You're making great progress, no?
Hi
Nick,
I don't know if I'd refer to it as "great" progress. I'd assess it as "slightly better than adequate" progress. In terms of progress, I'm slightly ahead of where I expected to be coming into this phase (Phase 3) of my project. Of course, Phase 1 was treating my
bronze disease coins, and Phase 2 was re-writing my hand-written tags that were sloppy and/or erroneous and/or incomplete. With regard to this phase (Phase 3) of my project, in terms of progress, on a
scale from 1 to 10, I'd give myself a 6. I was hoping to finish this phase faster, but, apparently, I'm not.
I began Phase 3 in early November 2015. So, I am about 3 months into it. And I'm about 1/4 of the way through Phase 3 of my project. I have approximately 35 boxes of coins. Right now, I'm almost finished with box #9, which is my third
Roman Imperial box (I also did 6
Magna Graecia boxes). At this rate, it is going to take me approximately 12 months (a full year) to
complete Phase 3 of my project. And that's if I continue at my current pace (if nothing goes wrong).
I've been trying to get at least one page (and sometimes 2-4 pages) done each day. Each page (approximately 5 coins) takes about 3-4 hours of
work. On days when I do 2 pages (approximately 10 coins or more), it literally takes me 6-8 hours of
work that day. On those days, I really have to fire the thrusters and kick in the after-burners (figuratively speaking, of course).
It works out to about 45 minutes
per coin. Of course, that includes everything: setting up my photography equipment, taking the photos of the coins, transferring the photos to the computer, cropping, re-naming, saving the photos to the hard drive, saving the photos to the flash drive,
writing the code in the html kit, uploading the photos and files to Joe's server using Filezilla, checking for any errors, and then posting here in
Forum.
Fortunately, I haven't encountered any major problems yet.
Meepzorp