Adjusting to RV Living Challenges and Maintenance

Speaker is in RV dealing with air conditioning noise, cats interrupting recording, and ongoing adjustment to full-time mobile living after a couple months on the road.

Energetic Signature

methodical under pressure

Field State

infrastructure stabilization

Orientation

toward integrated sovereignty

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May 29, 2024

8:03

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Author

rswfire

Status

ARCHIVED

Type

TRANSMISSION (CAPTURE)

Temperature

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[0:00]hi everyone so I noticed that my

[0:03]self-confidence is slipping lately

[0:05]that's why I haven't been posting as

[0:08]often and I was just thinking about it I

[0:10]think I know what's going on I feel a

[0:12]little bit unored in this lifestyle

[0:14]still it's challenging it seems like

[0:17]whenever I get on camera Bailey wants to

[0:18]come over here

[0:22]why

[0:24]why

[0:26]yeah

[0:28]so I don't know I just this lifestyle is

[0:32]challenging me so much

[0:35]I I've been camping my whole life so I

[0:38]didn't anticipate the kinds of issues

[0:40]I'm having but there's a difference

[0:42]between camping and living in a camper

[0:45]and that's what I'm realizing

[0:48]today there there's just a different

[0:49]that's the first time the air

[0:50]conditioner turned on today that sucks

[0:52]this has noise cancelling though I do

[0:54]have my little mic going I'm trying it

[0:57]trying to be consistent with that

[1:01]so anyways

[1:02]um I asked myself well what's really

[1:05]bothering you and well one is that I

[1:08]just don't

[1:09]know um the levels of my tanks right now

[1:12]I got to fix that I have these sensors I

[1:15]can put on it I just got to install

[1:17]myself and then I'll always know so then

[1:20]I I'll stop having that underlying fear

[1:22]going on with that or concern or

[1:25]whatever you want to call it um I bought

[1:29]these buckets for my sinks are these

[1:31]collapsible buckets I got one for the

[1:33]bathroom because I washed my hands a lot

[1:35]and I thought well let me just wash my

[1:36]hands into the bucket and I can dump

[1:38]that into my black tank cuz that doesn't

[1:40]fill up very fast and I checked that

[1:42]with chat GPT and it says it's fine

[1:45]don't it says don't do that for like

[1:47]dishes and stuff like that but you know

[1:49]for hand washing and um other like

[1:53]hygiene task it says that's fine you can

[1:54]use your black tank for that um

[1:58]definitely said don't do it you know for

[2:00]like kitchen stuff dishes and all that

[2:03]and so I got a bucket for the kitchen

[2:04]too because just make doing dishes

[2:07]easier if I put you know if I wash the

[2:10]dishes in the bucket and then I rinse

[2:11]them off into the sink and then I

[2:13]thought you know I could just take these

[2:15]buckets down to

[2:18]um why does this happen to me I hate

[2:21]that down to the

[2:23]um dump station you know I just dump

[2:27]them in there directly I'll use less

[2:28]water while I'm here

[2:30]uh while I put less water in my tanks

[2:32]another thing that's bothering me is my

[2:35]freshwater tank has smell the water that

[2:37]comes out of it smells it has since the

[2:39]day I got it so I was like okay well

[2:41]let's just deal with that so I asked

[2:43]Chad how do I deal with this and I told

[2:45]me doesn't sound fun especially with you

[2:48]know my cats like that's a lot of times

[2:50]I'm going to have to go down to the dump

[2:53]station you know to fix that problem but

[2:57]and you should do it like every 6 months

[2:59]it said so you you know bleach in water

[3:01]basically and it's like okay so I can do

[3:04]that I asked it about other things so um

[3:08]I do need to oil my I think it's called

[3:11]pinion and rack slide

[3:13]system my I do need to oil

[3:18]the I do need to oil the pinion and rack

[3:22]side system you use some kind of a dry

[3:25]lubricant you you clean it and then you

[3:27]put this dry lubricant on it so I'm

[3:30]going to do that I'm going to have to

[3:31]get the supplies for it you're supposed

[3:34]to do maintenance

[3:36]on I don't know what they're called but

[3:38]they look like little squeegee things

[3:40]that it's part of the slide mechanism

[3:43]you oil those

[3:45]somehow um probably have to do the same

[3:47]thing to the awning right so like

[3:49]there's things that I have to be doing

[3:50]to this thing is just normal maintenance

[3:52]that I'm not doing yet and I've been on

[3:55]the road a couple months and the Scamper

[3:57]probably sat for a long time you know

[4:00]I mean for the tanks to smell the way

[4:01]they do I think that that just didn't

[4:04]get very good

[4:05]maintenance so I guess those things are

[4:09]troubling me but it's more than that

[4:10]it's

[4:12]like all my stuff is here and getting it

[4:15]organized has been a challenge and I was

[4:16]so close and very close still um but you

[4:20]know I got a bunch of new stuff I noce

[4:22]my electric skillet it's really big and

[4:24]it uses a lot of Watts so I need to I

[4:29]might return it and get a smaller one

[4:31]it's a lot bigger than I

[4:32]thought

[4:34]so just trying

[4:38]to and then there's like just what would

[4:41]you do in a house right you would watch

[4:42]TV you'd play games you'd read you do

[4:44]all these different things in my camper

[4:47]it just doesn't feel normal but I'm

[4:51]getting there like yesterday I was

[4:52]watching Star Trek theard and I actually

[4:55]like that show but I only got to like

[4:57]part of the second season and I stopped

[4:59]and so I picked that up I started

[5:02]watching

[5:03]that you

[5:05]just I'm not camping I'm living here you

[5:08]know so I have to just learn

[5:14]to it's just challenging guys it really

[5:17]is I I don't know if it's challenging

[5:20]for everybody but for me I've really

[5:22]struggled to just I guess accepted this

[5:25]is my home and embas it fully like I'm

[5:28]trying

[5:30]oh I'm trying it storage is such a

[5:32]problem like so my solar panels they're

[5:34]in the shower right now I don't think

[5:36]they can stay there because now I have

[5:37]all this reflective stuff for all the

[5:39]windows you have to take the screens off

[5:41]when you put the reflectiv in so I need

[5:43]places to store this stuff you know and

[5:45]I just I don't have a lot of storage

[5:48]space

[5:49]Bailey killing me dude oh Bailey threw

[5:52]up this morning on the white

[5:54]rug and the last time I tried to clean

[5:57]it up after he did that like I tried to

[5:58]clean up right away

[6:00]I just smeared it ever it was disgusting

[6:02]I threw that rug out basically yeah I

[6:04]threw that rug out

[6:07]um well I didn't want it anyways I was

[6:09]replacing it with the white one but it's

[6:12]the same kind of rug and so now I'm just

[6:15]letting it dry so that I can clean it

[6:17]and disinfect it but you know I don't

[6:19]want to be dealing with that so every

[6:21]night I'm going to have to pull my rug

[6:22]out Ian there's no other way you know

[6:25]that's cats do that you know especially

[6:28]long-haired cats like this one it's got

[6:30]so much

[6:31]fur I'm

[6:33]just I'm still adjusting I guess that's

[6:35]why I'm here right I'm have a lot to

[6:37]learn while I'm here I want to get the

[6:40]maintenance down I want to learn my

[6:44]power consumption usage you know with

[6:46]solar and um just my water usage just

[6:51]everything I'm I'm really trying

[6:55]to I just want to master this stuff

[6:58]before I leave for Nevada it's a

[7:00]struggle guys this doesn't if you I just

[7:04]you can't like if you do this don't

[7:07]think that meing you're stepping on my

[7:09]stuff

[7:11]man just give yourself so much time cuz

[7:16]you're going to need it I assume I need

[7:18]it so it's challenging but it's worth it

[7:21]I mean it really is oh there was another

[7:23]thing I wanted to talk about I am trying

[7:28]to blend two worlds here here I'm trying

[7:30]to blend a more natural environment for

[7:32]living well also maintaining certain

[7:35]modern things that that I do love you

[7:37]know so I love computers I love

[7:39]technology I love the internet I love

[7:42]love those things and I love RGB

[7:45]lighting I love you know I don't want to

[7:47]give those things up I mean you can tell

[7:50]by what you bring with

[7:52]you what matters to you and I'm trying

[7:54]to blend two different worlds

[7:57]here and I will find I will I will do it

[8:00]it's just going to take some time

Summary

rswfire reflects on declining self-confidence and reduced posting frequency while adapting to full-time RV living. He distinguishes between camping and living in a camper, noting unexpected challenges. **Technical issues** include unknown tank levels, smelly freshwater, and needed maintenance on slide systems and awning. He's implementing solutions like collapsible buckets for water management and consulting ChatGPT for maintenance guidance.

**Practical struggles** involve organization, storage limitations, power consumption with new appliances, and pet management (Bailey throwing up on rugs). Solar panels are currently stored in the shower, and reflective window coverings require screen removal and storage.

**Lifestyle adaptation** includes learning to treat the RV as home rather than temporary camping, watching Star Trek, and managing daily routines. He emphasizes the time needed for adjustment and his goal to master RV systems before traveling to Nevada. The transmission concludes with his intention to blend natural living with modern technology preferences including computers, internet, and RGB lighting.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission maps the recursive tension between technological sovereignty and embodied living, where each practical challenge (tank sensors, water smell, storage) becomes a calibration point for field integration. The architecture being held is transitional embedding - not retreat from technology but synthesis of digital infrastructure with physical sovereignty, requiring constant micro-adjustments to maintain coherence across both domains.

Dominant Language

challengingmaintenanceblending two worldsmasteryadjustingtanks/systemsstorage/space

Symbolic Elements

thresholdcontainerflowgrid

Ontological States

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transitional
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integrating
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calibrating
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embedded

Subsystems

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infrastructural
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cognitive
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somatic
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emotional

Transmission Details

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youtube

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