Random Diversions

It's taken a while, but my new base is (mostly) back up and running. Moving your entire network takes a bit of planning, because once yo...

I guess I should have posted something before I took a week away from the computer to do some house-sitting! This is a quick update about th...

After my somewhat disastrous trip to the Nether last report , I spent last week working on base improvements. After upgrading base power to ...

I had limited time for Minecraft this week, but I did get a few things done. In the last post , I mentioned doing some basic automation to k...

I've been playing my modded Minecraft world a bit since my last post , making slow progress on my base, doing a bunch of mining, and cre...

In my recent recap of 2015, I mentioned my last Minecraft series, the City Builder Challenge , died a death of ennui. Rather than trying to...

A few more days have passed (OK, several more days), and there is progress!  Last time I mentioned finding a spider spawner in my mine. I&#...

Some time has passed, work has been done, and improvements made. Nothing spectacular yet, but my little desert base is starting to take shap...

After a night of mining, that extended into the morning of day eight, I've come to a decision: I'll make this desert wasteland a sol...

After a couple false starts, getting lost in the desert, dying to a zombie horde, things are looking up! I spent the night doing some minor ...

Yep, it only took three days to die. After spending the night in the village I stumbled over, I ran outside a bit too quickly for someone wi...

Another day, another aaah, run away!  After spending the night huddled in my little hole in the wall, I ran outside, hoping to find somethin...

I haven't played Minecraft in quite a while. I went through a period of messing with mods, including some huge mod-packs full of technol...

Gabe Babbett. Our two detectives, Evan Stacy and Jeff Long, were finally sitting across the interrogation-room table from their primary susp...

Last time , we had a pretty good lock on the events surrounding our two murders. We still have some loose ends to tie up though. Let's g...

Our prime suspect Gabe Babbett, is looking more and more like our man. When we left he was in custody in Chicago, and his truck had been imp...

When we left our investigators, they had just finished up their interrogations of Albert Burns and Rose Marie Orr, the roommates of our murd...

Last session our detectives had pretty well wrapped up the two murders they were faced with, with all evidence pointing to Gabe Babbett, our...

I've finally gotten around to snapping a day time screen shot of this arch so you can actually see it. Without further ado...

A quick screenshot of the next phase of construction. I really need to stop taking night pictures, but usually I snap these after completing...