First Night Living in RV

Early morning (8 AM) on March 11, 2024. Speaker is in RV parked in driveway, drinking coffee obtained from the house. Outside temperature is 28°F. Oliver the cat is actively seeking warmth and attention during the recording.

Energetic Signature

methodical

Field State

infrastructure testing

Orientation

toward functional sovereignty

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March 11, 2024

10:14

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Author

rswfire

Status

ARCHIVED

Type

TRANSMISSION (CAPTURE)

Temperature

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[0:00]good morning guys it's 8 a.m. here um

[0:04]we're just waking up I have been up long

[0:07]enough to get coffee from the house I'll

[0:10]truly be living in this place when I'm

[0:13]able to make coffee in

[0:16]here just made some coffee took a few

[0:20]notes

[0:22]and that's it so far I want to start off

[0:26]by saying nothing I'm going to say is is

[0:29]really

[0:30]um meant to be taken in a negative way

[0:33]I'm not

[0:34]complaining just want to be honest with

[0:36]you I want you to know what our first I

[0:38]was like talk about the things that

[0:40]worked things that didn't

[0:42]work I'm not sure there's really much I

[0:45]can say about what worked cuz not much

[0:47]did um but we'll take the things that

[0:51]didn't work and we will turn those into

[0:53]things that did work that will work in

[0:55]the

[0:55]future you know I mean that's kind of

[0:58]the whole point of doing this in your D

[0:59]driveway when you get started and I'll

[1:02]say this

[1:03]much um we're alive all three of us so

[1:07]that's a win that's a win uh so that's

[1:12]our first night just give me a second

[1:15]here Oliver I am not a scratching post

[1:19]don't do that to me Oliver is in a mood

[1:23]this

[1:24]morning big old mood you

[1:27]are relax relax

[1:31]lags um he slept with me all night which

[1:34]was that was

[1:36]nice but he is in a mood I am not a

[1:38]scratching post I am not a scratching

[1:40]post Oliver give me a second here well

[1:44]Oliver's decided to join me I guess he

[1:46]just wants to be comforted and warm cuz

[1:49]it's not very warm in here at

[1:52]all do not bite me so let me just start

[1:55]by saying

[1:57]Oliver Oliver oh my God I'll relax dude

[2:02]dude dude rela please relax oh my God

[2:06]you're making this

[2:07]impossible yeah you

[2:10]are let me start with the fact it's 28°

[2:13]outside so that's pretty cold right I

[2:18]mean um hopefully a lot of the places I

[2:20]stay at it won't get this cold you don't

[2:23]want me padding you

[2:26]okay

[2:28]fine um

[2:32]I'm not touching you sorry guys I I'm

[2:35]trying here I'm really trying I swear to

[2:37]God so anyways it's 28° outside my

[2:40]propane tank is at 44% it was at 77

[2:45]yesterday so I'm thinking the heater

[2:47]probably is not running off the electric

[2:49]at all so that's concerning I don't want

[2:52]to run through my propane this fast it's

[2:55]just too fast you know I'm going to have

[2:57]to go and fill it up somewhere nervous

[3:00]about that you know but I'll do it

[3:02]because I'll do whatever I have to do to

[3:04]live this life and over time it will

[3:06]just get easier I

[3:08]know every time I drive this thing so I

[3:10]I drove it home and I just drove it

[3:14]um out into the driveway my friend

[3:16]Brandon helped me and we're on the

[3:18]walkie-talkies and he helped me just get

[3:20]this thing backed up into the driveway

[3:23]perfectly

[3:25]and you know you start driving it's like

[3:28]Suddenly It's

[3:30]what's that fear all about like there

[3:32]there's no point to it because it's not

[3:34]that

[3:35]bad okay I'm just going to go explore

[3:37]thank god um so I wrote notes to try to

[3:42]be focused

[3:44]here starting at out this morning or I'm

[3:48]sorry last night when we went to bed

[3:50]both of the cats were cuddling with me

[3:52]Oliver was literally like cuddled up on

[3:56]one of my arms up in the air kind of and

[3:59]Bailey was sleeping on my other arm on

[4:02]the bed like so that's a really

[4:03]comfortable way to sleep but I knew that

[4:06]they needed it like they

[4:09]needed they needed to feel safe and I

[4:11]was happy to give them that I think ol's

[4:14]doing pretty good now he's I don't he's

[4:16]at the dark but there's a heater there

[4:17]he's probably sucking up the

[4:19]heat um so yeah I mean that was nice um

[4:24]and then a thing happened I hadn't

[4:26]fallen asleep yet it was only an hour

[4:28]later

[4:30]and I started hearing water coming from

[4:33]somewhere I kind of ignored it at first

[4:35]don't ever do that by the way this was

[4:38]my first mistake I

[4:39]feel um don't ignore water sounds so

[4:43]after a while I'm like it just seems odd

[4:45]like is it raining so you know I put my

[4:47]ear to the window and I'm like I don't

[4:49]think so so I get up I turn the lights

[4:52]on and I hear gurgling coming from the

[4:55]kitchen

[4:55]sink and but it's not on the water's not

[4:58]on like what's going going on and then I

[5:00]look in the bathroom and the faucet is

[5:02]on full blast Oliver did that don't ask

[5:07]me how but I know it was s he's the

[5:10]Troublemaker he's the one that does that

[5:11]sort of thing full blast who knows how

[5:15]much of that ended up in the tank so

[5:17]turn that off I was like I don't even

[5:19]know what to do about that one so the

[5:22]heater kicked on all night long it's

[5:25]loud like you know it woke me up pretty

[5:27]much every time I think um um I mean

[5:31]it's I guess it's low relatively like

[5:34]you know it's a relative thing obviously

[5:36]over time you just get used to that and

[5:38]then it's you know it doesn't matter

[5:41]anymore um sleeping in that bed was

[5:44]terrible when you're young you can sleep

[5:47]anywhere I did I told you guys I I've

[5:50]been homeless many times I've slept on

[5:53]I've slept I've slipped on in the

[5:55]parking lot of the mall on the cement on

[5:58]gravel and woken up better than I did

[6:01]last night like I I've slept on you know

[6:04]like in parks and and benches and just

[6:07]you know just just the craziest things

[6:09]you can think of and I slept better than

[6:11]I did last night so um when you get

[6:14]older your body just doesn't work the

[6:17]same um not quite sure how to fix that

[6:21]because the mattress I have is in two

[6:24]parts and one of them and they're it's

[6:27]caught at an angle so that the the one

[6:30]closest to the wall can come up over the

[6:34]other one as the slide is coming in so

[6:37]I'm not sure what to do about that I do

[6:38]know of a company that makes custom

[6:39]mattresses I don't know how they didn't

[6:41]seem too

[6:42]expensive um which probably means the

[6:44]quality isn't great though so um I don't

[6:48]know I'm going to have to research that

[6:50]so yeah I just sore all over I put age

[6:53]thing that's what it is it was very cold

[6:56]this morning not so bad in the bed you

[6:58]know you're under under the

[7:00]covers I guess maybe your body heat is

[7:04]staying under the covers with you I

[7:06]don't know I mean I was comfortable

[7:08]until I got out of that bed and it was

[7:10]like wow this camper is cold and the

[7:12]heater's on and I'm still cold and it's

[7:15]you know but it's 28° so we're going to

[7:18]deal with that I'll get to that um like

[7:21]I said it was 28° so this just we it

[7:25]needs insulating right that's just the

[7:27]bottom line there um

[7:29]I watched a video like a week ago of

[7:32]this guy where he showed all of his

[7:35]custom modifications for insulating

[7:37]things that he did himself that he built

[7:39]himself from stuff he bought at this you

[7:41]know like Lowe's or Home Depot things

[7:44]that you didn't see in other videos and

[7:46]very creative guy and you could tell it

[7:50]worked what he was doing so I'm going to

[7:53]rewatch that get some ideas going and

[7:56]that's going to be a project for us to

[7:58]tackle before we get on the the road um

[8:01]there were noises you know there were

[8:02]camper noises and the dogs were out

[8:06]could hear the rooster in the

[8:08]backyard um road noise

[8:12]occasionally I mean these are all

[8:14]adjustments they're just things you just

[8:16]got to adjust to and I am in my parking

[8:18]or in my driveway it's not like

[8:21]I'm um you know out in the woods or

[8:24]something so I mean so you got to you

[8:28]know consider that and and you know I

[8:31]guess I won't know what my true

[8:32]experience will be like until I'm truly

[8:33]out there but and I think you know

[8:36]you're just adjust this was night

[8:38]one

[8:42]so yeah that's basically my notes for

[8:46]this

[8:48]y oh so that was our first night guys

[8:52]that was our first

[8:53]night um don't regret it love it love it

[8:57]and you know there are no challenges

[9:00]that would make me not love this so it's

[9:03]just now a question of how can we take

[9:06]those things and make them better how

[9:07]can we improve them and that's what

[9:09]we're going to do so I'll be thinking

[9:11]about that

[9:12]today and over you know the days to come

[9:15]and then um I'll come up with the game

[9:17]plan and we will just start tackling it

[9:19]oh I should just say this that cab area

[9:22]so cold so cold and no like privacy

[9:25]there I just put up a blanket over the

[9:27]whole area um not in like a great way it

[9:31]wasn't perfect like I need a solution

[9:34]there and

[9:37]um that area just needs a lot of

[9:40]insulating

[9:42]or I mean it brings in a lot of cold air

[9:45]so you know just a lot to do I hope you

[9:49]know I expect things to get better every

[9:51]night I really do so um yeah I hope you

[9:55]guys have a wonderful Monday morning

[9:57]okay if you're going to work just think

[9:59]happy

[10:01]thoughts um imagine a new life in an RV

[10:05]because you can do it I'm doing it and

[10:07]if I can do it anybody can seriously so

[10:11]you guys have a good

[10:13]day

Summary

The speaker documents their first night sleeping in an RV parked in their driveway with two cats, Oliver and Bailey. The night presented multiple challenges: **temperatures dropped to 28°F outside**, causing the propane heater to run constantly and drain the tank from 77% to 44%. **Oliver turned on the bathroom faucet full blast** during the night, creating water sounds and potentially filling the waste tank. The speaker experienced **poor sleep quality** due to an uncomfortable two-part mattress and frequent heater noise interruptions.

The **cab area proved extremely cold** with no privacy solution beyond a temporary blanket barrier. Despite these issues, the speaker maintains a positive outlook, viewing the problems as solvable challenges rather than reasons to abandon the RV lifestyle. They plan to research **insulation modifications** and custom mattress solutions. The speaker emphasizes this is a learning process and expects conditions to improve with each night.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission maps the gap between vision and material reality through systematic problem identification. It holds a stance of committed adaptation—acknowledging system failures while maintaining directional coherence toward the intended life structure.

Dominant Language

adjusttackleimprovelove itno regretsif I can do it anybody canfirst nightcold

Symbolic Elements

thresholdcoldsheltercatswater

Ontological States

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transitional
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adaptive
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committed
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grounded

Subsystems

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infrastructural
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somatic
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cognitive
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relational

Transmission Details

Source Type

local

Video Quality

1920 × 1080 @ 30fps

Duration

10:14

Bitrate

1877 kbps

Codec

avc1.640028