I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #912 - Third DRIP Unstake Tonight, and Internet Restored! - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, January 25, 2025

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 5 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

My third (of four) batch of DRIP, in which I had a substantial investment, will unstake late tonight (actually just before 12:15AM, so technically tomorrow), and I can't wait. I have a great deal of excitement brewing and bubbling around what I'm building, growing, and saving on Hive, and with my recent fiat investment, and the devestment and reinvestment of my DRIP assets into more useful and profitable directions, my income, liquidity, and leverage to generate even more assets and liquidity, that I have available, is moving into very interesting ranges indeed.

After swapping my third chunk of unstaked DRIP for SWAP.HIVE tonight (I say 'tonight' because I'll be doing this right before bed), I plan to use half of it to acquire more PWR, and the other half to use to add it to the SWAP.HIVE:PWR pool. This will give my daily SWAP.HIVE income another good boost, which allows me to go deeper in various diesel/liquidity pools, and to acquire more income tokens and other useful assets.

The last batch of DRIP to unstake (next Sunday night/Monday morning), after swapping it for SWAP.HIVE, I'm considering using to buy three layer-2 assets, more BBHO, enough DUO to get to within dividend range (BBHO also pays out DUO weekly), and a few more BBHM to top it off. These will help increase my income and growth across both layer 1 and layer 2, which sounds like a sweet deal to me. After the last DRIP devestment and reinvestment in a week, I'll be in a very good position in terms of daily and weekly layer-1 and layer-2 income, which will allow me to keep my snowball of growth going, and accelerating, and in multiple areas. Yeppers, indeedy, I'm super excited!

In my post yesterday, I mentioned how an electrical storm had muffed up our internet connection, and how I had been trying unsuccessfully to fix it. After many hours of testing, swapping switches, changing ethernet heads, and focused work, I'm happy to say that we (Ano assisted me at various points) were able to get most of the network up and working again by the early evening. There now remains just one more section that I need to fix today (the Octagon-Fuschia Phoenix-Mana Hut line), which should be quite quick, thankfully. For the important things, where there is a will, there is indeed a way.

Even though it's sometimes a lot to maintain, I'm very grateful that we even have mostly-stable electrical and internet systems out here, off-grid in the jungle, and that I'm able to do what I do on Hive, on other sovereignty-driven blockchains (Bastyon, DeSo, and Qortal) and technologies, and with my beloved Arch Linux. It's such a wild and incredible intersection, juxtaposition, and mixing of worlds, which I love.

Yesterday, Saturday, was a very busy day, from morning to sunset. Between working on fixing the internet, miking the cow, my Hive tasks, photography for Hive, straining and blending kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao), and helping Ano unload (after cocoing) and reload (for the Sunday market) his truck, I didn't stop all day. In the end, I was able to get just about all of it done (just a little more to do on the internet), which felt great. I returned to the Flow House as the sun was going down, after stopping by the Landing to collect my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee, and I began straight away on my Hive tasks, and catching up on my notifications. I got the first round done around 9PM, which is when I wrote and published My Entry for Reflection Hunters Contest: Round 203 - Giant Taro Reflections, and then after a second round on new notification, and some token management, I went to bed around 12AM. I woke up first just before 5AM, and unable to sleep, I did a round of token management, and then I tried another mostly-success attempt at sleep. I woke up for the second time about 7:30AM, doing more token management, starting on this post, then getting out of bed around 8AM to go make my glorious superfood fire coffee, and to milk Daisy with Jo. I returned to the Flow House, as soon as milking was done, to write this post. It's now just after 1:45PM, so a very good time to end this post, so that I may get to my few other important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to give my attention to photography for Hive, fixing the last part of the network, another round of work in my old nursery collecting and sifting soil after clearing, and collecting cow-milking food for tomorrow morning. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's edition of this post! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2025 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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Signature image created by @doze, and the dividers made by @thepeakstudio, with all tweaked to their present form by me.