I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1202 - 14,500 HP Surpassed, 1st on the SHEKEL Richlist, and a Major Script Failure - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Tuesday, November 11, 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 7 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Well, I've got a rather mixed bag of news to share today, so I'll start with the positive news first. I crossed the threshold of 14,500 Hive Power yesterday afternoon, slightly ahead of when I was expecting, which was a nice surprise. I'm gaining about 100 HIVE per week, and 400 HIVE per month as of late, so it is indeed looking like reaching 15,000 Hive Power by mid December is close to a given at this point.

I'm also getting quite close to achieving my 2025 goal for HBD in Savings, and between my HBD income from posts, contests, token dividends, delegations, the Pepe Game, and savings interest, I may just reach it on time. Whether or not HBD is able to keep its peg and value remains to be seen, though I'll keep adding it to Savings for the time being, until another course of action becomes clear.

Some of you may have already noticed a new token appearing in your wallets, and one with a surprisingly high market price, SHEKEL. I saw it pop up in my wallet, and the wallets of multiple Alive Tribe accounts, and given that it could be staked, I've continued to do just that every day, and to astoundingly good effect. This token has grown very quickly in my wallet, and in a few Alive Tribe wallets, since it first made an appearance, and given its value, I've just kept staking it wherever I see it. I noticed that I had accumulated over 1,000 staked SHEKEL, and on a bunch, I went to take a look at the SHEKEL Richlist on Market Viewr, and much to my amazement, I was at the very top, even above the main issuing account, @faithhive, which kind of blew my mind.

At the moment, I have 2,260.78551731 staked SHEKEL, or 4.47% of the circulating supply of this new token, which is pretty crazy, and all from judicious staking. I have no idea if SHEKEL will hold its value or, but I'll continue growing the stake of it for myself, and for the Alive Tribe, a few members of which are also on the richlist. We shall see.

Now on to the news that I'm not happy to share. So Bjorn popped up this morning, he saw my messages, lowered the number of transactions per block in the payout script again, and ran the scipt manually. With the new rate-limit configuration, it took quite a long time to send out the layer-2 tokens, but that was completed successfully. When it got to sending out the HIVE, however, it had a major failure, wherein it did many rounds of sending HIVE to a small group of the same accounts in the As, and by the time it finally switched to the Bs and Cs, it had already drained all of of the over 37 HIVE that was on @aliveandthriving, much to my horror. I had noticed the account looping, and the HIVE beginning to diminish quickly, but sadly I didn't act in time, so we lost almost 40 HIVE to a payout-script malfunction. That's quite a bugger indeed, and I'm still not sure what we're going to do to rectify the situation. We'll receive another round of HIVE on Friday and Saturday, so we should be good for next week, but this week isn't looking so great, as there's not much HIVE, under 10, presently on the other community accounts. Whenever something of this nature appears unexpectedly in our path, I ask for your patience and understanding, because it will be fixed, I just don't know exactly when just yet, as it just happened this morning. It annoys the hell out of me that it happened, and I, and we, will do the best that we can, with everyone's limited time availability, to get things working properly once again.

Yesterday, Tuesday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, around 2:15PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and to collecting more coconut water and coconut meat from several younger coconuts to begin another round of kefir fermentation. The kefir took longer than expected, for a few reasons, and after a quick asset-management break up at the Flow House, my last task of the day was chopping and dumping bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar, and tidying up the area. Once I finally had that done, I took a shower, headed to the Landing to heat up some leftover food that I had in the fridge, and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hand(s), I returned to the Flow House to start my evening Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks. I got everything done super early again, by a little after 8PM, and after some asset management, and uploading more PDF books to Qortal, I went to bed by just after 10:30PM. I woke up just before 6AM, having slept well, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, then making my way back to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 11:45AM, so it's a really good time to wrap this up, so that I may get 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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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