Months since I last posted!
Actually this is because not much has been happening with me as far as go is concerned.
For whatever reason I stopped playing regularly, stopped visiting this forum, stopped solving problems consistently.
So, as a general update, over the last couple of months I've finished a couple of DGS games, played maybe 4-5 real time games on either KGS or Tygem, and occasionally have solved a few problems from 1001 L&D or some online source.
Actually I don't feel like my game has suffered all that much. The last game I played on KGS I beat a 7k fairly comfortably, bringing my rank to 6k?
I played a fast game on Tygem a few nights ago, too, an exciting game where I built massive influence and used that to chase a large group, which I very nearly killed, and ended up willing by 20 points or so. I think there I'm sitting on 10k with 3 wins 2 losses.
Thinking now that the madness of christmas is over I might start trying to stick to my previous study regime of problems. Going to go for a page of 1001 every day and 20 problems from YCH. Not worrying about reading books much at the moment. Not setting myself a particular number of games to play. I think I have 4 games running on DGS so i'll play moves in them when they come up. I guess will try to fit in a game a week on one of the real time servers, or whenever I feel like it. Fast games, slow games, whatever games. I need to remember to just enjoy playing, rather than only enjoy improving.