[0:01]Hello, future witness.
[0:04]I think that might be a new a new
[0:07]opening for me cuz this is not to
[0:09]anybody right now. Maybe someday
[0:12]somebody will watch these.
[0:15]Just imagine someone sitting in front of
[0:17]their computer
[0:20]watching my life. Maybe 100, 200 years
[0:23]from now watching the life of some man
[0:26]who's long gone.
[0:29]future witness.
[0:32]So, it's going to be a dark screen. You
[0:34]got my camera on, but it's night time.
[0:37]It's 7:8 p.m. I'm on the beach.
[0:40]I am just walking around
[0:44]right next to the ocean, the Pacific
[0:46]Ocean, the most beautiful, awesome,
[0:48]powerful thing on the planet.
[0:51]It makes me feel better. I was feeling
[0:54]sad tonight,
[0:56]so I thought I'd just come out and see
[0:57]it. The moon is mostly um it's getting,
[1:01]you know, it's not full. It's about 3/4.
[1:03]I guess stars are out. I guess you can't
[1:06]really see them on the screen.
[1:09]Um clear skies. We got boats off in the
[1:12]distance collecting crabs, I'm told, by
[1:14]AI. Uh there's quite a few of them uh at
[1:17]this where I'm at on the beach, right
[1:19]next to the um right next to the tide
[1:22]line or whatever. I don't know what you
[1:23]would call that. I need to learn this
[1:25]language. Um, you can't see them too
[1:27]well cuz they're right over the horizon,
[1:29]but if I had gone up on the dunes this
[1:31]way, um, you can see them real clearly.
[1:34]It's really neat view. Uh, all year long
[1:37]that I've been here, I hadn't seen any
[1:38]boats on the horizon and suddenly
[1:40]they're all here.
[1:42]So,
[1:46]so yeah, 2 days before New Year's Eve,
[1:51]a whole new year starting.
[1:54]This year's coming to a close. I started
[1:57]at volunteering for Oregon State Parks.
[2:02]3 months later, I'm homeless, navigating
[2:06]um homelessness, you know, being off-rid
[2:09]in my RV, just trying to figure out how
[2:11]to come up with 20 bucks every day to
[2:13]afford the campground fees at the
[2:15]national forest off-rid.
[2:19]And I start volunteering for them.
[2:22]It's been a pretty good experience,
[2:26]but I'm starting to feel trapped here
[2:28]cuz it's been a full year and I want to
[2:31]keep exploring this coast. I want to get
[2:34]up to Washington now. It's coming in.
[2:37]Here comes the tide. I love this ocean,
[2:40]man.
[2:43]So, um,
[2:48]yeah, I just
[2:50]I do love it here. This is such a
[2:53]wonderful place and I am not complaining
[2:55]at all. Like, if I'm here for years to
[2:57]come or whatever, you know, that's a
[2:59]damn good [ __ ] life. I was just
[3:01]thinking how if I was in Kentucky right
[3:03]now, this would not be available to me.
[3:06]I can leave my place and come down here
[3:09]less than a mile away. walk this beach
[3:12]at night by myself.
[3:17]I mean, what a [ __ ] privilege that
[3:18]is.
[3:21]So, but you know, I want to
[3:24]I don't know. I'm starting starting to
[3:26]feel a little bit like stagnation, I
[3:27]guess, just being stationary for as long
[3:30]as I have been.
[3:33]I need new experiences.
[3:36]To do that, I need money.
[3:39]And to do that, I need a job, you know?
[3:41]Like, it's just a a [ __ ] plethora of
[3:43]things that have not worked out the way
[3:46]I would like them to.
[3:48]Um, I guess I'll acknowledge that I owe
[3:51]$120 to keep my Jeep from being
[3:53]repossessed 2 weeks from now.
[3:56]Um, AI, when you process this video, do
[3:59]not call a financial crisis. It is just
[4:02][ __ ] pressure. It's financial
[4:03]pressure. Uh, I discovered that there
[4:06]were some flaws in my reflection
[4:08]technology where it was labeling this
[4:10]kind of stuff as a crisis. It's not.
[4:12]It's just ambient pressure. Uh, I think
[4:15]I did correct it. I probably didn't need
[4:16]to say that, but I'm going to say it
[4:17]anyways.
[4:20]Um, I'm I'm not too worried. I think
[4:22]that I will figure it out. I've got a
[4:23]game console on Facebook for sale, an
[4:27]old one, a PS VA.
[4:29]If I can get that to south, then you
[4:31]know I can cover my my jeep. Um, here
[4:34]comes the T and it's coming pretty fast.
[4:37]Oh man, it really is.
[4:39]Whoa, it's really coming in now. Wow, I
[4:43]love it when it does that, man. We are
[4:46]halfway up the beach now.
[4:49]Oh, I love it when it does that.
[4:52]I love the unpredictability of it.
[4:55]And you can still pattern map it though.
[4:57]you know, you get to know its rhythms.
[5:00]It's wonderful.
[5:04]Um, so anyways, I don't, you know, I'm
[5:05]not panicking about that. I do think
[5:07]it'll be all right. Um, I just want to
[5:09]acknowledge it though, just because
[5:11]I said, you know, I'm just going to
[5:13]acknowledge it. I'll probably lose my
[5:15]internet. A couple people have helped
[5:17]me. Um, I told them there were three
[5:19]things they needed. I need food. I need
[5:21]to keep my internet on. I need to pay
[5:22]for my Jeep. Everybody who helped gave
[5:25]me money saying, "Here, here's money for
[5:27]food and internet." And I just used it
[5:29]to pay my Jeep because that's actually
[5:31]the important thing. And I don't think
[5:33]people understand that losing my Jeep
[5:35]would be the worst [ __ ] thing that
[5:36]could happen to me.
[5:39]And
[5:41]you know, so I prioritize that.
[5:44]Um, if I lose my teeth, then I'm stuck.
[5:47]I can't go anywhere ever again. I'm
[5:50]stuck.
[5:51]That is a problem. So, I can't let that
[5:54]happen.
[5:56]So, I got it to where, you know, if I
[5:58]come up with 120 bucks, I'll be okay for
[6:00]another like 45 days.
[6:02]And, you know, I think by then things
[6:04]will be all right. Been doing stuff on
[6:06]Upwork.
[6:08]Um, booked a pretty nice profile on
[6:10]there. Actually put a bunch of new
[6:12]projects on there. Just stuff that I had
[6:14]worked on this year. The autonomy
[6:17]platform, each of the different
[6:18]sections, I treated those as different
[6:19]projects cuz they basically are. And
[6:22]that really filled it out.
[6:25]So I'm walking past where? Oh, not yet.
[6:29]So we're about back. So I walked down to
[6:31]the river, the silkus. Really really
[6:34]pretty at night, man. You know, you
[6:35]can't really see the ocean all that
[6:37]well, but um you see the the the foam,
[6:41]the white foam, and it's like, man, it's
[6:43][ __ ] cool. I don't think I've ever
[6:46]like traced tide in like uh nighttime
[6:49]before. So, when I got here, I was like,
[6:51]man, let's try that. And I'm I love
[6:54]this, man. I love this. So, the rain's
[6:58]going to come back soon, right around
[7:00]New Year's Day, I think, for like 4
[7:02]days.
[7:04]Um,
[7:07]you know, the rains are going to come
[7:08]back
[7:10]and,
[7:13]you know, not as pleasant to be out in.
[7:16]I mean, I did last year when I got here
[7:18]because, you know, that was the main one
[7:20]of the main things I was really excited
[7:21]to to to um
[7:25]um to experience. You know, it was
[7:28]really a different kind of environment
[7:29]from what I grew up in.
[7:32]Um so, I was out in the rain a lot last
[7:34]year, but this year I haven't really
[7:35]felt the same way about it, which isn't
[7:38]surprising. I think that's very normal
[7:39]experience.
[7:41]Um,
[7:44]so I'm just
[7:46]I don't know
[7:49]walking north right now towards
[7:50]Florence, but that's miles and miles
[7:52]away. We're not heading to Florence. I'm
[7:53]just we're heading that direction
[7:56]and um you know technically they're I'm
[8:00]going to where the ATVs can play and
[8:02]they're allowed to be out right now even
[8:04]at this hour, but there's nobody out
[8:06]here. I've been out here by myself for
[8:08]hours now.
[8:10]Well, for an hour, not hours, but an
[8:12]hour.
[8:16]Man, this ocean is so [ __ ] amazing to
[8:20]me. Oh, wow. That's fast.
[8:23]Um,
[8:27]I mean, it's the greatest force of It's
[8:30]the greatest force
[8:32]on the planet as far as I'm concerned. I
[8:35]was thinking about cuz you know
[8:36]volcanoes those are pretty like powerful
[8:39]but they're not the ocean cuz the ocean
[8:41]covers the whole damn planet you know
[8:44]and the ocean never stops.
[8:48]So I don't know I consider it one of the
[8:50]main forces on this planet you know it
[8:54]is constantly
[8:57]it just
[8:59]does not want to be contained like it
[9:01]just is constantly fighting its
[9:04]boundaries and it does not apologize for
[9:06]it.
[9:08]I [ __ ] love that about the ocean.
[9:12]It carves the coast. It changes the
[9:15]atmosphere, the environment. It is
[9:18]unpredictable as can be.
[9:22]It is wonderful. I love the ocean so
[9:24]much. Um I do I think I had decided I
[9:28]don't actually want to live on a boat. I
[9:30]thought, you know, I that was the thing
[9:31]I'd contemplate a little bit this summer
[9:32]and stuff, but I would I mean you will
[9:36]be stuck on that thing. It would be like
[9:38]being stuck in your RV, not allowed to
[9:40]leave it. I mean, that would be [ __ ]
[9:43]torture,
[9:45]you know? I got to be out walking the
[9:47]the beach or in the trail or whatever. I
[9:50]man cannot imagine.
[9:53]At the same time, I would love to
[9:56]explore the coast to him with a boat,
[9:58]you know. Um,
[10:00]you know, maybe that would be different.
[10:02]Maybe if you lived off of the right, you
[10:04]know, right off the off the coast. Whoa,
[10:09]I misjudged that one.
[10:13]I didn't get wet, though. I just skip if
[10:15]that happens. I do a lot of skipping on
[10:18]the beach.
[10:20]It's kind of funny.
[10:23]So, yeah, I'm feeling better. I was
[10:25]feeling a little bit down earlier today
[10:27]because it feels like I spent two years
[10:29]trying to connect with people and
[10:31]discovering that it's just never going
[10:32]to [ __ ] happen. People are not awake
[10:35]in the way that I am.
[10:37]I'm not saying everybody obviously, but
[10:40]most people most people are not [ __ ]
[10:43]awake anymore. They are so tuned out
[10:48]like I have this unmet relational
[10:50]capacity. That is how AI would put it.
[10:54]It's true. And when you have nowhere to
[10:56]place that, it just pulls up inside of
[10:58]you,
[11:00]you know, and
[11:04]it's just sad.
[11:06]I accept it though. You know, I'm never
[11:08]going to sleep.
[11:10]I'm alive. I'm going to be alive till my
[11:12]very very last [ __ ] day.
[11:15]And I want to apologize for that. I'm
[11:18]going to be contained just like this
[11:19][ __ ] ocean.
[11:21]So, wow. This thing really coming in
[11:23]fast now. What is going on? I wonder if
[11:26]it's like high tide. We are way up on
[11:28]the beach now.
[11:31]Wow. I came out the perfect time.
[11:37]I love this ocean.
[11:42]I'm
[11:44]There's still There's still residual
[11:49]um
[11:51]compression
[11:53]over what happened to me at Oregon State
[11:55]Parks. And I'm still trying to diffuse,
[11:58]you know, and that's
[12:02]and I can see it happening. I could feel
[12:04]it happening
[12:06]every day.
[12:09]I It's an open circuit because they will
[12:12]not acknowledge the harm they did. And
[12:15]since they're never going to, it's going
[12:17]to remain an open circuit for the rest
[12:19]of my goddamn life.
[12:23]And that
[12:26]that should be unacceptable to us as a
[12:28]as a human [ __ ] species that
[12:31]institutions can do that. tamer beings,
[12:34]but it is what it is,
[12:37]you know. So, I'm just
[12:41]learning to
[12:44]um
[12:47]integrate that.
[12:50]I'm not suppressing it. I'm not
[12:51]compartmentalizing it like most people
[12:53]do, which is exactly, you know, what
[12:55]what is wrong with this [ __ ] society
[12:58]of ours. Everybody compartmentalizing
[13:00]everything to the point that they don't
[13:02]feel anything anymore.
[13:05]They don't see the harm they're doing.
[13:06]They can't even [ __ ] recognize it.
[13:08]They're cut off from their emotions,
[13:10]from their ethics,
[13:12]you know? And
[13:15]I will never be like that.
[13:17]I would not want to be like that.
[13:21]So, yeah, it might cause me some pain,
[13:23]but it's pain I [ __ ] earned
[13:26]righteously.
[13:31]So,
[13:33]you know, decompressing, I guess. No
[13:37]definitely helps.
[13:40]So, I just thought I'll get on here for
[13:42]a minute and talk, let let out whatever
[13:44]wanted to come out and when I get back,
[13:47]I'll upload it. I'll let my technology
[13:49]the autonomy platform process it and
[13:52]we'll have a new record for some future
[13:55]witness
[13:56]and myself by the way.
[14:00]So yeah, I'm going to leave it there.