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There’s a Game Changer: Home Edition game and you can back it on Kickstarter. There was a Smosh vs Dropout video where they played it. This looks like so much fun.

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Nothing like some casual racism from a Schnucks employee while you’re shopping. I was walking down an aisle and an employee picks up two discarded flower arrangements and she blurts out, “if you can’t afford flowers for your baby momma don’t steal them.”

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Watching me like a hawk.

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I’m too old for west coast start times.

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I’m at the age where I ordered new glasses and I’m really excited to get them. I’ve been wearing contacts for over 20 years. I’m tired of them.

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Now playing: Kacey Musgraves - Middle of Nowhere.

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The Cardinals radio broadcast commercials are awful. I really don’t want to hear Ricky Horton talking about masculinity. 🤮

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The ducks had babies.

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I’m old now, so of course I like to listen to and identify birds on my walks with Spike. So far, I have 22 different species identified using the Merlin Bird ID app. This is just walking around my condo complex.

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Tonight’s throwback movie is the mostly forgot about 2006 comedy starring Justin Long: Accepted 🍿

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Testing out Parachute to backup iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive to an external SSD, that is then backed up to Backblaze.

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The search in the mail app on iOS is broken. Searched for an email on my phone and it could not find it. Scroll through my email and find it just fine. Use the same search term on the Mac and it found it just fine too.

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Please no more of this. I just want to watch the game.

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I still remember when I bought Jurassic 5’s album Quality Control. I had never heard of Jurassic 5 before, but it was the year 2000 and one of the things you did in the 90s and 2000s is look at the weekly ads to see what new music releases were coming out that week. This was prime CD era when Target and Best Buy dedicated aisles upon aisles of their store to physical media. I remember looking through Best Buy’s ad one Sunday to see what new music was coming out that Tuesday (yes, friends, new music used to come out on Tuesdays). In the ad that Sunday, for only $6.99, was Quality Control.

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What would make me pick up an album for a group that I never heard of? Well, first, I loved the artwork. How could you not be intrigued by it? Six guys sitting around a tree stump with headphones plugged in and one of the coolest logos in Hip Hop. Second, it was only $6.99. While I can admit that prices have risen a lot since 2000, $6.99 was still cheap in an era where a lot of CDs were selling for between $15 and $18. The $6.99 price tag was worth the gamble. I wasn’t expecting that it would become one of my favorite albums of all time. It was a new sound from what I was used to in rap music and eventually led me on a journey where I discovered a bunch of underground hip hop artists. It truly was a magical time in music. Unfortunately, their subsequent albums never had the same impact on me as Quality Control did and the group no longer puts out music, but even almost 26 years later, I can still recite pretty much the entire album from start to finish.

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I recently purchased Quality Control on vinyl as I’m building up my collection of favorite albums. It’s not the original release, which is fine. I don’t collect for value, I collect to listen. The version I picked up was from a rerelease but was still never opened. I’ve been listening to it all day and it’s bringing back so many memories of high school and college.

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One other note about Jurassic 5, I was in St. Louis record store Vintage Vinyl a couple years after Quality Control came out and they had a copy of the Jurassic 5 EP for sale on vinyl. The EP was their first release that came out the year before Quality Control and is also fantastic. I didn’t have a record player at the time and vinyl had died and come back and died again. No one was predicting another resurgence. I really wish I would have bought it that day.

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Now playing: Jurassic 5 - Quality Control

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My dad and I were talking about bad umpires and I could not remember Bucknor’s name for some reason. This is hilarious. First result when searching “bad umpire”.

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Old blog imported into Pure Blog. Pretty quick and easy.

\n\"A\n", "date_published": "2026-04-17T21:45:54-05:00", "url": "https://shep.online/2026/04/17/old-blog-imported-into-pure.html", "tags": ["Photos","Status"] }, { "id": "http://shep.micro.blog/2026/04/17/i-knew-wordpress-had-become.html", "content_html": "

I knew WordPress had become bloated over the years. I didn’t realize how bad until I stared downloading and deleting all the files from an old, but up to date, site. I don’t think I’m going to regret replacing it with something much lighter.

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I’ve been playing around with Pure Blog a bit. I may wind up using it on an old blog that I only keep up for archival purposes. There’s no need to keep WordPress running on a blog I never post to anymore. Or I could just delete the old blog.

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Ducks and baby birds.

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Using a bunch of the Artemis II photos as my wallpaper on rotation.

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Now playing: Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold

\n\"A\n", "date_published": "2026-04-14T14:08:39-05:00", "url": "https://shep.online/2026/04/14/now-playing-atmosphere-when-life.html", "tags": ["Photos","Status"] }, { "id": "http://shep.micro.blog/2026/04/11/went-through-some-old-pictures.html", "content_html": "

Went through some old pictures my grandma had. Found this throwback. I look like I should be headlining at Go Bananas in Cincinnati.

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Bob Mortimer is so funny and his constant stumping of David Mitchell on Would I Lie to You is some of the best TV. Enjoy a compilation of Bob’s stories.

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Now Playing: Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer

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