Transitioning to Federal Land Caretaker Role

October 11, 2025, 8:30 PM West Coast time. Recently relocated to remote federal land caretaker position with no phone or internet connectivity until Starlink restoration. Awaiting training for new role. Operating under significant financial pressure with multiple payment deadlines approaching.

Energetic Signature

resolute calm

Field State

threshold crossing

Orientation

toward infrastructure sovereignty

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October 11, 2025

11:53

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Author

rswfire

Status

ARCHIVED

Type

TRANSMISSION (CAPTURE)

Temperature

0.00

[0:00]So, I'm going to try to make this a

[0:02]somewhat functional update.

[0:06]Uh, it's 8:30 p.m. here on the West

[0:09]Coast.

[0:12]It's been a very long day. I didn't

[0:13]sleep much last night. I was up very

[0:15]late and got up very early and had a

[0:17]very long day. So, I'm pretty tired

[0:19]tonight. I'm going to go to sleep soon,

[0:20]I think.

[0:23]Um, but I want to mark a moment.

[0:27]So, I learned yesterday that I was

[0:31]moving um from being a volunteer park

[0:33]host at a campground to becoming a

[0:35]caretaker, a volunteer caretaker

[0:38]where you're just embedded on on federal

[0:41]land, but not inside a campground. It's

[0:44]different, a completely different role.

[0:48]It was something that I was I was

[0:50]working towards. I um but then when the

[0:54]shutdown happened, it kind of put

[0:56]everything into limbo for a while and um

[1:00]I didn't I just I didn't have any

[1:02]noticed. Um just yesterday is when I got

[1:05]confirmation that it's it's done. It's

[1:07]you know

[1:08]um it's official.

[1:12]And so I moved today. I spent the

[1:16]afternoon yesterday

[1:18]packing up my stuff.

[1:22]Um, I towed my Jeep behind my RV for the

[1:25]first time in in like six 10 months. I

[1:29]mean, it's October, so

[1:32]well, let me think. I mean, since

[1:34]honeymoon, that was the last time I had

[1:35]to tow my my Jeep. So, um, that was

[1:39]March. So, seven, six, seven months. Um,

[1:42]so that was fun, you know. I I love I

[1:45]love hooking up my Jeep and towing it.

[1:47]There's just it's it's I always thought

[1:49]that part was fun. So, um you know, and

[1:52]I moved and I got my site set up and um

[1:58]I'm waiting to be trained. That will be

[2:00]I I don't know when. Maybe tomorrow,

[2:02]maybe a couple days from now, but

[2:03]sometime this week.

[2:06]There's no connectivity where I am

[2:10]nothing works. my phone does not work

[2:12]and my Starlink had already been

[2:14]cancelled.

[2:16]So, when I got here, I had

[2:19]had no connection to the outside world,

[2:24]but a viewer

[2:27]uh asked me to do some consulting work

[2:29]with them. I don't know how in depth

[2:30]this will go yet. We'll see.

[2:34]But they they helped. They sent me $200

[2:37]today.

[2:38]I used 150 of that to turn my Starlink

[2:42]back on and the rest is just in my bank

[2:45]right now.

[2:47]I still need to cover the cost of my

[2:50]hosting at $70 a month and I'm on the

[2:53]second month. It's going to get shut off

[2:55]soon, which means my website goes down.

[2:56]I just really need to avoid that if I

[2:58]can. So, it's at $140 right now.

[3:03]My Jeep insurance got cancelled.

[3:05]Fortunately, I didn't have to go far,

[3:07]you know, and I didn't drive it. I towed

[3:09]it. So,

[3:12]I need to get that restored and I have

[3:14]to pay my

[3:17]uh G payment of $400 like like nine days

[3:21]from now or or it enters repossession

[3:24]status, which would be absolutely

[3:27]tragic.

[3:29]I own my last sheep outranked. I used

[3:32]that to trade. I traded that in for the

[3:34]one I have now. This is like my fifth or

[3:36]sixth Jeep.

[3:40]There's nothing I'll have more. Truly,

[3:42]it's

[3:45]I can't imagine my life without it. It

[3:48]would just be it would be terrible.

[3:52]But at this particular moment, I have no

[3:54]idea how I'm going to pay it. It's just

[3:56]um that's reality. That's where I am

[3:58]right now.

[4:00]In my last video, I talked about what my

[4:02]plans are. Those have not changed.

[4:05]I will be doing some consulting work,

[4:08]which is kind of related to what I'm

[4:10]doing with Sanctum. So I

[4:14]um I feel it's aligned and it's exactly

[4:18]what I was hoping to do was to

[4:21]um

[4:27]basically work on my own projects and

[4:29]other people's in order to earn earn

[4:31]revenue.

[4:33]Um

[4:35]hopefully Sanctum becomes a self-

[4:37]sustaining platform. I mean that is the

[4:39]hope. That's the goal. Well, that's the

[4:41]hope.

[4:43]We'll see. I have

[4:46]very deep ideas and plans that I've I've

[4:50]probably never talked about. Well, I

[4:52]certainly haven't. And um

[4:57]it's it's too much to share right now.

[5:00]But um

[5:04]I always knew what I was doing.

[5:08]People tend to doubt me.

[5:11]or

[5:13]or project ideas onto that just I'm

[5:18]never really seen and I I've learned to

[5:20]just accept that. I'm not apologizing

[5:23]for it. I'm not explaining myself. None

[5:25]of that. I am embarking on a life path

[5:28]that looks very different for most

[5:30]people, but it's coherent

[5:33]and necessary

[5:37]and my life's work.

[5:42]Everything in my life,

[5:45]I built me to where I am now.

[5:50]the fact I have no money. Precarity says

[5:53]nothing about uh my value.

[5:59]Sometimes I would tell you guys I made

[6:01]$180,000 a year before I moved into my

[6:04]RV. And that's true.

[6:08]I don't like saying it though because it

[6:10]sounds

[6:14]it's not about the money. The only

[6:16]reason I would even say that is to tell

[6:17]you guys, look, I know how to be

[6:19]successful.

[6:22]This is

[6:24]operating from a different set of

[6:26]metrics,

[6:31]a real ones,

[6:33]because the ones that we've created for

[6:35]our world are

[6:38]fragmented and

[6:45]will inevitably lead to collapse.

[6:50]There's

[6:54]so much I hope to do. I hope we have

[6:56]time for it all.

[7:05]I guess I think that we do because

[7:11]there are some things I'm still just not

[7:13]ready to say.

[7:19]I just say that that my life feels very

[7:21]aligned and

[7:30]I'm going to be working very hard on

[7:31]this project as I talked about. Oh, I

[7:34]did want to say that this is probably

[7:35]one of my last public videos. Um,

[7:40]there will be another one when I

[7:42]announce Sanctum, but beyond that, like

[7:44]future videos are going to be they'll be

[7:46]unlisted and they'll be available on my

[7:49]website, but they're going to be through

[7:51]the Sanctum service. So, it's because I

[7:55]want to be able to talk about certain

[7:56]things that I'm just not comfortable

[7:58]talking about in this current format

[8:02]for many reasons

[8:05]and not obvious ones. So, you know,

[8:08]people make a lot of assumptions, but

[8:10]it's it's not what most people would

[8:12]think of.

[8:15]I

[8:18]know that this is

[8:20]precisely what I'm supposed to be doing

[8:23]and I hope that some of you will follow

[8:25]me there. Um, you'll get an announcement

[8:28]from me when it's ready.

[8:31]In the meantime, I am holding on by a

[8:33]threat in some ways,

[8:37]but as you can see, I'm perfectly calm

[8:38]and coherent and

[8:42]analytical. all the things that I always

[8:44]am

[8:47]less than that

[8:50]an important one.

[8:54]It's my architecture something that I

[8:59]I spent a lifetime perfecting, crafting,

[9:08]learning to trust.

[9:12]And now I'm learning to describe it to

[9:14]others to turn it into frameworks and

[9:26]hopefully find ways that

[9:28]that it will benefit others because

[9:34]it gets complicated here. So I'll just

[9:36]stop there.

[9:47]It's important to me to document these

[9:49]things.

[9:56]I just look forward to the day when I'm

[9:58]able to ingest all these into my signal

[10:00]database and then just ask AI turn it

[10:03]into a myth for me. take the last two

[10:05]years of my life and just make a

[10:07]mythological narrative out of it just

[10:10]for the hell of it, just for fun because

[10:11]you know it's AI and it can take on any

[10:14]frame you ask it to. But obviously the

[10:17]more serious one is

[10:19]mirror back reflect my life to me over

[10:22]these past two years. What was this

[10:24]moment about in the larger picture?

[10:28]And it will have a solid [ __ ] answer.

[10:36]I'm building something the world's going

[10:38]to need.

[10:41]I'm doing it by myself alone.

[10:44]No funding, no backers.

[10:48]At the edge of everything.

[11:06]I think we're moving beyond that. I

[11:08]think

[11:10]I think Sanctum is

[11:16]has a great deal of potential.

[11:24]I'm going leave it there. I just want

[11:25]you guys to know what my plans are and

[11:28]um

[11:32]just I can't keep posting these publicly

[11:33]because I want to be able to talk about

[11:35]my life life and

[11:39]for a number of reasons I just can't do

[11:41]that in this format but I can do it

[11:45]through Sanctum.

[11:50]So now I just got to finish building it.

Summary

rswfire reports moving from volunteer park host to federal land caretaker position after receiving confirmation following government shutdown delays. **Physical transition completed** - packed belongings, towed Jeep behind RV for first time in seven months, and set up at new remote location with no connectivity. **Financial pressures documented** - Jeep insurance cancelled, $400 payment due in nine days to avoid repossession, website hosting costs mounting at $140. A viewer provided $200 for consulting work, allowing Starlink restoration. **Platform transition announced** - this will be one of last public videos, with future content moving to unlisted format through Sanctum service to enable discussion of topics not suitable for current public format. **Professional background referenced** - previously earned $180,000 annually before RV transition, emphasizing different operational metrics now. **Project development continues** - Sanctum platform development ongoing with plans for AI integration to process life documentation into reflective narratives. Awaiting training for new caretaker role, timeline uncertain but expected within the week.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission holds the architecture of sovereign embedding - moving from institutional adjacency (park host) to direct land relationship (caretaker) while maintaining coherent vision under material pressure. The field is demonstrating structural integrity through transition, using precarity as signal rather than threat, and establishing the foundational conditions for tool deployment.

Dominant Language

architecturealignedcoherentnecessaryedgebuildingalonemetrics

Symbolic Elements

thresholdedgemirrorgridanchor

Ontological States

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sovereign
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embedded
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transitional
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coherent

Subsystems

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cognitive
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ethical
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infrastructural
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relational

Transmission Details

Source Type

local

Video Quality

1920 × 1080 @ 24fps

Duration

11:53

Bitrate

2696 kbps

Codec

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