[eclipsegirl]

I had a family wedding this weekend. It was a multi day event.

Saturday was going to be tough due to activities for the wedding. I was apprehensive about it

I got all the Sat dailies done before we left for the ceremony. I thought I had made it through the weekend and my streak would remain.

I messed up on Sunday. I got most of the puzzles done before we went out to brunch. After returning, I didn't look at the green bar or do the math needed for looiking at rankings. Somehow, I did not do the KS. For me, that puzzle on Sunday doesn't take long. I had the time. I didn't learn of this until Monday morning. I messed up.

I was gutted. I can't express how angry and disappointed I was with myself. I wish I had checked the rankings on Sunday afternoon, I usually do that. I might have figured it out.

My husband thinks I take this too seriously.

[paulv66]

That’s very frustrating. I know how much effort is required to maintain a 100% record, having managed to achieve that feat for a couple of years. I remember how annoyed and upset I was when I broke my streak.

That was a few years back and I haven’t managed a ‘perfect’ year since then. It’s always an event of some sort that gets in the way - travel or some kind of celebration.

The only upside is that you can now relax until the end of the year, when a new treadmill will appear to challenge you.

[bram]

My husband thinks I take this too seriously.

Amen! Consider yourself blessed to have married such a wise man
Seriously, though: You'd probably be much happier if you deliberately "missed" one puzzle every Jan 1st. That way you wouldn't be stressed out about possibly breaking your streak at family gatherings or other important occasions for the rest of the year.

a new treadmill

[clm]

... I can't express how angry and disappointed I was with myself. I wish I had checked the rankings on Sunday afternoon, I usually do that. I might have figured it out...

I understand your frustration, since I am also a calcuholic. However, that said, I agree with bram, it ¡s very important to use the time for many other things (life is short): dedicating time to the familiy and relatives, hearing music, reading poetry, novels, all kind of books..., writing, watching films, watching the stars, studying, cultivating your flowers, travelling, or simply "thinking".

I use to say that I would need 25 hours a day (or more ) and, if not, at least a martian day or "sun", that is, 24 hours and around 40 additional minutes.

Now think in the frustration of the aliens, I mean, the calcudokers out there in the Universe . HOW MANY OF THEM?
It seems that, considering the Drake's equation and the Olduvai's theory, some conclusion has been derived according to which "in the last 7,500 million years, in the observable universe, possibly 819,000 million civilizations, similiar to our, of a similar technical level, orbiting stars of type G, like our sun, could have existed".

Then, from that point, we could speculate a little bit. If in our planet it exists one Calcudoku site (of the level of Patrick Min's), we could assume one per civilization and then at least 819,000 million Calcudoku sites have existed in the last 7,500 million years in the observable universe. So, how many of them have experienced frustration when they have lost their "year to date" rankings?. Let's suppose 5,000 calcudokers per site, the result would be 8,2 x (10 to the power of 11) x 5 x (10 to the power of 3) = 4,1 x (10 to the power of 15).

And this enormous figure without counting androids, cyborgs or artificial intelligences, that, who knows, perhaps have some emotions . So, we are not alone in our sadness.

[bram]

I am also a calcuholic

Me too! My name is bram, and I'm a calcuholic. (Choir of puzzlers: Hi, bram!!!)

You'd probably be much happier if you deliberately "missed" one puzzle every Jan 1st.

The prescription I made for eclipsegirl would do me good wrt Extra puzzles. I went wrong somewhere in the 15x15 from last Saturday, started over and spent several hours in front of my pc monitor of a beautiful late summer afternoon to solve it
What I should do is deliberately miss at least one Extra puzzle for more than a month so it'd be too late to catch up. That way, I wouldn't be a slave to completism any more

[eclipsegirl]

I am also a calcuholic. .

I am a calcuholic, too

I want to thank paulv22, bram and clm for their kind words. It has eased some of the pain.

I know I once wrote so someone else to check thru rankings daily, to be sure. I wish I had followed my own advice.