Morning Reflection on RV Fears and Insulation Work

Sunday morning, March 31st 2024. Speaker is in their camper after sleeping through a thunderstorm. Physical soreness present. Cats Bailey and another are with them. Working on RV insulation issues around the bed slide-out area.

Energetic Signature

methodical uncertainty

Field State

threshold crossing

Orientation

toward practical sovereignty

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March 31, 2024

18:03

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Author

rswfire

Status

ARCHIVED

Type

TRANSMISSION (CAPTURE)

Temperature

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[0:01]good morning everyone it's Sunday 10: in

[0:04]the morning I've been up a couple hours

[0:06]at least the cats and I slept in the

[0:09]camper last night there was a big

[0:11]thunderstorm I'll I'll try to share some

[0:14]of that with you I don't think I took

[0:15]very good footage though Bailey you stay

[0:18]down there stay down there he's always

[0:21]wanting attention he's head buting me he

[0:24]might come up here I don't have a whole

[0:26]lot to say I just wanted to tell you how

[0:28]sore I feel

[0:31]I just feel sore everywhere my legs hurt

[0:33]my arms hurt my whole body hurts like

[0:37]I'm getting

[0:38]old hi Bailey say hi to

[0:43]everybody

[0:44]so one of the things I wanted to say

[0:47]this morning though is a couple of you

[0:50]have started to comment and you're

[0:52]saying really nice things and you're

[0:54]asking for my advice

[0:56]and I'm super honored by that I really

[1:00]am and I will try to always give you the

[1:02]best advice I

[1:04]can I've always been that kind of a

[1:07]person um as an introvert as a highly

[1:10]sensitive person I do process a lot of I

[1:13]don't really know where it comes from if

[1:15]you read up on like what infj means you

[1:18]maybe kind of understand me

[1:21]better um I'm not saying that I

[1:24]completely subscribe to that it's called

[1:26]the Myers Briggs personality test but

[1:29]it'll get you close

[2:27][Music]

[2:30]you know that's why I'm just so

[2:32]sore um and and a little tired too I

[2:35]just didn't sleep too well I don't know

[2:38]how other people do it I wish I did cuz

[2:40]I feel like I'm just winging everything

[2:43]guys you need to know that I I am

[2:45]winging everything I I decided to live

[2:48]in an RV before I even knew there was an

[2:50]RV Community I didn't know about the

[2:53]YouTube Community I didn't know about it

[2:56]I only ended up on here because I real

[2:59]ized how scared I was and I I was my

[3:03]biggest fear

[3:04]was driving the RV you know cuz I was

[3:08]just so worried that I would hurt

[3:10]someone that I'd sideswipe someone and

[3:13]so I got on YouTube and I searched for

[3:15]that and nothing came up nothing at all

[3:18]and that's why I started my channel

[3:19]because I thought well if nobody else is

[3:22]talking about this then

[3:24]either either nobody has this fear but

[3:29]that doesn't seem logic like likely does

[3:31]it so it's just that nobody's talked

[3:34]about it you know I think it's because a

[3:36]lot of the YouTube channels they start

[3:39]off sometimes years after they've been

[3:42]on the road right and they're just not

[3:44]thinking about it

[3:46]um I mean I could be wrong I always I

[3:49]always want to say that I could be wrong

[3:52]these are just my thoughts on it

[3:55]and my goal really was to try to help

[4:00]anyone who comes after me to know that

[4:03]you know those fears are normal and you

[4:06]can probably get over them cuz I say

[4:09]probably because I'm not over them yet

[4:11]right

[4:12]so I did a good job driving home I

[4:15]really did but I did have my dad behind

[4:17]me and that was kind of like a security

[4:20]blanket over the whole

[4:22]RV and I won't have that when I'm on the

[4:25]road I mean there's a lot of things I'm

[4:27]trying to do to mitigate that fear I I

[4:29]feel like if you have a fear you can

[4:32]either push through it but that's not

[4:34]the easy way that's the hard way that I

[4:37]mean I had a fear of choking to death

[4:39]for over a decade there was no pushing

[4:42]through that there was only one solution

[4:45]to that and that was to get medicated

[4:47]you know that's life and it worked and

[4:50]and I'm

[4:51]grateful um so some fears you just you

[4:55]really can't push through them but then

[4:57]there are other kinds of fears and these

[4:59]fears do have a lot to do with just the

[5:01]fear of the unknown just it's a

[5:03]different kind of fear and that kind of

[5:05]fear I feel like you can mitigate it's

[5:07]the kind of fear where you think

[5:10]about what can I do to lessen that fear

[5:14]cuz that's what I'm doing so okay I can

[5:16]lessen this fear if I have more cameras

[5:18]if I can see around me more if I can see

[5:21]the sides of my RV a lot easier then I

[5:25]know I'll never sideswipe someone so

[5:27]then there's no reason for that fear

[5:29]there's other ones there's

[5:31]like I'm still not sure how I'm going to

[5:33]really navigate gas stations I do know

[5:36]that it'll be easier for me cuz I have a

[5:37]diesel and I can go to trucker stops but

[5:40]that does require me to really be good

[5:42]at planning that sort of thing and I'm

[5:44]just not and I'm going to have to get

[5:47]better at it and I know I am getting to

[5:50]dump stations just just all of that

[5:52]right it

[5:53]just I still have fears around that

[5:56]getting propane

[5:58]just

[6:00]all of that is fear of the unknown and

[6:03]you can mitigate that you can research

[6:05]it you can watch YouTube and then when

[6:07]you get out there I think you probably

[6:09]just discover that it's not nearly as

[6:11]bad as you're making it out to be

[6:15]right cuz I guess there's a giant

[6:17]Community out there that you know so

[6:19]that means it's an industry and that

[6:20]means there's just all kinds of support

[6:22]services around that industry right

[6:24]you're going to find what you need

[6:28]everywhere that you need it I mean I

[6:31]kind of think that's how it works so

[6:33]really don't think I should be so

[6:35]concerned but I'm just sharing with you

[6:38]my thoughts

[6:39]on how I try to tackle my fears because

[6:42]I don't want them to control me I didn't

[6:45]get up on top of my roof and I still

[6:46]feel like that's the challenge I need to

[6:48]overcome I I need to be able to get up

[6:50]there it's my responsibility to go up

[6:54]there um well you know what I did

[6:57]mitigate that fear I bought a of um a

[7:01]ladder that collapses so I can take it

[7:05]with me that so I can get up there on

[7:07]the side I don't have to climb up on top

[7:09]of it I can just stay on the ladder but

[7:11]I can still access everything there I

[7:14]think that's just you know okay that's a

[7:16]great compromise for me that that that's

[7:19]a thing I can do it's still a little

[7:22]scary but it's a thing I can do so just

[7:26]think that way if you can it helps me

[7:28]I've got a few C that I'll share I don't

[7:31]know what I'm doing today I just I have

[7:33]no idea I feel I wish I could just have

[7:37]a rest day but I just don't feel like I

[7:40]have I don't have the time a few hours

[7:44]without food and you would think that

[7:45]these cats were famished the way they're

[7:49]acting this is a little bit after they

[7:51]got started oh my

[7:54]God these are some of the most spoiled

[7:56]cats I know have ever known and I have

[7:59]known own a lot of

[8:01]cats you guys will live I promise so I

[8:05]was just thinking how silly I felt for

[8:07]suspecting the birds for doing something

[8:10]to my my

[8:11]tanks and I realized something it was

[8:14]the birds it was the birds they cut

[8:18]those cables I know they did those birds

[8:20]hate me you know a bird once shat right

[8:24]on my head on the way to a job interview

[8:26]while I was walking down the

[8:28]sidewalk and you should see what they do

[8:30]to my

[8:32]deck I can hear them out there right now

[8:35]it's the

[8:41]birds well we're having our first

[8:44]thunderstorm in the

[8:46]camper woke me up it's pretty loud

[8:49]thunder both of the cats are little

[8:52]creeped out

[8:54]too the bed with

[8:58]me this here

[9:00]and see what we can hear or

[9:10]see okay guys

[9:14]green

[9:28]green just rain

[9:32]guys

[9:34]wor it's just

[9:58]rain feel like

[10:25]it's okay

[10:27]be it's okay

[10:31]really don't have to

[10:34]worry it's just

[10:37]rain it's just

[10:40]rain rain is not very

[10:43]important it's not anything to worry

[10:45]about

[10:47]guys it's just rain that's all it

[10:50]is just

[10:52]water Sur you hear it in the

[10:55]house don't you guys hear it in the

[10:58]house

[11:01]se you act this

[11:04]way never se you act like

[11:08]this it's just

[11:12]rain just some

[11:19]rain

[11:21]maybe look it's just

[11:25]rain just

[11:28]rain

[11:34]calm down calm

[11:57]down work

[12:00]I feel like if you don't panic then they

[12:02]won't panic I mean there's no reason to

[12:04]panic right but so I'm off to an early

[12:08]start today it's my coffee can ATT

[12:11]test oh this is my bed area the cat's

[12:14]nice slapped in here last night uh went

[12:17]pretty good there was a thunderstorm

[12:19]scared the cats pretty

[12:21]bad other than that was pretty fine

[12:23]except it's just still cold over here

[12:25]but let's just work this out right so

[12:29]this this

[12:30]is this is what the bottom of my bed

[12:33]looks like now under here I can't get a

[12:36]good view of this for you so I'm not

[12:38]even going to try but I know this void

[12:41]space is for now it makes sense that's

[12:42]where the slide comes in right that

[12:45]piece right there but if you look in

[12:48]there there's that object I don't know

[12:50]what it is that black object um so

[12:55]anything I assume anything going up to

[12:57]that height it's going to have

[13:00]clearance you know so you could have

[13:02]insulated that if you wanted to do a

[13:05]high quality job on these things right

[13:07]of course they don't

[13:10]um I suspect

[13:13]that if I were to open this out it would

[13:17]just be a giant void with some cables

[13:19]most of which could be insulated but I'm

[13:22]not comfortable pointing that

[13:24]out I wish I were you know if I had the

[13:26]skills I'd do it um the issue is I mean

[13:31]what if I pull this thing out and I just

[13:33]really can't get it back together again

[13:36]there's really no reason to pull this

[13:37]board up because we know it's under

[13:39]there it's just a small void where the

[13:41]slide comes

[13:42]in if we come over

[13:46]here you know all this is all of

[13:51]this is part of the

[13:54]slide um and I don't think these are

[13:57]perfect seals you know like there's I've

[14:01]got to come up with something here and

[14:04]up here I I realized this the other day

[14:07]that's the slide right

[14:09]so you can feel some air from there like

[14:14]it's not a lot but I bet you you know I

[14:16]bet you it

[14:18]contributes and then there's this area

[14:20]over

[14:22]here

[14:25]I'm there's like nothing under there I

[14:27]don't think I'm going to be able to

[14:28]really get under here not not with my

[14:31]skill set right so but I did find some

[14:33]places where it definitely needed

[14:35]insulating or where cold air is

[14:37]definitely coming in I don't know what

[14:39]to call this stuff I think it's called

[14:42]PVC pipe but it's not a pipe it goes

[14:45]over a pipe to insulate it right

[14:47]so I'm you know whatever that

[14:50]is put it up here cuz there is there's a

[14:53]gap you you know cold air comes right

[14:55]through

[14:56]it and then just along the side of the

[14:58]so

[15:00]and then under the bed all the way

[15:03]across I mean that's really all I can do

[15:07]nobody wants their home to look like

[15:08]that some gaffer tape right but no one

[15:12]wants to be cold either can't show this

[15:15]to you too well but you know so just do

[15:17]that I actually think that it will help

[15:19]I just don't know how hard this will be

[15:21]to put in there with my bed here with

[15:25]the mattress and everything else we'll

[15:26]see how that goes cuz I'm going to have

[15:28]to take it out before I pull in my

[15:29]slides that'll just become part of my

[15:31]process and put it back in when I get to

[15:34]my next camping spot not sure about over

[15:37]here I'm going to check it out I just

[15:39]need to say this if they ever come up

[15:42]with a comfortable mattress that you can

[15:45]put your sheets on without 10 years of

[15:47]yoga practice I'm buying

[15:51]it guys what's happening to me I'm

[15:54]becoming a real man today I had this

[15:57]thought I could just drill a whole ho

[15:59]down here and a hole down here put a

[16:02]rope around it in order to secure the

[16:04]spot for my cat I would have never had

[16:07]that thought before look at these cats

[16:10]already getting their fur

[16:13]everywhere it is a constant

[16:15]battle one thing I have not figured out

[16:18]is what I am going to do with my shoes I

[16:20]have two pairs of sandals wearing one of

[16:22]them and those shoes that's it and

[16:25]nowhere to put them I think they I think

[16:27]they live on the stairs guys I'm a

[16:30]genius look what I just gained access

[16:33]to I learned from my kitchen experience

[16:37]pull the drawers out and look under

[16:39]there I am insulating that and I'm doing

[16:43]it right

[16:45]now okay maybe not I don't know what

[16:48]that thing is I'm going have to think

[16:50]about it

[16:52]like you know I couldn't really get

[16:54]blueb board in there because it's got to

[16:55]fit the size of the hole and I could do

[16:58]it in

[16:59]pieces it's worth

[17:02]considering h i mean this is just like

[17:06]this could be a project for later I

[17:08]guess I have so much to do maybe this is

[17:11]a project for later but I'm thinking

[17:14]maybe I don't know put some reflecti

[17:18]around that thing just to protect it and

[17:19]then pink insulation everywhere and

[17:21]rboard on the

[17:23]sides tell me what you think so I just

[17:26]finished editing my video I'm going to

[17:28]add this this to the end it's 18 minutes

[17:31]so far I would love to know what you

[17:33]guys think are they too

[17:35]long do you have any advice any anything

[17:39]you want to share at all I would love to

[17:40]hear it I really would I'm I'm new to

[17:43]this and I'm

[17:45]just you guys are the ones watching what

[17:48]can I do better what am I not doing

[17:51]anything I'd love to hear

[17:53]it hey everyone I hope you enjoyed that

[17:56]video it helps a lot if you like and

[17:58]comment on them and I hope you'll

[18:00]consider subscribing thank you

Summary

The speaker begins a Sunday morning transmission from their camper after a thunderstorm, expressing physical soreness and acknowledging viewer comments asking for advice. They discuss their INFJ personality type and explain how they started their YouTube channel to address RV driving fears that weren't covered elsewhere.

The speaker describes their approach to managing fears through mitigation rather than just pushing through them, citing a decade-long fear of choking that required medication. They outline specific RV-related concerns including driving, navigating gas stations, dump stations, and getting propane.

During a thunderstorm sequence, the speaker comforts their cats Bailey and another unnamed cat, reassuring them that "it's just rain." They then conduct RV maintenance work, examining insulation issues around their bed slide-out area and identifying cold air gaps. The speaker installs pipe insulation and uses gaffer tape to seal areas where cold air enters.

The transmission includes footage of the cats being fed and the speaker's humorous theory that birds cut cables to their tanks in retaliation. They conclude by asking viewers for feedback on video length and content, noting the current video is 18 minutes long.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission maps fear-mitigation protocols while establishing embodied presence within transitional space. The field is building practical sovereignty infrastructure through direct engagement with unknown territories, using cats and storm as grounding anchors for system coherence during threshold crossing.

Dominant Language

winging everythingfear of the unknownmitigateI could be wrongjust rainvoid spaceinsulating

Symbolic Elements

thresholdstormsheltercatsbirdsvoidladder

Ontological States

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transitional
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grounded
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vulnerable
•
building

Subsystems

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somatic
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infrastructural
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relational
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cognitive

Transmission Details

Source Type

local

Video Quality

1920 × 1080 @ 60fps

Duration

18:03

Bitrate

3317 kbps

Codec

avc1.64002a