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π€ I am trying to put a little more structure in my Daily Obsidian notes and wondering what others do or how it functionally looks and maybe what you put in there. I don’t use mine for work it is just like a daily log of things (e.g., places visited, interesting things, thoughts, links to other notes, link to running).
π Well it seems the internet went out again at home. This is 2x in less than a week. Not always a huge deal but it is summer so the kids are home and the little thing that I work from home as well. π«
π Never good when during your first meeting of the day the internet goes out and not going to come back till 11am. π΅βπ«
πββοΈ Iβm nervously excited for our little swimmer today as she is competing in a bunch of events and placed quite high. She will do great no matter what!
π₯΅ it is only 8:30 this morning and I am already hot out here watching our oldest play beach volleyball. π
π¨βπ» Seems like a good day to create a new take on another existing Obsidian plugin π€·ββοΈ
π¨βπΎ Was doing some “blog gardening” this morning and wishing on more of my old posts and some new ones I had a location attached to it. In most cases there is a picture with a few words or something but I never really said where I was. So in the cleanup if I can tell I will try to add but wish it was part of the post and not just a link added.
πββοΈ Up early for day three of this swim meet. Why start warmups at 6:45β¦ I guess why not π€·ββοΈ
Since I was in Cedar Falls I decided to run around the University of Northern Iowa where I went to school in order to get a run in and see how things have changed. Such a blast to see again as it has been a while since I have been here.
One of the many reasons I choose to run is because I sometimes find myself wanting to eat fun cookies like this π€£. Donβt worry we only ate one for now but the other one might be later tonight. π
At least I could convince my daughter to share the bear one with me for now.
π€£ If feel like this is fitting that these swimmer staying together as a team at a hotel with a pool decided to break up into teams and do relays for fun. π
π Drove the +3 hours to Cedar Falls for an outdoor swim meet today to see my daughter do warmups and then the thunder and lightening came. Meet got cancelled for tonight which is a bummer they wouldnβt delay it as we are stuck here for the weekend and there is a chance it could still happen tonight.
π΄ Up early today to make sure everything is ready to go for our drive for an out of town outdoor swim meet. However, looking at the weather that is 4 hrs away I am not sure it will happen today. π«
I decided to get this late night run in as I will be sitting for a lot of tomorrow. I actually thought it would have been cooler out tonight after I finished mowing now that the sun went down but I think with the rain today the humidity skyrocketed.
π€ I am curious for people that create daily logs for themselves on either paper or in digital form how they go about structuring such a thing. I have a way I am doing it now and the good thing is I am capturing things, the bad thing is I feel like it is very messy. π€£
Wish I could have made it to the championship game today to watch these girls win the whole tournament . So fun to think only 1 year ago M decided she wanted to play volleyball for fun. π€© ππ
![Two young girls wearing sunglasses stand on a sandy beach volleyball court, holding a volleyball and blue towels that read “EP Beach.” The sky is clear with a few clouds.](https://ericmwalk.blog/uploads/2025/img-0164.jpeg “Two young girls wearing sunglasses stand on a sandy beach volleyball court, holding a volleyball and blue towels that read “EP Beach.” The sky is clear with a few clouds.")
π I will have to say I tested out my new Obsidian plugin tonight and so far so good on posting right to my site from Obsidian.
Oh this post came from the same plugin too.
Plan B for tonight we decided to goto a site I have been before and meandered around the historic trails at the old Bloomington Mill site. Had fun even though it was a lot of work. There is so many trails and old wooden steps into this valley that are no where on a map so you have to look closely.
![A wooden bridge with metal railings stretches over a small stream. The bridge entrance is blocked with red netting and a “Bridge Closed” sign. Erosion is visible near the concrete base by the water. Surrounding the bridge are lush green trees and bushes.](https://ericmwalk.blog/uploads/2025/img-4752.jpeg “A wooden bridge with metal railings stretches over a small stream. The bridge entrance is blocked with red netting and a “Bridge Closed” sign. Erosion is visible near the concrete base by the water. Surrounding the bridge are lush green trees and bushes.")I am never a good rule follower so this might have said bridge closed but we still made it over and back.
View from the top of the valley at one point
Site of the old Historic Mill
Some steps that are kind of blocked off but not really blocked off π€·ββοΈ
Trust me this is a path to the bottom even though it just looks like dirt there are some rail road tie steps in there.
We decided to find a new location to connect some trails we had been on before only to run into a big road block that had us rethink for a Plan B.
I am ok with some water but this was going to be way too much and too deep. I did get a lot closer to check.
Plan B for tonight we decided to goto a site I have been before and meandered around the historic trails at the old Bloomington Mill site. Had fun even though it was a lot of work. There is so many trails and old wooden steps into this valley that are no where on a map so you have to look closely.
![A wooden bridge with metal railings stretches over a small stream. The bridge entrance is blocked with red netting and a “Bridge Closed” sign. Erosion is visible near the concrete base by the water. Surrounding the bridge are lush green trees and bushes.](https://ericmwalk.blog/uploads/2025/img-4752.jpeg “A wooden bridge with metal railings stretches over a small stream. The bridge entrance is blocked with red netting and a “Bridge Closed” sign. Erosion is visible near the concrete base by the water. Surrounding the bridge are lush green trees and bushes.")
We decided to find a new location to connect some trails we had been on before only to run into a big road block that had us rethink for a Plan B.
I am ok with some water but this was going to be way too much and too deep. I did get a lot closer to check.