You would think that getting a new house would be a fairly straight forward process; you determine what you want, get a list of homes that fit that criteria and then you select one. In practice, it is a chaotic and confusing fall down a rabbit hole of increasingly complex legal and financial requirements spinning around your head like angry bees, waiting to swoop in and sting you if you make a single mistake; while at the same time trying to arrange to visit with increasingly annoyed sellers who don't want to have to stop watching jeopardy so you can see the home that they claim they want to sell. Hello this is your guest host Chad Henderson, and as you can tell, I am trying to find a home.

A very big thank you to Chad for filling in for me this week. Please feel free to check out his podcast, ElmoCast. I'll be back next week with an all new episode. - Kevin

In The News: Some of the latest from the Oklahoma blog-o-sphere and the main street media

• WESLEY FRYER of Speed of Creativity experiments with tripod Flip Video Recording
• THE SOONER GEEK thinks March is for Babies
• COURTING THE GLOBE reminisces on 365 days in Oklahoma after returning from the peace corps
• KEITH BURGIN gets emotional about J.Garcia neckties
• Weatherford artist MARK YEARWOOD reveals a new art piece called Dwellings
• BETH: A WORK IN PROGRESS goes blog hopping
• THE CASTRO FAMILY gets some pennies from heaven
• CRAFTY GOAT cheats with her extruder

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Spring Cleaning Time!
• Google Maps
• OKC Podcasting Club
• Throw Your Voice

Music: All Songs Perormed by Fugli Fugli's Website

• Greensleeves
• Hunting The Unicorn
• The Fox

Big Home Hunter

When I started doing some preliminary work last night for this week's podcast there was a few inches of snow on the ground. Now as I'm recording this, I look out the home office window, and I hardly see any snow except for a few shady spots. It's amazing how Oklahoma's weather works. Really nice day Friday, blizzard Saturday, nice day Sunday. But that is the old running gag here in the state, isn't it. If you don't like the weather wait a minute. That was very much true this weekend wasn't it.

In The News:
Some of the latest from the Oklahoma blog-o-sphere and the main street media

• Campbell Family Party of 3 doesn't let the snow stop a fun hotel swim party
• Friar's Fires becomes an independent
• Adoptive Momma of Two shares what she saw when Spring arived
• SpotlightOK has an Ode to Spring
• Keith Burgin offers a solution to people parking badly
• Oklahoma Modern comments on the state tourism office's new web site
• RitzyWife conquers her fear of english muffins
• Sherri Blossoms figures out if she's a plotter or a pantser
• From Chaos to Grace goes spelunking
• Yogi's Den went geocaching on Turkey Mountain

Links mentioned in this episode:

• The Radio Adventures Of Dr. Floyd
• Spring Cleaning Time!
• formspring.me/blogoklahoma

Music:

• The Standing Ones by Hungry Lucy
• I've Got You Covered by 7 Million Jigawatts

Pictures:

Now that my body's internal sense of time is all messed up due to daylight saving time, I can honestly say I have no idea what time it is. At least my sense of the seasons is still working. The weather is getting warm, the birds are singing, the weeds in my lawn are starting to turn green, oh yes I know exactly what this means. It means Baseball season is just around the corner. The Grapefruit and Cactus leagues are training right now, getting ready for that all important opening day that's less than a month away. I've already installed the new MLB AtBat iPhone app, I have my new Cubs baseball cap on order and it should arrive soon, and I've double check that I'm signed up for DirecTV's MLB Extra Innings. Oh I so am ready for Baseball.

In The News: Some of the latest headlines from the Oklahoma blog-o-sphere.

• OK Policy Blog reports on State Question 640
• Rott-i-Tude talks about the Mrs. Oklahoma International Pageant
• Mama Foodie has an OKC Cupcake Throwdown
• Next Stop, Verbeck looks at path of the Oklahoma Railway Company's tracks from Norman to More in 1947
• WelchOK.com dishes up some chaos theory
• Beth: a work in progress takes part in the Fragmented Friday meme
• Okie Funk tells about the Oklahoma Citizen, an community-orientated news portal
• Dustbury syas to put on a happy face, because the readers are coming, and they’re picky
• The McCarville Report reports Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck drew 6,000 people at a Tulsa rally
• Route 66 News shares a new song about an old road

Links mentioned in this episode:

• MLB AtBat 2010 iPhone App
• Who's on First?
• SHOUTcast Radio Directory
• SHOUTcast Radio Server

Music:

• Wash U Clean by Beth Thornley
• Rush You by Violent Divine

I'm happy to announce the Blog Oklahoma Podcast has won for best podcast in the 2009 Okie Blog Awards. Thank you very much for this honor. The podcast was up against some stiff competition, but in the end I'm guessing my forty listeners rallied to put the podcast over the top. Now this has gotten me thinking, there has to be more than 10 active podcasts here in the state. So over the next few weeks I'm going to explore the Oklahoma pod-o-sphere, and whatever I find I'll let you know know about it. Again thank you to everyone for voting for the Blog Oklahoma Podcast.

In The News: Some of the latest headlines from the Oklahoma blog-o-sphere and the main street media.

• Good Government for Norman comments on the Norman mayoral race
• Just Flip The Dog is excited about pinewood derby time
• JabberBoxTV tells us about who's been announced to play at Rocklahoma 2010, May 28th-30th in Pryor Oklahoma
• The Art of Manliness shares why it's important to know who to delegate.
• Fancy Buffalo remembers an away friend
• Tasha Does Tulsa is so gonna score at the "Just Between Friends" sale, February 28-March 6 at the Exchange Center at Expo Square in Tulsa
• Bookgasim reads a new zombie anthology
• JenX67 watches the soap opera of figure skating
• Blogging 4 Jobs discusses team building
• Teach and Tickle observes peace doesn't come like a pond, but more like a river

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Rocklahoma 2010
• Just Between Friends Sale
• Disqus.com
• 2009 Okie Blog Awards

Music:

• Breakout by The West Exit
• Oklahoma Run by Harold Fletcher (The Oklahoma Set)
• The Distance by Drugstore Fanatics