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](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/start-of-tunnel-435x245.png)
The start of my tunnel
I hit a cave fairly early on:
![Breaking into a cave](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/breaking-into-a-cave-435x243.png)
Breaking into a cave
![The bottom of the cave](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/bottom-of-cave-435x245.png)
The bottom of the cave
Except that it wasn’t a cave, as I discovered when I went inside:
![Looking up](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/its-a-pit-435x244.png)
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](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/water-and-lava-435x243.png)
Water and lava
![An underground river](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/underground-river-435x242.png)
An underground river
![One end of the river](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/end-of-river-435x245.png)
One end of the river
![A lava pool at the end](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/lava-pool-435x243.png)
A lava pool at the end
![A mine shaft above](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/mine-shaft-above-435x240.png)
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](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/lava-redstone-and-diamond-435x244.png)
Lava, redstone, and diamond
![A zombie](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/zombie-435x245.png)
A zombie
![My passage above another cave](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/another-cave-435x245.png)
My passage above another cave
An interesting experiment, but I kind of think I won’t continue it this month?