I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1279 - StarLink Internet Is Solid, and Still Catching Up on Hive - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Tuesday, January 27, 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Hive Debt: 18.46%

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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

After almost 5 days with no functional internet connection, other than my phone, the StarLink unit that we acquired and set up Monday night, and that we adjusted and reconfigured yesterday, has been rock-solid stable and strong, with comparable or better bandwidth and speed, and at half the monthly cost, than our previous mobile-network internet service. So the former internet service failing was actually a major blessing in disguise, regardless of how inconvenient and frustrating it was. For those of you that may have weak or unreliable internet services, and those who have thought about getting StarLink, I highly recommended it.

Aside from moving the StarLink unit from the roof of the Doghouse to a flat slab of lava right in front of it, to get it on a level surface (the roof is slanted in the wrong direction), we also put the StarLink router into bypass mode, set up my ASUS RT-AC5300 router next to it, and configured it to receive the incoming internet connection from the StarLink router, so that it could route connections for the whole network. This is exactly the setup that I far prefer, since it gives me much more information and control of the network, which is essential, because I manage, troubleshoot, and maintain our community network. I guess I'm the community network admin.

With a stable and strong internet connection restored, I've been making good headway on catching up on Hive, though I've still got a bit to go. Sadly, I did miss two of @benthomaswwd's @heartbeatonhive contests, in which I usually participate consistently. If all goes well, I will hopefully be able to get fully caught up by tonight.

Keeping track of multiple post schedules (mine and others), writing posts, asset management (mine and the We Are Alive Tribe's), token claims (on and off Hive), staying caught up on notifications, and all sorts of other important personal and 'We Are Alive Tribe' responsibilities and tasks, keeps me very busy indeed, and it can be pretty overwhelming at times (like now), though I do my absolute best to accomplish what needs to be done, when it needs to be done. I'm grateful that where and how I live makes it possible for me to be able to devote so much time daily and weekly to my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' endeavors.

On the asset-management side of things, both for myself and for the We Are Alive Tribe, much more investment liquidity is needed (always...lol), though very solid gains and steps are being made. Just keeping track (in my mind) of all the assets across so many accounts, and how they're being used (or not), is a rather monumental mission indeed. I juggle it all pretty well I'd say, though some days definitely feel and flow a lot better than others in that regard. No matter what, the show must go on!

Yesterday, Tuesday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little after 2PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and then to the above-mentioned repositioning and reconfiguration of our new StarLink unit, which took longer than expected, with Alex and I not finishing up until around 4:30PM. Once we finally completed that important task, I took a quick asset-management break at the Flow House, after which I went to help unload and distribute goat manure from a flatbed truck to various useful places on the property. Although I had intended to assist with that much sooner, I did at least make a dent in the huge manure pile in the time that I had. Once we finished with that for the day, I took shower, collected my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the Landing fridge, and I made my way back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. Since I was so far behind, I wasn't able to get fully caught up on my notifications before I had to stop a bit after 11:30PM, to do some asset management, and then to go to bed by just after 12AM. I woke up around 7:30AM, having slept well, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1:15PM, so it's a really good time to wrap this up, so that I 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 photography for my posts, and then on community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's iteration 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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