Learning guitar is a fun journey, you never really learn it, you just become more proficient. It does take a lot of time, thousands of hours matter of fact, to become a decent player. I practice every single day, even if it's only for 15 minutes. Sometimes I have to remind myself, it's suppose to be fun! Not like hard work, the only reason I ever picked one up in the first place was because I thought it was fun. I would not trade playing music for any other hobby, not even brewing. Speaking of, I think I'll go pick up my banjo for a bit.....
It can take up to 6 months for a new player to really toughen those finger tips, eventually you'll lose all the feeling in them completely. Mine tend to crack and peel a lot.
As for which is easier to learn on, I get asked that a lot and I'm not really sure. I always suggest playing which ever one the person likes better. I would suggest putting a set of 10s on anything for a beginner though, 9s bend a little too easy and most acoustics do sound better with 11-13s but 10s are by far the easiest to learn on. Also using 10s will lower the neck tension some, and thus lower the action a little, this can help new players quite a bit.
What kind of electric do you have?
Back on subject.
I've always wanted to go duck hunting and learn to do some computer programming, mainly java.