I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1274 - Internet Down, and a Detailed Day - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, January 22, 2026

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 7 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

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My apologies ahead of time for this post not being very inspiring. Since last night I've been troubleshooting and wrestling with our community internet connection, which kept periodically failing last night. Rebooting the dual-broadband mobile-network router out on the lava in the doghouse would get it working again for a short time, but it would always fail again soon after. I spent so much time battling with this issue last night, and it's already taken up pretty much my whole morning, which really isn't good, because I have a session scheduled for 1:30PM that may have to be canceled and reschduled if I'm not able to get this post written and published, and my other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' mostly tasks done first. This is really not a good day for this sort of thing to happen.

At the suggestion of the fellow who set up the system, I factory reset the doghouse router, and now we have no internet at all, which made the situation notably worse, since now rebooting the router does not restore internet access, even for a time, so it would seem that we will be without internet for the whole day, very unfortunately. The issue does seem to be the doghouse router and/or an issue with the mobile-carrier ISP, so on my end I can't do too much, which is frustrating to say the least.

Some of my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks will have to truncated a bit, or skipped until I have time again this evening, since with how much time that I've spent fighting with the internet connection, and because of the 1:30PM session, time is not something that I have in surplus at the moment. With that being the case, I need to finish writing this ASAP. Fingers crossed.

Our improvised jungle systems, internet included, usually work pretty well most of the time, until they don't that is. Not having sufficient backups and redundancy means that when an essential component of our infrastructure fails, that it can take some time for it to be replaced, and to get things working as they should once again. I'm really hoping that we're able to resolve this significant problem post haste.

Thankfully I at least have my phone to write and publish this post, but it does mean that some fairly important things will have to be skipped until later, as they're just so much quicker and easier to do on my laptop. My Qortal node is offline, too, which bothers me a lot, but there's not much that I can do about it at the moment. I'll just do the best that I can with the challenging present internet situation. May this be resolved quicker than quick!

Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by just after 2PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. Once I had that completed to my satisfaction, I made a food-supply run to Tutu's, to restock the Landing, after which I went to do another round of weeding in the fenced garden, or what's left of it. Upon finishing that up for the day, I took a quick asset-management break up at the Flow House, then I spent until sunset on a naked plant walk with Becca, at her request, to introduce her to some of the medical plants growing on the property. After finishing with geeking out on plants, I went to the Landing to make myself some food (spiced-and-seasoned ground beef, eggs, onions, tomatoes, longevity spinach leaves, pepperjack cheese, olive oil, and sea salt), and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hand, I headed back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks. Even with me spending quite a lot of time dealing with the internet issues, I was still able to get everything done by around 10:30PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed a bit after 11PM. I woke up by around 7AM, having slept well, doing more asset management while battling internet, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1:15PM, so it's a really good time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to as many of my other important Hive-Blurt-We Are Alive Tribe tasks as possible, before preparing for my 1:30PM session. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's expression of these posts! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

2026 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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