Cooking Chili in the RV Before Christmas

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[0:00] so it's been a while since I made chili

[0:02] with you guys we're going to do that

[0:04] tonight so I have something for

[0:06] Christmas something to eat without

[0:07] having to

[0:08] cook I got to do a little bit of

[0:10] cleaning first look at my space it looks

[0:12] so nice I love this I mean that's you

[0:14] know I'm working on that stuff but I got

[0:16] my computer going now I'm so happy about

[0:19] this I got all three of my ents I was

[0:21] able to keep those the wires are hidden

[0:24] the cables aren't really in the way you

[0:26] can ignore the ones that you see really

[0:28] that thing kind of annoy meat always on

[0:31] got to do a bit of cleaning over here

[0:33] first before we get started playing with

[0:35] my lights I want to get some more cuz my

[0:38] last ones were they broke on me so I

[0:40] started tearing those down tearing those

[0:42] down I need to get new ones when I can

[0:44] afford it and just do some work in here

[0:48] with the lighting make things nice and

[0:51] pretty yeah we're going to make really

[0:52] good chili

[0:54] tonight my eyes are running and my nose

[0:57] is running it's cuz I made the very

[0:59] impulsive decision to eat that onion

[1:02] raw maybe don't do that but we got

[1:05] onions here we're going to put them in

[1:06] here get some oil

[1:10] going wait wrong one this

[1:13] one just going to put some oil in there

[1:16] let those start cooking get the garlic

[1:18] ready okay let's get the onions in

[1:22] there I cut them at different sizes and

[1:25] stuff on purpose

[1:30] all right I got to get that okay we got

[1:32] onions going mixed in the

[1:37] oil

[1:38] yay I got my garlic over here I'm

[1:41] working on

[1:42] it for the record I know from the last

[1:46] time I did this that you're not supposed

[1:48] to use a whole garlic or you're going to

[1:50] smell for two days apparently it comes

[1:52] out your pores but you know what I like

[1:54] garlic so I was going to use the whole

[1:56] thing but I have a real hard time

[1:58] getting these papers off maybe one of

[2:00] y'all can teach me how to do that cuz

[2:03] it's quite a chore so we've got six

[2:07] little cloves I'm going to try to get

[2:08] the rest though yeah was actually pretty

[2:10] funny I made some kind of weird meal and

[2:13] I put the whole garlic in there and then

[2:14] claw thei basically laughed at me for

[2:17] eating the whole garlic I had no idea

[2:20] that I would smell for 2 days but I was

[2:22] fine with

[2:23] it so we're going to let these cook I

[2:25] don't know how long I'm supposed to do

[2:27] this for done forgotten

[2:31] just let them cook for a while I guess

[2:33] we got nine garlics here but a couple

[2:36] are real tiny so let's call it seven I

[2:39] even got one of those little mashing

[2:41] things

[2:43] somewhere probably in

[2:48] here there we go these are very hard to

[2:52] clean by the way very hard to clean now

[2:55] we do got to wait cuz garlic Cooks real

[2:57] fast I learned that last time

[3:00] so we want to put that in once these

[3:03] onions are

[3:05] ready I don't do tripods and stuff this

[3:07] isn't meant to be some kind of cooking

[3:09] video this is just me sharing my cooking

[3:11] with you just to be

[3:15] clear wonder if these taste good

[3:18] now I don't know why I ate a raw onion I

[3:21] never do stuff like that I never make

[3:25] onions but it was good my eyes are still

[3:28] stinging though

[3:32] can't remember if these were already

[3:33] yellowish or if that's from the cooking

[3:36] process and that's how you know this is

[3:39] also a learning process for me

[3:43] guys I never cooked a day in my life at

[3:45] time moving this

[3:50] RV and I've been learning getting better

[3:53] at everything that I

[3:55] do that's why I share these videos there

[3:58] are other people out there who

[4:01] oh I can help feel

[4:03] seen I really need advice not asking for

[4:06] advice don't give me your chili recipes

[4:07] crap like that you don't do that unless

[4:10] I ask a direct question like how do I

[4:12] deal with this garlic that's all I

[4:14] really want to know cuz I'm

[4:16] experimenting I'm a sovereign being just

[4:18] like you respect the sovereignty it got

[4:22] gooey

[4:30] I don't think it's ready yet I don't

[4:32] know I you even

[4:38] tell rhetorical

[4:46] question definitely different than being

[4:48] raw I liked it better

[4:53] raw I have a feeling these already

[4:55] though so let's get the garlic in there

[4:58] I me both hands for that all right you

[5:01] got to be quick about that it's in there

[5:04] I mashed it all up I'll show you the

[5:06] mashing thing in a

[5:09] minute but if you don't do this fast it

[5:12] burns real

[5:16] quick

[5:18] probably well we'll give this just a

[5:20] minute and then we'll turn the heat off

[5:22] while we prepare for the next

[5:26] stop L the garlic yay

[5:40] so I guess it's just little bits all

[5:42] over the

[5:51] place that's what this thing looks like

[5:53] when you're all done it is just a messy

[5:56] thing it is very hard to clean very hard

[5:58] to I don't even know yeah it's just

[6:00] whatever is what it is I think we should

[6:03] just keep stirring this so it doesn't

[6:10] burn you want it to come out

[6:19] nice

[6:21] okay I'm going to say that's probably

[6:23] good enough I don't know what this is

[6:25] probably Forest debris because

[6:27] everything

[6:29] CU that is just the way you live in an

[6:31] RV and the freaking cap Blanco you got

[6:34] lots of lots of forest debris to deal

[6:37] with there it is again I should have got

[6:38] it B okay let's just take this piece

[6:43] out all

[6:46] right yeah that's looking good so we're

[6:48] going to stop this real

[6:51] fast we're going to put I'm going to put

[6:53] this in a dish or something okay we're

[6:55] just going to set that aside while we

[6:57] cook the hamburger meat now so this

[6:59] might take a while I made the lazy

[7:02] mistake and got Frozen at the dollar

[7:06] store cuz I didn't want to go

[7:08] to the grocery store if I didn't have to

[7:11] which I ended up having to go to anyways

[7:14] should have got some burgers there some

[7:16] meat there but I'll just break this up

[7:19] and you know we'll get it done so this

[7:21] was exceptionally difficult you will

[7:24] want to avoid Frozen if you can cuz

[7:27] there's no way this cooked evenly but

[7:29] boy did I hurt my hand trying to do this

[7:32] my poor hands that have been programming

[7:34] all their life have garpo tunnel by now

[7:37] absolutely aching right now from this so

[7:41] yeah don't do Frozen that was a mistake

[7:45] but this is how you learn this is just

[7:47] adaptation just do it anyways take what

[7:51] comes at you and deal with

[7:53] it so that's what we're doing all right

[7:56] that's done small space that means I

[7:59] don't have a

[8:00] strainer or you know where to put stuff

[8:02] don't dump stuff down the sink all that

[8:04] so BL the paper towel out to get rid of

[8:07] this grease

[8:09] nice we're just going to put these back

[8:11] in

[8:14] there put it on

[8:17] low mix this all

[8:24] together I could almost eat it just like

[8:27] this something about this looks good to

[8:28] me

[8:30] onions hamburger and garlic add some

[8:37] salt I don't know I think because my cor

[8:40] muscles are

[8:41] sore they've been craving certain things

[8:43] so it's kind of like that like my body

[8:46] is just craving certain things so this

[8:47] actually looks appealing to

[8:53] me it has been demanding I feed it a

[8:57] lot while it's been healing

[9:03] feeling okay I need to take a break cuz

[9:05] I got to ask a i CLA what's

[9:08] next um basically beans probably and

[9:11] then spices the V8 I don't know I'm just

[9:14] going to catch it up cuz I'm making a

[9:16] special chili we're going to put brown

[9:17] sugar in there and chocolate um I don't

[9:21] remember when you do that I bet you do

[9:22] that now actually let me find out all

[9:24] right my phone needs to charge it's at

[9:26] 5% so next you just add one taable spoon

[9:29] of brown sugar 1 tbspoon of chocolate

[9:32] cocoa powder or maybe teaspoon I have to

[9:35] look um of each then mix it in there

[9:38] then put in your V8 then put in your

[9:40] beans put in your your diced tomatoes

[9:43] all of that and then then you'll do the

[9:45] spices next now I'll come back to you s

[9:48] beans have batteries got this thing

[9:50] going now all right let's do this brown

[9:53] sugar and the cocoa in there I can't

[9:57] guarantee I got the measurements right

[9:59] because you know it's

[10:00] mean uh it looks a very strange

[10:03] unnatural color but Claude said not to

[10:05] worry about that and to do it while it

[10:08] was warm so that it would melt better um

[10:11] I did have it on low I had to turn it

[10:13] back on medium nobody says it has to be

[10:17] perfect do this a 100 times and maybe

[10:19] you get good at it if you're mean cuz is

[10:22] definitely a thing that you got to

[10:25] practice

[10:26] at we're just going to give it a try

[10:29] this just see what it tastes like my

[10:30] taste buds just want to taste stuff

[10:33] today what does this taste

[10:40] like holy crap I don't hate that oh my

[10:43] God that so good oh my

[10:46] God oh my God I could just eat

[10:51] this

[10:56] okay that [ __ ] brilliant holy crap

[11:00] let's put this on

[11:03] low okay let me get my cans ready we're

[11:06] going to put in two cans of diced

[11:07] tomatoes because we love tomatoes right

[11:10] tomatoes are good for

[11:12] chilling so lots of those it's got green

[11:15] chilies in there too but whatever we

[11:17] just wanted the tomatoes I bet we could

[11:20] eat this too M I'm so

[11:23] hungry that's what it is I'm hungry I'll

[11:27] eat anything right now

[11:32] okay so

[11:35] now let's put our V8 in well let's get

[11:38] the beans first let's do the beans I got

[11:40] lots of beans over

[11:42] here probably too many okay we'll start

[11:45] with two cans and again RV so Bean Juice

[11:49] goes into a Ziploc bag not with the

[11:51] trash see just like

[11:54] that spilling it everywhere there all

[11:56] over my hands and everything okay so

[11:58] we're just going to go with kidney beans

[11:59] for now I know this a little bit chaotic

[12:02] but this is how I

[12:05] work okay

[12:10] so definitely need be

[12:15] a that brown liquid but that was just a

[12:17] tomato juice

[12:20] and why is it so probably the chocolate

[12:23] I don't know let's pretend that's not

[12:25] grease who knows though it probably is

[12:27] let's get some V8 in there you know what

[12:29] it's water water from the

[12:32] tomatoes so yeah it's not all grease

[12:35] don't worry about that okay let's get

[12:37] some V8 in here lots of

[12:41] that just dump it in

[12:44] there you know what this don't seem

[12:47] thick enough to me probably need tomato

[12:49] paste which I don't have any of that so

[12:52] my tomato um diced tomato water really

[12:57] ruined this a little bit let's put some

[12:59] more V8 in

[13:00] there let's just make well we don't want

[13:03] to be all soupy either

[13:05] though okay

[13:08] so how to fix

[13:11] this could add more

[13:13] [Music]

[13:16] beans I don't

[13:18] know I don't know we're going to try it

[13:21] I don't care I'll eat it so next we're

[13:24] going to add the spices and that's you

[13:26] know there's no like science to that I

[13:28] just get all the pretty colors out and I

[13:30] just dump them in there and that's

[13:33] basically it there's my video

[0:00] so it's been a while since I made chili

[0:02] with you guys we're going to do that

[0:04] tonight so I have something for

[0:06] Christmas something to eat without

[0:07] having to

[0:08] cook I got to do a little bit of

[0:10] cleaning first look at my space it looks

[0:12] so nice I love this I mean that's you

[0:14] know I'm working on that stuff but I got

[0:16] my computer going now I'm so happy about

[0:19] this I got all three of my ents I was

[0:21] able to keep those the wires are hidden

[0:24] the cables aren't really in the way you

[0:26] can ignore the ones that you see really

[0:28] that thing kind of annoy meat always on

[0:31] got to do a bit of cleaning over here

[0:33] first before we get started playing with

[0:35] my lights I want to get some more cuz my

[0:38] last ones were they broke on me so I

[0:40] started tearing those down tearing those

[0:42] down I need to get new ones when I can

[0:44] afford it and just do some work in here

[0:48] with the lighting make things nice and

[0:51] pretty yeah we're going to make really

[0:52] good chili

[0:54] tonight my eyes are running and my nose

[0:57] is running it's cuz I made the very

[0:59] impulsive decision to eat that onion

[1:02] raw maybe don't do that but we got

[1:05] onions here we're going to put them in

[1:06] here get some oil

[1:10] going wait wrong one this

[1:13] one just going to put some oil in there

[1:16] let those start cooking get the garlic

[1:18] ready okay let's get the onions in

[1:22] there I cut them at different sizes and

[1:25] stuff on purpose

[1:30] all right I got to get that okay we got

[1:32] onions going mixed in the

[1:37] oil

[1:38] yay I got my garlic over here I'm

[1:41] working on

[1:42] it for the record I know from the last

[1:46] time I did this that you're not supposed

[1:48] to use a whole garlic or you're going to

[1:50] smell for two days apparently it comes

[1:52] out your pores but you know what I like

[1:54] garlic so I was going to use the whole

[1:56] thing but I have a real hard time

[1:58] getting these papers off maybe one of

[2:00] y'all can teach me how to do that cuz

[2:03] it's quite a chore so we've got six

[2:07] little cloves I'm going to try to get

[2:08] the rest though yeah was actually pretty

[2:10] funny I made some kind of weird meal and

[2:13] I put the whole garlic in there and then

[2:14] claw thei basically laughed at me for

[2:17] eating the whole garlic I had no idea

[2:20] that I would smell for 2 days but I was

[2:22] fine with

[2:23] it so we're going to let these cook I

[2:25] don't know how long I'm supposed to do

[2:27] this for done forgotten

[2:31] just let them cook for a while I guess

[2:33] we got nine garlics here but a couple

[2:36] are real tiny so let's call it seven I

[2:39] even got one of those little mashing

[2:41] things

[2:43] somewhere probably in

[2:48] here there we go these are very hard to

[2:52] clean by the way very hard to clean now

[2:55] we do got to wait cuz garlic Cooks real

[2:57] fast I learned that last time

[3:00] so we want to put that in once these

[3:03] onions are

[3:05] ready I don't do tripods and stuff this

[3:07] isn't meant to be some kind of cooking

[3:09] video this is just me sharing my cooking

[3:11] with you just to be

[3:15] clear wonder if these taste good

[3:18] now I don't know why I ate a raw onion I

[3:21] never do stuff like that I never make

[3:25] onions but it was good my eyes are still

[3:28] stinging though

[3:32] can't remember if these were already

[3:33] yellowish or if that's from the cooking

[3:36] process and that's how you know this is

[3:39] also a learning process for me

[3:43] guys I never cooked a day in my life at

[3:45] time moving this

[3:50] RV and I've been learning getting better

[3:53] at everything that I

[3:55] do that's why I share these videos there

[3:58] are other people out there who

[4:01] oh I can help feel

[4:03] seen I really need advice not asking for

[4:06] advice don't give me your chili recipes

[4:07] crap like that you don't do that unless

[4:10] I ask a direct question like how do I

[4:12] deal with this garlic that's all I

[4:14] really want to know cuz I'm

[4:16] experimenting I'm a sovereign being just

[4:18] like you respect the sovereignty it got

[4:22] gooey

[4:30] I don't think it's ready yet I don't

[4:32] know I you even

[4:38] tell rhetorical

[4:46] question definitely different than being

[4:48] raw I liked it better

[4:53] raw I have a feeling these already

[4:55] though so let's get the garlic in there

[4:58] I me both hands for that all right you

[5:01] got to be quick about that it's in there

[5:04] I mashed it all up I'll show you the

[5:06] mashing thing in a

[5:09] minute but if you don't do this fast it

[5:12] burns real

[5:16] quick

[5:18] probably well we'll give this just a

[5:20] minute and then we'll turn the heat off

[5:22] while we prepare for the next

[5:26] stop L the garlic yay

[5:40] so I guess it's just little bits all

[5:42] over the

[5:51] place that's what this thing looks like

[5:53] when you're all done it is just a messy

[5:56] thing it is very hard to clean very hard

[5:58] to I don't even know yeah it's just

[6:00] whatever is what it is I think we should

[6:03] just keep stirring this so it doesn't

[6:10] burn you want it to come out

[6:19] nice

[6:21] okay I'm going to say that's probably

[6:23] good enough I don't know what this is

[6:25] probably Forest debris because

[6:27] everything

[6:29] CU that is just the way you live in an

[6:31] RV and the freaking cap Blanco you got

[6:34] lots of lots of forest debris to deal

[6:37] with there it is again I should have got

[6:38] it B okay let's just take this piece

[6:43] out all

[6:46] right yeah that's looking good so we're

[6:48] going to stop this real

[6:51] fast we're going to put I'm going to put

[6:53] this in a dish or something okay we're

[6:55] just going to set that aside while we

[6:57] cook the hamburger meat now so this

[6:59] might take a while I made the lazy

[7:02] mistake and got Frozen at the dollar

[7:06] store cuz I didn't want to go

[7:08] to the grocery store if I didn't have to

[7:11] which I ended up having to go to anyways

[7:14] should have got some burgers there some

[7:16] meat there but I'll just break this up

[7:19] and you know we'll get it done so this

[7:21] was exceptionally difficult you will

[7:24] want to avoid Frozen if you can cuz

[7:27] there's no way this cooked evenly but

[7:29] boy did I hurt my hand trying to do this

[7:32] my poor hands that have been programming

[7:34] all their life have garpo tunnel by now

[7:37] absolutely aching right now from this so

[7:41] yeah don't do Frozen that was a mistake

[7:45] but this is how you learn this is just

[7:47] adaptation just do it anyways take what

[7:51] comes at you and deal with

[7:53] it so that's what we're doing all right

[7:56] that's done small space that means I

[7:59] don't have a

[8:00] strainer or you know where to put stuff

[8:02] don't dump stuff down the sink all that

[8:04] so BL the paper towel out to get rid of

[8:07] this grease

[8:09] nice we're just going to put these back

[8:11] in

[8:14] there put it on

[8:17] low mix this all

[8:24] together I could almost eat it just like

[8:27] this something about this looks good to

[8:28] me

[8:30] onions hamburger and garlic add some

[8:37] salt I don't know I think because my cor

[8:40] muscles are

[8:41] sore they've been craving certain things

[8:43] so it's kind of like that like my body

[8:46] is just craving certain things so this

[8:47] actually looks appealing to

[8:53] me it has been demanding I feed it a

[8:57] lot while it's been healing

[9:03] feeling okay I need to take a break cuz

[9:05] I got to ask a i CLA what's

[9:08] next um basically beans probably and

[9:11] then spices the V8 I don't know I'm just

[9:14] going to catch it up cuz I'm making a

[9:16] special chili we're going to put brown

[9:17] sugar in there and chocolate um I don't

[9:21] remember when you do that I bet you do

[9:22] that now actually let me find out all

[9:24] right my phone needs to charge it's at

[9:26] 5% so next you just add one taable spoon

[9:29] of brown sugar 1 tbspoon of chocolate

[9:32] cocoa powder or maybe teaspoon I have to

[9:35] look um of each then mix it in there

[9:38] then put in your V8 then put in your

[9:40] beans put in your your diced tomatoes

[9:43] all of that and then then you'll do the

[9:45] spices next now I'll come back to you s

[9:48] beans have batteries got this thing

[9:50] going now all right let's do this brown

[9:53] sugar and the cocoa in there I can't

[9:57] guarantee I got the measurements right

[9:59] because you know it's

[10:00] mean uh it looks a very strange

[10:03] unnatural color but Claude said not to

[10:05] worry about that and to do it while it

[10:08] was warm so that it would melt better um

[10:11] I did have it on low I had to turn it

[10:13] back on medium nobody says it has to be

[10:17] perfect do this a 100 times and maybe

[10:19] you get good at it if you're mean cuz is

[10:22] definitely a thing that you got to

[10:25] practice

[10:26] at we're just going to give it a try

[10:29] this just see what it tastes like my

[10:30] taste buds just want to taste stuff

[10:33] today what does this taste

[10:40] like holy crap I don't hate that oh my

[10:43] God that so good oh my

[10:46] God oh my God I could just eat

[10:51] this

[10:56] okay that [ __ ] brilliant holy crap

[11:00] let's put this on

[11:03] low okay let me get my cans ready we're

[11:06] going to put in two cans of diced

[11:07] tomatoes because we love tomatoes right

[11:10] tomatoes are good for

[11:12] chilling so lots of those it's got green

[11:15] chilies in there too but whatever we

[11:17] just wanted the tomatoes I bet we could

[11:20] eat this too M I'm so

[11:23] hungry that's what it is I'm hungry I'll

[11:27] eat anything right now

[11:32] okay so

[11:35] now let's put our V8 in well let's get

[11:38] the beans first let's do the beans I got

[11:40] lots of beans over

[11:42] here probably too many okay we'll start

[11:45] with two cans and again RV so Bean Juice

[11:49] goes into a Ziploc bag not with the

[11:51] trash see just like

[11:54] that spilling it everywhere there all

[11:56] over my hands and everything okay so

[11:58] we're just going to go with kidney beans

[11:59] for now I know this a little bit chaotic

[12:02] but this is how I

[12:05] work okay

[12:10] so definitely need be

[12:15] a that brown liquid but that was just a

[12:17] tomato juice

[12:20] and why is it so probably the chocolate

[12:23] I don't know let's pretend that's not

[12:25] grease who knows though it probably is

[12:27] let's get some V8 in there you know what

[12:29] it's water water from the

[12:32] tomatoes so yeah it's not all grease

[12:35] don't worry about that okay let's get

[12:37] some V8 in here lots of

[12:41] that just dump it in

[12:44] there you know what this don't seem

[12:47] thick enough to me probably need tomato

[12:49] paste which I don't have any of that so

[12:52] my tomato um diced tomato water really

[12:57] ruined this a little bit let's put some

[12:59] more V8 in

[13:00] there let's just make well we don't want

[13:03] to be all soupy either

[13:05] though okay

[13:08] so how to fix

[13:11] this could add more

[13:13] [Music]

[13:16] beans I don't

[13:18] know I don't know we're going to try it

[13:21] I don't care I'll eat it so next we're

[13:24] going to add the spices and that's you

[13:26] know there's no like science to that I

[13:28] just get all the pretty colors out and I

[13:30] just dump them in there and that's

[13:33] basically it there's my video

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4:13

Recording Coastal Anticipation and Connection Practice

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3:45

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6:37

Walking the Beach on Containment Versus Sovereignty

Dec 17, 2024

2:24

Checking Steps Data While Walking Near the Bridge

Dec 18, 2024

22:34

Choosing Sovereignty on a Travel Day

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10:59

Driving to Coos Bay for Ear Piercings

Dec 19, 2024

14:49

Naming Abandonment, Refusing Containment, Walking the Cliff

Dec 20, 2024

4:43

Surrendering Bailey, Then Rejecting Contained Living

Dec 20, 2024

8:52

Reclaiming Space After Rehoming Bailey

Dec 21, 2024

13:36

Cooking Chili in the RV Before Christmas

Dec 22, 2024

11:30

Documenting Shower House Routine and Laundry Day

Dec 22, 2024

Photos · Dec 25, 2024

Dec 25, 2024

5:12

Recording Christmas Morning at Cape Blanco

Dec 25, 2024

2:16

Requesting Subscribers and Listing PS5 for Sale

Dec 26, 2024

3:42

Naming Boredom as Pressure Toward Transformation

Dec 27, 2024

4:04

Applying for YouTube Monetization, Setting Terms

Dec 28, 2024

4:01

Reviewing Channel Archive Before Campground Volunteer Move

Dec 29, 2024

8:38

Running Town Errands Before Campground Departure

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5:11

Filming the Cliff Edge and the Call of the Void

Dec 30, 2024

6:33

Making First Smoothie in the RV

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5:23

Receiving YouTube Monetization Approval

Dec 30, 2024

Photos · Dec 30, 2024

Dec 30, 2024

4:37

Opening First Amazon Package in Nine Months

Dec 31, 2024

Declaring Sovereign Movement Along the Coast

Dec 31, 2024

4:45

Announcing Membership Tiers on Last Day at Cape Blanco

Dec 31, 2024

13:37

Announcing Membership Channel Ahead of Tugman Move

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26:30

Marking New Year in the RV with AI Dialogue

Jan 1, 2025

15:17

Arriving at Eel Lake as Park Host

Jan 1, 2025

Photos · Jan 1, 2025

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8:54

Answering AI-Generated Reflection Questions On Camera

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7:41

Answering AI Follow-Up Questions on Camera

Jan 1, 2025

15:03

Breaking Camp at Cape Blanco, Moving North

Jan 1, 2025

18:15

Processing First Working Day at New Host Site

Jan 2, 2025

11:57

Attending Volunteer Orientation at Umpqua Lighthouse

Jan 3, 2025

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13:45

Driving South to Port Orford for Package Pickup

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3:10

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PUBLIC

December 22, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED

Temp 0.20

Density 0.00

Energetic Quality

warm, loose, self-directed

Journey Phase

settled and adapting

Directional Vector

toward embodied self-instruction and sovereign practice

Narrative

The camera came up first on the space itself, before any food. rswfire panned across the interior of the RV — the computer running, all three monitors kept, wires routed and hidden, cables tucked out of the sightline. He said he loved it. The broken lights he had already torn down, and the replacements would come when he could afford them. That was the state of the room going into the evening of December 22nd: infrastructure in place, one system pending, three days before Christmas and something needed to exist in the pot that could be eaten later without cooking again.

His eyes were running before the onions were cut. He named the cause himself — he had eaten a raw onion on impulse, something he stated he never does, and liked it. The oil went into the pan, wrong pan first, then the right one. He cut the onions at different sizes on purpose. While they went soft he worked at the garlic, and the papers gave him more trouble than anything else in the signal. He knew from a prior attempt that the whole bulb would come out through his pores for two days — Claude had told him so, and he had found it funny — but he liked garlic and had intended to use all of it anyway. He got six cloves free, then nine, then discounted the small ones back down to seven. He asked directly, once, how to peel them faster. That was the only question he wanted answered, and he said so plainly: he was not asking for advice, he did not want recipes, he was sharing the cooking rather than teaching it. I'm a sovereign being just like you, respect the sovereignty. The line landed mid-cook, between stirring and the garlic going in, and then the cooking continued.

The garlic needed both hands and had to move fast or burn. He mashed it, dropped it in, stirred it through, held it a minute, killed the heat. The masher came up to the camera afterward — bits of garlic in every crevice, very hard to clean, he said it twice. Something dark surfaced in the pan and he identified it without alarm as forest debris, Cape Blanco, the standing condition of living where he lives; it appeared again a moment later and he fished the piece out and moved on. The onions and garlic went into a dish to wait.

The frozen hamburger was the mistake he had already anticipated. He had bought it at the dollar store to avoid the grocery store, and then went to the grocery store anyway. It would not break apart, it would not cook evenly, and it hurt — his hands, he stated, carrying carpal tunnel from a lifetime of programming, aching from forcing the block apart. He named the error as an error, said avoid frozen, and then said the rest of it in the same breath: this is how you learn, this is just adaptation, take what comes at you and deal with it. No strainer in a galley this small, nowhere to dump liquids, nothing down the sink — so the grease came out into a paper towel. Onions and garlic back in, heat low, everything folded together. He looked at it and said he could almost eat it as it stood. His core muscles were sore and healing, he stated, and his body had been demanding food while it healed; this looked good to him because of that.

Then the pause, because he did not know the sequence and his phone was at five percent. He asked Claude what came next and relayed the answer aloud — brown sugar and cocoa first, warm so they melt, then V8, then beans, then diced tomatoes, then spices last. He went off camera to charge, came back, and did it. The mixture turned a color he called strange and unnatural, and he noted that Claude had said not to worry about it. He had needed to bring the heat back up from low to medium. Nobody says it has to be perfect. Do this a hundred times and maybe you get good at it. Then he tasted it, and the register broke open — holy crap, I don't hate that, oh my God, that's so good — and the taste on his tongue became the instrument that mattered more than any of the sequencing.

Two cans of diced tomatoes went in because he loves tomatoes; the green chilies came along and he did not care. Beans next, and the bean juice into a Ziploc bag rather than the sink or the trash, spilling over his hands as he poured. Kidney beans for now, two cans, out of far too many. Then V8, and the diagnosis: it wasn't thick enough. Tomato paste would have fixed it and he had none. He traced the cause himself — the water off the diced tomatoes had thinned it — considered more V8, considered that too much would make it soupy, considered more beans. He did not resolve it. I don't know. We're going to try it. I don't care, I'll eat it.

The spices went in last, and there was no method to them at all. He got out the ones with the pretty colors and dumped them in. That's basically it. There's my video.

Summary

rswfire films a chili cook in his RV, framing it as sharing rather than instruction — he states explicitly this is not a cooking video, he uses no tripod, and he is not asking for advice, invoking sovereignty and asking that it be respected. The one question he does pose directly is how to get the papers off garlic cloves.

He opens by showing the space: computer running, all three monitors kept, wires hidden, cables routed. He notes his previous lights broke, that he has begun tearing them down, and plans to replace them and do more lighting work when he can afford it.

The cook proceeds in sequence:

Onions in oil; garlic mashed (six to seven cloves, some skins unremovable) added late because it burns fast
Frozen hamburger from the dollar store — he names this a mistake, notes it cooked unevenly and strained his hands, and frames the workaround as adaptation
Grease blotted with paper towel rather than drained, and bean liquid emptied into a Ziploc bag — both stated as RV constraints (no strainer, nothing down the sink)
Brown sugar and cocoa powder added on Claude's guidance, then diced tomatoes, kidney beans, V8, and spices added without measurement

He tastes after the cocoa step and reacts strongly in the positive. He assesses the result as too thin, identifies missing tomato paste as the cause, adds more V8, and ends the video undecided but willing to eat it.

Environment

Interior of rswfire's RV, recorded handheld while cooking. He describes the space as newly arranged — computer set up, three monitors retained, wires hidden, cables routed out of the way — and notes broken lights he has torn down and intends to replace when affordable. The kitchen is a small galley with no strainer and no place to dump liquids; bean juice goes into a Ziploc bag rather than the trash or sink.

He references Cape Blanco and its forest debris as the source of a particle found in the pan — debris being a standing condition of RV living. Timing is stated as pre-Christmas meal preparation. A phone at 5% charge is used mid-signal to query Claude for sequencing.

Substrate

The architecture held is skill acquisition as sovereign practice: rswfire states he never cooked before moving into the RV and is learning by direct iteration, naming errors (frozen meat, thin liquid, unmeasured spice) as data rather than failure. The ontological position is stated explicitly mid-signal — "I'm a sovereign being just like you, respect the sovereignty" — establishing that the transmission is documentation offered for others to feel seen, not a request for correction. What is being built is a repeatable domestic system inside constrained infrastructure; what is dissolved is the expectation of expertise as a precondition for doing.

Actions

Performed

•showing the arranged RV interior and computer setup
•cleaning the counter before starting
•heating oil in the pan
•adding cut onions of varied sizes
•peeling and separating garlic cloves
•mashing garlic with a press
•adding garlic to the onions
•removing forest debris from the pan
•setting the onion-garlic mixture aside
•breaking up and browning frozen hamburger
•blotting grease with paper towel
•recombining meat with onions and garlic
•adding salt
•querying Claude on sequencing
•charging the phone at 5%
•adding brown sugar and cocoa powder
•tasting the mixture
•adding two cans of diced tomatoes with green chilies
•draining bean liquid into a Ziploc bag
•adding kidney beans
•adding V8
•assessing consistency as too thin
•stating spices come next

Referenced

•moved into the RV
•never cooked before that move
•made chili in a previous video
•used a whole garlic in an earlier meal
•ate a raw onion earlier that day
•tore down broken lights
•bought frozen hamburger at the dollar store
•went to the grocery store anyway
•programmed for most of his life
•healing core muscles that have been demanding food

Planned

•add spices by color and feel
•eat the chili for Christmas without cooking that day
•buy new lights when affordable
•continue lighting work in the RV
•avoid frozen meat in future
•keep practicing until skilled

Entities

beings

rswfire — Records, narrates, and cooks the meal; states his sovereignty and his learning process directly

audience / viewers — Addressed directly as 'you guys'; told advice is unwelcome unless a direct question is asked

places

Cape Blanco — Named as the source of persistent forest debris in the RV living environment

the RV — Full-time residence and kitchen; its constraints shape every step of the process

dollar store — Source of the frozen hamburger he identifies as a procurement mistake

systems

Claude — AI queried mid-cook for ingredient sequencing and for whether cocoa should be added warm

concepts

Christmas — Stated occasion — the chili is made in advance so no cooking is required that day

media

V8 — Vegetable juice used as chili liquid base

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

fire

hearth

forest debris

shelter

hands

iteration

provision

threshold

infrastructure

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

sovereign (declared explicitly mid-cook — 'I'm a sovereign being just like you, respect the sovereignty' — as a boundary on unsolicited advice)

learning (states he never cooked before the RV and is improving at everything he does, naming the process as a learning process)

adapting (frozen meat, missing tomato paste, no strainer — each constraint met with 'take what comes at you and deal with it')

embodied (tracks stinging eyes, aching hands with carpal tunnel from programming, sore healing core muscles, food cravings)

settled (shows arranged space, hidden wires, three monitors kept, computer running — infrastructure in place)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

somatic (eyes stinging from raw onion, hands aching from breaking frozen meat, core muscles healing and driving cravings, taste as primary instrument)

infrastructural (RV constraints dictate method — no strainer, bean juice to Ziploc, nothing down the sink, forest debris entering the pan)

technical (computer setup, three monitors, wire routing, lighting replacement, phone charge management)

cognitive (sequencing steps, estimating clove counts, diagnosing thin consistency and reasoning through fixes)

relational (direct address to viewers, boundary set on unsolicited advice, stated intent that others feel seen)

epistemic (external query to Claude integrated as one input among taste and prior experience)

economic (buying frozen at the dollar store to avoid a trip, deferring lights until affordable)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

sovereign being / respect the sovereignty

learning process

adaptation

this is how I work

nobody says it has to be perfect

feel seen

not asking for advice

Narrative

The spices went in last, and there was no method to them at all. He got out the ones with the pretty colors and dumped them in. That's basically it. There's my video.

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