Daily Diary (DD) - Day 236 of 2022

1037hrs:

Day 80 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.

0857hrs

My punctuality deficit has increased to 214 minutes.

Being punctual consistently without fail is a highly evolved skill. Despite decreasing our deficit from a high of 580 minutes a few weeks ago down to 157 minutes yesterday, one is disappointed to go behind once again. The euphoria of many days of decreasing the deficit is less than the disappointment of increasing the deficit, albeit even for a day. The plus side is that this setback today makes me more determined to never be late again.

There are no valid excuses for such a lapse but I did work throughout the day yesterday before travelling in the evening and not sleeping till way beyond 0200hrs this morning.

Punctuality Review over 80 days (with some statistics):

Day(s) - Time of Arrival at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal (hrs)

n.b. I had declared the timing of my daily sitting over the next 365 days to be between 0800hrs and 1000hrs.

 

1 -  0800

2 -  0803

3 -  0804

4 -  0806

5 -  0759

6 -  0756

7 -  0804

8 -  0805

9 -  0756

10 - 0805

18 minutes late (as aggregate over 1st 10 days)

6 days late of 10 (viz. 60% late)

11 - 0805

12 - 0757

13 - 0803

14 - 0755

15 - 0802

16 - 0806

17 - 0809

18 - 0802

19 - 0808

20 - 0804

31 minutes late (as aggregate over 2nd 10 days)

Which is a total of 49 minutes late over 20 days

8 days late of 10 (viz. 80% late)

Which accumulates as 14 days late of 20 (viz. 70%)

21 - 0821

22 - 0807

23 - 0804

24 - 0803

25 - 0819

26 - 0808

27 - 0758

28 - 0808

29 - 0808

30 - 0808

84 minutes (i.e. 1 hour 24 minutes) late (as aggregate over 3rd 10 days)

Which is a total of 133 minutes late over 30 days

9 days late of 10 (viz. 90% late)

Which accumulates as 23 days late of 30 (viz. 77%)

31 - 0823

32 - 0831

33 - 0838

34 - 0853

35 - 0759

36 - 0805

37 - 0759

38 - 0801

39 - 0812

40 - 0756

157 minutes (i.e. 2 hours 37 minutes) late (as aggregate over 4th 10 days)

Which is a total of 290 minutes late over 40 days

7 days late of 10 (viz. 70% late)

Which accumulates as 30 days late of 40 (viz. 75%)

In total over the next 40 days I have to make up for 290 minutes of poor punctuality in the first 40 days (i.e. 4 hours and 50 minutes!)

41 - 0827

42 - 0919 (deficit in total: 396)

43 - 0807

44 - 0803

45 - 0725

46 - 0822

47 - 0758

48 - 0905 (456)

49 - 0833

50 - 0931 (580)

290 minutes (i.e. 4 hours 50 minutes) late (as aggregate over 5th 10 days)

n.b. I was as late in these past 10 days as I was throughout the whole first 40 days. Which means that my punctuality is rapidly dwindling!

Cumulative punctuality deficit over 50 days = 580

8 days late of 10 (viz. 80%)

Which accumulates as 38 days late of 50 (viz. 76%)

51 - 0736

52 - 0744 (540)

53 - 0754 

54 - 0759 (533)

55 - 0750 

56 - 0753 (516)

57 - 0735 

58 - 0748 (479)

59 - 0748 

60 - 0840 (507)

73 minutes were gained (as aggregate over 6th 10 days).

Thus, we've beaten the punctuality deficit for the first time.

Cumulative punctuality deficit over 60 days = 507

1 day late of 10 (viz. 10%)

Which accumulates as 39 days late of 60 (viz. 65%)

61 - 0718 

62 - 0742 (447)

63 - 0804 

64 - 0749 (440)

65 - 0735 

66 - 0847 (462)

67 - 0713 

68 - 0712 (367)

69 - 0746

70 - 0748 (341)

166 minutes were gained (as aggregate over 7th 10 days).

Thus, we've beaten the punctuality deficit for the second time (in a row).

Cumulative punctuality deficit over 70 days = 341

2 days late of 10 (viz. 20%)

Which accumulates as 41 days late of 70 (viz. 59%)

71 - 0741 

72 - 0800 (322)

73 - 0744

74 - 0756 (302)

75 - 0738

76 - 0749 (269)

77 - 0735 

78 - 0725 (209)

79 - 0708 

80 - 0857 (214)

127 minutes were gained (as aggregate over 8th 10 days).

Thus, we've beaten the punctuality deficit for the third time (in a row).

Cumulative punctuality deficit over 80 days = 214

1 day late of 10 (viz. 10%)

Which accumulates as 42 days late of 80 (viz. 53%)

In these 80 days, we dropped our punctuality deficit to a peak of 580 minutes (9 hours and 40 minutes!) on Day 50.

However, by Day 80 we have pegged it back to 214 minutes (3 hours and 34 minutes).

We were late on:

6 days of 10, in 1st 10 days

8 days of 10, in 2nd 10 days

9 days of 10, in 3rd 10 days

7 days of 10, in 4th 10 days

Thus, we were late on 30 of the first 40 days! (viz. 75% late!) and by 290 minutes in total!

8 days of 10, in 5th 10 days

1 day of 10, in 6th 10 days

2 days of 10, in 7th 10 days

1 day of 10, in 8th 10 days

Thus, we were late on 12 of the second 40 days (viz. 30% late) and we actually gained 76 minutes in punctuality, though overall (over 80 days) our punctuality deficit still has 214 minutes to make up for (from the first 40 days)

Total: 42 days late of 80 = 53% late!

By Day 40 we were 75% late, thus we have gained an improvement of 22% in punctuality.

In short, we have improved our punctuality markedly, especially since Day 50. 

Review on Day 40 can be accessed here

*Percentages given are to the nearest whole number

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