This sounds like a severe case of “Bye bye overtime money” 
Practicing with the metronome will tighten your timing up and should make your playing with a backing track even better.
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I am glad to read this and hear that your overtime period has ended!
sounds like a really good plan!
And … one pattern each day for a whole year? Sooo many?
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Yes, the 365 fingerstyle exercices - 1 per day is a unique concept. I have no idea how it will goes… It can either work really well or not at all haha… . 
And it might take 2 years to complete it. I’m still debating wether it was a good purchase or not, at least it was 50% off. I’d have prefer something more exciting with blues songs. But, he’s saying that the fun is behind the boring stuff. 
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Hi Math, I’m glad you’re finally back to practice! The 365 fingerpicking patterns made me wonder too…but I guess there’s a specific goal for them, does the teacher make it clear? If you practice with the metronome it’s gonna be super powerful practice anyway.
No need to say be aware of your fingers being relaxed without pain when you do the exercises.
I hope you’ll share some recording of the Blues solo when you’ll feel confident.
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The teacher says that the goal is not pattern memorization, but fingerstyle freedom. We will most likely only remember from memory our 10 most favorite patterns. But, each day, is a step further to push us to the fingerstyle freedom which he describes as your picking hand will be able to play whathever you throw at them without too much thinking. Great training for your fingers 
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That sounds similar to the exercises I’m working on.
Very different exercises of course, but they’re for a different style of playing. It’s not about memorising patterns, it’s all about independent finger movement and two hand synchronisation that will eventually lead to the freedom to play anything.
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Sentence 2 was my thought too. Some will possibly click with you in that moment or you’ll have some song idea during practice or whatever.
And the other point, I didn’t think of it, but now I understand. Finger independence was what I was also trying to improve and at least reached to a certain degree. (Haha, in relation to point zero I mean)
Felt great when I noticed making a little step again, but I mostly did my own patterns and excercises and can easily struggle when I have to do a certain pattern. Now I think I should incorporate something like you mentioned in my practice routine too to continue improving finger independence. But maybe only after Blim, right now I am feeling a bit overwhelmed anyway
I am glad to hear about your updates and look forward to some video one day!