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We Must Do This BEFORE Leaving (day 176 of 365)

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We Must Do This BEFORE Leaving (day 176 of 365)

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Everyone's got a hard question about AI. Your job, your kids, where it's going. Anthropic was built to surface those questions and share what it finds along the way because there's hope in hard questions. Ask yours at clod.ai slash Spotify and keep thinking. That's clod.ai slash Spotify. Anthropic migraine is 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours or more. Botox on a botulinum toxin A prevents headaches and adults with chronic migraine before they start. It's not for those with 14 or fewer headache days a month. It prevents on average 8 to 9 headache days a month versus 6 to 7 for placebo. Prescription Botox is injected by your doctor. Effects of Botox may spread hours to weeks after injection causing serious symptoms. Alert your doctor right away as difficulty swallowing, speaking, breathing, eye problems or muscle weakness can be signs of a life-threatening condition. Patients with these conditions before injection are at highest risk. Side effects may include allergic reactions, neck and injection site pain, fatigue and headache.

Allergic reactions can include rash, welts, asthma symptoms and dizziness. Don't receive Botox if there's a skin infection. Tell your doctor your medical history, muscle or nerve conditions including ALS Lugeric's disease, Myastthenia Gravis or Lambert Eaton Syndrome and medications including Botulinum toxins as these may increase the risk of serious side effects. My weight, ask your doctor visit BotoxCronicMigraine.com or call 1-800-44 Botox to learn more. We have made it back to the hideout. It is day 176 of filming for 20 minutes a day for 365 days a year in a single year and we haven't missed a day yet. It's kind of incredible. Just think about it. Has there been anything that you've done in recent memory that wasn't something that you had to do like a bowel movement or anything along those lines? Have you even showed up to work 176 days in a row? Tell me in the comments below because I think it's pretty incredible to be able to do something almost every single day and I've done

this every single day for 176 days. It's pretty cool. So what we got to do is we got to clean out this space here. We got to get it ready for the winter. We got to dump all the water out of the unit as well and then we're going to add in underneath there. I got some cool inter any freeze that is good for the RV. It's okay to put in your drinking lines and all that stuff. You're going to flush it out later on anyway and then we got to come over here. I'll open that back up because we do got to go in there. We're going to come over here and we're going to disconnect these tanks and empty out the tanks fully as well. So that way if there is any freezing that does happen, we don't want to have an issue with it all. So I guess it's time to just start turning the stuff off. Also another thing I'm going to do is I'm going to want to disconnect in this battery and the pump. I'm going to move

the battery and probably put it in a storage area where it's not going to potentially get wet or too cold for the battery to sit at the temperatures and sit for up to six months at a time or more in temperatures where we have to worry about the lithium. Technically you don't have to worry about it but you should store it in a space that is probably above 50 degrees Fahrenheit. And below 90 degrees Fahrenheit somewhere around there for like the ideal keep of that system. I am going to want to bring this solar panel along with us as well as the jackery just so we have a backup battery bank system if anything happens or goes wrong with ours we have a backup. So it's always good to have a backup. Do you have any backups in your house?

Do you have like a generator or a way to give yourself power even one of these little jackrees like for your fridge if say you have a power outage in your area. I think it's pretty important to have something like this and I'm glad we have several of those battery banks because if we did run that a power technically we would be able to make it work. So this tank is already basically empty you can see here at the base there's no water line there it's way at the bottom that's perfectly fine having a little bit in there isn't going to be a problem at all. The biggest thing is I want to shut off that pump and push the water line and open up this water line and drain it all out. That's what I'm going to do. So let's close this line. Okay we could

we could close this line as well. We could let out the pressure on the other side. Here you go that one's closed. So we have both closed now. We're going to let out the water pressure on this side. We'll disconnect the pump. We'll let out the water pressure on the other side and then the way I'll actually do the fluid over there is what I'll do is I'll run it into the system via the normal pump. Let's see if we have too much pressure here to open this. Yeah that was a lot of pressure. I had a feeling what I really should have done is I should have to the faucet and release the pressure. I could have actually even done it here but it's okay. Sometimes you do some silly things you know. So we're going to take this off. This will be for use for something else. This is a quick connect here. I do want to close this up.

I didn't even realize this thing was open the whole time. I do want to open up these lines without the pressure. Okay everyone's got a hard question about AI. Your job, your kids, where it's going and theropic was built to surface those questions and share what it finds along the way because there's hope in hard questions. Ask yours at clod.ai slash Spotify and keep thinking that's clod.ai slash Spotify. I get so many headaches every month. It could be chronic migraine 15 or more headache days a month each lasting four hours or more. Botox on a botch alignem toxin A prevents headaches and adults with chronic migraine. It's not for those who have 14 or fewer headache days a month. Prescription Botox is injected by your doctor. Effects of Botox may spread hours to weeks after injection causing serious symptoms.

Alerture doctor right away as difficulty swallowing, speaking, breathing, eye problems or muscle weakness can be signs of a life threatening condition. Patients with these conditions before injection are at highest risk. Side effects may include allergic reactions, neck and injection site pain, fatigue and headache. Alerture reactions can include rash, welts, asthma symptoms and dizziness. Don't receive Botox if there's a skin infection. Tell your doctor your medical history, muscle or nerve conditions, including ALS Lugeric's disease, myasthenia Gravis or Lambert Eaton syndrome and medications including botch alignem toxins as these may increase the risk of serious side effects. Why wait, ask your doctor, visit BotoxCronicMigraine.com or call 1-800-44 Botox to learn more. Now also what I'm going to want to do is I'm going to go back around and I'm going to repressurize everything with, I'm going to repressurize everything with the coolant. So that way the system is pressurized but with something that can't freeze.

Because last time what I did is I blew out all the lines but what I didn't realize is that the toilet would still have some residual water in it and I want to loosen the mechanism on that toilet and have to purchase and put in a new one due to the fact that it failed because there was still a little bit of water left in the plastic device in there and that plastic device froze which in turn gave me an issue. Also we're going to come in here, we're going to turn off the propane. There's probably not a lot of propane left in here. I did fill it up like a few weeks ago and we've been running on it ever since and we have been using a little bit of heat through the night and then also another thing I'm going to do because tomorrow we're going to wind up putting a cover over the top of this. I'm going to wind up disconnecting the solar from the roof

and just shutting the breaker off and then that way the solar from the roof, it's not going to be pulling anything anyway but a cover over it so but then the solar from the roof we won't have to worry about. I also need to move this tank to a new position somewhere but before I do that I have to dump all the tanks. I'm not going to do it today because we had a big rain storm today which means all the ground everywhere is going to be soaking wet. Tomorrow morning that's another one of my jobs after do. I'll go grab the neighbors four wheeler, pick this up, drop it off over at my in-laws house and get the systems drained completely. That way we don't have to worry about anything like that freezing up and getting rid of any of the poo that might be left over in the system. And we'll also throw a little bit of coolant into those systems as well so that way we have

nothing freezing on us. And then this is the tarp or this is the cover for the whole thing. Then this tarp I'm actually going to get underneath the unit here and we're going to tarp up a spot that has fallen down and we'll probably just cut the tarp and tarp that up and then hopefully that keeps any of the mice that want to move in out. So one easy way to be able to get the water out of the system is you have these two valves here and we're going to open them up and they're probably pressurized also. Yeah I'm not going to need a tool for that so let's go grab a tool. Yeah I mean it's not too difficult to winterize your system. The biggest thing is just having the time and knowing that you've opened up all your different valve points and the reason why I don't want to leave the water in here and then add the coolant is because with any freeze if I add the

any freeze in while I have these cap while I have the water in there it's going to dilute it and then if I dilute it then I won't have the proper mixture to be able to keep it from I want to have the proper mixture to keep it from freezing at it you know low temperatures. And here's the thing it's probably not going to get below freezing maybe a little bit overnight but maybe a little tiny bit overnight when it's like November but the facts are is that you never know when you're going to come back when you go on a trip like this so I'm going to get it done now and that way I don't have to worry about it later on. That one's hard to do. That one's on tight. There we go.

All right we got those open so another thing we could do here pop it up in this bed boy right help turn open the water allow some air to get out and then those will pour out whatever water they have in there which they just did. We're going to leave these caps here we're going to go ahead we're going to open up all the faucets everything allow that air to kind of bleed through the system and get rid of any residual water that we have just laying inside these pipes you can hear the sound of the air bleeding through you hear that air kind of wild right also this needs to close fully. Yes let's see we got anything left no more water in there all right now we'll check by

the main tank there should be no water in this main tank anyway because I've uh didn't use it at all this season and the reason why I didn't use it at all this season is for the simple fact that we didn't need to but let's see nothing in all bone dry baby okay so now that we have the water out of the system what I actually do before I get to that point I'm actually going to turn on the pump and we'll see that release any water that's in there and one thing we will also have to do is open up the back end of this but let's see if we can get some pressure going here see yeah she's pushing there's nothing there's nothing behind it because I have

the valve closed I see zero water coming out of those pipes right now and I think it's because it has nothing to push through from this backside and there's nothing in there oh that's got it took off the hose that's why all right unit is now disconnected so I've just just connected the battery just from doing that there we have no more water in here as well so we could disconnect these also I can disconnect this one okay there you go that's it she's disconnected fully free free floating I don't love the idea that when it rains that the battery and that pump gets wet so if we do want to move them back in here when we get back or in the future I will put like a a little a little house over the top of that

waterproof housing and what I will also do is I will cook the remainder of the shed probably should have did that a while ago just to keep the water out and not coming in I did draw a bunch of holes in the floor to be able to stop any moisture from staying in there but honestly debris gets in those little holes clogs them up and then that's it game over now my mission is going to be to figure out how I'm going to get these bottles of anti-freeze into the tank over here on the side and then we'll pump them in to all the systems

I'm going to reconvene with you in just a moment all right I think the way I'm going to have to do it is not to use this little guy right here and I'm going to put you back here so you can see and I am going to hold this here and pour it slowly into there that's my best bet at the moment I don't really have anything to lock into here maybe I do have something give me one second here I want to have like a little pipe thing here let me see it earlier here maybe also not right up there it is

is that fit in there open up that valve all right this isn't by any means perfect it will probably flow out onto my hand a little bit if I don't go slow enough but this is a way to get this stuff in here yeah not so shabby I like it and one of my thought processes I'm probably going to need a fair bit more of this but we'll find out it smells good it smells like candy

the stuff that I bought is specifically like if I needed to consume this I could but you shouldn't and it's for RVs everyone's got a hard question about AI your job your kids where it's going andthropic was built to surface those questions and share what it finds along the way because there's hope in hard questions ask yours at clawed.ai slash Spotify and keep thinking that's clawed.ai slash Spotify chronic migraine 15 or more headache days a month each lasting four hours or more can make me feel like a spectator in my own life Botox on a botanolinum toxin A prevents headaches and adults with chronic migraine it's not for those with 14 or fewer headache days a month it's the number one prescribed branded chronic migraine preventive treatment prescription Botox is injected by your doctor effects of Botox may spread hours to weeks after injection causing serious symptoms a lurcher doctor right away is difficulty swallowing speaking breathing eye problems or muscle weakness can be signs of a life threatening condition patients with

these conditions before injection or at highest risk side effects may include allergic reactions neck and injection site pain fatigue and headache allergic reactions can include rash, welts, asthma symptoms and dizziness don't receive Botox if there's a skin infection tell your doctor your medical history muscle or nerve conditions including ALS lugaric's disease myesthenia gravis or lamboried syndrome and medications including botanolinum toxins as these may increase the risk of serious side effects why wait ask your doctor visit Botox chronic migraine.com or call 1-800-44 Botox to learn more all right that's one done it'd be nice if that fit onto top of that but it doesn't

when hand goes like slightly off and it starts pouring all of my arm honestly it's probably just like a little bit of alcohol concentrate in there to make sure it's still humans keep consuming it but all set at the same time you could use it inside your system safer septic system botanolinum toxins I have to grab one more from the store I got a good flow happening now nice perfect

do not get in eyes or on skin or clothing these only in well ventilated areas so yeah I have to go into my arm off says do not consume where else waterline antifreeze so do not consume it because cause could cause vomiting all right we'll get rid of these so that's pretty much all you have to do after you put it into your water lines turn on my pump put it into my water lines and then I should be pretty good to go there I'm gonna test everything again tomorrow so I think I'll run out and grab what I need and now I'll be it

hi honey hey how's it going good I'm just just put the antifreeze into the lines and I will head home in a moment here okay and that's it okay I think you you have ever lose scooter yeah I do probably in the back of the truck okay she really wants to scooters okay I'll come home in a minute so she could scooters since it's not raining anymore okay thank you daddy you're welcome yeah daddy says he's gonna come right now okay so we just have to be patient for a couple minutes okay thank you yeah I love you yeah so that's really that well that's a big stink bug I'm looking forward to seeing what this looks like after the winter if we did a good job that one making sure that everything is sealed off so where we get no mice and making sure that all

of our waterlines are good nothing ruptured make sure our toilets good and a lap ruptured I'm just going from there you know so I'm gonna do is I'm gonna lock up this area these pipes here that I've I had the caps on I'm gonna put them back on another thing I'm probably gonna do is I'm going to I'm going to open up the hot water heater before I flush that stuff into the system because realistically I'm worried about that thing bursting I don't want a problem with the hot water heater when I get back and then have to replace it because that's an expensive replacement where that toilet mechanism even though it was a hundred dollars it wasn't as bad as if I have to buy a whole new hot water heater yeah it's it's been 20 minutes thank you guys so much for

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