I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1500 - 35.4k Surpassed, 1500 of These Posts, and My Agentic-AI Journey Has Come a Long Way! - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, August 27, 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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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I blew past the milestone of 35,400 Hive Power early this morning, so I'll easily smash 35,500 Hive Power by early this coming week, especially with my upcoming September HPUD powerup, which will have me starting September with close to 35,600 Hive Power. I've never powered down once, and I never will.

As of today's post, I've published 1,500 of these Daily-Jungle-Journal posts, which is absolutely wild to me. I've been publishing daily posts for longer than that, for more than 4 years of course, but for one post series, that's incredible! I've made them happen, no matter what!

I've talked about a wide array of different and diverse topics in these posts over the past 4+ years, and that's exactly why I've been able to keep them gokng for so long, because I was never limited to any one focus or subject. You could say that they are my flagship posts I suppose. That's pretty cool.

My journey with agentic AI only started back in May, and I've learned a huge amount, and I've come astoundingly far, in that time. It's been characterized by waves after wave of setbacks and breakthroughs, frustration and excitement, and through the process I've built quite a solid agentic system, that is notably ahead of the curve in terms of what most people are creating with Hermes Agent. That was a very satisfying surprise when I realized it indeed.

I'm a pretty techie fellow, and I can figure most problems out for myself, but I will say that Hermes (using multiple backend LLM providers) has assisted me in fixing some long-standing issues in my current Arch Linux installation (one of three, one now being Artix Linux) that have bothered me for quite a while, which is pretty excellent. That's not including the development work that I've been able to accomplish with it, like our recent fully-functional Hive integration. To say that this work with Hermes is exciting is very much an understatement, and we're just getting started.

Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House much later than usual, by about 4:15PM, due to an extended conversation with Mike (a fellow who's staying at GaiaYoga for a while) who came up to ask me a tech question. Once I finally wrapped up what I was doing, my first focus was some photography for my posts. With a nice batch of photos take taken, I got my machete and I used it to chop up a pile of cut branches near Braja's composting toilet, after which I went to Halai Hapai to help Mike to connect his iPhone and iPad to our network. With that task finally completed successfully, I made myself some food, and collected my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge in Wabisabi, before heading back to the Flow House to work with Hermes some more, and to begin on my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by around 9PM, and after working with Hermes a bit more, I went to bed, quite early, by around 10:30PM. I woke up just after 8AM, having slept very well, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House for another round of work with Hermes, and to write this post. It's now just before 2PM, 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 edition 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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