Wednesday Will Be A GwG Work Day

So... Really looking forward to Wednesday.

Half the day is blocked out for working on the GwG / Udacity Lessons. With luck, I'll squeeze in a little bit more.

Snowed here last night and today -- first significant amount of snow in a bunch of days. Almost like first snow of the winter. Many people apparently forgot how to drive in snow. Which meant they drove 5 to 10 miles per hour below the speed limit. I hope that means they had or caused less accidents than if they had driven at the speed limit. But with many impatient drivers, wanting to get places in a hurry and not wanting to drive less than the speed limit, the cautious drivers probably ended up getting into or causing the same number of accidents as they would have if they drove the speed limit. It's an interesting world!

Only interaction with GwG today was a bit of Slack team time. Did some work on the blog/website for The Hive (mentioned in yesterday's post), but no time working on Lessons.

The days are flying by. And it felt like they were flying past even faster when I saw a comment in Slack by someone who said they finished all the course material yesterday, and they guessed maybe they should have signed up for the intermediate course...

When I see all the Slack comments from people discussing the numerous coding courses they've completed prior to this GwG beginner course, two thoughts go through my head. First, why are they taking the beginner course if they've already learned all the material the class will cover. Second, having so many GwG scholarship recipients in this course who are already very experienced in what the course teaches seems to suggest my odds of getting a scholarship for a full nanodegree course from Udacity are between very slim and none.

But that's ok. As long as my course participation means I finish the GwG 90 days with the ability to do a simple website that feels a step above what I've managed to do with Blogger in the past, I'll be feel it was worthwhile applying for the scholarship and doing the coursework. Appreciation of moments and opportunities in one's life is often (usually...) a matter of perspective.

Perspective is an important part of nonduality. I didn't want it to snow today because it meant shoveling the silly white frozen water off the driveway. On the other hand, I appreciate how nice the past couple weeks were in terms of much less snow to shovel than many recent years. And I keep remembering that each day has a bit more daylight in it, and summer is on the way here!

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