Retiring the Slide-Out, Preparing to Leave Kentucky

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[0:02] look at that first signs of

[0:06] autumn unfortunately we won't be here

[0:08] for it cuz we are leaving this

[0:11] week one day I get my

[0:14] dentures and then think we're going to

[0:16] leave sometime that week I'm not waiting

[0:19] around it's time to go so no nonsense

[0:23] today we

[0:24] go we deal with the RV go to the new

[0:28] Campground

[0:30] we got set

[0:32] up we prepare for

[0:34] Monday we prepare to leave

[0:38] Kentucky baile in the car the

[0:41] Jeep which is

[0:44] packed I don't really have room for

[0:46] anything in here like I have truly

[0:49] over packed it he isn't going to be

[0:51] happy but he'll get over

[0:55] it I've got my headphones on so I don't

[0:58] have to listen to him complain

[1:01] okay I don't really like that I want you

[1:02] to be

[1:04] balanced it's not

[1:09] bad I shift modes I shift gears when

[1:12] it's time

[1:13] to right now no

[1:16] nonsense so I'm at the RV place with

[1:18] Bailey they're going

[1:21] to um I asked them you just push that

[1:25] side in

[1:27] and destroy the bad flatform and they're

[1:30] going to do it but they're going to need

[1:31] time so until the afternoon it's 900 in

[1:34] the morning I don't know what to do with

[1:35] me and Bailey in the meantime Bailey

[1:38] cannot be in that little carry he is not

[1:39] going to like that

[1:41] so he's going to need a litter box I got

[1:45] to think this through all right change

[1:47] the plans they can't they can't tear it

[1:50] out underneath of it is one of my

[1:51] storage P like it's right there um

[1:54] there's really it wouldn't give me much

[1:56] room at all so but you know um the side

[2:00] he says it's fine for now but it's going

[2:02] to you know he says for a few months I'm

[2:05] like well if it's just a few months and

[2:06] I'm not bringing it out I'm just going

[2:07] to live with it um this does create some

[2:10] issues for

[2:12] how I don't know how I'm sleeping now

[2:15] we'll figure that out once we get to the

[2:17] campground I guess um but they're just

[2:20] they don't need long now they're just

[2:21] going to finish some things up and we

[2:23] can go I couldn't find a cat sitter but

[2:25] we don't have to be here long

[2:27] so um

[2:30] we adapt all right we're on our way to

[2:32] the next Campground I don't remember if

[2:34] I said in my last video or not but the

[2:36] slide out isn't flush which means that's

[2:39] going to be an insulation issue all

[2:41] kinds of problems especially considering

[2:43] where I'm going to Washington in the

[2:45] winter with the rain and all of that so

[2:47] I have to get a fix but they can't even

[2:49] get the parts here for weeks so we're

[2:51] just going to go we're going to go to

[2:53] Washington and we they have blue

[2:55] compasses there also and we'll have them

[2:58] order it and we'll deal with it while

[2:59] we're there here I mean that's all we

[3:00] can do we're adapting in real

[3:03] time um at

[3:05] least you

[3:07] know I know it'll get resolved it's

[3:09] going to take some it'll probably be a

[3:10] while cuz it's going to take us well

[3:11] first we're going to Nevada like I mean

[3:13] it's just like um I'll think it through

[3:17] but I you know I know that we're going

[3:19] to get it fixed so it's not stressing me

[3:20] out so bad but we are going to have to

[3:24] you know

[3:25] tolerate the situation like it might let

[3:28] insects in it'll definitely let hot or

[3:30] cold air in depending on the temperature

[3:32] where we're at so that's a thing we're

[3:35] going to have to adapt to um but we're

[3:37] leaving as soon as possible I'm not even

[3:39] going to stay at this Campground for two

[3:40] weeks I I get my teeth on Monday I mean

[3:43] we could leave as soon as Tuesday like

[3:45] I'm ready to go I want to go I want out

[3:47] of here so that's what we're

[3:51] doing I know why I hate this

[3:54] slide because I hate reconfiguring my

[3:56] space every time I bring it in or out

[4:00] I have to reconfigure everything I

[4:02] absolutely hate

[4:03] that I like flux but I also like a

[4:07] certain amount of stability in my

[4:08] environment and having to move things

[4:10] around every single time I bring this SL

[4:13] in or out is deeply

[4:16] frustrating I am going to find a way to

[4:18] make this

[4:19] work it's going to be a challenge I mean

[4:22] this is actually an an interesting one

[4:25] like I'm actually a little bit

[4:27] fascinated by

[4:30] you know and I'm thinking it through

[4:32] like you know you can see here that

[4:33] there's there's a small space down there

[4:36] maybe my solar panels can fit there or

[4:38] maybe they can go up there the top of

[4:41] the SL made in Al Cove that's probably a

[4:44] great place for my solar panels cuz

[4:46] those are always in the way I can put my

[4:48] camping gear up there in some ways this

[4:51] gives me more space which

[4:54] is very fascinating

[4:58] that's not even framing like it really

[5:00] feels like that it's more

[5:03] space

[5:05] um I don't I don't know I mean I'm

[5:08] sitting on my bed

[5:10] platform Bailey's I don't know what's

[5:12] going on with him

[5:17] he's what's going on with you like I

[5:20] I I think he is maybe he's sensing what

[5:23] I'm going through right now like I'm

[5:24] literally like in this cognitive state

[5:28] where it's like okay we're not

[5:31] level I could probably get us

[5:33] level with a lot more effort but it's

[5:36] not effort I really want to expend

[5:38] honestly like if I can't get this thing

[5:40] up with three levels of blocks that's

[5:42] that's ridiculous to me so that's a cam

[5:45] Crown problem I I genuinely think that's

[5:47] another systems problem Campground

[5:49] should make these things more level I

[5:51] I'm shocked that they make them like

[5:53] this where where I would have to carry

[5:56] four bags of Lego bricks in order to

[5:59] make this thing level that's too much I

[6:01] don't want to carry that much

[6:03] stuff a lot of core engineer places are

[6:05] like this too and that's what I'm going

[6:07] to be staying at when I start traveling

[6:09] west so I'm going to keep encountering

[6:11] this problem and

[6:14] that's when I see friction in the

[6:19] system a whole lot of feelings go

[6:21] through my body through my mind like I

[6:23] just I don't like it because it it

[6:26] shouldn't be that way this is a pro this

[6:28] is a solvable problem problem this is a

[6:30] known problem you know but people just

[6:34] accept it I don't want to accept

[6:39] this but I don't have a choice right now

[6:43] so you know for the weekend I'm

[6:44] accepting it I guess that's how that

[6:48] works I guess that's how that works so

[6:50] I'm part of the problem too guys I am

[6:54] loving this I didn't lose my thermal

[6:56] curtains they can kind of go around the

[6:58] SL

[7:00] thing there side slide slide I guess so

[7:03] this is still

[7:04] functional I've got my solar panels up

[7:07] here I have never had a good place for

[7:09] those I have all the space I do need to

[7:11] clean the top of this

[7:13] slly um but all my camping GE and stuff

[7:16] can go up here the baskets you know are

[7:18] going to be inaccessible so I'll

[7:19] probably take those down my RGB lights

[7:22] that I've got back there may still look

[7:24] cool even even like that and I still

[7:28] have one row a string of them that I

[7:30] haven't used yet that I can put across

[7:33] this side of the slide now I've been

[7:35] waiting for an opportunity to use

[7:38] those Bailey is enjoying it I have my

[7:41] stool to get up here this is going to be

[7:44] a very functional space when I Amin

[7:47] done this is how you turn a challenge

[7:53] into a completely different way of

[7:55] looking at things like I I'm I going to

[7:58] put this into works I don't want to say

[8:00] a challenge into an opportunity it is

[8:02] more than

[8:08] that it's

[8:11] intentional it's intentional I have

[8:13] accepted this I've embraced it now it's

[8:16] just about working with

[8:19] it and there are so many things about it

[8:22] that make my life easier and better it

[8:24] Brees up space for so much

[8:27] more in my mind and even here like this

[8:30] is actually more more storage space than

[8:33] I've ever had I can actually put some of

[8:34] my clothes up here like my like summer

[8:37] or winter depending on the season just

[8:39] store them up here I've had nowhere for

[8:41] that stuff like there's just so much

[8:44] potential

[8:46] potential so Bailey and I are here uh at

[8:50] our new campsite we're going to be here

[8:52] for the weekend Monday I will go to um

[8:56] the dentist to get my teeth and then

[8:58] Tuesday I think we probably probably

[8:59] leaving we're going to start heading

[9:01] L but I want to I want to show you

[9:04] what's going on around here because it's

[9:06] kind of

[9:07] fascinating

[9:09] so my slide is not an ideal slide even

[9:13] if I got it

[9:15] fixed this problem will probably occur

[9:18] again it's just a bad design and I was

[9:23] already

[9:24] thinking how much I disliked the slide

[9:27] because it required me to reconfigure my

[9:30] space every single time I got to a

[9:34] campsite or wanted to leave like it just

[9:37] it was

[9:39] mental space and physical space

[9:43] and let me reframe that like energy it

[9:46] was mental and physical energy that I

[9:48] had to invest every single time I wanted

[9:51] to move this thing and I hated it I

[9:53] absolutely hated

[9:54] it so I had already been thinking is

[9:57] there a way for me to get away with just

[9:59] having to slide in here like do I have

[10:02] to have this slide out but I don't think

[10:04] I would

[10:05] have gotten to that

[10:08] point where I am

[10:11] now

[10:13] if I hadn't taken it to the shop and

[10:16] discover just how much of a problem the

[10:17] slide really is so with that preface the

[10:22] slide is still in I've been here for

[10:24] several hours and I have been adapting

[10:26] and reframing and rethinking this space

[10:30] completely and I have fully embraced and

[10:33] accepted it already I love it now this

[10:37] is probably going to talk to of you

[10:39] because I don't even have a bed right

[10:41] now I threw my I threw my mattress out I

[10:43] had them throw it in the dumpster and

[10:45] where I thought I could build kind of

[10:47] like a space for a bed actually won't

[10:49] work because once the side was in I

[10:51] realized oh it also has balls on the

[10:53] side so took up some of the space that

[10:57] I was in anticipating being able to use

[11:00] that

[11:01] way but I'm not stressed about it I'll

[11:05] deal with it um somehow I don't even

[11:08] know how yet maybe I'll get a cot or

[11:10] maybe I will sleep on the floor I

[11:11] haven't I really just don't know yet but

[11:13] for me this is exactly what I needed it

[11:17] has brought me immense pleasure and let

[11:20] me show you why so this is this is the

[11:23] bad alov

[11:24] area it's too you know there's not

[11:26] enough room to lay flat on it so I don't

[11:29] know what I'll do with it it might

[11:31] become a storage just a space to hang

[11:34] out maybe I'll get some kind of padding

[11:36] here maybe this becomes a couch I don't

[11:38] know a living area in fact you know what

[11:40] I think that's what it's going to be I

[11:42] don't know what I'll do over here yet

[11:44] it's just a small little bit of a space

[11:47] um but there's my um my new power

[11:49] adapter how cool is that or not power

[11:51] adapter what is that called surge

[11:52] protector it's a built-in one so I never

[11:56] have to worry about that again I'll have

[11:58] to move this stuff cuz you know it

[11:59] doesn't make sense there anymore I'll

[12:01] have to insulate all the slide mechanism

[12:04] stuff here especially cuz I'm heading to

[12:06] the Pacific Northwest I'll need to move

[12:08] my picture so that I can see it better

[12:11] you know I love that picture but here's

[12:14] what makes it really

[12:16] special I actually gain storage

[12:20] space above my slide I can now put my

[12:24] solar panels out of the wing something I

[12:27] haven't been able to do in 6 months I

[12:29] won't be able to use these baskets um

[12:31] they're just not reachable but I have

[12:33] all this space I'm going to put my

[12:35] camping gear up here and I don't even

[12:37] know what else we'll see my solar stuff

[12:40] down here in the corner strapped down

[12:42] perfectly during the drive not a single

[12:44] problem my desktop's working you know no

[12:47] problems with any of this stuff I think

[12:50] because the space is smaller now see we

[12:52] just have this hallway here I might get

[12:56] a different like desk or something maybe

[12:58] like half the size cuz I don't you know

[13:00] I don't know maybe you know I'm still

[13:02] thinking it through I've already

[13:04] embraced it this is what I'm doing I am

[13:06] happy about this and now I have nothing

[13:10] but possibilities to

[13:12] explore I have had an opip this is

[13:16] definitely going to be the lounge area

[13:17] and I can put my desktop over there and

[13:21] mount my monitor probably up here to

[13:24] this and this space will just be a

[13:26] lounge area where I can work where I can

[13:28] play games video games where I can watch

[13:30] movies off of my

[13:32] monitor meley can chill here as you can

[13:35] see he loves to do that and then this

[13:37] area here becomes auminum space where I

[13:40] can do whatever I want you know if I

[13:42] want to start cooking now I've got space

[13:44] for it or I can work on my book Nooks or

[13:48] just anything this space has not been

[13:50] easy to use because the keyboard the

[13:52] mouse the monitor all that stuff gets in

[13:54] the way now this area can be just

[13:58] cleared off

[14:00] I can have all my other you know have my

[14:02] My leisur Le and work stuff going on

[14:04] over there oh and it be you know that's

[14:06] where I'll sleep for now maybe at an

[14:08] angle or something until I figure

[14:09] something out just temporarily so that's

[14:12] the plan um I'm just going to have to

[14:14] find out if there's any stores around

[14:16] here cuz I have no

[14:17] idea um I'm just going to keep working

[14:20] on this space I that's what I'm doing

[14:22] this weekend working on the space

[14:24] getting prepared because

[14:27] Monday is you know the last thing I need

[14:29] to do here and then we're out of here I

[14:31] am so excited I am just brimming with

[14:34] excitement like I just cannot wait to go

[0:02] look at that first signs of

[0:06] autumn unfortunately we won't be here

[0:08] for it cuz we are leaving this

[0:11] week one day I get my

[0:14] dentures and then think we're going to

[0:16] leave sometime that week I'm not waiting

[0:19] around it's time to go so no nonsense

[0:23] today we

[0:24] go we deal with the RV go to the new

[0:28] Campground

[0:30] we got set

[0:32] up we prepare for

[0:34] Monday we prepare to leave

[0:38] Kentucky baile in the car the

[0:41] Jeep which is

[0:44] packed I don't really have room for

[0:46] anything in here like I have truly

[0:49] over packed it he isn't going to be

[0:51] happy but he'll get over

[0:55] it I've got my headphones on so I don't

[0:58] have to listen to him complain

[1:01] okay I don't really like that I want you

[1:02] to be

[1:04] balanced it's not

[1:09] bad I shift modes I shift gears when

[1:12] it's time

[1:13] to right now no

[1:16] nonsense so I'm at the RV place with

[1:18] Bailey they're going

[1:21] to um I asked them you just push that

[1:25] side in

[1:27] and destroy the bad flatform and they're

[1:30] going to do it but they're going to need

[1:31] time so until the afternoon it's 900 in

[1:34] the morning I don't know what to do with

[1:35] me and Bailey in the meantime Bailey

[1:38] cannot be in that little carry he is not

[1:39] going to like that

[1:41] so he's going to need a litter box I got

[1:45] to think this through all right change

[1:47] the plans they can't they can't tear it

[1:50] out underneath of it is one of my

[1:51] storage P like it's right there um

[1:54] there's really it wouldn't give me much

[1:56] room at all so but you know um the side

[2:00] he says it's fine for now but it's going

[2:02] to you know he says for a few months I'm

[2:05] like well if it's just a few months and

[2:06] I'm not bringing it out I'm just going

[2:07] to live with it um this does create some

[2:10] issues for

[2:12] how I don't know how I'm sleeping now

[2:15] we'll figure that out once we get to the

[2:17] campground I guess um but they're just

[2:20] they don't need long now they're just

[2:21] going to finish some things up and we

[2:23] can go I couldn't find a cat sitter but

[2:25] we don't have to be here long

[2:27] so um

[2:30] we adapt all right we're on our way to

[2:32] the next Campground I don't remember if

[2:34] I said in my last video or not but the

[2:36] slide out isn't flush which means that's

[2:39] going to be an insulation issue all

[2:41] kinds of problems especially considering

[2:43] where I'm going to Washington in the

[2:45] winter with the rain and all of that so

[2:47] I have to get a fix but they can't even

[2:49] get the parts here for weeks so we're

[2:51] just going to go we're going to go to

[2:53] Washington and we they have blue

[2:55] compasses there also and we'll have them

[2:58] order it and we'll deal with it while

[2:59] we're there here I mean that's all we

[3:00] can do we're adapting in real

[3:03] time um at

[3:05] least you

[3:07] know I know it'll get resolved it's

[3:09] going to take some it'll probably be a

[3:10] while cuz it's going to take us well

[3:11] first we're going to Nevada like I mean

[3:13] it's just like um I'll think it through

[3:17] but I you know I know that we're going

[3:19] to get it fixed so it's not stressing me

[3:20] out so bad but we are going to have to

[3:24] you know

[3:25] tolerate the situation like it might let

[3:28] insects in it'll definitely let hot or

[3:30] cold air in depending on the temperature

[3:32] where we're at so that's a thing we're

[3:35] going to have to adapt to um but we're

[3:37] leaving as soon as possible I'm not even

[3:39] going to stay at this Campground for two

[3:40] weeks I I get my teeth on Monday I mean

[3:43] we could leave as soon as Tuesday like

[3:45] I'm ready to go I want to go I want out

[3:47] of here so that's what we're

[3:51] doing I know why I hate this

[3:54] slide because I hate reconfiguring my

[3:56] space every time I bring it in or out

[4:00] I have to reconfigure everything I

[4:02] absolutely hate

[4:03] that I like flux but I also like a

[4:07] certain amount of stability in my

[4:08] environment and having to move things

[4:10] around every single time I bring this SL

[4:13] in or out is deeply

[4:16] frustrating I am going to find a way to

[4:18] make this

[4:19] work it's going to be a challenge I mean

[4:22] this is actually an an interesting one

[4:25] like I'm actually a little bit

[4:27] fascinated by

[4:30] you know and I'm thinking it through

[4:32] like you know you can see here that

[4:33] there's there's a small space down there

[4:36] maybe my solar panels can fit there or

[4:38] maybe they can go up there the top of

[4:41] the SL made in Al Cove that's probably a

[4:44] great place for my solar panels cuz

[4:46] those are always in the way I can put my

[4:48] camping gear up there in some ways this

[4:51] gives me more space which

[4:54] is very fascinating

[4:58] that's not even framing like it really

[5:00] feels like that it's more

[5:03] space

[5:05] um I don't I don't know I mean I'm

[5:08] sitting on my bed

[5:10] platform Bailey's I don't know what's

[5:12] going on with him

[5:17] he's what's going on with you like I

[5:20] I I think he is maybe he's sensing what

[5:23] I'm going through right now like I'm

[5:24] literally like in this cognitive state

[5:28] where it's like okay we're not

[5:31] level I could probably get us

[5:33] level with a lot more effort but it's

[5:36] not effort I really want to expend

[5:38] honestly like if I can't get this thing

[5:40] up with three levels of blocks that's

[5:42] that's ridiculous to me so that's a cam

[5:45] Crown problem I I genuinely think that's

[5:47] another systems problem Campground

[5:49] should make these things more level I

[5:51] I'm shocked that they make them like

[5:53] this where where I would have to carry

[5:56] four bags of Lego bricks in order to

[5:59] make this thing level that's too much I

[6:01] don't want to carry that much

[6:03] stuff a lot of core engineer places are

[6:05] like this too and that's what I'm going

[6:07] to be staying at when I start traveling

[6:09] west so I'm going to keep encountering

[6:11] this problem and

[6:14] that's when I see friction in the

[6:19] system a whole lot of feelings go

[6:21] through my body through my mind like I

[6:23] just I don't like it because it it

[6:26] shouldn't be that way this is a pro this

[6:28] is a solvable problem problem this is a

[6:30] known problem you know but people just

[6:34] accept it I don't want to accept

[6:39] this but I don't have a choice right now

[6:43] so you know for the weekend I'm

[6:44] accepting it I guess that's how that

[6:48] works I guess that's how that works so

[6:50] I'm part of the problem too guys I am

[6:54] loving this I didn't lose my thermal

[6:56] curtains they can kind of go around the

[6:58] SL

[7:00] thing there side slide slide I guess so

[7:03] this is still

[7:04] functional I've got my solar panels up

[7:07] here I have never had a good place for

[7:09] those I have all the space I do need to

[7:11] clean the top of this

[7:13] slly um but all my camping GE and stuff

[7:16] can go up here the baskets you know are

[7:18] going to be inaccessible so I'll

[7:19] probably take those down my RGB lights

[7:22] that I've got back there may still look

[7:24] cool even even like that and I still

[7:28] have one row a string of them that I

[7:30] haven't used yet that I can put across

[7:33] this side of the slide now I've been

[7:35] waiting for an opportunity to use

[7:38] those Bailey is enjoying it I have my

[7:41] stool to get up here this is going to be

[7:44] a very functional space when I Amin

[7:47] done this is how you turn a challenge

[7:53] into a completely different way of

[7:55] looking at things like I I'm I going to

[7:58] put this into works I don't want to say

[8:00] a challenge into an opportunity it is

[8:02] more than

[8:08] that it's

[8:11] intentional it's intentional I have

[8:13] accepted this I've embraced it now it's

[8:16] just about working with

[8:19] it and there are so many things about it

[8:22] that make my life easier and better it

[8:24] Brees up space for so much

[8:27] more in my mind and even here like this

[8:30] is actually more more storage space than

[8:33] I've ever had I can actually put some of

[8:34] my clothes up here like my like summer

[8:37] or winter depending on the season just

[8:39] store them up here I've had nowhere for

[8:41] that stuff like there's just so much

[8:44] potential

[8:46] potential so Bailey and I are here uh at

[8:50] our new campsite we're going to be here

[8:52] for the weekend Monday I will go to um

[8:56] the dentist to get my teeth and then

[8:58] Tuesday I think we probably probably

[8:59] leaving we're going to start heading

[9:01] L but I want to I want to show you

[9:04] what's going on around here because it's

[9:06] kind of

[9:07] fascinating

[9:09] so my slide is not an ideal slide even

[9:13] if I got it

[9:15] fixed this problem will probably occur

[9:18] again it's just a bad design and I was

[9:23] already

[9:24] thinking how much I disliked the slide

[9:27] because it required me to reconfigure my

[9:30] space every single time I got to a

[9:34] campsite or wanted to leave like it just

[9:37] it was

[9:39] mental space and physical space

[9:43] and let me reframe that like energy it

[9:46] was mental and physical energy that I

[9:48] had to invest every single time I wanted

[9:51] to move this thing and I hated it I

[9:53] absolutely hated

[9:54] it so I had already been thinking is

[9:57] there a way for me to get away with just

[9:59] having to slide in here like do I have

[10:02] to have this slide out but I don't think

[10:04] I would

[10:05] have gotten to that

[10:08] point where I am

[10:11] now

[10:13] if I hadn't taken it to the shop and

[10:16] discover just how much of a problem the

[10:17] slide really is so with that preface the

[10:22] slide is still in I've been here for

[10:24] several hours and I have been adapting

[10:26] and reframing and rethinking this space

[10:30] completely and I have fully embraced and

[10:33] accepted it already I love it now this

[10:37] is probably going to talk to of you

[10:39] because I don't even have a bed right

[10:41] now I threw my I threw my mattress out I

[10:43] had them throw it in the dumpster and

[10:45] where I thought I could build kind of

[10:47] like a space for a bed actually won't

[10:49] work because once the side was in I

[10:51] realized oh it also has balls on the

[10:53] side so took up some of the space that

[10:57] I was in anticipating being able to use

[11:00] that

[11:01] way but I'm not stressed about it I'll

[11:05] deal with it um somehow I don't even

[11:08] know how yet maybe I'll get a cot or

[11:10] maybe I will sleep on the floor I

[11:11] haven't I really just don't know yet but

[11:13] for me this is exactly what I needed it

[11:17] has brought me immense pleasure and let

[11:20] me show you why so this is this is the

[11:23] bad alov

[11:24] area it's too you know there's not

[11:26] enough room to lay flat on it so I don't

[11:29] know what I'll do with it it might

[11:31] become a storage just a space to hang

[11:34] out maybe I'll get some kind of padding

[11:36] here maybe this becomes a couch I don't

[11:38] know a living area in fact you know what

[11:40] I think that's what it's going to be I

[11:42] don't know what I'll do over here yet

[11:44] it's just a small little bit of a space

[11:47] um but there's my um my new power

[11:49] adapter how cool is that or not power

[11:51] adapter what is that called surge

[11:52] protector it's a built-in one so I never

[11:56] have to worry about that again I'll have

[11:58] to move this stuff cuz you know it

[11:59] doesn't make sense there anymore I'll

[12:01] have to insulate all the slide mechanism

[12:04] stuff here especially cuz I'm heading to

[12:06] the Pacific Northwest I'll need to move

[12:08] my picture so that I can see it better

[12:11] you know I love that picture but here's

[12:14] what makes it really

[12:16] special I actually gain storage

[12:20] space above my slide I can now put my

[12:24] solar panels out of the wing something I

[12:27] haven't been able to do in 6 months I

[12:29] won't be able to use these baskets um

[12:31] they're just not reachable but I have

[12:33] all this space I'm going to put my

[12:35] camping gear up here and I don't even

[12:37] know what else we'll see my solar stuff

[12:40] down here in the corner strapped down

[12:42] perfectly during the drive not a single

[12:44] problem my desktop's working you know no

[12:47] problems with any of this stuff I think

[12:50] because the space is smaller now see we

[12:52] just have this hallway here I might get

[12:56] a different like desk or something maybe

[12:58] like half the size cuz I don't you know

[13:00] I don't know maybe you know I'm still

[13:02] thinking it through I've already

[13:04] embraced it this is what I'm doing I am

[13:06] happy about this and now I have nothing

[13:10] but possibilities to

[13:12] explore I have had an opip this is

[13:16] definitely going to be the lounge area

[13:17] and I can put my desktop over there and

[13:21] mount my monitor probably up here to

[13:24] this and this space will just be a

[13:26] lounge area where I can work where I can

[13:28] play games video games where I can watch

[13:30] movies off of my

[13:32] monitor meley can chill here as you can

[13:35] see he loves to do that and then this

[13:37] area here becomes auminum space where I

[13:40] can do whatever I want you know if I

[13:42] want to start cooking now I've got space

[13:44] for it or I can work on my book Nooks or

[13:48] just anything this space has not been

[13:50] easy to use because the keyboard the

[13:52] mouse the monitor all that stuff gets in

[13:54] the way now this area can be just

[13:58] cleared off

[14:00] I can have all my other you know have my

[14:02] My leisur Le and work stuff going on

[14:04] over there oh and it be you know that's

[14:06] where I'll sleep for now maybe at an

[14:08] angle or something until I figure

[14:09] something out just temporarily so that's

[14:12] the plan um I'm just going to have to

[14:14] find out if there's any stores around

[14:16] here cuz I have no

[14:17] idea um I'm just going to keep working

[14:20] on this space I that's what I'm doing

[14:22] this weekend working on the space

[14:24] getting prepared because

[14:27] Monday is you know the last thing I need

[14:29] to do here and then we're out of here I

[14:31] am so excited I am just brimming with

[14:34] excitement like I just cannot wait to go

2:19

Sitting at Green River Overlook

Aug 26, 2024

4:37

Addressing Audience Misalignment and Ending the Bridge Attempt

Aug 27, 2024

47:39

Hiking Mammoth Cave and Scheduling RV Repairs

Aug 27, 2024

34:37

Deciding on Park Service Work at Mammoth Cave

Aug 28, 2024

12:41

Sharing Trail Space With Deer for an Hour

Aug 28, 2024

12:32

Driving to Dental Appointment, Reconnecting With Mother

Aug 29, 2024

34:33

Preparing RV Systems Ahead of Labor Day Crowd

Aug 29, 2024

11:40

Announcing Channel Rename Toward Nomadic Thinker Direction

Aug 30, 2024

6:06

Walking to the Campground Shower in Pajamas

Aug 30, 2024

10:31

Clarifying Reflection Without Self-Judgment

Aug 30, 2024

22:10

Piercing Ears in Bowling Green on Labor Day Weekend

Aug 31, 2024

50:40

Aftercare, Mammoth Cave Trails, and Boundary Statements

Aug 31, 2024

1:00

Documenting Cartilage Piercing Aftercare

Sep 1, 2024

13:24

Removing Window Reflectors, Deploying Duckies Across Campground

Sep 1, 2024

3:18

Recounting Mammoth Cave Encounter and Ear Piercing Pain

Sep 2, 2024

4:09

Explaining Integrated Awareness and Comment Removal

Sep 2, 2024

1:53

Distinguishing Integrated Cognition from Fragmented Processing

Sep 2, 2024

2:50

Changing Ear Piercings While Speaking on Integration

Sep 3, 2024

1:30

Documenting Park Cottage Conditions at 4AM

Sep 3, 2024

5:33

Tracing the Origins of Judgment from a Bathtub

Sep 4, 2024

3:04

Reframing Height Awareness as Integrated Cognition

Sep 4, 2024

3:24

Showing Bailey's Carrier Setup and Rejecting Compromise

Sep 4, 2024

1:19

Ending the Onus of Being Understood

Sep 5, 2024

3:53

Declaring an End to Adjusting His Language

Sep 5, 2024

4:44

Duck Drops, RV Repairs, and Channel Direction Shift

Sep 5, 2024

5:34

Reclaiming Ender, Removing the RV Slide

Sep 6, 2024

14:38

Retiring the Slide-Out, Preparing to Leave Kentucky

Sep 6, 2024

11:53

Departing Kentucky for the Pacific Northwest Coast

Sep 7, 2024

6:16

Naming Fear Before Pacific Northwest Winter

Sep 7, 2024

4:04

Documenting RV Slide-Out as Systemic Failure

Sep 7, 2024

4:10

Preparing RV Departure After Dental Work

Sep 8, 2024

Photos · Sep 9, 2024

Sep 9, 2024

Photos · Sep 9, 2024

Sep 9, 2024

Photos · Sep 9, 2024

Sep 9, 2024

6:06

Departing Nan River Lake, Heading West Alone

Sep 12, 2024

Photos · Sep 13, 2024

Sep 13, 2024

Photos · Sep 13, 2024

Sep 13, 2024

Photos · Sep 13, 2024

Sep 13, 2024

3:07

Clarifying Platform Use and Unheeded Unsubscribe Request

Sep 15, 2024

2:11

Testing Threat Response After False Bear Alarm

Sep 16, 2024

14:12

Explaining Direct Address and Preparing to Depart

Sep 18, 2024

PUBLIC

September 6, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED

Temp 0.60

Density 0.60

Energetic Quality

kinetic, sharpening into elation

Journey Phase

transitional — actively reconfiguring

Directional Vector

toward departure and spatial redesign

Narrative

The first frame of the day is autumn — the earliest turning of color in the Kentucky trees, caught and named and then set down, because rswfire will not be here to watch it finish. He says it plainly: they're leaving this week. One day for the dentures, and then the road. He isn't waiting around. The Jeep is packed past capacity, so overpacked there's no room left for anything, and Bailey is in it, complaining. rswfire puts his headphones on. He names the mode he's in — no nonsense — and states it as a shift he makes deliberately, gears changed when it's time to change them. Today the sequence is fixed: deal with the RV, get to the new campground, set up, prepare for Monday, prepare to leave Kentucky.

Nine in the morning at Blue Compass, and the request he brings in is not a repair. Push the slide in and destroy the bed platform. They agree, and then the shape of the day starts bending — they'll need until afternoon, and he has a cat in a carrier and no cat sitter and no plan for the hours between. He begins working the problem aloud, litter box, somewhere to be, thinking it through, and then the plan changes again from the other direction: they can't tear the platform out, there's storage underneath it, and removing it wouldn't buy him much room anyway. The slide is fine for a few months, the tech says. If it's only a few months and he isn't bringing it out, rswfire decides, he'll live with it. The work shortens. They finish up. He and Bailey go.

On the drive to the next campground he lays out what he already knows: the slide isn't sitting flush, which means insulation, insects, hot and cold air moving through a seam that shouldn't exist — and he's headed to Washington, into rain, into winter. The parts are weeks out here. So the fix travels with him. There are Blue Compass locations in Washington; he'll order it there, deal with it there. Nevada first, then west. We're adapting in real time. He states that the certainty of eventual resolution is what keeps the stress off it, and that the tolerating is a known cost, not a surprise.

Then he finds the actual reason underneath the reason. He hates the slide, and it isn't the seam. It's that every time it comes in or out, he has to reconfigure his entire space. He likes flux; he also requires a certain stability in his environment, and moving everything each time he arrives or leaves is deeply frustrating. He revises the language mid-sentence — not mental space and physical space but mental and physical energy, the real currency being spent. And he says he had already been circling the question of whether he could get away with keeping the slide in permanently. He doesn't think he'd have arrived here without the shop visit forcing it.

At the new site he can't get level. Three courses of blocks and the trailer still sits wrong, and rswfire declines to spend the effort a fourth would take. He names it: a campground problem, a systems problem, and the Corps of Engineers sites he's heading toward will be the same. A whole lot of feelings move through his body and through his mind at the point of friction, and what he says about them is that it shouldn't be this way — it's a solvable problem, a known problem, and people accept it. He doesn't want to accept it. He doesn't have a choice this weekend. He accepts it. So I'm part of the problem too, guys.

Then, hours in, the elation arrives — not as relief but as design. The thermal curtains survived; they wrap around the slide face. The top of the retracted slide has made an alcove, and the solar panels, which have been in his way for six months, go up there. Camping gear up there. Some of the baskets will be unreachable, so those come down. The unused string of RGB lights, saved for an occasion, finally has a wall to cross. He is standing in more storage than he has ever had, and he says outright that this isn't framing — it genuinely feels like more space. He rejects the softer version of the idea when it comes to him: not a challenge turned into an opportunity. More than that. It's intentional.

There is no bed. The mattress went into the dumpster, the platform stayed, and the alcove he'd counted on turns out to have bolts along the side eating the room he'd measured in his head. He doesn't know how he's sleeping. A cot, maybe, or the floor, or at an angle in the new lounge, temporarily, until he figures it out. He is not stressed about it. What he does instead is zone the trailer: this end becomes the lounge, monitor mounted, desktop moved, a place to work and play games and watch movies with Bailey settled beside him; the far end becomes open — cooking if he wants it, book nooks, anything, because the keyboard and mouse and monitor will no longer be in the way of it. The slide mechanism needs insulating before the Pacific Northwest. The picture needs rehanging where he can see it. The surge protector is built in now, one thing he'll never have to think about again.

Bailey is enjoying it. The solar gear rode strapped down in the corner without a single problem. Monday is the dentist, Tuesday is probably the road, and the weekend between them is his to spend building the space out. rswfire says he is brimming with excitement, that he cannot wait to go, and that what he has now is nothing but possibilities to explore.

Summary

rswfire records a multi-part capture across a single day of RV work and departure preparation in Kentucky, traveling with his cat Bailey.

He opens by noting the first signs of autumn and states he won't be present for it — he receives dentures on Monday and plans to leave as early as Tuesday, heading west toward Nevada and eventually Washington. He names the day's mode directly: "no nonsense."

At the RV shop he asks the technicians to push the slide-out in permanently and remove the bed platform. The plan is revised on site: the platform can't be torn out because a storage bay sits beneath it, and the slide is left in but not flush, creating insulation, air, and insect exposure. Parts are weeks out, so he decides to have a Blue Compass location in Washington order the fix. He states the situation isn't stressing him and that they are adapting in real time.

At the new campground he documents the reconfigured interior: solar panels stored in the alcove above the retracted slide, camping gear relocated, thermal curtains repurposed, a built-in surge protector, an area designated as a lounge/work space and another as open working space. His mattress was thrown in a dumpster; sleeping arrangements are undecided — cot, floor, or angled placement.

He also flags campsite leveling as a systems problem, noting three levels of blocks were insufficient and that the same friction recurs across Corps of Engineers sites he'll travel through.

Environment

Recorded across a single day in transit in Kentucky, moving between three locations: an outdoor site at the departing campground where autumn color is visible, the Blue Compass RV service shop, and a new campground site where the RV is parked for the weekend.

The interior environment is a travel trailer with a malfunctioning slide-out that has been retracted and left in. The Jeep is packed to capacity. Bailey the cat is present throughout — in a carrier at the shop, then settling into the reconfigured interior. The mattress has been discarded; the bed platform is gone; solar panels, camping gear, thermal curtains, RGB lights, a desktop and monitor, and a built-in surge protector are the material inventory being re-placed. Forward context is Nevada, then Washington and the Pacific Northwest for winter.

Substrate

The signal holds a constraint-as-generator architecture: a mechanical failure removes an option, and rather than restoring the prior configuration, rswfire treats the removal as a design input and rebuilds the entire spatial logic around it. He explicitly rejects the 'challenge into opportunity' framing as insufficient and names the move as intentional — the acceptance is not consolation but a chosen architecture. Beneath it runs a systems-diagnostic stance applied outward as well: unlevel campground pads and a poorly designed slide are named as solvable known problems that the system declines to solve, and he registers his own weekend accommodation of that as participation in the same pattern.

Actions

Performed

•filming the first autumn color
•recording at the RV shop while waiting
•recording in transit to the new campground
•narrating the slide's insulation and pest implications
•diagnosing campground pad leveling as a systems problem
•walking the camera through the reconfigured interior
•assigning solar panels and camping gear to the new overhead space
•designating the bed alcove as a lounge area
•reframing mental/physical space as energy expenditure
•stating acceptance of the retracted slide as intentional
•tracking Bailey's behavior in the changed space

Referenced

•took the RV to the shop and discovered the extent of the slide problem
•asked the shop to push the slide in and destroy the bed platform
•had the mattress thrown in the dumpster
•packed the Jeep past capacity
•could not find a cat sitter
•learned the parts would take weeks to arrive
•was told the retracted slide is fine for a few months
•attempted leveling with three levels of blocks
•had already been thinking about eliminating the slide-out entirely
•spent six months with no good place for the solar panels
•drove to the new campground with gear strapped down

Planned

•get dentures Monday
•leave Tuesday or that week
•head west to Nevada, then Washington
•have a Washington Blue Compass order the slide part
•insulate the slide mechanism before the Pacific Northwest
•find a cot or sleep on the floor temporarily
•sleep at an angle in the cleared area for now
•mount the monitor and relocate the desktop
•get a smaller desk
•run the unused RGB light string across the slide face
•take down the unreachable baskets
•store off-season clothes overhead
•clean the top of the slide
•move the picture to a visible position
•use the cleared area for cooking and book nook work
•spend the weekend working on the space
•locate nearby stores

Entities

beings

Bailey — Cat traveling with rswfire; present at the shop, in the Jeep, and settling into the reconfigured interior

places

Kentucky — Departure point; the state being left this week

Nevada — First westward destination in the route

Washington — Winter destination; where the slide part will be ordered and the repair handled

Pacific Northwest — Regional context driving the insulation and rain-sealing requirements

systems

Blue Compass — RV service chain; the shop that retracted the slide and the network that will handle the repair in Washington

Jeep — Tow/transport vehicle, packed beyond capacity

the slide-out — Failed RV mechanism, not flush; the constraint the entire signal reorganizes around

solar panels — Power infrastructure that finally has dedicated placement above the retracted slide

surge protector — Newly built-in electrical component removing a recurring maintenance concern

campground pads — Unlevel sites named as a known, solvable, unaddressed design failure across campgrounds and Corps of Engineers sites

concepts

dentures — Monday dental appointment; the last obligation anchoring him to Kentucky

reframing — Named process he distinguishes from mere positive framing — he states the space genuinely feels larger

book nooks — Craft work the newly cleared area will accommodate

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

threshold

first frost / turning season

contraction

alcove

the road west

friction

the discarded bed

overhead space

the packed vehicle

light strings

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

sovereign (decides unilaterally to have the bed platform destroyed and the slide left in, on his own timeline)

transitional (mid-departure, between campgrounds, between configurations, between states)

adaptive-in-real-time (names 'we're adapting in real time' as the operating mode when parts and repairs are unavailable)

integrating (constraint absorbed into design rather than resisted; acceptance stated as intentional, not resigned)

diagnostic (registers unlevel pads and slide design as systems problems, including his own weekend participation in them)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

infrastructural (RV mechanical systems, insulation, electrical, solar, leveling)

spatial-design (full re-zoning of interior into lounge, work, and open areas)

logistical (route sequencing, parts ordering across states, appointment timing, cat care)

cognitive (explicit mode-shifting, thinking-it-through, reframing named as an operation)

somatic (feelings tracked moving through body and mind at the point of system friction; embodied dislike of repeated reconfiguration)

relational (Bailey's state monitored and read against his own)

systems-critique (campground and manufacturer design failures identified as solvable and unsolved)

energetic-economy (mental and physical energy explicitly named as the true cost of the slide)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

no nonsense / it's time to go

adapting in real time

reframe / rethink / embrace

it's intentional

friction in the system / solvable known problem

space — mental, physical, storage

possibilities / potential

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