I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1375 - Hermes AI Agent Bootstrapped, Self-Building Initiated, and The AI-Agent Fun Is Just Beginning! - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, May 3, 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 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I'm happy to say that I was able to resolve the GPU-offloading issue with the Hermes AI agent this morning, and I was back in business working with it immediately afterward. I also set up a cool new feature last night, Telegram integration, so that I'm able to talk with Hermes via telegram messages now, which is pretty freaking amazing. As long as Hermes, the AI model running in LM Studio, the lms (LM Studio) sever, and the messaging gateway are running, I can now work with the Hermes AI Agent from anywhere.

My primary focus at the moment, before beginning to use Hermes to build my orchestrator-workers multi-agent AI framework and workflow, or diving too deeply into creating system-management frameworks for my Arch/Artix Linux installations, or even connecting to Hive, is to increase, extend, and expand its capabilities. This AI-agent framework is so flexible, so open, and so capable already, that I can, and I am, using it to build and develop itself. That is incredibly exciting for me, because I am able to see clearly what would be possible for me to accomplish with it as we progress.

Another extremely fascinating dimension of the Hermes AI Agent is that it autonomously learns, remembers, improves, and becomes more effective and efficient, and more tailored to the indiviual, over time, the longer it's used. It has the capacity to create new skills to meet practical needs, and to develop, refine, and improve them as it goes. I'm also having it look at various Github repositories, especially those for AI agents, to then take useful ideas and code, and incorporate them into our skill code base and developmental flow.

I'm now in the early stages of working with Hermes to basically create a meta-skill framework, using certain Github repositories, as sources for ideas and code to implement an overarching way to manage individual skills, improve and extend how skills are, and how they can be, used. This kind of stuff is keeping me up far into the night, I've got to say.

Since I am still in the early day of working with this incredible agentic-AI framework (it's only been 3 days so far), and because the playing field of possibilies is so vast, I'm doing my best to go slowly, to make sure that a solid operational and developmental modus operandi is put into place from the beginning. I'm immensely excited, however, so that's not entirely easy, because the scope of what I can actually do is pretty mind blowing.

Yesterday, Sunday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my numerous important Sunday Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, and working wtih Hermes (even in its gimped state, which was fixed this morning), very late indeed, by around 3:45PM, giving my attention first to a few small jungle tasks, and to some photography for my posts. Once those were completed, I heated myself up some food in Wabisabi, collected my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and I made my way back to the Flow House, to work with Hermes, and to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all my notifications very late, by around 11:30PM, and after some asset management, and setting up and testing Telegram integration with Hermes, I went to bed, way too late, by just after 1AM. I woke up around 7:30PM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, resolving the GPU-offloading issue with Hermes, preparing my goals-and-progress update and this post to be written later, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to collect asset data for my goals-and-progress, work a bit more with Hermes, and finally to write this post. It's now just before 1:45PM, so it's a very good time to wrap this up, so that I may may attend to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on some photography for my posts, and then on some jungle-community/land work and tasks. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my goals-and-progress update later this evening or tomorrow morning, and the next edition of these posts tomorrow afternoon! 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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