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