last year i started using letterboxed as a different way to jot down little blog entries. like what i do here but shorter and more focused on the thoughts i had while watching the movie. i think i'm done doing that. it was fun at first but became a chore for later movies that i didn't care to think too much about after the fact. i may do it here and there this year, but i'm starting off by not

went on my first bike ride in what feels like the year, but after putting in a little more thought, is probably the second. but it still could be the first. i rode for about twelve miles over an hour. simple ride into downtown then by the white oak trail, into washington, through downtown and back home via second ward. nothing too hard. felt heavy pedaling at first but the motions came back to me. this is part of my plan of self-improvement for the week. i've also been sleeping at regualrs hours. been limiting my phone time, etc.

the whole hedge fund and gamestop stock price thing is funny. that's all i'll say on it

i feel like i have to do something different. like that everything has gotten monotnous and i need to take action to steer it away from that direction. though i'm not totally sure what to do to accomplish that. part of this stems from my lack of sleep last night. being more tired than usual has forced me to sit and think about things too much. i've been staring at my phone all day. i think that contributed as well. i'll make a list of things to do and hopefully that will keep me busy. even writing this is hard

i think just going to bed would help a lot with this feeling

i'm also considering a break from socials again. specifically twitter this time, since thats the one i gravitate towards to the most. ig already doesn't feel necessary. don't spend that much time on it anymore, not since my longer break last summer. twitter is where my tiome dissapears. i don't find the screentime warning useful. i need to avoid using it altogether. can't be too hard. gonna make my goal to have my average for this next week under four hours. seemingly impossibel now considering todays is at least eight hours. i don't even want to check

apart from that i suppose i should look for supplementary job. don't want to but i should start integrating myself with the 'real world' once more. the one=year mark of this lifestyle is fast approaching. the breaks been long enough

i'm planning to take my little honda to austin soon. i had intended to do it this next weekend, but schedules gfot rearranged. will probably be the first weekend of february. should be interesting to see if i can get there. and how i feel doing longer-distanced rides

i need to get out on my bike again soon

i'm 'growing out' a 'mustache'

trying to remember what i've done since the last post

realizing that this could be the last year of this blog, if i decide to keep the same lifespan as the last one. i might as well. still have plenty of time to use this

i caught covid, which sucked. luckily it was only my mother and i who caught it. that meant two weeks were wasted doing basically nothing. it didn't get too bad, the virus. i had a slight fever, stuffy nose, and cough for the first few days but that went away by the end of week one. the worst part has been that i haven't been able to taste or smell. taste has come back a bit. i can taste sweet and salty, but savory is still hit or miss. smell is coming back slowly but whenever i take a whiff of the fernet i have, which i know has a strong smell, it doesn't burn my nose. apparently these can last well after covid so i guess i won't be able to smell for a while

i didn't broadcast having caught it to anyone that didnt need to know because, like, who cares. i'm fine. i'll have some sort of immunity for a few months. i did my time, as they say

after waiting the apporpiate amount of time, i have slowly started going out to run errands again. i went to the camera store in the antique market last saturday. met a few people while there. wanted to know how much the mamiya six-four-five was going for. seven-fifty. i was hoping for closer to five hundred. so instead i bought some batteries and listened to this guy, as he put it, 'talk [my] ears off'. one thing, he kept referring to the store owner as 'he' which was wrong i think. pretty sure they use they/them, but they never corrected. maybe i'm worng. or maybe i should've corrected. i don't know

he mentioned his affinity for the nikon f3. i've been noticing it everywhere ever since. and by everywhere i mean in the posession of other photographers. i followed the instagram of his business, but not his personal one. i feel like i don't care to follow people i'm not freinds with... or like, i don't know. i guess i just didn't want to follow him. at least not at that moment

showed my parents the zine i made and they said they liked it. my mom said i should leave copies in a library but i told her the librariers have been closed due to covid. i should've printed more today. i guess i'll have to do that tomorrow

the foot pegs and the seat got here today. while i still have to wait on the rack in order to atatch the seat, i went ahead and put on the foot pegs. it was harder than i had hoped, but not terribly difficult. it was more so just inexperience on my side. hadn't worked on a bike like that before. good practice though. i'm hoping the rack gets here by tuesday. that would be seven days. though it could get here as late as saturday

a couple prominent artists died recently. mf doom's passing was announced a few days ago. i guess he passed in october, but i count it as recent due to no one really knowing until new year's. the other was terrell davis, a digital artists. he pioneered the neo-y2k digital art style. think like slayyyter album cover type of art. he laid the groundwork for that movement. he was my age, too

i guess for this new year, i need to make some general outline of 'resolutions'. not that i find the tradition to be necessary, but it's helpful to write down a list of goals in order to, at the very least, gauge how your priorities and points of view have changed over the course of the year. i'm going to list a few things now. i want to do more 'serious' photography work. i want to make more friends in houston. i want to venture into other forms of art, like maybe paiting or digital stuff. music too. i want to keep avoiding buying new clothes made from synthetic materials. i want to be able to move out of houston, even if i don't. i want to read at least fifty books. i want to own less stuff

i think that's it. there may be more stuff that comes to mind later on, but i'll deal with those thoughts then. i think these are all acheivable. so i should be abel to look back here in twelvve months and cross some out. or all. i hope