If you come home in the middle of the day and your roommate is watching television, don’t walk into your room, turn on the radio full blast and leave your doors open. Everyone benefits.

To me this just seems like a common courtesy. Maybe that’s just me. Especially if it’s NPR. If I wanted to listen to NPR I would not be watching television. ugh… just been one of those days. Thank God it’s Friday.

This morning I received a call from a “PRIVATE” number and decided to let it go to the voicemail.

After they left a message, which was a good sign, I listened and found, to my surprise that it was a woman who had come across my resume from Monster.com and was interested in talking to me.

I put my resume up a few months ago just to see what kind of response I would get and so far it has been nill. Now, from the little research that I have done on the company that she worked for it looks as though it may be a recruiting agency. I am going to give them a call later today and get the full scoop.

Tomorrow an assignment is due in which we are supposed to tell which Simpsons character we most relate to. I have to tell you, it is tough.

On one hand, I think that I am a lot like Homer but then again, I’m not that mentally “dull”. I am a little like Bart because I have a mischievous side, but I am not really that bad.

There are a few other characters that I am somewhat like but I am not really sure if they are completely fitting. Geez, I hate assignments like this!

I did not win just a second ago, but this morning, I received confirmation that I had won a $10 iTunes gift certificate. Pretty sweet!

You can use Blingo just like any other search engine (it’s powered by Google) and every time you search you have the possibility of winning a prize.

Check it out!

The trip to Lubbock is usually an uneventful journey. You get in your car, you stop four hours into the trip, refill your tank, and start again. Today was completely different.

To begin with, the weather was just plain weird. Heavy fog, then low hanging clouds, then intermittent rain (I’ll come back to that), it was just too much.

About 10 minutes outside of Caldwell Courtney and I witnessed an accident involving a truck overturning. I think the weather mixed with pretty heavy traffic probably caused it. The guy involved was ok, just a little shaken up.

The effect of the recent outbreak of wildfires in the area was pretty easy to see. There were fields that were charred black and large chunks of what is usually thick brush were cleared to keep fires from occurring. The good news is the rain. Lubbock has finally had a significant rainfall. This is the first time in almost a year that we have had measureable precipitation and it is a beautiful thing.

That’s about all of the updating I can do tonight, my body is just beat.

I have added the ability to add posts to Newsvine, del.icio.us, and digg.

I am still working on a new site design, but the backend is complete, including a new tagging system and archive method. I am not sure when I will actually get it setup because of complications with porting the current database to the new one.

I have finally incorporated RSS into the site! There is now a excerpt feed for the last seven posts on badice.com. I know, I know, it took me long enough.

Yep, I am spending my Spring Break in the “bubble” of Sugar Land. Yep, that’s right, the home of Tom Delay…

Can you feel my excitement? Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy spending time with my family, but I thought the point of Spring Break was to go and do something. I have been contemplating a trip to Austin to see some friends or to Dallas to look at potential places to live.

After today’s “experience” of filing my tax return, I really do not feel like doing much else. It’s hot and humid here which isn’t much of a new thing around here.

I did attend a “nerd” bachelor party last night… Now, I am not saying that I want strippers and stuff but playing Halo all night just doesn’t do it for me. But I’ve never been a big gamer.

Specifically, why is it so hard to study for my Strategic Management test that is today? I just cannot do it. I try to open the book, read through key points, but I get through one or two sentences and I have to close it.

I made a great grade on the last test in this class but the professor has told us this one will be harder. That seems to do nothing to encourage me to study more. Alright, I have to stop writing this and go and try and study.

SXSW Interactive is a great way to really immerse yourself in technology and the people who create it and use it. This year it just is not for me though.

Last year was a one of a kind experience and I enjoyed every minute of it, but after looking through the panel topics and some of the keynotes I decided that this year just was not worth my money or time. I really feel like I can learn just as much about most of this year’s topics by reading and researching on the internet as I could by attending. Kind of disheartening but it’s the truth.

To add to the that, some speakers that I would enjoy listening to just are not on the list of confirmed speakers.

I may be going through Austin during Spring Break, but I highly doubt I will make the stop at SXSW.