… and sometimes you just don’t cross it. Last year I wrote a tool that takes a TrueType font and converts it to an image and data file so that the in-game fonts of Jedi Academy can be replaced. About a month ago, a guy couldn’t get it to work, so I had him send it to me and I converted it and explained why it didn’t work. Last night another hapless end-user just sent me a font and asked me to convert it …

Is it me, or didn’t I write the tool so that people could do the conversion themselves? If there’s an error or bug, fine, let me know, and if I am so stalwart as to ask you to send me a copy so that I can attempt to reproduce the bug myself, go ahead and send it on up, but outside of that, a free tool is a free tool – and I’m not the tool.

I feel bad since I’ve always tried to give my end-user’s my best, but right now I’m strapped for time, and I need to concentrate on the most important things.

Aside from that, I’ve been sick, tired, and cranky.

My cholesterol is high, my sugar levels are high (probably because I’m a fat bastard), my … fat is high … I need to lose weight, in a bad way.

Man I’ve been in a pissy mood lately. Probably because there’s a new episode of LOST tonight and I won’t get to see it. We do seem to be made to suffer.

By the way, I’ll be at school every night of the week for the next 8 weeks.

My Katamari music obsession (just ask Sukie about my Katamari dance) led me to search for downloads of Japanese music, but really, I don’t expect much from Japanese music, though I like music for video games and anime Oh wait, that is the entirety of Japanese music, isn’t it?

I was able to track down my coding sensei and master, Trimbo, who’s requested that I give him a shout-out Without him, I’d probably be a depressed, helpless, listless moron. He was never rude or unkind in all the time I was learning from him, which is a feat. Thanks to him and this here Internet, I’ve learned so much over the last 3+ years.

I lurked in the #movie_battles IRC channel today and really enjoyed mixing it up with those guys. Some of the guys recognized me (as I’m a mini-celebrity down in the little pond of Jedi Academy coding,) which I’m always amazed at how many people are familiar with my work. Back in the day (way back) I was using IRC a lot more, but everyone I know from IRC is all gone away, just a few holdouts remain.

A great guy named Tr3b is also working on a Quake3 engine, and he implemented something cool in Quake3 today: deluxe-mapping. He did it some time ago and is familiar with it, but today he and some mappers were working on it. Well, it’s just awesome. Oh, and I need a better video card.

A guy at work linked me to this. It’s funny.

Well, maybe our house fell out of order because of Katamari Damacy, but Sukie and I are determined to reign in the beast this weekend and put our house back in order.

Last night I got to use the drill I got for Christmas – I drilled guide holes for some screws to hang up our clock, the drilled the screws in – it was awesome, because usually it’s annoying to drive in screws to the wall by hand. Well, that was fun.

Mostly, I just haven’t been in a blogging mood lately. Everything’s been so out of order. I did manage to beat Sukie’s moon katamari of 862 meters 53 centimeters, with my own of over 864 meters. Not sure how many centimeters though.