I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1508 - 35.7k HP Today, Hive Debt Falling, and More Interesting Work with Hermes! - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, September 4, 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 8 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: 24.80%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0470 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 1.002 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price:  0.01025056 SWAP.HIVE 

HEARTBEAT ALIVE Price: 0.14628229 ALIVE

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00090846 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.170367 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0001299 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 79,863.45 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 256.30 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 54.245 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,430.03 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 66.27 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #121 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#96 (among active witnesses only)/898.3k HP in votes/48 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I'm sitting right at the edge of 35,700 Hive Power this morning, which means that I'll very easily smash 35,800 Hive Power this coming week. My HP is growing quite quickly now, though I've still got around 26,500 HP to go to break into Orca Level. That's no small potatoes, but I'll get there!

Some of you might have noticed a very interesting and surprising trend with the Hive Debt over the past few weeks; it's been almost continually falling. This breaks the pattern that has been in operation up until this point. At the same time, again breaking the previously-ongoing pattern, the APR for Hive Power has also been consistently falling, which has not happened in the whole almost 5 years that I've been on Hive. Those two points are very significant. I don't want to read too much into it just yet, but something is definitely different now, and in a very good way.

Since I first arrived on Hive, the fiat-dollar price of HIVE has continued to fall, without any notable upturns, and the APR for HP has continued to rise, again, without notable drops, in that time. So this new trend stands in stark contrast to my previous observations over the years. Something is up!

My work with Hermes Agent, although there are still occasional setbacks, has been going extremely well indeed, and I'm still semi in awe of what has been accomplished so far. Last night, Hermes created a separate local testing branch of the main Hermes Agent repository, for the purpose of hacking, tweaking, and refining its own code. My work with Hermes is a collaboration, however, as I showed it how to accomplish this in a bit more clean and simple manner.

I'm presently working with Hermes to debug/troubleshoot a new self-improvement loop, which included a new dreamer agent, that creates non-linear connections and insights, and then funnels those into practical testing. Once fully functional, this will allow my Hermes Agent agentic-AI system to become ever better over time. That's some pretty exciting stuff right there!

Yesterday, Friday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by just after 3PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and then to moving Avi's technology (that I had kept safe while he was away) back to La'a Pueo, and setting it all back up again, which included verification that everything was working as it should. With that completed, I took a quick break up at the Flow House, then I helped Ano to unload his truck after his Friday coconut-collecting round, and to reload it for the Sunday market. Once we wrapped that up, 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 begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by just before 10:45PM, and after working with Hermes a bit more, I went to bed by just after 11:45AM. I woke up just before 8AM, having slept well, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to work another round with Hermes, and to write this post. It's now just before 12PM, so it's a magnificent 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 to walk over to my friend Lea's property to assist her with some land work, and to share dinner with her. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's manifestation 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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