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Not great weather for flying a blimp in Saint Charles.

A Goodyear blimp is flying high in a cloudy sky above a treeline.

I’m really glad I got my M5 MacBook Air when I did.

Now playing: The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits

A vinyl record player with a clear dust cover is set up on a wooden stand displaying The Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits album cover.

I have a love of all things retro and baseball. Combine them and you get Ribbie. Ribbie allows you to watch MLB games rendered as 8bit pixel art pitch-by-pitch in real time.

An 8-bit styled video game graphic depicts a baseball stadium at night, complete with players, scoreboards, and surrounding details on a wooden-framed screen.

The babies have taken flight. Here is one of them on a building away from the nest.

A bird is perched on the corner of a building ledge surrounded by green trees under a clear blue sky.

Now playing: Olivia Rodrigo - you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love

A pink vinyl record is spinning on a turntable with an album cover featuring a woman in a dress standing by a tree in the background. Olivia Rodrigo- you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love

Saw one of the hawks today for the first time in a while. They aren’t completely gone.

A bird is perched on a tree branch surrounded by lush green pine needles against a clear blue sky.

I haven’t seen the two hawks or heard their babies in the nest in like a week. I think they’ve moved on. I hope they, or others, come back to nest again.

a dumb fun project