"Dancing like he's never danced before"

For some reason, I've been tired for like two weeks straight. At least it seems like it. I don't think I'm sick. I just feel really really tired. I've been going to bed early, and wanting to sleep in. Maybe I'm just still getting used to the schedule. I just know in like 36 hours on Saturday morning, I'll still be sleeping, and that will be good!

"Two turntables"

I've been tired recently. Oddly tired. I fell asleep last night around 10:30 and could go to sleep right now. Instead, I'm hoping to exercise for a bit, as I haven't in about a week. So what have I done in the past week...

• Watched several very good episodes of Lost -- Season 2 is like a rollercoaster, but episodes 14 - 16 have been very good
• Eaten out at least 5 times -- the parentals were in town, which turns out = good food
• Worked a lot, although maybe not as much as some of my friends at the "Steel Mill" as Brian Nuts calls it.
• Played Halo -- maybe a bit last Thursday. I'm working my way through Halo: Combat Evolved -- it seems much easier now than the first time I played it...but I am only on Heroic, I'm not sure why.
• Watched 0 movies. Movie watching has decreased, but we might sneak in one or two this weekend.
• Played golf -- I only played a few times this summer. It's hard to be motivated when it costs so much.
• Eaten some good Quesadillas -- home cooked from my High School Sweetheart.
• Watched 0 Colts games. Booooooo.....our provider doesn't even offer any premium NFL channels - so I can't even buy the game.
• Updated my Blog template -- only like the third time I ever did that. This time, it was just infrastructure though. I like my Blue background.

That's just a few things, I suppose. And the answer to yesterday's comment is "yes."

"It's that time of year"

If your name is Shannon, and you like Imogen Heap like I do, then you should check out this link and click on the Imogen Heap video

http://www.rehearsals.com/exclusive/last_kiss/ Zack John Dorian Braff did a radio show with people from the Last Kiss Soundtrack and they videotaped it as well. Imogen does an Acappella version of a song with loops live and it sounds unbelievable. She records like 7 parts, and then puts together an entire song live...and that's just the beginning.

If you're anyone else and you like music, you may want to check out this link: http://www.rehearsals.com/exclusive/last_kiss/ That was a trick, because it's the same link. But it will lead you to awesome music hosted by the Braffster.

Today was a good day. I accidentally overslept, which isn't good, and I was about 45 minutes later than I wanted to be, but only 15 minutes than I should be arriving to work. But there wasn't too much going on, so it wasn't a big deal (and the juries out on if my short absence was even noticed). Anyhow, my parents came downtown for lunch, which was nice then the 4 of us ate Best Chinese in Ann Arbor tonight, which was super-good, until I ate every bite, got ice-cream and subsequently felt sick.

What else is new? Well, compliments of Dr. and Mrs. R. Lisa and Berg may just have a new recliner for you to sit in if and when you visit. Perhaps we'll post a picture someday soon.

But for now...
My name really was in the WSJ. See?

"Everytime I look at you"

In case you didn't notice already, you can now link to many of your friends' blogs from my page, with easy pop-up window access. Hopefully, this will keep you from having to type in many letters. However, if you're at work and trying to read some blogs to kill time, this might not be the method for you as you will save a total of 24 to 49 seconds depending on how fast a typer you are, and whether or not you check The Revolution even though it's only updated once per year to keep demand high.

So this weekend was full of family and good meals, and now I'm tired and ready for bed. I won't be watching many Colts games up here it looks like, unless I try my neighborhood BWW on a couple of Sunday afternoons.

So tired...must sleep now.

"Just to sound confused"

The Return of FLL
(Funny Lines with Lisa)
Wednesday evening:

On preparing Lisa for dinner at Amadeus tonight.

Andrew: It's European style. Well Italy's in Europe so that might be a good sign.

Lisa: I know Italy's in Europe.

Andrew: You don't even know what Europe is. Can you name the 7 continents?

Lisa: Of Europe?

Andrew: *Laughs for a long time*

Lisa: Oh wait, okay. Austria...North America...Africa...Europe!..................Russia...Asia..............

Andrew: You missed one.

Lisa: Asia Minor

Andrew: What's South of North America?

Lisa: Costa Rica? Mexico? Wait is Canada in North America?

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This made me laugh a lot. Now you can laugh a lot to. To be fair, we never had Geography. What was supposed to be Geography consisted of us drawing the 50 United States in less than 5 minutes. We practiced this day in and out for weeks until we could draw the states in 5 minutes. Sound stupid? It was.

"Throw your arms around my neck"

Tonight was Lasagna night for the first time and boy was it good. Three pieces and several hours later, I'm still feeling quite full. Rogers is becoming quite the Cook. She's now tried probably about 10 meals, and all have been good, although that Bourbon chicken did taste a little to Bourbony! (still good though)

My name was in the Wall Street Journal today for winning the Wall Street Journal award. Maybe I'll post a picture, as Lisa's going to scan it in for me tomorrow. There were also about 200 other names, but it is still pretty cool.

Did you know that my company is laying off 3% of its workforce. Luckily none of that 3% includes me. It's fascinating to be a part of a huge public company that's primary focus is maximizing shareholder value. This and other changes have helped boost our stock a couple of dollars over the past few days...too bad, I'm not eligible for Stock Options until next year.


Currently listening to:

Pete Yorn - musicforthemorningafter and Nightcrawler - if you've never listened to Pete Yorn nows the time to go to myspace and see what you think.

My mix tape currently has these songs on it:

Ray LaMontagne - Empty, Be Here Now, Lesson Learned
Pete Yorn - Undercover, Ice Age, The Man, EZ, and On Your Side

My Golfing Wife

My Crowded Bed

My Graduation Day

Things I miss today:

• Disney World
• The feeling that tomorrow night, I'll be going to a Midnight Movie, which makes the day awesome
• The feeling of seeing Texas Chainsaw Massacre on one such night

"Come back home for another year"

Here are a few pictures of our new home in Novi...provided for those of you who have not yet visited or will never visit (at least until Wrestlemania).

First we have our apartment building...Building 13 of Saddle Creek. I saw a rainbow two days in a row, which was pretty awesome.

This is our office/guest room. This room is for you, reader. There is also a pull out bed matress underneath so two can sleep well. Notice the nice view of a tree out of your window. Also, you have lots of reading materials and music selections to choose from...and internet access right there in your room.

Look at the beautiful clean towels you will have access to upon your visit...in your very own guest bathroom!

Both of our closets are completely full of stuff. Mostly shoes. Lisa's closet (the one to the left) is much bigger, but this is the coolest picture.

Above the futon is a red corkboard with black trim that Lisa painted to hold our Wedding polaroids compliments of Scott W. King.

Perhas there will be more to come later. For now, have a pleasant evening and a safe tomorrow.

"We are young"

Posts are becoming more and more infrequent it seems. I used to be so committed that it drove me nuts to miss one day. Go back a year or so, and you might notice that there's about 30 posts a month.

The weekend was excellent, for the most part. Lisa and I decided to ring fall in by visiting the Yates Cider Mill in Rochester Hills for an afternoon. Unfortunately, what promised to be a place to enjoy a petting zoo, fresh apple cider and fresh fudge was just that, but in about a 1/2 acre space. Translation: great place for about 30 minutes...but I'm sure we'll enjoy that Cider for a good while.

Like our friend, Wilbe, Lisa and I saw the movie The Black Dahlia today. And like our friend Wilbe we did not enjoy it too much. Lisa was bored the whole time and hated it. I thought the last 30 minutes was interesting, but I could not recommend it. After popcorn and a soda, that was the worst $30 spent since I bought two copies of the Paris Hilton CD. (I actually only bought one, for the record.)

What else is going on in BergWorld.

• Well, Lost season 2 is so far disappointing, but I dare not give up on it.
• Lisa just spruced up a frozen pizza so that it tasted home made and was delightful.
• I ellipticized to the tune of 8.5 miles this weekend, which seems good.
• We found out that the Troy mall does not in fact have a Puma store, but it did have a place to buy the brand new Pete Yorn album.
• If you grocery shop at Meijers on a Sunday, and Meijers is the only good grocery store around, prepare to find many empty shelves where the food you would like to purchase should be. (It's important to note that I did still get my two bags of marshmallows.)
• Fresh off a Continental US tour, Brian BN Roberson will be in Detroit tomorrow for 4 hours, but we will unfortunately not be able to visit him. Boooo..........(bs).

"All words are dust"

I may be catching up with some of my peers in the world of work after working from 7 to 1 on Sunday night and 9 to 12 last night after a full work day. I would have a hard time working that much everyday. I'm glad that I'm not currently in a job where I work 60+ hours a week. I could definately handle 50 right now, but I'm still trying to get my legs. In a lot of ways, I feel like a Rookie athlete who wheres down mid-season because they were used to the much shorter college season. So anyway, it's been a busy week, and I'm exhausted. I am very much looking forward to this weekend, where the whole schedule is booked up with sleeping and relaxing to catch up. It's been a busy last month. This will be nice.

Time for ol' Berg to go use that elliptical machine for a little while. It's been really rainy here. Humid and rainy.

"These cold and damp white mornings"

On the Anniversary
I opened up my Web browser towards the end of work today, and instead of the my company's intranet, I discovered there was a page remembering the deaths of 260 of our MMC colleagues and 60 other consultants on 9/11. MMC is our parent company, and my guess is that one of the planes flew right into their floors for so many to have died. That's nearly 10% of all casualties that day!

I clicked on the list of people and their tributes that had been created a couple of years ago and scrolled through. One man loved to play sports with all of the kids in his neighborhood. Another was "one of the good guys." Mark Rosenberg was 26 and had met his wife, Jennifer by chance one day. A couple of year's ago Mark's sister had written about how she'd missed him. How she still couldn't believe he was gone.

On Michigan's Fall
As I mentioned last week, fall is in the air in Michigan. The sky is cloudy. The air is cold. Open windows bring a breeze through the room and a shiver to your soul. Perhaps nothing signifies fall so much as the advent of football season. I'm not really a big football fan, but I'm a fan nonetheless. Last night after attending the Lions vs. Seahawks in the afternoon, I laid on my bed watching the Colts vs. Giants while doing work on my laptop. It was a comforting feeling of sorts. Discouraging in some ways to be doing work until 1 a.m. But comforting, because it was a feeling I've had many times before. Juggling work at home with a Sunday Colts game.

Mostly the fall in Michigan just makes me scared of the coming winter. Early black mornings. Hour-long commutes to work in the dark traveling slowly over icy roads. I don't know what to expect, but I'm not looking forward to it.

May fall be long, and the winter mild. Goodnight.

"Well I always feel this way"

Labor Day weekend was a good weekend. A few interesting tidbits will standout in my mind undoubtedly.

1) We went tubing and jet skiing on Shannon's lake. It's the first time I tubed and the first time I jet-skiid (i can't figure how to spell skeed correctly) since I was a kid on the back of one. And I got to do both with Rogers, which was awesome. Tubing was too much fun, and I can't wait to do it again.

2) My first listen of Ray LaMontagne's song Be Here Now (which opens his new album) left me downright dumbfounded on Saturday after midnight in the dark, alone. A brief review of the album may come later.

3) My family had a 90-year-old magician perform at our Labor Day cookout. Van Drake the Magician, who used to perform for troops during World War II, Gob'd it up for us for a good 45 minutes. Some cool tricks, although most were obvious as he wasn't too slick anymore. Others left me guessing and fascinated.

4) Twister - which was actually pretty fun. Plus it was followed by a cartoon TMNT episode, which was also pretty fun.

What else was grat about Labor Day?

1) Playing with my niece. That kid is very fun.

2) Eating in downtown Anderson park with Lisa. We've always wanted to do that, and now that we've moved away we can check it off the list.

3) Hitting up Hacienda - always a good thing.

4) I was invited to be a "Better-Man" in my the wedding of Joshua David Campbell and Keri Bethlehem Trout. Yea!

A couple things sucked...

1) Lisa got a ticket for speeding, while we were following each other home
2) Lisa has to stay in Anderson tonight...boooo I miss her
3) I have to go get a little work done before going to bed...also booo.

I'm glad I could hang out with most of you this weekend. Keep it real, Eddie Bunker style!