rswfire came home with a permanent plate. The Jeep Wrangler was registered — finally, and only just in time, because Carvana had sent the paperwork two days before the temporary plate was set to expire. The margin had been that thin. He had driven the Jeep to the Sheriff's Department and let them inspect it, and now the thing was legal, plated, permanent, done. He was still carrying the momentum of that errand when he turned on the camera inside the house he is preparing to empty.
What he learned at the Sheriff's Department extended past the Jeep. The RV would need the same inspection, plus one additional step: the fire marshal. Someone would come look it over and confirm it was safe. He said he thought that was awesome. He said you can't trust anyone in the RV industry, and so having a fire marshal go over it — that made him happy. The inspection was not something to be endured on the way to the road. It was something he wanted, a second set of eyes standing in for an industry that had not earned his trust.
The dates were already stacking. The Jeep goes in on the 28th to have the towing gear installed, a couple of days out. In the meantime there was the house — getting it organized enough that people could come in, look at his things, and hopefully buy them and take them out of here. That was the shape of the work: one structure being dismantled item by item, another being brought into compliance, both moving at once.
The night before, he had been researching. He had found a couple on YouTube with a really cool channel, and in one of their videos they recommended a microphone — something he thought would probably be good for him, because he gets soft spoken sometimes and he knows you can't hear him. He was getting one. He had found another channel too, a guy named Bob, last name gone, popular in the community, whose videos he watched before going to sleep. Bob had recommendations about staying safe in different climates. rswfire was putting a list together from that.
Then the scope surfaced, stated plainly: it's so much, it gets overwhelming. He did not resolve it. He answered it with a method — you just have to take it one step at a time — and then he applied the method to the day he had actually just lived. Registering the vehicle was one less thing to worry about now. One step closer.
He said have a good day, and that was the update.