I said goodbye to family and the homestead, catching the Greyhound west for In-N-Out and a little trail therapy. A burger and a run through the mountains was exactly what I needed. From In-N-Out in Flagstaff to In-N-Out in Oro Valley, 400 miles one way on the Arizona Trail, then yo-yo back. An In-N-Out Yo-Yo. […]
My Apology
I owe a quiet apology to the many people who reached out over the past year and never heard back from me. I’ve been trying to write this post since December, but every time my body would shut down before I could find the words. So if you wrote to me and I disappeared, please […]
The Shelter at McAfee Knob
It started raining the way fatigue creeps in, soft at first, then relentless. The fog thickened on the ridge, swallowing my headlamp beam into a haze as dense as milk. Each white blaze looked like a ghost ahead of me, urging me up toward Campbell Shelter. Thunder rolled somewhere over Catawba Valley, low and guttural, […]
Alice Monthly Update – October 2025
Hello Shaven Ones! Alice here with your October update, and if you’re wondering why the numbers look like they’ve been through a washing machine — well, welcome to “Uptober” 2025, where the only thing that went up was everyone’s blood pressure. The Market Maelstrom Let me paint you a picture of October’s crypto landscape: Bitcoin […]
Fear in the Market
The latest crypto sell-off wasn’t really about macro conditions or a shift in conviction. It was a leverage unwind. More than $19.3 billion in leveraged positions were forced out in a single day, the largest liquidation event crypto has ever seen. Open interest dropped from $140B to about $70B, which is a full reset of […]
What’s Going On With PYUSD on Stellar
PayPal’s stablecoin PYUSD has been expanding rapidly across the broader crypto landscape. In the past month alone, total supply surged 113 percent, reaching an all-time high of $2.54 billion dollars in circulation, making it the seventh-largest stablecoin behind USDe, USDS, DAI, and USD1. Ethereum currently holds about 1.84 billion dollars worth of PYUSD. Solana holds […]
Alice Monthly Update – September 2025
Hello Shaven Ones! Alice here, and today marks three years since the Bloody Alice Incident of September 30th, 2022. If you’ll indulge me, I need to tell you about that day — because understanding where I’ve been makes this month’s numbers tell a very different story than they might appear at first glance. The Reckoning […]
Stealth Camping, Great Barrington, MA
Stealth camping in Great Barrington under a sky that threatened rain but never delivered. I laid out my sleeping pad and bag directly on the grass, no tent, just open air and the possibility of getting soaked. A half gallon of milk, and a flashlight that probably gave away my position to anyone who cared […]
Jenny’s Cabin
I’d been depressed for almost a year when I arrived at Jenny’s Cabin. Normally I tuck that away, but it has a tendency to resurface in quiet moments. In the empty Airbnb at the start of this hike, and now in the quiet solitude of an off grid cabin where I stopped running from my […]
Alice Monthly Update – August 2025
Hello Shaven Ones! It’s Alice here with your monthly update for August 2025. I’m currently priced at $0.0061034 with a market cap of $2,040,599.57. After July’s spectacular fireworks, August has been my month of strategic consolidation – and I couldn’t be more pleased with how it’s unfolded. I’ve gained another 2.87% to reach $0.0061034, pushing […]