It’s Friday, while most people are winding down, I am working as hard as I can to complete the California Portal on IP.
I’ve been slowly squirming forward, now I can see the finish line.
You got to love geography to do this job. Defining the Regions took months, now I am finalizing the Sites within these regions, and typing names of cities, towns, counties, neighborhoods. Before I can even start to type down the hundreds of cities, towns and counties I first must get familiar with them. This is where research is needed. I need to know these socio-geographical areas and populations even the local culture as well as possible, as if I lived there. This is crucial since Sites are smaller than Regions and should hold some cultural identity to the Insiders living in that Site, a Site makes more sense to people than a Region does. Thus, creating Sites requires more time and thought than needed for creating Regions
For a state as populous as California, this is taking some time 
BUT I am about 80% done.
To steadily make slow but firm progress on such a monumental project one must posses a love for learning, especially when it comes to cities, counties, mountain ranges, metropolitan areas. In order to create the underlying structure for IP I had to spend countless hours researching, comparing and researching more. I couldn’t have done this had I not liked geographical info and demographics, looking at maps and pictures from other parts of this GREAT nation.
I also, obviously, need a lot of patience and resiliency. Patience to keep chugging along, thoughtfully, and not not rush things through; and resiliency to not let setbacks discourage me from completing this project.
I believe this project and the amazing potential it has in helping Insiders (i.e. YOU) makes it worth every bit of effort.