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.
It really took some effort to motivate myself to get out the door for this run. today. Then I told myself it would be just a couple of miles that then turned into a couple more. I wouldn’t say I was feeling 100% but much better after I got moving.
As seen out on my With the snow that fell this morning I decided to toss on my trail shoes and hit the trails for a run. I thought it was going to be colder but wasn’t all bad even with the wind. It might have helped as most of the trails were protected.
Got some streets checked off the list today while the youngest was at swimming. Crazy how the other day running it was almost 50°F and today’s run was 25°F.
Thinking about how Micro.blog displays posts in the timeline and if there would be an advantage to excluding a category. Specifically, books as @Annie now has me thinking about that but if I did that it would disrupts my flow of starting ALL posts in Obsidian as my main publishing tool now. 🤔
Decided to take advantage of this beautiful Minnesota weather today and put a long run in. The first two miles I was really second guessing my decision but then felt much better as more miles ticked by.
It was an amazing day out today for a run. It is just too bad that my body didn’t feel the same as I think it has been tired since the long run over the weekend. That is alright these miles help build the mile base. 😉
Killing some time while the youngest is at swimming. I kind of wish I would had a little more time to run but this was probably good enough as I ate about 30 min before so felt sluggish.
Sorry for any noise in my RSS feed as of lately. I have been pulling in posts from Weblog and Obsidian Publish to my Micro.blog site as a way to make everything in one place again. I want to say I am done with having random posts in random places but this is something I can not guarantee myself.
Couldn’t pass up on this amazing day to get out for a long run. Decided to go find some hills around Christmas Lake.
Obsidian Publish Update
Let’s just say it was a good run and test. I published a handful of posts about things I was finding out about it and honestly it is very slick if you are using Obsidian to quickly posts something online and it just works. I think one of the bigger downsides to me if someone wanted to use it as an actual blogging platform is that the RSS is really not great at all. I am sure there could be ways to get that to work better or you could spend the time curating something to work better there but that seems like more friction than I would want to do. Even though I didn’t mention it earlier it is $8 per month if you pay for a year and that is kind of hefty in comparison to other blogging platforms you can find out there that are built more for well blogging. If you are looking for one I would check out one of the following
- omg.lol - For $20 a year you get access to all the great omg.lolapps which are worth much more than that in my option. From a blog perspective you can use Adam’s weblog.lol that is part of the $20 per year. However, you you might want to hold off till Adam is done creating Neato as it sounds well… Neato!
- micro.blog - There is a lot of apps you can get from Micro.blog depending on your subscription level. However, right now Manton has a new offering micro.one that is $1 per month blog which is an awesome price and way to get people blogging.
In the end, between the RSS and honestly having too many blogging platforms that I pay for already (both above for starters) and don’t always use I realized I didn’t really need another place to just publish posts as I have worked so hard over the years trying to combine things in one place. So that is probably the biggest reason for ending the experiment.
However, with that said I did jump back into weblog.lol again as I wanted to see if I could get Obsidian synced up to make it easy to post there as I do with Micro.blog today. Once I get the setup I feel good about I will share that setup next, however, I get it might be all for nothing once everything gets switched to Neato but that is OK, it helped me focus on something else this past week.
While I wait the cold out this morning as I would like to get a run in, I decided to make some breakfast sandwiches for the family. Not going to lie, they were delicious.
Weekly Thing Newsletter
If you are looking for a great Newsletter to sign up for I would highly suggest the Weekly Thing by Jamie Thingelstad. He does a great job of sharing interesting stuff he has read over the week with his own take.
This week specifically was pretty neat as well with the introduction of the 5 people whom he gifted a years subscription of blogging to as part of his “Christmas blogs”. I forgot to comment about it when he first wrote about it but this was such a great idea as a way to get more people blogging. I checked each of them out and am now following 5 new people and it will be interesting to see what each ends up doing with their blog going forward.
After spending the day working and messing around with other tasks I decide to do a short run to get the body moving today. It was a good nighttime run and felt great.
