So I made my first stock purchase of the year, picking up 88 shares of YM Biosciences Inc. There was another stock that I wanted to buy but it wasn't available on Sharebuilder so I went with plan B. I'll keep tabs on this stock in the future. My other stocks are so-so. A few of them are going up but Thermo Fisher Scientic option tanked so it basically wiped out any of my gains. On the bright side, that's a June option and it went up 50 cents today and the option is almost in the money so it might not be a bad thing in the long term.

And since I know that my stock strategies (or lack thereof) interest so many of my readers (or not), I'd also like to take a second to suggest downloading the latest Blalock Indie Rock Playlist. I think this month has a lot of interesting songs, although once you start to listen to these playlists, you really learn just how much indie rock is like pop music. Talk about following trends, half of these bands sound like one another and there are very few groups that you can't listen to and almost immediately point out who they're aping. Still, some good music on there. Currently I'm addicted to the new Cold War Kids track "Audience". Like all Cold War Kids songs, I wasn't blown away at first and I feel like the song is just missing something but it's got something about it that makes me listen to it over and over.