I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1534 - HPUD Today, Bradley Is an Absolute Badass, and The Return of Gemma-4-E4B to My Local Setup! - Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, September 30, 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Hive Debt: 20.95%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0562 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 1.022 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.00977372 SWAP.HIVE 

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Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 61.05 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #120 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#95 (among active witnesses only)/1,025,892.734 HP in votes/51 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Happy October HPUD! The 68.993 HIVE that I powered up this morning brought me to the new total of 36,444.386 Hive Power, and given that it's only Thursday, I should easily surpass 36,500 Hive Power before the end of the week. Even though my HP growth slowed a bit due to the falling APR for HP, it's still moving along at a very nice clip.

Something incredible happened on Satsman yesterday, and it makes me all the more grateful that Bradley (@bradleyarrow) signed up under me, and for a whole bunch of reasons. I've said before that Bradley is the best recruit anyone could ever want, and holy jumping fuckmuffins is that true! Yesterday, Bradley paid for my friend @nabbas0786, who signed up under Bradley, to become Satsman Founder #386, with the only request being that he do his daily free and Pro Max missions. This was an extremely kind gesture on Bradley's part indeed, and it goes to show just how much that he believes in Satsman and its mission, and how much that he wants to help people. I have a sneaky feeling that paying for fellow Hivers who signed up under him to become Founders is something that Bradley's been doing for a while now.

So Bradley, who is also a Founder, now has six other Founders directly under him (L1), which is an exceedingly excellent accomplishment, and they're all under me, which means that my sats earnings have made another lovely leap upward. There are now only 114 of 500 Founder positions still available, so they are going pretty quickly, and for very good reason.

Bradley clearly saw the huge present and future benefits and potentials of Satsman, both for himself and everyone else, and he went all in, and he's taken this excellent new gameified Bitcoin-education platform by storm. I really would strongly suggest again that y'all join Satsman, as it truly is awesome sauce to the max.

I've made some notable tweaks, changes, and refinements to the Hermes Agent setup on my laptop over the past several months, with a notably strong focus on getting local models up and running for various tasks. I kind of got carried away in that endeavor, however, which caused some very unpleasant issues with my laptop, so I had to scale back and reassess things just a tad. One touch or irony is the fact that I began my journey of working with Hermes Agent and local LLMs with Gemma-4-E4B, then I moved on to trying to run larger, more capable models, only in the end to come back to running Gemma-4-E4B once again for my important local tasks (for Hermes cron jobs, and to act as the on-demand vision model). I honestly don't know why I didn't think of it before, since although this smaller Gemma definitely has its limits, it's also a very capable model for its size. So now two important local-task domains can now be handled by one small, capable model.

Yesterday, Wednesday, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks by just before 12:30PM, I prepared for a session that was scheduled for 1:30PM. The session started a bit late, it went very well, and we wrapped it up by around 5:30PM, after which I went to Wabisabi to make Avi (who's paying me to do so) and myself food, to share a short dinner with him, then to collect my leftover superfood fire coffee from the small temporary fridge, and finally to head back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks, and to work with Hermes some more. I got through all of my notifications by a little before 10PM, and after another short round of working with Hermes, I went to bed by about 11:15PM. I woke up by just after 7:30AM, having slept well, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House, to power up my HIVE and write and publish my HPUD post about it, and to begin on this post. It's now just before 12:30PM, so it's a really good time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before preparing for another session that's scheduled for 1:30PM again. 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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