I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1011 - 9,600 HP Today, and a @graphene-swap Fail - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, May 4, 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 6 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

With the boost of my HPUD powerup of 47.799 HIVE six days ago, I was able to gain over 100 HP over the last week, and I should cross the threshold of 9,600 Hive Power at some point today, which is pretty great. My HP still isn't increasing quite quickly enough for me to reach my year-end goal of 15,000 HP, but it certainly is helping, and it's also accelerating.

I have 5,402.852 HP to go on my year-end goal, which is a huge amount, but I'm still determined, and I'm working on multiple ways to help make it possible. While I still love and will be acquiring more solid income tokens that pay out HIVE, the quickest, most efficient, and most effective way to boost my Hive Power is to convert SWAP.HIVE to HIVE, and simply power it up. Since I do come into large amounts of SWAP.HIVE periodically, I'm going to have to start converting some good chunks of it to HIVE to give my Hive Power some much needed boosts toward my year-end goal quite soon.

In one of these posts about 10 days ago, I mentioned that I had sent test amounts of 5 BLURT (on Blurt) each to both @blurt-swap and @graphene-swap, to see which would successfully work to transfer assets between Blurt and Hive, with only funds from @graphene-swap in the end arriving as hoped. Last night I tried to send over 300 BLURT to Hive using @graphene-swap again, and much to my intense annoyance and frustration, it failed, and I never received the equivalent SWAP.BLURT in my wallet. Grrrr...

As I was looking into whether there was some sort of support for @graphene-swap, I discovered to my surprise and confusion that @blurt-swap (the one that failed in my test run) is listed on Hive Engine as the official account to transfer assets between Blurt and Hive, and that both accounts appear to work together, so yeah, super confusing. Since both of these accounts seem to be connected with Hive Engine, I explained my issue in the Hive Engine Discord support channel, and I also opened a support ticket doing the same. I'm really hoping to be able to resolve this transfer problem, and to recover my wayward funds.

Yep, this is not what I would call a fun process, but I'm gaining more clarity on exactly how to send assets between Blurt and Hive effectively, how the service actually works, and who manages it, so I know that this unpleasant experience will turn out to be beneficial in the end. I'm determined to find a dependable and reliable way to do this.

Yesterday, Sunday, I left the Flow House, after I finished up my Hive tasks, a little after 2:30PM, giving my attention first to some photography for these posts. When I had a nice batch of shots, I went to sunbathe on the trampoline in the Peanut Lawn for a short bit, while the sun was still out, then I went to work in my nursery for a while, weeding and clearing along the fence line (to make more room for plants). Once I had made some good progress, I took a shower, went to Tutu's to get some food supplies, made myself some food (brown-rice pasta, with ground beef, scrambled eggs, spicy salsa, and sea salt), and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hand, I returned to the Flow House, to gently jump into my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. This is also when I tried and failed to send BLURT to Hive using @graphene-swap, so the night didn't start great. I wasn't able to get full caught-up on my notifications, but at least I got pretty close. I made myself stop a little after 11PM, and after some asset management, and investigating how to address the Blurt-Hive transfer issue, I went to bed just before 12:30AM. I woke up just before 7:30AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, doing more asset management, starting on this post, getting out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, before heading back to the Flow House to write and publish My 153rd Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update: On the Edge of 9,600 HP, and a New Method Implemented for Tracking Goals and Progress, and finally to immediately start on writing this post. It's now just before 1:30PM, so a marvelous time to end this post, so that I may get to my few other important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a bit later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for these posts, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's expression 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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