It felt good to go. I was about to end up not going, I got some really bad news today, but decided I wasn't going to let it stop me. I think it kinda helped. You can't really do much thinking when you're there shooting a gun, because you have to concentrate on what you're doing. As short as it was, it gave me some level of peace to take my mind off all my problems. It also got me a lot more comfortable with my gun, as in actually shooting it. Before today if someone decided to bust in my front door there's really no telling what would happen.
I worked a lot on trial and error, what worked, what didn't. The best stance that gave me the best accuracy, I learned that keeping my elbows bent rather than locked gave me the ability to make more accurate follow up shots and deal with less recoil. Just general stuff like that. I didn't just go emptying mags, I was actually there teaching myself. I also learned to clear an actual jam. There was one jam where I couldn't drop the mag back out. I managed to remedy it on my own through common sense.
I learned a lot of confidence today.