I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1547 - The Hive Debt Is Rising Again, and The Fun and Potentials of Building with Hermes Agent - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Tuesday, October 13, 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: 21.90%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0512 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.981 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.00903618 SWAP.HIVE 

HEARTBEAT ALIVE Price: 0.10678184 ALIVE

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00086092 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.182710 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0001331 USD

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Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,100.03 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 55.60 USD 

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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

As many of you might have noticed, after a steady and strong drop for about a month, the Hive Debt, and with it the APR for Hive Power, have begun to rise again. The third correlation that goes with those two is a falling fiat-price of HIVE. While Hive's economic conditions did improve for a short while, those gains are now eroding once again, so we're not out of the woods yet in that regard.

As I've worked with AI and agentic-AI systems over the last several months, and specifically with Hermes Agent using an assortment of capable models, the potentials and possibilities of what can be accomplished with it has continued to rise exponentially. My Hermes Agent setup is an increasingly-powerful and capable meta-tool that has opened a huge number of fascinating doors to be explored, which I'm doing, one at a time. The horizon of possibilities, which expands each day, is so vast, that I'm almost at a loss as to where to direct my focus next.

I've been having a lot of fun diving into the possibilities that I have explored, like automating some of my Hive tasks, building and refining my liquidity-pool agent, and decompiling, decoding, rewriting, and recompiling Total Annihilation as a 64-bit Linux-native game. That last one, which started as a fun side project, has been a main focus for almost a week now, with strong progress and refinements being made every day. TA is a very sophisticated game for the late 90s, with many, many, many nested leveled of components, systems, and subsystems, so the process has definitely taken longer than expected, but it is still going very well regardless.

One of the most amazing things to me about the work that I do with Hermes, is that it can be done across a wide diversity of domains, and that I can use it to connect and integrate those domains with each other, seamlessly. That's some exceedingly exciting and fun stuff right there!

Hermes Agent, and agentic AI in general, is perfect for the builders and the tinkerers, the explorers and the experimenters, and those who love and align with the DIY (Do It Yourself) ethos. With Hermes, I don't have to wait for someone else to do something for me, I can dive right in, immediately. Yes, Hermes 'does things for me', that's true, but it's always at my direction and discretion, and it's also always a collaboration. It allows me to accomplish tasks that would have taken me months or years to learn, understand, and master, within massively-condensed periods or time. That alone makes it worthwhile, especially considering everything that I intend to build.

Yesterday, Tuesday, I left the Flow House, after wrapping up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by around 2:15PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and then to doing some bodywork on Elohi, at his request. That took a bit longer than expected, after which I went to Wabisabi to make Avi (who's paying me to do so) and myself some food, to share a short dinner with him (and Michael), before collecting my leftover superfood fire coffee from the small temporary fridge, and heading back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks, and to work with Hermes a bit more. I got through all of my notifications by a little after 9PM, and after another solid round of work with Hermes, I went to bed by just after 12AM. 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 write this post. It's now just after 12:15PM, so it's an excellent 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 a session that's scheduled for 1:30PM. 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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