I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1023 - 9,700 HP Surpassed, and the Clusterfuck Confusion of @blurt-swap and @graphene-swap - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, May 16, 2025

I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 6 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I didn't even notice it until just now, but as of this morning I've already crossed over the threshold of 9,700 Hive Power, which is one nice surprirse in a morning that has definitely not flowed well at all, quite the opposite. There are still two weeks to go before the June HPUD arrives, so it's seemingly likely that, even if I don't reach 10,000 HP, that I may indeed get quite close, with just under 300 to go.

I've got to say, that the past few days, both here in the jungle, and here on Hive, have mostly not been very enjoyable, to say the least, with me going way past my tolerance level for stupid nonsense, clusterfuckery, and things that I need to work, not working properly at all. I noticed that, while the weekly payouts for AP delegated to Alive Tribe community accounts was sent out successfully, that the payouts for delegated HP failed, again. It will be rectified, but it's still frustrating.

The prize for clusterfuck confusion from this morning, however, goes to @blurt-swap and @graphene-swap. I finally received an email reply from someone on the Hive-Engine team telling me that they didn't own @graphene-swap, and that it was likely set up by a scammer. That information did not at all make sense, however, because BLURT.SWAP (among other tokens) was created/issued by the @graphene-swap account. Also, when you look at the transaction histories for @blurt-swap and @graphene-swap on both Hive and Blurt, it is very obvious that the two accounts work together, because BLURT sent to @blurt-swap on Blurt is then sent to its destination as SWAP.BLURT from @graphene-swap here on Hive.

It gets even more confusing, however, because the @blurt-swap account here on Hive appears to be broken, with the last transaction being a month ago, and only 130 SWAP.BLURT in its wallet. The situation is reversed for @graphene-swap, though, with its Blurt counterpart apparently being broken (my two transactions are the last ones), but with its Hive version seemingly working fine.

So I see people successfully trasfering BLURT/SWAP.BLURT in both directions between Hive and Blurt, but the present incarnation of this service seems to be very undependable, unreliable, and inconsistent, and pretty much a crap shoot. All I want is one bloody service that actually works in a consistent, dependable, and reliable manner. Given that this is not presently the case, I may have to enlist the help of @borniet to just create out own way of efficiently and effectively transferring assets between Hive and Blurt, and maybe at some point Steem too. That's just an idea, but when the level of ridiculosity gets past a certain level, it's just easier to take things into our own hands and do it ourselves.

Yesterday, Friday, after finishing up my Hive tasks early, by around 10:45AM, I prepared for my session, which was originally scheduled for 1:30PM, but which ended up starting about 11:30AM instead. We wrapped the session up just a little before 5PM, after which I went to the Landing to make myself some food (ground beef, eggs, sharp cheddar cheese, onions, pickles, dill, sea salt, and olive oil), and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hand, I headed back to the Flow House to dive into my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications (hahahaha...that's a joke, as I'm so far behind that even after several hours of working to respond to them each night, I can't even get into the current day...lol). Yeah, notifications. They're not going well. At all. I'm super behind, and with the time I have, I can't seem to catch up no matter what I do, which annoys, frustrates, and irritates the hell out me. Anyway, I made myself stop by around 11:30PM, I did some asset management, and then I went to bed by around 11:45PM. I woke up just after 6AM, having slept pretty well, doing more asset management, getting out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, returning to the Flow House to write and publish My Entry for Reflection Hunters Contest: Round 219 - Amaranth Reflections, and then to begin writing this post. It's now just before 1:15PM, so a great time to end this post, so that I may get to my few other important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a bit later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for these posts (when it stops raining), straining and blending kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao) in the Landing (with the rain, this may be first), and then community/land work, hopefully not in the rain. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until the next iteration of this post tomorrow! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2025 Life Goals

1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.

2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.

3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.

4.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon.

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.

Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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