Giving Lease Notice and Outfitting the RV

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[0:00] hey everyone so I want to be super

[0:03] honest with you and tell you that I'm

[0:05] pretty scared right now I just gave my

[0:08] notice to leave here um my you know

[0:10] breaking my lease as of April 30th it's

[0:14] in my lease agreement that I can do that

[0:15] there's just some requirements basically

[0:17] you pay a lot of money to do it a month

[0:19] from

[0:20] now I have to be ready making a lot of

[0:23] progress

[0:24] in Hells are the cats I'm making a lot

[0:26] of progress in the RV right now that's

[0:30] going pretty well we made a lot of

[0:31] progress in the house too my mom just

[0:34] left she's on her way up to Michigan to

[0:36] visit with family so it's just me and

[0:39] the cats who are just having a ball over

[0:42] there um I have had moments where it's

[0:45] just so scary um a lot of the time I'm

[0:48] just happy and excited

[0:50] and but there're just these moments of

[0:52] sheer Terror I know that it'll go away

[0:55] once I'm out there and doing this for a

[0:57] while but you know that that period

[1:00] before you you've done it even though

[1:03] you know you want to even though you

[1:04] know it's going to be good for you it's

[1:06] just it's so scary it can be so scary I

[1:10] have a bunch of um Random clips that I'm

[1:13] going to share with you just from the

[1:15] past couple of days so that I can get

[1:16] that stuff posted and I think the next

[1:19] time you hear from me will be when I've

[1:21] made a lot more progress and I can kind

[1:22] of take you a little bit of the tour

[1:24] tour of the RV there's a lot because I

[1:27] mean I even getting sensors for

[1:28] underneath of the

[1:31] tanks uh because my water's overflowing

[1:35] you'll see that in a video and I figured

[1:37] out what it is it was Oliver when that

[1:39] first night we were in in there and he

[1:41] had the water running full blast just

[1:42] filled the tank up really fast and the

[1:44] sensor is not working right I installed

[1:46] a lock this morning started

[1:48] to um and it was hard to get the old

[1:51] lock off cuz I don't know anything about

[1:53] this stuff but chat GPT helped me every

[1:55] step of the way and I did it it was

[1:56] awesome but the RV lock I got was the

[1:59] wrong side I have another one coming

[2:01] tomorrow in the morning and I'll put

[2:03] that on there just there's a lot

[2:05] happening and I'm look forward to

[2:07] sharing it with you but I just the whole

[2:09] reason I started this channel was so

[2:11] that I

[2:12] could tell you kind of you know what my

[2:15] experience is like going from making the

[2:18] decision to getting on the road and then

[2:20] we'll start the next chapter good

[2:22] morning everyone it's all at 52 degrees

[2:25] in here this morning in the camper

[2:28] pretty cold just came out here for a

[2:30] minute uh it's Monday morning it's about

[2:33] maybe 10 11: in the morning now my mom

[2:37] and I are going to go to Walmart today

[2:38] and pick up some things and do a little

[2:41] bit more insulating in here I'm going to

[2:44] look at some carpets at

[2:46] Lowe's um just more organizing in here

[2:48] and getting more of my stuff in here so

[2:50] that's basically what we have planned

[2:51] for today and I'll just share some

[2:53] updates with you after this so before I

[2:55] go back in the house this thing was

[2:58] really cool I finally got to use use it

[3:00] I feel like it heats the camper really

[3:03] well um you know you don't need to leave

[3:05] it on for very long I'm starting to

[3:07] retain heat in here been you know

[3:09] monitoring it when it's on it's not on

[3:11] now of

[3:12] course um there some other things I've

[3:15] done so I added a shelf over here for my

[3:17] bed

[3:18] area I thought that was pretty nice got

[3:21] this chair so that I could reach up here

[3:23] to my desk um because of you know the

[3:26] slide there you just need to be up

[3:27] higher it's pretty comfortable I like it

[3:32] um I forgot to tell you I hurt my side

[3:35] really bad all day yesterday it was

[3:38] hurting I almost thought I had a

[3:40] pentis I woke up this morning it's still

[3:43] hurting and I realized why it's removing

[3:46] the battery in here the blue ID solar

[3:49] battery it's like 80 lb I must have

[3:51] strained something so be careful with

[3:54] those might as well show you guys this

[3:57] this actually yesterday when I was

[3:59] driving nobody tated me and I swear to

[4:01] God it's cuz of those stickers I

[4:03] couldn't believe it I got myself a

[4:05] little baby Yoda sticker right here in

[4:08] the center you can't see it but that's

[4:10] where my dash cam is in the back and

[4:12] that thing is really cool because when

[4:14] I'm driving my dash cam up in the front

[4:16] I can just have it on that screen

[4:18] showing this so I can be seeing the

[4:20] front with my eyes and the back with the

[4:22] camera it's really

[4:24] nice this is my front door I shouldn't

[4:27] call him baby Yoda he has a name it's

[4:28] grou

[4:30] there's a couple of things I forgot to

[4:32] mention about the heater that I got so I

[4:34] picked that one it's a little bit bigger

[4:36] than I thought I would need because that

[4:38] one you can connect to an external

[4:40] propane source so that I don't have to

[4:42] use little one pound ones in there all

[4:44] the time think if I could get like a

[4:47] bigger tank and just keep that in my

[4:48] jeep that might be really helpful and

[4:51] the other thing is I was losing about 1°

[4:55] when I turn it off about 1 degree of

[4:56] temperature every 15 minutes so if I

[4:59] just continue insulating I think I can

[5:01] get that number up and then that will be

[5:03] like the perfect heater for me in

[5:06] there I just confirmed it it's 80 lbs my

[5:10] side is killing

[5:12] me hi everyone it's little it's like

[5:16] 3:00 in the morning right now I woke up

[5:19] a little bit past 2 I had a real bad

[5:21] dream it woke me up but just say it's

[5:24] about my old life uh and then I heard

[5:27] thunder outside and I thought I better

[5:29] check on the camper make sure that um

[5:31] you know all my vents are

[5:33] closed they were been doing a very good

[5:36] job in here figured I'd just get up and

[5:39] do some work in here you know make you

[5:42] so all the time you

[5:44] can we're looking forward to my upcoming

[5:47] Adventure so just going to get some

[5:49] stuff done around here and hopefully I

[5:51] can show it to you

[5:54] after so I am really happy with this

[5:57] these bags here this is not what I plan

[6:01] to use them for I've been having trouble

[6:04] finding something that fit behind this

[6:06] door cuz it's a pretty small width don't

[6:09] know if you know it's actually it's

[6:10] quite small nothing fit here and I just

[6:14] thought let's try it and see worked

[6:16] great it's so nice I I had to order more

[6:19] cuz I didn't plan to put them here but

[6:21] I'll be able to put them behind this

[6:22] door

[6:24] too they work perfectly they don't get

[6:26] in the

[6:27] way you know fit perfect each one can

[6:31] hold 3 lb so each pouch gets 9 lb except

[6:35] the bottom two because well these two

[6:38] here so this one and this one share the

[6:41] 9 lbs cuz you know it's a load balancing

[6:44] system but I just need to tape these

[6:46] sides

[6:47] and man that is great those are going to

[6:49] be so

[6:52] useful this has been working out pretty

[6:55] great on a low setting it is getting a

[6:57] little help from the ceramic heater

[6:59] don't know how much that thing doesn't

[7:01] really seem to help much man that thing

[7:03] is great I mean we got it up to 67.5 in

[7:07] here it's pretty steady I've got two of

[7:10] these open for ventilation it's raining

[7:12] outside I'm not sure about the

[7:14] temperature outside but I'm loving this

[7:17] thing I really hope I can carpet the

[7:19] floor there's not a lot to carpet

[7:21] shouldn't be a hard

[7:23] job and I think it will really help

[7:25] ventilate in here and keep the heat in

[7:27] here so I don't have to keep this thing

[7:29] running

[7:30] cuz I don't know what I'll do you know

[7:31] when sleeping I'll have to turn it off

[7:33] and you know the cats might be awake and

[7:36] you know I want it to be comfortable for

[7:38] them

[7:40] too all right a couple more updates

[7:43] really happy with the progress in here

[7:45] so now I've got this over

[7:49] here uh that can hold up to 40 lbs so I

[7:53] don't really feel like it needs any more

[7:54] hooks than that 40 lb and then over here

[7:58] this can hold

[8:00] old um these are the largest ones but

[8:02] there's only two so I think it's 30 lb

[8:04] and you know it's just place for my

[8:06] coats I know I have too many those real

[8:09] hard to I love all three of my coats so

[8:12] couldn't give those up

[8:14] yet now I have an update for the

[8:16] bathroom got two of these they use four

[8:21] large utility Hooks and that's 40 lb so

[8:24] each one can hold 40 lb I'll do

[8:28] something up here too just haven't

[8:29] decided what yeah maybe pictures I need

[8:32] some pictures not all

[8:34] storage and then I can put two more over

[8:39] here forgot to show you these extra

[8:42] baskets that just hang off of my rack

[8:45] here these are called packet Pals you

[8:47] get them at Lowe's this was actually my

[8:50] mom's idea she put a couple on there and

[8:53] I like it I think you know it just gives

[8:54] you a little bit more

[8:56] storage and everything you can do to get

[8:59] storage and a camper of this size is

[9:01] definitely

[9:04] helpful I really love these Command

[9:07] hooks and these other

[9:09] command things that they have they're

[9:12] just so awesome they they really do work

[9:16] you know they they hold weight you

[9:18] really can take them off without hurting

[9:20] anything I've had to do it a few times

[9:22] now when I've made mistakes in order to

[9:24] fix them and the he heat of it comes off

[9:27] and there's doesn't hurt the wall at all

[9:30] and I've had it on multiple surfaces now

[9:33] the only thing I wish were different is

[9:35] that you could get them in different

[9:36] colors I just wish they were Brown so

[9:38] they match my camper

[9:40] better it's 700 a.m. been up all night

[9:44] pretty much well I got up at 2: up like

[9:47] 2 or 3 hours and then I got up and came

[9:49] out here did all kinds of stuff made my

[9:52] bed just now it's nice I think I found a

[9:55] pretty efficient way to do it too you

[9:57] know it's a little bit hard to do in RV

[10:00] but oh um that's Bastian and that's

[10:06] Samantha the only one sleeping with me

[10:09] tonight the cats are in the house with

[10:10] my

[10:11] mom she'll probably wonder where I am

[10:13] when she wakes up yeah I'm really proud

[10:15] of the progress I've made it looks real

[10:17] nice in here I did figure out a couple

[10:19] other places that are bringing in the

[10:21] cold air so I've got some ideas for how

[10:24] to fix that very tired I'm going to go

[10:26] to sleep now I'll post this sometime

[10:28] tomorrow

[10:30] good night

[10:31] everyone morning everyone it's Wednesday

[10:34] morning it's 46 in here very cold I

[10:39] didn't sleep in here last night there

[10:41] was an issue I'll get to that in a

[10:42] second just got my heater turned on this

[10:46] one too although I won't be able to keep

[10:47] it for much longer once I get offshore

[10:50] power so much has been happening been so

[10:52] busy some I'm going to try to summarize

[10:55] it all at some point my kitchen sink and

[10:58] my

[10:59] bathroom sink they're both overflowed

[11:02] and there's no way to get the water down

[11:04] I think the tank is full

[11:06] so my sensors are not working properly

[11:10] and I think the reason they're full is

[11:12] because of the first night I was in here

[11:14] with my cats and Oliver turned

[11:17] on the bathroom sink at full blast and I

[11:21] don't know for how long so I just I

[11:22] think he probably filled up the tank on

[11:25] us so I bought all the stuff I need for

[11:28] that cuz I had done that yet you know

[11:30] for draining the tanks and I bought some

[11:33] external sensors that I'm going to have

[11:34] to put on the

[11:35] unit so things are getting expensive I I

[11:39] knew that I'd I'd encounter this I

[11:42] didn't think I'd encounter it so soon I

[11:44] kind of knew not to trust the

[11:46] sensors they're definitely not working

[11:48] so been doing a lot so but right now I'm

[11:51] going to get warm and then I'm going to

[11:54] install my new RV lock I installed a

[11:57] camera I think I might have mentioned in

[11:59] one of my videos that that I you know

[12:02] incorporate into the one you guys see

[12:05] and now I'm doing the RV lock and I also

[12:07] have a handle for my screen door still

[12:10] to do oh and one last thing I got new

[12:13] curtains these ones are true blackout

[12:16] curtains you can see that from this

[12:18] material here and um they're insulated

[12:22] truly insulated I I Feel Like These are

[12:24] much higher quality than what I got from

[12:27] Lowe's they look really nice

[12:29] um I moved the spots on the ends that um

[12:32] hold the curtain rod up so that it could

[12:34] get to the ends the curtains could and I

[12:37] just feel this is much better I think it

[12:38] might help keep the cold air from the

[12:40] cab out a little bit better so that's

[12:42] really it for now I'm still

[12:45] just doing everything I can to get this

[12:47] camper ready hope you guys are having a

[12:49] good morning

[0:00] hey everyone so I want to be super

[0:03] honest with you and tell you that I'm

[0:05] pretty scared right now I just gave my

[0:08] notice to leave here um my you know

[0:10] breaking my lease as of April 30th it's

[0:14] in my lease agreement that I can do that

[0:15] there's just some requirements basically

[0:17] you pay a lot of money to do it a month

[0:19] from

[0:20] now I have to be ready making a lot of

[0:23] progress

[0:24] in Hells are the cats I'm making a lot

[0:26] of progress in the RV right now that's

[0:30] going pretty well we made a lot of

[0:31] progress in the house too my mom just

[0:34] left she's on her way up to Michigan to

[0:36] visit with family so it's just me and

[0:39] the cats who are just having a ball over

[0:42] there um I have had moments where it's

[0:45] just so scary um a lot of the time I'm

[0:48] just happy and excited

[0:50] and but there're just these moments of

[0:52] sheer Terror I know that it'll go away

[0:55] once I'm out there and doing this for a

[0:57] while but you know that that period

[1:00] before you you've done it even though

[1:03] you know you want to even though you

[1:04] know it's going to be good for you it's

[1:06] just it's so scary it can be so scary I

[1:10] have a bunch of um Random clips that I'm

[1:13] going to share with you just from the

[1:15] past couple of days so that I can get

[1:16] that stuff posted and I think the next

[1:19] time you hear from me will be when I've

[1:21] made a lot more progress and I can kind

[1:22] of take you a little bit of the tour

[1:24] tour of the RV there's a lot because I

[1:27] mean I even getting sensors for

[1:28] underneath of the

[1:31] tanks uh because my water's overflowing

[1:35] you'll see that in a video and I figured

[1:37] out what it is it was Oliver when that

[1:39] first night we were in in there and he

[1:41] had the water running full blast just

[1:42] filled the tank up really fast and the

[1:44] sensor is not working right I installed

[1:46] a lock this morning started

[1:48] to um and it was hard to get the old

[1:51] lock off cuz I don't know anything about

[1:53] this stuff but chat GPT helped me every

[1:55] step of the way and I did it it was

[1:56] awesome but the RV lock I got was the

[1:59] wrong side I have another one coming

[2:01] tomorrow in the morning and I'll put

[2:03] that on there just there's a lot

[2:05] happening and I'm look forward to

[2:07] sharing it with you but I just the whole

[2:09] reason I started this channel was so

[2:11] that I

[2:12] could tell you kind of you know what my

[2:15] experience is like going from making the

[2:18] decision to getting on the road and then

[2:20] we'll start the next chapter good

[2:22] morning everyone it's all at 52 degrees

[2:25] in here this morning in the camper

[2:28] pretty cold just came out here for a

[2:30] minute uh it's Monday morning it's about

[2:33] maybe 10 11: in the morning now my mom

[2:37] and I are going to go to Walmart today

[2:38] and pick up some things and do a little

[2:41] bit more insulating in here I'm going to

[2:44] look at some carpets at

[2:46] Lowe's um just more organizing in here

[2:48] and getting more of my stuff in here so

[2:50] that's basically what we have planned

[2:51] for today and I'll just share some

[2:53] updates with you after this so before I

[2:55] go back in the house this thing was

[2:58] really cool I finally got to use use it

[3:00] I feel like it heats the camper really

[3:03] well um you know you don't need to leave

[3:05] it on for very long I'm starting to

[3:07] retain heat in here been you know

[3:09] monitoring it when it's on it's not on

[3:11] now of

[3:12] course um there some other things I've

[3:15] done so I added a shelf over here for my

[3:17] bed

[3:18] area I thought that was pretty nice got

[3:21] this chair so that I could reach up here

[3:23] to my desk um because of you know the

[3:26] slide there you just need to be up

[3:27] higher it's pretty comfortable I like it

[3:32] um I forgot to tell you I hurt my side

[3:35] really bad all day yesterday it was

[3:38] hurting I almost thought I had a

[3:40] pentis I woke up this morning it's still

[3:43] hurting and I realized why it's removing

[3:46] the battery in here the blue ID solar

[3:49] battery it's like 80 lb I must have

[3:51] strained something so be careful with

[3:54] those might as well show you guys this

[3:57] this actually yesterday when I was

[3:59] driving nobody tated me and I swear to

[4:01] God it's cuz of those stickers I

[4:03] couldn't believe it I got myself a

[4:05] little baby Yoda sticker right here in

[4:08] the center you can't see it but that's

[4:10] where my dash cam is in the back and

[4:12] that thing is really cool because when

[4:14] I'm driving my dash cam up in the front

[4:16] I can just have it on that screen

[4:18] showing this so I can be seeing the

[4:20] front with my eyes and the back with the

[4:22] camera it's really

[4:24] nice this is my front door I shouldn't

[4:27] call him baby Yoda he has a name it's

[4:28] grou

[4:30] there's a couple of things I forgot to

[4:32] mention about the heater that I got so I

[4:34] picked that one it's a little bit bigger

[4:36] than I thought I would need because that

[4:38] one you can connect to an external

[4:40] propane source so that I don't have to

[4:42] use little one pound ones in there all

[4:44] the time think if I could get like a

[4:47] bigger tank and just keep that in my

[4:48] jeep that might be really helpful and

[4:51] the other thing is I was losing about 1°

[4:55] when I turn it off about 1 degree of

[4:56] temperature every 15 minutes so if I

[4:59] just continue insulating I think I can

[5:01] get that number up and then that will be

[5:03] like the perfect heater for me in

[5:06] there I just confirmed it it's 80 lbs my

[5:10] side is killing

[5:12] me hi everyone it's little it's like

[5:16] 3:00 in the morning right now I woke up

[5:19] a little bit past 2 I had a real bad

[5:21] dream it woke me up but just say it's

[5:24] about my old life uh and then I heard

[5:27] thunder outside and I thought I better

[5:29] check on the camper make sure that um

[5:31] you know all my vents are

[5:33] closed they were been doing a very good

[5:36] job in here figured I'd just get up and

[5:39] do some work in here you know make you

[5:42] so all the time you

[5:44] can we're looking forward to my upcoming

[5:47] Adventure so just going to get some

[5:49] stuff done around here and hopefully I

[5:51] can show it to you

[5:54] after so I am really happy with this

[5:57] these bags here this is not what I plan

[6:01] to use them for I've been having trouble

[6:04] finding something that fit behind this

[6:06] door cuz it's a pretty small width don't

[6:09] know if you know it's actually it's

[6:10] quite small nothing fit here and I just

[6:14] thought let's try it and see worked

[6:16] great it's so nice I I had to order more

[6:19] cuz I didn't plan to put them here but

[6:21] I'll be able to put them behind this

[6:22] door

[6:24] too they work perfectly they don't get

[6:26] in the

[6:27] way you know fit perfect each one can

[6:31] hold 3 lb so each pouch gets 9 lb except

[6:35] the bottom two because well these two

[6:38] here so this one and this one share the

[6:41] 9 lbs cuz you know it's a load balancing

[6:44] system but I just need to tape these

[6:46] sides

[6:47] and man that is great those are going to

[6:49] be so

[6:52] useful this has been working out pretty

[6:55] great on a low setting it is getting a

[6:57] little help from the ceramic heater

[6:59] don't know how much that thing doesn't

[7:01] really seem to help much man that thing

[7:03] is great I mean we got it up to 67.5 in

[7:07] here it's pretty steady I've got two of

[7:10] these open for ventilation it's raining

[7:12] outside I'm not sure about the

[7:14] temperature outside but I'm loving this

[7:17] thing I really hope I can carpet the

[7:19] floor there's not a lot to carpet

[7:21] shouldn't be a hard

[7:23] job and I think it will really help

[7:25] ventilate in here and keep the heat in

[7:27] here so I don't have to keep this thing

[7:29] running

[7:30] cuz I don't know what I'll do you know

[7:31] when sleeping I'll have to turn it off

[7:33] and you know the cats might be awake and

[7:36] you know I want it to be comfortable for

[7:38] them

[7:40] too all right a couple more updates

[7:43] really happy with the progress in here

[7:45] so now I've got this over

[7:49] here uh that can hold up to 40 lbs so I

[7:53] don't really feel like it needs any more

[7:54] hooks than that 40 lb and then over here

[7:58] this can hold

[8:00] old um these are the largest ones but

[8:02] there's only two so I think it's 30 lb

[8:04] and you know it's just place for my

[8:06] coats I know I have too many those real

[8:09] hard to I love all three of my coats so

[8:12] couldn't give those up

[8:14] yet now I have an update for the

[8:16] bathroom got two of these they use four

[8:21] large utility Hooks and that's 40 lb so

[8:24] each one can hold 40 lb I'll do

[8:28] something up here too just haven't

[8:29] decided what yeah maybe pictures I need

[8:32] some pictures not all

[8:34] storage and then I can put two more over

[8:39] here forgot to show you these extra

[8:42] baskets that just hang off of my rack

[8:45] here these are called packet Pals you

[8:47] get them at Lowe's this was actually my

[8:50] mom's idea she put a couple on there and

[8:53] I like it I think you know it just gives

[8:54] you a little bit more

[8:56] storage and everything you can do to get

[8:59] storage and a camper of this size is

[9:01] definitely

[9:04] helpful I really love these Command

[9:07] hooks and these other

[9:09] command things that they have they're

[9:12] just so awesome they they really do work

[9:16] you know they they hold weight you

[9:18] really can take them off without hurting

[9:20] anything I've had to do it a few times

[9:22] now when I've made mistakes in order to

[9:24] fix them and the he heat of it comes off

[9:27] and there's doesn't hurt the wall at all

[9:30] and I've had it on multiple surfaces now

[9:33] the only thing I wish were different is

[9:35] that you could get them in different

[9:36] colors I just wish they were Brown so

[9:38] they match my camper

[9:40] better it's 700 a.m. been up all night

[9:44] pretty much well I got up at 2: up like

[9:47] 2 or 3 hours and then I got up and came

[9:49] out here did all kinds of stuff made my

[9:52] bed just now it's nice I think I found a

[9:55] pretty efficient way to do it too you

[9:57] know it's a little bit hard to do in RV

[10:00] but oh um that's Bastian and that's

[10:06] Samantha the only one sleeping with me

[10:09] tonight the cats are in the house with

[10:10] my

[10:11] mom she'll probably wonder where I am

[10:13] when she wakes up yeah I'm really proud

[10:15] of the progress I've made it looks real

[10:17] nice in here I did figure out a couple

[10:19] other places that are bringing in the

[10:21] cold air so I've got some ideas for how

[10:24] to fix that very tired I'm going to go

[10:26] to sleep now I'll post this sometime

[10:28] tomorrow

[10:30] good night

[10:31] everyone morning everyone it's Wednesday

[10:34] morning it's 46 in here very cold I

[10:39] didn't sleep in here last night there

[10:41] was an issue I'll get to that in a

[10:42] second just got my heater turned on this

[10:46] one too although I won't be able to keep

[10:47] it for much longer once I get offshore

[10:50] power so much has been happening been so

[10:52] busy some I'm going to try to summarize

[10:55] it all at some point my kitchen sink and

[10:58] my

[10:59] bathroom sink they're both overflowed

[11:02] and there's no way to get the water down

[11:04] I think the tank is full

[11:06] so my sensors are not working properly

[11:10] and I think the reason they're full is

[11:12] because of the first night I was in here

[11:14] with my cats and Oliver turned

[11:17] on the bathroom sink at full blast and I

[11:21] don't know for how long so I just I

[11:22] think he probably filled up the tank on

[11:25] us so I bought all the stuff I need for

[11:28] that cuz I had done that yet you know

[11:30] for draining the tanks and I bought some

[11:33] external sensors that I'm going to have

[11:34] to put on the

[11:35] unit so things are getting expensive I I

[11:39] knew that I'd I'd encounter this I

[11:42] didn't think I'd encounter it so soon I

[11:44] kind of knew not to trust the

[11:46] sensors they're definitely not working

[11:48] so been doing a lot so but right now I'm

[11:51] going to get warm and then I'm going to

[11:54] install my new RV lock I installed a

[11:57] camera I think I might have mentioned in

[11:59] one of my videos that that I you know

[12:02] incorporate into the one you guys see

[12:05] and now I'm doing the RV lock and I also

[12:07] have a handle for my screen door still

[12:10] to do oh and one last thing I got new

[12:13] curtains these ones are true blackout

[12:16] curtains you can see that from this

[12:18] material here and um they're insulated

[12:22] truly insulated I I Feel Like These are

[12:24] much higher quality than what I got from

[12:27] Lowe's they look really nice

[12:29] um I moved the spots on the ends that um

[12:32] hold the curtain rod up so that it could

[12:34] get to the ends the curtains could and I

[12:37] just feel this is much better I think it

[12:38] might help keep the cold air from the

[12:40] cab out a little bit better so that's

[12:42] really it for now I'm still

[12:45] just doing everything I can to get this

[12:47] camper ready hope you guys are having a

[12:49] good morning

2:37

Setting Camper Insulation Plan, Stepping Back From Family

Mar 13, 2024

3:29

Marking Three Weeks in the Camper

Mar 14, 2024

1:50

Registering the Jeep, Preparing the RV Transition

Mar 14, 2024

1:30

Experiencing First Thunderstorm in the Camper

Mar 15, 2024

2:47

Correcting YouTube Channel Drift Toward Metrics

Mar 15, 2024

7:20

Debating RV Insulation Materials and Pending Family Call

Mar 15, 2024

14:48

Building the RV Conversion Task List

Mar 15, 2024

1:20

Announcing Camper Insulation and First Edited Video

Mar 16, 2024

10:17

Insulating RV Underbelly, Filming First Edited Video

Mar 16, 2024

5:36

Completing First Insulation Project in the RV

Mar 16, 2024

13:57

Reviewing Channel Performance and Camera System Purchase

Mar 18, 2024

8:10

Insulating the RV and Tracking Temperature Gains

Mar 19, 2024

4:27

Redoing RV Insulation in Freezing Conditions

Mar 19, 2024

4:09

Assessing Transition Pace Before Departure

Mar 20, 2024

1:35

Setting April 11th Departure Date for Full-Time RV Life

Mar 20, 2024

8:25

Crediting Caroline's RV Life for Starting the Journey

Mar 22, 2024

7:13

Retrieving Outfitted Jeep and Planning RV Buildout

Mar 22, 2024

7:00

Insulating the Camper Kitchen and Living Area

Mar 23, 2024

1:39

Sorting Possessions at the Tradeoff Stage

Mar 23, 2024

5:40

Organizing and Insulating the Camper Build

Mar 24, 2024

5:32

Rug Shopping, Discord Launch, and Camper Flooring

Mar 25, 2024

12:51

Giving Lease Notice and Outfitting the RV

Mar 28, 2024

9:34

Documenting Homelessness Ahead of RV Transition

Mar 29, 2024

11:29

Diagnosing RV Plumbing and Naming Caroline

Mar 29, 2024

2:36

Resolving RV Tank Cables With Mobile Tech

Mar 30, 2024

9:11

Outfitting the RV Before the April 30 Move-Out

Mar 30, 2024

4:20

Announcing First Month of Campground Bookings

Mar 31, 2024

18:03

Mitigating RV Fears and Insulating the Camper

Mar 31, 2024

16:15

Preparing Camper Departure and Dissolving the House

Apr 1, 2024

7:43

Sorting Possessions Before Departure

Apr 3, 2024

13:07

Riding Out Thunderstorms, Thanking Early Adopters

Apr 3, 2024

15:11

Riding Out Storm in RV With Cats

Apr 3, 2024

10:08

One Week Out: Packing, Cold, and Cats

Apr 4, 2024

9:32

Insulating the Camper and Organizing Move-In

Apr 6, 2024

36:14

Installing Solar Power in the Camper

Apr 7, 2024

10:44

Testing Solar Setup Before Camper Inspection

Apr 7, 2024

7:33

Passing Scamper Inspection Before Departure

Apr 8, 2024

17:57

Tinkering in the Camper Two Days Before Departure

Apr 10, 2024

19:57

Final Day Before Departure to Campground

Apr 11, 2024

9:15

Retracting the Slide for the First Time

Apr 11, 2024

6:45

Marking 47th Birthday Before Departure

Apr 11, 2024

PUBLIC

March 28, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED

Temp 0.50

Density 0.60

Energetic Quality

steady build with acute edges

Journey Phase

transitional — pre-departure buildout

Directional Vector

toward departure and mobile autonomy

Narrative

He said it plainly, straight into the camera: he was scared. The notice was given — the lease broken as of April 30th, a clause he'd read carefully, a departure he had to pay for in cash to exercise. A month from now he had to be ready. He described the fear as arriving in moments, discrete and sharp, inside a stretch of days he otherwise called happy and excited, and he named the shape of it: the interval before you've done the thing, even when you know you want it, even knowing it's good for you. He said it would go away once he was out there. Then he moved on to the sensors under the tanks, and the lock he'd started on that morning, and the clips he'd been accumulating for days. His mother had just left for Michigan. It was him and the four cats, who were, he reported, having a ball.

Monday morning it was 52 degrees inside the camper. He stepped out into it for a minute, phone up, to say what the day held — Walmart with his mother, carpet at Lowe's, more insulating, more of his things carried across the yard from the house into the RV. Later that day he came back to show the heater. It was a size larger than he'd first calculated, chosen because it could take an external propane source instead of the one-pound canisters, and he was already thinking about a bigger tank riding in the Jeep. He'd measured its behavior: about one degree lost every fifteen minutes after shutoff. Insulate more, he reasoned, and that number comes up, and then it's the right heater. He showed the new shelf above the bed area and the chair that raised him to the desk tucked under the slide. He mentioned, almost in passing, that his side had been hurting all day — bad enough he'd wondered about appendicitis — until he worked out the cause: the Bluetti solar battery he'd hauled out. He weighed it to confirm. Eighty pounds. Be careful with those, he told the channel, and then showed them the Grogu sticker on the dash, and the rear camera feed he could pull up on the front screen while driving, front with his eyes and back through the lens.

He woke a little past two in the morning from a bad dream about his old life. Thunder was going outside, so he went out to check the camper's vents — they were closed — and once he was there, awake in the dark with rain on the roof, he stayed and worked. The hanging pouches he'd bought for something else turned out to fit the narrow strip behind the door, the width nothing else would take, and he ordered more on the spot. He walked through the load math on camera: three pounds a pouch, nine to a strip, except the bottom two which shared the nine, because it's a load balancing system. The propane heater held the interior at 67.5 degrees on a low setting with two vents open for ventilation. He talked about carpeting the floor next, not for looks but for heat, and about what he'd do overnight when the heater had to go off, and whether the cats would be comfortable.

The work kept going. A rack rated to forty pounds went up, enough that he decided it didn't need more hooks. Another spot took thirty for coats — three of them, all of which he loved and none of which he was ready to give up. In the bathroom, two more mounts, forty pounds each, and a space above them he left undecided, thinking maybe pictures, because it shouldn't all be storage. He showed the hanging baskets clipped onto the rack, Packet Pals from Lowe's, his mother's idea; she'd put a couple up and he'd liked them enough to keep going. He praised the Command hooks at length — that they truly held weight, that the adhesive released clean off every surface he'd tried, that he'd already removed and reset several as he corrected his own mistakes. His one complaint was color. He wished they came in brown, to match the camper.

At seven in the morning he was still up. He'd been awake since two, three hours of work behind him, and he'd just made the bed and found what he thought was an efficient method for doing it in a space that shape. Bastian and Samantha were there in frame. The rest of the cats were in the house with his mother, who would wonder where he was when she woke. He said he was proud of the progress, that it looked real nice in there, and that he'd located a few more places where cold air was getting in and had ideas for each of them. Then he said he was very tired and going to sleep, and that he'd post this tomorrow.

Wednesday morning it was 46 degrees inside and he hadn't slept in the camper the night before, because of an issue he said he'd get to in a second. The issue was water. The kitchen sink and the bathroom sink had both overflowed, with no way to drain them down — the tank was full, and the sensors weren't reading it. He'd traced the cause to the first night he and the cats spent in there: Oliver had turned the bathroom sink on full blast, for an unknown duration. So he bought the drain equipment he hadn't gotten to yet, and external sensors to mount on the unit, because he'd suspected from the start that the factory ones couldn't be trusted. Things are getting expensive, he said. He'd known he'd hit this. He hadn't expected to hit it this soon.

He got both heaters running to warm the space, noting he'd lose one of them once he was on shore power. Then he laid out the rest of the morning: install the new RV lock, the correct-side replacement, since the first one he'd ordered was the wrong hand and he'd already fought the old lock off with ChatGPT walking him through every step — a thing he knew nothing about, and did anyway, and called awesome. A camera was already in. A screen door handle was still to come. And the curtains had arrived — true blackout, genuinely insulated, better material than what he'd bought at Lowe's. He'd moved the rod brackets out toward the ends so the panels could reach all the way, and thought it might hold back the cold coming off the cab. That's really it for now, he said. Still doing everything he could to get this camper ready.

Summary

rswfire records a multi-day capture spanning several clips, opening with the statement that he has given notice to break his lease effective April 30, a provision written into the lease agreement carrying a substantial cost. He states he is scared, describes moments of sheer terror alongside stretches of happiness and excitement, and identifies the interval before departure as the difficult part. He gives himself roughly a month to be ready.

Most of the transmission is RV build-out and systems work. He documents:

Heating and insulation — a propane heater connectable to an external tank, a ceramic heater, tracking ~1°F loss per 15 minutes, interior temps logged at 46°, 52°, and 67.5°
Water systems — kitchen and bathroom sinks overflowing, faulty tank sensors, external sensors ordered; he attributes the full tank to Oliver running the sink at full blast
Storage — Command hooks rated by weight, hanging pouches, a shelf, a chair for desk height, packet Pals from Lowe's suggested by his mother
Security and access — an installed camera, an RV lock (wrong side, replacement arriving), a screen door handle pending
Blackout insulated curtains with repositioned rod mounts

He notes strained his side removing an 80 lb solar battery, credits ChatGPT with walking him through the lock install, and mentions his mother departing for Michigan, the cats Bastian, Samantha, and Oliver, a dash cam feeding a rear view to his front screen, and a Grogu sticker on the dash.

Environment

A camper/RV parked at a residence rswfire is preparing to vacate, recorded across multiple days in late March 2024. Interior temperatures are logged directly — 52°F, 46°F, 67.5°F with the propane heater running — and rain and thunder are audible outside. The lease at the residence has been given notice as of April 30th.

Recording moves between the RV interior (bed area, desk under the slide, bathroom, door thresholds, storage walls) and brief references to the house next to it, where his mother and the cats are staying. Filming is handheld, addressing a channel audience directly, with clips compiled from several days including 2–3 a.m. and 7 a.m. sessions.

Substrate

The architecture being held is a habitable system under construction: a fixed dwelling is being dissolved on a dated schedule while a mobile one is being assembled component by component — heat retention, storage load ratings, water tank sensing, locks, cameras, curtains. rswfire holds the ontological position that the fear is a known, bounded property of the pre-threshold interval, not a signal to reverse the decision; he states it plainly and continues installing. Documentation of the buildout is itself structural — the channel exists to record the span from decision to road, making the transition legible in real time rather than retrospectively.

Actions

Performed

•states he is scared and names moments of sheer terror
•reports interior temperatures on camera
•demonstrates the propane heater performance
•shows the shelf, chair, and desk setup
•shows the dash cam screen and Grogu sticker
•displays hanging bags and states per-pouch weight limits
•shows bathroom hook installations and load ratings
•shows the coat hooks and Packet Pals baskets
•displays the blackout curtain material
•reports the kitchen and bathroom sinks overflowing
•attributes full tank to Oliver running the sink
•identifies the tank sensors as non-functional
•introduces cats Bastian and Samantha on camera
•compiles multi-day clips for posting

Referenced

•gave notice to break lease as of April 30th
•paid lease-break requirements
•started installing an RV lock with ChatGPT guidance
•ordered a replacement lock (wrong side received)
•installed a dash cam and rear camera
•removed the 80 lb solar battery
•strained his side lifting the battery
•insulated sections of the camper
•added a shelf over the bed area
•acquired a chair to reach the desk under the slide
•selected a propane heater with external-tank capability
•measured heat loss at 1°F per 15 minutes
•mounted Command hooks and utility hooks on multiple surfaces
•installed hanging pouch bags behind a narrow door
•hung Packet Pals baskets from a rack
•installed true blackout insulated curtains and repositioned rod ends
•made the bed and found an efficient method for it
•woke at 2 a.m. from a dream about his old life
•checked vents after hearing thunder
•bought tank-draining equipment and external tank sensors
•mom departed for Michigan to visit family
•did progress work on the house with his mom
•went to Walmart and looked at carpets at Lowe's

Planned

•be ready to depart within a month
•install the correct-side RV lock on arrival
•install a screen door handle
•mount external tank sensors
•drain the holding tanks
•carpet the floor
•continue insulating to reduce heat loss
•get a larger external propane tank for the Jeep
•switch to shore power and retire the ceramic heater
•hang pictures rather than only storage
•order more hanging bags for the second door
•give a full RV tour in the next video
•summarize everything that has been happening

Entities

beings

rswfire — records the buildout and states the decision, timeline, and fear directly

Oliver — cat identified as having run the bathroom sink at full blast, filling the tank

Bastian — cat introduced on camera during the 7 a.m. segment

Samantha — cat, the only one sleeping in the camper that night

rswfire's mother — present for house and camper work, suggested the Packet Pals baskets, departs for Michigan

places

Michigan — destination of his mother's family visit

the RV / camper — the dwelling under construction and primary recording setting

the house — the leased residence being vacated as of April 30th

systems

Jeep — tow/support vehicle; proposed storage for a larger propane tank

Lowe's — source of Packet Pals baskets and earlier lower-quality curtains

Walmart — supply run destination

ChatGPT — step-by-step assistance removing the old RV lock

Command hooks — removable load-bearing mounting system used throughout the interior

Packet Pals — hanging baskets added to the rack for supplementary storage

BLUETTI solar battery — 80 lb power unit; its removal caused the side strain

propane heater — primary heat source, external-tank capable, holds interior at 67.5°F

tank level sensors — non-functional; external replacements ordered after sink overflow

lease agreement — contains the break clause with cost requirements, dated April 30th

media

dash cam — front and rear camera setup allowing rear view on the dash screen while driving

Grogu — sticker placed at dash center; credited with reduced tailgating

the channel — started specifically to document the span from decision to road

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

threshold

shelter

heat

insulation

load-bearing

water

sensor

lock

curtain

thunder

cold

road

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

transitional (fixed lease dissolving on a dated schedule while the mobile system is assembled)

pre-threshold (decision made, departure not yet executed; fear named as a property of the interval)

constructive (continuous component-level buildout — heat, storage, water, security)

sovereign (departure chosen and paid for, timeline self-set, work self-performed)

embodied (temperature, sleep interruption, side strain tracked as system data)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

infrastructural (heater, insulation, tanks, sensors, shore power, locks)

somatic (cold tolerance, 80 lb lift strain, interrupted sleep, 2 a.m. waking)

logistical (April 30 deadline, supply runs, ordering, replacement parts)

financial (lease-break cost, unplanned sensor and drain equipment expense)

relational (mother's collaboration and departure, four cats as co-inhabitants)

documentary (channel as the record of decision-to-road, multi-day clip compilation)

technical-adaptive (ChatGPT as install guide, load-rating calculations, heat-loss measurement)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

scared / sheer terror

progress

insulating / retain heat

hold weight / load balancing

sensors are not working

get this camper ready

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