I agree with grtrans that it is hard but not impossible, even while holding down a regular job as a software engineer. I took a year of night classes in ancient Greek at Harvard Extension School (they'll take anyone with a credit card :-), going through Hanson & Quinn. Then their second year was just reading through a few chapters of the Odyssey. After that, just keep going! :-) Use Owen & Goodspeed to drill vocab from most-frequent to least. Homer's grammar is pretty simple and the same patterns over & over. Tons easier than Thucydides or the orators. His vocab is immense, like Shakespeare, but still manageable. I spent many pleasant Saturday mornings at a coffee shop reading Homer. That was before I had kids, but we homeschool too and I'm hoping we can work in some ancient Greek lessons to give me an excuse to keep it alive. :-)