diff --git a/.bash_aliases b/.bash_aliases
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b8fc4a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.bash_aliases
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# aliases
+alias ll='ls -lah'
+
diff --git a/.bash_functions b/.bash_functions
index ab45ccf..8006d11 100644
--- a/.bash_functions
+++ b/.bash_functions
@@ -86,3 +86,29 @@ swap_sum()
 	# this will grab swap usage and each program using swap and total it.
 	for dir in $(find /proc/ -maxdepth 1 -type d | egrep "^/proc/[0-9]") ; do pid=$(echo $dir | cut -d / -f 3);prog=$(ps -p $pid -o comm --no-headers|awk '{print $1}'); for swap in $(grep Swap $dir/smaps 2>/dev/null| awk '{print $2}');do let sum=$sum+$swap; done; echo "$prog $sum "|grep -vw 0;sum=0;done|awk '{ swap[$1]+=$2; sum+=$2} END { for (prog in swap) printf("%-15s Swap: %10.1f MiB\n", prog, swap[prog]/1024); } END {printf("Total Swap: %20.1f MiB", sum/1024);}'|sort -n -k3
 }
+
+# Extra many types of compressed packages
+# Credit: http://nparikh.org/notes/zshrc.txt
+extract() 
+{
+  	if [ -f "$1" ]; then
+    	  case "$1" in
+      	    *.tar.bz2)  tar -jxvf "$1"                        ;;
+      	    *.tar.gz)   tar -zxvf "$1"                        ;;
+      	    *.bz2)      bunzip2 "$1"                          ;;
+      	    *.dmg)      hdiutil mount "$1"                    ;;
+      	    *.gz)       gunzip "$1"                           ;;
+      	    *.tar)      tar -xvf "$1"                         ;;
+      	    *.tbz2)     tar -jxvf "$1"                        ;;
+      	    *.tgz)      tar -zxvf "$1"                        ;;
+      	    *.zip)      unzip "$1"                            ;;
+      	    *.ZIP)      unzip "$1"                            ;;
+      	    *.pax)      cat "$1" | pax -r                     ;;
+      	    *.pax.Z)    uncompress "$1" --stdout | pax -r     ;;
+      	    *.Z)        uncompress "$1"                       ;;
+      	    *) echo "'$1' cannot be extracted/mounted via extract()" ;;
+    	  esac
+         else
+          echo "'$1' is not a valid file to extract"
+        fi
+}
diff --git a/.env b/.env
index 1358907..f6d391a 100644
--- a/.env
+++ b/.env
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # Enviroment Variables
 
-# Path variable
 export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
-
-# Bash prompt color - green
 export PS1="\e[0;32m[\u@\h \W]\$ \e[m "
+export EDITOR=vim
+
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..817ec0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# inspiration from https://github.com/webpro/dotfiles/blob/master/install.sh
+# inspiration from https://medium.com/@webprolific/getting-started-with-dotfiles-43c3602fd789#.jfhvg130r
+
+# get current dir so script can run from anywhere
+export DOTFILES_DIR
+DOTFILES_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
+
+# update dot files by pulling latest repo
+[ -d "$DOTFILES_DIR/.git" ] && git --work-tree="$DOTFILES_DIR" --git-dir="$DOTFILES_DIR/.git" pull origin master
+
+# symlink our dotfiles to our users home dir so they can make use of all the good stuff in it
+ln -sfv "$DOTFILES_DIR/.bash_profile" ~
+ln -sfv "$DOTFILES_DIR/.bashrc" ~
+
+# pkg managers
+. "$DOTFILES_DIR/install/pip.sh"
diff --git a/install/pip.sh b/install/pip.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..050e9b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/install/pip.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# this will install common libraries in pip 
+
diff --git a/install/python.sh b/install/python.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..9f1b081
--- /dev/null
+++ b/install/python.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# this will install a local copy of python for the user
+
+# change the version if you want a different version
+# https://www.python.org/downloads/
+
+py_version=2.7.12
+download_url=https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.12/Python-${py_version}.tar.xz
+
+# download the python version and extract it
+DOTFILES_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
+mkdir -p "$DOTFILES_DIR/python"
+cd "$DOTFILES_DIR/python"
+wget $download_url
+tar xvf Python-${py_version}.tar.xz
+find "$DOTFILES_DIR/python" -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;
+cd Python-${py_version}
+
+
+# okay now install it
+./configure --prefix=$DOTFILES_DIR/python
+make
+make install
+
+# update the users $PATH variable to include the newly installed python binary
+
+export PATH="$DOTFILES_DIR/python/Python-${py_version}:$PATH" 
+export PYTHONPATH="$DOTFILES_DIR/python/Python-${py_version}"