Still Alive

Still waiting on Terraria 1.3.1 to update RomTerraria again.

Currently working on adding higher resolution support to Gnomoria.

Got back from my first trip to Taiwan and China last week.

Also dealing with a ton of unnecessary drama precipitated by my decision to start dating again and me quoting Depeche Mode lyrics in a note to my housekeeper because I use song requests for my Amazon Echo as a means of tracking her clocking in and clocking out.

Status and Proops

Outside of a couple of bugs and two pieces of content, Electric Eye v1.0 is basically done.

After I got home last night, I decided I needed to get out of the house, so I went to the Improv in San Jose at 10pm to see Greg Proops.  This is one of the few times I've gotten out of the house since moving to the Bay Area, so I wanted to do something silly.

I got table #3 (front and center). He was opened by a funny female comedienne whose name I unfortunately do not remember and Nato Green.

Mr. Proops came out, told a joke, seemed to not be happy with the level of enthusiasm of the crowd, spent the next fifteen minutes preemptively ripping into the crowd, and then went about his routine.  The biggest downside to his routine is that he was a local boy from San Carlos, so a lot of his jokes were based on local stereotypes and I didn't get as many of them as I should have.  That said, I enjoyed the show.

I got home around 12:30am just as my phone died.

I'll be leaving for China in two weeks.  Hopefully, Terraria v1.3.1 will be out when I get back so I am forced to update RomTerraria.

What's Going On

Quick status update for everyone.

No, I'm not dead.

I'm finishing up version 1.0 of Electric Eye at work right now.  That should be done on February 26.  The open source release is expected later this year.

I'm not doing any work on RomTerraria until Terraria v1.3.1 gets released.

I'll be spending two weeks in China in March and will be not responding to anything during that window.

I've started dating again.  It's been weird.

AccessViolationException when using Font from PrivateFontCollection

Issue:

You have used a PrivateFontCollection to get access to a Font and are using it when suddenly you get an AccessViolationException while using the font.

Cause:

The PrivateFontCollection object has gone out of scope and has been disposed.  When the object goes out of scope, it seems to destroy any Font object that came from it.

Solution:

Move the declaration of the PrivateFontCollection so that it stays in scope until you are done with all fonts that you are using from it.

Still Alive

I'm still alive.  The last six weeks have been an ordeal, but I'm still around.

I went back to work last Monday and have been working on finishing up Electric Eye since then.

I finally got Yvonne's certificate of death on Monday and am going through all the paperwork that has been waiting for that document to arrive, like her life insurance policy and some dealings with her attorney.

My granddaughter is coming out to visit on December 17 and will be here through Christmas.

Right now, I'm planning on starting posting and updating things again after the first of the year.