Not a lot to say here; I’ve been practicing regularly, no huge insights or anything. Though I’ve been feeling a little less energetic than I had been in the past, both about learning guitar and learning Japanese; and playing into that is the fact that I’ve been really enjoying a programming project I’ve been working on at home for the last couple of weeks. I think I still want to keep on playing guitar regularly, but I might shift into more of a maintenance mode – put in three or four hours each weekend, but not focusing particularly on actively improving in any particular way? We’ll see.

There wasn’t a lot to take pictures of in the March Minecraft session: Miranda couldn’t be there, so she wasn’t building, Dan was still traveling in a straight line, and we mostly talked.

While talking, I decided to follow Dan’s lead and also travel in a straight line; I just did it underground, coming out of the very first tunnels we dug back in 2010:

The start of my tunnel

I hit a cave fairly early on:

Breaking into a cave

The bottom of the cave

Except that it wasn’t a cave, as I discovered when I went inside:

Looking up

I think that’s something that Jonathan blew up years ago; as you can see above, it’s a huge pit under one corner of our big train track loop.

Continuing on, I ran into another cave, this one a real cave and a fairly interesting one:

Water and lava

An underground river

One end of the river

A lava pool at the end

A mine shaft above

I took more pictures of the mineshaft, but honestly: those all look kind of the same. And I ran into two or three more caves; pleasant enough, but nothing super distinctive, here are the best of the pictures.

Lava, redstone, and diamond

A zombie

My passage above another cave

An interesting experiment, but I kind of think I won’t continue it this month?