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I'm off!!! (grid) Yes, ladies and gentleman, I am officially living in the middle of nowhere!  Over the past couple of weeks I moved to the 1.56 acres of barren desert land that I purchased in Southern Oregon, and have been slowly getting situated. It’s been a very busy, tough, stressful, exhausting time but I’ve managed to break ground, and according to my calculations might be making decent progress. The trip here went smoothly, as did the unpacking of my van, and the truck that my friend ChrisSwallows drove. When he tried to leave, however, he got the rig high centered in the sandy shoulder and almost had to spend the night stuck there. A costly call to AAA eventually freed him, but that kind of set the tone. For the next few days things went well enough for me I suppose, but it’s all been a tough learning experience. The biggest lesson is that sound travels in the desert, and my particular area is plagued by not only birds, but dogs that make the “wrong” kind of noises day and night. In other words, it turns out this is not the paradise I had hoped, and needed it to be. This realization is devastating, but I refuse to give in just yet.  From now on things like power / electricity and internet / data usage are going to be very important to keep track of. As of this moment my TikTok channel is going full steam but the YouTube version is not. Hopefully that’ll be changing soon, but the point is that the channel is going to take precedent over most other things. Gone are those wasted moments surfing the web - I simply can’t afford it on both levels - I’ll be logging on just long enough to take care of business and that’s it. Heck, even sitting here composing this is going to produce a small negative on my energy budget, but it’s worth it. Once the season here officially changes to summer I won’t ever be running on a deficit, but lately the amount of sun hitting my solar panel has been unpredictable, and lacking. I’ve experienced everything from rain, heavy winds to oppressively endless sunshine, and temperatures ranging from 30 / thirty to 100 / one hundred degrees. No exaggeration! The last 10 / ten days have all been wet and cold though, and it’s starting to get on my nerves.  A great deal has happened, but it’s only on TikTok. Sitting down to write has been nearly impossible, but also not very appealing. The weather turned bad on me shortly after I arrived and it’s really been about making it through that, and also trying to make some progress on putting together my new life, every day. I cannot dig in mud, cannot build in rain, but most importantly can’t sit around and wait for the perfect weather either. I’ve been improvising, delaying plans, screaming my frustration into the skies, but unwilling to give up. Had I been doing daily updates here, my blog posts would likely be full of some serious negativity these last few days, but thankfully you’ll be spared that. Apart from this overly long bit of information I’m not sure when I’ll be “on” again so I’m filling it with as much as I can. My sincere hope is that anyone who still cares will take a moment to check out my TikTok because it is FULL, and I regularly put up a video 3 / three times a day. Plus it’s a completely different, much more personal and ultimately very real look at me, who I am, how I sound, how I handle life, what I’m thinking and planning and feeling…  |
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Wow......such a leap of faith!
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1 post 6/3/2023 3:29 pm |
SIR. ital sub bttm here. I was sending response to that you looked at my profile
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