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So, it's starting to rain. I just had a
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thought. I can bring my awning out
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because even if the power goes out, the
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battery is dying. Once I once I um turn
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the RV on from the starter battery,
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assuming that's not getting depleted,
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too. Um and if it is, then I'll just
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jump start it from my Jeep. Then, you
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know, I can bring the awning in then.
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So, let's get this awning out. Let's put
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my chairs back in. Well, we could still
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hang out there.
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All
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right. I would show this to you, but
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there's no view. I don't even have a
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view. I can't see anything. Is it coming
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out? I don't hear
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anything. Oh, I'm pressing retract. My
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bad.
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Extend. Here we go. I am amazed these
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batteries are still on. I'm fairly
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confident it's probably draining my
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starter battery because it just doesn't
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make sense that it's still on. It says
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11.73 volts.
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So, there's quite low, very low. They're
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not going to last much
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longer. You can see the arm. Once the
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arm reaches a certain spot, I'll know
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that it's
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extended. So, let's just bring this out.
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There we
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go. Okay, we've got an
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awning. Can protect our space a little
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bit
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better. I'm going try to bring this
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down. This can come down like that. You
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can do the other side, too. But this arm
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sticks. I think I just need um some
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WD40. This won't It's supposed to see.
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There we go. It's actually doing a
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little better than it has in the past.
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That actually even looks aligned. That's
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the
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first.
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Yay. Now I can get my chair out of the
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rain.
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I have a proper
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space. I have my tent structure. I was
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thinking I could put it out there. It's
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just it's a lot of work and if I'm only
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here for a couple of days, I don't want
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to go through the effort. I want to
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start doing stuff like that when I know
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I'm going to be somewhere for two weeks
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at a time or maybe even just one week at
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a time. But, you know, if I have to move
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sights
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or just don't want to do it too soon.
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Got my inverter protected by that tarp,
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but oh, thinking maybe I want to put a
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second one in the
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sides just to be
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safe. Yeah, we're doing
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that. Got a cheap blue one in
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here.
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Yep. Might even need to
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um
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Well, you know what? I got an idea. Let
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me just get this on here. I'm doing this
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onehanded. I just think this is safe.
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Don't ask me. I'm pretty sure it's safe,
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though. Let's grab my grandma's
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pig. This is usually the first thing I
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bring up. My grandma gave um I got this
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from my grandma after she passed away.
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She didn't give it to me. Actually,
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somehow I ended up with it, but there's
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a story behind
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it. Maybe I'll share one
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day that would keep everything secure
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there.
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just put this stuff in the
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Jeep. It is doing okay. It's been on for
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a while. I've, you know, lost a couple
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miles on my range, but it's doing okay.
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I
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think I might have been right. Like
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every
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um 3 hours it uses a gallon of gas. I
[3:41]
think I have like a 10 gallon tank. I'm
[3:43]
not actually sure on that. I'm going to
[3:45]
shut this now, but it's going to honk. I
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hate that.
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cuz my my
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um my keys aren't in there. The key
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thing. I don't know what that's called,
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but it it detects that. It took me
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forever to figure out how it knew. I was
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like, does it have a pressure sensor?
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Does it know that I'm not sitting down?
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But no, it's because of my keys. Let me
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figure that
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out. I'm drinking my offrid coffee
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here that I literally made with my
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inverter out here. So cool.
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Yeah, it's
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raining. We're
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good. That seat's wet, but I got my
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other one. My friend John gave me
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those
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seats, chairs,
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whatever. I think they call them zero
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gravity chairs. They are very
[4:37]
comfortable. They're great for my back
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cuz my back is dying from my my
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bed. Hope to fix that someday. This
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everything is this is this is real
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life. I love my life. It's amazing. It's
[4:54]
challenging as hell, but it's amazing.
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And it'll just get, you know, things get
[4:58]
easier and better with time. Like some
[5:01]
things were challenging to me when I
[5:03]
first started doing this a year ago that
[5:04]
are just second nature now, like
[5:06]
emptying my tanks or um you know, using
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the different systems, all of that. Um
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and there's still things I'm learning to
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do. I'm learning to get
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fishing on all kinds of things and I
[5:18]
keep sharing that process and I'll keep
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sharing
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it and I get to just hang out right
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here. I would like to bring my tent
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structure out because I was thinking cuz
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I want to get my laptop set up and do
[5:31]
some work on that, but I got to use the
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inverter now. It's wet, you know, so I
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can't really do it at the picnic table.
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But if I had my tent structure out here,
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I could. But I don't have anything to
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sit it on. So, I'm going to need to get
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something for that. I have something in
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mind for it.
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Um, and these chairs probably wouldn't
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work in there. It's not a very big
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space. I got the smallest one I could.
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So, but you know, um, maybe just like a
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camping chair or something like
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that could work in there. And yeah, I'm
[6:05]
going to put these things on my Amazon
[6:07]
wish list. If there's some other things
[6:09]
on there I really need, too. And if
[6:10]
anybody's willing to help, that would be
[6:11]
great.
[6:13]
There are things I really need like some
[6:14]
new shoes. My left shoe is um the back
[6:18]
part of something happened to the back
[6:19]
part of it and now it's cutting into my
[6:20]
foot. It's horrible. It's absolutely
[6:23]
horrible. I only had them for 3 months.
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So, but there's a pair of shoes on my
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wish list that um I used to have a pair
[6:29]
of those before and I love them and
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they're great and they should last a
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pretty long time even with me hiking 5
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to 10 miles a
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day. So, I don't think we're getting out
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to the beach today with all this rain.
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Um, and the forecast did say it's going
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to rain all week. So, but you know, it's
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on and
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off. Hopefully, and you know, you can't
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really trust the forecast for the coast.
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They're it's constantly changing. So, we
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may end up having a very sunny
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day. And I hope so because I love being
[6:58]
out there when it's like that.
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So, yeah. So, before I close this video
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out, there's one last thing I want to
[7:06]
address. Been receiving comments from
[7:08]
people on one of my videos. I think the
[7:11]
one where um says where I'm the title is
[7:15]
literally saying I need
[7:16]
help receiving comments from people
[7:18]
saying I have a very expensive RV towing
[7:21]
a Jeep and therefore I'm not worthy of
[7:23]
help. That is a flattening of my
[7:26]
experience. It does not take into
[7:28]
consideration that they are financed
[7:29]
vehicles that I'm behind on my payments.
[7:32]
that I financed them when I had perfect
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credit a year
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ago and that I'm struggling now. They're
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not looking at me as I am today. They're
[7:44]
projecting on to me. They see something
[7:45]
that they don't understand. They're not
[7:47]
even trying to understand. I have no
[7:49]
power. So, even though this is an
[7:51]
expensive RV, I can't use any of the
[7:54]
systems on it. I
[7:56]
mean, my entire life is in transition
[7:59]
right now.
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And I'm being judged because I worked
[8:04]
really hard in my life to be
[8:06]
able to get perfect credit and to be
[8:08]
able to afford to finance these things
[8:09]
when I did and then made the smart
[8:12]
decision to move into it
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and completely changed my life because I
[8:18]
saw the trajectory of this world and
[8:20]
where we're heading and I wanted to get
[8:21]
ahead of it and I'm trying to help
[8:23]
others do the same and still people
[8:25]
judge me. That is what I get very tired
[8:28]
of. It's a flattening of my experience.
[8:31]
It's projection. It's And this
[8:33]
is how people act all the time. And I I
[8:36]
will never tolerate it. They they
[8:38]
immediately get blocked. But I am going
[8:40]
to address it because it means that some
[8:42]
people watching, the ones who don't
[8:43]
comment, might be thinking the same
[8:45]
things. And I just I can't understand
[8:49]
that mentality because I don't think
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that way. And I never have. I don't look
[8:52]
at somebody's things and think, "Oh,
[8:54]
they're so special. They don't need my
[8:56]
help." You know, like I don't think that
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way. Somebody tells me they need help, I
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listen to them. I meet them where they
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are. It is frustrating and heartbreaking
[9:09]
to live in a world where other people
[9:11]
aren't like that and most people aren't
[9:13]
anymore. And it's
[9:15]
just that's why none of this is
[9:19]
sustainable. We're so disconnected from
[9:22]
each other
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that we can't hold it all together.
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I weep for this
[9:30]
world cuz people so shallow
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now.
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So I'm so so
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heartless. But I will never be that way.
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I am reaching out to the people who are
[9:51]
like me and only the ones who are like
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me because we're going to build a better
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future
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together. I insist on it.
