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Day 273:
The only thing wrong with reinforcing tunnels is it’s super super boring.
Like, it’s prepping-to-paint boring. Or worse, it’s peeling-off-all-the-tape-after-painting boring.
I would rather be doing almost anything else. There’s nothing to find, nothing to bring home… it’s mostly just open space and timbers and walls and torches.
It makes me tired.
I’ve run out of songs I can remember from back on the ship, so I’m starting to sing old folk songs and stuff.
That boring.
Day 272: I dug into a cavern I’d dug out before, so now I’m heading back the way I came to actually polish it into a properly shaped and structured cavern.
I don’t have to, I guess, but it’s safer and easier to have a structure you can count on than it is to leave stalactites and fractions of walls all over the place.
And if I’ve dug into a place twice already, not only does that mean that it’s a place that is near valuable things, it also means that I’ve already damaged its natural stability twice as well.
So best to reinforce it, even if it means working backwards to a certain extent.
Day 271:
A few days ago I swore I was going to stop digging down from the place where I’m at, because it wasn’t getting me any closer to my goals.
Yeah, I was lousy at that.
I got some digging back toward the sheep done, and then I got distracted by a beautiful vein of granite, and now I’m back deep into this mine shaft again.
Well, at least I’m consistent, even if it’s going to get me killed.
Day 270:
I’d call it spring cleaning if we had spring, but we don’t.
I spent the day straightening things up and stacking my warehouse more cleanly so I can get to things I need. Now I have a lot more space and I feel a lot more organized.
It didn’t really do much as far as true productivity is concerned, but sometimes cleaning just helps straighten out what needs to be done.
Besides, if that flocking lava flow got blown up one more time this week I was going to lose my mind.
Day 269: It was a hauling day.
That’s a day where I take a whole load of ores that I’ve collected but not hauled back to my “warehouse” back to the warehouse.
Generally, these are incredibly boring days.
Generally, the giraffe-corgis don’t return and blow up the lava glass again.
Today was not a general day.
But hey, got stuff stored securely away from the lava, so I guess that’s a win.