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Day 514:

I’ve been mostly eating dried fish while I’ve been doing this current set of diamond hunting because it’s more convenient than traveling back to my main base for fresh vegetables.

But I’m starting to dream at night about carrots, and craving carrots. I look at the stalactites and stalagmites and think, wow, I wish they were parsnips.

I think that’s a sign that my diet’s a bit off.

Maybe it’s time to head back to base soon and count my current diamonds and decide what to do next.

Or at least go back and make a good hearty carrot stew with fresh ducken. That might be nice too.

(I bet it ends up raining and I eat dried fish again.)

Day 513:

It’s easy to get lost in a mine, even if you’re the only one digging it.

For every major bit of progress that you make, you redefine the landscape and change the visible landmarks.

So I got lost today in my own mine and almost dug up and through a very large lava lake.

I’m quite grateful I didn’t succeed, but there was a minute or two that my life was in my hands – and my hands were in a bucket of water because I’d gotten splashed with lava and, well, don’t let that happen to you.

I miss my mining suit.

Day 512:

Lots of rock rats are attacking lately, and I’ve found no diamonds.

I’d much prefer no rock rats were attacking and I had found lots of diamonds.

But since that’s not the case, I’m going to at least wish the rock rats were, like, pooping diamonds or something. They don’t provide meat, they don’t provide bones, they just bite my ankles and get stabbed for doing so.

Rock rats are not useful.

Day 511:

Diamonds, frack it, I need diamonds! These stupid sparky red rocks and weird blue rocks and emeralds and crap aren’t doing me any good at all! WHERE ARE THE DIAMONDS?

Day 510:

Some days what I wish for more than anything in the world — even before I was on this sad little rock — is for a mining site to dry up, to be complete, to be empty.

I feel like I know every nook and cranny of this area I’m mining right now. I’ve been looking for diamonds in it for literally weeks. Every time I come close to giving up, I find more diamonds. But seriously, the ore never seems to end. It goes on forever.

I’d like a change of scenery soon. I just need a few more diamonds.