I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1511 - 35,800 HP Incoming, and Success with Training My First Specialized Mini-Model - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Monday. September 7, 2026

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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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

As of this morning I'm getting very close to 35,800 Hive Power, which I should reach and surpass by either today or tomorrow. At this rate, I should attain 36,000 Hive Power by the week after next. It's wild how quickly my HP is growing now, and it just keeps going faster all the time.

I'm happy to say that I had success last night in working with Hermes, using Unsloth Studio, to train our first hyper-focused, super-specialized local mini model, for use in my growing agentic-AI system. The first round of training using Qwen 3.6 0.5B was a partial success, with the second round using Llama 3.2 1B Instruct hitting the mark fully. This first specialized model will now be used to manage the daily 'We Are Alive Tribe' HIVE-and-HSBIDAO-collection cron jobs, without the need for a cloud-based model. That's a very big step indeed.

Training small, specialized models to fill specific roles in this way, is now an important component of my agentic-AI system, and we'll definitely be making a good deal of use of it, as we make as much of our infrastructure as local as possible. So I'm using cloud-based models in Hermes to help me build out my local AI tech. Awesome sauce.

The 'Hermes Agent' agentic framework is so flexible, versatile, and capable, especially when used with strong, capable models, that there are innumerable ways that it can be used, and what can be used to build with it. That's part of the challenge, deciding where to put development focus first, as so very much is possible.

Creating and deploying specialized mini-models like this is a very good idea, especially considering that my laptop only has 8GB of VRAM. Once we have several specialized models created, the next order of operaron would be to create a specialized orchestrator model and agent, specifically to manage all of these various mini-models, so that they can be loaded to, and unloaded from CPU/RAM and VRAM, as needed. This is extraordinarily exciting work, my friends!

Yesterday, Monday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a bit after 3PM, in part due to rain, giving my focus first to some photography for my posts, and then to unloading Ano's truck after the Sunday market, and chopping and dumping bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar. With those completed, and given the weather, I opted to make myself some food in Wabisabi, collect my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and to head back to the Flow House, to work some more with Hermes, and to begin my evening Hive tasks. I finished up my notifications by around 10:15PM, and after another productive round of working with Hermes, I went to bed by just before 12AM. I was awakened around 4AM by Avi, who let me know that the power has crashed (he needs it for his work online). I forgot to check the solar batteries last night, which on such a cloudy day was not a good idea. After turning on the generator, and getting the power up and running again, I checked in on a few things on Hive and online, before making another attempt at sleep. I woke up again just before 8AM, having thankfully slept fairly well, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House, to work with Hermes a bit more, and to write this post. It's now a bit before 1:15PM, 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 version 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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