: Shadow Legends, unironically. The recent guaranteed summon event gave me the last unit I needed for Mikage, pretty stoked about that.

Anyway, I've been getting back into Mahjong recently. Why, you might ask? Because I saw Northernlion play it, and he was so bad at it that it made me want to get good again out of spite. This happens a lot, where I see him play a game and then have to buy it to play it properly.

Week 13 - Diligence

I've decided to actually schedule my time. We'll see if I stick to the schedule, but I'll do my best to at least follow it for this month. Also, let's talk meditation.