Labor Day Weekend Camping with New Piercings

Signal from August 31, 2024. rswfire is in his RV at a campground during Labor Day weekend, experiencing back pain from his bed and observing the influx of weekend campers. He has recently gotten new ear piercings and is facing financial pressure that will require him to return to freelance programming work.

Energetic Signature

grounded determination

Field State

sovereignty actualization

Orientation

toward embodied sovereignty

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August 31, 2024

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[0:00]good morning humans it's 10:00 in the

[0:02]morning here I stayed up till 5: in the

[0:06]morning so I only got 5 hours sleep at

[0:08]the

[0:10]most but it's a new day and I have to

[0:12]get up I opened up the back window all

[0:16]the others still have reflec tis in them

[0:19]I have to put it in that one too later

[0:21]in the day but just wanted to get a

[0:23]sense of what's going on out there

[0:25]because you know it's Labor Day weekend

[0:27]I have a neighbor behind me um we looked

[0:31]at their I thought their Camp was a lot

[0:34]longer than it is I don't know why it

[0:37]seems so long to me yesterday but it

[0:40]fits in there you

[0:41]know I don't know what else is going on

[0:44]all my windows are shut

[0:47]so I've been thinking I've been out for

[0:50]a couple minutes just

[0:52]thinking through my day and really just

[0:55]comes down to cleaning and

[0:58]organizing I think it just need to be

[1:00]super practical today and get prepared

[1:03]for when we take this camper in to get

[1:08]some repairs done to it so it's

[1:12]Friday I guess there's still four days

[1:15]but um Monday which is official holiday

[1:19]I'll be at a cottage so I just want to

[1:22]have everything done before then so that

[1:24]I can just hang out there for a couple

[1:26]days and really enjoyed that time

[1:31]um so there are many things I love about

[1:33]this Camp room my bed is not one of them

[1:36]my back is hurting again this has been

[1:38]an ongoing issue for 6 months

[1:43]now it had gotten better so I thought

[1:47]maybe I had adjusted to the situation

[1:52]but since I got here and we are Level we

[1:56]are super level right

[1:58]now like my back is just really killing

[2:01]me in the

[2:02]mornings so that's forcing me to

[2:04]reassess what is going on

[2:06]here when I was

[2:09]at the other camps my last campsite

[2:12]before this one we were not

[2:15]level and I didn't really have this

[2:17]problem as much

[2:19]so I'm so confused about it I think my

[2:24]thinking now is maybe the bed platform

[2:27]itself literally the wood it sits on not

[2:30]on the mattress sits on maybe that's the

[2:33]problem maybe it's not level and now

[2:35]that we're

[2:37]level whatever issues are going on with

[2:39]that bed

[2:41]platform like the angle that right in

[2:45]the middle where my my back

[2:49]is it's causing some kind of physical

[2:52]stress that you know so I wake up with

[2:54]this back

[2:55]pain

[2:57]so I'm going to have to p pull off the

[3:00]mattress M's trying to get over here

[3:03]come on ba lay down

[3:09]stop so I'm going to have to pull

[3:12]off the mattress and get out like a

[3:15]measuring tour and just just investigate

[3:21]like I'm starting to run out of ideas I

[3:25]don't know so we're driving 20 miles

[3:29]away

[3:30]to get coffee oh my God it's um it's a

[3:34]40 minute drive but we're going to a

[3:36]Starbucks I just really need coffee

[3:38]today and I've been adapting by just

[3:41]drinking cold coffee but I just really

[3:43]want real coffee today so we're going to

[3:46]go do

[3:47]that and you know we're pretty far out

[3:50]in the middle of nowhere I guess but I'm

[3:53]sure there are local coffee shops I

[3:55]probably could have searched for those

[3:57]I'm very curious you know why I'm

[4:00]actually thinking this through I'm

[4:01]wondering if like I make decisions like

[4:04]this because it it minimizes the

[4:07]cognitive load that I go through like

[4:09]it's it's a convenience thing it's like

[4:11]okay I need coffee we're going to

[4:12]Starbucks don't care how far away it

[4:14]is when a normal person probably just

[4:18]looks for a coffee shop you know I adapt

[4:21]it's like okay we have to go into

[4:22]Bowling Green to get coffee I might as

[4:24]well do some other things while I'm

[4:25]there and it's a real City and then um

[4:30]you know I'll come back and we'll just

[4:32]start our day for real like doing stuff

[4:34]in the camper I was thinking

[4:38]um this morning about last night I was

[4:41]talking about how I'm trying to stop

[4:44]drinking Mountain Dew it's just an

[4:46]ongoing thing with me but how I don't

[4:48]judge myself for still drinking it like

[4:52]this morning I the reason I was thinking

[4:53]it is because I had to go to the store

[4:56]and that's what got me into the mindset

[4:58]of let's get coffee I needed to go to

[5:00]the store to get some I would do and I

[5:03]was just thinking you

[5:05]know I'm trying to

[5:08]explain how how I think and like my

[5:12]behavior and all of these things because

[5:14]I think it could help some people and

[5:17]like I don't judge myself for still

[5:19]doing a thing that's actually brought me

[5:20]a great deal of harm I lost my teeth

[5:22]partly because among you was a big part

[5:24]of it but I don't judge myself for still

[5:28]drinking it

[5:30]what I do do and I didn't say this in

[5:33]the video because I wasn't thinking

[5:34]about it at the time

[5:37]is I do I'm always working on it so I'm

[5:40]going to get Mountain Dew at the

[5:43]store um but I'll try to get other

[5:45]things too I'll pick up some orange

[5:47]juice or I'll get some Pepsi and you

[5:49]know I try to substitute it for other

[5:52]things as part of my process and like

[5:55]that's an ongoing thing I'll do that for

[5:57]a long time probably but but

[6:01]slowly I'm altering my behavior without

[6:04]judging myself I think that's really

[6:07]important think looks beautiful

[6:11]today maybe well I don't know we did

[6:15]just pass the trail the core of engineer

[6:18]Trail I haven't been on it yet maybe we

[6:20]will visit that today I don't know I I

[6:22]do have a lot to do but I do have time I

[6:24]have like 3 days you know what that's

[6:27]probably a coffee shop

[6:31]that would save me I don't know if I

[6:33]want to get coffee there but it would

[6:34]save me a lot of

[6:36]time now I'm wondering if maybe I should

[6:38]get coffee there like I do want to I

[6:42]want to embrace things like that where I

[6:44]explore like local

[6:48]things but that didn't really look like

[6:50]a coffee shop to me but I didn't stop

[6:52]and look at it we're not going to do it

[6:55]this time but I'm going to I'm getting

[6:57]myself into the mindset where that's a

[6:58]thing I'm going to be doing because I

[7:01]don't want to travel to Bowling Green

[7:02]for coffee if this wasn't so rare for me

[7:06]you

[7:08]know I'm considering it but I

[7:11]just just not today I actually do need

[7:15]to head into Bing green there's some

[7:16]things I really need to do so

[7:20]um and I had already gotten Starbucks

[7:23]into my head I'm noticing some of these

[7:25]trees are starting to change

[7:27]color so we might actually be here for

[7:30]the right part of Autumn and it's

[7:36]happening we just need to give it a

[7:38]couple weeks we're going to go explore

[7:40]man caves the Natural Bridge we made it

[7:44]that was a very stressful drive people

[7:46]are driving like maniacs today

[7:49]everywhere we made it though and I was

[7:52]thinking on the way here since I'm in

[7:54]Bowling Green I'm going to find a place

[7:55]to finally pierce my air cartilage up

[7:57]here hopefully there's some kind of new

[8:00]rules in Kentucky that seem to be making

[8:02]that harder for a lot of places to do

[8:04]but it is possible if I can find the

[8:05]right place we're going to do

[8:07]that give me something to

[8:13]drink help you say good morning I would

[8:16]like a vinty hazelnut mocha please

[8:22]hot it was I'm sorry your up for me

[8:26]venty hazelnut mocha

[8:30]hot okay anything else for you today

[8:32]that's it thanks all right 7:47 today

[8:35]thank

[8:37]you I mean I thought I was being polite

[8:40]by you know highlighting every

[8:43]word think you took it a little rude

[8:46]though I finally did it guys I got my

[8:49]ears pierced I pierced this one one more

[8:51]time and two up here they got to heal um

[8:54]before I can put Hoops in them but I got

[8:56]a whole bunch of Hoops the people who

[8:57]did this were amazing I'm actually going

[8:59]to shout them out in this video um but

[9:02]he gave

[9:04]me where did I put

[9:07]them oh here they are okay 10

[9:12]Hoops so that I can replace them all and

[9:15]they all be the same so I'll have let's

[9:18]see there's three four five six I was

[9:20]thinking about maybe piercing this a

[9:21]second time but I just like the Elegance

[9:24]of it

[9:26]and this is amazing I been wanting to do

[9:30]this for months I finally got it done I

[9:32]have to wait like I don't even know

[9:34]probably a month or something they took

[9:36]a video before I can put the Hoops in

[9:38]they took a video of me doing it I

[9:40]handled it like a a true Pro it was not

[9:44]bad at all I didn't know what it would

[9:46]feel like I guess everybody's different

[9:47]but I

[9:49]um I

[9:51]mean very temporary pain you know I've

[9:54]had all my teeth pulled out it was you

[9:56]know just it was totally cool I am so

[9:59]happy we're going back to the camground

[10:01]now you should know that the recovery

[10:03]process that's the painful part like

[10:05]this is not going to be that fun I can't

[10:08]sleep on that side of my face I'm a side

[10:09]sleeper I think I actually do sleep that

[10:11]way so I'm going to have to adjust and

[10:14]um possibly for a couple of months like

[10:16]it's a slow healing process got to take

[10:19]good care of them

[10:20]and um I'm just so happy about it

[10:52]let's see what we're dealing with here

[10:55]it's probably my worst

[10:57]nightmare my worst nightmare come

[11:01]true but we've had a couple days to

[11:03]prepare we knew it was coming we

[11:06]mentally prepared ourselves for this

[11:09]what are we about to see oh God help

[11:16]us where is everybody

[11:19]what we got one new

[11:22]camper all right they're not here yet

[11:26]they're coming today we know they are

[11:28]they're coming

[11:32]see what we got over

[11:35]here let's see it is 2: in the afternoon

[11:38]on Friday that's getting packed down

[11:41]there holy crap I'm so glad we're not in

[11:43]that Loop wow oh my God it is packed

[11:46]over there too oh wow that was empty

[11:49]yesterday that's where we went hiking

[11:53]empty well we know people are coming

[11:55]here

[11:56]okay um yeah that's new

[12:00]there's going to be all kinds of

[12:02]everybody's going to be all of these

[12:04]sites are going to be taken like all of

[12:06]them it's going to be packed over here

[12:09]also but we're going to make the best

[12:11]event we are we're going to go look

[12:14]around and stuff let's just go and have

[12:16]some fun and like you know we'll see how

[12:18]everybody lives I guess how they Camp my

[12:21]ear already hurts it's already hurting

[12:23]it's going to get worse I love it though

[12:26]I am so freaking happy about it like

[12:28]there are there's no words I I

[12:30]absolutely love it I've been wanting to

[12:31]do it for months finally got it done I

[12:34]love it so I'm back Bailey's just

[12:37]chilling down

[12:38]here he seems to be having a good

[12:41]time you seem pretty happy we got to get

[12:45]you some treats

[12:46]though maybe refresh your water but yeah

[12:49]I got to do some work in here but you

[12:51]know it can wait it's kind of hot I

[12:53]forgot I left the back window open

[12:54]without reflecting the 77 over

[12:57]here and

[12:59]oh stand up 80 over here probably like

[13:03]85 in the cab are that's where Bailey

[13:05]was but he likes heat so doesn't bother

[13:09]him shooting it'll get a little it'll

[13:11]probably will get hotter

[13:13]actually it gets pretty hot you know but

[13:16]this should be the last day like the

[13:18]temperature start dropping after this

[13:21]it'll still be pretty hot but it'll

[13:23]it'll get better every week we'll get

[13:24]better

[13:26]so I'm thinking about just taking a walk

[13:30]around the campgrounds just seeing what

[13:32]you know there's so many people here

[13:34]maybe we just go around and see what the

[13:37]atmosphere is like but I don't want to

[13:39]be walking around my camera like too

[13:41]obviously like I don't want

[13:44]to just

[13:47]my my brain doesn't like the idea like I

[13:51]would rather have some not not I'm not

[13:54]trying to like be stealth but just you

[13:57]know less obvious so if I'm going to be

[14:00]walking around with the camera recording

[14:01]everything I kind of just want maybe

[14:03]something on my chest or something but I

[14:05]don't know how I could do that without

[14:07]my

[14:08]backpack I had been thinking about it

[14:11]cuz I don't always want to take my

[14:13]backpack hiking either you know the

[14:15]little hikes that are just you know 4 or

[14:17]eight miles like I don't really need a

[14:19]backpack for that so maybe I will be

[14:22]able to come up with something today

[14:25]like I'm going to think about it so I am

[14:27]off to the drugstore or to get some

[14:29]stuff to keep my ears clean you know so

[14:32]they don't get dis infect infected or

[14:34]whatever and I just noticed I have a

[14:36]neor I have a neighbor and that got me

[14:39]thinking because other stuff's going on

[14:42]today that you know I'm not going to

[14:43]really talk about but um it's got I've

[14:46]been thinking about some stuff and it's

[14:49]kind of related so I'm not sure I should

[14:52]really care about other people observing

[14:54]me because they don't see what I see I

[14:57]am tr stopped because of some stupid

[14:59]phone anyways most people like for me

[15:04]when I'm observing something I see all

[15:06]kinds of interconnections and you know

[15:08]like my mental

[15:10]map it just it connects all kinds of

[15:12]things I'm not even going to try to

[15:14]explain that but I think that most

[15:16]people probably don't do that if I was

[15:18]out there spraying my clothes with

[15:20]mosquito repellants well this could be a

[15:22]good example so if I was out there

[15:24]spraying if somebody else was out there

[15:26]spraying mosquito repellants on their

[15:28]clothes

[15:29]I'd make connections I'd understand they

[15:31]probably like hiking and blah blah blah

[15:33]like I just a whole whole bunch of

[15:35]would go through my head right I don't

[15:37]know that other people are like that

[15:40]maybe I shouldn't care so much maybe I

[15:41]should just be myself and not care

[15:43]anymore I think that's where we're

[15:44]heading I am a programmer and I just get

[15:47]so frustrated with technology on my RV

[15:51]life like it's just

[15:53]not not functioning the way I wanted to

[15:57]it's annoying

[15:59]at the same time I'm sitting there

[16:00]thinking in my head Park ro

[16:03]oh um you know it's interrupting us

[16:06]you're interrupting us

[16:08]Google um at the same time I was

[16:11]thinking in my head as I was saying that

[16:13]well lots of things don't work in

[16:15]programming too that's a big part of the

[16:17]job so why does it bother me so much

[16:19]that um you know my RV life

[16:24]technology oh my God I knew if I turn

[16:26]that would happen too I knew I anyways

[16:28]we're going to the drugstore I

[16:30]absolutely love this song I have been

[16:32]listening to it on repeat for whenever I

[16:35]first discovered it and I played it on

[16:37]my channel that one day this song Just

[16:41]Just speaks to me and it's got such a

[16:42]great beat behind it and everything I'm

[16:45]not going to play it though because you

[16:47]know that stuff gets you in trouble with

[16:48]YouTube

[16:50]beautiful always so beautiful I just

[16:53]love the way that the

[16:56]sun reflects on water I'm very

[16:59]distracted I shouldn't be doing this but

[17:01]it's beautiful Google's going to

[17:04]interrupt us in a mile less than a mile

[17:07]but let's talk about something

[17:11]so I'm running out of money like fast

[17:14]like I'm not even sure if I can pay on

[17:16]my bills anymore I think it's like real

[17:18]close so you'll probably notice that I'm

[17:22]not too stressed about that and that's

[17:23]because I believe in myself I truly

[17:25]believe in myself I can handle any

[17:27]situation that comes my way I believe

[17:28]believe that I live that reality so I'm

[17:32]going back into programming I'm going to

[17:34]do some freelancing starting next week

[17:35]I'm going to start building up my

[17:36]profiles and all that stuff and I'll

[17:39]take on some freelance

[17:40]jobs and I'll do that continue straight

[17:43]to stay on US31 East South I'll do that

[17:46]for as long as I need to and then while

[17:48]I work on trying to get a job at the

[17:50]park service cuz that's what I really

[17:51]want so just felt it was time to

[17:53]acknowledge that understand that this

[17:56]doesn't mean I have all the answers I

[17:59]don't have all the answers I just trust

[18:01]in my ability to navigate any situation

[18:05]and to work through challenges and to

[18:07]get the answers I need when I need them

[18:10]that's what I've been trying to show you

[18:11]guys for 6

[18:13]months this is how I navigate the world

[18:16]this is how I have made it to 47 years

[18:18]old how I was able to save up enough

[18:21]money to live for 6 months and my RV

[18:25]while I worked on

[18:27]myself you are cap capable of so much

[18:30]you

[18:31]are I mean this has to be like the

[18:34]hundredth time I've listened to this

[18:35]song at

[18:37]least Baron River

[18:40]Lake we're very

[18:43]close to our temporary

[18:47]home really want to get out there and

[18:51]experience that little peninsula there

[18:54]that would be so

[18:56]fabulous I don't know how you get to it

[18:58]though

[19:01]we really need to hike that

[19:03]trail I'm starving so we're going to the

[19:06]lodge first campground's that

[19:09]way where I was the other day there's

[19:12]the little um that little spot I went to

[19:14]and there's a trail over there that's

[19:15]where the bus is at we're just going to

[19:17]go down here it's very long

[19:19]road uh there's like a little horse

[19:22]stables and Villas and Cottages we'll be

[19:26]in the Cottages come Monday golf of

[19:29]course um a marina I've never seen that

[19:32]it's down further than I've ever gone

[19:35]so nice State Park very nice place all

[19:39]my friends are heathens take it

[19:43]slow I am just so obsessed with this

[19:46] song it's just

[19:48]ridiculous food we need food so

[19:53]hungry wow they're not even busy that is

[19:55]so awesome I thought they'd be like

[19:57]packed but I guess not are there any

[19:59]Jeeps around that require duckies I

[20:02]don't see

[20:05]any let's see no no Jeeps okay let's go

[20:09]get some food I don't know I guess

[20:13]maybe people are you know they're work

[20:16]today maybe did do they work on the

[20:18]Friday before Labor Day and they just

[20:21]can't come yet I don't know like maybe

[20:23]we'll see them all

[20:25]tomorrow they're not I'm really shocked

[20:27]I mean there's a lodge here

[20:32]so this is the pub they have a pub here

[20:35]and a

[20:35]restaurant they gave me permission to

[20:38]sit out here and

[20:40]eat very nice no

[20:43]pool it's summer time so that's

[20:45]confusing to

[20:49]me

[20:51]H oh look at that the Lake's over there

[20:54]I didn't know that did not know the lake

[20:57]was so close

[21:00]interesting this place is getting busy

[21:03]there's chaos

[21:05]everywhere but it's also a very new

[21:10]experience um it's Unique and I like

[21:13]stuff like that so I'm going to embrace

[21:15]it I'm going to go check out the

[21:17]campground after I get my stuff inside

[21:20]and we'll probably just go for a walk

[21:23]check things out but I move my Jeep up

[21:26]to the front in front of my RV cuz

[21:28]there's just freaking chaos around

[21:31]here this cat is experiencing pure Bliss

[21:35]right now he is exactly where he wants

[21:37]to be he's in his

[21:39]element like for an hour now this cat

[21:42]has just been completely content just

[21:46]watching all the people

[21:48]around I've been sitting out here doing

[21:51]stuff putting and anti-itch cream on all

[21:55]my mosquito bites I must have like 50 of

[21:57]them

[21:59]just letting him chill waiting on him

[22:01]now pretty much and I'm going to go for

[22:03]a walk and check the park out

Summary

rswfire wakes up after 5 hours of sleep in his RV on Labor Day weekend, experiencing back pain from his bed platform despite being level. He drives 20 miles to Bowling Green for Starbucks coffee, reflecting on his decision-making patterns and cognitive load management. **He gets his ears pierced** - one additional piercing in his existing ear and two new cartilage piercings, purchasing 10 hoops for when they heal.

Returning to the campground, he observes the influx of Labor Day weekend campers filling previously empty sites. He discusses his approach to **stopping Mountain Dew consumption** without self-judgment, instead gradually substituting other drinks. **Financial pressure** emerges as a key concern - he's running out of money and may struggle to pay bills, but expresses confidence in his ability to handle the situation.

He plans to return to **freelance programming work** next week while pursuing his goal of working for the park service. The day includes a visit to the lodge restaurant, observing the busy campground atmosphere, and spending time with his cat Bailey who enjoys watching all the people. He mentions getting anti-itch cream for approximately 50 mosquito bites.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission demonstrates the material enactment of sovereign identity through body modification (piercings) while simultaneously managing practical infrastructure (RV living, financial constraints). The field is integrating physical marking with structural autonomy, using embodied choice as sovereignty declaration rather than abstract positioning.

Dominant Language

I believe in myselfnavigate any situationfinally got it doneI absolutely love ittrust in my abilitypractical todayembrace

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sovereign
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embodied
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transitional
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coherent

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somatic
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infrastructural
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cognitive
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relational

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