This evening I created the 1926 McFate Travel Journal repo from the grinnell-college-CB-base template repo. Now I need a script that will break the primary .md document into smaller chunks, and update them in Azure Blob storage.

So I made the decision last night to implement an instance of CollectionBuilder to document my grandmother Miriam’s 1926 travel journal. I posted this from roughly where that journey began, my grandparent’s old farm in northern Poweshiek County.

This is really just another test of my system as we’re waiting on friends to go walking around the lake that isn’t anymore.

Creating this new post from my phone this morning while I visit the farm.

This test should return an accurate timestamp PLUS a valid “location” and “coordinates” from Drafts.

Thinking ahead, the “Publish Micropost to My Blog” script needs a couple more things:

• The “title:” field should automatically populate from the Draft title (first line) and it should be in TitleCase.
• Coordinates in Toledo or Tama (or other frequent stops) should get location tags without having to call the PositionStack API.

I modified the # solovyov.net blog post publish script giving it a new name of Publish Micropost to My Blog and so far it’s working nicely! It does not insert the location: or coordinates: values as I’d like yet, but stay tuned!

Yesterday I took a quick look at a notes-taking app called Obsidian. Very promising, but I’m already invested in Drafts (to the tune of $20/year) and it too has been rapidly improving. So, I joined the Drafts Community and started looking for some guidance. Today I’m going to try implementing one or two things based on Generate Static Site from Drafts Notes. Wish me luck!

Just dropped Emily and Natilie (2 international Grinnell College students) off at DSM for their holiday travel home. Ivan, our 2024-25 FIS student from Bulgaria, is with me for a geocaching lunch/holiday event at Pizza Ranch. After this a little geocaching then I’ll drop Ivan at DSM for his flight home and I’ll head for home before it gets dark on this shortest day of the year.

Started using Pixabay instead of Unsplash for royalty-free images in this blog.

Camping and riding my new e-scooter at Caching and Camping event(s) around Lake Wapello State Park this weekend. Hit my 10,000th cache found on Friday in Ottumwa. Starting a new GLP-1 regimen with 2.5 mg of Mounjaro (at a reasonable price) injected Sunday in the right side of my stomach.