I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1361 - 18k HP Smashed, a Trifecta of Coinciding Posts, and Sleep-Deprived Techie Rabbit Holes - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, April 19, 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Hive Debt: 22.71%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.062 USD 

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 1.000 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.03261588 SWAP.HIVE 

HEARTBEAT ALIVE Price: 0.07445191 ALIVE

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00117876 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.138757 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0001622 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 76,321.35 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 444.25 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 55.08 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,814.00 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 79.70 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #131 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#103 (among active witnesses only)/449.9K HP in votes/46 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Today turned out to be, much to my surprise in realizing it last night, a day when the publishing schedules for three different posts coincided at the same time. I had my weekly-goals-and-progress update, my BPUD post, because yeah, it's BPUD today, and finally this post. Given that two of those posts are time-limited/sensitive, I focused on writing and publishing my BPUD post first, after powering up, forgoing my goals-and-progress update until later, and then focusing on writing this post. Hopefully I'll be able to get my goals-and-progress update written and published by tonight, or more likely tomorrow morning or evening.

Something significant that I forgot to mention in my last post is that I smashed 18,000 Hive Power the day before yesterday, so I'll easily surpass 18,100 HP before the end of this new week, and with my sizeable chunk of HIVE to power up on the May HPUD, it will bring me quite close to 20,000 Hive Power. My 2026 year-end goal of 25,000 Hive Power is looking very doable indeed!

Between keeping up on all my daily and weekly Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, on those in this jungle community, and now my increasingly-deep dives down technological rabbit holes, I'm finding balancing my time in relation to it all quite challenging. This has had the effect of me going to bed multiple times this week past 1-1:30AM, which I've very much been feeling. I need sleep, but I also have lots of things to do and to learn!

On the hive-investment front, things just seem to keep getting more and more challenging, with ever more income streams drying up. I mentioned the loss of the daily SWAP.HIVE from my liquidity in the SWAP.HIVE:PWR pool hit me quite hard, because it was my, and the We Are Alive Tribe's, primary source of income, and now it's gone, just like BeeSwap, another essential Hive component disappearing into the void. I ran some numbers today, and after the loss of the SWAP.HIVE:PWR pool, it would now take me delegations totaling around 10,000 HP to @centtoken to return to my previous daily SWAP.HIVE income. All I've got to say is ouch!

HP leases sadly aren't even an option for the We Are Alive Tribe, since all the HP is needed for curation. I still don't know exactly what I'm going to do about that. At least the refund for the We Are Alive Tribe's stake of PWR in the pool gave us an extra 250 HIVE, which has regenerated a few more months of daily ALIVE payouts, so very helpful. I would have preferred that the PWR refund were sent as SWAP.HIVE, however, rather than as HIVE, because that was a big chunk of our layer-2 investment liquidity which is now in layer 1, and I'm not into losing some in the conversion process to get it back on layer 2. And, because it's so useful in giving our daily ALIVE dividends a bit of a buffer boost, so that they can continue for longer, part of our community investment liquidity that Ben and I have contributed/donated is now allocated to daily ALIVE-dividend payouts. Now to rebuild our daily and weekly SWAP.HIVE income, somehow.

Yesterday, Sunday, I left the Flow House, after finishing my numerous Sunday Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by around 3:30PM, giving my attention first to a few small jungle-community tasks, and then to some photography for my posts. After turning on the generator, and going to make myself some food in Wabisabi, I returned to the Flow House, to do a little more techie research, then to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got everything done quite late, by a little after 10:30PM, and after some asset management for myself and the We Are Alive Tribe, I went to bed, way too late again, by just after 1AM. I woke up a bit after 7AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to prepare my three posts to write (and collecting token data for my goals-and-progress update), powering up my BBHO, writing and publishing a post about it, and finally beginning on this post. It's now just after 1:45PM, so it's a marvelous time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on some photography for my posts, and then on some jungle-community/land work and tasks. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's incarnation 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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