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Oct 07th 2024: The character builder is really starting to dive deeper into naming conventions. I did update the Spouse Naming routine to change the last name of the female half to the male [I may ratio it so that not all names are altered to the male last name, not everyone takes last names.. but for now.. dat's the way it is] I think I will have to dive into matching names to nationalities for a ratio of the results. That really isn't somewhere I wanted to go.. But results with an asian name with a slavic name.. is just whacky..

Oct 01st 2024: The bulk character builder is FANTASTIC! So much so that I am adding more real world statistics to the ratios of certain aspects of a persons traits. The biggest plus is.. the ability to make 1 to 1k 'citizens'! I also had a very nice mobile bar code scanner sent to try out. It really came at the best time; the model railroad tracking workbook has many bar codes for streamlining stuff like tracking whats being worked on, and locations among other things. It's light and nearly 100% accurate! one press of the button after aiming and beep! If you have a small operation and only require one, this might be what you need.

Sept 29th 2024: Once i had the basics laid down in the people maker code, It needed a few fine tunings. The first was height, weight, build and BMI values.. The code would rando select, say, 6'2 "Medium" build, then select the weight as 155lb.. Ekks tons of sickly citizens! So i adapted the BMI code from the php builder pages into the mix.. this bases the weight on the build and BMI data. The current function is an initial relationship for some. I don't want all the little people being single! This will make intitial relationships. The next function will be an aging routine, to change things like hair color and traits as they age..

Sept 27th 2024: Back to work on ancilliary functions! All the testing of hiring functions, left me with only 3 "employable" citizens.. I have tons of specific characters to import and a dozen or so that have been added via the web page, but to add more than just a few... ekks..or so I thought!! I built a python function to bulk build 'x' amount (500 to start citizens). Now it woulda needed large amounts of first/last names.. I had a small file of names from a rando site... but still nowhere the 'real' diversity I wanted.. Here is were the MAGIC happens.. Luckily my media libary is managed and synced throughout the household media boxes; there are 17k names in the db just doing nothing! The names are exported and broken down, then the code determines male female first names into separate lists! Then we use the traits data files for the web page builder, including the code to make the zodiac and BMI info for each citizen. It generates 500 citizens in about 20 seconds! A few things to clean up; i.e. music artists names from the music video's specifically and some fine tuning the physical traits.. like age and hair color/build. The function used, is generally used to make fake data for such things as db stress testing, sorting data etc, so that real peoples data isn't exposed. I tried a few other tidbits in the command, like a back story generator.. but it is just gibberish.. Just happy I can bulk add citz!

Sept 11th 2024: An email came in about the hounds.. Why so many, basically. Well first, let me point out.. As our eldest girl turned about 14 we had already realized that for Spencer's sake, we'd hope to find a friend for him.. to lessen the blow of here passing. OK So, when Saphie came along, she was just a pleasant occassional visitor. It was obvious her situation was not ideal, but she didn't display an physical scars or wounds. So we just let her play and go, she was after all Spencers' first playmate.. Sometimes it would be a few weeks between her visits, but she would come running and go after Spencer. In Jan '21, she began coming back and sleeping on the patio, only on the coldest nights did we let her in and she would stay with Spencer. Then one night she came to us clearly shaken and with a hole in her back.. She decided to stay.. I often tell people the bond with her is worlds different than a pup or dog you either raise from birth or rescue, She IS essentially.. our housemate.. If and when she decides to go.. she will go lol. We've actually 'evicted' her about 3 times early in her time with us, as she tried to get the pups to follow her. We opened the gate and scooted her out.. She would run the street and be back in the morning, with a pouty look on her face. Lately the only times she really gets out is when heat comes.. Anyway, We had planned and attempted to home the pups, We did home one, and he is doing very well. Boomer ad Lillie were actually taken to the Humane Society as they were so capable of scaling the fence, the staff at the Society were not as versed on dog behavior as I have come to expect. So as I brought the 2 back to the car, I told the house mate.. we'll do what we gotta do. but no one is murderin' the pups.. Well, now it would just be heartless to try and split them up; lord there are those moments that I think 'wtf did we do this for' (lol).. But it is such a unique thing to have dogs, in their family unit.. Individually parsed out, naturally adapts their personalities.. but we have them in all their rampuncious glory... So to sum it up.. We kept them as no suitable people came forward to home them... we'd already become attached to them, and couldn't bear to think we'd gave one to an abuser because we felt we had to make a choice and get rid of one or 2...

Sept 09th 2024: Taking some 'fun' diversions. now that the sim pretty much is a town full of folks buzznb' around here and there. The next preject is 'templating' human decision routines.. mmm Yes it can be coded.. Currently most events like Hiring use a rando and a high-mark [the value returned must be higher than 85] this limits the amount of hiring while I flesh out how to tell it not to hire a certain type of person that wouldnt go for a certain type of job.. One of the most recent decision processes is the 'closed business when it should be open' code, its sounds like its a fairly basic decision to make,, yea... but think about it.. one day ya might wait 10 minutes.. but the next week ya may only wait 2 minutes.. all based on external factors of the day.. on top of the core 'tendency' you might have to wait longer than John or Jane. Theres a few games I want to intergrate.

Sept 8th 2024: The basics.. done! the citizens have work and off work days, and places to go! Some fine tuning to do here and there, So i staerted on the 'who done it!/clue' extension. This code will produce the criminal elements in the area. I have to manage my rabbit hole.. so many idea's!

Aug 31st 2024: Kinda excited.. the sim is getting close to running and managing itself! I finished a simple retirement function. I set the "threshold" pretty high.. Don't need the elders leaving their jobs en'mass! The schedule seems to be working, though I really need to sit and add.. umm 500 citizens somehow.. Though I have already looked into using a API from character building AI sites to include. The Plan is to include that AND recycle characters after unfortunate events. With the 'bad feelings' function laid out.. Next projects will see a few bar fights, angry mates, spouses etc.. going around and causing mayhem!

Aug 28th 2024: A milestone of sorts! The basics for the Simulation hiring functions laid out! Now a citizen with "No Occupation" will "interview" 3 times on hiring days. The main goal of the function is to remove intervention once the characters are added. In the future the function will also update the citizens skill sets, so they too may progress. The 'retirement' trigger as a citizen hits 65 was also implemented!. It works by rando chance with the trigger set at 85. This emulates a basic decision process.. if the rando returns a value over 85 then they have retired. I may add a 2nd rando line with other factor triggers to drag out the process. So far the off work function is doing great at the afternoon activities handling.. Setting the little peoples off around town. Next.. A baseball game that can be played stand alone, over the net and tied into the sim!

Aug 25th 2024: Rec'vd a question.. "Why the MSP [Maryland Stat Police] there's a lot more cooler aorund"... Very simple :-D I am a "maralynn' boy! Born in the largest city, and lived in just about every part of it! And frankly.. there are times I really miss home. The south is great, the weather is great most of the time until hurricane season comes around! Once in a blue moon it dawns on me that I am no longer just a hop, skip and a jump from old friends too!

Aug 24th 2024: Just noticed today this is the longest code I've ever attempted! now at 1500+ lines! With the basics of friendships down, I am working on leasure activities! now that I have some laid down [rando selection of keywords and business name; I added a function to check the capacity of the business the citizenis about to enter. If the business is full.. then they look for another similiar service.. i.e. restaurant. Added some code to keep the rando 'patronizing' times for a type of business realistic. So a visit to the gas station is only between 6 minutes to about 20, a Movie 90-110 min. There will be other functions that will eventually override or extend the times. Next up is jobs that drive!

Aug 22th 2024: The little digital people's are out and about making friends and enemies at work! [for now]. The basic overall friendship mechanics laid, for the basics the initial friendships are made at work, which is quite common. The next iteration will include neighbors and friendships began at clubs, bars, and other places.

Aug 19th 2024: Already made one update to the random activities code. And now workin' on building/home capacities. This will add many more ops for hickups!

Aug 18th 2024: The basics for the citizes with off-work or not working citizens! It is just pretty basic.. the citizens are given a rando activity, the a match up to a busness or place is made and they are off! The next iteration will see the actvities divided by time slots... After all not all the little digital sitizens will need a bar at 6am! Also started the hiring function, as the name implies the business may trigger an event to start hiring X amonut of suitable citizens!

Aug 10th 2024: Hmm the Simulation must have been crawled by a web spider.. A few more questions about the simulation [answered the emails directly]. Another about the complexity of it all. A] Well first I should say that It is nearly to a state that I'd let others use it, but it essentially does 'nothing'. I have the sections done for triggering external devices and the weather data. But there is a unholly amount of coding to do to make the various functions affect another or the "citizens". I am now workin' on a random routine for 'off-work' citizens. In its 1st basic form all the 'citizens' use the same activities list. But, and excuse me for using "gender generalizations for activities' i.e. 'women do this', 'men do that' still need to be done. Now keep in mind that currently all the citizens have to be designed, so a huge amount don't have any details about them beyond birthdays, it was a few months after that I put together the code to import AI characters from various sites and generators. Even those though, range in details. Some users put in tons of details, and others are pretty scarce, but they have the basics. I reached out to a few sources to see if my data collection was on mark for the goal and I was given a few thumbs up. I am familiar with that stuff because many moons ago, I had to use forms to submit info on interactions with people. Don't ask, can't tell ya anyway lol. So I am clued in how the data can be aggregated to get a fairly accurate personality report. So the complicated part, should I decide to go that deep is, using machine learning to start structuring the citizens lives and activities. I talk about it below/earlier. Then there's the matter of relationships, how do I make the sim build peoples circles. I should note that I am trying to make it NOT USE a backend DB like mySQL.. I have it, I'd love to use it.. but it is also kinda easier in certain scenarios to be more efficient and make it use individual text data files. Its easier to access, edit and correct. As long as the code doesn't need to do recursives searches for files, it is nearly as fast as a db access hit. I am hoping to add in coding that will reach out to an ai character generator to make citizens as needed. I have several utility codes that help do bulk processing of citizens made at toolsaday.com, another that calcualtes the citizens zodiac sign. Next, I think I will make it access and use the names in the kodi media database to generate character names. The next complication is both how to build the citizens friend/associates circles and how to store it

Aug 07th 2024: Got an email about the CPD 'Carson Police Dept' shield, the question is essentially.. how many are there? Well there is probably 8. Keep in mind that after Hurricane Michael my xbox360 sync was out of whack and the network deleted everything for The Original Forza Horizon and Motorsports 1-4. When I do a particular [not all] car, you might say I 'make' a little backstory in my noodle for it. For the 57 Chevy their were 2 designs; the Patrol vsn and the "Bank Robbery vrs". The Bank Robbery version had bullet holes placed around the car and the story was posted with the design. Much like the real world, the shield changed as the era's changed and in some era's the 'old' was new again, but I always stayed pretty true to the "Black and White" patrol design. Now I did designs in horizon for "State of Decay" look-a-likes. The question went on to ask if I could still access the designs.. Nope! they are gone.. save for those that have them in their garages! I had several accounts and attempts to send the designs back to myself did not allow me to be able to edit them to rebuild the catalog. So as the Forz'a reached end of life and their servers shut down.. So did those designs. I have done some for Horizon 5 and It again was a quick rise to "Legend Painter", however after some squabbles with Turn 10 and MS over the bs 20 year ban in Horizon 3.. I have lost interest in content generation in game. I do plan on setting down in each game and selecting a few cars to do new designs but really I just carry over the legacy designs. Now onto the coding! To cope with the growing complexities I am trying out random generators as a means to incorporate the permanent codes for expansion while giving the process time to fully coalate in my brain. I've started to

July 23rd 2024: The complexity is starting to set in as some of the basics get buttoned up. Working on the weather data and it is a bit of a pain.. The 'daily' source data included the sunrise/set times.. however the hourly data does not.. Keep in mind I work on it almost all the time.. So I amended the hourly source data to include the sunrise/set time in the first hour of the day i.e. 00:00.. simple enough.. So i lay out the code and run it.. over and over, no matter how I 'peered' into the data and read the column.. not a gd thing would show or trigger the function. 3 hours of cursing and banging my head .. it dawned on me.. the function FIRST has to look into the hours only i.e. 05:00:00 of the 'key' column THEN it will look into the sunrise/set column for the precise time.. So as i was reading the file for sunrise/set it wouldnt find it because it was looking for '05:40' in the "00:00'' time row. The complexity of the future function is really starting to settle in.. weather effecting travel, adding in Air Travel, cross-country travel, which requires a "world map" and each "town/area" to have a nav server.. so everything is sort of going to using a "dail up" number for external travel.

July 20th 2024: Changing the weather data format to the hourly historical data, is a it of a challenge.. one would think that just changing the date time is a simple thing.. lordie so many other little codes need changed! Now that the simulation is well over @900 lines it can get blurry looking for something that needs changed.

July 17th 2024: The first sound modules were added! Most will be for environmental events, rain, snow, high winds etc. It certianly adds a bit off dimension to it all!. A knawing bug in the "concert maker'" external function! It is hanging when certain conditions exist.. mainly if there aren't enough lines [tracks] that contain the artist.. The particular ankle bite is that this is a new 'bug'.. it did not do it in earlier code, that code though did not do the concerts properly; every venue had the same artist "booked'' on the same day.. every available day.. poor little digital bands.. ran raged! Why check out the sim pages?? Well its kinda unfun to just sit and watch the console output, but the web pages allow the various results to be utilized in "neat" ways.. For instance, the movie theaters filter and find movies that are current-earlier than the sim date.. The movie theater business page will provide links to an IMDB search results for that title. The Concerts are actually 'm3u' playlists, but they only work locally. [I do plan on making an 'adaptor' of sorts allowing a user to dl the list and swap in their file locations]

July 13th 2024: Rec'vd a question; Do they really travel? Yes.. the 'citizens' do travel between locations.. everytime.. it was suggested to 'cache' a citizens travel for everyday recurring journeys, but that may have made future plans a little more difficult. Though for now the 'citizens' travel in system time or milliseconds [when manually entered they travel at sim speed]. At the time I had spent about 2 weeks on the navigation system, and I was eager to move on. When the citizen reaches the destination, the times are recorded and added to the depart time to get travel time. As each jouney runs in its own thread it is probably best to leave it like this. As the census grows and more citizens travel, significant resources could be hogged up by nav if say 300 people are in transit; currently at peak there may only be 3 to 7 traveling at the same exact time.. The "Concert Builder is coming along.. a few coding fauxpahs but it now goes through all the music in a library [in my case 15+K, searching the mp3 files actual tag year data. I will have to take some of the "Various Artist" compilations and tag the tunes with the individual release year.

July 06th 2024: Nearly done with the basic 'Illness" extension! When I was putting together the 'who done it' extension, I realized that in the sim life and death would have to occur. Death would come for some through accidents illness etc. Now making the characters is not hard, but the characters info just can't be erased, that would be a waste! So I decided that to both cycle life and death and preserve the effort in character making, that characters would indeed 'die', but their data would be transfered to a digital pergatory to be renamed and reborn, in a manner of speaking.
Now I get to start "aging" the citizens! As some future activites will only affect some age groups, the citizenry can't be static age's can they! So we'll have birthday parties too! {Not Really lo;, but 'they' can!}. With all these changes, the master excel workbook will now play a lesser role and need to be adjusted! no longer will all citizen data be kept in'it. It will transition as an importer and 'clean up' utility for citizens. There are tons of citizens that don't have much data. But with the web characte building pages just about solid there really isn't a 'static' environment any longer. Soon the sim will automatically import all new characters on its own, but that file can be tweaked in the excel book.

July 06th 2024: Rec'vd a question; Is the web site part of the sim? Answer: Not explicitly. Like other "backends" the simulation has the potential to generate tons of data etc, so it is upto the user/me to determine how to view and relate to it. For example, instead of the website, I could have build a Spreadsheet workbook to view all the "goings on" or just browse the folders and open files. The theater routine is in a 'done' state! it will select "new" movies for the late shows and old flicks for the matinees! for the web pages it will provide links to the imdb page. Adding some "filler" fun stuff,, sound effect triggers! these will be for environment or in response to something happening in the 'city'..

July 03rd 2024: The progress is getting better! started on the basics of a citizens non working day. As it is baby steps, the only days the 'citizens' have off are the days that their business employer is closed. Started a "small" function to power "movie theater" it will find 'recent' movies for the sim date and write them to the theater file. Right now thats pretty basic, but in the future, it will for modern theaters, change movie posters and marques. The next function is fairly complex; the business will take the citizens noted as their employees and build a schedule, based on the max amount of staff required for the shift. This is where I may intro machine learning into the code to act as each business' 'managers'. Then the following will be a 'production' function. This function will be the component that any business that ships and receives goods will use the most and it will drive the railroad activity. That will be the 'fun' part.. taking the functions from the excel workbook and transcoding into python.. yippie. I will be able to actually send data from excel via http into the module. then there is the new LDCC format, similiar to the standard DCC used for loco's and switch machines, LDCC allows switch machines, layout accessories and other things to be controlled via a program or handheld controller. So this module can really make the layout a 'living' thing! It's a damn shame I can't find a way to make the little N Scale people move under their own power!

July 01st 2024: What a day! while I am tightening the daily time adjustments down, the first call to an outside data source is being added in. The weather data initially was a tiny one line csv file for the excel workbook, which could be usable as is. However, with the sim running at X times normal time a download could occur a few times a day. The sim will now fetch 3 months worth of weather data. While I was on the 'reaching out' mission, I put together the code for the nodeMCU boards that will control objects in the real 'world' of the layout, the first real function is one that will turn the street lights on/off at sunrise/sunset. On the visual access side I updated some of the webpages that show data. So far the buesiness directory and citizens directory work, and the card pages are being fine tuned to show more data.

June 29th 2024: The routine is still 'testing".. The citizen complete a day and move on to the next. My next goal is giving them "freedom" of choice [ya know as an 80's baby, it is kinda wild]. They an wake up and decide, I wanna call off work and work on my car, I wanna cheat on my mate, goto work and beat up my boss... [much like us, learning as we grow from infants, so do the AI.. and it can be applied to my characters, each one will have a brain, stimuli and interests, desires. and like us.. it will have periods of brainless 'go with the flow' to 'Ohhh lookie lookie!'.. another rabbit hole!

June 26th 2024: The routine is 'testing" now.. So far the little digital peoples have very basic lives, they sleep, get up, get ready for work, go to work, work, and go home then sleep.. but it seems to work! I also have a 'illness module' that is to be added once the sim is working. The next item to do is do a "hiring' routine, for the business peoples. I really just want to add the characters and the sim takes care of everything else.

June 10th 2024: Character submissions will now generate a matching json file! This file can be downloaded, and when you open the perchance ai page, select "upload a chat", select the json downloaded and wolaha! A milestone! FINALLY got the distance measurements right and getting proper distances and travel times! What wonkie fiddidiling! I am hoping to get my lil digit subjects back home from work soon! I inadvertently stumbled down a NEW RABBITHOLE! Ekkks.. Carson has several trucking co. and rail connections! and its kinda pointless to just send them into the digital neatherlands aimlessly! I have always planed to make the sim scaleable.. i.e. citys towns etc can be added over a global map.. This would allow someone to set up their own environment, their navigation server would then auto connect to the 'universe' and people and goods can travel around the "world". However for the purposes of this sim being built.. it is meant to activate the processes that keep industries moving.. the making and shipping of goods and services.

May 30th 2024: Another milestone in the Simulation dev! Now the Citizens individual page off of the Citizens Directory page will display what the current activity is. The Navigation Server was run for the first time on the 28th, receiving data from the sim! On the 30th after some fine tuning... It is processing and moving citizens aroud the map cell by cell! This is the 'first' travel of the day for the citizens, and I have alot more coding to do for other travels, etc. Now I have to concentrate on the processing of citizens 'quitting time' routines. In this situation, the same methods are being applied. XX amount of citizens will leave early, XX on time, XX will leave after, and X will work more than an hour or longer over... So you may ask.. is it really necc to have your little digital people traveling over the map? Nope! it is not at all necc, really..now. But in the future, there will be a map overlay and perhaps markers of each citizen moving around the map. If I had some resources of big tech, I would even go so far as to say I would love to build it out into a fully fledged 3d environment, with real links to real services in the users area.. For instance, if user went into the town pizza joint and talked to the counter person to order, it would place an order at a local store.

May 21st 2024: Some what of a milestone in the Simulation dev. It is now matching up the citizens to their business/employers and by the end of the day, the "wake_up" function should be done. This is a little difficult, it takes variables and determines when a citizen wakes up, now the other "fun" part of this is that it also allows the code to mess with the numbers so 'X' amount of citizens will be a lil late, really late.

May 12th 2024: Got to love trolls! Why someone would email me and raze about the WoT rank and 47% win rate.. So let me kinda clear up the picture. There are a few players on the account, my personal win rate is 66% in just the battles I have done. The ranking sites don't know that, don't say "hey heres a way you can split it up".. I spent alot of time making our little tanking tracking system. It is at its root, a "Pay-to-Play" game, though sometime in the recent past one does not even have to pay for xbox live to play. Anyway, back to the topic.. while the US is not up to snuff in legally watching this gaming type, many countries in Europe have. The games pass themselves off as being fair, accessable etc but the truth is in the type.. Pay-for-Play, and that does not mean you'll win! Now, you're a fool if you think big tech does not employ physicology in business models. For instance, I have a practice that if a tank looses, I stop and switch up to another tank, especially those tanks that already are under 50% ratio. So the other night I really just wanted to play the Merkava, and it lost. I was still above 50% but just! So I took it out, and the game was uneven and obvious about it..we lost... Again. this time thinking 'This one will be a win!. Hmm looked at the matchup and it was obvious we were going to be pounded.. Shots bounced on tanks I easily pen any other time, I took every hit.. They win big we lost big.. again and again I took it out. Now it is around 15 rounds from 50%, luckily the rounds are not so high that I can't bring it around. But believe me when I say, once you know the game, the tanks etc you will be able to see when your gunna get your ass handed to you. Now at one time WG said the algorythm was just meant to encourage players to play better, which in all reality is a valid 'statement', nuclear power is beneficial, but we all know its the other half of the reality, kinda thing.

May 08th 2024: I DID IT!! after 2 weeks of tediousness I finally got the code dialed in and a little imaginary 'car' will traverse the fictional Carson City sticking to the denoted routes! Now for those that don't code or even realize it, code can be alot like 'dna' and yea its been out there.. I finally got Mine working, and its pretty snappy too! I had to re-think the objective several times and come at it that way, and then the last effort was the 'hum dinger'!

Apr 09th 2024: I started compiling some of the 'citizens' into interactive people! So far only a few... Keep in mind since I am not into a bunch of censoring or placing my opinions on others.. The chat platform is NSFW capable.. meaning.. the chat bots can reply using swear words or in the case ya try and get frisky.. they can, ummm, get real with it.. But if ya just wanna chat a bot up.. it can be fun, especially as I work in fictional characters from other "universes" into my little world!. Also some bots are very capable in real information! stop by the "Family Video Store" and talk to Gale Baylor! great help in finding movies, or Linda Terry of The Library! There are some mob boys, mob bosses, a detective and a lot more to come!

Apr 08th 2024: I can not see why people are afraid of AI. I have been trying to put together a program to do simple things.. and It takes forever, and it bumbles around so bad that some simple functions take a day to get it going in the right direction.

Mar 31st 2024: The effort to lay down some new projects with the usual "tally-ho get right into it", really messed up my project to do list.. It started out pretty good, however it became apparent that I did need to do some planing and infra-structure prior ro getting into the core of the project. I also need to make some time for the trains! all these diversions have taken over!

Mar 08th 2024: I've kicked off some of the more interactive features I want to try for the layout. It should be fun, maybe the novelty will be cool enough to keep it live.

Mar 17th 2024: One of the worst parts of coding, especially for an arm-chair coder, is getting an idea, then hunting for an answer, that usually meant a tedious visit to verbal slef-proclaimed "gods" of whatever code platform simply telling user to "goto" school, thses guys spend their days doing this stuff.. So it can get laborious dealing with thse turds.. Say hello to AI! you can get all the help needed with out all the bull you have to deal with from say, "stackoverflow.com". It is SO nice just to type in what your idea is and he/she.AI will help or even write it our for ya!

Jan 16th 2024: I've gotten a few emails from Xbox 360 / One gamers about the "Carson City Police" designs; I don't think the page is still up, but yes I am that dude that makes those designs. If ya played in Horizon 1 and needed/wanted a police paint job for one of the many cars, chances are you ended up with one of my creations of "Carson City Police". I also did real world recreations of street racers, old 60's stock cars, a CPD NASCAR design, a popular General Lee [360/One] and some other mild drift designs, The designs are still in the current Horizon 2-4-5, but I haven't done designs for cars not in the previous games, I do plan on getting back to it shortly. I would also release occasional special edition designs of the police cars, with most having a back story, like the 'Peter Gunn Detective Agency Dodge Challenger" the 2 police cars from "State of Decay" game, a 1957 Bel-Air CPD car that was on 'display with bullet holes from the first and only bandit type bank robbery'. Sadly those games have no playground games or design sharing any longer [though I did once find player hosted games still up.. and a few on the original Motorsport!] and because the MS xbox 360 has some game sync kinks, after hurricane Michael, a sync error left all the 360 designs gone. You can look for Wills944 gamer tag in the designs tab to find what's there. So I plan on merging some aspects of my fav game experiences with my train and modeling hobby. stay tuned! To finish up, yes Horizon 3 is not listed, I had a bit of a tiff with a Forza mod, I posted a MD Flag and a "Peace" gesture and was banned from the on-line parts of game for quite a while. [I will probably be dead by the time it is over.. ] So if ya want the designs available in H3, goto MS/Forza

Jan 06th 2024: Came across a real throw back to growing up! When I was about 11 I think, I came across "Star Fleet Technical Manual", it was based on the TOS and it fueled quite a few of my early imagination. I lost it some time ago, in Havre de Grace I think. On saturday while looking over some Trek 3d models I came across a link, so I followed it.. and low and behold it is a digitized version of that very same book! Ohhh the memories! The main page is Cygnus-X1.net

Dec 16th 2023: Its been back to normal for the most part, but Thanksgiving was kind of messed up. We have since Harah was the only pooch in the house, fed T-Day dinner to the pooches along with everyone else. As each came along the tradition continued, T-Day 2022 was a bit drawn out, lets face it, even with the small stature of our dogs it is still a chore filling their bowls up, then the pups too! but we did it.. This year we kinda over-looked it. It wasn't until we were done that it dawned on us.. So the next day the pups n adult dogs got their T-day food! Christmas is the same routine, and they always get some type of fun stuff for dogs as their stockin' stuffers. Once the holidays are over it will be time to look for a job that fits, in addition to getting more things ready for the 3d print store!

Sept 06th 2023: It is still pretty difficult at times especially when the gaze falls over where our lil buddy would be as life happened around her. I will still tear up a little when a fond memory rolls to the front of my thoughts. We have placed her close to the house in the back yard and plan on planting a rose bush atop her grave. If I had anything to trade that would turn back time to the day she came to us.. I would gladly give it up. Harah had been sleeping in the roomies room for a long time, while the pups, Saphie and Spencer have called my room their 'den' for a year now. It has been a little harder for him because the nightly "Ok lets goto bed" for them was gone.. She would nap with us on occassion and snuggle up to me, but it only happened every few weeks. In that light though I still have quite a few other lil furry buddies to love all over and that in itself keeps the dreary clouds away. I still catch Spencer on occassion going to the gate of the hall and watching for her. Sometimes I get the feeling he is upset with me, and I would suppose it was the fact that I wrapped her up and carried her outside, never to come in the house again. I raised my voice as the pups were mis-behaving, Spencer ran into the roomies room and hid under the bed! Something never done before. Saphie has since her first visit, wee'd over were ever Harah had, then Spencer would mark over them, they seemed a bit lost for a few days. But all is almost back to a normal rhythm. Luckily the 'pups' keep the spirits up and it really has been beneficial to have that love to keep giving.

Aug 26th 2023: 01:32am: It has been a very hard few weeks. On the 10th, Our vet confirmed what we had hoped was not happening, my lil buddy was nearing the end of her time with us. Min-Pins have a genetic disposition to growths and cysts, both of which she had in addition to 'free fluid'. We bought food to make it easier and she seemed to be doing better, on and off, but she was still loosing weight. The evening of the 25th was heartbreaking as it wore on. I put her on the floor to go outside, when I turned around to go out, She was under the table with her rear on the floor, not enough energy to lift herself up. Her breathing became very labored. We sat with her. I had to set up the CareCredit account so the roomie took the seat beside her. A few minutes later He cried out that she left.. I stepped over to find my little precious was indeed departed. Her little eyes open but lifeless, I tried so hard to keep her limpness from upsetting anyone, but try as a did as I picked her up her little head... well It just broke my heart that much more.. My lil gurl is forever gone.. The house just isn't the same but it is getting a little better.. Hug Your Dogs!

Aug 09th 2023: It really gets to me; those people that either don't have dogs, or their dogs are just household ornaments.. What does the physical size and shape of another living breating creature have to do with the amount of love we give to them? We bring them into our homes, for what..to just lay around and wait for us to want to play with them..? I guess maybe I'm a lil different, I feel if we bring them into our lives, we take on a quiet promise to love and protect them from the dangers of the world. That moment when my pooch looks at me with that "I trust You" is the smallest happiness one could experience.. I love my pooches.. for all their good, bad and strange behaviors!

Aug 05th 2023: I will be falling behind with designs and other N Scale projects. At 15 years along and our eldest dog has just got a bug and eating very randomly, We have to get her to the vet to see what may be going on

July 23rd 2023: Recieved an email: What software do I use for Office applications.. I have 2; for normal stuff I use OpenOffice/Libre Office.. I used even when the uni was trying to dictate that I use Microsoft Office new subscription based office [free for use in school, but it's a tactic to get people used to it and more likely to keep it]. Open Office is free and has tons of ancillary add ons, templates and plug ins. It can also open up and write all the MS Office file formats. What is nice is, its old school version.. if you dl version 2.. you have version 2 until you decide to upgrade. Now I do have a previous version of MS Office, I use just for Excel. The model rail workbook has many functions that Open/Libre Office does not have. I use Sketchup 8 for design, though I also have Blender, Open/FreeCAD and some others..... 200 a year to draw! they're completely bonkers! The subscription model these software companies have began using is a scam.. Microsoft kicked it off when they declared Windows would never be "finished" along with the crooked forced updates they duped people into performing [A pop up would appear to upgrade, a user would select cancel and it would update anyway; they were sued but not before crashing millions of PC's and laptops]. I do not upgrade or use any subscription based software.. Another way to look at it.. every year you pay the full price of the software again....regardless of/if any updates were applied. The place I use to find old-previous versions of software is OLDVERSION. This will lead to the previous version of SketchUp, upto Vsn 8.
Having mentioned the open source office programs, below links are provided for your review.
Open Office
Libre Office
FreeCAD
Libre Office
The preceeding links-programs are developed and maintained by a professional community. Supporting the expansion of free full featured software. Personally I used OpenOffice while in uni for everything! I have both versions installed at home, in case a visitor is more comfortable with either or. There are no differences in file types that either can handle.

July 20th 2023: Putting the final touches on the Theater, so I took a few minutes to start a reproduction of the Life-Like KCF joint.. It surprised me just how fast it 'went up'. Once I get the new nFEP filmon the printer, these should be printed and up for auction.

July 16th 2023: The Amazon ordeal continued, though it was with my Moms account. She had major difficulties in making her payment after we dropped it. We do have her as part of the Amazon Household. Which means payments are taken from the primary account, if, as in our case it is not available, draws from the other accounts. She had a new card issued and has been making payments with it, though when it came time to pay the fee, it would not work. The whole fiasco smells of a major hack that messed up major html. It took her 4 days to get that sorted.
Recieved a question about the Forza Horizon Games.. if I was the maker of the Carson PD police car designs.. Yeap. I haven't done any true updates to the design since Horizon 3. I love Horizon 3 and was pumping out designs and graphics like a mad man. There was also some type of grudge from one of the moderators of Turn 10/Playground Games. I posted a Maryland Flag and a popular Peace hand gesture [btw do a search and see that it is quite common!] I logged in to find I had been banned for 20 years! Repeated attempts at contact was futile. Needless to say, my gusto of doing any more content took a hit. Not too mention the failure of 2 consoles, showing the same built in faults to ramp up the sales and repair of console returns lead to a long absense from the games. Besides there are things in the real world that need tended too. I have recently been loaned a console and posted some more designs from H4 in H5. H5 is my last purchase of a microsoft product and forza motorsport...

July 5th 2023: Goodbye Amazon Prime! For about 2 years, in one scenario or another told Amzon CS I was really tired of the associated bull, the long times chatting with "associates" to deal with a problem, the junk products, shrink, and just plain not getting what is ordered.. Last month we had a return of $28.21, all went well, USPS showed that it was delivered. For those that don't know the usps system is intergrated into amazon' pos system, that's how they can issue your refund when the shipping shows usps has possession of a return.. About 3 weeks after the return was finished and marked as delivered, amazon attempted to take the money again.. without notification or permission. This also is a tactic many corporations, Microsoft included uses; the m.o.d. is just a play on chances, a large part of the target pool will not see or pay any attention to the transaction, considering it normal. Microsoft will hit an accound 2x for their gold account, when found out they respond that they do not process transactions on a schedule. [However check your register..] So Amazon says the associate in the receiving dept did not scan it in so the payment was taken again, another CS stated a different reason and the 3rd and 4th... again different reasons. Now let me tell You, after such an egregious abuse of my bank/card account access, there was not much Amazon could do to restore my trust.. a trust I've had for nearly 15 years.. All other problems, 3rd party seller problems, etc I never worried about scammy bs from Amazon. I promptly removed all of our credit and debit cards, leaving only our Loadable cards that we fill only when buying, a routine I started because of paypal and ebay. It came time to pay for the prime, and low and behold it was a ordeal.. As I told the CS rep, I'm sure the difficulty is by design. She said we can have this fixed in 24-48hrs; to which I replied, my cards will be gone this evening so that is as long as I am willing to wait.. I have to add, when we caught Amazon stealing money, they didn't just do a refund.. OOO No I had to log in 3 days later and go through the process again! So a big F.O. to Amazon!! Now I am with Walmart and honestly wishing I had mde the switch earlier! The Paramount+ video access alone is worth it, having much better content than Amazon!

July 2nd 2023: I have to say, delving back into design has reminded me that it takes alot to bring things to the shelf. The Theater reproduction model project has really expanded. In the previous 2d design effort, which is kinda old school and familiar

June 24th 2023: Working on the repro 1950's-1980''s Bachmann Movie Theatre. It is going to be a few more days 'till it is complete. I would like to have the structure ready for lighting, interior and swapping out movie posters. I'm thinking of using conductive fluid to run wiring through the structure.. [goto Trains Page]

June 5th 2023: As mentioned in the trains page, I had bought and sent back a Voxlab 3D printer in May; it was a horrible experience. it just would not print anything! So after a few days trying various remedies, I sent it back and got another brand, a Creality unit; and it has worked from the start! I haven't expected the results I get because its labeled as a 2k [versus 4 or 8k resolution] but it has been fantastic. The build plate is much smaller than the Voxlab, but I work in mini mini items so it is not such a big deal. I printed out an R2D2 modle at about 3/8 inch tall; close inspection does reveal the details.. I have been printing quite a bit.. cars, the Millenium Falcon, Trucks, People, motorcycles and even a grandfather clock..

March 26th 2023: I've been thinking about a ton of things and among them was adding a bit of cyber-life to the layout/mini-world. It is not a new concept, in some online games/mmo games real world businesses have virtual store front, there could be a Pizza Hut, a Auto Parts store..just about anything could have a virtual presense. So why not have a few fun little distractions directly mirroring the "businesses" on the layout. The 'Arcade" will have sevral html based games, the restaurant might have a daily menu [to provide menu idea's to vistors powered by another site, for example], the hobby store would link to online retailers etc, the town square/park could have chess/checker tables for casual hangouts over coffee with another member, the possibilites are kinda neat. Images of the actual layout area could be super-imposed with real/virtual play surfaces or just links embedded in a graphic..

March 21th 2023: The first cut of the N Scale Stargate. I will have to make some adjustments to the cut sequence and perhaps reverse the plan so that blank areas are burned away. It will however make a neat 'buried' Stargate being discovered somewhere! After the first complete model was cut, some areas had been overlooked, basically telling the cutter to do multiple lines, this happens when the image is built in one program and imorted into the program to make the final cut file.

Update We've had to put Saphie on a colar/leash several times, using just a store bought click type with a cable tie out, She's not once tried to eat through it. There has been 2 occassions where she has jumped up on the lawn tractor, wrapping her lead around the shift lever..certainly a situation a dog with no patience or a desire to run would chew through the lead.. Nope.... she just barks until she is rescued.... Now there are a few bad spots in the fence and Miss Thing has jumped to run the neighborhood. But, with in 20 minutes she is back sitting at the back door.. Unlike Spencer or Harah, there is a certain difference with Saf.. kinda like a house mate thing.. While we do take precautions and steps to 'keep' her in, when she does get out, there is a lil voice in my head that whispers.. She might be ready to go.... But so far she comes back!

Febuary 20th 2023: The N scale Convienence Store "old 7-11" and the Corner Movie Theatre designs are just about DONE! The Theatre is based on the Bachmann HO Plasticville model. and the Convienence Store based on a Life-Like model.

March 2022: The Absolute best gadget I have ever put together!.. the laundry chemicals dispenser. 4 parasitic pumps handle detergent, softner, a heavy duty cleaner booster and bleach. It can also also be activated by voice via Alexa! I priced otc units that had no bells and whistles.. 300 and up and they didn't have multi-chemical capacity.. The only concession I made in parts was pumps with less gpm, but I find it actually is best, users aren't prone to standing there to hit the button to add more fluid.. I learned a few things.. Primarily, We wasted so much detergent because of the large cups! Like many we didn't read the recommended amount, especially for HE machines. A bottle of detergent now lasts nearly 6 months [2 person household]! I do need to get a better case for the dispenser, it has just worked so well that it really didn't make it to be a priority.

Below: Dispenser

Jan 26 2022. We have a new roomie; sort of. the 'Lil Lady' Husky has been spending her nights on our back patio high chair! A few time over the months she has ran inside during the day and been curious, we've let her hang out with Spncer n play n nap.. But lately eithewr she's here all day/night or rus the street and returns to the patio. Well tonight she came to the patio, very 'off'; then we saw the hole on her back! Horrible at about an inch in diameter, she looked up at her perch on the lawn chair and looked at me.. just melted my heart! So I gave her a wee hug and opened up the patio door... she went right in and laid under a side table in the dining room. I figure her trust is a bit shaken and she just wants to recoup as she might out on the streets, in a tight small little hide-away. So I got her a blanket to lay on, Upon returning Spencer was laying with her, tending to her. She looked at me from her curled up spot and just looked so dejected. A little while later she made her way over to me on the sofa, sat and put her paw on my knee! I gave a her a wee hug and she wagged that tail a little and went back to her little alcove.. I think she's here to stay....

Below: The Visitor!

Sept 25 2021: We have been working around the new place since Aug when we met the new Neighbor... a red hair female Husky Mix.. She loves watching us do our thing around the property and has really taken a shining to Spencer, our 6yo Pom-Dashhund mix male. She had this horrible "collar" on, but there maybe things going on that we don't know about, but she comes and goes.. At times she is gone for a week or 2, then one day she'll come runnin' around the corner jumping, kickin and howling happily. She's dealt with something, even during her excitment when she returns, she is a bit skittish when reached for.. breaks my heart thinking that someone/anyone mistreated such a sweetheart. Given observations, I tend to think she may be a hurricane stray; her parents directly impacted or left homeless after the storm, someone has within the last 5 or six months has attempted to keep her. The effort put into the brutish colar [wide cloth belt, wrapped with a wire and 'tied' together with copper twists] with a 2-3' cable dragging behind her is overkill for the K9 I see..

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