I Think All These Random Projects Finally Make Sense

For years The LOTS Project has bounced between RV life, building a cabin, solar, land, animals, growing food, Bitcoin, privacy, tech and whatever other rabbit hole happened to show up.

I'm starting to think they weren't separate rabbit holes at all.

Something clicked this week while I was looking at the response to the new Solar Basics videos and working through what I want the website—and eventually this show—to become.

But before we get there, we bought 110 pounds of paraffin wax.

For $55.

We already use firestarters for the woodstove, so buying cheap wax and making our own made sense. Buying enough wax to supply us for approximately 147 winters probably didn't.

So now we're going to experiment with free sawdust, wood shavings and different wax ratios to see whether we can turn a stupid Marketplace deal into a product that actually makes money.

The road trip to pick up the wax also involved a yard full of modified 55-gallon drums, some suspicious-looking chickens and an explanation I definitely wasn't expecting.

Back at the cabin, the Tennessee heat continues to make progress painfully slow. We did manage more clearing around the solar field, continued attacking the floor bubbles and started fitting lumber for the first interior wall—which reminded me once again that absolutely nothing on this cabin is square, standard or interested in making my life easy.

The Solar Basics series is another story.

YouTube seems to be finding the right audience. TikTok is pushing the shorts to thousands of people. Viewers are saving them and following for more.

Facebook is doing approximately fuck-all.

That contrast has me seriously considering moving the weekly Facebook livestream feed over to Nostr.

Eventually all of these threads come together: solar, water, land, Bitcoin, technology, the cabin and what Living Outside The System actually means to me.

You don't need to move off-grid.

You don't need to do everything.

Learn the systems. Build what makes sense. Become less dependent where you can.

Also included: this week's Bitcoin Price Guessing Game, questionable coffee opinions and the normal assortment of tangents.

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