i started buying the components to build a computer to replace my laptop. it'll be a shared with everyone type of deal. real communist and what not. it'll be fine. i hope to have it built by friday, but there is a chance i will have to push it back. i'm typing this on the family computer, which somehow still runs. the keyboard sucks and ios hurting my right wrist. will make this quick

i went looking for baggies but did not find them. the patagonia site says they have them where i went, but i didn't ask. just looked and saw they weren't there. looking around, i was reminded how tennis outfits definietely skew towards women. like, mens outfits areboring and women's are much more aesthetically pleasing. so since i didn't buy the shorts, i spent that money on a new stylus and an anti-static record brush kit. apparently styluses are supposed to be changed regularly? i had mine since i got the turntable four years ago... the needle was all bent. i figured that's why it was sounding rough recently. funny, that money i had set aside to buy myself some k for my birthday. that never happened and now times have changed. more pressing matters...

i submitted some writing to two places and some art to a third place. still waiting to hear back re:art, but have heard back from one of the writing places. they said no, which, if i'm keeping count in my head correctly, i'm zero-for-three. wasn't surprised if i'm honest. it was definitely shorter than a lot of stuff they put out, so i had my doubts cause of that. the content, while i like it, i can see others not caring for it. maybe not enough happens. maybe there's no point to it. i could go back and add some surrealist elelemtns, sure, and maybe that'll maike it more likable, but i probably won't