 Okay, hello people Yesterday's why I thought was so bad and I had to I had to get rid of it and erase it and do something else Cuz uh, oh hold on let me put this through it It's like I was distracted the whole time Like it's like there were a bunch of naked ladies over there or or a really cool boat or some fancy tools I just couldn't not pay attention to but it wasn't any of that It was just I was distracted by my own heat exhaustion and the whole time I felt like This is what I felt like Anyway I just erased that and I'm doing it. I'm doing it live right now while I'm doing some morning floorboards and So this one's gonna be not so much talking and a lot more making up stuff Because I thought the the only interesting part of what I did yesterday was showing the second floor, okay? I've got this board here, and it's got like termite damage. There's no termites in it now, but I Don't know if I might use it Let's just put it over here This one here has a little bit of damage too And these two boards and I wasn't sure if I wanted to use them This one on that other one. I just moved. Let me just move them out of the way. I don't think about it All the rest of these I'm doing these I'm checking for previous cutoffs that can Fill in parts. I don't want to waste pieces of wood and this is an eight inch board Looks like I currently have no eight inch Leftovers so Just be a solid piece right across This is the last board. I'm gonna put on right now for this section because the outer part of my My floor up here is gonna be a banked part because The outside part of this is gonna be a running track, you know the inside part will be like kids rooms and a Lego zone. I don't know. There are 12 different slots So 12 different things then the outer part is gonna be running track And you know bicycle track or whatever and the outside part is gonna be banked I have a whole bunch of strips of wood that I'm gonna laminate for that. I think I mean I've never never done that before I've never seen it done before but Should work fine, right? I was thinking the other day You know I have all this video making all these boards like right from Chainsawing them out of logs carrying them out of the woods bring them here You know Cutting them nice and planing them. I was thinking I should do a video of just one board So like one cut on the log Carry one out of the jungle and then you know trim it and Plane it go through the whole thing on one board in real time and see how long it actually takes To make one of these floorboards. I Think it's probably gonna be like Some obscenely long amount of time Maybe I shouldn't check Keep switching bits back and forth I Did have three drills But they all died This one is actually held together by zip ties. I don't know you can't see it at all Because the lighting is not right for that. But anyway, this one's held together by this time It's the only Other than some plug-in drills, which maybe Maybe I'll get one of the plug-in drills over here. I don't know. This is fine. Okay. I think that's the last board That section I already did one here Not putting that many screws in these yet because I think I might have to Re-adjust them later Depending on how much they shrink Place all the screws with wood pegs That will be out Hot for sure. Well, I think that's it for the moment I have to go out and cut some more boards the ones And I have a couple over there that have termite damage I'm not sure if I'm gonna use those yet. So I'm just gonna leave them for the moment Now let me just Check Why is this zoomed in so close? All right, let me just check if there's any questions I need to answer here Turn up the brightness Someone's cooking noodles. That's excellent Upstairs is looking awesome. I'm super happy with upstairs This is let's see one two three four. This is the fifth floor section And I've got 12 sections all the way around So it's going pretty well the outer part here where I haven't put Boards yet is where the banked section of the floor goes So I'll do that That's a totally different process Banked for speed heck. Yeah. Yes, exactly. I'm gonna Oh, man, it's gonna be great. I think I don't know. I've never I don't know. I think it's gonna be pretty awesome. I'll have to see, you know, when I get it together Our termites that thing there. Yes Um, I've been spraying my wood with borax these floorboards. I just put down have not been sprayed yet but all the joists All the joists I put in the joists are like the framework for the floor Or anyone doesn't know what a joist is. Anyway, I got all the joists in and then I mixed borax with water And, you know, like put some borax in some hot water mix it all up till it dissolves put it in like a gallon I don't remember what the ratios are you can look this stuff up online though Um, and then use one of those pump sprayers and just went around and sprayed the crap out of everything I use two two full pump sprayers worth and a pumps One of those pump sprayers like a little over a gallon So a couple of gallons of this borax solution went on all the joists and Pretty soon I'll do that to the floor too The one one thing that happened was when I put the borax on the wood got a lot more red It's kind of funny because like Well here you can see a part of the wood that's was recently planed And then a part that the planer didn't quite hit Totally different color, right So I'm not sure if the planed part is going to or the lighting in that direction is better I'm not sure if the plane part is going to get more red With time Because the same thing happened when I when I cut them originally with a chainsaw I would cut them they they look white and then a couple weeks later. It was it was like this reddish color So I don't know I don't know whatever color. I don't really care. It's a mahogany wood anyway Otherwise known as my old rojo around here, but it's mahogany um But yeah, I like the color it is right now looks light really light wood And I think it'll probably turn more red more red would be amazing too. So whatever We'll see how that goes, but yeah termites are a thing uh, wait Thank you for speed Oh, uh, you'd wait wait. How are the bedrooms going to be or is it more communal space? um Well I don't know what the bedrooms are going to be Like I think the bed the kids bedrooms are all going to be up here. They're each going to get a section They've already been picking them out, right? I'll probably put my bedroom up here too. I don't know. I don't know. We'll see we're just I'm very like Let's just do whatever we feel like and figure it out when you know, I don't know um Probably my Like my three and five year old are just going to want section so like Let me turn this a little I don't even know if you can you know to see this very well Delighting. Okay. Every every time there's one of these archers arches. There's also a pillar So, you know, there's clearly delineated section. So this is a section here and you know as it Goes out. There's a there's definitely a seam Okay, there's definitely a seam on the floor so There are 12 very clearly Marked sections around the floor and my my little kids Are probably going to be fine with just that but my older kids might want some more privacy and you know My oldest one will probably want some walls So we'll make her some walls Um Although she might want her room where it is right now, which is downstairs. I don't know. We'll see whatever, you know, whatever A coconut a day keeps the doctor away. Man I didn't get a coconut yesterday Sometimes I don't know most of the time I'll get at least a coconut every day out of my coconut trees And then once in a while they just won't drop one for a couple weeks and it's annoying Right now. They've been really slow. I got one yesterday and the day before that But then the three days before that I got no coconuts And I don't know off the go outside. I haven't gone out to check for coconuts yet this morning Bank for speed. Yes Yeah, we already read that one termites like little deck screws or what are you? These these guys here. Yeah deck screws. Oh, man. Look at my fingernails. I gotta cut I gotta cut my fingernails and I need to shave my face because my face is too hot My fingernails are obviously filthy I don't know. There's so many things I need to do Let's see. Yes deck screws. I don't know why people don't use deck screws. I mean There's this there's this idea that You're supposed to use the least effective thing you can get away with generally in building So people will use deck screws outside Which are coated and you know rust preventative and stuff because they have to be outside or else the rust, right? But then inside they'll use crappier things Because I don't want them to last too long But I I I don't see any reason why you would not use deck screws inside Other than you don't like the way they look or whatever. I don't know. But yeah, um Wait, where was I? This went all the way to the end. Okay Deck screws. Yes deck screws. He sprayed a borax solution on the wood to keep bugs away. Yeah. Yeah and the bugs if they Eat the borax they die and I guess they also take it home to their buddies and kill all them too The best thing I've found to treat for insects is starting with an aromatic wood likes cedar than I don't I do have some some cedar, but I'm not using cedar. So then Shhoh shuh shoo shh. And then oil sealing it. of the the cute yellow saw looks light weight and perfect. Do recommended. I do not recommend it. It's not not lightweight at all. This thing is this is the heaviest one of these I've ever had. It's Dewalt. I can't I would recommend DeWalt tools actually because they keep breaking. This is the third circular saw I've had. The first two broke and the first two were lighter duty. They actually were very light. This one's super heavy. So I'm hoping this one will last a long time. Although the problem with this saw is that it only runs on the 60 volt. So, you know, these batteries. So here's my drill. Oh, you can see it held together with zip ties. Yeah, cause it's falling apart. And I have two other DeWalt drills that have died. Just totally broken. Maybe three, three other ones, I think, yeah. The first time one of them died, I wrote the company and they sent me a new one. And then after that, I just kind of gave up. I don't know, it is really nice to have a cordless thing, you know, but corded, old corded drills are, they're the most long lasting. I'm not sure what I'm gonna do when this one croaks. Maybe I'll get another drill before that one dies. But, you know, it's like they just have like a two or three year lifespan. And then anyway, this circular saw here uses the 60 volt. It can't run on the 20 volt, but most of my batteries are just 20 volts, right? So this one's just 20 volts, which runs the drill and then what's the jigsaw thing? The saw's all and I don't know, that might be it. Might be something else. But anyway, I only have two of these that have the 60 volt. And they're getting kind of old, they don't hold the charge that well. This one, it was fully charged this morning and now it's dead. But it made it through today, so that's good. I'll go put it on the charger and get it charged up. That's, oh God, what does that say? That's I-hreet through to landfill. Oh my gosh, someone is so... Did this thing just change zoom? Dude, this is so weird. So does this thing auto zoom? Was it zooming in more when I was over there? Oh, whatever, I don't even care. Okay, that's I-hreet through to land-oil. Maybe boil the oil in borax so it would penetrate, ah. I'm pretty sure that a flexible dewall, yeah. Hey, Jamie, what's your political not affiliation, but standpoint, a political anarchist is my bet for your bent is just like I am, monopolitical constitutionalist, same party, if you mentioned, I don't know, this is just, you know, when people start talking about politics, they come up with all these terms that just in the end are not important. You know what's more important? Are you a good person? Because it doesn't matter if you're in a communist state, a capitalist society, a capitalist society, a democracy or whatever, any of this stuff. None of this stuff matters if you don't have good people. If you have good people, anything works. But if you don't have good people, nothing works. So yeah, but yeah, I would definitely lean toward anarchist, I don't want, I don't want. I think people should be free to succeed or fail. And a lot of times people want freedom to succeed, but they don't want to accept the consequences of failure. So they end up not really wanting freedom, but for me, I just want total freedom. I want to either succeed or fail based on my own steam. And I think that should be the general consensus. And I think helping other people should be voluntary. Because if you're forced to help other people, it just causes a lot of problems. It takes the morality out of it, first of all, because now you're not helping people. You're just doing what you're forced to do. So there is no, there is no, it erases kindness. Like it takes kindness out of the world. But if you are free to be kind, you can actually be kind and help people. But it's a totally different thing when a government comes along and says, you have to help these people. You have to give these people. Now you're being stolen from. Now you don't want to be kind anymore. And it makes, it creates a lot of animosity. And yeah, I think it's much more important to be a good person and to have good people. So, yeah. I wonder if you were to carbonize or scorch the bottom of those planks that would be enough to prevent termites from entering. Well, I think they just go in from the top then. But I don't know for sure, I think so, though. Yes, Ken, that's what Shoshugivan is. It's a fancy Japanese word for burning wood. Yeah, I mean, I can burn all the boards, but then I don't want to burn the tops of them, obviously, because then I have black feet all the time. Jesus, the house is going to take all day. Jesus, this house is going to take all day. All right, all right. Good things take time. I'm emailing him a drill now. Do I 3D print it? Definitely your best work ever. Well, I wouldn't say this is my best work ever. It's pretty nice, though. The wood color is amazing. There should be a way to preserve it. Well, I don't know, whatever. The wood color is amazing right now. And if it gets a little more red, that's still going to be amazing. I think it's going to be amazing either way. And thus it gets filthy. But I'm probably going to wax it a lot to make it easy to clean and all that. I don't know, maybe I'll put some kind of sealer, like polyurethane on top or something. I don't know, I'll figure that out eventually. For right now, I'm telling the kids, don't take anything upstairs. Don't go upstairs with dirty feet or if you're wet. You know. Let's see, rock on. How much is this wood going to shrink? Well, it may shrink by an inch per year. I'm just kidding. I don't know. I don't know how much it's going to shrink. So I'm not putting a lot of screws in it. So if the boards shrink and they leave some space, I can take them all and shove them up to the front, take up the space and then fill in with a sliver at the back. I don't know. I'll have to wait and see. And if I have to move them, I'll have to trim the edges a little bit, but it won't be that big a deal. But I don't know, maybe they've dried enough. I cut them a while ago. Landfill is this green wood or did he season and dry it? I cut this wood, what's it, like the end of March now? I cut it in January. So maybe the, I mean, the first four boards were like the beginning of January. So that's like January, February, March, three months of drying. I don't know how many months they need to really, to really be good. Drying for a very short time, weeks. Mr. Landfill, weeks. No, you've not. Oh, that's funny. I started this in January, man. Maybe some months. Oh, there he goes, Mr. Landfill. Yes, like three months. Hands up who thinks Jamie is living a sedentary life. Yeah, just sitting around, picking my butt. I'll bet I do more steps than he does. Yesterday, I managed a new record. 1,905, I don't even know that. How could you measure? I think if you're measuring the distance you travel in individual steps, it probably means you're not going very far. I know this guy's just joking around, but I'm just saying. Like he, like I measure my, my distance traveled in kilometers or miles. Anyway, pure dystopia, a guy mining his business in his house and a dozen others peeking over his shoulder from the concrete boxes on the other side of the planet. It's nuisance. Oh, it's, it's incense. When you think about it, it's insane. It's incense. What's insane? Okay, you had to write it three times. It's insane when you think about it. I remember making long distance phone calls using a street pay phone. I remember doing that. Feeding coins at every two seconds. I remember eight track tapes. I do not remember the eight track tapes. I missed those by a few years. Called my brother on the phone by in Marsat. That was like $10 a minute, decades ago, wow. Did the camera just zoom in? It, wait, did it zoomed in while I was working, right? Darn ghost adjusting camera. I made BN moderator. Yes, the cam moved. Yeah, so I think this, this YouTube camera thing does, I mean the, you know, the camera, whatever live software, whatever does auto zooming in and stuff. Cause I didn't touch it the whole time I was doing stuff, obviously. I am waiting for the moment when he will go behind the camera and later bop out from under it. Boo! I missed my chance, didn't I? I think there's a table that can be used with an old meter to determine the level of moisture in the wood. I think weight of the woods is easiest way to determine its humidity. Yeah, I mean, I could do all that or I could just do what I'm gonna do whether or not the woods wet or dry and just like it's not gonna make a difference to me. Like I really wanna put the floors down so I can start doing stuff. Cause I think for the wood to really, really dry it's gonna take like a year, right? So I'm not gonna sit here with this giant pile of wood in my house for an entire year and no second floor. I'd rather put down the second floor and start using it. And then in a year, if I want, then I can one section at a time, tell a kid, all right, move all your stuff over here, we'll fix your floor and then put everything back and then just do the sections. Let's see, Orsoka for a week and you are sure that it's 100%. Yeah, if I really wanna know how moist the wood is I can just put it underwater then I know it's 100%. I have seen handheld versions to read moist, oh my God, I don't care. Any concern about the vertical crack in that pillar? Where's the vertical crack in that pillar? I don't know, there are no vertical cracks in these pillars. I don't know, there might have been a optical illusion or something. The pillars, the pillars aren't, the cross section of the pillars is kind of like this. So I don't know, maybe you're seeing like that crease or something but there are no vertical cracks in any of these colors. I get me looking. I would be surprised if there was a vertical crack, a horizontal crack, I wouldn't be too surprised about, but a vertical crack, I'd be very surprised about. But I don't see any cracks in these ones over here. But anyway, any concern about the house being structurally sound? I mean, a big enough earthquake can take down anything. So I mean, it's pretty strong. There've been a few earthquakes here since I built the house and it's been totally fine. Let's see, any, it has stored a couple of years and many store, stood a couple of years and many storms. Oh yeah, the wind is no problem. The only thing I'm concerned about is earthquakes. And so far, I mean, there have been some earthquakes and yeah, everything's fine. It did not fall in a few years. So it's better than some mega buildings leaning or collapsing when not finished yet. Oh yeah. Dang, this is going so fast. Well, thanks man. So it's like to see what is next way to go. Jamie, well next today is it's a sunny day. So I'm gonna go cut more of these boards because I have piles of these boards not planed or trimmed yet or anything. I don't know if I have enough to do the whole floor. I think I might be a little short. I don't know. There's a big pile over at the other side there. We'll see. I do still have some boards in the jungle too. Crap, I need to go get those. But I also need to do the stuff. I need a clone. I'll go get them tomorrow maybe. I don't know. The bones are solid concrete, only styrocrete for the exterior panels and the arts design and dome configuration is pretty robust. Yeah. Let me see. What would I be worried about breaking in here? I don't know. I think it's gonna be fine. But like I said, a big enough earthquake could take down anything. So I don't know. I am cooking faux noodles with smoked mussels. Main supports are solid. Will be super interesting when he gets up to the next floor. The next floor is gonna be amazing. But I gotta focus on this one first. I look forward to seeing the banked curves on the edge. Not sure how he plans that yet. Got the plans for that. You'll see. That one, it may lead to a foot going through that styrocrete. No, I don't think anyone's gonna go through the styrocrete. That would be about humidity. I bought last month a cheap clock. Actually, it would be pretty hard to go through the styrocrete here because there's all this, on the outer layer of concrete spackle, there's all this reinforcement, several ropes and stuff. So it'd be pretty hard to go through that. And some steel cables and stuff. Stainless ones. About humidity. I bought last month a cheap clock with temperature and humidity monitoring compared with Microsoft weather. And there are wild differences, not among clock and site, but on the site. There are two different values. Is the monitor in a conditioned space, central air, could make a large difference in humidity levels? I'm not getting air conditioning. How much does that wood swell, shrink, due to the humidity? I don't know. I think the humidity is gonna be, I mean, the humidity does change some, but it's gonna be relatively stable. I don't think there's gonna be a lot of swelling or shrinking. Oh, in that location, humidity is almost constant. Yes, voodoo spiker. Yeah, it's like always summer here. I guess this question would be more of a thing, like where I used to live, like in Vermont or Canada, where there's a winter when the humidity is like zero and then a summer when the humidity is like 80, 90%. That would be, that makes a big change. But here, yeah, it's like always summer. Is it more comfortable temps sleeping upstairs? I don't know. The temperature in here is pretty good. I've sweated, I mean, I stop sweating now. I was sweating while I was doing all this, but now that I'm not, you know, moving around, running around back and forth, picking stuff up, screwing, doing all that, it's pretty comfortable. The top of the tower is open with a cover and window open on main floor. You should get some airflow. So all my windows are kind of loose fitting so air can get in them. And then, yeah, there's an opening up at the top of the house, like way up there. So hot air goes out the top. Plus the styrofoam insulates the whole building pretty well. It doesn't, it's like pretty much always comfortable in here. The only time it gets hot is like in the afternoon, if I'm working on the floor here and the sun is on this side of the house coming in the windows, then it's like right on me. Then it's hot. So I'll just have to put up some curtains on this side. On the other side, the sun comes in the morning, but there's a bunch of trees there so it blocks a lot of the light. But this side, the sun comes right in in the afternoon. Anyway, too bad, you can't get Robertson screws. Oh, I can get Robertson screws. These are pretty good though. You can use Robertson as a square bit, right? You can use a square bit with these. Lighting is not great here. What if I, I don't know, I'm not gonna turn around and just gonna get the same bad lighting. Anyway, these are the ones that use this bit. I can't see it at all. Let's get in the dark, there we go. This bit here, so it's actually like a Robertson and a number three Phillips, kind of mashed together. So you can use a square drive on these, totally works. But this bit is like a square drive and the Phillips. And I like these, they work pretty well. I don't seem to be having any problems. G'day from Australia, g'day mate. No one likes a moist joint. It changed Zoom one time. Ah man, Jamie, freestay project, yeah. Wood stairs to shrink once it is below 30% moisture content in Panama, probably stabilize around 15. Expect about blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All this, all this like measurement and like exact whatever, whatever. It all just kind of becomes irrelevant. Like it's gonna shrink as much as it shrinks. I don't need to spend all this time like banging my head against a bunch of numbers, figuring out exactly, oh God, it's stopped. What are you doing right now? All right, all right. Oh, and now I'm zoomed out even more. What the, this thing is so weird. Okay, Robertson screws, I mean, now it changed Zoom twice. Okay, so this guy's telling me about all the amount this wood shrinks, I don't know, whatever. I'll be, I mean, it's great that you know how much the wood is gonna shrink, but I mean, at this point, I cut it three months ago. I don't know how much is dried. I don't know what the moisture content is. It doesn't matter, it's totally irrelevant. I'm putting the wood down anyway. So it's not actually important. I'm mailing you the maple syrup hopefully tomorrow, but I'll email you with some last minute details. Excellent. Don't termites not like sunlight. Termites do not like sunlight. Yeah, they definitely don't like sunlight. Which, you know, it really helps having a concrete walkway around my house because any termites that want to get to my house, they have to go across like a meter of like open, barren wasteland concrete where they just get cooked. What are your plans around the stair opening on the second floor? Sorry if you've already answered. I'm late and catching up. I have not, Vosco, what's up? I don't know. Maybe I'll put a railing there or maybe I'll just leave it. I was thinking about putting a big door there like in the floor so you can go up the stairs. And probably most of the time the door would just be open and I'll have it like attach pretty well sort of fall on someone's head. But there may be times like maybe if I'm having, if we're having like big races up here or something. Cause my kids and I sometimes have races. We'll do it downstairs, not with this kayak in the way. We haven't been able to do it in a while. But we'll have races downstairs and we'll run a certain number of laps and there will be this ridiculous announcer who calls everyone crazy names. And anyway, but up here, oh my God, the races are going to be amazing. And maybe I'll close the hatch so it has a bigger race floor and yeah. Yeah, that's what I think I'm going to do. I'm not totally sure yet, but I think I'm going to make a door in the floor that closes so that it's like there's just floor right across. Now you can obviously open when you want to use the stairs. It was a wavy rope-like mark. Oh crap, what was D talking about? Oh, are you talking about the crack? A wavy rope-like mark. Well, it might have been an actual rope. I don't know. Oh, there is a rope hanging right there on that pillar. So maybe that's what you were talking about. Yeah, there's a rope. Yes, the wavy rope-like mark I think was actually a rope. I thought it might be cool to have a table over the opening for some reason. Well, okay. I think the stairs up to the third floor are going to go right above the stairs up to the second floor. So it'll be like this and then like that. Yeah, now that you remind me of what goes above it, I think the stairs to the third floor are going to go right above there, in which case I should not put a door that closes it because it would be pointless. Okay, yeah, I think that's what's going on. Obviously I've not been thinking about this lately. Let's see, do your joists rest on concrete? Yes. Oh, the joists at the ends rest on concrete and then the joists going this way rely on screws. But not just screws, they rely on, well, they rely on screws that come in from the ends but then also screws coming down from the floor and I think I'm going to put glue in them. Okay, this is what I was thinking of doing in all the joists. I'm not totally sure if I'm going to do this, but I'm thinking about it. Let's see. So say this is the joist, God, it's like terrible. This is the joist that rests on the concrete, right? And then I've got the joists coming across. I was thinking about drilling a hole up inside and sticking a nozzle with spray foam and just like filling with spray foam all in there, which is just a polyurethane and then it would just be polyurethane glued, right? Which should make it super strong. And I think the screws on their own will be fine, but glued and screwed makes everything extra tough. No way Panama 15%, like now the map shows 80, 90, I don't know. Yeah, it's really humid right now, but yeah, I don't think it normally gets down to 15% humidity here. Are you going to whip out a floor sander when the board come up and shift? Oh my gosh, this just zoomed again. Stop auto zooming, let me pick my own zoom. Dude, seriously. Well, I don't think the boards are going to come up and shift because they'll be screwed down. However, even though I put everything through a planar, so they're pretty much the same thickness, there's a little bit of variation still. So it might be like half a millimeter off here and there and maybe up to a millimeter in some spots. So I want to go over the whole thing, I don't know, maybe with a sander, maybe with just a hand planar. Yeah, I'm not totally sure what I'm going to do there yet. I'm just going to try to get all the boards down first and then figure out what I want to do. But I might not, I don't know, because if I do that now and then they shrink over the next year and they shrink different amounts, I'm going to have to redo it again anyway. So maybe I won't worry about that right now, maybe I'll do that in a year. I don't know, because I mean, the floor is pretty good, even just like right now. Anyway, are you going to whip out? Is too much ocean, is too much ocean around and when raining of fog for sure is pretty humid. Daniel, if you need to work on your typing, if he shrinks his shrinks and then we'll get some nice work around those videos. I love seeing your problem solving skills that actually, yeah, I mean, it's going to shrink. I don't know if it'll shrink enough to move it or not. And if it does, yeah, it's not, I'll just deal with that when it comes up. On the video where you are planing boards, you pass the boards to the hill through the window right there. And a lot of people were commenting about how you could make a permanent access there. That sounds like a terrible idea. Yeah, I don't want to put a permanent access there. If I was going to put a permanent access over there, I would make it go up to the third floor, but I definitely don't need a permanent access into the second floor for several reasons. One, if I were to make that window taller into a door shape, it would go right into the side of the banked track part. So then what do I do? Just cut right through the banked track, which totally defeats the whole point. Or do you just step on that and fall on your face coming in? I don't know. I don't think there's any reason to have a permanent access there. I don't want one. Possibly up to the third floor. However, I don't think I'm going to have an access there because then it just makes another way that bugs could get to the house, like termites and stuff. Right now, for termites to get into my house, they have to walk across like a meter of barren concrete and then walk around this concrete wall and find some way in. I don't need to give them away, like right into the second floor wooded area, which I'm spraying with borax anyway, but yeah. And I don't think it would be worth the amount of effort it would take to do it. It wouldn't be useful. I'm sure borax will work just as good with the constant humidity. I doubt it will shrink much. And if anything, maybe get a dehumidifier, which would help with the comfort of your home plus free sky water. I don't want a dehumidifier because it's a whole other, what's it called? It's just a whole other energy using thing that I'm gonna have to maintain. It just adds all this overhead to, it's fixing a problem that doesn't need to be fixed. It would just be putting all this energy. The same with getting like air conditioning. Like yeah, I could make it a little cooler in here. I can make it a lot cooler in here, but like it's not uncomfortable now. Like maybe it would be, wow, great. It's so amazing if you come in and it's cold, but like it's really just not worth the amount of effort and maintenance and the cost and blah, blah, blah. It's just like there are so many other things I could do with my life rather than figure out how to dehumidify and air conditioning and all this stuff. Now, if I was in a place that was like super duper hot and even insulating the building didn't help, that might be a different story. But here, like in the shade, it's insulated and I got really hot when I was doing the floor here for an hour, right? I was sweating when I started, when I sat down here and started talking, but right now I'm totally fine. Like I cooled down pretty quickly. It's very comfortable and it's full sun out right now. It's blue sky, it's full sun, no wind. This is like as hot as it gets and it's totally comfortable. They have very low wattage, yeah, I don't know. But I agree, simpler is better. Oh, simpler is better, yeah, I like that. What about the Go game? Oh, any of the kids interested in it. Daniel, you're the one who sent me that, yes. My kids play it a lot actually. Yeah, I got here, I don't know, like a month or so ago. I forgot to say something about it. But yeah, this guy sent me a game of Go. You know, it's that ancient game with the rocks and you put them out and anyway, my kids totally play it. You know, I showed them how to play it a little and then I was like, you guys just read the instructions. You figure it out. And then they figured it out and they played a bunch of games and then they started drawing like pixel pictures with the rocks on the thing. And yeah, they played with it a lot. They're definitely enjoying it. Do you have a rough rule of thumb for length of acceptable cantilever on the floorboards? Looks like some overshoots support by a few inches. So no big deal and how thick boards. Okay, you're, let me see. No, nothing overshoots. I'm trying to think like nothing overshoots. So I might be understanding what you're saying wrong, but I'm presuming overshoot means like this is a joist and a floorboard sticks out. And then I leave it like that, but there are no floorboards in here that are like that. Like they all, I mean, yeah, they all go up to halfway and then the next board goes on there. Come on. Yeah, everything, all the boards are supported right up to the ends. Although, if I was going to do what you're saying, you know, have a joist and have something sticking over, I mean, I would think that would be fine. You know, I wouldn't want to go much more than that, but it just depends, depends how thick the board is. I guess if I was doing it, I would do it and jump on a board and see if I can break one and then pull way back from the point where I can actually break one. And I would like try to break one, you know? But yeah, I mean, I don't really have a rule of thumb. I at this point, I have enough experience with materials. I would just kind of look at it and say, well, that looks like it's gonna be all right. But, and I would always err on the side of safety, particularly when I have kids and stuff. Oh, my bad. I saw some, but maybe just hadn't been trimmed yet. Well, there's, oh, I know what you're talking about. You're talking about, hold on, let me turn the camera on. So these boards over here, those are not attached. They're not even planed and cut. Those are just sitting there. These boards, these boards are final boards. They're like attached. They go right up to a joist. There's a joist right at that seam. All of these boards, and all the ones over there are gonna go out this, wait, no, out this window in a few minutes, well, not all of them, but as many as I can do today. We'll go out this window and get planed and cut and then I'll bring it back in. And today I'm gonna try to, I don't know, maybe I'll jump in the ocean every hour or something. I gotta do something to not overheat so much like I did yesterday. Any 3D printer project updates, I just gave my 11 year old one of my old ones and she loves it, oh, that's awesome. Well, I haven't really done anything lately. I've just been busy. I'm like going from sun up to sun down. Even right now just sitting here talking, I'm getting this nervous feeling like, gotta go, gotta go, gotta keep working. So I'm gonna get off here in a minute. But I did make new Lego tank treads that have better dimensions. Because the original Lego tank treads that I made, I put them up on Thingiverse, they, like when you put them together, they don't come out to like the perfect size that you can just put two gears and have them fit right. You have to kind of like have them a little bit loose or have like a, what's it called, like a third gear to take up the slack. And that happened because I got the dimensions from other people's tank treads, like Lego tank treads, which I don't know. I was like, well, everyone seems to be making them this size. That must be the right size. And like, no, that's not the right size. So then I was like, well, let me just make some that are the way I think they should be. And they're, I like them much more. So I'll have to put those up on Thingiverse. But yeah, I don't have anything super super amazing going. How's the fart tank dragon scales? Dude, I just, I haven't done anything with those. I'm working on the floor. I'm working on some digimages. I'll get to those. They're not high priority at the moment. There are definitely things I need to get down at some point, but yeah. I mean, today I'm going to cut boards and plane boards. And yeah, I want to make a suitcase that has a solar panel and battery that can run normal household appliances. Any advice while I'm in the brainstorming stage? I don't know. It sounds like a fun project. Just do it, man. I would use, I mean, you're probably already going to do this, but for the battery, I would use lithium iron phosphate, you know, the LifePo4s. Other than that, I don't know. It's pretty straightforward. If you're talking about it, you probably already understand all the stuff that I could say. Sounds like a cool project, man. Can you send us pictures? We want to see. Okay, Ken says, last question for me. How much lighter is concrete compared? Oh, sorry. How much lighter is styrocrete compared to regular? Wanted to make a bunker. Styrocrete is way, way lighter, you know, obviously. I don't know. What do we think? It's maybe like 20% of the weight. It obviously depends how much styrofoam you put in it and how much sand and cement. You can just do styrofoam bits and cement with no sand and then you get a really light thing. Like you can get like five or 10% of the weight of concrete. But if you want to make sure all the gaps are filled and mix some sand in with it, or you could actually just make sure your styrofoam grinder grinds some bigger chunks and some like really, really fine chunks. So it takes up all the space. But yeah, I would say anywhere from five to 20% of the weight of regular concrete, depending on what you put in it. Oh, let's see. Wow, that's amazing. Thanks for all the replies. No problem, man. Oh, if you're in a cold climate, look into battery heating. Lithium doesn't like cold. This is for the suitcase thing, I guess. Hello, Dr. Wizard, Jamie. Hey, what's the total height of the dome? Oh, the total height of the dome. I did know this at one point. It's like 30, well, each floor is eight feet. So one, two, three, four. Like, but then that top part sticks up a little bit. So like 32, 33 feet tall, which is about 10 meters. Yeah, it's about 10 meters. Let's see, did I miss anything? Household appliances consume a lot of power. You will need heavy duty batteries. Of course, it depends which household appliances you're using, but yeah, if you feel comfortable speaking on this, I'd like to know if you would ever still visit the States. Why did you leave? Man, why do people ask such big questions right at the end of these things? Okay, I've done some videos on this in the past, but I left the States because of eroding freedom. Like, and some of this has changed since then, but for one thing, homeschooling your kids was a huge ordeal, you know, back in the day. After the pandemic, it became much more, you know, acceptable to homeschool your kids, but I did not wanna send my kids to some stupid public school where they're gonna want to be little a-holes, you know. So that was a problem. And then just being in the culture where all the kids around me had their little devices, their little screens that they looked at all the time. And I'm just like, who are my kids gonna hang out with? My kids are gonna hang out with all these other kids who just spend all their time sitting around, looking at screens, and then my kids are gonna wanna do that too. Like, I gotta get my kids out of here into some place where kids play in the dirt and climb trees and, you know, stuff like that. And go swimming in the ocean, get dirty, you know? So, I mean, that was a big part of it. Like, I'd been feeling like I wanted to leave the States for a while, but when I had kids, I was like, okay, I gotta get out of this culture. I have to get into a more, just a more family-oriented culture where, yeah, just a better place to raise kids, where I can raise them in nature. Okay, so besides the whole kids thing, one of the big things for me is I wanna be able to improve my home. My home, my land, just my whole property in general. Like, I wanna be able to constantly be improving my life wherever I am, right? In the United States, where I was living in Vermont, for a while, I was getting away with just doing whatever I wanted, you know, making buildings and making a spring house for the spring and just doing all this stuff that made my life better. But eventually, partly because I was doing the YouTube videos and stuff, I ended up being in just like the local newspaper a couple of times, and then on the local news, oh my gosh, stop changing the Zoom. It's annoying. What is this? Anyway. And then suddenly, the tax man shows up and he's like, hey, yeah, I noticed you, I saw you on the news and then I went to your website, saw you've been doing all this stuff and basically I'm gonna have to tax the crap out of you. And I'm just like, so anything I do here, anything I do to improve my life, I have to pay for now every year for the rest of my life. And the guy's like, well, that's the way it goes. And I was just like, no, no, this is not okay. Like people should not be accepting that. That is, oh, it's just, like besides the fact that it's horribly oppressive to have that level of strict control over your life, it's incentivizing the wrong behaviors in people. It's punishing people for doing hard work to improve their lives. And it's incentivizing people to not do anything to improve their lives. And that's, yeah. And there's a whole bunch of stuff like that, just like the culture. And I think a lot of it had to do with being in the Northeast, on the East Coast, where kind of the lefties are mostly in control and it's very communist and very controlling and all this stuff. And some people will get upset at me for saying that, but that's what it is, at least from my perspective. Maybe if you like that stuff, it doesn't seem like that to you, but yeah, it's just a whole bunch of stuff like that. And in my life here, my kids go outside and hang ropes from a tree and build their own swing. And they're like playing the dirt and they're climbing trees and they're like, I can build all this stuff and they can help me with it. You've probably seen in some of the videos, my kids will help me like put screws in, move boards around. And like they're learning all this stuff and having fun. Like it's just, I couldn't do this stuff in the United States or Canada. I knew someone who built a house in Canada and it took them like a year and a half just to do the paperwork before he could even start building and he was not allowed to build the house himself. He had to hire all the official people and he could help, you know, carry some stuff around but he couldn't do it himself. Like here I can do all that stuff. I can build my own boat and actually drive it. One of the things I really wanted to do when I was in the United States is to build my own car. But like trying to build your own car and then to get it registered and all the stuff. It's like, yeah, forget it. It's just, there's so much human energy wasted on just mumbo jumbo nonsense in North America. And like right now I'm trying to get my passport renewed because I need it for something. And you know, I'm just like banging my head against the Canadian system trying to get this stupid passport renewed. And all I can think the whole time is like, what a colossal waste of human potential is going into this just, oh, it's insane the amount of wasted energy that goes into just stupid things. So anyway, I moved here and here there's much less government oversight, I guess. There's much less control. Like you're basically, I'm basically kind of on my own to succeed or fail based on my own actions. And I like that and I like that my kids see that and my kids can see me working hard on things and then producing results, changing our lives and they understand that hard work makes some kind of results which is not the culture in the United States at least where I was living. Maybe there are other places, areas of the United States that would have been better. Maybe I'd have to go to Texas or something. I don't know. If kayak ends up being a little too tippy, would you just modify blank to have flatter bottom? Yeah, I was thinking about that. So I'm making this kayak blank to make a mold for kayaks. And I think I'm just, I'm, yeah, you know there's this, it's like a debate between performance and stability, you know? So I'm, I think I have a pretty good balance but we'll see when I get one in the water. If it's too tippy, then yeah, I can modify the blank and make a new mold, which will be annoying but it's not that big a deal. Like I'll just have to keep the blank in good condition until I'm sure that, you know, I have a good kayak. So, but I think this one's gonna be good. I don't know, we'll see. Part of it is when I do all the sanding, I'm gonna change the shape of it in some areas kind of a lot. So I'll have to see after I do that. This is weird how this thing keeps changing the zoom and now my face is so close. Let's see, where was I? Thank you for taking the time to share your progress with us. Thanks, thank you for appreciating, man. You're awesome, Jamie. Enjoy the day full of sun with the sawmill but definitely take a break to cool off every hour or so. Yeah, so right where the sawmill is, if I go down the hill from there, there's the ocean right there. So I'll probably just have to jump in the ocean every hour or so. Good for you. If you ever want to vacation with your family, I don't think, I mean, this is like my vacation. But if you ever want to vacation with family and help me build my homestead, I'm creating, I'd love to have you. I don't think there's any chance that's gonna happen because I could come help you build your homestead or I can build my own homestead with my kids here and I don't actually have to go anywhere. So I'm probably just gonna be here. But you know, random question, who built the pyramids of Giza when and how, I don't know. I know this is a big debate about when they were made. They were probably made earlier than that the standard thinking thinks they were, but yeah, I don't know. I got other things to worry about. I think, you know, here's what I think about all that stuff. Like while we're in a state of civilization where we're fighting over stupid nonsense, like what's true based on people's political leanings or based on their religious beliefs, like we're never gonna get anywhere. You know, we're just mired in, it's another example of just wasted human potential, wasted human energy. So, you know, people are doing all this bickering. No, it was this. No, it was that. No, it was this. How about just like, shut up, stop thinking you know everything and let's go figure it out. Let's actually learn. But until we actually have that state of mind where we're like, okay, let's put aside all our nonsense and actually try to learn the truth until we start doing that, we're just gonna have all kinds of dumb ideas about what happened in the past and will happen in the future and blah, blah, blah. You can't get to any kind of truth when people are just bickering over nonsense based on political and religious beliefs and all this stuff. This goes through changing zooms to things again. Yeah, I know, right? Here I am wasting hours watching YouTube videos on a little screen. Yeah, get off the screen, everybody. Okay, how about this? I'm about to get up and go do stuff, important, valuable things for my life. Everyone else, you turn off this silly machine and go do some important stuff too, unless of course your important stuff is on this silly machine, in which case, do that. Yep, if you pay property tax, you don't own it, you are merely leasing it. Yeah, that's one of the problems with land in North America. You never own your land. You're just renting it from the government, which is not the way it ever... So the United States was supposed to be this place where people were getting away from that kind of control over people's lives. And it kind of was like that for a while, but over time, all that freedom has eroded and it just kind of turned, it's just turning back into England. And it's really sad because the United States had so many amazing developments. Like there was so much incredible progress in the United States because people had freedom. But now today, for the most part, people are convinced that when people have freedom, they just ruin everything. But no, when people had freedom in the United States in the earlier days, they produced so much, they developed so much stuff. And now there was some bad stuff too, but there was also a lot of good stuff. And if you're only gonna focus on, oh, they did the bad things, everyone did bad things. You gotta look at the whole picture, you know? Like, yes, there are bad things done, that's also a thing that needs to be addressed. But the fact that people had all this freedom meant there were all these good things happening. Don't confuse the two. Anyway, it's really, this is, I was talking about marketing yesterday in my terrible live, where I was half drunk from just overheating. And I was talking about how horrible marketing is. And yeah, marketing, just that whole way of thinking, that's what's screwing up the ability for people to learn truths about things. It's screwing up the way people see the world. It just makes a big mess. It just takes truth and just craps all over it. USA is one big tax farm. It has become that, yeah. Ah, yeah. All right, let me just skip through a bunch of these. Democratic nonsense, yeah, there for the wood moisture. Ow, it's over. Okay. My Faraday document bag came to Faraday document bag. What is that? Building four solar generators. All right, I'm gonna go, the sun is out and I've got a lumber mill and a planar that are begging to do some work. And I got a whole bunch of boards here that are chainsaw cut that need to be flattened out. And I hope everyone has an excellent productive day too. All right, I'll catch you guys later. All right, where's the button? There's a button.