Well first for a long time but I knew I was playing with fire when I left for a run and my watch was at 11% it almost got me to the end but missed out on my last little bit down the trail and back to get to 6.2. 🤦♂️
It was still cold today but decided while my oldest daughter and two friends practiced dryland for hockey I would try to get some miles in. Overall, it wasn’t bad on the run and I felt good. I mean yes it was cold out but I was bundled up so all was good.
So maybe I shouldn’t go outside for a run today… 🤷♂️
Didn’t want to let this sunshine get away from me today so I went for a run after the morning livestream of swimming before the hockey game in the afternoon. I feel like I should have done a longer run as I haven’t for a couple of weeks but probably did more miles today than I had planned.
Sad to not be in person at the swim meet today but thankful for technology that I can be sitting at home this morning watching it to cheer on our youngest who has 4 events today.
This her 200 Freestyle event where she took first in her heat.
For our family Christmas gift exchange this year I asked for “swim” socks so I could represent and support my youngest swimming. These work great because I mean you have to show up with good a good sock game. 🤷♂️
This was probably not one of my better ideas to run this morning. However, I had the day off today as my youngest has a swim meet that needed to leave the house by 10am and with sitting in a car all day and then at the swim meet I felt I should do something.
I had exactly 35 min to get a run done today to be back before a meeting. How am I feeling? Not great! Should I have gone on this run? Probably not! Oh well what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger right? Or just keeps me feeling under the weather longer maybe. 🤷♂️
Felt really good while running today in the very light snowfall outside. Once I got moving it wasn’t bad at all and I might have tried to extend the run but I was already up against the clock to get done before the company wide meeting.
Fascinated watching these two bald eagles just sitting in the tree across the street watching over the neighborhood. Actually come to think about it the dogs and I might be prey / sitting ducks in the shed office. 🦅
I have never had a Footnote on any of my blog posts (that I can remember) except for today. So due to that fact, I felt like I should probably update some styling to make it not look like normal text on my weblog.lol site. I think I was pretty specific in my GitHub comment for the update 😅
Obsidian Plugin - Linter
In my quest of updating old blog posts that I have dumped all into Obsidian I found a great plugin called Linter. What it says it does is as follows:
The Linter is an Obsidian.md plugin that is designed to help keep your notes in a more uniform pattern. It is designed to allow the user to specify which rules and settings to use so that they can try to make their notes as uniform as possible. This includes, but is not limited to, rules that affect:
- YAML frontmatter
- Markdown headings
- Github flavored footnotes
- General markdown content,
- Spacing
- Pasting content within the app.
For me however, I have really only used it to help for a small use case. It has helped to keep some more structure around the YAML items, specifically tags as my tags were a mess as I have gone though this process. I am not sure how some had quotes around it others didn’t, some had spaces in the Tag names and others didn’t as well. However, the really nice thing it would do in the tags rehlm would be to take it from a multiple line tags that started with dashes to a single line with commas. I probably don’t use as many tags theses days for posts so it isn’t as big of a deal when just a single tag. However, some of my older ones had multiple and caused a lot of issues when updating older posts.
Finally, I found a good use of the setting in Linter to add a blank line after YAML. This as small of a thing as it is, made it that much simpler as I have also been pushing all of my posts to weblog.lol and early on in the process I found if I didn’t have that blank line it would cut off the first part of my post when GitHub processed the file1.
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Quick note on that processing I have spent a lot of time fixing the weblog.lol processing script in GitHub to do a lot of things and in hindsight I should have just had it take care of some of these issues like the tags and the return after the YAML line. However, for now I am going to just stick with using Linter as it does what it needs to and helped clean up my mess of posts. Maybe ones Neato is published I will reconsider as I might need to figure out how that all works. ↩︎
Against my better judgement I went out for a run today telling myself I am back at 100% but I knew this was not true. I felt good moving more today and it was a little later in the morning which probably helped as well. However, I am thinking I might regret this discussion when I crash tonight.
Look close at this photo and you will see a van driving towards me on this path. Yes, it is a bike/walking path not a road. Before I got to the bridge after taking this photo, they started reversing realizing their mistake or I guess they didn’t want to run me down.
Really enjoyed this weeks People and Blogs featuring Lou Plummer. I really enjoyed reading about his journey to what and how he creates what he does today.
Went to Stages Theater with our youngest and her friend tonight to watch Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus the Musical. It was very well done, we might have to go to some more of these as we used to go all the time when the kids were little.
I was glad to find a little bit of time to get out for a run after work tonight. However, I did one of those an Apple workouts yesterday for only 10 min and my legs were still screaming at me during this run.
Got a call out of the blue from an old friend today. It was by accident on his part and I was kind of shocked that I was getting a call at that specific time. I answered and we actually then ended up catching up for 20 min. What a great highlight of my day that really was an accident.
Ran across this little guy on a trail out running today who didn’t even move when I walked slowly past. 😬😰
Decided to make this run a little longer today as the temperature seemed better than yesterday. Had the trail to myself except for what appeared to be a frozen squirrel.
