Hi!

Since my last post I have mostly been attempting to build the Place of the Tombs of Atuan in Minecraft! (This involved: starting a new world with my existing Survival Island seed but with the Caves upgrade that has the new blocks that will be really useful, and in Large Biomes mode so I could actually get a big enough desert island to pass as Atuan. I play in Peaceful mode, which means I don't have to worry about monsters or starving, but I still have to travel, explore, build and gather resources the hard way; so far I have just gotten as far as getting enough of a functioning base together and all of the basic materials I need to keep going (in peaceful mode in a desert archipelago, the most difficult yet important thing to get is string) and exploring enough to find a pretty good site to build the Place in, so I'm about ready to start building but have been delaying by exploring more ocean instead.

My very first seed in my very first game was a survival island in the middle of a massive inland sea, so probably 75% of my total Minecraft time since I started last winter has been spent boating around coastlines, I was talking to a friend who has been playing for years and never?? built a boat??? Anyway A+ to boating around coastlines in Minecraft.)

Also I have been to con-txt! I just added everyone who had their DW in the friending channel, on the basis that I enjoy spending con-txt with you, so, if you noticed, hi! I try to post here at least once a week but lately I have just been *tired* so it's been more like once a month, I do keep up with reading but don't comment as much as I'd like.

I am working on a con-txt followup post but I keep heading down side trips while working on it so who knows if it will get finished. I have the next week off work with no real plans, so maybe I will? Meanwhile, I am re-reading all of the Eroica fic as a result of the Eroica panel. (my favorite thing about con-txt is that if you go to con-txt, old fandoms never die.)