I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1523 - Once You Start Working with AI Agents Like Hermes, There's No Going Back! - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, September 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 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I only began working with agentic-AI, via Hermes Agent, back in May of this year, and even with a hiatus of about a month during the summer, I'm completely blown away by how far that I've come, by how much I've learned, and by how much I've accomplished, since that time. It's opened doors for me to build and develop my own systems, and to troubleshoot issues across an array of domains far more quickly than if I had to research and test possible solutions on my own. That part is pure gold, because I used to spend many hours looking into how to fix various things, including in the Arch/Artix Linux installations that I run on my laptop.

And building, oh building, I can't tell you how much fun it is to have an idea, to explain it to Hermes, and then to have it begin working on making it so, often with quite rapid progress. Hermes Agent, combined with very capable models like Kimi-K3, GLM5.3-Flash, and Nemotron-3-Ultra, has been the the biggest game-changer for me than I've experienced in many years. The possibilities of what I can do with Hermes are basically endless, which is of course a whole challenge in itself!

Since I love asset management so much, and because I have a great many tasks around that on Hive, both on my own account, and on various WAAT (We Are Alive Tribe) accounts, it's no wonder that I chose to start there, first with automating two of my daily WAAT asset-management tasks, and now with creating, testing, tweaking, and refining the new autonomous liquidity-pool agent. Those are just the beginning, however, as there are so many different things that I'd like to do!

I even revisited an old classic Windows 95 computer game that I love, Total Annihilation, which I had working on my three Arch Linux installations via WINE a few years ago, a few computers back, and Hermes helped me to get it working correctly once again on my current laptop. It even did research and showed me other community-driven projects that carried the TA line forward onto modern hardware and operating systems, the most interesting of which is Beyond All Reason, which it downloaded for me, and that is basically the spiritual successor or reincarnation of Total Annihilation, and holy jumping fuckmuffins has it evolved! I was never all that much into games, with the only ones able to hold my attention for years being Total Anniliation and the massive-multi-player online game Asheron's Call. Hermes just got me hooked on this free massively-upgraded iteration of Total Annihilation, though I still don't really know when I'd have the time to actually play it, given how little free time that I usually have available, but at least it's installed and ready to go when I do!

Hermes is basically my personal assistant, that saves me huge amounts of time, and allows me to do multitudinous different tasks effectively, efficiently, and much, much more quickly than I could possibly do just myself. This is brilliant stuff, my friends, and you should definitely look into it, because it's beyond badass!

Yesterday, Saturday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by just before 3PM, going to do some sunbathing on the trampoline in the Peanut Lawn first, while the sun was still out. Once I had a nice dose of sunshine, I went to help Ano to unload his truck after his weekly Friday coconut-collecting trip, and to reload it for the Sunday Market. With that completed, we went to collect four Melochia poles from trees that I had cut down yesterday, to bring them back to the shop. After that, I took a quick break up at the Flow House, then I got my machete and I went to assist Ano again, this time with continuing the clearing work that I had begun yesterday in the old chicken pen. When that was finally completed for the day, I took a shower, made myself and Avi (who's paying me to do so) some food in Wabisabi, shared dinner with him, then I collected my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, before heading back to the Flow House, to work with Hermes some more, and to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by a little after 9PM, and after another round of working with Hermes, I went to bed by 12AM. I woke up just before 6AM, having slept well, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House, to work with Hermes some more, 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 some jungle-community/land 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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