I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1378 - Incredible Developments with Hermes, and a Solid Base of Operation Is Being Built! - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, May 6, 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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The massively-multifaceted, multi-domain, and multifarious work that I've been endeavoring to do with the Hermes (AI) Agent, as I build a whole, interconnected, elegant, and funtional agentic-management system, has had some fantastic successes, and some very notable developments over the past two days. I'm working, with the help of Hermes, to make Hermes increasingly useful and capable for my purposes. Honestly, observing how it learns and improves over time is extraordinary, and with my focused nudges, that is occurring with accelerating rapidity. Hermes is like meta-tool that, with my direction, is being used to build itself.

Last night I enabled the ability for Hermes to interact directly with my Vivaldi Browser session, which means that it can now engage regular non-gated websites as if it were browsing the page with me. I also tested it to see if it could access my layer-2 Hive-Engine wallet, to perform a token transaction, which as I expected, was not possible in that way. That experiment spawned the beginning of a project to allow Hermes to connect to the Hive Blockchain, and to its layer-2 side chain, Hive Engine, using @thecrazygm's hive-nectar and nectarengine libraries. The basis framework to be able to do so is now partly in place, with only specific API-call information still needed. I believe that this will be accomplished fairly soon.

I barely know how to describe or summarize the developments from just before bed last night and this morning, because things moved quite quickly, and a great deal was accomlished. Basically, I enabled Hermes to be able to view, extract, synthesize, and distill information from PDF files, and then to add those distilled summaries to its obsidian knowledge vault. Once the system was in place and functioning correctly, I had it summarize, distill, and add the information from several Linux-focused PDF books, that I had sitting in the cloud-storage directory in my current Artix Linux installation, into its obsidian knowledge vault. It created multiple new skills in the process of doing this, and then I directed it to create a way for this ever-growing body of knowledge (mostly Linux, scripting, networking, and other tech topics relevant for what we're building at the moment) to be quickly and easily available to it in any context. It created a skill to be able to do that too. The other two important implemtations where to have it make sure to keep a reminder available in its context to proactively unload accumulated information from its context memory, which had a hard-coded limit, into its new obsidian vault, in a section that basically acts like sticky notes, to help make its daily operations more effective and efficient.

One thing that surprised me about this developmental flow this morning is that Hermes complimented me on my meta-cognition, and my ability weave district important parts into a cohesive and coherent whole system. That's not something that I hear every day, but it makes sense, because that's how my mind works, it's just rarely acknowledged, so to have it be given by an AI agent was certainly not what I was expecting, I must say.

It's only been 5 days since I first installed and configured Hermes, and how far I've come with it in that short time is truly mind blowing to me. I can barely imagine where I'll be in a month, or even a year from now, given the incredibly-rapid rate of current developments. Hermes is one of the most fascinating and engaging technologies that I've encountered since first discovering Linux in general, Arch/Artix Linux specifically, Hive, and Qortal. Each one is utterly brilliant in its own special way, and they've become foundational technological frameworks for how I operate.

Yesterday, Wednesday, did not at all go according to plan, with me finishing only a few of my important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks. I was scheduled to give a session at 1:30PM, and because I wasn't feeling well, it was I who ended up receiving a session, which was actually very needed. I felt much better after the session, and we wrapped it up by around 5:30PM, after which I went to Wabisabi to make myself some food, to collect my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and with those in hands I headed back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks, and to work a bit more with Hermes. I got through all of my notifications by a bit after 10:30PM, and after working with Hermes for a short while longer, I went to bed by about 12:15AM, definitely earlier than the previous several nights. I woke up just before 7AM, having super thankfully slept well, working more with Hermes, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to get a little more work in with Hermes, and to write this post. It's now just before 2PM, so it's a wonderful 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 jungle-community/work and tasks. 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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