What's going on?

Not a whole lot... I started building a massive castle out by my floating cottage. No pictures of the castle yet, but I did find an enormous hole in the ground that I've been adventuring in quite a bit whenever I'm working on it.

A creeper was waiting outside my train station for me. I couldn't run away fast enough to save my house but I made a quick temporary repair.

I built a portal into 'The Nether'. It's spooky as hell in there, and also kind of dangerous. I built another portal hoping it would take me close to my floating cottage, but no such luck. I wandered around for a while trying to find my way back home but eventually just took the portal back. Then I built a compass.

And then I finally finished my glass tower. by this point I was pretty sick of it and I felt it needed something... anything. I added a column of lava down the middle.

Castle (mostly) finished

It's done! ... sort of.

It's done to the point where I want to work on something else!

Sure, it's got problems... most notably the fact that animals keep showing up inside. I think this is because my floor is covered in grass:

I'll correct that as I have time, but now it's time for a new project. I'm thinking railway...

Building a floating castle...

I couldn't really decide what to build on my floating island so I looked around the internet for inspiration. Mostly I looked here:

http://minecraftmuseum.net/gallery.php

Finally I decided to build a castle with an extra room sticking out to the side, hovering hundreds of feet above the lake... because I like to make things difficult I guess. The first part of the castle was super easy but building floors while standing on them continues to be difficult.

Here's the work in progress from the front:

And here it is from the back as I once again walk back after falling to my death: