diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 67c96d2..4256aee 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (C) 2015,2016 Connor Olding
+Copyright (C) 2015-2017 Connor Olding
 
 Permission  is  hereby  granted,  free  of  charge, to any person
 obtaining a copy of this software  and  associated  documentation
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 89c9145..807268b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -277,7 +277,8 @@ in the directory of the file using the directive.
 
 * `.ascii "some\ntext\0"`  
 writes a string using its characters' ASCII values.
-a few escapes are currently supported: `\ " a b f n r t v 0`
+a few escapes are currently supported: `\ " a b e f n r t v 0`,
+also `\xXX` where XX is a byte given in hexadecimal.
 
 * `.asciiz "some\ntext"`  
 same as ascii, but with a null byte added to the end.
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 4d1c7a9..c91cf90 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+what i should probably do is add 'hooks' just before newlines have been yielded
+so you can look at the previous line and say hey it's an include
+let's start lexing that instead
+
 unify/optimize ascii/asciiz/byte/halfword/word into BIN directives
 also lex strings to binary strings, why not