Nice day!
First: Don't let the computer do the job, you don't learn annything,
Write down your own comments, and try to figure out why and what went wrong in your games. If you know anny good players you would learn plenty if you let them explain what went wrong.
A computer can't explain the ideas behind the moves, what plan's to make.
I annotate and analyze on my own first -- I put the moves into my pc to create a .pgn so that I have a back up to the paper record.
Then I go through the .pgn move by move, annotating it on the computer -- I haven't figured out a good way to annotate on paper, short of re-copying the whole game onto notebook paper move by move from the score sheet.
Once I've done, then I use my engine to run basically a blunder check --- to make sure that I caught my and my opponents most egregious errors. Other then that, I don't mess with the engine analysis, but it's nice to have an easy way to keep my records and annotate my games.
When it actually fricken works.
First I arrive to early for the tourney and get to freeze outside for ten minutes. Then I find out I've only budget for my club fees, not the tourney entry fee. Fortunately, I live in a world with ATM's, and the fee thing is straightened out during the day.
So I play chess, and lose all my games. This isn't really a fiasco, until the final game. I utterly fail to convert a winning position where I am up a knight and a bishop, and his king has been forced to e3. Opponent has messed up notation, and quit taking it after about the 10th move. I manage enough grace to offer my notation for copying if he wants a record of the game.
Otherwise, I experience major FAIL managing my response to this final loss, and have a miserable Saturday night when I could have had a delicious time doing censorable things with the man in my life.
Today I come to analyze this game and figure out how I blew it, and Chesspad completely crashes. I can't figure out how to fix the engine to make it work again, so I quit on it for now. Switch computers, try to open ChessMaster. ChessMaster crashes so hard I end up needing to hard reboot.
Finally get computer up and running again, clean up registry, get ChessMaster working. Pull out score book, and start going through game.
Discover castatrophic errors in notation, making it impossible to tell what happened in the game after move 22.
For once, I can't wait for Monday.