Off-grid post 8-1-20

Although it may not appear to be the case, it is quite busy around here.

To recap, all the mentions of the Xbox is to acquire some skills that I need in order to make the off-grid project more feasible. It may seem a stretch to say a video game can enable this, but there are some impressive aspects of the two games that I've been playing. What makes it impressive is how many machines that you can practice with. These are representations of real machines. 

How well that translates to real-world scenarios remains to be seen.

The construction simulator game also puts you into "jobs" that test your skills. Right now, I am fooling around the backhoe/front loader and the bobcat. Each of these earthmovers could come in real handy out there. It's a struggle to make a "job" work. The skills need more practice, I see.

The latest off-grid idea is to make a stock tank. The bobcat was suggested as a way to do that. If I can capture some rainwater coming off "Blueberry Hill", and get the stock tank to accept some of it, I could have all the water I could possibly use. That would be a nice payoff.

That may be a long-term strategy right now. At the moment, I think I will employ the KISS principle---Keep it Simple, Stupid....

As for the moment, though, I will go "balls to the wall" with these games. If I am right, it will enable me to do some interesting things going forward... I have to get out there first, though. These games are just games.

That's all for now.

Consim take two

Again?    Yup.   Gonna keep doing it for a while.

Construction Simulator video

Did you expect this one?

If so, maybe you should go to the head of the class.  Not.

Scooter Libby template

Yours truly called this thing way back when Mueller was appointed. This thing was just like the ScooterLibby scenario in the Bush 43 era. Libby was accused of a process crime in a matter that was not controversial, as the leaker was known, but still ended up with a Special Counsel to investigate.

In other words, there was no case.

Bongino gives himself a pat on the back for mentioning that they all want to forget about it now that it has failed and is being exposed as the fraud it was. Bongino says it is like "move on" in the Clinton years. Sure. Nothing wrong with taking credit for being right. I'm doing it here, too.

The problem is that this thing should have been shit-canned on Day One of the Mueller "investigation", whose sole existence was to find a process crime against the Trump administration, if not Trump himself.

And that is exactly what happened. I called it.

What we need to do is to get out in front of these things. That is why Sessions was such a disaster as Attorney General. Without his recusal, and the Deputy AG, Rosenstein, this Mueller fraud could have never gotten started.

So what is there to be happy about? Valerie Jarret is now saying---"Let's move on". Yeah. Let's move on to the next fraud----COVID-19 and riots that aren't.

You know, the GOP really could do a lot better.

Truck Driver Sim Update ( updated)

It is now a game more than what it was to be initially. It gets a bit boring to just practice all the time.

Since I began playing the game in earnest, I've been going through it like crap through a goose. This too is becoming boring.

Time for a new game, I'd say. I've been looking at a construction simulator. If I can't build it for real, I can dream, can't I?

What the hell?

Dream is the word. I got the game, installed it, and found it bewildering.

I was about to give up on it, when I figured out something new, so I kept at it.

Maybe I can learn something useful from this game, but it isn't looking good at the moment.

Ah ha! Tutorials! These should have been mentioned right off at the top. Well, at least it has some.